Speak Spanish out loud to an AI examiner that follows the 0530 format.
Role play then two topic conversations, marked out of 40 on the A*–G scale, with the same 10-minute preparation phase as the real thing. You get scores across six skills and written feedback after every session.
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Pick your board when you sign up and the format, timings and content follow it.
Role Play → Reading Aloud → Photo Card. Foundation & Higher tier.
Reading Aloud → Role Play → Picture-based discussion. Foundation & Higher tier.
The same IGCSE format as 0530, in French.
Full overview of GCSE Spanish speaking practice with Tête-à-Tête.
The session follows the 0530 speaking test as Cambridge sets it out — the same components, in the same order, with the same marks attached:
There are 15 Cambridge IGCSE Spanish role-play scenarios in the app, set in everyday transactional situations. Every scenario is written in-house and follows the board's published format, timings and mark weightings. Sitting French as well? We support Cambridge IGCSE French (0520) too.
You get ten minutes of supervised preparation before the test, with the role play scenario on a candidate card in front of you. You may not make notes. Dictionaries are not allowed at any point.
This matters if you have been revising from AQA or Edexcel material, because those boards work the opposite way: fifteen minutes of preparation with notes permitted, handed in before you finish. Advice written for a UK GCSE — plan your answers, jot down key phrases — is advice you cannot follow in a 0530 exam room.
What you can do in those ten minutes is think. Read the scenario, work out who you are talking to and what you need from them, and rehearse the shapes in your head rather than the words on paper.
You are not told the topics of the two conversations in advance. That is deliberate: they test whether you can hold an unprepared discussion, not whether you memorised one.
Ten of the forty marks are on the role play, where the job is transactional: complete the five tasks. Simple Spanish that does the job scores; elaborate Spanish that misses the task does not.
The remaining thirty are on the two conversations, split between communication — whether you develop your answers, give opinions, offer reasons — and quality of language, meaning range and accuracy. Both are judged across the two conversations together, so a strong second conversation genuinely can rescue a nervous first one.
The most useful habit for the conversations is not vocabulary. It is length. Answering in one sentence and stopping caps you early, however good the sentence. Answer, give a reason, add an example.
Seven free practice sessions every 30 days plus two free mock exams. No credit card.