English for AI
Learn to ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude clearly in English, and improve your English on the way.
AI tools work best in English. But when I watch my students use them, the problem is almost never vocabulary. It is the shape of the request: the task is hidden at the end, a word like "it" could mean three things, or the AI has to guess who the answer is for.
This course fixes that, one small step at a time. 🙂
AI එකකට English වලින් පැහැදිලිව ඉල්ලීමක් කරන හැටි තමයි මේ course එකෙන් උගන්වන්නේ. ලොකු වචන දැනගන්න ඕන නෑ. වැදගත් වෙන්නේ ඉල්ලීමේ හැඩය: මොකක්ද කරන්න ඕන, කාටද, කොහොමද. Level 0 සහ 1 වල උපදෙස් වැඩිපුරම සිංහලෙන්. ඉස්සරහට යනකොට සිංහල ටික ටික අඩු වෙනවා.
Who it is for
- Students: school leavers and university students, many from Sinhala-medium schools.
- Working people: IT and BPO, office work, hotels and tourism, small business owners.
- People going abroad for work: Korea, Japan, the Middle East.
Everyone learns the same core skills. Your track changes the examples.
The request frame
Every clear request to an AI has up to five parts. You don't need all five at the start. In Level 1 you learn the task; in Level 2 you learn all five.
The request frame
- ContextI sell homemade achcharu on a Facebook page in Gampaha.
- TaskWrite a post for my new mango achcharu.
- ConstraintsUnder 60 words. Friendly, not pushy.
- FormatEnglish first, then Sinhala.
- ExampleLike this: "Fresh from Amma's kitchen! 🥭 …"
Choose your track
Your track
Study. O/L and A/L notes, university assignments, scholarship emails.
Your choice is remembered on this device, and every unit shows its examples in your track.
How you score your work
At the end of each unit you write a prompt and score it yourself, 0, 1 or 2 for each of four things:
| What it asks | |
|---|---|
| Clarity | Is the task clear, with the verb first? |
| Completeness | Does the AI have every detail it needs? |
| Structure | Are the parts in a sensible order? |
| Internationally clear | Would someone outside Sri Lanka understand it? |
7 or 8 out of 8: go on. Under 7: try the unit's quick remix, then go on anyway. Nothing is locked.
ඔයාගේ prompt එකට ඔයාම ලකුණු දාන්න. 7ට අඩු වුණත් බය වෙන්න එපා. ආයේ පොඩ්ඩක් හදලා ඊළඟ unit එකට යන්න.
Sri Lankan English is welcome
"Do the needful", "I have a doubt" and "revert back" are Sri Lankan English, and they are fine with people here. We never call them mistakes. We only point them out when an AI might not understand exactly what you want, and show a clearer way to say the same thing.
The levels
| Level | CEFR | You will be able to… |
|---|---|---|
| Level 0 · Foundations | pre-A1 → A1 | type a short English command an AI understands |
| Level 1 · One clear request | A1 → A2 | make one clear request, task first |
| Level 2 · The full frame | A2 → B1 | use all five parts of the frame |
| Level 3 · Repair and follow-up | B1 | fix a bad answer and check what the AI says |
| Level 4 · Real projects | B1 → B2 | finish real tasks, from a CV to a Facebook page |
If English is very new for you, start with Unit 0.1: Ten command verbs. If you can already write a short English sentence, start with Unit 1.1: Your first clear request.
Every unit is a light page with no videos, so it is cheap on mobile data, and once you have opened it, it works offline.