Over 10% of the general population in the EU has some degree of hearing loss. Hearing impaired persons depend on lip-reading (also called speech reading) to help them understand a speaker. The patterns of lips and tongue help disambiguate sounds and words; facial movements and expressions support the perception and interpretation of prosodic information. The more severe the hearing loss, the more a person will depend on lip-reading to understand spoken language. Research has shown that lip-reading is also used – often unconsciously – by people with perfect hearing when they try to understand a speaker under difficult circumstances: a noisy environment, and/or a language that is not the first language of either the speaker or the listener. In foreign language teaching however, very little attention is paid to lip-reading. Most deaf and severely hard-of-hearing learners learn a foreign language by reading and writing, but do not know how words are pronounced or what they look like, when spoken by a native speaker. There is a major gap between their CEFR levels for reading/writing, and for spoken interaction. The interest in Foreign Language Lip-reading training has been growing as a result of the increase in the number of people with hearing loss (a result of the aging population, and an increase of trauma caused hearing loss in young people), because of the growing number of deaf people with a Cochlear Implant, and as a result of reports that all language learners can benefit from learning to lip-read. In the LipRead project we will develop a community website, a syllabus, learning materials and a computer supported learning environment where hearing impaired people in international work environments and hearing impaired migrants can learn to lip-read International English and the language of the host country. The long term aims: to raise awareness of lip-reading, and to improve the mobility, employability, and successful entrepreneurship of hearing impaired persons.