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Voxy

Beginner English: Places and Getting Around

via Coursera

4.710 ratings at Coursera

Overview

In this course, you will develop your English conversational skills that you can use to build your personal and professional relationships. Learning activities in this course will take place on Voxy, an engaging language learning platform that automatically adapts to your current level and your performance across reading, listening, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary skills so that every lesson is optimized for rapid improvement.

Each week is made up of engaging, short, task-based lessons that can be done anywhere, anytime. Lessons include content from the real world, so you will learn from dozens of real conversations about a variety of common topics that come up when describing places, navigating transportation, and using essential travel language. By the end of the course, you will feel confident talking about places, navigating, and traveling.

Syllabus 5

  1. Course Introduction & Voxy Orientation 2.5 hours

    This week, you will learn about this course and understand how to use Voxy's innovative platform.

  2. Talking About Places 3.5 hours

    This week, you will look at how to describe towns, cities, and landmarks. You will also practice talking about weather, climate, and distances to give more details about different places.

  3. Navigating 3.5 hours

    This week, you will learn about reading signs, using transportation, and understanding schedules. By the end, you will be able to confidently give and follow directions in different settings.

  4. Traveling 3.5 hours

    This week, you will focus on learning important language for booking travel, checking in, and asking questions at the airport. You will also practice asking questions when you need help or aren't sure about something.

  5. Final Tasks: Places and Getting Around 6 hours

    This week, you will use everything you learned to describe places written and spoken form.

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

  • Structured courses with graded quizzes, assignments and deadlines you can reset.
  • A shareable certificate from the university or company when you pay.
  • Financial aid is often approved for students in India (apply 15 days before you need it).
  • Covers niche tools that universities don't teach.
  • Self-paced: start any time.
  • A clear syllabus (5 parts) you can see before you start.
  • Hindi subtitles.

Disadvantages

  • Paid after a 7-day free trial (Coursera Plus or per course).
  • Some courses can be audited for free, but graded work and certificates need payment.
  • Many courses are produced quickly from slides and screen recordings; read the reviews first.

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This course is paid. Here is how to take it for free

  • Free trials: You can start a 7-day free trial for many individual courses, Specializations, or a Coursera Plus subscription to test full course features. Cancel before the seventh day if you do not want to be charged.
  • Financial aid: If you cannot afford the fee for a certificate, you can apply for financial aid through the link on the course home page by filling out an application about your background and goals.

Taught by

  • Rebecca Payne-PassmoreDirector of Content and Learning Design, Product
  • Anna Murray

Voxy is in Tier 5: mass-produced or unclear of our institution ranking (40/100).

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