GORIL Adds AI Speaking Course to Sompo Japan English Training
The expansion moves GORIL's training at Sompo Japan from pronunciation basics to applied speaking, using the new AI feature Story Sprint to push participants toward conveying their own thoughts rather than memorizing sentences.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
GORIL Inc., a Mitsui & Co. subsidiary, will start an applied English course for several dozen Sompo Japan employees in October 2026. The roughly six-month program pairs five online lectures with the new AI feature Story Sprint, which has participants build and speak stories from their own experiences. Pre and post training tests measure speaking growth. The course follows the basic pronunciation course GORIL has run at Sompo Japan University since October 2025.
Sompo Japan set up its online corporate university in 2020 to encourage voluntary learning and career development. GORIL's basic pronunciation course has run there as a seminar since October 2025. The new applied course, starting October 2026, is a roughly six-month hybrid: five online lectures plus the AI self-study feature Story Sprint.
Participants keep using the voice visualization tool from the basic course while building original stories on themes like work, hobbies, and future dreams. Story Sprint supplies AI illustrations, related words, and expression hints so learners can retry when words do not come, and it evaluates clarity, speaking time, and word count. Tests before and after the training gauge speaking growth.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.