Understanding IELTS

The British Council, in collaboration with FutureLearn, created the free online IELTS preparation course Understanding IELTS. The course aids students in comprehending the structure of the IELTS exam, evaluation standards, and practical methods for the Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing portions. It offers professional advice, useful advice, interactive exercises, and [...]

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Inside IELTS: Preparing for the Test with the Experts

Within IELTS: The IELTS partners, British Council, IDP IELTS, and Cambridge English, created the free online IELTS preparation course, Preparing for the Test with the Experts. The course aids students in comprehending the format of the IELTS Academic exam, enhancing their speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities, learning how examiners [...]

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Learning Languages with AI

With individualized lessons, real-time feedback, pronunciation practice, vocabulary building, and interactive discussions, Learning Languages with AI is a free, beginner-friendly course that teaches students how to use AI-powered technologies to boost language learning. The course explains the principles of generative AI and shows how AI can speed up language learning [...]

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English Grammar for Beginners

An approachable course on English grammar that aids students in developing a solid foundation in the language. Through simple-to-follow video lectures and hands-on exercises, it covers fundamental subjects such as nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, tenses, articles, prepositions, punctuation, and basic letter writing. After completing the Hindi-language course, students will receive [...]

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Chinese Sign Language and Culture

Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) created the beginner-friendly online course Chinese Sign Language and Culture, which is available through FutureLearn. The course explores the history, culture, identity, and day-to-day activities of China’s Deaf people while introducing students to Chinese Sign Language (CSL). In addition to gaining knowledge of Deaf culture, [...]

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Academic Writing for Second Language Speakers

The academic writing abilities required for university-level studies can be developed by non-native English speakers with the aid of this free online course. Students get better at writing coherent academic paragraphs, organizing essays, crafting compelling introductions and conclusions, summarizing and paraphrasing materials, avoiding plagiarism, properly citing sources, and utilizing scholarly [...]

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English Language Learners: Read the News

A free online course developed for English language learners who want to enhance their ability to read and understand English news. News-reading strategies, headline analysis, vocabulary-building approaches, critical reading skills, and the interpretation of foreign, opinion, business, and sports news pieces are all taught in this course. Additionally, learners gain [...]

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Learn English Online

The British Council’s flexible online English-learning program, Learn English Online, is intended for students of all skill levels. To enhance communication skills, confidence, pronunciation, reading, writing, and listening, the course offers live online classes with knowledgeable instructors, one-on-one or small group instruction, interactive learning resources, speaking practice, grammar development, and [...]

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Russian for Beginners

A free, beginner-friendly course called Russian for Beginners aids students in developing a solid foundation in the language. Along with useful exercises to enhance reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills, it covers the Cyrillic alphabet, pronunciation, fundamental vocabulary, basic grammar, sentence structure, verb conjugations, noun genders, plurals, and Russian cases. [...]

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Japanese Language Fundamentals

The goal of Cursa’s beginner-friendly Japanese language fundamentals course is to give students a solid foundation in the language. The Hiragana and Katakana writing systems, basic vocabulary, greetings, pronouns, particles, verb conjugations, adjectives, time expressions, sentence structure, and everyday conversations are all covered in this course. Students, tourists, fans of [...]

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