General English
Adults and older students who want to actually use English — at work, online, while travelling, or in study — and are not preparing for an exam
هذه الدورة لمن يريد أن يستعمل الإنجليزية في حياته فعلاً: في العمل، وعلى الإنترنت، وفي السفر، وفي الدراسة، وليس لمن يستعد لاختبار. وهي مبنية على ملاحظة واحدة: كثير من الناس درسوا الإنجليزية سنوات ثم يتجمّدون حين يكلّمهم أحد بها. والسبب ليس ضعفاً فيهم، بل أن دراسة اللغة واستعمالها نشاطان مختلفان، والمدرسة تعطي الأول وحده. لذلك ينتهي كل درس هنا بشيء تقوله أو تكتبه لإنسان حقيقي. الدروس الخمسة الأولى مجانية. وإذا أردت أن تظهر الدروس الأولى مشروحة بالعربية، فأدِّ اختبار تحديد المستوى القصير في صفحة /english/ar، فتظهر الشروح بالعربية تلقائياً للمستويات المبتدئة.
General English is an online course for adults and older students who want to use English in ordinary life rather than sit an exam. It covers everyday grammar, high-frequency vocabulary, real listening, speaking without freezing, and practical writing, and every module ends in a task done with a real person.
For the learner who has studied English for years and still freezes when someone speaks to them. Fifteen modules on the grammar that carries ordinary conversation, the few hundred words that do most of the work, and how to listen, speak, read and write in real situations. Every module ends in something you say or write to a real person.
2 hours reading + 3 hours of challenges
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why years of study did not produce speech, and what changes that
- Build correct English sentences instead of translating word by word
- Handle the tenses that carry almost every ordinary conversation
- Learn the few hundred words that cover most of everyday English, and stop collecting rare ones
- Follow real speech, with its contractions and squashed words, rather than textbook recordings
- Speak past the moment of freezing, and keep going after a mistake
- Write a message, an email and a form in the right register
- Keep improving after the course, with a habit that survives having no teacher
Modules in this course
Studying a language and using one are different activities. Almost every school teaches the first, and speaking comes only from the second.
8 min read
Translating word by word from Arabic produces two errors so reliably that fixing them changes how you sound immediately.
9 min read
English has twelve tense forms and ordinary talk uses four of them most of the time. Learn those four properly and stop worrying about the rest.
9 min read
The small words that mark a speaker as non-native more reliably than any vocabulary gap, and that respond quickly to attention.
8 min read
A few hundred plain words cover most of everyday English. Learning rare ones while these stay unpractised is the classic way to stay silent.
8 min read
Native speakers do not say words separately. Once you know what they actually do to them, the speed stops being the problem.
9 min read
The pause before you speak is not a vocabulary problem. It is a decision problem, and it can be removed deliberately.
9 min read
Fluency is not knowing more words. It is getting more out of the words you already have.
8 min read
Reading is the cheapest way to keep improving after a course ends, and the habit dies at the dictionary.
8 min read
Most English an adult actually writes is short and practical. It is also the easiest thing to get right, because you have time.
8 min read
Ordinary spoken English runs on them, they cannot be worked out from their parts, and there is a short list that covers most of it.
8 min read
Grammatically perfect English can still sound rude. What carries politeness in English is not what carries it in Arabic.
8 min read
Most conversation is a story about yesterday or a plan for tomorrow. Two structures cover nearly all of it.
8 min read
Without a teacher, correction has to come from you. Most learners repeat a small number of errors, and finding yours is a one-evening job.
8 min read
The course ends and nothing external replaces it. What continues to work, what quietly does not, and how to tell the difference.
8 min read
One real use of English every day for thirty days, logged in a single line each, with an honest account of what went wrong and what changed.
180 min to build
Questions before you buy
- How long does this course take?
- About 2 hours of reading, plus roughly 3 hours across the 1 challenge. Most of that time is the challenge, at your own pace.
- Do I need any experience first?
- No formal prerequisites — every course is written to be readable from the first lesson, and that lesson is free to read before you buy, so you can check it's pitched right for you.
- How is the certificate issued?
- Automatically, the moment you complete every module and challenge. No review queue to wait on.
- What's your refund policy?
- A 14-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked — email support@courseparse.com within 14 days of purchase. Full policy on the Refunds page.