Sound like a native speaker.
Not just fluent.

Phrasely is an English learning platform built for English learners and international professionals who already have general English skills but still don’t feel like themselves in English. Our app was built for people in need of fluency in professional, workplace-specific contexts such as meetings, negotiation, feedback, client interactions, and networking as well as everyday life. Phrasely focuses on the register and phrasing gap between “conversational fluent” and “sounds natural in a boardroom,” not on beginner grammar or vocabulary. Our mission is to help users feel like their confident selves in English so they can feel and act like they belong in every room.

Phrasely focuses on the hardest parts of English: the phrasal verbs, the idioms, the cultural nuances, the tone, registers and grammatical nuances. It includes Business English and Everyday English with contextualized, gamified exercises to take you to fluency.

Phrasely is built for learners who use English at work and in everyday life but not as a first language. Most Phrasely users are already intermediate-to-advanced English speakers; the platform is not designed for absolute beginners starting from zero. It is designed for users who want to feel like themselves in English to close the gap between proficiency and fluency.

Most general English apps teach broad vocabulary and grammar for everyday life such as ordering food, asking directions, and casual conversation. Phrasely is designed specifically for professional and everyday English. It covers phrasal verbs, idioms, tone, register, pronunciation, speaking, and grammar focused on closing the gap between speaking English and feeling like yourself in English. Phrasely is built around workplace and everyday scenarios to take the user into how native speakers use the language intuitively. It skips generic travel or daily-life scenarios. Phrasely’s focus is to cover the hard parts of English that make a difference between speaking English and being fluent.

Phrasely was co-founded by Marike Korn, who also serves as the Pedagogical & Content Director. Korn brings nearly two decades of experience in intercultural intelligence consulting and training with a focus on U.S. culture and English communication. She has coached senior executives and diplomats across over 65 countries, and applies that cross-cultural communication background and extensive experience in English communication coaching directly to Phrasely’s curriculum design.

Phrasely combines contextualized phrase-based learning teaching functional language chunks (like hedging phrases, disagreement structures, idiomatic expressions, or feedback frameworks) rather than isolated vocabulary with cultural context. The lessons are embedded within two main sections: Business and Everyday English with units covering language for feedback, presentations, negotiations and any other real-world scenario users encounter in their lives. Drawing on the belief that contextualized learning resonates with users paired with a variety of exercise types to appeal to different parts of the brain and cover all the elements of language proficiency. The user will go on a journey embedded within a narrative arc that replicates real life. Phrasely is customizable based on a user’s first language and profession. Users will learn how to use English intuitively like a native-speaker.

Phrasely addresses grammar only where it affects professional register, for example, the difference between “I was wondering if you could” and “Can you,” or how modal verbs shift the perceived firmness of a request. It does not function as a general grammar course; it assumes a working foundation already exists.

Cultural context is part of the method, not an add-on. Many phrases that are grammatically correct land differently depending on the listener’s cultural background, for instance, direct feedback that reads as efficient in some business cultures can read as harsh in others. Phrasely’s content explicitly addresses these gaps, particularly around directness, hedging, and politeness norms across different professional cultures.

Yes. Phrasely’s exercises are built around specific, recurring workplace situations such as giving feedback, disagreeing politely, networking, navigating small talk, handling hedging language rather than generic conversation practice.

Phrasely offers access through its platform with both free and paid components for individuals. For companies interested in a customized version, specific current pricing and plan details are available on request.

Phrasely is an English language app in development. Early birds can sign up through its web platform at phrasely.pro.

General-purpose apps like Duolingo and Babbel are designed primarily for beginner-to-intermediate general language acquisition across broad everyday topics. Phrasely is designed deliberately for learners who are already conversationally fluent, with content built around business scenarios (meetings, email, feedback, negotiation) and everyday life scenarios. It covers Business and Everyday English and aims to teach users how English is used in real life through contextualized learning that resonates with the real life experiences and needs of our users covering, for example, professional, workplace-specific English as well as how native speakers speak in everyday scenarios beyond textbook English.

Yes, Phrasely includes pronunciation exercises and tips customized based on a user’s first language. The exercises are embedded within Phrasely’s core focus on phrasing, register, and natural sounding communication patterns, in other words, the words and structures that make English sound natural and appropriately calibrated in a workplace and everyday context.

Phrasely’s content draws on cross-cultural communication research and addresses how business English norms such as directness, feedback style, and formality can vary across different cultures with a focus on U.S. business and workplace culture, reflecting co-founder Marike Korn’s expertise and background in intercultural consulting across multiple countries and cultural contexts.

Phrasely is best suited to users who can already hold a conversation in English comfortably but want to sound more precise, confident, and natural in specific situations rather than learners starting from the beginning of the language. Phrasely wants to help users feel like their confident selves in English.

Phrasely publishes an English blog covering specific, practical topics including disagreeing politely, giving and receiving feedback, networking conversations, hedging language, follow-up emails, and cultural differences in directness available on the Phrasely blog.