For parents

In one week here, your child can speak more French than a whole term of class time gives them.

Not because their teacher isn’t good. Because there are thirty children and forty minutes, and the arithmetic only goes so far. Cadentia is the part class time can’t stretch to: talking, at their level, with something that answers.

It supplements the work their teacher is doing. It doesn’t replace any of it, and it feeds back into it.

~1 min: speaking each, in a 40-minute class of 30
45 min: a week here, at 15 minutes, three times

Arithmetic, not a measurement, but it is the reason speaking is the thing schools run out of room for.

Set your child up

Everything their class asks of them stays free. A plan is for the practice beyond that.

What your child said

Je suis allé au magasin hier soir.

How a French speaker would have said it

Je suis allée au magasin hier soir.

No mark, no red pen. The sentence comes back in Review a few days later, when they’re about to forget it.

What your child actually does

Fifteen minutes, a few times a week, is what it’s designed for. Consistency matters more here than length.

A tutor’s whole attention

A real conversation in French, out loud, pitched at the level they are actually at rather than the level of the page they are on. Nobody else is waiting for a turn.

Mistakes become practice

What they get wrong comes back in Review days later, spaced out, until it stops being a mistake.

They keep what they said

Sentences they produced themselves go into their speaking bank: their own words, smoothed into French a speaker would use.

It finds the edge of what they can do

Every session, the things your child reaches for and doesn’t quite land get written down: not as marks, as a picture. Agreement they keep dropping. A tense they avoid. The word they go around instead of through.

Do that a few times a week and it stops being a list of mistakes and becomes a map of exactly where they are: the specific things sitting just past what they can already do, which is where progress happens.

Their teacher sees the same picture for the whole class, and can turn it into the next lesson. A gap that would have surfaced on a test in November surfaces in September, while there is still time to teach it.

What they’re working on

Past tense agreement7 times
Reaching for vocabulary5 times
Longer sentences3 times

Sample. You see this for your child; their teacher sees it for the class.

What you can see

You can have a read-only view of your child’s practice: how many sessions, how many minutes, what they have mastered, and the sessions themselves.

You set it up: make an account, send your child an invitation, and they accept it. They hold the switch and can turn it off again, which is the reason they say yes to it.

You will never be asked to assign anything or mark anything. That is the teacher’s job.

14: Sessions
162: Minutes practiced
38: Items mastered
51: Mistakes fixed

The parent view, with sample numbers. Underneath it sits a list of their recent sessions.

Your child’s teacher stays in charge

The teacher can see how the class is doing and can set work through Cadentia. What your child practises at home sits behind what they are being taught in class, not beside it.

If a student is drifting, their teacher can see it during the term rather than at the end of it.

Setting it up takes about two minutes

You’ll need your child’s email address, the one they use for school.

1
Make your account
Yours, not theirs. The card and the cancel button stay with you.
2
Invite your child
They get an email and accept it. Nothing is shared with you until they do.
3
Choose a plan
Start now or later: their class work stays covered either way.

Plans for practice beyond the class

Optional, and cancel any time. Current plans and prices are on the pricing page.

Their class work stays free
Stripe handles the card; we never see it
Cancel any time, in two clicks

Set your child up

Questions parents ask

Is this another screen, or is it schoolwork?

It is speaking practice. The session is your child talking in French and being answered in French. There is no reason to stay in it longer than the fifteen minutes it is built around.

Does it replace their teacher?

No. It gives them repetition that a class of thirty cannot give each student individually. Their teacher sets the direction and marks the work.

Will being corrected put them off speaking?

Corrections are not marks. Your child is shown how a French speaker would have said the same thing, the conversation carries on, and the point comes back later in Review.

Does it cost anything?

Not for the work their class asks of them: that stays free, exactly as their teacher said. A plan is for practice beyond that, and it is entirely optional; current prices are on the pricing page. Your child is never asked for a card: it sits on your account, and you cancel it from your account.

Is there a free trial?

No, and deliberately. A trial that quietly turns into a charge is the thing parents write to us about, so we would rather you paid for a month, saw whether your child actually used it, and stopped if they didn’t.

What if I would rather my child did not take part?

Reply to the message their teacher sent you and that is the end of it. No explanation needed.

The practice their class hasn’t got room for

Your child already has the link from their teacher, and that part costs nothing. What you can add is the volume: the speaking time a class of thirty cannot give one child, and a clear picture of what they should be working on next, which their teacher gets to use too. Two minutes to set up, and you can stop it in two clicks.

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