Improve Your Business English
Taking a course in an effort to improve your Business English can result in a tremendous return on your investment.
The Presidents of two countries recently had a very terse moment that is, in hindsight, being chalked up to language difficulties. That may be spin, but it’s interesting to think about how different the exchange would have been if both men had been able to effectively communicate in English.
Executive Language Training offers courses that are designed to suit the individual needs of business professionals. I am trained in teaching English as a foreign language. All my practical training was with young students who were ostensibly there to learn English, but they were in vacation mode to varying degrees. I wish I had been given the chance to teach some businessmen the finer points of this difficult language.
I can imagine that some business men wish to broaden their language skills while others might want to refine them. I was acquainted with a business man during the weeks that I took my teaching course. He had heavily accented English and he used some unnecessary verb forms, but I overheard him on his mobile phone dictating a business letter and his skill in composing a written correspondence rivaled mine. A customized course from Executive Language Training would not waste his time teaching him stuff that he already knows. I actually remember a great deal of emphasis being placed on assessing student ’s knowledge when I was taking my course. It’s obviously inefficient to review skills and information that a student already has down pat.
I just used a phrase that many EFL students would be unfamiliar with; down pat and other idioms need to be explained to students of language, they are not things that can be intuitively understood. Businessmen for whom English is a first language may habitually interject idioms that come from sports or other interests and a non native speaker is placed at a disadvantage if he has not been taught any of these phrases…
Let’s hit it out of the park, baby!!!, Whoo!!!
