Business English: friend or foe?

“I envisage a business world where I wouldn’t have to use English”

In a dream world, business meetings in English would be a piece of cake, reports and emails would write themselves, and in presentations, words would just magically pour out of your mouth without your even breaking a sweat.
That thought sounds nice, but at the same time it calls for a reality check!

I hate to burst your bubble

In the real world, the clock is ticking, you have tens of deadlines to meet and zillion tasks to complete … in English. The moment you come in the office your boss asks you to write up a quarterly report. Next, you remind yourself that you must respond to all the emails of your foreign clients by noon at the latest, because at one o’clock you have a scheduled meeting with your supervisor who’s, by the way, from Manchester. In the meantime, you’ve started working on the agenda of next week’s web conference with your colleagues from the company branch abroad, only to realise that your laptop is not working properly. Guess what, you must now call the Technical Support staff based in the headquarters in Germany and try to explain the situation to them in English.

Phone calls, reports, emails, presentations, training sessions, and the list never ends; I want you to sit and contemplate for a minute the number of tasks and projects in which you’re required to speak or write in English at work. It’s incredible and scary at the same time, isn’t it?

“Perhaps it’s just temporary …”

If you think you can find an easy way out, think again! English will always be a part of your day-to-day routine at work. If you often find yourself hesitant, unsure, or even struggling when speaking English, you should take action now.

That’s where Broad Horizons English comes in.

Our mission is to help professionals and companies master the English language, use it to their advantage, and thrive in the business world. By taking our online Business English course, you will become a confident and fluent communicator, able to cope well in any English-speaking work environment.

How do we do that? It’s simple!

1. The lessons are almost exclusively monolingual, meaning that English is used as the first language throughout the entire lesson. In fact, use of the student’s mother tongue is avoided even in email and phone conversations outside of the digital classroom. This is to maximise the student’s exposure to English-speaking environments.
   
2. We put a lot of emphasis on the development of the productive skills, i.e. writing and speaking, in order to help our students develop excellent written and verbal communication skills.
3. We improve the learner’s contextualised knowledge of the English language by simulating the business environment and keeping all aspects of the course relevant to the learner’s working life.
4. Within 24 hours after the end of each lesson, the student receives a handout with lesson notes and homework, if any. The student can review the lesson notes on their own time and keep for future reference.
5. We’re active listeners. We listen intently to our student’s learning goals, aspirations and fears, and then we advise, guide, and inspire them. By doing so, our students adopt a growth mindset and gradually develop into fluent and confident speakers of the English language.

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Still not convinced?

Give it a try

Well, the good news is that you can have two weeks of lessons (trial period) and then decide whether you’d like to proceed with the course or not.

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