# I want to learn English alone **URL:** \ **Category:** Discussion & Solutions\ **Tags:** solved\ **Created:** [September 7, 2026, 6:16am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/i-want-to-learn-english-alone/325377 "2026-09-07T06:16:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NHAC\_HAY](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/nhac_hay/32/177646_2.png) [@NHAC\_HAY](https://onehack.st/u/NHAC_HAY)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2026, 6:16am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/i-want-to-learn-english-alone/325377/1 "2026-09-07T06:16:11Z")
hello guys, I am Vietnamese, and I would really love to be able to use English just like a native speaker. However, I honestly don’t know where to start. Could you share any courses or learning roadmaps with me? Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![SRZ](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/srz/32/146132_2.png) [@SRZ](https://onehack.st/u/SRZ)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2026, 7:03am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/i-want-to-learn-english-alone/325377/2 "2026-09-07T07:03:48Z")
![learn-english-alone](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/b/9/b96daaa121498c5cc3640cc91dec747fd136a830.jpeg) Xin chào 👋 You can start tonight. Alone. Free. **Do this first — it takes one minute:** 1. Open your phone keyboard and tap the microphone button (or open Google and tap the mic). 2. Say these three words slowly: **cost · asked · fifths** 3. Read what the phone typed. Did it write “cos”, “ask” or “fif”? Then you just found the exact thing that makes people ask you to repeat. Vietnamese ends words softly. English does not. Those endings are the difference — not grammar. Everything below is free, and each one shows you your own mistakes. **Two things a Vietnamese speaker already owns that nobody counts:** 🎒 ```auto chữ Quốc ngữ → you read the Latin alphabet on day one (a Thai, Chinese or Arabic learner starts from zero) French loans → English words you already carry cà rốt → carotte → carrot xa lát → salade → salad ga → gare → station ô tô → auto → automobile ``` That is half the vocabulary free of charge. 🇻🇳 No teacher. No partner. No payment. Follow the boxes in order: box 1 tonight, box 2 for the next month, the rest whenever you want them. > **🪞 The page that refuses to obey you** > > Say a colour out loud. The page changes colour when it hears you, and stays still when your ending disappears. > • **[Speech colour changer](https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/web-speech-api/speech-color-changer/)** — no signup, open it in Chrome and talk. > • **[VOA Let’s Learn English, Level 1](https://learningenglish.voanews.com/p/5644.html)** — one short story a night, quiz at the end. > • **[LangCorrect](https://langcorrect.com/)** — write three sentences about your day. A native rewrites them while you sleep. > **🇻🇳 The list of your mouth, measured by a Vietnamese university** > > Vietnamese ends syllables softly. English does not. That single habit is what people hear. > • **[Can Tho University study](https://ctujs.ctu.edu.vn/index.php/ctujs/article/download/448/610/3089)** — they recorded Vietnamese speakers and wrote down which consonant clusters (two or three sounds together, like the “sk” in _asked_) get dropped, changed or added. That table is your homework list. > • **[Word-final consonant errors, KKU 2019](https://hs.kku.ac.th/ichuso/2019/034-ICHUSO-2019.pdf)** — the Mekong Delta study, high- vs low-experience learners, with the exact error list. > • **[Selected pronunciation issues of South Vietnamese English](https://www.scirp.net/pdf/ojml_2022042813452069.pdf)** — Hong Bang University, Ho Chi Minh City: the southern accent’s own patterns. > • **[Refugee education guide, pages 6–12](https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED208681.pdf)** — the older, wider table of sounds Vietnamese speakers swap. > • **[Sounds of Speech, University of Iowa](https://soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/english)** — watch a side view of the mouth making the sound, then copy it. > • **[English Accent Coach](https://www.englishaccentcoach.com/play)** — click the vowel you hear. Your ear learns before your mouth. > **🎧 The voice you speak half a second behind** > > Shadowing: play a recording and speak along half a second late. Your mouth copies rhythm your ear cannot catch yet. > • **[VOA Special English + full scripts](http://www.manythings.org/voa/scripts/)** — slow native audio, every word written down. > • **[Randall’s Listening Lab](https://www.esl-lab.com/)** — take one quiz, then shadow the lines you missed. > • **[BBC 6 Minute English](https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english)** — full speed, full transcript. > • **[Reading Bear](https://www.readingbear.org/)** — for sounds you keep missing; built for children learning to read, and it works. > **🎙️ Captions of your own voice, made on your own machine** > > • **[BurnSub](https://burnsub.com)** — record yourself talking, and your browser writes the captions. Nothing uploads, nothing costs. Every unclear word appears as the wrong word. > • **[Chrome live captions](https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/10538231)** — turn any English audio into text on screen and check what you heard. > **🚪 The door that stays shut until you type the right word** > > • **[Text games (IFDB)](https://ifdb.org/)** — type English to move through a story. Pick one marked easy. > • **[The Wiki Game](https://www.thewikigame.com/)** — race from one Wikipedia page to another using links only. > • **[LyricsTraining](https://lyricstraining.com/en/)** — fill the missing words in a song. > • **[AllKaraoke](https://allkaraoke.party/)** — sing in your browser and watch the score. > • **[NHK World live TV](https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live_tv/)** — English news all day with captions, free, plays from Vietnam. > **🔧 Things that prove you understood** > > • **[iFixit guides](https://www.ifixit.com/Guide)** — repair something by following English steps. The working device is the proof. > • **[Exploratorium experiments](https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks)** — do it, then compare your result with theirs. > • **[LibriVox](https://librivox.org/)** — free audiobooks; read the same text while you listen. > • **[r/WriteStreakEN](https://www.reddit.com/r/WriteStreakEN/)** · **[English Language Learners](https://ell.stackexchange.com/)** — post a sentence, natives rewrite it and say why. > **📏 Numbers you beat next month** > > • **[Vocabulary size test](https://my.vocabularysize.com/)** — Vietnamese instructions, one number. > • **[Cambridge level check](https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/test-your-english/general-english/)** — 25 questions, your level on screen. > • **[Paul Nation speed-reading set](https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources/speed-reading-and-listening-fluency)** — time yourself, write the number down. > • **[VocabProfile](https://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/)** — paste an article; more than one hard word in ten means pick something easier. > • **[CEFR self-check grid](https://europass.europa.eu/system/files/2020-05/CEFR%20self-assessment%20grid%20EN.pdf)** · **[Vietnam’s 6-level framework](https://thuvienphapluat.vn/chinh-sach-phap-luat-moi/vn/ho-tro-phap-luat/tu-van-phap-luat/6711/khung-nang-luc-ngoai-ngu-6-bac-dung-cho-viet-nam-a1-a2-b1-b2-c1-c2)** — the same level in both systems. > **🪤 What wastes months** > > • Collecting lists instead of starting. > • Studying grammar silently. Say every sentence out loud. > • Changing tools every week. One shadowing routine for one month beats ten apps. > • Skipping the ending sound. > • None of this gives you a speaking partner. Machines answer instead, and natives fix your writing overnight. > **🗣️ Free humans, tonight, no card** > > The one thing no app replaces — and it costs nothing. > • **[Free4Talk](https://free4talk.com/)** — voice rooms open right now, click one and talk, no account, no download. > • **[Conversation Exchange](https://www.conversationexchange.com/)** — the biggest pool of people trading one language for another. > • **[LangCorrect](https://langcorrect.com/)** — write three sentences, a native rewrites them overnight while you fix somebody’s Vietnamese. > • **[r/WriteStreakEN](https://www.reddit.com/r/WriteStreakEN/)** — one sentence a day, corrected within hours, keep the streak. > **👂 Two sites that end the guessing about a single word** > > • **[Forvo](https://forvo.com/)** — a real native recorded almost every word on earth; listen before you say it out loud. > • **[YouGlish](https://youglish.com/)** — the same word inside dozens of real videos, with the sentence written under it, so you hear it at natural speed. Open the colour page. Say “blue”. That is minute one. ---
**Author:** ![KTYM](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/ktym/32/175646_2.png) [@KTYM](https://onehack.st/u/KTYM)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2026, 7:12am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/i-want-to-learn-english-alone/325377/3 "2026-09-07T07:12:28Z")
Excellent, will there be a version for someone from Mexico? I’m not very familiar with it yet. ---
**Author:** ![SRZ](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/srz/32/146132_2.png) [@SRZ](https://onehack.st/u/SRZ)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2026, 8:01am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/i-want-to-learn-english-alone/325377/4 "2026-09-07T08:01:15Z")
¡Hola! 👋 Sí — aquí está la versión para México. You can start tonight. Alone. Free. **Do this first — it takes one minute:** 1. Open your phone keyboard and tap the microphone button. 2. Say these three words slowly: **school · sheep · very** 3. Read what the phone typed. Did _school_ come out as **“es school”**? Did _sheep_ become **“ship”**? Did _very_ become **“berry”**? That is your accent, written down by a machine. Spanish puts an **e** in front of s-words, squeezes 14 English vowels into 5, and turns **v** into **b**. Those three habits are what makes people ask you to repeat — not grammar. **And here is the part nobody tells a Spanish speaker: you already own thousands of English words.** ```auto información → information -ción → -tion universidad → university -dad → -ty famoso → famous -oso → -ous rápidamente → rapidly -mente → -ly público → public -ico → -ic ``` Watch the false friends though: **embarazada** is pregnant, not _embarrassed_. **Actualmente** is currently, not _actually_. **Asistir** is to attend, not _to assist_. 🇲🇽 = the tool speaks Spanish, so zero English is enough to start. Drawer 1 tonight. Drawer 2 for this month. The rest whenever you want them. > **🇲🇽 The doors your own country already paid for** > > Free by law, open to any adult in Mexico, no school, no enrolment fee. > • **[EMI — Escuela Mexicana de Inglés](https://emi.aprende.gob.mx/)** 🇲🇽 — the SEP’s own platform, built with British Council material, A1 to B1+. Its own page says _pública y gratuita_. An email address is the whole price. > • **[TecNM free courses](https://mooc.tecnm.mx/)** 🇲🇽 — Inglés Básico 1-5 and Intermedio 1-5 from the federal technology university network, with a constancia at the end. The August–December 2026 round is open now. > • **[IMSS EduTK](https://edutk.imss.gob.mx/)** 🇲🇽 — Inglés Básico para principiantes. Their own FAQ says it is for every citizen, derechohabiente or not. > • **[Capacítate para el Empleo](https://capacitateparaelempleo.org/)** 🇲🇽 — Fundación Carlos Slim, open 24 hours a year round, English for work among hundreds of free courses. > • **[UNAM AVI](https://avi.cuaed.unam.mx/idioma-ingles.html)** 🇲🇽 — three free English exams from UNAM with no registration at all: general level, placement, reading. > **👅 Your Spanish mouth, measured and mapped** > > Spanish and English are made in different parts of the mouth. This is the homework list. > • **[Sounds of Speech, University of Iowa](https://soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/spanish)** 🇲🇽 — pick Español, then English, and watch a side view of the tongue make both. Same sound, two mouths, one animation. > • **[Vowel Epenthesis by Spanish Learners of English](https://orgs.gmu.edu/lingclub/WP/texts/3_Baker.pdf)** — the George Mason study of the extra **e** before _school_, _speak_, _student_. Your habit has a name and a page number. > • **[American English against Mexican Spanish, consonant by consonant](https://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0718-09342017000200195&script=sci_arttext)** — the full comparison table for Mexican Spanish specifically. > • **[Dificultades de pronunciación para hispanohablantes](https://dilemascontemporaneoseducacionpoliticayvalores.com/index.php/dilemas/article/download/392/672)** 🇲🇽 — the same list in Spanish, with exercises, from a Mexican journal. > • **[Ship or Sheep](https://shiporsheep.com/)** · **[berry or very](https://esldesk.com/pronunciation/berry-very)** — click, listen, choose. The two contrasts that give you away, drilled in five minutes. > • **[Minimal pairs, listening and speaking](https://learnhip.com/pron/)** — sorted by the exact contrast: b/v, s/th, d/th, l/r. > • **[Sammy the talking head](https://incl.pl/sammy/)** — move the tongue, lips and voice yourself and hear what comes out. This is how “th” stops being magic. > • **[Sentence stress and weak forms](https://tembrica.com/en/sentence-stress)** — paste a sentence, see which words shrink. Spanish gives every syllable the same length; English does not, and that is most of the accent. > **🎤 Machines that refuse you until the sound is right** > > No teacher, no partner, no payment. The computer tells you, instantly. > • **[Read Along by Google](https://readalong.google/)** 🇲🇽 — the menus work in Spanish, it runs offline on a 1GB phone, and it listens while you read English out loud and stops you on the word you missed. No account, no ads. > • **[Speech Colour Changer](https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/web-speech-api/speech-color-changer/)** — say a colour. The page changes colour when it hears you, and sits still when it does not. > • **[Phrase Matcher](https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/web-speech-api/phrase-matcher/)** — say the sentence on screen and get a straight right or wrong. > • **[Speak Easy](https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/speak-easy/)** — a picture appears, you say the word, the score moves only when the machine hears the right one. > • **[Word Pronunciation Checker](https://anytospeech.com/word-pronunciation-checker)** — type the one word you are stuck on, say it, get a 0-100 score with the broken sound marked. Ten free checks a day, no account. > • **[Microsoft Reading Coach](https://coach.microsoft.com/)** — read a paragraph aloud, it marks every word you missed and builds the drill from your own mistakes. > • **[Caption Ninja](https://caption.ninja/)** · **[Live Transcribe](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.audio.hearing.visualization.accessibility.scribe)** 🇲🇽 — talk and watch the captions write what the machine heard. Every wrong word on screen is a sound to fix. > **🎧 The voice you speak half a second behind** > > Shadowing: play the audio, speak along half a second late. Your mouth copies rhythm your ear cannot catch yet. > • **[Breaking News English](https://breakingnewsenglish.com/)** — the same news story recorded at five speeds, from crawling to normal, with the script for each one. Start at the slowest and climb. > • **[News in Levels](https://www.newsinlevels.com/)** — today’s news written three times, easiest to hardest, audio with every version. > • **[VOA Learning English](https://learningenglish.voanews.com/)** — slow native narration, the exact text on the same page, downloadable audio, 60 years of it. > • **[BBC Real Easy English](https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/real-easy-english)** — normal people talking slowly, with a free transcript for every episode. > • **[elllo](https://www.elllo.org/)** — 3,000 unscripted conversations in every accent, each with the words written out. > • **[Randall’s Listening Lab](https://www.esl-lab.com/)** — take the quiz first, then shadow only the lines you got wrong. > **🎬 Both languages on the same second** > > • **[Language Reactor](https://www.languagereactor.com/)** — two subtitle lines at once on YouTube, English on top, Spanish under it, and any word you click explains itself. Free forever on YouTube. > • **[YouTube dual subtitles, open source](https://gythiro.github.io/yt-dual-subs/)** — the same trick from code anyone can read, no company attached. > • **[YouGlish](https://youglish.com/)** — type any English word and watch real people say it in real videos, one after another, with the line written under them. > • **[Democracy Now en Español](https://www.democracynow.org/es)** 🇲🇽 — real English interviews, human Spanish subtitles, new every weekday. > • **[Al Jazeera English, live](https://www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish)** — 24 hours of English news with captions you can switch on, free, plays from anywhere in Mexico. > **🗣️ Free humans, tonight, no card** > > • **[Free4Talk](https://free4talk.com/)** — voice rooms open right now. Click one, start talking. No account, no download, no payment. > • **[Spanish–English Discord](https://discord.com/invite/spanish-english)** — 150,000 people, half want your Spanish and half have the English you want. > • **[Conversation Exchange](https://www.conversationexchange.com/)** — the biggest pool of people who trade Spanish for English, by voice, video or text. > • **[Language Exchanges](https://www.language-exchanges.org/)** — run free by a university, not a company. Search a partner, meet on any app you already have. > • **[LangCorrect](https://langcorrect.com/)** — write three sentences about your day. A native rewrites them while you sleep, and you correct someone’s Spanish to pay for it. > • **[r/WriteStreakEN](https://www.reddit.com/r/WriteStreakEN/)** — post one sentence a day, get it fixed within hours, keep the streak. > **🎮 English as the controller, not the subject** > > • **[LyricsTraining](https://lyricstraining.com/en/)** — the song plays and stops until you type the missing word. > • **[Free Rice](https://freerice.com/)** — every English word you get right sends rice to the World Food Programme. Your vocabulary feeds someone. > • **[Wiki Racer](https://wikiracer.com/)** — race from one Wikipedia page to another using only the links inside. You have to read fast or you lose. > • **[Text games](https://ifdb.org/)** — type English to move through a story. The door stays shut until the sentence is right. > • **[iFixit](https://www.ifixit.com/)** — repair something you own by following English steps. The working phone is the proof you understood. > • **[Visual recipes](https://www.showmestepbystep.com/pages/visual-recipes)** — a photo for every step, one short English line under it, built for people cooking in a second language. Dinner is the exam. > • **[Science Buddies](https://www.sciencebuddies.org/stem-activities)** — kitchen experiments in English. The result on the table tells you whether you read it right. > **📏 One number, then beat it next month** > > • **[Vocabulary size test](https://tembrica.com/es/vocabulary-size-test)** 🇲🇽 — in Spanish, two minutes, no signup, and it plants fake words to catch you guessing. > • **[Level test](https://tembrica.com/es/english-level-test)** 🇲🇽 — your A1 to C2 level given as a range, never a flattering badge. > • **[Paul Nation’s vocabulary test](https://my.vocabularysize.com/)** — the one universities use for research. Take it today, take it again in 30 days. > • **[CEFR self-check grid, Spanish](https://europass.europa.eu/system/files/2020-05/CEFR%20self-assessment%20grid%20ES.pdf)** 🇲🇽 — one page, official, tick every line that is already true of you. > **🪤 What eats months of a Spanish speaker's life** > > • Reading grammar silently. Say every sentence out loud or it stays theory. > • Translating word for word. English word order will fight you every time. > • Changing app every week. One shadowing routine for one month beats ten apps. > • Skipping the **e**. _School_, not _eschool_ — this one alone changes how people hear you. > • Watching English with Spanish subtitles only. Your eyes read, your ears rest, nothing moves. Open the colour page. Say **“blue”**. That is minute one. 🇲🇽 ---
**Author:** ![Adhir](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/adhir/32/154126_2.png) [@Adhir](https://onehack.st/u/Adhir)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2026, 12:52pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/i-want-to-learn-english-alone/325377/5 "2026-09-07T12:52:13Z")
So cool thread, bookmarked. BTW I am from India and would appreciate your assistance. ---
**Author:** ![SRZ](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/srz/32/146132_2.png) [@SRZ](https://onehack.st/u/SRZ)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/i-want-to-learn-english-alone/325377/6 "2026-09-07T14:19:22Z")
Namaste 🙏 The India version is a different job from the two above — and easier. You have read English for years. Signboards, forms, exam papers, this forum. **You already own the words.** What school never gave you is **speaking hours** , and that is the only thing missing. **Do this first — it takes one minute:** 1. Open your phone keyboard and tap the microphone. 2. Say these three words slowly: **water · very · student** 3. Read what the phone typed. Did _water_ come out as **“wader”**? Did _very_ become **“wery”**? Did _student_ become **“istudent”**? That is your first language pushing English around, and it pushes differently for each one — Hindi swaps **v** and **w** , Tamil adds a vowel before **s** -words, Bengali turns **v** into **bh**. Everyone curls the tongue back on **t** and **d** where English keeps it flat. **🇮🇳 = free because your own government already paid for it.** Drawer 1 tonight. Drawer 2 this month. The rest whenever you want them. > **🇮🇳 The doors India already paid for** > > - **[Skill India Digital Hub — Introduction to English Skills](https://www.skillindiadigital.gov.in/courses/detail/f5ebf053-3561-4ad4-9123-4d130e239173)** 🇮🇳 — Ministry of Skill Development course, free, Hindi and English toggle. Mobile number and an OTP is the whole entry. > - **[AICTE Smart English for Professionals](https://free.aicte-india.org/Smart-English-Basics-for-Professionals.php)** 🇮🇳 — meetings, interviews, email drafting, phone English, plus live sessions. **Free course and a free certificate.** > - **[SWAYAM](https://swayam.gov.in/)** — Ministry of Education platform carrying _Communicative English_, _Speaking Effectively_ and _Better Spoken English_ as 8-12 week video courses. Watching costs nothing. > - **[Bharat Skills employability workbooks](https://bharatskills.gov.in/employability-skills/)** 🇮🇳 — free workbooks, question banks and mock tests on English and interview technique. **No login at all** , direct download. > - **[DIKSHA](https://diksha.gov.in/)** 🇮🇳 — NCERT textbooks with Read-Aloud audio in **36 languages** , and it downloads once for **offline** use. Guest mode needs no account, so it costs almost no data after the first day. > - **[National Digital Library of India](https://www.ndl.gov.in/)** 🇮🇳 — 35 million open items including English textbooks and audiobooks, interface in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and more. > - **[NIOS](https://www.nios.ac.in/)** 🇮🇳 — open schooling with English at three levels for adults, no upper age limit, and free lesson PDFs with MP3 audio. > - **[PMKVY 4.0](https://www.skillindiadigital.gov.in/pmkvy-landing)** 🇮🇳 — free short-term training where most job-role courses carry a spoken-English module. Aadhaar, ages 15-45, no fee. > - State schemes worth checking where you live: **Bihar’s [Kushal Yuva Program](https://www.biharskilldevelopmentmission.in/)** runs an 80-hour communication module inside free training, and Rajasthan’s Women & Child Development department runs a **130-hour spoken English course free for women and girls**. > **👅 Your own language's sound list — the homework nobody hands you** > > The fix is different depending on what you grew up speaking. Find your row. > > - **Hindi speakers** — the **v / w** merge. Drill it here: **[minimal pairs, vine and wine](https://7esl.com/minimal-pairs-v-vs-w/)** · **[the word list version](https://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/minimal-pairs-v-w-initial.php)** (loads on any phone, almost no data). > - **Tamil speakers** — the vowel that appears before s-words: _still_ becomes _istill_, _speak_ becomes _ispeak_. **[The paper that maps it](https://www.paultenchdocs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tamil_english_standard-_pronunciation.pdf)**, with the full pattern. > - **Bengali speakers** — **v** turning into **bh** and **f** into **ph** : _very_ to _bhery_, _furniture_ to _purniture_. **[The case study](https://www.englishjournal.net/archives/2019/vol1issue2/PartA/1-2-15-220.pdf)**. > - **Everyone** — the retroflex **t** and **d** , where the tongue curls back and English keeps it flat: **[the Hindi and Telugu study](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4028080/)** documents it with word lists. > - **Everyone again** — rhythm. Indian languages give every syllable equal weight; English squeezes the weak ones. **[Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and Malayalam measured against English](https://www.isca-archive.org/speechprosody_2016/prakash16_speechprosody.pdf)**. > - **[SpeechStar mouth animations](https://www.speechstar.ac.uk/speech-sound-animations/)** — real MRI and ultrasound video of a mouth making each sound. Watch where the tongue actually sits, then copy it. > **🎤 Machines that listen — free, honest, and awake at 2am** > > - **[Read Along by Google](https://readalong.google.com/)** — built for Indian learners, listens while you read English aloud and stops you on the word you missed. Works on a cheap phone and offline. > - **[DictaLearn](https://dictalearn.com/)** — pronunciation, shadowing and dictation in one page, scoring fluency and clarity as you read aloud. Free forever, no account. > - **[Shadowing English](https://shadowingenglish.com/)** — real speakers, sentence by sentence, script on screen. Speak half a second behind them. > - **[Pronunciation checker](https://www.screenapp.io/features/pronunciation-checker)** — records you and marks the exact sound that missed. > - **[Live dictation pad](https://codeopx.com/tools/voice-to-text/dictation)** — talk and watch it type. Every wrong word on screen is a sound to fix, and nothing leaves your phone. > **💼 The English that pays** > > - **[National Career Service AI Interview Coach](https://www.ncs.gov.in/)** 🇮🇳 — the government jobs portal has a free interview coach built in. Practise the interview before you sit in one. > - **[NCS Career Skills course](https://dge.gov.in/ncs)** 🇮🇳 — corporate etiquette, email writing, presentations, phone manner. Hindi and English, free for registered jobseekers. > - **[Effective Communication](https://www.mygreatlearning.com/academy/learn-for-free/courses/effective-communication)** — business email, workplace English, active listening, interview language. Course content free; only the certificate costs. > **🎬 Two languages on one screen** > > - **[DualSub](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dualsub-%E2%80%94-dual-subtitle-t/hedabnnhomiofblenpnobejfkalbeici)** · **[Funlingo](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/funlingo-dual-subtitles-f/gjdpaicenfffjkgofmcjikilokigkonj)** — English on top, Hindi underneath, on YouTube, Netflix, Prime and **Hotstar**. Free, no login, hover any word for its meaning. > - **Doordarshan’s own pairing** 🇮🇳 — DD News carries a story in Hindi and DD India carries the same story in English. Watch both and the meaning is never a guess. > **🗣️ Free speaking hours — the only thing you are actually short of** > > - **Toastmasters clubs** — India has hundreds, and **a guest can attend for free** with no registration. You listen the first week and speak the second. Search your city plus _Toastmasters_ and walk in. > - **[The English Discord](https://discord.com/servers/english-363985050578190336)** — 984,000 members, around 79,000 online at once, voice channels open all day. > - **[eng-hub](https://eng-hub.org/)** — 400,000 members, live lessons and voice rooms, free to join. > - **[Indian English Chat](https://t.me/indianenglishchat)** · **[Spoken English group](https://t.me/spoken_english_speaking)** — Telegram rooms run by Indians, with voice chats. Free, and everyone there is nervous too. > **🪤 What wastes an Indian learner's years** > > - **Paying for accent neutralisation.** Being understood is the goal; sounding American is a product somebody invented to sell classes. Indian English is a real variety with millions of speakers. > - **More grammar.** You have twenty years of it. Another rule adds nothing to your mouth. > - **Silent study.** Reading English builds zero speaking hours. Say every sentence out loud, even alone. > - **Waiting to be fluent before speaking.** The order runs the other way round. > - **Practising only with friends who share your first language.** They forgive the sounds a stranger will not. Open your phone, say **water · very · student** , and look at what it typed. That is minute one. 🇮🇳 ---
**Author:** ![Crypto\_Toolbox](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/crypto_toolbox/32/162876_2.png) [@Crypto\_Toolbox](https://onehack.st/u/Crypto_Toolbox)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 8:05am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/i-want-to-learn-english-alone/325377/7 "2026-09-08T08:05:28Z")
Can you flip this for English speakers working on a different language? ---
**Author:** ![SRZ](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/srz/32/146132_2.png) [@SRZ](https://onehack.st/u/SRZ)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 9:15am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/i-want-to-learn-english-alone/325377/8 "2026-09-08T09:15:45Z")
Flipped 🔄 Going this way, the two expensive parts were already paid for. Not by you. **The part nobody tells an English speaker:** somewhere, a government needed a man in a suit speaking Hungarian by autumn. So they wrote the whole course, recorded every drill, and sent the bill to the taxpayer. Public money means no copyright, which means it has been sitting on a free website ever since — **151 languages** of it, audio and all. Some instructor’s entire job was “teach this stranger Swahili in ten weeks or the embassy has a problem”. You get to take his homework. 💀 **The second free thing: you are the most wanted trade partner alive.** Every Korean, Spanish and Japanese learner on those exchange sites wants an hour of English. You hold the currency, so speaking practice costs you nothing but time. **Do this first — one minute:** 1. Add your target language to your phone keyboard. 2. Tap the microphone and say any sentence you know in it. 3. Read what the phone typed. Whatever it wrote is what a native would have heard. Free examiner, in your pocket, in any of dozens of languages. Drawer 1 tonight. Drawer 2 this week. The rest whenever you want them. > **🏛️ The course your taxes already paid for** > > Complete courses, text plus audio, built to make people operational fast. Public domain. > > - **[FSI Language Courses](https://www.fsi-language-courses.org/)** — the Foreign Service Institute archive, **151 languages** , full PDFs with the original tape audio. > - **[Live Lingua’s FSI collection](https://www.livelingua.com/public/fsi)** — the same courses in a cleaner reader, 40+ of the major languages. > - **[Peace Corps courses](https://www.fsi-language-courses.org/peace-corps-courses/)** — **119 languages** , and this is where the rare ones live: Acholi, Zarma, Twi, Dari. Straight from the source at **[files.peacecorps.gov](https://files.peacecorps.gov/multimedia/audio/languagelessons/)**. > - **[DLI GLOSS](https://gloss.dliflc.edu/)** — the Defense Language Institute’s lesson library, **41 languages** , real articles and broadcasts with built-in comprehension work. Free to browse, no account for the lessons. > - **[DLIFLC eLearning](https://www.dliflc.edu/elearning/)** — around 100 hours of basic audio and text per language, same source. > **🎓 The country itself wants you to learn its language** > > Every major language has a state-funded body whose whole job is giving the material away. > > - **[King Sejong Institute](https://nuri.iksi.or.kr/front/cms/contents/layout2/learningsejong/contentsList.do)** 🇰🇷 — full Korean textbooks as PDFs **with MP3 audio** , direct download, no account. Funded by the Korean government and marked not for sale. > - **[Japan Foundation Marugoto](https://marugoto.jpf.go.jp/en/download/)** 🇯🇵 — the complete coursebook as a free PDF. The audio needs a free account, so plan for that. > - **[Goethe-Institut](https://www.goethe.de/en/spr/ueb.html)** 🇩🇪 — 260+ interactive German exercises from A1 to C2, plus podcasts and video. > - **[TV5MONDE Apprendre](https://apprendre.tv5monde.com/en)** 🇫🇷 — **4,000+ French exercises** built on real broadcast video, graded A1 to C2, funded by public broadcasting. > - **[Pushkin Institute](https://pushkininstitute.ru/?locale=en)** 🇷🇺 — Russian from zero, with a level test. Free, needs registration. > **🔤 A new alphabet is days of work, not months** > > If your language uses another script, this is the first wall and the fastest one to knock down. > > - **[Lenguia Alphabet Tool](https://www.lenguia.com/tools/alphabet)** — **11 writing systems** with typed recall drills: kana, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Devanagari, Thai, Georgian. > - **[Alphabet Explorer](https://www.altftool.com/tools/all/alphabet-explorer)** — 19 scripts, every character with audio. > - **[Yomikana](https://yomimaru.app/yomikana)** — hiragana and katakana with stroke animation and native audio. > - **[HanziStroke](https://www.hanzistroke.com/dictionary)** — 11,000+ Chinese characters, animated stroke order, printable practice sheets. > **🌐 Step onto the native-side web — where nothing is written for learners** > > Reading _about_ a language in English is the slowest possible route. Go where they talk to each other. > > - **[Naver Knowledge iN](https://kin.naver.com/)** 🇰🇷 — Korea’s giant question-and-answer well, 200M+ answers of ordinary Korean. > - **[Yahoo Chiebukuro](https://chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/)** 🇯🇵 — Japan’s biggest Q&A board, 60M+ questions · **[5channel](https://5ch.net/)** for the unfiltered version, no account needed to read. > - **[Zhihu](https://www.zhihu.com/)** 🇨🇳 — long, careful native answers on everything. > - **[Yandex](https://yandex.com/)** 🇷🇺 — make it your default search engine and Russian pages surface first. > - **[ForoCoches](https://www.forocoches.com/)** 🇪🇸 — everyday colloquial Spanish, nothing textbook about it · **[jeuxvideo.com forums](https://www.jeuxvideo.com/forums/)** 🇫🇷 — the _Blabla_ boards are pure casual French. > **🎧 Natives speaking slowly, on purpose, for you** > > Made simple by native speakers rather than written by a textbook committee. > > - **[Dreaming Spanish](https://www.youtube.com/c/DreamingSpanish)** — the benchmark of the method, absolute beginner to advanced, no translation used. > - **[Natürlich German](https://www.youtube.com/@naturlichgerman2021)** · **[Comprehensible Russian](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDNbk-uX4D6nsthi8L03fng)** · **[Comprehensible Portuguese](https://www.youtube.com/@cportuguese)** — the same idea in three more languages. > - **[NHK Easier](https://nhkeasier.com/)** 🇯🇵 — Japan’s own simplified news, updated daily, tap any character for its reading. > - **[DW slow-spoken news](https://learngerman.dw.com/en/langsam-gesprochene-nachrichten-learning-german/a-2925601)** 🇩🇪 — real news read slowly, full text beside the audio. > - **[LingoStories](https://lingostories.org/)** — free graded readers with audio in **ten languages** , open source · **[SpreadRead](https://spreadread.com/)** — any book with the original and the translation side by side. > **🔄 Your unfair advantage — you hold what everyone wants** > > Nobody has to be persuaded to talk to you. That is the flip’s whole gift. > > - **[ConversationExchange](https://www.conversationexchange.com/)** · **[Speaky](https://www.speaky.com/)** · **[MyLanguageExchange](https://www.mylanguageexchange.com/)** · **[PolyglotClub](https://polyglotclub.com/)** — free matching, you trade an hour of English for an hour of theirs. > - Ask for **half and half** , and keep the halves honest. The trap is drifting into English for the whole call because it is easier for both of you. > **📊 Learn the words in the order that pays** > > An app decides your word order by its syllabus. A frequency list decides it by how often people actually say the word. > > - **[FrequencyWords](https://github.com/hermitdave/FrequencyWords)** — ordered lists for dozens of languages, built from subtitles, so it is spoken frequency rather than book frequency. > - **[Most Common Words Multilingual](https://github.com/frekwencja/most-common-words-multilingual)** — the top 5,050 words in **109 languages** , plain text, ready to import. > - Feed either into free spaced repetition. Ready-made decks exist too — **[German 5000 by frequency](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/38922074)** with audio and level tags shows the shape to look for in your language. > - **[DualSub](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dualsub-%E2%80%94-dual-subtitle-t/hedabnnhomiofblenpnobejfkalbeici)** · **[Funlingo](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/funlingo-dual-subtitles-f/gjdpaicenfffjkgofmcjikilokigkonj)** — two subtitle tracks at once on what you already watch, free, no login. > **📏 The real exam papers, published free by the examiners** > > - **[JLPT official samples](https://www.jlpt.jp/e/samples/forlearners.html)** 🇯🇵 — N5 to N1, from the body that runs the test. > - **[HSK past papers](https://www.confuciusinstitute.manchester.ac.uk/study/testing/hsk/hsk-learning-resources/)** 🇨🇳 — real HSK 1-6 papers with listening audio and answer sheets. > - **[TOPIK past paper](https://www.koreantopik.com/2026/08/the-102nd-topik-i-and-ii-test-papers.html)** 🇰🇷 — full paper, audio, scripts, answer keys. > - **[Goethe practice exams](https://www.goethe.de/en/spr/prf/ueb.html)** 🇩🇪 — official A1 to C2 trainers matching the real structure. > - **[CEFR self-assessment grid](https://www.coe.int/en/web/portfolio/self-assessment-grid)** — language-neutral, one page, tick every line already true of you. > **🪤 The traps that only catch English speakers** > > - **Reading about the language in English.** Comfortable, and it moves nothing. The native-side web is one drawer up. > - **Three languages at once.** One, for a year. The second is free after that; the first is not. > - **Leaning on romanisation.** Every week spent reading a language in Latin letters is a week not spent reading it in its own. > - **App streaks as progress.** A 400-day streak and no conversation is a common ending. > - **Waiting to feel ready before speaking.** You already have the partner queue. Use it badly for six months and it fixes itself. Pick the language, open its course from drawer one, and switch your keyboard tonight. That is minute one. 🔄 ---
**Author:** ![Dirtyjo](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/dirtyjo/32/154619_2.png) [@Dirtyjo](https://onehack.st/u/Dirtyjo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2026, 10:58am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/i-want-to-learn-english-alone/325377/9 "2026-09-13T10:58:00Z")
I can teach you English for Free, if ure interested let’s talk ---
**Author:** ![downtownsky](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/downtownsky/32/170055_2.png) [@downtownsky](https://onehack.st/u/downtownsky)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 8:20am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/i-want-to-learn-english-alone/325377/11 "2026-09-15T08:20:38Z")
can you pls help me ? @Dirtyjo