Help with English
A supportive space to find your next step
You are here because you don’t want more English like the English you’ve already had.
That’s true of our Blue Noun holidays — and it’s true of this page too.
Many people reach this point because English never quite reflected who they were — or how capable they actually are. They learned, tried, showed up… and still ended up feeling tense, flat, or disconnected from their own voice.
This page is here to help you work out what comes next for your English.
That’s not the same as working out everything — where you need to be, or how to get there.
In fact, we help a lot of people who tried to plan their English future in that way, got stuck, felt a sense of failure, and either stopped altogether or became increasingly uncomfortable along the way.
Instead, this page brings together a small number of different next steps into English.
You’ll find gentle reframes that can be helpful to hear, practical support to help you get oriented, and the option of real, light conversation.
They’re all here so you can work out one next step that feels right for you — without repeating what already didn’t work or deepening the setbacks.
This is a page many people return to at different points on their journey with English — you may want to bookmark it.
When English feels wrong — but you can’t quite explain why
If you’ve learned English before but still feel tense, flat, or oddly disconnected from your own voice, there’s usually a reason.
For many people, it’s not a lack of ability — it’s the effect of teaching that focused on correction, performance, or progress, and slowly eroded confidence along the way.
Before deciding what to do next, it can help to hear a different story about English — one that makes sense of how it feels, not just how it works.
Start here if you need orientation rather than answers.
A short, gentle reframe of how many people end up judging their English — and why “wonky” English is often a sign of something healthy, not broken.
This is a free PDF, with no sign-up. Whenever I share it on LinkedIn, it’s the piece people pass on the most — it has helped so many people feel positively about their English.
Dictionary of how English feels
Many English learners struggle to explain what’s wrong — even to themselves. English doesn’t feel bad exactly, just heavy, tense, or oddly uncomfortable.
This page gives words to common experiences people have with English but rarely see named, helping you recognise your own relationship with the language more clearly and with less self-blame.
Alone with English (podcast)
If you’ve ever felt let down by English teaching — or quietly assumed the problem must be you — it can help to hear those experiences spoken out loud.
This podcast offers honest, thoughtful conversations for people who want to feel less alone with English, and to hear their experience reflected back with care rather than correction.
You don’t need to fix anything here.
This is simply a place to notice what resonates, and to feel less alone with English before taking a next step.
When English is a regular part of your life
— but feels flat
You might already be learning English somewhere else — classes, lessons, apps, professional training.
But if English feels thin, purely functional, or oddly disconnected from who you are, there’s a gap to fill. What’s often missing is texture, context, and connection. That’s our speciality during our language holidays — and it’s something we also share more widely through our writing and online support.
This section is for anyone who has poured time into learning English, but hasn’t yet felt held by it.
You’ll find blogs about mindset, resources for reading, watching, and listening, practical exercises, and a small number of online lessons adapted from our real-world English approach.
When you’re tired of guessing and want clarity about the next step
The English learning space is full of people shouting about their offer — but how can you know if it’s right for you? Many English learners are asked to make big decisions without being given the tools to understand what kind of help they actually need.
It’s hard to separate what learning has looked like in your past from openly discovering what future learning could look like — because most of us are making decisions from inside experiences we’ve never been asked to step back from.
At this point, what helps most isn’t another option — it’s an overview.
Large language schools used to offer this kind of overview as part of their onboarding, but the information was usually gathered to sell their own courses. We’ve taken the useful part of that process and turned it into a focused, independent hour — objective advice that anyone can benefit from.
Help finding your next English teacher
This is a one-hour Zoom conversation where you talk through where you are with English — and how it feels — and begin to map out a plan that actually fits.
Together, we clarify:
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what kind of English support makes sense for you,
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how different options relate to each other,
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and how to move forward in a way you can track and manage with confidence.
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You’ll leave with a clear understanding of your direction, your priorities, and a realistic first step — without feeling overwhelmed by the whole picture.
When you’re ready for a lighter step
Sometimes the issue with English isn’t ability or motivation — it’s fitting it into a busy life.
There are good times to invest in courses and training. And there are other times — when work, family, travel, or energy mean that a full programme would overwhelm your life rather than support it.
We offer two options for those other times.
They’re flexible interventions designed to supplement your skills and progress without taking over your time — or turning English into another thing to manage. This way, it doesn’t become a false choice between doing it full-on or giving up altogether.
Because no one decides to give up on English.
It usually just happens.
Top-up Online English Conversations
This is supported use of English through real conversation, offered via a conversation-voucher system that makes it flexible and easy to use. You book conversations when it suits you, drop in and out as needed, and use English regularly, without committing to a course.
It’s a light way to keep English warm and active when you’re not ready for something more structured.
Language immersion works because when you travel, your senses are already heightened. You slow down. You look around you. You notice details. You’re curious about where you are and what’s happening around you.
This challenge converts that state into language.
Each day offers a very short prompt (around 15 minutes) that helps you put English onto what you’re already seeing, doing, and exploring. Because you’re already attentive and engaged with your environment, the language resonates much more deeply — without studying, correcting, or performing.
It’s the same principle we use on our English holidays, offered in a simple, self-guided format you can take with you anywhere.
