American English · for advanced learners
English that sounds like the US, not a textbook
You're past the basics. Now every sentence you write is graded against how it would be said in New York or Los Angeles — gonna, grab, hang out, no big deal — with the American version shown next to yours.
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Translate into colloquial English:
Me da mucha flojera salir con esta lluvia.
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What American English actually sounds like
Textbook English gets you understood. American English gets you treated like you belong. A few of the differences the grader listens for.
| You want to say | Textbook English | How it's said in American English |
|---|---|---|
| How are you? | How do you do? | How's it going? / What's up? |
| I'll get it (a coffee, a taxi) | I will take one. | I'll grab one. |
| It doesn't matter | It is not important. | No big deal. / It's fine. |
| Spend time with friends | Pass time with friends | Hang out with friends |
| I'm going to leave now | I am going to leave now. | I'm gonna head out. |
| Please call me | Please telephone me. | Give me a call. / Hit me up. |
| Are you serious? | Do you speak seriously? | For real? / Seriously? |
What changes when you set your variety to American
- Vocabulary — apartment, elevator, gas, cell phone, vacation, fall — and the grader marks British-only words like flat, lift or holiday as imported.
- Spelling and dates — color, center, organize, traveled; month before day — the small things that make a text look American at a glance.
- Grammar — "I already ate" with the past simple, "gotten", "on the weekend", "in the hospital" — and the grader flags "have you got" and "at the weekend" as British.
- Register — American English is direct and friendly at once — first names, "sure" and "you bet", small talk that moves fast. The grader tells you when you sound stiff.
How RateMySpanish trains your American English ear
Graded against the local version
Translate a real sentence and get an instant 1–10 rating. The grader is set to American English, so correct-but-foreign phrasing loses points and you see exactly why.
See how a local would say it
One tap rewrites any sentence the way someone from there would actually put it — American English vocabulary, register and rhythm, not a neutral translation.
Sentences at your level, not a beginner's
Set B2, C1 or C2 and every prompt demands nuance — idiom, register, understatement — instead of ordering a coffee for the hundredth time.
A two-minute daily habit
Turn on the daily challenge email and get one sentence every morning. Sounding local is a hundred small corrections, not one big lesson.
Common questions
I'm already fluent. What does this add?
Fluent and local are different things. Most advanced learners write English that is grammatically clean but placeless — every native speaker can tell. RateMyEnglish grades each sentence against how it would be said in American English and shows you the local phrasing, so you close that gap one sentence at a time.
Is this New York English or all of the US?
The grader targets General American — what you hear on US television and across most of the country. It avoids strong regional features (Southern, New England, AAVE) and tells you when a phrase is very informal.
Can I switch varieties later?
Yes — the English variety is a setting you can change anytime (American, British, Australian, Irish or Canadian). Your history and focus areas stay with you.
How much does it cost?
The free plan includes 10 graded sentences a day, every day. Paid plans raise or remove the cap. No credit card to start.
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