| ESL student who’s confident in the | | | | TalkTrain designed their online American English |
| classroom and during tests, but feels | | | | improvement courses around the real life |
| uncomfortable in social situations where he | | | | experiences of former ESL students who worked |
| actually has to participate in American English | | | | and lived with native speakers of American |
| conversations, there are avenues toward online | | | | English. In talking to the former students, they |
| American English improvement that can erase | | | | realized a common thread emerging: the main |
| that discomfort and improve your professional | | | | issue that held most of the students from feeling |
| and social life. Before going any further, however, | | | | comfortable in daily conversation was the |
| it’s important to recognize what it is that | | | | prevalence of the American idiom. Native |
| sets conversational American English apart from | | | | speakers of American English use idioms because |
| classroom, academic American English. In the | | | | they great up with them, but to someone |
| classroom, you learn the grammatical rules of the | | | | who’s learned the language in a classroom |
| language. You learn how to conjugate verbs, | | | | American colloquialisms are confusing. Idioms are |
| pronounce words, and use the infinitive form. You | | | | groups of words, sayings or expressions whose |
| learn how to ask for the time, how to order | | | | meaning cannot be understood just by looking at |
| from a restaurant, and how to ask for directions. | | | | the words in the phrase. Online American English |
| These are all helpful things to know, but they | | | | improvement courses will introduce these idioms |
| don’t adequately prepare you for | | | | and phrases to you, the advanced ESL student, |
| everyday conversations. Online American English | | | | so that you too can finally feel comfortable when |
| improvement with TalkTrain can prepare you, | | | | these phrases inevitably come up in conversation. |
| however. | | | | |