Use these ideas to describe a situation in Lua. Change the place, language and difficulty to match your life. The prompts below are practice suggestions, not transcripts or a fixed course.
Order at a café
Try: “You work at a café. Help me order a drink and something to eat. Ask me one question at a time.”
Practice: A polite request, sizes, preferences and asking how much something costs.
Go further: Ask to change your order or explain an ingredient you want to avoid.
Check into a hotel
Try: “You are a hotel receptionist. I have a reservation, and I want to ask about breakfast and checkout.”
Practice: Names, dates, numbers and practical follow-up questions.
Go further: Explain that something in your room is not working.
Introduce yourself at work
Try: “We are colleagues meeting for the first time. Ask me about my role and the project I am working on.”
Practice: Explaining your responsibilities and asking about someone else's work.
Go further: Summarize a project update and clarify the next step.
Prepare for a job interview
Try: “Help me rehearse an interview. Ask about my experience, then ask a follow-up question based on my answer.”
Practice: Describing past work and explaining a decision or accomplishment.
Go further: Answer the same question again using a correction you just learned.
Make plans with a friend
Try: “Let's decide what to do this weekend. Suggest an activity and ask what I would like to do.”
Practice: Preferences, suggestions, times and places.
Go further: Disagree politely and suggest an alternative.
Tell a story from your day
Try: “Ask me about something that happened today. Keep asking questions so I can tell the story.”
Practice: Sequencing events, past tenses and explaining how you felt.
Go further: Retell the story using two corrected phrases from your conversation.