Welcome to Explearning Academy where communication turns into connection

Exploring Our Interactive Learning Community: A Guided Tour 

TL;DR*

Get exclusive access to live chats with Mary Daphne (Ed.M., M.A., B.A.), weekly challenges, personalized feedback, expansive library of web courses, a private community of passionate professionals, and so much more!

*tl;dr stands for "too long didn't read" and it means that this is the summary of the points!

If you're here, you probably know Mary Daphne from her YouTube channels and Podcasts.

🎥Explearning Communication and Social Skills

🎥Advanced English for Professionals

The best value on the internet!

What is Explearning Academy?

Improve Your Confidence and Communication 

Looking to level up your career, have a greater impact professionally and socially, or forge deeper connections? We can help. 

 “Best investment. You won't regret it.” 

-Mireya (Nicaragua) 

Community Perks

🚀 Live Q&As and conversations

🚀 Communication (Executive Communication + Social Skills) lessons

🚀 Language Lessons

🚀 Personalized feedback

🚀 Live interactive workshops

🚀 Weekly and monthly challenges 

🚀 Conversation partners to practice with

🚀 Web courses and quizzes

🚀 Worksheets and learning materials

🚀 Exclusive content shared only with the Community

🚀 Live video calls with MD and other members

🚀 And much more !!!

"This community is very active, open, and lively. We touch upon various stimulating topics that are relevant to business, professional, and social environments."

"The community’s international diversity is the perfect practice ground to interact in multicultural settings."

If you're looking to improve your:

• social skills (& emotional intelligence)

• executive communication skills

• confidence in social settings

• mindset (cultivate a growth mindset)

then you're ready to join us~!

Enjoy Small Group Discussions

• engage with people who have similar goals

• enjoy learning about different perspectives

• feel welcomed in a warm environment

• get personalized communication coaching in a small group setting

• learn new vocabulary, phrases, and expressions

• practice communication and social skills strategies 

• receive instant personalized feedback

Note: Live conversations typically take place between 9 AM to 4:30 PM UTC (GMT+0)

"The sessions have been helping me cultivate my personality and communication, which is a great added feature that is not seen in other language programs."

Do You Say Any of the Following?

• I wish my communication was better

• I wish I had people to practice communication skills with

• I wish I had more confidence

• I wish I had better social skills

• I wish I could get real-time feedback on my Communication skills

• I wish I could express myself and my thoughts better

• I wish I was part of a community of awesome people

If you said "YES" to any of these, then it's time to Join Explearning Academy!

Tired of Waiting for:

• the perfect time to work on your communication skills?

• the moment you won't have an "accent" (Spoiler: everyone has an accent!)

• enough time to work on communication and social fluency?

• the moment you'll just suddenly start to "feel confident" but it never arrives!

• people to speak ]with? 

• a community of awesome people to just appear?!

The Wait is Over...Now's Your Chance

Join Explearning Academy. This is your path to Social Fluency™.

Meet your Instructors

Mary Daphne, CEO and Co-Founder of Advanced English & Explearning; Head of Community at Explearning Academy

With an Ed.M in Applied Linguistics, Mary Daphne has over fifteen years of experience working in education, cross-cultural corporate communications as well as television and live broadcasting. She loves exploring the intersection of language, culture, and social interaction.

Alongside her corporate engagements, Mary Daphne has spent the last two decades designing social skills, public speaking, cross-cultural communications, and business communications courses. Her lessons leverage technology, empirical research, and data-backed teaching methodologies to produce high-value outcomes for her students and clients.

Mary Daphne is a native New Yorker and an avid traveler. In her spare time, you can find her hiking, painting, strength training, and composing children’s books.

She received her Ed.M. in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University, graduated Valedictorian with an MA in TESOL from Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Hamilton College with a BA in French and Communication studies.

Languages: English (Native), French (Bilingual), Turkish (Fully Proficient), Greek (Beginner)

Greg, COO and Co-Founder of Advanced English & Explearning

Prior to Advanced English, Greg was COO of Ticket Monster, an online secondary market event ticket retailer based in New York City. After growing the company from three to nearly fifty employees, he structured and closed the sale of Ticket Monster to an industry leader in the entertainment space.

Before Ticket Monster, Greg lived in Beijing, where he launched fundraising operations for the educational non-profit Teach For China, expanding the organization’s annual donation pipeline from under $1M to over $5M in two years.

While at Teach For China, Greg also co-founded The China Step, a web-based travel business that provided recent graduates with affordable services for living and traveling in China.

Prior to Beijing, through a Princeton in Asia Fellowship, Greg laid the pedagogical foundation for Teach For China in its inaugural year as one of 20 Fellows teaching 7th grade English in rural Yunnan Province.

Born in New York City and raised in Hong Kong, Greg likes to spend his time in forests and mountains. But more often than not, he's just typing away at a computer.

Greg received his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and a Master's Degree in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania's Lauder Institute. He graduated from Hamilton College with a BA in English and Chinese Studies.

Languages: English (Native), Mandarin (Fully Proficient) Turkish (Intermediate)

The environment is perfect for me to learn from others and improve my listening skills, engage in a warmer way, and build more awareness around the work to be done in a safe and empathetic environment.

This community is very active, open, and lively. We touch upon various stimulating topics that are relevant to business, professional, and social environments.

The community’s international diversity is the perfect practice ground to interact in multicultural settings.

The sessions have been helping me cultivate my personality, which is a great added feature that is not seen in other language programs." 

Central pillars of the Explearning Academy community

Daily Practice:

Go-to source for daily touchpoints, quests, challenges, and other lessons; participate in live discussions and share thoughts, ask questions, and speak your mind

Connect and Engage:

Share knowledge, learn from others, and participate in discussions and activities; answer prompts or create your own and invite participation from other Explearners

The Cultural Collective:

Share what you're reading, listening to, and watching to level up your skills. Participate in live discussions where we share these resources with each other, exchange information, listen to each other's insights. 

Premium Courses:

Self-paced courses with a strong foundation of knowledge and practical strategies that can be applied in the real world

Explearning Academy Odyssey:

A thirty-six module journey filled with adventure and learning; lifetime access for founding members (those who join in 2023); unique theme and lessons with activities, quests, and challenges each month; after 2023, will only be available for purchase at an additional fee and separate from the Explearning Academy Membership

Real Experiences: Insights from Our Explearning Community

"Being part of the Explearning Academy community is already helping me change my communication habits in a safe and positive way. My goals are to become more socially savvy and build emotional intelligence with people. The environment is perfect for me to learn from others and improve my listening skills, engage in a warmer way, and build more awareness around the work to be done in a safe and empathetic environment.

I already feel like listening more and trying to consciously be present to a person; it has improved my sensitivity in situations. I am slowly developing the calmness to trust the flow in interactions.

This community is very active, open, and lively. We touch upon various stimulating topics that are relevant to business, professional, and social environments.

I feel as if I’m more centered in conversations now, more understanding, slightly more in control, pausing a bit more, working my way around boundaries, speaking with intention more than usual. Explearning has effective communication strategies that when practiced, have produced harmonious results for me.

In my communication journey, I think I am learning to be and connect with others. MD is an excellent teacher and communicator. Her skills surely rub off on you as she eases you into better habits and makes everyone feel very comfortable as the facilitator.

I am already experiencing subtle shifts in the way I am choosing to hold myself by learning from everyone and MD. The community’s international diversity is the perfect practice ground to interact in multicultural settings. I feel comfortable to say things without thinking too much as long as I put it across with integrity and grace, something that Explearning Academy integrates in its modules. The sessions have been helping me cultivate my personality, which is a great added feature that is not seen in other language programs. The classes are structured, but also organic and formed around contemporary topics. Very professional, fun, intelligent, and detailed -- you’re in good hands!"

--Ishiika (India)