Over the past year I’ve been working on a very exciting project. In January 2022 we launched a basic MVP of an English language practice app that combines AI, speech recognition and pre-recorded video to provide rich and engaging conversation experiences. The app is called Twyn and over the past…

You 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 an exam. …

This 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 from, its unexpected success and some interesting insights and learnings. When Arabic Reading Course launched in 2010, I was studying Arabic. I’d spent a while…

I asked a Russian guy I know, who has amazing English, to write in Russian about how he achieved it. Меня зовут Сергей и я хотел бы рассказать о том так я приобрел и совершенствую мои навыки владения английским языком. …

I believe the most important advice for improving your English by listening to a podcast is this… don’t listen in the background while you’re doing another task (like making dinner). Sit still and listen closely for just 5 minutes. If you put the podcast on in the background, you’ll quickly…

The English learner of the 2020s is incredibly lucky. There is so much free English audio content available online. When I was studying French at school in the late 90s, our teacher told us we needed to listen to French outside the lessons — my options were to find a…

There are many free automated grammar checkers available online. I wanted to find out if any of them are reliable and, if so, which is the best? After a brief look at lots, I chose 3 to compare. I chose ones that seem the most widely known or the ones…

WordBit is an app that shows you a word in the language you are learning, every time you unlock your phone. This is a truly excellent idea! But, I found there was a lot of room for improvement. True innovation I downloaded this app directly from a YouTube ad. I rarely download…

Many language learning apps are designed for beginners or lower levels. They often aren’t challenging enough for advanced learners. Here are 4 apps that will help you improve your English in a way that is suitably challenging. Go Correct Improve your grammar, vocabulary Go Correct lets you practice writing English every day…