Prepared through language
Learn English for Real Emergencies
Know what to say when it matters most.
A five-level English curriculum built for the people your organization sends into the world. When a natural disaster, medical crisis, evacuation, or conflict happens abroad, your staff can communicate clearly with police, doctors, embassies, NGOs, and first responders — in English, the working language of international response.
Access is provided by your sponsoring organization. Not comfortable in English? Use the language selector in the top-right corner.
For companies, NGOs, missions, and government teams
Prepare the people you send abroad to speak in an emergency.
Whether you deploy engineers, aid workers, missionaries, contractors, medical staff, journalists, or short-term volunteers, the moments that matter most are rarely on the itinerary. English for Emergencies gives every traveler a shared, practiced vocabulary for the situations no one plans for — an injury, an evacuation, a border crossing, a call to their embassy.
Tell us how many people you're sending and which levels you need — we'll follow up with pricing.
Built for duty-of-care programs
Complements your travel-safety, medical, and security briefings with the language layer that ties them together. Learners practice the exact words responders expect to hear.
Works with weekly tutors
Each lesson is designed for a live weekly session with a language tutor. This site is the between-meetings practice environment, in the learner's own pace and language.
Adult, low-anxiety design
No gamified noise. Clear scenes, real phrases, spoken by a natural voice. Learners can translate anything they don't understand and switch back to English with one click.
What's inside every lesson
Nine ways to practice — from first look to real emergency.
A weekly tutor teaches the material live. Between sessions, learners cycle through a guided path of interactive practice — reading, listening, speaking, and applying — until the words feel natural under pressure.
Story reader
A short, AI-written story built from the lesson's vocabulary. Tap any word to hear it and see its meaning.
Flashcards
Flip cards to see the word, hear the pronunciation, and check the meaning. The classic first pass.
Match the scene
Drag or tap to match each word to its picture. Builds fast word–image recognition.
Multiple-choice quiz
See a scene, pick the word. A quick check that a new word has really landed.
Listen & choose
Hear the word spoken by a natural voice, then pick the matching scene from a lineup.
Dictation
Hear a full emergency phrase and type it back. Small typos are forgiven — meaning matters.
Scenario practice
Read a real situation ("You are lost near the market") and choose what you would actually say.
Speak & compare
Hear the model, record your own voice, and play them back side by side. No scoring — you're the judge.
Mastery check
Ten mixed picture and listening questions. Pass 8 of 10 to mark the lesson complete.
Emergency mode
A calm, offline-friendly panel of the most critical phrases — ready to speak or show on a phone screen when it counts.
Progress, streaks & badges
Every activity earns points. Learners see their streak, review missed words, and unlock milestone badges as they go.
Translate anything
One click switches the site into the learner's own language, then back to English — so nothing blocks understanding.
First-language support
Learn English without leaving your first language behind.
Many of the people who need emergency English most are not comfortable reading English yet — and some are not fluent readers in any language. Every lesson is designed to meet them there.
12 first languages, one tap away
Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Tagalog, Somali, Swahili, Dari / Farsi, Pashto, Ukrainian, and Russian. The site auto-detects your browser's language on your first visit — no setup.
Listen in your language, too
Every translation has a speaker button. Learners who can't read their own language — or English yet — can still hear the meaning spoken in a natural voice.
English stays in English
Only the definitions, tips, headings, and instructions are translated. The English words and phrases you're learning stay in English so your brain builds the connection to the real word.
How to turn it on
- Open any lesson.
- At the top you'll see Translate helper text. Tap Choose a language and pick yours.
- Definitions, phrase meanings, tips, headings, and instructions now appear in your language beneath the English. Tap the speaker to hear them.
- Your choice is remembered on this device. Tap the × next to the language name to turn it off.
Don't see your language? Tell us — we add languages as sponsors request them.
Choose your level
The curriculum has 5 levels. Level 1 is available now — Levels 2–5 are coming soon.
Available
Level 1
For students new to English
Start
Coming soon
Level 2
Building basic conversation
Coming soon
Level 3
Situational fluency
Coming soon
Level 4
Intermediate communication
Coming soon
Level 5
Confident in emergency operations