Foundation Partners: Advancing Efficient English Education
Help shape a more efficient way to teach reading and spoken communication.
Fo√ne…tic √Ēng…lish is designed to make English reading and spoken communication faster and more logical to learn. We are inviting a small number of innovative tutors, schools, and ESL colleges—including those teaching online, in person, or in blended programs—to become Foundation Partners and work with us on real-world teaching implementation and outcome measurement.
Foundation Partners don’t just use the system. They work closely with us to help define best practice, contribute to evidence about what works, and shape how the tools and workflows develop—while keeping full control of their own curriculum and teaching approach.
A small founding group
We’re starting with a small founding group of partners so we can provide proper support, learn from real teaching environments, and improve the system in a disciplined way. Applications are reviewed to make sure it’s a good fit on both sides.
Early partners will have a strong influence on how the system, tools, and teaching workflows evolve over time.
We also welcome interest from academics and researchers who want to help measure and optimize learning processes and outcomes.
Who we’re especially looking for
We’re particularly interested in working with innovative tutors, teachers and institutions who:
- Teach online, in person, or in blended formats
- Care about optimising learning time and outcomes
- Like experimenting thoughtfully with better tools and methods
- Want to contribute to evidence-based improvement, not just use another app
- Are interested in new teaching opportunities and workflows made possible by better technology
What Fo√ne…tic √Ēng…lish brings
Fo√ne…tic √Ēng…lish is a flexible teaching system, not a fixed curriculum. Partners keep their own materials and methods and use Fo√ne…tic √Ēng…lish wherever it helps them teach more effectively.
Key components include:
- A complete, self-contained system for the 42 English sounds and their pronunciation / mouth movements, with detailed guidance using text, images, and video.
- Targeted training for missing and confusing sounds, focusing only on sounds that are absent or easily confused in a learner’s native language.
- Progressive sounding-out of the phonemes of English syllables sorted by syllable frequency. Learning 200 of the most common (short) syllables unlocks thousands of multisyllable words which can be sounded out syllable by syllable, enabling fast learning of sightwords.
- An Advanced Fonetic English Dictionary that lets students:
- see and hear the whole word,
- hear the word pronounced syllable by syllable,
- hear the phonemes in any English syllable sounded out progressively,
- practise their own pronunciation of the word,
- and explore definitions, examples, images (where appropriate), related words, idioms, and phrasal verbs.
- An interactive eReader where students can click any word to:
- hear the pronunciation,
- see the translation in their own language,
- and have that interaction logged for future review and testing.
If you already have your own reading materials, we can convert them into Fo√ne…tic √Ēng…lish reading materials so they work inside the eReader with pronunciation, translation, logging, and review features.
- Curriculum-to-English reading conversion: We can take subject materials (for example, a history textbook in Indonesian) and produce English reading practice texts at the student’s reading level, while preserving the facts students need for their course. This lets students improve their English without falling behind in their subjects. Foundation Partners receive priority access to this workflow.
- CEFR-aligned vocabulary (A0–B2), plus a new vocabulary learning tool (based on the eReader) being rolled out to support systematic vocabulary growth and review.
- An ongoing roadmap of new teaching tools and methods, which Foundation Partners help shape through real teaching use and feedback.
A practical, outcomes-focused collaboration
The Foundation Partners program is about applied teaching, measurement, and continuous improvement.
Together, we aim to:
- Identify which parts of the system produce the fastest learning gains
- Learn how different tutors and teachers integrate FE into real lessons and curricula (online and in person)
- Understand what students enjoy and what motivates consistent practice
- Measure progress using system logs (reading, pronunciation, decoding, vocabulary, usage patterns)
- Collect qualitative feedback from tutors, students, and (where appropriate) parents
- Improve tools, workflows, and teaching methods based on real-world evidence
This is not about following a preset program. It’s about working with experienced educators to build and refine better ways to teach English efficiently.
What Foundation Partners receive
Foundation Partners receive:
- Early access to new tools and features
- Direct input into how tools and teaching workflows develop
- Priority support and onboarding
- Public recognition as a Foundation Partner (profile on our website)
- Priority conversion of your own materials into Fonetic English formats
- Priority access to curriculum-to-English reading conversion
- Preferential commercial terms as the platform scales
- The opportunity to contribute to evidence about learning efficiency in real teaching environments
What we ask in return
Foundation Partners:
- Use Fo√ne…tic √Ēng…lish with real students in their own way
- Keep their own curriculum and teaching approach
- Share anonymised usage data and learning outcomes (via system logs)
- Provide honest feedback on what works, what doesn’t, and what should improve
- (Optionally) take part in case studies or outcome summaries
- All shared data is anonymised and used only for learning-outcome measurement and product improvement.
Practice, accountability, and measurement
Fo√ne…tic √Ēng…lish is designed to make practice easy to assign, easy to track, and easy to improve:
- Tutors can assign any mix of activities (sounds, pronunciation, decoding, dictionary, reading, vocabulary).
- Everything students do is logged automatically.
- Tutors can see progress online at any time.
- Parents can also be given access (if authorised).
A core goal of the partnership is to learn:
- how much practice is enough to drive strong progress,
- which activities students prefer,
- and how early success can be used to build motivation and good study habits.
Daily Reading and Vocabulary Growth
Students are encouraged to read at least one reading practice text per day, generated at their level, with comprehension questions. Each text is designed so it can be completed in about 15–25 minutes.
The eReader and vocabulary tools together support a simple learning loop: see a word → hear it → understand it → log it → review it later → confirm it’s learned.
A key part of the partnership is getting tutor and student feedback on how this should work in practice.
Apply to become a Foundation Partner
We are inviting:
- Independent tutors (especially those teaching online or in blended formats)
- ESL colleges and language schools (online, in person, or blended)
- Private schools
- Researchers
who care about outcomes, efficiency, and evidence—and who want to be part of a small founding group helping shape better ways to teach English.
If you’re interested in working with us in this first group, we’d love to hear from you. We’re keeping the group small so we can work closely and learn as much as possible from real-world teaching use.
Can't Commit?
Register for early access to Fo√ne…tic √Ēng…lish here
