Before departure
Feel ready for arrival
Rehearse transport, check-in, host-family and first-day language while you still have time to repeat it.
Open missionsTake your language into the subjects you already love.
Healthcare, family life, cooking, hotels, wine, design, photography, aviation, mountains, museums, technology, agriculture and specialist French/Italian heritage collections.
Learn the language for the life you actually live.
Go beyond textbook topics with practical lessons for home life, relationships, driving, tools, cars, engines, office work, teaching, university, sailing, motorsport, cycling, food and culture.
Special heritage packs now include French endurance and historic racing language plus Italian Monza, Mille Miglia, automotive design and Giro d’Italy vocabulary.
SIOC Language Labs · personalised pre-departure route
Build confidence for the moments you will actually meet abroad.
Browse the new SIOC lesson library →
Build a short daily route around your destination, accommodation and course. Bring useful phrases to mind, practise speaking before you reveal the model answer, rehearse real situations and take a few simple first-week missions with you.
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Made for study abroadArrival, class, accommodation, social and service language.
Learn by doingTry first, compare, have another go and use the phrase in context.
Track your progressNotice your progress in practical tasks without turning practice into a formal CEFR test.
Practical active route: A0–A2. Supporting grammar and dialogue library: A1–B2.
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Your learning plan for today
Your selected goals and available time determine today’s phrase load, scenario and mission.
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Personalise the journey
Build the route around your actual departure.
Your goals, daily study time and accommodation now change the phrase queue, scenario order and relevant missions.
During your course
Keep the conversation going in class
Practise repetition, clarification, examples and pace without withdrawing from the lesson.
Explore repair languageFirst week
Use the language outside class
Use what you have practised in short, friendly interactions with staff, hosts, classmates and local people.
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Profile, progress and recordings remain local to the browser. Recordings are discarded when the page closes or another recording starts. The readiness indicator is task-specific evidence, not an official CEFR, admissions or placement result.
Wine, regions & European culture
Explore SIOC’s deeper wine-language pathway for France, Italy and Spain: appellations, regions, labels, restaurant language, tasting and Champagne.
New: Real-Life Dialogues
Practise conversations for home, relationships, driving, workshops, cars, work, university, sailing, food and social life.
Explore Real-Life Dialogues →Career & Role Progression — follow professional language from operational roles to leadership.