116 Short courses in Language Studies in North America

For more than 65 years, the Intensive English Program at the University of Miami (IEP) has immersed students in American culture while preparing them for academic success through quality English-language instruction.

The One-to-One English course is offered by Stafford House International. Our One-to-One English courses can be completely tailor made according to your needs and objectives. This course is particularly useful for students who have a very particular need or for students who wish to learn very intensively.

This Standard General English Course at Centre of English Studies is designed for students who want to improve their overall level of English to communicate more fluently in work, travel and everyday life.

This IELTS Exam Preparation course at St Giles International focuses on expanding the students’ ability to both understand and use complex academic language incorporating General English to improve grammar, vocabulary and communicative skills.

The International Semester Course (ISC) from St Giles International is designed for students who wish to spend 6+ months abroad studying English and experiencing British, or Canadian life.

The Intensive English Program from Yale English Language Institute, is designed for international college students or professionals who want to improve their academic English language skills among a dynamic, diverse group of students.

The TOEFL Exam Preparation Courses offered by St Giles International is aimed at non-native students wishing to gain a good understanding of North American English, with a view to studying at USA and Canada based colleges and universities where instruction is given in the English language.

The English for Academic Purposes Program at Alexander College is a preparatory program that develops core English Language skills within a post-secondary context. This enables students to approach College/University studies with the required foundational English language competencies.

This Learn English - Advanced Grammar and Punctuation Specialization offered by Coursera in partnership with UC Irvine, Division of Continuing Education follows our Learn English: Intermediate Grammar specialization and includes more advanced grammar concepts such as noun clauses and conditionals.

The Business English Specialization offered by Coursera in partnership with Arizona State University serves as an introduction to Business English, where you will learn to communicate about topics such as management, finance and marketing.

From an Indigenous perspective, this Indigenous Canada course is offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Alberta explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations. 

This General Academic English course offered by Coursera in partnership with Tsinghua University is part of the Learn English Specialization.

The Certificate in Mohawk Language and Culture is offered by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Queen's University in partnership with Tsi Tyónnheht Onkwawén:na (TTO) Language and Cultural Centre in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.

This Spanish Vocabulary - Meeting People course offered by Coursera in partnership with UC Davis is part of the Learn Spanish: Basic Spanish Vocabulary Specialization

Learn the fundamentals of the German language and explore contemporary German life and culture with this German Language, Life and Culture program at the University of Manitoba.

Build English Skills for Business with this Business English Communication Skills Specialization offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Washington. Improve your ability to speak, write and understand English in professional settings.

The Speak English Professionally - In Person, Online and On the Phone course offered by Coursera in partnership with Georgia Tech will boost your English speaking skills.  

In this Vowels of American English Pronunciation course offered by Coursera in partnership with University of California Irvine, you will learn and practice all of the vowel sounds of American English, including pairs of vowels that may be easy to confuse. 

Dive deeper into how computers understand and create language, and learn how to build a custom chatbot using unsupervised machine learning, prompt engineering, and retrieval augmented generation. The Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) program is offered by Udacity.

Olympic College’s Intensive English program ensures that all international students, regardless of English proficiency level, has the opportunity improve their English in an immersive environment, so they can qualify to take English 101 and college-level courses in the USA. Intensive English is offered at Olympic College.