The Best Way to use Skype for Learning English

Do you want to learn English?

Do you want to improve your English for job prospects or promotion?

Are you coming over to the UK for a business trip or holiday?

Are you looking to improve your English because you want to study in Britain?

An online course of grammar and worksheets is very useful and so is watching Youtube English lesson videos, reading and listening to the news and working from a text book.  All great ideas! These strategies will help with your passive learning, but it is active and interactive learning that will boost your English skills. Using Skype to communicate with a native English speaker is the perfect way to learn a language: it is the next best thing to actually being in the country.

Skype English lessons enable you to have a face-to-face conversation; you can ask to learn what you really need; ask for clarification and get instant feedback; listen to clear British pronunciation and improve your pronunciation skills; hear up to date English; you are free to make mistakes without anyone else hearing them. That has got to be a bonus! During Skype English classes the teacher can text vocabulary and written information directly to you or share the screen so that you can see the teaching material and work on a text or exercise or video/ audio clip together. The lesson is so alive and vital that it is just like being in a classroom ……. not a classroom but a ‘skyperoom’.