Tête-à-Tête
Tête-à-Tête is a voice-first French speaking-exam app. You actually speak French out loud — the AI listens, replies in French, and scores your pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, interaction, and confidence after every turn. Built for AQA, Edexcel, and Cambridge IGCSE at Foundation and Higher tier.
AQA • Edexcel • Cambridge IGCSE — Foundation & Higher where the board has tiers
Free • No credit card needed • Works on any device
Practise every component with a realistic AI examiner that scores you the way the real thing does.
Act out real exam scenarios in French — ordering food, booking tickets, asking for directions. Complete all five tasks just like the real exam.
Describe a photo and answer follow-up questions in French. The AI examiner asks follow-up questions on what you say.
Discuss a set theme in French — school, work, the world around you — with real-time AI feedback, as Cambridge IGCSE requires.
Read passages aloud in French and answer comprehension questions to sharpen pronunciation and fluency.
Most GCSE prep tools are text-based — you tap, you reply. Tête-à-Tête is different. You actually speak French, out loud, and the AI examiner listens, responds in French, and scores you in real time. Just like sitting your real speaking exam.
The AI examiner scores every answer as you speak. Role plays are marked task by task and reading aloud phase by phase, the way the boards mark them; photo card and conversation answers are scored on six skills: pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, interaction and confidence. Everything is calibrated to GCSE, not to native speakers, and your scores convert to an estimated GCSE grade so you can see how you're tracking.
Sit a full timed mock French speaking exam — the board's preparation time, every part in your board's order, exam conditions. No coaching, no help. Finish with estimated marks on your board's own official mark scheme, part by part, and the GCSE grade they point to, so you know exactly where the marks are being won and lost.
Pick your board and tier when you sign up. The AI examiner follows that board's format at that tier's level.
Role play, reading aloud, photo card: 50 marks. Foundation & Higher.
Read aloud, role play, picture task with conversation: 50 marks. Foundation & Higher.
Role play and two topic conversations: 40 marks. Untiered.
Use Tête-à-Tête in your browser at tete-a-tete.ai — no download needed — or grab the iOS app from the App Store, or the Android app from Google Play.
Quick answers about GCSE French speaking practice with Tête-à-Tête.
More GCSE speaking practice resources from Tête-à-Tête.
What's on the AQA speaking exam, how it's marked, and how to prepare — format, timings and mark weightings in full.
AQA 8652 — Role Play → Reading Aloud → Photo Card. Foundation & Higher tier.
Edexcel 1FR1 — Reading Aloud → Role Play → Picture-based discussion.
Cambridge IGCSE 0520 — Role Play + 2× Topic Conversation. No photo card.
Same AI examiner, in Spanish. AQA & Edexcel.
Every session builds confidence. Start free and hear how much you improve.
