Overview
Ready to write?
Two things build good written English: spelling words you can see in your head, and emails that say what you mean in the first sentence. This desk tracks both. Start with the level test, then spend ten minutes a day here.
Today
Your ten minutes are waiting
Your slot is 8:00 pm. Review, five new words, three confusables, and three sentences of email.
Streak
Estimated level
Spelling accuracy
Words mastered
Accuracy per session
Your path
Take the level test
20 words by ear plus one short email. About 10 minutes.
Drill your weak patterns
Double letters, silent letters, vowels by sound. Wrong words come back until you get them 3 times.
Write one work email a day
Get it corrected, read the corrected version aloud, rewrite it once.
Where your mistakes come from
Daily 10
Ten minutes, every day
One session, four short parts, a timer that keeps you honest. The six words you've missed most come first (look, cover, write), then four new ones, three confusables, and a three-sentence email. Finish it and the day turns green.
Level test
Let's find your starting point
Part 1: you'll hear 20 words. Type each one. Part 2: write one short work email. Together they give an estimated CEFR level (A2 to C1) and a list of patterns to work on.
Part 2 of 2 · Write an email
Spelling drills
Ten words, three ways
Pick a pattern and a mode. Words you miss go to My mistakes and come back in future rounds. A word is mastered after three correct answers in a row.
Pattern
Mode
Work emails
Say it in the first sentence
A good work email has five parts: a clear subject, a greeting, the purpose in sentence one, the request or information, and a polite close. Write one, then get it corrected line by line.
Fix my misses
The words that trip you up
Every word you miss lands here. A fix round takes the ten that need you most: the ones you've missed most often, then the ones you never got a second try at. You see each word for four seconds with the tricky letters marked, it disappears, and you type it from memory. Three correct answers in a row and it leaves the list.
To fix
Didn't really try
Fixed
Pick a pattern, or take the top ten
| Word | You typed | Pattern | Misses | Tries | Streak | Status |
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History
Everything you've done here
Drills, tests, and corrected emails. Open an email to reread the corrections.
| When | Activity | Detail | Score |
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Hebrew traps
Mistakes Hebrew speakers make in English
Hebrew and English disagree in predictable places. Knowing the list is half the fix: when you reread an email, check these first.
Spelling
- Your #1 habit: "-ing" comes out as "-inig"
- workinig → working, meetinig → meeting, morrninig → morning. It's always the same three letters: i-n-g. Say "ing" as one sound, type three letters, stop.
- Double letters don't exist in Hebrew writing
- tomorow → tomorrow, adress → address, comitee → committee. Say the word slowly and picture it.
- Hebrew spells by sound; English doesn't
- definately → definitely, seperate → separate, calender → calendar. The unstressed vowel is the trap.
- Silent letters
- Wensday → Wednesday, buisness → business, nowledge → knowledge.
- V and W (both come from vav)
- wery → very, vindow → window.
- No capital letters in Hebrew
- Always capital: I, names, days, months, languages, and the first word of a sentence. i will call you on monday → I will call you on Monday.
Grammar in emails
- Missing a / an
- Hebrew has no indefinite article. I have meeting at 3 → I have a meeting at 3.
- Extra "the" for general things
- The life in Detroit is good → Life in Detroit is good.
- One present tense in Hebrew, two in English
- I work on it now → I'm working on it now. And with "since / for": I am working here since 2020 → I have been working here since 2020.
- Prepositions don't translate
- depends of → depends on, explain me → explain to me, arrive to the office → arrive at the office, on the meeting → in / at the meeting.
- Adjective before the noun
- the report final → the final report.
- Age, and "have"
- I have 35 years → I am 35 years old.
- Tone: Hebrew is direct, English emails are softer
- Send me the file. → Could you send me the file when you have a moment?