Welcome to the new VINEdots.

We've been teaching English in Taiwan since 2010. Sixteen years. Back then I had a vision for the company. I still have all my class notes from day one. I always wondered how I can use that data to help our students since almost everyone seemed to have the same issue: No opportunity to practice.

That's why they found us and studied with us. 

Now everything we've learned in those sixteen years finally lives in one place. All the classroom notes, lesson plans, and ideas we've had as all in VINEdots.

What's new

  1. A new website. Our classes, how it works, our programs for companies and our 1-on-1 lessons, all in one place.
  2. The VINEdots app. Your classes, your teacher's notes, recordings, and the English Gym (practices and exercises based on your classes and your life), all in one app.
  3. A 7-day free trial. No credit card. You get everything: the live classes, the English Gym and more practices.
  4. Learn®. This magazine. Practical articles on English, work, career and culture.

A look inside the app

Here's what a week looks like. Preview in the How-It-Works page where you can tap through the whole thing yourself or open up the app and register for free.

VINEdots Home screen on a phone, showing the next class, the teacher and this week's topic

Your next class comes first

Home shows when you speak next, who's coming and this week's topic. Your Warm Up is already waiting.

Class Notes on a phone, with key phrases and a student's mistakes corrected

Your teacher's notes come to you

Key phrases, new words, and your own mistakes with the fix. Explain with AI goes through them in simple English.

VINEdots on a laptop: a Business English class marked Live now, with a Join button
Class time: tap Join and you're on Zoom with a real teacher and the same classmates as last week.
Instant English: a Chinese sentence turned into three English versions
Instant English, in the English Gym: type a sentence in Chinese and get three English versions, natural, more professional and more casual.
Quick Review: question 1 of 4 about how the teacher opened a meeting
Quick Review: four questions, two minutes, made from your own class notes. You get a sentence of feedback, never a score.
The Dot Wall with one dot for this week
Every week you come to class adds a dot to your wall. Bigger means more classes. The more you come, the more you speak, the better your English will be.

What hasn't changed

You don't need us to learn English. There are books, YouTube videos and 1,000's of other apps. You need a teacher for structure, correction, and purpose. You need classmates to go along this journey with you. That was true in 2010 and it's still the whole idea.

So a VINEdots classes work like this: join any class you want every week. Classes are sixty minutes long. 30 with the teacher and then 30 in a small group so you can speak and practice. During the week take more classes or practice with exercises based on what you did and learning during class.

Who it's for

Adults who want to speak English with more confidence, at work or in everyday life. People who are done with "Fine, thank you, and you?" and want to say what they actually think.

The classes are online, so you can join from anywhere. Taiwan is home, but you don't have to live here. We have students from all over the world studying with us.

English isn't a score. It's a skill. And skills get better with practice, with people, every week.

Start your 7-day free trial. I'll see you in class.