Welcome to Clearly English

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Clearly English / Clearly English Pro

Vocabulary

Vocabulary games and interactive word lists help you learn and practise the 3000 most frequently used words of English (adapted from the NGSL), with hundreds of activities ranked into 30 levels. An upper-intermediate level English speaker may have a vocabulary of about 2000 words.

You can open word lists in different views. In English View and Translation View, you can hide and then reveal either the translation or the English, to test your recall and understanding of the words. In Pronunciation View, you can listen to the clear audio models at full or slow speed, while viewing only pronunciation symbols until you reveal the spelling and translation This is great for really seeing what you're hearing, without being misled by the irregular English spelling system. In any view you can record and play back your voice to compare it to the native speakers. This is the most effective way to develop your pronunciation: to trust your own ears!

Play games and take tests to practise the meaning, spelling, usage and stress pattern of all 3000 words. Your best score for each game is saved in the menu, and any mistakes you make are stored in My Mistakes, where you can go to try them again till you get them right.

Phrase Book

Use the phrase book to listen to and practise saying over 600 useful English phrases. Try the different viewing options for the lists, listen slowly, and record your voice as you practise pronouncing the phrases.

My Lists

These are lists you build yourself with words and phrases you want to keep practising. Words from any of the vocabulary list and game activities can be saved to My Words, and phrases from the phrase book to My Phrases. Use the various list views to test your learning, and perfect your pronunciation with the voice recorder. When you feel you’ve really 'got' a word or phrase, you can delete it from your list.

Pronunciation

In the pronunciation studio, you can hear the sounds of English clearly and learn to speak with more confidence. IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols are used to practise the sounds, and there's activity and video content to help you see how very helpful the symbols are and to quickly learn them if they're new to you.

There are word lists to practise each of the 44 sounds of English, a sound / symbol recognition game to develop your ear and your reflexes, and interactive videos to help you understand and pronounce the sounds of English better, especially commonly confused sound pairs.

Grammar

Added since the making of the demo video, the 3000 words in the vocabulary lists now appear with grammar class symbols in the tiles. You can learn how to use each word class in a 65-section tutorial using the original Graphic Grammar system. Graphic Grammar is prettier than Chomsky and will be in Creative Commons when published. Interactive grammar videos are also coming soon from contributing creators.

Interactive Videos: Quizzes and Auto-Recording

Clearly English videos are interactive in two innovative ways. Firstly, teachers can set one or more quizzes which pop up during the video. Question sets and answer sets can comprise text, audio, or images, allowing for many creative quiz designs. When you submit your answers, the video resumes. Your quiz score is recorded in the menu item for each video, and you can take any quiz again if you want to try to improve your score.

Teachers can also set one or more points in the video when the voice recorder will pop out and start recording automatically while the video plays. This allows for listen and repeat activities, which you can then play back to compare your voice with the teacher's voice, and repeat the recording until you're satisfied.

A retractable video tools bar lets you pause and play, jump back 2 or 5 seconds, slow the playback speed, open a video transcript, and open the voice recorder to practise saying any phrases you like from the videos.

So far, there is a set of 23 pronunciation videos, and with help from collaborating teachers, an extensive range of grammar and vocabulary videos are soon to be added.

Translations

Translations are available in 35 languages. As well as all the vocabulary and phrase book content, the video transcripts also come with translations. Buttons and instructions on most screens all appear in English, but each screen is supported by a pop-up translation box to help lower-level learners to navigate the app.

Please let us know if your language is missing and you can help us to get it included!

Help

There are 10 pop-up help pages available around the app, which give instructions, with translations, for all activities.

Free and Paid Versions

Clearly English is a free download, supported by advertising. Most activities feature small banner ads at the bottom of the screen, and before any video can be viewed, a full screen interstitial ad will play for 5 seconds before it can be closed. Some videos are designated Pro videos, and users of the free app must choose to watch rewarded ads in order to make these accessible. Saving to My Lists is limited to 20 words and 20 phrases, at which point the items saved earliest get deleted as new ones are added.

Clearly English Pro is a paid download with no advertising, and all the video content is immediately accessible. There is no limit on how many words and phrases can be saved into My Lists.

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Collaboration Opportunities

Video Creators

Can you make engaging and effective English teaching videos? Join the Clearly English teacher team to have your videos presented to our global user base and to take advantage of our innovative interactive video features. Set quizzes for users to take at any point in your videos, and have them record their voices in listen and repeat activities as you teach.

You should be a talented ESL teacher with a clear and engaging style who can plan, present and produce effective teaching videos. Both experienced and novice video creators are welcome to register interest, and guidance is available for those with less experience who show the right potential and motivation.

Videos can focus on any area of grammar, vocabulary or pronunciation, and will be graded for difficulty level. Teachers of beginners' English are particularly encouraged to apply. We also have openings for video teachers of business English and academic English. You'll need to link a short demonstration video with your application. For full details of the application process, video requirements and remuneration structure, please email contact@clearlyenglishapp.com with 'Video Creator' in the subject line.

Translation Editors

Can you help to edit translations of the English app content into any of these languages?

Arabic, Bengali, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Hausa, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Marathi, Myanmar, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yoruba.

You'll need to be a native speaker or have a high level of proficiency in the translation language, plus a strong intermediate level of English. Translation work experience is an advantage, but enthusiasm for language learning and commitment to quality work and to the success of this app project are most important.

The app has been translated into these 35 languages using Google Translate. The primary content is the list of 3000 most frequently used English words, and the 600+ phrases from the phrase book. There are also pop-up translations for all the screen content (labels and instructions) and translations of the video transcripts. Fortunately for humans, Google still makes mistakes, so all of this translated content needs checking and improving where necessary. The quality of the translations is vital to the usefulness and credibility of the app, so having human-edited translations is a major strength.

Remuneration is by percentage of advertising and sales revenue from the locale for the language you are editing. After the initial editing job, you will be responsible for editing new content as this is added periodically. For full details of the translation requirements, application process and remuneration structure, please email contact@clearlyenglishapp.com with 'Translation Editor' and your translation language in the subject line.

Local Marketing Agents

Can you market the Clearly English app in any of the language locales listed above? You will be an agency or individual experienced in digital marketing techniques, with good knowledge of the local market and culture. Belief in and commitment to the success of this app project is essential, and remuneration will be as a percentage of advertising and sales revenue from your locale. For full details of the working arrangement, application process and remuneration structure, please email contact@clearlyenglishapp.com with 'Marketing Agent' and your location in the subject line.

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Privacy Policy for Clearly English / Clearly English Pro / English Pron / English Pron Pro

Effective Date: 4 September 2023

This privacy policy is effective as of the date indicated above.

The app does not collect any personal information from users. We do not require any registration or authentication to use the app, and we do not collect any data that could be used to identify individual users.

The app uses the device microphone to record a user's voice on their own device and play it back to them. This data is stored locally on the user's device and is not shared with any third parties.

The only data that the app collects is anonymous usage data, such as the number of times the app has been opened or how long users spend using the app. This data is used to help us understand how the app is being used and to improve the user experience.

We take the privacy and security of our users very seriously. We do not collect, store, or share any personal information, and we use industry-standard encryption and security measures to protect the data that we do collect.

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact us at contact@clearlyenglishapp.com

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify users of any changes by updating the "Effective Date" at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your privacy.

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End User Licence Agreement for Clearly English / Clearly English Pro / English Pron / English Pron Pro

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