Quick-Start English

Learn natural greetings and farewells beyond memorized phrases to sound more natural and be taken seriously by native speakers. Break out of the shell and practice new responses in conversations.

Master natural sounding greetings and appropriate farewells for business settings and for interactions with close friends, from formal good morning to warm, flexible exchanges, and casual see you later.

Explore common confusion in word usage with ten word sets, and practice forms like bored/boring, interesting/interested, excited/exciting, lay/lie, learn/study, agree with/agree to, impressive/impressed to improve your speech.

Master commonly mistaken words and phrases in English, including bored vs boring, interested vs interesting, excited vs exciting, and the verbs lend, loan, borrow, plus lay and lie.

Master common English usage by distinguishing learn from study, raise from rise, see, look at, and watch, and the correct use of agree with and agree to.

Improve your spoken English by applying targeted grammar corrections, and practice phrases and examples to turn knowledge into clearer, more confident speech.

Master negative statements, negative questions, and the rule of subject–verb–object word order. Apply tips on pronoun gender, adverb placement, and adjective forms of nouns for clear English.

Master when to use while versus during and how to place auxiliary do. Cover still versus yet, until versus by, the same as, make versus do, and verb endings.

Explore common misused and abused words from section 4, arising from translating native languages into English, identify frequent grammatical mistakes, and practice corrections to improve spoken English.

Correct common translation errors in English phrases, such as omitting 'call' in 'phone call'. Differentiate noun and verb forms of 'promise' and distinguish 'holiday' from 'vacation' and 'days off'.

Clarify common English usage by correcting misused terms, such as vocabulary versus words, eye shopping versus window shopping, salary man, wear, famous versus well-known, trip versus travel, and more.

Strengthen your command of prepositions by practicing prepositions of time and place, with an optional diagnostic test before and after to measure your improvement.

Master the use of time prepositions—at, in, on, for, since, and no preposition cases—alongside place prepositions like to, from, at, in, into, between, and among.

Master article usage with a, an, and the through rules and examples to make your English sound more natural as you complete the Quick-Start English course.

Explore article usage, including when not to use a or the, with demonstratives and possessives; master a/an before consonant or vowel sounds and common phrases.

Celebrate finishing the Quick-Start English course and keep practicing to strengthen your English by reviewing it and touching up on it, focusing on the little details that make a difference.