Hi there,
Why should you improve your business English?
- To advance your career;
- Increase your income;
- To successfully land a new global job;
- To understand exactly what others are saying;
- To chair/participate in international meetings;
- To feel like a meaningful member of a conference;
- To write clear and meaningful emails/reports;
- To communicate in a relaxed manner with international colleagues;
- And more...
Why is Learning English is so Important?
Increased income
The better the knowledge of English, the higher the income, the better your quality of life.
International Communication is in English
Not only is English spoken by around 400 million people, but it is also the official language of 53 countries. It is also the most common second language in the world. Speaking to somebody in another country, whether it is China, Germany, Denmark or Russia, the chances are that you will use English to do it.
English is the Business Language
Should you wish to enter the global workforce, English is the dominant language. Cross-border communication is mostly done in English and numerous international companies expect employees to be able to speak English. Many global companies have English as their official corporate language. Think of companies such as Airbus, Daimler-Chrysler, Nokia, Renault, Samsung, SAP, and many more. The importance of English in the international marketplace can not be underemphasized.
English opens more of the Internet
Over 50% of the content on the internet is in English. If you can read English you'll have access to all of that - billions of pages of information which may otherwise not be available.
Example Curriculum
- 2.1. Listening 1 - Speeches and dialoques
- 2.2. Listening 2 - Sounds & Telephone message
- 2.3. Listening 3 - Predicting potential answers
- 2.4 Listening 4 - Conversations
- 2.5 Identifying different functions of language in business situations.
- 2.6 Listening - Longer conversations
- 2.7 Listening - Sample paper
- 3.1 Recognising paraphrases.
- 3.2 Graphs and charts
- 3.3 Paraphrases
- 3.4 Analysing of a text - Reading Part 5
- 3.5 Prepositions, conjunctions and other linking words
- 3.6 Skim reading and extracting information
- 3.7 Matching paraphrases
- 3.8 Relocating employees
- 3.9 Social networking sites
- 3.10 How can social networking sites help companies?
- 3.11 Graduate Jobs
The Business English Space
After selling my business we moved to Germany in 2019 to retire. Why to Germany? My wife is German and both our sons and our grandchildren are all here in Germany. I've worked for large companies in South Africa and in Germany in executive and managerial positions. I've also run a manufacturing company in South Africa successfully before selling it in 2013. Being bilingual (Afrikaans and English) I decided to follow a dream and qualified as an English teacher (TEFL certification) in 2020. I also have experience in soft skills, religion, construction management, and small business development lecturing and consultation.
Since March 2019 classroom teaching was not allowed in Germany and I couldn't teach English in the VHS Neumünster. I decided to do an online course - and this is it. I'm trying to structure the course in such a way that to enable you to do it in your own time and to decide yourself how fast you want to learn. Furthermore, I am also giving you the personal attention of allowing you to submit tasks in writing, videos or audio's for correction and comments. Skype consultations are also possible at reasonable rate.
