English Lesson — Sunday Evening: Weekly Recap & Preview
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Sunday evening — full weekly recap, next week preview, and motivational message.
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English Lesson — Saturday Evening: Casual Conversation & Social Vibes
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — casual conversation, social English, and how to express feelings and atmosphere naturally.
English Lesson — Friday Evening: Career Interview Practice
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — review career vocabulary and interview practice sentences.
Speaking Practice: Pronunciation Drills for the 5 Sounds Vietnamese Tech Developers Get Wrong
There are five specific sound patterns that consistently trip up Vietnamese developers in English tech conversations. Not because the sounds are impossible — but because they don't exist in Vietnamese phonology and require deliberate muscle-memory practice. Here are the drills.
Speaking Skills: Technical Storytelling — How to Make Your Architecture Decisions Actually Stick
Data doesn't persuade. Stories do. Technical storytelling is the skill of framing complex system decisions, incident postmortems, and architecture proposals as narratives that non-technical stakeholders follow and engineers remember. Here's the structure and the language.
English Lesson — Thursday Evening: Communication Role-Play
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — review communication phrases and real-world speaking scenarios for meetings and collaboration.
Speaking Practice: Shadowing — The Method That Actually Rewires Your Tech English Pronunciation
Shadowing is the single most effective speaking practice technique for non-native English speakers. You listen to a sentence and speak it simultaneously, matching rhythm, stress, and intonation in real time. Here's how to do it correctly with tech-specific scripts designed for Vietnamese developers.
Speaking Skills: How to Pitch a Technical Idea in English and Get Buy-In
Pitching a technical proposal in English isn't just about the idea — it's about structure, confidence, and handling skepticism without losing momentum. Here's a complete framework for pitching to your team or stakeholders, with scripts you can say aloud today.
English Lesson — Wednesday Evening: Architecture Vocab Review & Explaining Systems Simply
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — review architecture vocabulary, learn to explain complex systems in plain English, and practice speaking with technical stakeholders.
Speaking Practice: Connected Speech — Why Your English Sounds Choppy and How to Fix It
Native English speakers link, reduce, and blend words in ways no textbook teaches. If you pause between every word, you sound unnatural even with perfect grammar. Here are the four patterns of connected speech with tech-specific scripts to practice.
Speaking Skills: How to Facilitate Meetings in English With Confidence
Running a meeting in your second language is harder than attending one. You have to open, steer, redirect, and close — all in real time. Here's the language structure for each phase, from a Vietnamese tech lead's perspective.
English Lesson — Tuesday Evening: AI Vocab Review & Listening Tips
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — review AI vocabulary, listening comprehension strategies, and speaking practice with AI terms.
Speaking Practice: Pronunciation Drills for the Sounds That Give Vietnamese Developers Away
Four sounds that immediately mark you as a non-native English speaker in tech meetings: th, v/f, r/l, and short vowels. Targeted drills, shadowing scripts, and a 5-minute daily routine to fix each one.
Speaking Skills: How to Pitch a Technical Idea to Non-Technical Stakeholders
Pitching a refactor, a new tool, or an architecture change to people who control the budget is one of the hardest English speaking skills for Vietnamese tech leads. Here's the structure and language that actually works.
English Lesson - Monday Evening: Technical Vocab Review and Speaking Practice
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session reviewing technical vocabulary from today — refactor, nit, blocking, LGTM — with speaking exercises.
Shadowing Technique for Tech English: Sound More Natural in Meetings
The shadowing technique is the fastest way to fix unnatural-sounding English. Here's a practical guide with real tech conversation scripts, pronunciation drills, and a 5-minute daily practice routine.
Tech Lead English: How to Challenge Ideas Without Creating Conflict
Pushing back on bad technical decisions in English is a skill. Learn the phrases and techniques that let you disagree professionally, ask hard questions, and redirect discussions — without damaging working relationships.
Sprint Demo English: How to Present Your Work to Stakeholders
Practical English phrases and techniques for Vietnamese developers and tech leads to confidently run sprint demos, present features, and handle tough questions from stakeholders.
English Lesson — Friday Evening: Career Vocab Review & Interview Practice
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — review Friday's career vocabulary and practice with real interview speaking exercises.
Tech Pronunciation Drills: Say It Right the First Time
Shadowing scripts, tongue twisters, and pronunciation drills for the tech words Vietnamese developers mispronounce most. Practice out loud for 5 minutes and build real confidence.
Technical Storytelling: How to Make Your Ideas Stick in International Teams
Learn how to use storytelling techniques when presenting technical ideas, explaining architecture decisions, or pitching solutions to stakeholders in English.
Sprint Meeting English: How to Speak Up Confidently in Agile Teams
Master the phrases, vocabulary, and speaking patterns you need for daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and bug reports in international Agile teams.
English Lesson — Monday Evening: Technical Vocabulary Review & Speaking Practice
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — speaking practice, review, and real-world scenarios.
Shadow & Speak: A 5-Minute Daily Drill for Vietnamese Developers
Build spoken English fluency fast with shadowing scripts, tongue twisters, and pronunciation drills designed for Vietnamese tech professionals.
Tech Pronunciation Drills: Fix the 8 Sounds That Trip Up Vietnamese Developers
A practical speaking practice guide with pronunciation drills, shadowing scripts, and tongue twisters for Vietnamese tech professionals. Master the sounds that make international meetings harder.
Technical Storytelling: How to Make People Actually Care About Your Code
Most developers explain what they built. Great tech leads tell why it matters. Learn the storytelling framework that makes your technical ideas land in meetings, demos, and presentations.
English Lesson — Sunday Evening: Full Weekly Recap + Next Week Preview
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — speaking practice, review, and real-world scenarios.
Sound Like a Pro: Daily Pronunciation Drills for Vietnamese Developers
Targeted pronunciation exercises for the sounds Vietnamese speakers struggle with most — th, v/f, r/l, and short vowels — with tech-themed scripts and shadowing drills.
Tech Lead English: How to Mentor Junior Developers
Practical English phrases and strategies for Vietnamese tech leads who mentor, coach, and guide junior developers in international teams.
English Lesson — Saturday Evening: Weekend Social English
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — speaking practice, review, and real-world scenarios.
Speaking Practice: Pronunciation Drills for Vietnamese Tech Professionals
Master the hardest English sounds — th, v/f, r/l, and short vowels — with tech-themed tongue twisters, shadowing scripts, and 5-minute daily drills.
Speaking Skills: Technical Storytelling — Make Your Ideas Stick
Learn how to use storytelling techniques when presenting technical ideas. As a Vietnamese developer or tech lead, master the art of making complex concepts memorable and compelling for any audience.
English Lesson — Friday Evening: Review Career Vocab + Interview Practice Sentences
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — speaking practice, review, and real-world scenarios.
Tech Pronunciation Drills: Shadowing Scripts for Developers
Practical shadowing exercises, tongue twisters, and pronunciation drills for Vietnamese developers who want to sound natural speaking English in tech environments.
Pronunciation Drills: Master the Tech Sounds That Trip Up Vietnamese Developers
A practical pronunciation workout for Vietnamese tech professionals. Drill the trickiest English sounds — th, v/f, r/l, and short vowels — using real tech vocabulary and workplace phrases.
Pronunciation Drills for Tech Professionals: Master the Sounds That Trip Vietnamese Speakers
Practical pronunciation drills for Vietnamese developers — conquer the 'th', 'v/w', 'r/l' sounds and speak English confidently in code reviews and team meetings.
Agile English: Speaking Confidently in Sprint Meetings & Estimation Sessions
Master the English phrases Vietnamese tech leads and developers need for sprint planning, story point estimation, bug triage, and project status updates in Agile teams.
English Lesson — Tuesday Evening: Review AI Vocab + Listening Comprehension Tips
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — speaking practice, review, and real-world scenarios.
How to Pitch Your Ideas to Stakeholders in English
A practical guide for Vietnamese tech leads on presenting ideas clearly, confidently, and persuasively to international stakeholders — with key phrases, vocabulary, and a 5-minute drill.
Tech Pronunciation Drills: Say These Words Like a Native Dev
A shadowing and drill session for Vietnamese developers — master the English words you type every day but never say out loud correctly.
English Lesson — Monday Evening: Review Technical Vocab + Speaking Practice
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — speaking practice, review, and real-world scenarios.
How to Report and Escalate Bugs in English: A Sprint Review Survival Guide
Practical English phrases for QC engineers and developers: how to describe bugs clearly, escalate blockers, and communicate defects during sprint reviews in international teams.
Speaking Practice: Pronunciation Drills for Vietnamese Tech Professionals
Targeted pronunciation drills for the sounds Vietnamese developers struggle with most — th, v/f, short vowels, and tech vocabulary. Read out loud, shadow, and drill your way to clearer English.
How to Pitch Your Technical Ideas to Stakeholders (Without Losing Them)
A practical guide for Vietnamese developers and tech leads on how to pitch ideas clearly, confidently, and persuasively in English to non-technical stakeholders.
English Lesson — Sunday Evening: Full Weekly Recap + Next Week Preview
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — speaking practice, review, and real-world scenarios.
Speaking Practice: Tech Pronunciation Drills for Vietnamese Developers
Shadowing scripts, tongue twisters, and pronunciation drills targeting the hardest English sounds for Vietnamese tech professionals — th, v/f, r/l, and short vowels.
How to Speak to Stakeholders in English: A Vietnamese Tech Lead's Guide
Real phrases, scripts, and a 5-minute drill to help you communicate clearly with managers, clients, and executives in international teams.
English Lesson — Saturday Evening: Casual Conversation & Weekend Social English
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — speaking practice, review, and real-world scenarios.
How to Pitch Your Ideas in English Like a Senior Engineer
A practical speaking guide for Vietnamese developers who want to propose technical ideas confidently in English — from team meetings to executive presentations.
English Lesson — Friday Evening: Career Vocab & Interview Practice
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — speaking practice, review, and real-world scenarios.
English Lesson — Thursday Evening: Communication Phrases & Role-Play Scenarios
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — speaking practice, review, and real-world scenarios.
English Lesson — Wednesday Evening: Architecture Vocab & Explaining Complex Systems Simply
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — speaking practice, review, and real-world scenarios. Tonight: master the language of system design and learn how to explain complex architectures clearly.
English Lesson — Tuesday Evening: Review AI Vocab + Listening Comprehension Tips
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — speaking practice, review, and real-world scenarios.
English Lesson — Monday Evening: Review Technical Vocab + Speaking Practice
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — speaking practice, review, and real-world scenarios.
English Lesson — Sunday Evening: Weekly Recap & Looking Ahead
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — speaking practice, review, and real-world scenarios.
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