For the ESL student who's confident in the classroom and during tests, but feels uncomfortable in social situations where he actually has to participate in American English conversations, there are avenues toward online American English improvement that can erase that discomfort and improve your professional and social life. Before going any further, however, it's important to recognize what it is that sets conversational American English apart from classroom, academic American English. In the classroom, you learn the grammatical rules of the language. You learn how to conjugate verbs, pronounce words, and use the infinitive form. You learn how to ask for the time, how to order from a restaurant, and how to ask for directions. These are all helpful things to know, but they don't adequately prepare you for everyday conversations. Online American English improvement with TalkTrain can prepare you, however.

TalkTrain designed their online American English improvement courses around the real life experiences of former ESL students who worked and lived with native speakers of American English. In talking to the former students, they realized a common thread emerging: the main issue that held most of the students from feeling comfortable in daily conversation was the prevalence of the American idiom. Native speakers of American English use idioms because they great up with them, but to someone who's learned the language in a classroom American colloquialisms are confusing. Idioms are groups of words, sayings or expressions whose meaning cannot be understood just by looking at the words in the phrase. Online American English improvement courses will introduce these idioms and phrases to you, the advanced ESL student, so that you too can finally feel comfortable when these phrases inevitably come up in conversation.

A huge part of online American English improvement is learning how to speak conversationally, and TalkTrain will prepare you for that.