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Our board of directors in Fort Worth met recently on the 31st of August 2026 to recall all that you all have done since we started taking applications and accepting funds at the end of May. And the four members of the board want to respond two ways. First, we want to thank you. Second, we want to do what we believe best to better give you what you're asking for in Dialogue: The English Language School of the People.

Thank you for communicating with us from where you are, Fort Worth, Benbrook, Crowley, Hurst, Bedford, Arlington, Dallas, Denton, Austin, San Antonio, Overland Park, St. Petersburg, Washington DC, Toluca, David, Santiago, Chitré, Penonomé, Panama City, Rio de Janeiro, London, Milan, Athens, Tashkent, Daejeon, Bukavu, Goma, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh. We, the four members of the board, communicated individually with dozens of you all around the world. Thank you for being one of the one hundred and three people ready to be a learner in the first cohort of twelve learners, or one of the six people applying to be the inaugural instructor working with fellow language learners, or one of the twenty people donating your money to pay the professional remuneration for that instructor. We together raised, from May to August, nearly 1/3rd of the funding needed for the first instructor of the first cohort of learners in the first month-long session. On September 1st one of you gave one more gift of your money. We must postpone the start date of the 3rd of September. This is what it takes, what you're asking for.

Despite all the readiness from so many people, we are patient with you to wait on sufficient funds so the inaugural instructor does not have to volunteer or to work part time but can be fully compensated for their expertise. While being patient in fund raising, we are being pushy now with the development of the TOEML™ or the Test of English as My Language™; those of you who have been helping with that know it's really more of the Testimony of English as My Language™. At the end of August, the Board approved a way to monetize TOEML™ once it is made public. Please keep generously donating, and please share the news so others can join in donating; please keep following Dialogue on social media, and please encourage others to be followers with you. And please stay tuned to all exciting updates on TOEML™.

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Dialogue: The English Language School of the People is the first and only nonprofit giving free, intensive, live, paid-expert human instruction anywhere. 

Its mission as the only nonprofit giving free, intensive, live paid-expert human instruction everywhere is that it also be forever of, by, and for learners of the world's lingua franca.

Yes, the First cohort of 12 learners meet together as soon as sufficient funds are raised to fully remunerate the inaugural instructor for the first three consecutive sessions.   The second, the third, the forth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, the eighth, the ninth, and the tenth will meet together for a month in respective subsequent sessions in turn.

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Learners

Learners in Dialogue: The English Language School of the People

1.       forgo tuition;

2.      forget fees;

3.      forestall profiteering from their school;

4.      form school governance of, by, and for learners;

5.      follow fairly- and fully-compensated experts whom they hire to direct their school and instruct them as learners;

6.      find their paid instructor and tuition-free classmates in their hours-intensive real-time, month-long tele-classroom from anywhere;

7.      find their flipped learning and individual auto-learning only effective as guided by that paid instructor they hired;

8.      find inadequate for language learning both some daily streak alone on an app and merely three hours a week in a course;

9.      fly across borders whenever able to, without a foreign student visa;

10.   freely flaunt their individual human language abilities, neither as a foreigner nor a non-native speaker, but as a life-long learner, without being proctored in a testing center or surveilled by remote electronics.

Donors

Donors for the learners of Dialogue: The English Language School of the People generously fund only

1.       the salaries of the learners’ instructor and their school's director

2.      and their school’s endowment.

Nothing more.

Absolutely everything else is already funded and free forever.

Educators

Learners of Dialogue: The English Language School of the People hire only two, the sole cost of their school borne by generous donors:

1.       the instructor (a lifelong language learner, with a graduate degree in TESOL and leadership in intensive teleclassroom English programs)

2.      the executive director (a lifelong language learner, with a graduate degree in TESOL, leadership in intensive teleclassroom English programs, and leadership in donor partnering and program management)

Their fair and full compensation is competitive with the best educators in the cities where they reside. 

Programs

1. Live Human Intensive English Language Program

Hours-intensive, real-time, twelve learners with one expert instructor in dialogue together, improving all human language activities of their world's lingua franca, teleclassrooming in Google Meet.

No tuition, no fees, no profiteering, no authoritarianism, no volunteerism, no perfunctoriness, no building, no visa.  

2. TOEML™ — Test of English as My Language.

The free English proficiency assessment conducted over Google Meet on any single internet-connected device with camera and microphone. Accurate, reliable, transparent, phrase-level CEFR color-coded transcripts. Three-layer arbitration in which the language learner has final authority over their own transcript interpretations.

No testing center, no multiple-device remote proctoring, no test fee.

Nonprofit

Dialogue: The English Language School of the People is a nonprofit corporation, headquartered in Texas, United States (File #806330245), with learners worldwide anywhere, established December 3, 2025, as an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 41-2923319. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Board

Dialogue: The English Language School of the People is guided into its establishment by a Board of Directors who meet quarterly each year. Intentionally, the first members are all lifelong language learners and all reside in the headquarter city, Fort Worth, Texas, United States; coincidentally, all are alumni of Texas Christian University, and each has earned a graduate degree, which they respectively use professionally. They are Lizdelia Piñón, President; Carlo Capua, Vice President; Tracy Rundstrom, Treasurer; and Kurk Gayle, Secretary.