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How to quickly improve your English in a monthYou have a big event coming up and you need to quickly improve your English for it. Maybe a job interview, a work trip, a move abroad or…Dec 15, 2020Dec 15, 2020
An accidental success story for a small, niche digital education productThis month, November 2020, is the tenth birthday of Arabic Reading Course. In this post I’ll talk about where the idea for the course came…Nov 27, 2020Nov 27, 2020