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IELTS Speaking is the band you can't fake.
No memorised answers. No review screen. Just you, an examiner, and 14 minutes of real conversation. Practise like it's the real thing.
Cambiyo launches 1 July 2026. Real native speakers. Free waitlist.
The problem with how most people prepare
You can study IELTS for months and still lose your speaking band on test day. Reading and Listening have right answers. Writing has time to think. Speaking is the only band where you have to perform, live, with a real human across the table, and there is no way to revise what you said.
Most preparation does not match this reality.
You have probably watched the YouTube videos. You have memorised some Part 2 templates. You have practised answering common topics into your phone. You may have used an AI app to do mock tests. None of this prepares you for the part that actually matters: keeping up with a human examiner who has their own pace, their own accent, and their own follow-up questions you can't predict.
The examiner is not patient. They will not wait while you find the word. They will ask follow-up questions you have not rehearsed. They will sometimes interrupt you. They will look bored if your answer is too long. None of this is in the YouTube videos.
Speaking practice with AI gets you confident. It does not get you ready. The two are not the same.
You don't need another vocabulary list. You don't need another practice video. You need to talk to real native English speakers, regularly, with the kind of unpredictable pressure the examiner will put on you.
That is what we are building.
What we’re building
Cambiyo
You open the app. You see who is online. You filter by accent (including the British and Australian accents you may hear from your IELTS examiner). You see ratings, prices, profiles. You pick someone. You start talking.
Speakers set their own prices, starting from $5 an hour. You pay only for the time you spend talking. No subscription. No booking.
Every speaker is checked before they go live. They send a video selfie. We check their face, accent, and country. Anyone fake doesn't get on the platform.
They are not IELTS examiners. They are real native speakers (students, freelancers, retirees, anyone fluent in English who wants to earn from a conversation). The point is not that they will give you an examiner-style assessment. The point is that they will talk to you like real people talk: with accents, with follow-up questions, at their own pace. That is exactly what you need to practise for.
You can ask any speaker if they have IELTS experience or are happy to do mock test questions at the start of the call. Many will say yes.
What practice looks like in the weeks before your exam
It's eight days before your test. You have an hour after work each evening. You log in to Cambiyo every weekday. Sarah on Monday, Jake on Tuesday, Claire on Wednesday. Each conversation is unscripted. By Friday, switching from one accent to another doesn't throw you off the way it would have a week ago.
It's the weekend before your exam. You don't want to study, you want to feel ready. You spend 90 minutes on Saturday morning talking to Claire about her trip to Vietnam. You spend an hour on Sunday talking to Jake about a film he watched. By Sunday evening, you are not nervous about whether you can hold a conversation. You know you can.
It's the morning of the test. You wake up early. You make coffee. You spend 20 minutes on Cambiyo talking to whoever is online about anything. You arrive at the test centre warmed up. The examiner asks you the first question. You answer in your own voice, not a memorised template, and the conversation starts.
The speaking band is no longer the one dragging your overall score down. You stop being held back by something you can fix.
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