The English you need in a city every day — asking the way, reading signs and price tags, shopping, booking an appointment, and sorting out a refund or a bank charge.
A city puts the same short exchanges in front of you again and again: you stop a stranger to ask the way, you read a sign that decides whether you may go in, you ask what something costs, you book a time, and now and then you carry something back to a shop. Almost none of it needs advanced grammar. It runs on the imperative, on a polite opener such as "excuse me, could you tell me...", on numbers said out loud, and on recognising the twenty or so words that turn up on labels, tickets and doors. The order here follows a day rather than a syllabus: first how to get someone's attention, then how to find your way, then the ordinary transactions — transport, shops, food, appointments — and only at the end the harder conversations you need when something has gone wrong. It starts at A1 and finishes at B1, and every article ends with a quiz.
12 lessons