Welcome to Easy Spelling – Designed with ESL Learners in mind

Learning English is exciting but spelling and pronunciation can be very confusing. Many languages are written exactly as they sound, but English is different. The same letter can have many sounds, and some words are not pronounced the way they are spelled.

At Easy Spelling, we understand this challenge. Our course is not only about spelling — it’s also about learning the sounds of English. When you hear and pronounce English correctly, your spelling, reading, and confidence all improve together.

Why pronunciation matters for ESL learners

• Be understood: Correct pronunciation makes communication smooth and prevents misunderstandings.
• Learn faster: When you hear sounds clearly, you can match them to the right letters.
• Build confidence: You will feel comfortable speaking in class, at work, or in everyday conversations.

The Easy Spelling Method for ESL Learners

• Starting with phonics: You will learn the basic sounds of English, both short and long vowels.
• Safe and danger vowels: We teach you how vowels can change the meaning of words.
• Talking to the pencil: This fun technique trains your ear to “hear the word” before writing it.
• Embarrassing moments: We highlight tricky word pairs (like sweat vs. sweet) to help you avoid mistakes that cause confusion or embarrassment.
• Pronunciation (Level Seven): offers hundreds of the most commonly used words and phrases, where you can listen and practice as many times as you need to “get it just right”.

Why choose Easy Spelling?

• ✔ 45 years of proven phonics tutoring in spelling and pronunciation.
• ✔ Step-by-step learning, perfect for non-native English speakers.
• ✔ Affordable, online, and available anytime.
• ✔ Builds spelling, reading, and speaking skills at the same time.

Research

Pronunciation and Spelling:

1. Pronunciation helps non-English speakers spelling
   Research shows that phonological awareness (hearing and saying sounds clearly) is a strong skill for spelling. If a learner can hear the sounds in words, they can write them better.
   Reference: National Reading Panel, 2000; Ehri et al., 2001.
2. Phonics teaching works
   When students are taught phonics (sound–letter rules), they get better at both reading and spelling. This is true for students of English as a second language.
   Reference: Torgerson et al., 2006; Lin et al., 2023.
3. EFL (English as a Foreign Language)
   Learners often spell words wrongly because the sounds in English are different from their first language. Training in English pronunciation reduces these mistakes.
   Reference: Koda, 2007; Babayiğit, 2022.

In short: Better pronunciation → clearer sound awareness → stronger spelling.

Ready to start?

Take control of your pronunciation by clicking on this link to enrol in Level One – Phonics, and Level Six – pronunciation, today.