Learning English

There is no doubt that learning English improves opportunity for employment. Many employers ask for a basic proficiency in English before employing you.

Around 1.5 billion people speak English worldwide and it is the favoured language for many businesses, the media world, science and perhaps above all the internet with 55% of the world’s web pages written in English.

It is the first language of over 400 million people and officially spoken in 60 countries. When people of differing cultures and nationalities meet up, English is normally the common langauge of communication.

Being able to speak and write English will show that you have the ability to learn new things and will open up a wider range of career opportunities.

Bruce Oliver has launched a 10 week basic reading, writing and counting course to help those living in remote locations start learning English from scratch. It assumes no previous knowledge of the language. It is dirt and moisture proof as each card is on coated paper.

This 10 week course (100 lessons) is currently operational in northern Uganda and neighbouring groups who have run there for safety. Pakistan has introduced the course alongside its Urdu reading and writing seminars and amongst the desperately poor living in brickmaking villages. The course has 10 x 1 hour or 5 x 2 hour sessions each week and will introduce basic vocabulary, letter sounds and numbers up to 100. Each course contains worksheet masters for reading and writing English and the teachers manuals are simple and easy to follow.

Bruce introducing the English course to a Nepalese tribal group in Chitwan, Nepal

All flash cards are coated on special paper to protect them from dust and moisture

Each course comes packed in a backpack for ease of transport on foot or by motorbike

This course has been introduced to remote tribal groups in the mountains o Nepal

Simple English course: Reading, writing and counting.

Ideal for those with no previous understanding of English