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Intermediate English: Talking About Yourself

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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 talking about yourself – who you are, where you're from, what you do, and your likes and dislikes. By the end of the course, you will feel confident speaking and writing about yourself in both personal and professional contexts.

Syllabus 6

  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. Your Background 4.5 hours

    This week, you will learn how to talk about your background – where you grow up, where you live, what your family and friends are like, and more.

  3. Favorites and Preferences 4.5 hours

    This week, you will learn how to talk about your favorites and preferences – food and drinks, hobbies and sports, and more. You'll also learn how to express preferring one thing over another, and talk about the things you don't like as well!

  4. Work Experience 4.5 hours

    This week, we're switching to a professional context. You will learn how to talk about your work and strengthen your job application by building a strong CV and describing your professional skills in detail.

  5. Networking 4.5 hours

    This week, you will learn how to make conversation and reach out to connect with current and former colleagues in a way that will help your career moving forward.

  6. Final Tasks: Talk About Yourself 6 hours

    This week, you will use everything you learned to describe yourself both in 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 (6 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

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

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

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