Follow four international contestants competing in language challenges across Britain. Improve your English — and get completely caught up in the story.
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The English Race follows four contestants — Minho from South Korea, Mina from Côte d'Ivoire, Adam from Hungary, and Sofía from Mexico — as they compete in language challenges across Britain. Each city brings a new challenge. Only one can win.
The series is designed for intermediate learners (CEFR B1–B2) who want to improve their English through something genuinely worth reading — not through grammar exercises dressed up as stories.
Every chapter includes tap-to-reveal vocabulary, comprehension activities, a grammar focus drawn naturally from the story, and discussion questions designed for real conversation.
Four countries. Four languages. One competition.
Methodical and quietly competitive. A former competitive swimmer who brings the same precision to language that he once brought to the pool. Carries his family's expectations on his shoulders — mostly without showing it.
Strategic
Resilient, perceptive, quietly fierce. Raised by her grandmother in a village outside Abidjan, Mina moves between Dioula, French, and English as naturally as breathing. She competes for more than just herself.
Perceptive
Warm, practical, and effortlessly charming. Grew up on a farm near Szentendre, helping tourists with maps. Torn between returning home and following where his ambitions — and this competition — might lead him.
Warm
Open, creative, tough beneath the warmth. A dancer and painter who arrives in London with a rolled canvas and a smile wide enough to almost make passport control smile back. She collects language the way other travellers collect fridge magnets.
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Minho arrived at Heathrow at 6:47 in the morning, which was — he had calculated — fourteen hours and twenty-three minutes after leaving Incheon. He had slept for four of those hours, eaten twice, and watched approximately forty minutes of a film he couldn't now remember the name of.
The airport was cool and grey and enormous. He found this reassuring. Enormous things had rules, and rules were something he understood.
He joined the queue for passport control, placed his bag at his feet, and waited. The woman in front of him was on her phone, speaking in a language he didn't recognise...
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