For parents
Speaking practice your child can rehearse on their own.
A short page explaining what Tête-à-Tête for Common Entrance 13+ is, how the school runs it, and what role you play. No marketing fluff, no pretending the AI is a substitute for the teacher.
The short version.
Tête-à-Tête is an AI speaking-practice tool for the ISEB Common Entrance 13+ French and Spanish speaking exams. Your child gets to rehearse the three parts of the speaking exam — role play, text-based task, open conversation — by actually speaking out loud to an AI examiner that responds in real time.
The point isn’t to replace what the school is teaching. It’s to give your child more time at the microphone than a once-a-week MFL lesson allows. Speaking confidence at this age comes from reps, and reps with a teacher don’t scale.
How your child gets access.
Through their school. We don’t accept parent sign-ups directly for under-13s — the school is the data controller, and your child accesses Tête-à-Tête through the account their MFL teacher creates. This is deliberate: it keeps under-13 data processing under the school’s existing parental-consent framework rather than asking parents to re-consent to a separate service.
If your child’s school doesn’t use Tête-à-Tête yet, the most useful thing you can do is mention it to the Head of MFL or the Director of Studies. We’ll happily talk to them.
What it sounds like.
The AI examiner talks at Year 8 register — present tense and near-future, simple sentences, the kind of register your child encounters in their textbook. It will not test them on grammar they haven’t been taught. It plays the role of the shopkeeper, the receptionist, the French penfriend, and reacts to whatever your child says.
The session is short — five minutes at Level 1, eight at Level 2 — matching the real exam timings. Children can do a session, take a break, do another. There’s no “streak” pressure, no badges, no leaderboards. It’s a rehearsal tool, not a game.
What we don’t do.
- No advertising, no third-party tracking, no behavioural profiling of your child.
- No voice retention: audio is processed in transit and not stored on our servers.
- No data sharing for marketing or research with anyone outside the school.
- No social features. Children don’t interact with other children on the platform.
We hold ICO registration ZC135288 and follow the Children’s Code (AADC). All the published policies are linked in the footer if you want to read them.
Questions or curious?
We answer parent emails the same day. No mailing list, no follow-up sales sequence.
hello@tete-a-tete.aiIf you’re a teacher, this page is for you.