Welcome to the new VINEdots.

We've been teaching English in Taiwan since 2010. Sixteen years! Back then I had a vision for the company: to help people speak English, not by perfecting their vocab and grammar, but by understanding and engaging with different cultures. 

I still have all my class notes from day one back on August 9th 2010. Since our first class, we discovered almost everyone seemed to have the same issue: No opportunity to practice speaking English. Many of our students have been studying English and taking classes for many years but were they still looking to "improve their English".  I have always kept records of what students were learning because I wanted use that information to build something great.  How I can use that classroom data to help our students learn better? 

Now everything we've learned in those sixteen years finally lives in one place. All the classroom notes, lesson plans, and ideas are in the new VINEdots.

What's new

  1. A new website. Our live online classes, our programs for companies, and our 1-on-1 lessons, all in one place.
  2. The VINEdots app. Your classes, your class notes, class recordings, and the English Gym (practices and exercises based on your classes and your life), all in one app.
  3. A 7-day free trial. No credit card needed. You get everything: the live classes, the English Gym and more practices.
  4. Learn®. This magazine. Practical articles on English, work, career and culture.
  5. A Global Community. Learn with people like you all over the world. Talk with more people, make friends, and grow together.

A look inside the app

Here's what a week looks like in VINEdots. You can preview How-It-Works on our main page where you can tap through the whole thing yourself or open up the app and register for free.

VINEdots Home screen on a phone, showing the next class, the teacher and this week's topic

Your next class comes first

Home shows when you speak next and this week's topic. Your Warm Up is an exercises to prepare you for class.

Class Notes on a phone, with key phrases and a student's mistakes corrected

Your Class Notes come to you

Key phrases, new words, and your own mistakes with the fix. Explain with AI goes through them in simple English.

VINEdots on a laptop: a Business English class marked Live now, with a Join button
Class time: tap Join and you're on Zoom call with a professional teacher and some classmates, ready to learn and talk.
Instant English: a Chinese sentence turned into three English versions
Instant English, in the English Gym: type a sentence in your native language and get three English versions, natural, more professional and more casual.
Quick Review: question 1 of 4 about how the teacher opened a meeting
Quick Review: four questions, two minutes, made from your own class notes. It's about getting instant feedback and not a score.
The Dot Wall with one dot for this week
Every week you come to class adds a dot to your wall. Bigger means more classes. The more you come, the more you speak, the better your English will be.

What hasn't changed

You don't need us to learn English. We know you can buy an English book, or watch YouTube videos or download many others apps. You need a teacher like us for structure, correction, and a purpose. You need classmates to go along this journey with you. That was true in 2010 and it's still true today, even in the age of AI.

So a VINEdots classes work like this: join any class you want every week. Classes are sixty minutes long. 30 minutes with a teacher discussing today's topic and then 30 minutes in a small group so you can speak and practice. Your teacher will bounce around between rooms helping or assisting when needed. During the week take more classes if you want or practice with exercises in the Learning Gym based on what you did and learned during class.

Who it's for

Adults who want to speak English with more confidence, at work or in everyday life. Students who want to work, study, or live abroad. People who are done with "Fine, thank you, and you?" and want to say what they actually think.

The classes are online, so you can join from anywhere. Most of our teachers live in Taiwan, but you don't have to live here. We have students from all over the world studying with us.

English isn't a score. It's a skill. And skills get better with practice, with people, every week. I'll see you in class.

One more thing

The people who join us before our first live class on January 5, 2027 are our Founding Members, and I want to thank them. So if you pick a yearly plan before then, you pay the Founding Member price: $169 a year for Starter, $299 for Fluency or $549 for Pro. That's about 15% less than the regular price, and it stays your price for life, as long as you stay a member. See all the plans or Start your 7-day free trial.