Self-study course · A2+ · 10-minute lessons

LandedEnglish for Life Abroad

For the conversations nobody puts in a textbook: landlords, couriers, doctors and coworkers. Most of them aren't native speakers either.

Start lesson 1.1 How it works

10 minper lesson
2–3phrases + 1 grammar point
8real-life modules
Freelessons 1.1–1.3 + a mission

How a lesson works

Ten minutes, six steps

DialogueВы в чате. Собеседник уже ждёт ответа. Your turn!
NoticeРазбираемся, почему один ответ — green flag, а другой — conversational disaster.
LearnЗабираем три полезные фразы и одно грамматическое правило. Без душноты.
PracticeЛовим ошибки и собираем предложения. Грамматика сама себя не починит.
Use itТеперь ваша очередь. Без учебника и переводчика под рукой.
SaveСохраняем новые фразы, чтобы в следующий раз мозг не уходил в режим 404: words not found.

Real conversations

Вы просто хотели снять квартиру, заказать еду и доехать домой. Но почему-то всё на английском. Welcome to adult life!

Find the mistake

«Да вроде нормально написано. Или нет?» Ищем ошибки и разбираемся, что пошло не так.

Build the sentence

Слова есть, а предложение не собирается? Самое время навести порядок. Собирайте фразы, пока они не начали жить собственной жизнью.

Missions

Новый квест открыт! Персонажи, неожиданные повороты и ситуации, в которых пригодится всё, что вы изучили за последние три урока.

My phrases

Для тех случаев, когда I know this word, but I can't remember it.

Tone Meter In design

Говорить прямо — хорошо. Звучать как пассивно-агрессивный арендодатель — уже не очень. Расставляем фразы по степени формальности и учимся попадать в нужный тон.

Eight real-life chapters

Your modules

01 Just Landed Asking to repeat, checking meaning, asking for help, small talk · 7 lessons, 2 missions + finale Free: lessons 1.1–1.3 and the first mission

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Your route

Relocation Passport

0 of 8 stamps

Portfolio case

Behind the product

Product design, methodology and content engineering by one person: an English teacher with 11+ years of experience and a product designer.

The problem

Courses teach the wrong English

Relocants in Georgia, Serbia, Turkey, Cyprus or Portugal use English every day, but almost nobody they talk to is a native speaker. Most courses still teach native-speaker English: idioms, slang, "English for travel".

They can't handle real interactions

Nobody taught them how to get through a messy chat with a landlord whose English is A2, or how to check an unclear message.

They sound wrong in the other direction

Directness carried over from Russian makes requests sound like orders, and native idioms confuse non-native listeners.

Russian-speaking adults

Course language is English; notes on typical mistakes are in Russian.

A2+ and up

Real learners abroad are mostly A2+, even when they call themselves B1.

Ten minutes at a time

Busy, stressed, studying alone, often on a phone.

Key decisions

What changed after the first version

Version 1 was a 23-minute lesson built around a game. Testing it on myself as a learner showed it felt like play, not study.

10-minute lessons instead of 23

One dialogue, one grammar point, 2–3 phrases. A finished lesson beats an abandoned one.

Lessons to learn, missions to play

The branching chat moved out of the lesson into its own session, so study looks like study and the game feels earned.

"Their English" vs "your English"

Imperfect messages are labelled "understand it, don't copy it". Everything the learner produces is correct.

ELF as a filter, not a feature

Lingua franca research decides which phrases and grammar get taught. Learners never need to know the term.

An honest promise

About 12 hours for real situations abroad. No "B1 to B2 in a month", because the hours don't add up.

No streaks, no XP

Progress is a passport stamp per module. Skipping never looks like failure.

Methodology

Meaning first, then form

Task-based learning with an explicit language-focus step, adapted for self-study.

Light discovery

Learners notice the pattern in a dialogue before they get the rule. Then the rule is explicit, because there's no teacher to correct a wrong guess.

Grammar chosen by intelligibility

A point gets a lesson if the mistake changes meaning or sounds rude. Every point comes back in two later sessions.

Strategies, not just phrases

When to check and when to let it pass. A map pin or a photo is a valid move, not a way around the task.

Grounded in Willis (1996), Ellis (2003), Schmidt (1990), Lewis (1993), Firth (1996), Jenkins (2000) and Seidlhofer (2011). Outcomes are mapped to the CEFR Companion Volume (2020).

Content as data

A lesson is a JSON file

Content and interface are separate, so a new lesson needs no code.

"language_focus": {
  "title": "write it down",
  "pattern": "write + it / them + down",
  "right": ["Could you write it down?"],
  "wrong": ["Could you write down it?"],
  "why": "With it, them or me, the small
          word goes in the middle.",
  "l1_note": "По-русски «это» — в конце…"
}

Validated before every deploy

Schemas plus rules a schema can't express: exactly one correct option, the mistake really in the sentence, every mission path leading somewhere, lessons within 10 minutes.

AI drafts, a human approves

AI suggests phrases, chats and practice items. Nothing is published until the methodologist signs it off.

Legally clean, paywall-ready

Only original texts. Paid lessons are never published as static files once the paywall is on.

Status

Where it is now

Live

Module 1: lessons 1.1–1.3 and the mission "Where's the Gate?".

Lessons 1.4–1.7, the second mission and the module finale. Tone Meter.

Later

Voice messages for listening, AI missions, and optional sessions with a teacher.

See it in action

Sorry, Come Again?

Ask a busy barista to repeat herself without sounding rude, and learn the one grammar point that trips up almost every Russian speaker. Ten minutes.

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