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It's simple. English is the international language for business, technology, science, the internet, and travel, and more and more people speak it as a first or second language. So Learning English is your passport to easy and successful worldwide communication.

AKIRA: KYOTO: JAPAN

Many people, all round the world, start to learn English at school or at college. They often learn more at home, at work, or on holiday, and remember phrases from magazines, television, and films.

But, to learn to read, write, and speak English well, you need to do more: you need to understand how modern English is used in many different personal, social, and business contexts.

Learning from grammar books, audio cassettes, and videos is not enough. For example, you usually learn simple sentences, such as:

My name is Akira, I'm 26, and I live in Kyoto.
I want two coffees with a little milk, please.
Where is the bus station? Is there a bus to Cambridge?

But, often, when someone talks to you, you don't understand everything, or you can't continue the conversation in an interesting way. So, making friends and building business relationships is not easy.

An English course in England is always popular and memorable, but many people don't have the time or the money. Also, when the course ends and you fly home, you leave the course, and everything English, in England. With Learning English, it's always with you.

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Learning English is the name of this new way to learn English, the international language. To use it, at home or at work, you need a password and a computer with an internet connection.

Learning English is for everyone learning or using English. It works because you learn to say things you want to say, instead of learning grammar forms and then trying to think of things to say that use them.

Learning English is an on-line interactive multimedia language experience, about hundreds of topics, for intermediate speakers. Each part, or module, explains a familiar real-life idea. So, in a familiar way, you'll learn about modern language, grammar, pronunciation, and comprehension, as naturally as people who live and work in the UK.

All the modules are called the Oxford Learning English Resource. You can look at the module topics by using the Inside Learning English button near the bottom of this page.

Learning English is not a list of phrases, paid for by adverts. It's not grammar help, put on the internet by a language school. It's not a few pages about how to buy food and answer the telephone. It's not an electronic book. And it's not for beginners.

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Learning English is unique. For students and teachers, it's a helpful and useful addition to your classes. For training managers, it's a valuable blended learning resource and supports your company's English language development strategy.

Improve your English. Meet new people, explain your thoughts, express your feelings, share your ideas, make a better social life, and enjoy your holidays.

At college or university, you can develop the skills that you use most. The way you speak and write helps you to pass exams, teach others, make lifelong friends, and find a rewarding job.

In business, industry, and finance, you can be successful, build good relationships, entertain new friends, improve your career opportunities, and make better use of the internet.

As a manager, you need to feel confident about international communication, conferences, multi-national projects, and contracts. And avoid expensive mis-understandings.

If you're a writer, a journalist, a translator, or work in the media, your English is important. Learn how to write better business letters, love letters, books, articles, or reports. Learn to understand the language, choose the right words, use effective punctuation, and avoid grammar mistakes. Your work won't need correcting, wasting your valuable lifetime.

Even if you're a natural English speaker, born in England, living in England, and speaking English all the time, it's an opportunity to refresh your understanding of grammar, use English more effectively, help your children at school, improve your options at work, and plan a better future. All in an easy and enjoyable way, without committing yourself three times a week, for twenty six weeks, to evening classes.

It's more convenient than conventional learning programmes, and more interesting than textbooks, dictionaries, and reference encyclopaedias.

Learning English is designed to be used on line. You can use any computer at your work place, your notebook in the departure business lounge, a university library computer, your computer at home, any computer on holiday, internet television, or just relax with a cappuccino in an internet cafe.

Learning English will help you use, understand, and remember the English language. You can improve your personal, social, and business English; learn to read, write, and speak English effectively; and express your thoughts, feelings, and ideas, using a natural style and a modern vocabulary.

It's important to learn from everything you read at Learning English. To help you, we always use a natural style and a modern vocabulary, and write about real people, like you, living a life like yours.

Learning English was created, and is maintained, by Talking Technologies and university specialists in Oxford and London. We try to include your ideas for improvement.

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