How to talk to people
Get comfortable with the conversations people get stuck in, like small talk or asking someone out. Each lesson’s page has questions you can answer.
Get comfortable talking to people. Connsmitten is an app for building social confidence through short lessons and practice conversations, with feedback from your coach.
Small talk
- Answer “How are you?” with a detail and a question
- Be more interesting to talk to: give one specific detail
- Keep a conversation going with follow-up questions
- Start a conversation with a stranger from what you both see
- Talk to someone who doesn’t talk much by sharing first
- Get a word in with someone who talks too much
- Stay warm when someone seems uninterested
- Stand by your choice when someone judges it
- Ask a new friend to hang out with a plan they can say yes to
- How to answer “How’s it going?”
- How to answer “How have you been?”
- How to answer “How’s work going?”
- How to answer “How was your day?”
- How to answer “How was your night?”
- How to answer “How was your trip?”
- What to say when someone says “Welcome back”
- Conversation starters with strangers
- How to make small talk at a party
- How to make small talk at the gym
- How to answer “What are you up to?”
- How to answer “What do you do for fun?”
- How to answer “What’s new with you?”
- How to answer “Where are you from?”
- How not to run out of things to say
- Follow-up questions for someone you just met
- What to say when someone shares good news
- How to answer “How was your weekend?”
- How to make small talk at work
- How to answer “What do you do?”
Humor
Texts and messages
Supporting someone
Dating
Research
Build confidence for your next conversation. Take a two-minute lesson, then have your first practice conversation with Dan.
Listen to Dan open the conversation
Hey! How was your weekend?
Dan