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If you are getting ready for IELTS in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Uzbekistan, ParrotTalk gives you full practice tests for all four skills with AI feedback, 100% free and with no sign-up. I am naming those countries on purpose, because some of the very first people to find this site came from exactly there, long before I had told anyone it existed.

That was a quiet surprise in the early days. I had built the thing mostly for myself and a few friends, and then a handful of visitors turned up from cities I had to look up on a map. It changed how I thought about the whole project. I was not making a toy for people on fast laptops. I was making something that had to work for a student on a phone, on a data plan, the night before a test that costs a lot of money to sit.

Built for the phone in your hand

So the practical choices followed from that. The homepage went from a heavy nine and a half megabytes down to a few hundred kilobytes, because a page that will not load on a slow connection is not free in any way that counts. The four skills, Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking, all run in a normal mobile browser. Speaking needs microphone access, which most phones handle fine.

I have not translated anything or built country-specific content, and I want to be honest about that. What ParrotTalk offers everyone equally is the format: the real structure of the exam, realistic timing, and an estimated band with feedback you can act on. For a candidate far from an expensive prep centre, having the shape of the test to practise against, for free, is a real head start.

Where to begin

The simplest way in is to sit a free mock test across all four skills and see where you stand today. From there you can drill the weakest one on its own. No account, no card, nothing to unlock. Your progress saves in your own browser as you go.

The short version: full IELTS practice for all four skills, 100% free, no sign-up, and light enough to use on a modest phone from anywhere.

Start practising →

Wherever you are reading this, from Hanoi to Dhaka to Lahore to Tashkent, the door is the same and it is open. Good luck with your exam. I am quietly rooting for you.