You have a goal.
Let's go get it!
What's your goal?
1. BUILD UP SPEAKING FLUENCY
Simply exposing yourself to the language will not necessarily increase your confidence when interacting with fluent speakers. What will then? - Learning how to deal with mistakes and misunderstandings. - Focusing on making high-frequency language automatic. - Activating your passive vocabulary and grammar: words and structures you know but cannot use spontaneously and confidently. - Working on pronunciation of connected speech as part of a specifically designed weekly routine. If you are in the first 2 stages of fluency ('starting out' and 'going up'), this programme is for you.
2. UNDERSTAND FAST SPEECH
If you have never or insufficiently been exposed to natural fast speech, then most probably you find challenging and frustrating listening to and understanding native or fluent speakers. What can improve your understanding? - Learning how to deal with uncertainty - Knowing what to focus on when listening to fast speech - Training your guessing skills: a combination of grammar, vocabulary and sounds knowledge - Improving your pronunciation of connected speech (sounds that blend), - Becoming aware of natural speech contractions, overall intonation and rhythm. - Following a weekly routine specifically designed to develop all of the above skills. No matter what your fluency stage is, if you want to be able to understand and confidently interact with fluent and native speakers, this programme is for you.
3. GET UNSTUCK
There is a certain point in the language learning process when you might reach a learning plateau: you keep practising without making any significant progress. What can help you get over this stagnation point?  - Clearly identify what is holding you back, what slows you down and what you need to unlearn before you learn - Follow a weekly routine targeting specific fluency-related aspects (pronunciation of connected speech, intonation, sentence structure, etc.) If you are 'stuck in the middle' (see fluency stages), this programme is for you.
4. COMMUNICATE AT WORK
You need to give a speech, make a presentation, negotiate, attend meetings or job interviews. - Learn how to communicate using different degrees of formality - Learn specific communicative functions (how to express opinions, how to disagree politely, how to be persuasive, how to make suggestions, how to offer advice, how to reject an offer, etc.) Apply all this to scenario-based activities related to each of the above mentioned work-related contexts. No matter your fluency stage, if you need to use English for Work, this programme is for you. It can be applied to your fluency stage needs.
Are you determined
to move ahead?