News

We've added 7 new teachers this month! And our Employee of the Month is Hina—she's donating her award money to AMI-Quebec.

Employee of the Month: Caroline

New courses: Expert Interviews for Consultants & Business Idioms

We are pleased to offer two new courses. The first, Expert Interviews, is an in-depth look at how to conduct a successful expert interview, with plenty of chances to practice! The second course, Business Idioms, teaches English idioms that you'll hear and use in your work, as well as in the rest of your life. 

New course: Collocations in Use

We have added a new course, Collocations in Use, with both Intermediate and Advanced levels. This course will help you express everyday ideas more like a native speaker and improve your fluency in English. If you're interested in taking your vocabulary to the next level, check it out!

New course: International Negotiations

We are pleased to announce an addition to our course offerings. International Negotiations is a short, impactful guide to negotiating in English. There are 10 units covering all aspects of the process, from building the relationship to closing the deal. If you ever do negotiations in English in an international setting, this is the course for you!

The English Farm will be offline this Sunday 26th July for approximately 2 hours from 1AM JST.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.

Best wishes,

Matthew

Employee of the Month Award:  Aki

Aki Tanaka is our behind-the-scenes genius, handling payroll and support issues, as well as most of the administrative tasks at TEF. We could never function without you Aki! For her charity donation, Aki has chosen Peace Winds Japan, a humanitarian organization that has responded to the COVID-19 crisis with hygiene training and supplies around the world. In her words,

Greetings! I hope you are safe and well during this difficult time. The English Farm is business-as-usual, so our service will not be affected by the coronavirus. 

Today we welcome two new teachers, and introduce the Employee of the Month for May 2020.

A new course!

It's spring! It's a time for new things. And it's a time for new growth.

So grab some points and grow your English.

Get 15% off all points purchased April 18 to May 10, 2020. Use code SPRING2020 at checkout. 

All the very best,
Matthew & The English Farm team

Business as usual

As we all know, COVID-19 is spreading quickly and has now become a global pandemic. Many people have been asked to stay home, disrupting their work. However, as The English Farm is an online service, all of our employees already work from home. So it's business as usual here at TEF—there will be no interruption in our service to you.

Starting April 1st—10% sales tax will be charged

The English Farm is no longer exempt from sales tax in Japan, so from April 1st, 10% sales tax will be charged on all purchases made in Japan.

New courses

We have three new courses now available at TEF. Two are other levels of current courses, and one is a new offering.

New format for TEF news

We have decided to publish the news biweekly to reduce the amount of information in each edition. The beginning of the month will include updates on the technical side of things (new courses and site improvements, etc.), and the end of the month edition will focus on new teachers and the Employee of the Month award.

Two new courses available

If you work in the pharmaceutical industry or are preparing for the IELTS exam (or both!), we've got a course for you.

English for the Pharmaceutical Industry covers many aspects of the industry including drug dosage forms, categories of drugs, laboratory safety systems, packaging challenges, and more. You'll learn industry vocabulary, discuss pharmaceutical topics, and review essential language.

It's the end of the year, a time when we look back on 2019 and forward to 2020. Here at The English Farm, 2019 was terrific and 2020 looks better still! We have lots of new things in the pipeline to build on our successes and continue growing into our mission to be awesome to students, each other, and the planet.

Thank you all for your continuous support and hard work on your English in 2019. It's been a fantastic year for The English Farm, and we are really excited about our plans for 2020.

To celebrate the Year of the Rat, we are offering 15% off all points from December 28, 2019, to midnight January 12, 2020. Just use the coupon code NY2020 when you buy points.

The English Farm would like to wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year. May it bring joy and success to you and yours.

New courses and TEF updates

We're adding new courses to our curriculum! English for Engineering is already available, and others are coming soon. Keep an eye on our Courses page for new additions.

There have been some issues with audio recordings on lesson records but the problem has been solved. Everything is working well again.

New look, new teachers and ilia helps people risk

TEF News

Work continues on TEFTalk

In testing, the site has been unstable, and there have been some times when it has not worked well in different regions around the world. We are sorry if this has been inconvenient. This month we rolled out changes that will improve things—there should be fewer issues with speed and stability. We'll continue to update you as we fine-tune the site.

Greetings everyone!

August is my favorite month of the summer. Here in Massachusetts, U.S.A., it's still hot in the daytime but starting to get chilly at night. I know it's not like that for everyone around the world—I hope the weather where you are becomes this beautiful soon! 

We have decided to post news once a month now rather than once a week. So here is your first monthly update from The English Farm.