Speaking Membership
Improve your French speaking with regular Instructor-reviewed pronunciation checks, AI accuracy scores, personalized feedback, and guided speaking evaluations. Choose the plan that matches your goals and build clearer pronunciation, stronger fluency, and greater confidence each week.
Standard Rules for Every Speaking Plan
- One review submission covers one French audio or video recording of up to 90 seconds. Basic and Premium: pronunciation-focused review. Pro: broader speaking review covering pronunciation plus selected language and communication features
- Each submission should respond to one speaking prompt or practise one defined passage.
- Recordings are reviewed by a human instructor, not only by automated software.
- Human feedback is normally returned within three business days.
- Learners may also receive an automated pronunciation score for additional practice.
- Automated scores may misunderstand accents, background noise, microphone quality or speaking speed.
- Weekly allowance period: Each 7-day review period begins on the same weekday and time as your original membership activation.
- Unused pronunciation reviews do not roll over.
- Monthly speaking-evaluation time does not roll over.
- Memberships are intended for one registered learner and cannot be shared.
- Feedback supports French development but is not an official TEF, TCF, DELF, DALF, SLE, CLB or NCLC result.
Instructor Information
Your Speaking Instructor and Reviewer
Hems — Founder and Lead Instructor, Simple French with Hems Inc.
Hems created the Simple French with Hems A0–B2 learning pathway, including more than 400 instructional lessons, thousands of quizzes, French-learning books, speaking activities, listening resources and interactive learning tools.
As the lead instructor for the Speaking Membership, Hems oversees the review framework and provides guidance on:
- French pronunciation and sound production;
- word stress and sentence rhythm;
- liaison and connected speech;
- clarity and comprehensibility;
- common pronunciation errors;
- vocabulary and sentence construction;
- grammar used during speaking;
- fluency, hesitation and pacing;
- task completion;
- strategies for improving future recordings.
- Human pronunciation reviews and scheduled speaking evaluations are delivered by Hems unless members are informed otherwise in advance.
AI disclosure: Automated pronunciation scores may be included as an additional practice tool. Available on supported speaking activities; not every submission receives an automated score. They do not replace the human reviews included with the membership.
Basic — 2 Human Pronunciation Reviews per Week
CA$9.99 per month
Designed for learners who want regular pronunciation practice and light weekly accountability.
- Up to 2 human pronunciation reviews per week
- One recording of up to 90 seconds per review
- Reviews completed by Hems, Founder and Lead Instructor
- Feedback on individual sounds and word pronunciation
- Comments on clarity, rhythm and speaking pace
- Identification of the most important pronunciation error
- Correct pronunciation model or written guidance where needed
- Automated pronunciation accuracy score for additional practice
- Access to previous speaking challenges
- Ability to save and review available transcripts
- Human feedback normally returned within three business days
- Weekly allowance resets every seven days
- Unused reviews do not roll over
Best for: Beginners and occasional learners completing approximately two focused speaking activities each week.
Premium — 5 Human Pronunciation Reviews per Week
CA$24.99 per month
Designed for consistent learners who want frequent pronunciation feedback and a private monthly progress discussion.
- Up to 5 human pronunciation reviews per week
- One recording of up to 90 seconds per review
- Reviews completed by Hems, Founder and Lead Instructor
- Feedback on sounds, word pronunciation and sentence rhythm
- Corrections for pacing, hesitation and connected speech
- Identification of recurring pronunciation patterns
- Written guidance or pronunciation examples where appropriate
- Suggestions for repeating difficult words and phrases
- Automated pronunciation accuracy score for additional practice
- Access to previous speaking challenges
- Ability to save and review available transcripts
- One 15-minute private online speaking evaluation per month
- Personalized priorities for the next stage of practice
- Human feedback normally returned within three business days
- Weekly allowance resets every seven days
- Unused reviews and evaluation time do not roll over
Best for: Learners practising on most weekdays and seeking regular instructor oversight.
Pro — 8 Human Speaking Reviews per Week
CA$34.99 per month
Designed for highly active learners who want detailed feedback on pronunciation, grammar, fluency and overall spoken communication.
- Up to 8 human speaking reviews per week
- One recording of up to 90 seconds per review
- Reviews completed by Hems, Founder and Lead Instructor
- Detailed pronunciation and comprehensibility feedback
- Personalized feedback and an instructional performance grade
- Corrections for grammar used during speaking
- Vocabulary and sentence-structure recommendations
- Feedback on fluency, hesitation, pacing and organization
- Identification of recurring speaking weaknesses
- Guidance on rhythm, liaison and connected French speech
- Corrected wording or model sentences where appropriate
- Personalized practice priorities based on submitted recordings
- One 30-minute private online speaking evaluation per month
- Monthly discussion of recurring errors and progress
- Human feedback normally returned within three business days
- Weekly allowance resets every seven days
- Unused reviews and evaluation time do not roll over
Best for: Intensive learners, frequent speakers and students working toward a structured academic, professional or examination objective.