B1 Carna School London
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Carna vs ELSA Speak
ELSA Speak drills your pronunciation; Carna scores it as one of eight skills, A1 to C2.
Where Carna falls short, its column says so The ELSA Speak column checked May 2026, and dated on this page Carna: eight skills scored from 0 to 100, on the CEFR scale from A1 to C2 Schools and teams run on Carna today; individuals join the early-access list
| Question | ELSA Speak | Carna |
|---|---|---|
| Use ELSA when pronunciation and accent are your goal and a few free lessons to start appeal. | ||
| Free tier, no credit card ELSA Speak: 8 free lessons once, and a 7-day Premium trialCarna: The app will open with a free plan | Partly | No |
| Use Carna when you want all eight skills scored, pronunciation among them, on a levelled path from A1 to C2. | ||
| All eight skills | No | Yes |
| Full A1 to C2 curriculum | No | Yes |
See all 7 rows Checked May 2026; free plan and price on 27 September 2026
IN SHORT
ELSA Speak and Carna, in short.
What is ELSA Speak good for?
ELSA Speak is a pronunciation specialist: its drills work sound by sound, deeper on individual sounds than Carna goes. It gives 8 lessons free, once, with a 7-day Premium trial.
- Free
- 8 lessons, once, and a 7-day Premium trial
- Paid, from
- $89.99 a year
Checked on 27 September 2026 on elsaspeak.com/en/elsa-subscription.
How is Carna different from ELSA Speak?
Carna scores pronunciation from your own voice as one of eight skills, with grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, speaking and writing around it on a path from A1 to C2. ELSA's column has no conversation practice or writing evaluation; in the Carna app, which is in early access, you practise speaking live with Mia, its AI tutor, and writing is scored by AI on four criteria. You do not have to choose: ELSA for sound-by-sound precision, Carna for the whole of your English.
— SIDE BY SIDE
Feature by feature.
The same questions, asked of ELSA Speak and of Carna.
| Feature | ELSA Speak | Carna |
|---|---|---|
| What you learn | ||
| All eight skills | No | Yes |
| Full A1 to C2 curriculum | No | Yes |
| Real conversation practice | No | Yes . Live speaking practice with Mia, the AI tutor |
| Pronunciation feedback | Yes | Yes . Scored from your own voice, one of eight skills |
| Essay & writing evaluation | No | Yes . Writing scored by AI on four criteria |
| IELTS / TOEFL exam prep | No | Partly . An IELTS band on a practice grading, not a course |
| How you get it | ||
| Free tier, no credit card | Partly . 8 free lessons once, and a 7-day Premium trial | No . The app will open with a free plan |
Running in schools today
The path the speaking sits on.
A speaking app gives you the loop; Carna gives you the curriculum around it. In Carna for Schools, which runs today, every module a student is assigned wears its CEFR level and the list runs soonest due first, so a learner always knows which rung of the A1 to C2 ladder they are working on.
A student's Learn screen in Carna for Schools: the assigned modules, each with its CEFR level and the skills it works on, sorted by due date. Carna School London is a sample school; the names, courses, levels and scores are demo data.
FAQ
Common questions.
Straight answers about ELSA Speak and Carna, including how this comparison was built and what the individual tutor cannot do yet.
Does Carna do pronunciation as well as ELSA Speak?
Not sound by sound: that is ELSA's specialism, and its drills go deeper on individual sounds. Carna scores your pronunciation from your own voice as one of eight skills, and puts the rest of the English around it on a path from A1 to C2.
Is Carna more than a pronunciation app?
Yes. ELSA is a pronunciation tool. Carna's path runs from A1 to C2 and scores eight skills: speaking, writing, reading, listening, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and general English.
Is ELSA Speak free?
Partly: ELSA gives you 8 lessons free, once, and a 7-day Premium trial, and after that Premium is $89.99 a year, as we read them on elsaspeak.com on 27 September 2026. The Carna app will open with a free plan, and its early-access list is free to join now.
How did you check the ELSA Speak column?
The ELSA Speak column reflects the plans and features ELSA Speak publishes, as we checked them in May 2026. Its free plan and prices were checked again on 27 September 2026, on elsaspeak.com/en/elsa-subscription. Carna's column is held to the same standard as the ELSA Speak column, so where it falls short, it says so. "Partly" means a feature exists with a limit, and the limit is named under the row. Products change quickly, so check elsaspeak.com for the latest.
EARLY ACCESS
Get in first.
The Carna app is in early access: no individual sign-up yet, and it will open with a free plan. Leave your name on the early-access list, free to join, and we write once, when your place opens.