Unlock Global English

Do you need to use English at work but struggle to understand colleagues with a different first language to yours? You can perfectly understand and chat in English with your own mother tongue colleagues, but when colleagues from other countries speak English, it sounds different to what you’re used to. They also speak so fast, they’re hard to understand, and you find you keep having to ask them to repeat themselves.

It’s stressful, incredibly inefficient and time-wasting.

And somehow, it feels like it always looks like it’s you that has the problem.

Imagine …

if you were able to hold a natural conversation in English with your colleagues from any first language
how relaxed and friendly you would feel if you could enjoy chatting with colleagues, instead of always looking (and sounding) stressed and impatient.
all the great ideas you’d be able to collaborate on and the fun you could have sharing your thoughts
being able to look forward to any work call, being the person who does the speaking because you know the subject better than anyone

Picture yourself in that new job – not worrying about being passed over for promotion because you can express yourself clearly with competence.

I help international professionals like you overcome the language and culture obstacles that are making your job stressful and challenging.

Choose between the intensive (up to 2 weeks) if you’re in THIS SITUATION

Unlock Global English Rapid:

A shorter intensive course to prepare fast for upcoming business trips, presentations or conferences.

Focus on the specific identified key words and phrases you’ll need for your immediate business purposes and practise them in customised listening and speaking tasks.

or the longer (three months) program if you’re in THIS SITUATION

Unlock Global English Regular:

A longer extensive course prepares the groundwork for ongoing collaborations, regular project work, or research.

Focus on the wide range of key words and phrases you need for successful business interaction and practise them in customised listening and speaking tasks.

depending on your specific language needs, with options to sign up for further sessions.

I’ll carry out a needs analysis before the course starts to find out your specific goals and evaluate at what level you should start, depending on your previous English experience.

The programmes develop your listening and speaking skills with a special focus on global English which you and your colleagues use to communicate. You’ll learn how your and their mother tongue and culture combine to produce a specific form of English which may be quite different to the English you’ve learned, or are used to hearing.

The end result will be an understanding of what they’re saying and how you’re hearing it, resulting in more effective workplace interactions.

“I wasn’t able to converse before. Now, I’m able to attend meetings in English and have a professional conversation without major problem.”

France

“Annie’s method was efficient and funny, I moved to the next level in a few lessons.”

Italy

Unlock Global English Rapid: 3-step one-to-one coaching centred on online live sessions:

preview the main session with a short recording and task
practise useful language heard in the listening and apply it to your own speaking
post session review of recordings with transcripts, personalised feedback and tailored tasks

Unlock Global English Regular: meet 3 times a month over 3 months

Here’s how it works:

Course materials are designed to interface for maximum efficiency and effectiveness.

Before each live online session, a short sound file is sent out with a task.
This then leads to exploration of related language points in the live session.
After the session, you’ll be sent follow-up feedback with a transcript and additional materials to review the content covered.

Each course focuses on three inter-related elements:

The sounds and speech patterns of global English which are hugely impacted by native languages and the cause of many misunderstandings between different first language speakers using English to communicate.
The different types of English words you need, from everyday conversational language, such as what to say when you need to politely ask someone to slow down or explain something, to more specialised business words and phrases which might vary according to first languages.
Cultural influences on language, far greater than many people realise. Even seemingly simple polite words like “please” and “thank you”, can send out the wrong signals, rude or impatient, when speakers of other languages follow their own language examples.