Who should take this course?

This course helps you rapidly increase comprehension of general, non-scientific university materials including textbooks, assignments and web pages. We recommend this course to all Japanese students attending universities in Japan.

How will it help you?

Your personal word list for this course will be prioritized based on frequency of word occurrence. Words that occur most often will be taught first. Every aspect of this course is designed for speed, accuracy and long term retention.

The free V-Check test automatically removes the words that you already know so you can stay focused on learning just the important words you are missing - a tremendous advantage over all other methods.

How was this course created?

To create this course, Dr. Brent Culligan and the Lexxica research team analyzed:

• One million pages from university textbooks and ELT textbooks
• 1.5 million pages from popular and classic books
• 100 million web pages of all types

Note: University Basic includes all words from the Academic Word List (1993 Coxhead) and the General Service List (1996 Nation, Culligan).