Skill English App: Learn English

English words and irregular verbs stick better when study fits into five spare minutes. Skill English App is a Telegram mini app with quizzes, daily challenges, mini lessons, games and friendly competition. 📚

The app's interface and description are in Ukrainian, and what it teaches is English. It was created specifically for the Skill English channel and its author.

What a study session contains

The app description names several formats. They complement each other.

• New words. Vocabulary in small portions.
• Irregular verbs. A separate topic that trips up many learners.
• Quizzes. There are many, so you can test yourself again and again.
• Daily challenges. Short tasks for each day.
• Mini lessons and games. A light format for people bored by textbooks.
• Friendly competition. Adds drive and motivation.

Smart ways to drill irregular verbs

Irregular verbs simply have to be memorized, since rules barely help. What helps is spaced repetition and recall quizzes.

Learn them as triples: base form, past and participle. Say them aloud and write one sentence about yourself with each.

A ten-minute daily routine

1. Open the app and complete the daily challenge.
2. Pick one block: words or verbs, not both at once.
3. Take a quiz on the topic and note your mistakes.
4. Review the mistakes in the evening for 2-3 minutes.

Regularity beats session length. Ten minutes every day gives more than two hours once a week.

How competition helps you learn

Rankings and challenges turn study into a game. Don't chase points, though: the goal is for words to stay in memory, not to finish a quiz fastest.

If a leaderboard stresses you out, study for yourself and compare only with your own result from last week. 🙂

Keeping what you learned

Words fade within days if you don't repeat them. Keep a short list of words you got wrong and skim it each morning over a cup of tea.

Use new words right away: in a message to a friend, in a note, in a voice memo to yourself. One word put to use sticks better than ten merely read.

Once a week return to old topics and retake their quizzes. If the score has risen, the system works.

What an app can't replace

Words and quizzes cover vocabulary and grammar. Speaking and listening need separate practice: watch videos, listen to podcasts, talk with real people.

A good plan: the app for the basics plus 15 minutes of audio or speaking practice a day.

Telegram reports about 95 monthly active users for the app. It is small, so start with a trial session and see if the format suits you. Check the terms of use inside the app.