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When students speak a video lesson on EnglishCentral, we give them a speaking grade. The grade is cumulative and as students speak, we grade the lines and compile a grade. After a student finishes recording the whole video, the grade is final (but can be improved upon by repeating lines). We’ve recently changed the distribution […]
We are asked often to name the one thing EnglishCentral does best. There are a lot of benefits to using EnglishCentral and we aren’t shy about sharing them; motivating content that is current and up to date large amounts of graded listening (input) material vocabulary presented in context and at the students’ level allowing students […]
A course is a collection of videos that help you learn English in a focused and structured way. Let me discuss this further: • Different courses are seen under EnglishCentral topics. As you may already know, EnglishCentral categorizes its videos under different topics and skills, (Academic, Business, Media, Social, Travel, Young Learners, and Vocabulary and […]
We love love. We also love Valentine’s Day. Don’t be a lonely soul. Go out there and love. February 14 is about spending time with your loved ones. If you don’t have someone to hold hands with while walking, spend it with your siblings or your parents. It may be hard to get away from […]
For the Chinese people, the start of new life begins on the first day of the lunar month. The spring festival commonly known as the Chinese New Year, is the most celebrated event in the Chinese calendar. According to legend, a lion-like monster, Nian, preyed upon the villagers during New Year’s Eve. To keep the […]
EnglishCentral’s speech enabled video player is enabling unlimited conversational speaking practice on “Gogakuru Can-do!” Gogakuru Can-do! is produced by NHK Basic English”, a service by NTT Learning Systems Corporation on the Android mobile platform. Starting from 31 January 31st 2013, Gogakuru Can-do! users (Junior High School students in Japan) will have access to EnglishCentral video […]
Often it might appear like a lot isn’t going on at EnglishCentral. Nothing further from the truth. We are abuzz with conferences, training sessions, brainstorming ideas, meetings and getting out and meeting the public. Here’s a nice presentation of photos showing our staff and others in “EnglishCentral action mode”. Rest assured, we are continuously sharing […]
Sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years yet the human population is on its course by killing them within a few years. It is a traditional Chinese delicacy offered in banquets and ceremonies for the elite and is usually reserved for special occasions. Now, it is commonly served in major cities . […]
This past week, we held a great webinar where we collected a lot of comments about EnglishCentral from teachers using it in their schools. A big thank you to all who attended! If you didn’t attend, you can see the recording here. We’d like to extend the invitation and would love it if teachers could […]
EnglishCentral keeps growing by leaps and bounds. As students speak and we gather speech data about 2nd language speakers from around the world, we become stronger at providing feedback and helping students. Today, we are happy to announce that the 100,000,000th line has been spoken on EnglishCentral. Yes that is right 100 million! The lucky […]
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