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Iphone lessons for Ielts, Toeic, and Toefl

December 31st, 2010

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Improving your Ielts, Toeic, and Toefl scores just got a lot easier thanks to the Iphone and other smart phones.

Most people have a lot of dead time during a typical day.  They ride the subway to work, take long lunch breaks, walk around the grocery store etc.  This time that most people waste is a perfect chance to put your new Iphone to work.  You can download MP3s and other cool apps.  If you use your “dead time” wisely, you can improve your test scores during a time that you would usually just waste.  Listening to ESL podcasts is an amazing way to improve your listening.  If you want to pass the Toefl or any of the other tests, you need good listening skills.  This only comes with putting in the necessary time.  This improved listening will allow you to learn English more passively.  Your speaking will become better as a result.  You may not notice a huge improvement at first, but try this method for 1 month and you won’t believe how much better your test scores and general English has become.  Most people are still wasting all this precious time instead of putting their Iphone to use.  The other cool thing is that if you study during times when you can’t do anything fun, you will have a lot more free time to do the stuff you want to do instead of feeling guilty for not studying enough.  Download some of our ESL podcasts to your Iphone and listen for 20 minutes a day for the next month and see for yourself.  We’ve literally had thousands of people email us from all over the world telling us how much their English improved from doing this.  If you can read this article, your English is good enough to listen to our show.  Just don’t blame me when you become addicted to it!  It’s a lot of fun.

How to Learn English on your Iphone

December 31st, 2010

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English learning is going to get a lot easier, cooler, and cheaper, thanks to products like the Iphone 3 and Iphone 4. English lessons have always been behind technology but things are going to be a lot different now. Traditional schools are still a huge business, so they like to make people believe that school is necessary, but honestly, it’s really not anymore. I learned Chinese through podcasts and Apps. Actually, millions of people are doing this all over the world. Large companies are going to pay attention to this so they will make a lot of Iphone Apps for learning English vocabulary, slang, Toeic, Toefl, writing, and pretty much anything else you can think of. This smart phone revolution is here to stay. The problem is that most of what will be offered will be of poor quality. Successful companies are good at marketing and earning money. It’s not really necessary that they make a high quality app. Think about it. If they can make one quickly that looks good on the Itunes store, people will use it because it’s what they see first. As long as the quality looks “ok” many people will buy. I still can’t believe that airports still sell books for learning English. Have you ever seen one of these? They are terrible and could have been written 50 years ago. The point is they know people will be bored in airports and want to buy something. If the cover looks fine, people will buy.

We are taking a totally different approach. We don’t have a huge marketing budget and don’t really care. We believe in making cool English learning apps and ESL lessons for the Iphone and giving them away for free. We know from experience that if the quality is good, friends will tell friends.

We’re a couple of Canadian brothers living in Shanghai China. We’ve been making cool English lessons for the past several years. Our goal is to make you speak like a real native speaker in a fun and easy way. We won’t email you a bunch of garbage. We treat our users as real friends. Sign up for our free VIP lessons below and experience for yourself why our method of MP3 mobile English learning is awesome.