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Thought Training · Ring 3 · Production

· 40+ languages

No script.
No prompt in the language.

A topic arrives in your native language. You have 3 seconds to think. Then you speak — freely, unscripted — in your target language. HEXI evaluates spontaneity, vocabulary range, coherence, and grammatical accuracy under pressure.

Prompt
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Think
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Speak
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Eval
Thought Training · B1+ · Ring 3

Personal narrative

Describe the last time you felt genuinely proud of something.

Read this in your native language → respond in your target language

What Thought Training measures

Spontaneity

Did you pause and search for words, or did speech flow?

Vocabulary range

Did you use varied vocabulary or repeat the same words?

Coherence

Did your response have a logical structure from start to finish?

Grammar under pressure

Did accuracy hold when the topic got harder to express?

Why it's advanced

Construct™ gives you a script.
Thought Training takes it away.

Structured production drills train the forms. Thought Training tests whether those forms survive when your attention is on meaning, not language. The 3-second window is intentional — enough to orient, not enough to translate. HEXI evaluates what comes out when you can't plan.

"Production under time pressure is the most reliable indicator of genuine automatization — declarative knowledge that has not been proceduralized collapses under pressure." — DeKeyser (2007)

Construct™

Scaffolded speaking — Island phrase, form-focused

Scenarios

Communicative pressure — role + context given

Thought Training

Unscripted — native prompt only, target language output

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