20 December 2001, Singapore

Study English Online!

PurpleTrain.com is pleased to introduce its first complete Online English study course to allow you to improve your English language skills. If you're worried at all about your English language skills, we have the perfect course for you - to improve your business prospects or prepare for a degree program which is taught in English.

PurpleTrain now offers the first online interactive TOEFL® learning product to give you the confidence and training required to take academic courses in English and to prepare yourself for a career in International business.

The TOEFL ® method is based on the Test of English as a Foreign Language, and is used by every university in the United States as a standard tool to measure a student's English ability. Our 30-day TOEFL Online course first assesses your English ability, then designs daily lessons which are perfectly tailored to your level of English. By joining the TOEFL® Online Course, here's what you get:

  • Study English using the first TOEFL® program ever designed Online, perfected over six years ago, and with more than 20,000 satisfied users worldwide so far
  • Receive 30 days of daily lessons lasting about an hour a day
  • Start with a placement test which measures your strengths and weaknesses in English in 29 different areas of the English language
  • Based on this test, you will access fresh new lessons every day Online which are tailored to your personal strengths and weaknesses
  • You will have a chance to practice your listening skills, grammar skills, and reading comprehension
  • Half way through the 30-day Trainer, you will have a mid-term test to measure again your strengths and weaknesses and create a new set of daily lessons for the second half of the course
  • At the end of the 30 days, you will be able to take another test and see just how much your English has improved during this intensive Trainer program
  • If you want, you can take another 30-day Trainer since our database contains over 7,500 questions from beginner to fluent speaker so that you can repeat our course until you are confident of your English skills

With more than 20,000 students already taking this course, the average improvement for our students after a 30-60 days course was 13%, which means an average student with a TOEFL® score of 400 at the start of the course would have a TOEFL® of 450 upon completing the 30-day Trainer - more than double the speed of improvement of a regular classroom course!

The course has been specially designed to be totally interactive with visuals (pictures), audio (sound), and interactive tests throughout so that you will never be bored, and will only spend time studying subjects which you are especially weak in.

Unique Features:

  • Lessons precisely tailored to your needs
  • Computer analysis of your weaknesses
  • Sixteen hours of audio
  • More than 7,500 questions
  • Full explanations and answers
  • Thirty or sixty days of lessons and unlimited access
  • Automatic marking and scoring
  • Detailed lessons and tips
  • Review your answers until you've mastered the test

Kenneth Beare, a recognized specialist in online English instruction, wrote the following in recent review of our product:

Let's face it, taking the TOEFL® test and doing well can be a long, hard process. The TOEFL® Trainer's layout does a wonderful job of preparing test takers for the task, while keeping the preparation rather enjoyable by its user interface.

I would highly recommend the TOEFL® Trainer….. to be completely honest, I think this program may do a better job of addressing individual needs than many teachers can! Why is this? Based on in-depth pre-testing and statistical information, the program uses computer technology to find exactly those areas that need to be covered. Unfortunately, teachers are often not able to access student needs so quickly…..

Join the thousands of students that have improved their knowledge and use of English using this Trainer. Make English one of your strengths!

The cost is extremely competitive - a fraction of the cost of classroom-based programs. For more information on TOEFL® Online, visit here.

Visit here for a full listing of the courses available via PurpleTrain.com! For programs enquiry, email us at enquiry@purpletrain.com

About PurpleTrain.com

PurpleTrain.com is the e-learning service provider which offers a one-stop service for business and IT education programmes, corporate training courses and education-related services.

By combining innovative technology with world-class training content, PurpleTrain.com offers companies and individuals a high value, quality and effective online training solution. Over 1000 online courses are available, offering PhDs, masters, degrees, diplomas and certificates in business and IT programmes. Its e-community now stands at over 42,000 users.

PurpleTrain.com is a 100%-owned venture of Informatics Holdings Limited, a leading training and education provider listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

For more information, please contact :

Cheryl Lee
Marketing & PR Manager
PurpleTrain.com
Email : pr@purpletrain.com
Website : www.purpletrain.com
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