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Learning guides
In a randomised trial at Harvard, students learned more from a carefully designed AI tutor than from an active learning class, in less time. Here is what the study did, why the tutor worked, what it does not prove, and what it means if you are learning English.
Learning guides
A personal English tutor works with one learner and plans every lesson around that learner's level, goal and mistakes. Here is what they do, what a lesson looks like, and where an AI tutor fits.
Comparisons
Short answer: Carna for one tutor across all eight skills on a CEFR path, Speak or Praktika for conversation, ELSA Speak for pronunciation, Duolingo for a daily habit, Cambly for a human. The most free practice: Gliglish and TalkPal, ten minutes a day.
Comparisons
Both AI and human English tutors can improve your English. They do it differently, and the right choice depends on what you're trying to achieve and how you learn.
Learning guides
Speaking confidence is not the same as speaking ability. Many learners with solid grammar and vocabulary still freeze in real conversations. Here's how to fix the gap.
For educators
Marking essays and speaking exercises by hand is the largest single time cost in most English teachers' weeks. Here's what AI grading actually does — and what it doesn't replace.
In Carna for Schools
A class report in the teacher's app, cropped to Course success: every course the class took, ranked by its average score.
See Carna for SchoolsCarna teaches English across eight skills, A1 to C2. Schools and teams can see the app on a call; if you are learning on your own, join the early-access list for the personal tutor.