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We have opened the first 10 lessons of every level of every course for free — from Pre-Intermediate to Advanced: for IT, business, sales, medicine, logistics, design and everyday English. They are complete lessons: with new words, grammar, listening and exercises on every page.
280 more lessons open with a free account — just your name and email, no bank card. And if you’d like to study with a teacher, the first lesson is free too.
Speak up at stand-ups, explain an outage, talk to clients and pass the interview in English.
Who it’s for
Developers, testers and junior IT staff with basic English: you can read documentation and write a short message, but speaking in a meeting still feels hard and you often look for words.
Pre-Intermediate · CEFR A2+ → B1
What you’ll be able to do
- Introduce yourself and your role to a new team
- Say in simple words what you did yesterday and what you will do today
- Describe a bug, ask for help and answer simple questions about your work
Who it’s for
IT specialists who already work with English every day — tickets, chats, stand-ups — but who get lost in fast discussions and can’t yet say exactly what they mean.
Intermediate · CEFR B1 → B2
What you’ll be able to do
- Take an active part in stand-ups, retros and planning meetings
- Explain a technical problem, its cause and your solution step by step
- Write clear tickets, emails and short documentation
- Handle a routine call with a client or a vendor
Who it’s for
Engineers and team leads who work in English with confidence and now want to sound precise and persuasive with clients, managers and stakeholders.
Upper-Intermediate · CEFR B2 → C1
What you’ll be able to do
- Argue for a technical decision and weigh trade-offs out loud
- Lead incident reviews and talk about failures diplomatically
- Negotiate scope, deadlines and prices with clients and vendors
- Give and receive feedback in code reviews without sounding harsh
Exercises from this level
Upper-Intermediate · 10 units · 60 lessons
- 1Leading the team
- 2Architecture and design decisions
- 7Monolith or microservices?Free
- 8Writing a design docFree
- 9Scaling under loadFree
- 10Shortcuts and technical debtFree
- 11The architecture review board
- 12Revise and check: the architecture decision record
- 3Reliability and incidents
- 13SLOs and error budgets
- 14Life on call
- 15Breaking things on purpose: chaos engineering
- 16Leading an incident call
- 17Blameless postmortems
- 18Revise and check: the postmortem review meeting
- 4Security and trust
- 19Thinking like an attacker
- 20Phishing and social engineering
- 21Zero trust
- 22Compliance and audits
- 23Responsible disclosure
- 24Revise and check: the security incident briefing
- 5AI in production
- 25From prototype to production ML
- 26Prompts, evaluations and hallucinations
- 27AI and copyright
- 28Explainable AI and regulation
- 29Will AI take my job?
- 30Revise and check: an AI ethics panel
- 6Product strategy and growth
- 31Finding product–market fit
- 32Experiments and A/B tests
- 33Pricing and monetization
- 34Roadmaps and saying no
- 35Growth metrics and churn
- 36Revise and check: the quarterly business review
- 7Influence and negotiation
- 37Mapping your stakeholders
- 38Pitching to leadership
- 39Negotiating with a vendor
- 40Managing up
- 41When a deal goes wrong
- 42Revise and check: the contract renegotiation
- 8Hiring and culture
- 43Writing a job ad that works
- 44Interviewing candidates
- 45Diversity and inclusion
- 46Remote culture and rituals
- 47Burnout and wellbeing
- 48Revise and check: the hiring committee
- 9Writing that matters
- 49The perfect pull request description
- 50Writing an executive summary
- 51Writing for users: docs and release notes
- 52Difficult emails: bad news, apologies, refusals
- 53Speaking at a conference
- 54Revise and check: the technical blog post
- 10Careers and the future
- 55The founder's story
- 56Going independent: freelancing and consulting
- 57Ethics at scale
- 58Open source and the people behind it
- 59Where technology is heading
- 60Revise and check: your career story
Who it’s for
Senior engineers, architects and IT managers who are already fluent and need the nuance of native speakers for leadership, strategy and public speaking.
Advanced · CEFR C1 → C2
What you’ll be able to do
- Lead strategic discussions and steer a room towards a decision
- Present to executives and at conferences with a natural, confident style
- Handle sensitive conversations: crises, conflicts, performance issues
- Write formal proposals and reports with a precise, professional tone
Meetings, emails, presentations and negotiation — the English of everyday office work.
Who it’s for
Office staff with basic English: you understand simple emails and can introduce yourself, but phone calls, meetings and quick questions from colleagues are still a challenge.
Pre-Intermediate · CEFR A2+ → B1
What you’ll be able to do
- Introduce yourself, your company and your job
- Write short, polite emails and answer simple requests
- Talk about plans, tasks and problems in simple sentences
Who it’s for
Professionals who use English at work regularly but want more confidence in meetings, on calls and in writing, and fewer pauses while looking for the right word.
Intermediate · CEFR B1 → B2
What you’ll be able to do
- Take part in meetings: give your opinion, agree and disagree politely
- Handle calls and complaints from clients and suppliers
- Write clear, well-structured business emails and reports
- Present a project or results to colleagues
Who it’s for
Managers and specialists who already work in English and want to negotiate, persuade and write at a professional level.
Upper-Intermediate · CEFR B2 → C1
What you’ll be able to do
- Negotiate terms and prices and keep the relationship good
- Run meetings and keep discussions on track
- Present ideas persuasively and handle difficult questions
- Write proposals and reports in a confident, formal style
Who it’s for
Fluent managers and executives who want the subtle, precise English of senior leadership: strategy, influence and diplomacy.
Advanced · CEFR C1 → C2
What you’ll be able to do
- Lead strategic discussions and board-level presentations
- Influence and persuade sceptical stakeholders
- Communicate in a crisis and rebuild trust with the right tone
- Write formal documents with nuance: hedging, emphasis and style
Cold calls, pitches, objections and closing the deal — in English.
Who it’s for
Salespeople with basic English: you can greet a client and say a few words about your product, but a real sales call in English still makes you nervous.
Pre-Intermediate · CEFR A2+ → B1
What you’ll be able to do
- Introduce yourself and your company on the phone
- Describe your products, prices and delivery in simple words
- Take a message, make an appointment and send a follow-up email
Who it’s for
Sales reps and account managers who already talk to English-speaking clients but want to sound more natural and handle the unexpected.
Intermediate · CEFR B1 → B2
What you’ll be able to do
- Make cold calls and follow-ups that sound natural
- Ask good questions and find out what the client really needs
- Answer common objections and talk about price with confidence
- Report results and plans to your manager
Who it’s for
Experienced salespeople who sell in English and want to negotiate, present and persuade like a native speaker.
Upper-Intermediate · CEFR B2 → C1
What you’ll be able to do
- Negotiate discounts, terms and contracts without giving too much away
- Give persuasive presentations and product demos
- Turn difficult objections and angry clients into opportunities
- Write proposals and emails that win deals
Who it’s for
Fluent sales leaders and key account managers who want to lead teams, close complex deals and speak with real authority.
Advanced · CEFR C1 → C2
What you’ll be able to do
- Lead strategic negotiations with senior buyers
- Coach and motivate a sales team in English
- Speak about markets, strategy and competition with nuance
- Handle sensitive situations: lost deals, mergers, reorganisations
Talk to patients, discuss cases with colleagues and present at conferences.
Who it’s for
Doctors, residents and medical students with basic English: you can read some medical texts, but talking to a patient or a colleague in English is still difficult.
Pre-Intermediate · CEFR A2+ → B1
What you’ll be able to do
- Introduce yourself to patients and colleagues
- Ask a patient simple questions about symptoms and history
- Explain simple instructions and reassure a patient
Who it’s for
Clinicians who can already talk about everyday medical situations in English but want to explain things more clearly and follow colleagues at natural speed.
Intermediate · CEFR B1 → B2
What you’ll be able to do
- Take a full history and explain a diagnosis in plain words
- Discuss cases and hand over shifts with colleagues
- Talk with worried patients and relatives with empathy
- Read medical articles and guidelines more easily
Who it’s for
Doctors who work or study in English and want to communicate with precision in difficult conversations, team meetings and research.
Upper-Intermediate · CEFR B2 → C1
What you’ll be able to do
- Break bad news and discuss risks and options sensitively
- Lead team meetings and discuss complex cases
- Present research findings and answer questions
- Write clear case reports and referral letters
Who it’s for
Fluent doctors and medical leaders who need the subtle English of ethics debates, international conferences and clinical leadership.
Advanced · CEFR C1 → C2
What you’ll be able to do
- Present and debate at international conferences
- Take part in ethics and guideline discussions with nuance
- Lead a clinical team and handle conflicts diplomatically
- Write formal academic and policy texts
Check calls with drivers, brokers, rates and paperwork — the English of US trucking.
Who it’s for
New dispatchers and logistics staff with basic English who are starting to work with US drivers and brokers and need the words of the job.
Pre-Intermediate · CEFR A2+ → B1
What you’ll be able to do
- Make a check call with a driver and understand the answers
- Talk about loads, pick-ups, deliveries and times
- Explain a simple problem and pass on a message
Who it’s for
Dispatchers, fleet coordinators and broker agents who already work with Americans every day but want to speak faster, clearer and with more confidence.
Intermediate · CEFR B1 → B2
What you’ll be able to do
- Solve problems on the road: delays, breakdowns, rejected loads
- Negotiate rates and book loads with brokers
- Understand the paperwork and the rules of the road
- Write clear updates for drivers, brokers and customers
Who it’s for
Experienced logistics staff who handle difficult calls in English and want to negotiate, defend their team and sound fully professional.
Upper-Intermediate · CEFR B2 → C1
What you’ll be able to do
- Negotiate firmly with brokers and shippers and win better rates
- Defend your team and settle disputes and claims
- Explain contracts, clauses and compliance clearly
- Speak about the market and the future of the industry
Who it’s for
Fluent logistics managers and team leads who want the English of leadership, sales of their dispatch service and company strategy.
Advanced · CEFR C1 → C2
What you’ll be able to do
- Lead a dispatch team and mentor new people
- Sell your dispatch service to carriers and partners
- Take part in strategic and due diligence discussions
- Handle crises and talk to the press and partners with the right tone
Present your designs, give and take feedback, and work with developers and clients — in English.
Who it’s for
Designers with basic English: you can read the menus of your design tools and short messages from your team, but explaining a design decision or talking to a client in English still feels hard.
Pre-Intermediate · CEFR A2+ → B1
What you’ll be able to do
- Introduce yourself, your role and your projects to a new team
- Say what you are working on, what you have finished and what is blocked
- Explain simple design choices: layout, color, fonts and white space
- Understand feedback from clients and developers and answer politely
Who it’s for
Designers who already work with English — in Figma comments, team chats and calls — but who lose words in fast discussions and find it hard to defend a design, negotiate with a client or present research.
Intermediate · CEFR B1 → B2
What you’ll be able to do
- Run discovery calls and workshops and ask the right questions
- Explain the reasoning behind a design and disagree politely with a product manager
- Present research findings, test results and metrics clearly
- Negotiate scope, fees and deadlines with clients
Who it’s for
Senior and lead designers who already work in English with confidence and now need to lead teams, influence executives and write and speak with precision.
Upper-Intermediate · CEFR B2 → C1
What you’ll be able to do
- Lead a design team and handle restructures, hiring and difficult stakeholders
- Make a business case for design, a design system or research
- Give tactful feedback to executives and negotiate budgets and contracts
- Write strategies, decision records and plain-language texts that people actually read
Who it’s for
Design leaders and very experienced designers — heads of design, studio founders, consultants and educators — who are already fluent and want the precision, nuance and presence of a native speaker at the highest level.
Advanced · CEFR C1 → C2
What you’ll be able to do
- Speak to boards, investors and the press with authority and the right tone
- Handle the language of acquisitions, contracts, licensing and regulation
- Give keynotes, write long-form essays and critique with real nuance
- Lead through crises, change and succession with diplomacy and candor
Travel, friends, films, money and home — English for real life.
Who it’s for
Adults with basic English: you know the simple tenses and many words, but you still need time to put a sentence together in a real conversation.
Pre-Intermediate · CEFR A2+ → B1
What you’ll be able to do
- Talk about yourself, your family, work and free time
- Handle travel, shops, restaurants and everyday situations
- Tell a simple story about something that happened to you
Who it’s for
Adults who can already chat in English about everyday topics but want to speak more freely and understand people talking at natural speed.
Intermediate · CEFR B1 → B2
What you’ll be able to do
- Keep a conversation going and give your opinion
- Talk about plans, experiences, regrets and wishes
- Understand films, series and podcasts better
- Deal with problems: complaints, misunderstandings, changes of plan
Who it’s for
Confident speakers who want to sound natural: richer vocabulary, idioms and the ability to discuss almost any topic in depth.
Upper-Intermediate · CEFR B2 → C1
What you’ll be able to do
- Discuss news, society and culture and defend your point of view
- Use idioms and phrasal verbs naturally
- Tell stories in a lively, engaging way
- Speak politely and tactfully in sensitive situations
Who it’s for
Fluent speakers who want the fine points of English: style, humour, nuance and precise expression, close to a native speaker.
Advanced · CEFR C1 → C2
What you’ll be able to do
- Express subtle opinions and shades of meaning
- Understand humour, irony and fast native speech
- Take part in debates and argue persuasively
- Write and speak with a style that fits any situation
Questions and answers
What’s the catch?
There isn’t one. The free lessons are our way of getting to know you. If you like them, you can buy the full level of a course or study with a teacher, but you don’t have to.
Do I need an account?
Not for the first 10 lessons of every level. Lessons 11–20 open with a free account, and then your progress is saved.
How much does a lesson with a teacher cost?
250 lei for a 50-minute one-to-one lesson. The first, trial lesson is free and you are not obliged to continue.
Are the free lessons really free?
Yes. 280 lessons are open with no sign-up and no bank card. 280 lessons more open with a free account.
Do I need to install anything?
No. Lessons take place on our online platform, which opens in your browser. You only need a camera, a microphone and a stable internet connection.
Can I study from my phone?
Yes. The platform is fully adapted to phones, so you can study anywhere — even on the go.
What level do I need to start?
Any level — from complete beginner to advanced. In the trial lesson we check your level and decide where to start. You can start from zero in one-to-one lessons with a teacher; the free online courses currently start at Pre-Intermediate.
Learn faster with a teacher
The free lessons are a great start. With a teacher you also speak, get your mistakes corrected and follow a plan made for your job. The first lesson is free.