Learn English

Learn English with short lessons, vocabulary, pronunciation practice and interactive quizzes — organised by CEFR level.

Speakers: About 1.5 billion if you count people who learned it later
Where it sits: Official or main language across several continents
In the app: American pronunciation (en-US)

Where it's used

English is the language most countries add on airport screens when they add a second one. It is official or de facto in the UK, Ireland, the United States, Canada (with French), Australia, and New Zealand. In India, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Singapore, and the Philippines it sits beside other languages: courts, universities, and a lot of office work still run in English. Counts jump around depending on whether you include second-language speakers; the useful fact is that you will meet it far from English-speaking countries.

United KingdomOfficial. England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland — accents change fast.
United StatesDe facto national language. Federal work, courts, and most workplaces.
CanadaOfficial with French. English dominates outside Quebec.
Australia & New ZealandOfficial. Spelling follows British habits, not American ones.
IrelandOfficial with Irish. Everyday speech is almost all English.
IndiaAssociate official with Hindi. Common in IT, higher education, and courts.
Nigeria & KenyaOfficial. City life and national media use it next to many local languages.
SingaporeOne of four official languages. The language of most schools and business.

What it's for

Work

Job ads in tech, tourism, and export firms ask for it even when the office is in Istanbul, Berlin, or São Paulo. It is also a UN working language.

Travel

Hotel desks, intercity trains, and museum captions often default to English as the extra language. You still want local words for food and small talk.

Study

A large share of scientific papers and English-taught university programmes use it. That is a reason to learn it, not a promise that this app is an exam course.

Cities you'll actually use it

These are places where English is the street language, or the one strangers will reach for. A week in any of them will correct textbook English faster than another word list.

London
United Kingdom
Tube maps, pub orders, NHS letters. People from everywhere; you will hear more than one accent before lunch.
New York
United States
Fast speech, a lot of Spanish in the mix, street names you already know from films.
Dublin
Ireland
English with an Irish rhythm. Street signs are often bilingual.
Sydney
Australia
Beach suburbs and a very Australian vowel set. Spelling is colour, not color.
Singapore
Singapore
MRT signs in English. In a hawker-centre queue you will still hear Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil.
Lagos
Nigeria
English plus Nigerian Pidgin in markets and on the radio. Official English is what schools teach.
Toronto
Canada
Canadian spelling, French on federal signs, a dozen other languages on the subway.
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Scottish English in shops; Gaelic on some signs. Useful if London English is all you have heard.

Which variety the app uses

The app's audio is American (en-US). British spelling — colour, travelling, centre — still shows up in UK and Commonwealth material. People understand both. Indian, Nigerian, and Singaporean English are real varieties, not mistakes; this course does not try to teach them as separate tracks.

Who it is for

Ideal if you're learning English for work, travel, study or everyday conversation. Start at the level that matches you.

In the app

Choose English as your learning language, set your level and daily goal, and practise with lessons and quizzes. Pronunciation uses en-US.

A few words

English	Turkish
Hello	Merhaba
My name is...	Benim adım...
How are you?	Nasılsın?
Nice to meet you	Tanıştığımıza memnun oldum