English Guru offers affordable solutions by supporting the speaking practice and rapid English learning process, which are the most important problems in language learning in Turkey, with high technology and infrastructure. The platform, which offers English education with native English-speaking instructors regardless of time and place, and has reached a turnover of 250 thousand TL in the last 1 month, plans to close this year with a turnover of 1.5 million TL. Another aim of the platform, which targets 5 thousand users with a turnover of 10 million TL in 2023, is to enter the Far East markets.
The target of 2023 is Far East markets
While the borders are being redrawn in the globalizing world with digitalization, the importance of knowing a language is increasing day by day. However, “online education”, which entered our lives with the pandemic, is now preferred by more people with the advantages it offers. Aiming to eliminate speaking practice, which is the most important obstacle for English learners, with its native English speaking and expert instructors, English Guru also enables students from all over the world to learn languages online with affordable tuition fees.
Distinguished from its competitors with its affordable price and real-time English subtitle support, English Guru reaches more and more users with these advantages. İbrahim Karakuş, CEO of English Guru, said that they aim to end this year with a turnover of 1.5 million TL as an initiative that received an investment of around 120 thousand dollars from Birol Başaran, Chairman of the Board of Directors of VBT, a high-tech brand, and that their 2023 target is 10 million TL. stated.
Another plan of the platform, which has reached 1,000 users so far and targets 5 thousand users for 2023, is to enter the Far East markets, including China and South Korea, in the second quarter of next year. Noting that they have completed their R&D work for this, Karakuş said they were just waiting for the right time.
Saying that there is a high demand for learning English all over the world today, Karakuş stated that they established the online language learning platform English Guru in order to meet this demand with professional trainers and an affordable price policy.
Saying that English Guru, which provides English education to anyone who wants to study English without the need for a specific place and time, especially working white-collar workers, university students and children between the ages of 4 and 13, Karakuş continued his words as follows: “In a short period of 3 months. We trained about 1000 users, 70 percent of whom are women. With our affordable price policy, we plan to support the English learning process of 5000 of our users in 2023.”
Instant English subtitle support is also available
Noting that they offer opportunities to learn English at very affordable prices, based on the motto “Everyone has the right and need to learn English”, Karakuş stated that the platform has a large trainer network of 100 people and a developed infrastructure and gave the following information about the platform: The lesson is automatically recorded as audio and visual.
This gives students the opportunity to review lessons over and over again. Video calls are made through our website, no intermediary application is used. We also have an instant translation system and screen sharing technology during the lesson. Instructor can share any file or their own screen. With our instant messaging system, we enable our users to have more efficient lessons with instructors.
Unlike other online English education companies, there is a measurement and evaluation system for our corporate users. In addition, we provide real-time English subtitle support free of charge during the lesson. English Guru, which has a very secure system, uses the Amazon infrastructure completely. We aim to provide convenience to the user by launching our mobile application very soon.”
There are 3 different packages according to the needs.
İbrahim Karakuş, who also gave information about the packages offered by English Guru, stated that they have 3 types of subscription systems: “Standard package”, “Premium package” and “Children’s package” in line with the needs of the users. Accordingly, the standard package includes native speakers of English; This package also includes support for real-time English subtitles. Premium and Kids packages, on the other hand, include instructors whose native language is English and who speak English at the native level, and the lessons are video recorded. At the same time, this package also includes support for real-time English subtitles.