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Why so much English language training is a waste of money?

How to make it effective?

How to overcome the obvious difficulties?

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How to Effectively Maintain Your Competence in English without recourse to outside help. Yes that is correct, completely free and yet helps you maintain your English and improve your natural response time. A great deal of money, time and attention is spent on English language training. The vast majority of this training is to do with the improvement of people’s level in the English language. This has always seemed to me to be a very wasteful and ineffective process given the fact that the company has already spent a great deal of money on the training of these people. This podcast aims to introduce an action plan to break the above ineffective and wasteful process. You will see that it is free, that it will work, that it helps and that it is sensible.  It is an obvious solution.

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Why so much English language training is a waste of money?

How to make it effective?

How to overcome the obvious difficulties?

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How to Effectively Maintain Your Competence in English without recourse to outside help. Yes that is correct, completely free and yet helps you maintain your English and improve your natural response time. A great deal of money, time and attention is spent on English language training. The vast majority of this training is to do with the improvement of people’s level in the English language. This has always seemed to me to be a very wasteful and ineffective process given the fact that the company has already spent a great deal of money on the training of these people. This podcast aims to introduce an action plan to break the above ineffective and wasteful process. You will see that it is free, that it will work, that it helps and that it is sensible.  It is an obvious solution.

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Why is the ability to conduct small talk important?

Why must it be professional small talk?

 

Description

I am very glad that in these days of instant communication via e-mail or SMS that people are slowly remembering what our parents and grandparents always knew; success in business or indeed in life has much to do with the relationships that we have. A mutually advantageous relationship requires trust and you can only have trust if you have communication.

This is why in my opinion the ability to talk to someone on a non-business-related matter is a competence that is crucial to every successful professional.

This podcast briefly introduces three techniques which can be used to great effect and to render your small talk effective.

Small talk is the name given to the non-business related conversations take place in any gathering of professionals. The possible gatherings can range from pre-meeting conversations of a few minutes to an entire dinner lasting several hours. I cannot emphasise enough how many of my clients fear, no fear is not the correct word, find tiring yes find tiring the idea of conducting a dinner for three or four hours in English. It is almost more difficult to do this than to present in front of an audience of two or three hundred people in English.

The fact is that though the type of situation can vary a great deal the common feature throughout is the fact that your competence in this area is of vital importance to reaching your objectives. These objectives could be short-term such as the closing of the deal or being offered a new position if you are at an interview or they could be more long term such as the development of relationship with your peers and your clients which will last for a long time and bring benefits year after year

 

 

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Professional English for those that use English as any other instrument of business (computer, telephone, email etc): The means to reach their objectives.

It is crucial to be able to ask about the facilities at any of the locations that professional is like to find herself in. Often these situations will be highly stressed for instance just prior to important client presentation and you need to know how to setup your projector, which room you will use etc.

Being in a stressful situation and not being able to usual mother tongue language is difficult I know what it’s like I have lived it.

This podcast aims to provide you with a single linguistic solution that you can easily remember.

 

When We Use This Function

* An Important Function

* Allows Us To Ask For What We Need

* Short And Effective

* Direct Without Being Rude

* The Get Out Of Jail Card

* Examples of Situations

* Arrived at the Airport

* Arrived at the Hotel

* Setting up your presentation at a client

* Relaxing into a negotiation

 

Does It Exist?

* Business English Courses and General English Courses….

* Give importance to whether the item exists or not

* If it does you use ‘Where is….?’

* If it does not or you are not sure, you use ‘Is there…?’

* English Question Forms Can be Confusing

* In our example the ‘is’ comes before ‘There’ but after ‘Where’

* Explanation is Difficult for some English Teachers

* The Professional English Solution

* Always use ‘Is there….?’ or obviously ‘Are there….?’

* Forget ‘Where is…?’

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Shownotes:

Presenting in English, whether in front of an audience of 1,000 or in a briefing for no more than 5 people, is a competence that any professional must master. It is difficult enough in your first language, the material, the slides, the body language, the audience reaction and, oh no, the question and answer section.  In your second or third language it is even more complicated.

This podcast, the first in a long series on Presenting, gives guidance on how to tackle presenting in English with a professional introduction.

 

Creating a Good 1st Impression

* When Does the Introduction Begin?

* Now

* It is the Same Always

* Creating a Good 1st Impression

* Second Language

* Creative

* Human

* What the Audience Wants to Hear

* Why Am I Here?

 

What the Audience Wants to Hear

* The English Template

* Welcome and Thank you for attending

* My Name is…………

* My Purpose Today is to……

* This is timely because…

* In the presentation we will

 

The English Template

* See Transcript

 

The Really Clever Part

* The Really Clever Part (for briefings)

* Old Man Doing Well

* The ‘Pre-Look’

* Incorporate the Feedback

* Success is guaranteed

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Professional English for those that use English as any other instrument of business (computer, telephone, email etc): The means to reach their objectives.

One of the greatest challenges faced by many of our clients is the capacity to comprehend exactly what others say to them in English. Often it seems as if English is composed of only one word, with no pauses, except for when it’s your turn to speak. We have experienced the same in learning our second language.

To help then in this podcast, we give a single, most effective tool for improving your oral comprehension, based upon our own experience and common sense.

 

Challenges

* Why is it so Difficult?

* So many Variations

* Dictionary Pronunciation – RP, Queens’ English, BBC English etc

* Lack of vocabulary and Context

* Just one long word.

* The first Step with the second language

* Advice Given is:

Time

Practice

The Situations

* Structured

* Where we can Predict the language used

* Meetings, Presentations, Telephoning ( Yes we really Can ), etc

* Unstructured

* Where Predicting the language used is Highly Complicated

* Socialising, Dinner, Small Talk before a Meeting, Negotiations etc

* The Difference

* Chinese TV Example

* Structured = Comfort Zone

* Unstructured = More Risk

 

The Solution

* Question Words

* Most Conversations travel a road full of Questions

* Questions; What are the Principal Parts

* Noun : which gives context

* Question Word :  which gives direction

* Understanding Improvement

* Understand the Question Words means 100% improvement

* Not understanding Question Words means ZERO comprehension

* What, Where, Why, When, Who, Which, How

 

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Professional English for those that use English as any other instrument of business (computer, telephone, email etc): The means to reach their objectives.

Everything we do in a language has a purpose and this is especially true in our professional lives. So, it seems logical to break down the acquisition of new languages into various chunks or functions that we need to use for each purpose.

Today, we’re talking about why learning a language through functions can be a more effective approach, particularly in the professional world and look at the first of these functions: “Making a request”.

 

Language Functions

* What are Language Functions

* The Definition

* Professionals Always Have a Purpose

* Countless Variations of Functions

* Closely Interrelated with Professional Activities : Meetings, Telephone etc

* Task Based Learning

* No one Knows How We Learn a Language – Motivation is the Key

* Choosing a Method is Down to Individual Choice but Task Based Fits in Well With a Professional’s Objectives

* What is True Task Based Learning

* Prabhu and Willis

 

The Linguist’s Viewpoint

* To Debase the English Language

* As We Become Older We All Look Back With Selective Vision / Memory

* Stephan Fry’s English Delight

* We Observe and Judge

* The Linguist’s Approach to Language Functions

* Consider the following;

* Setting – Topic – Social Relationship – Attitude

 

Solution

* Making a Request

* Many Possibilities

* Classic Example of Professional English Means Offers a Simple Solution That is Still Professional

* Impolite

* I want a coffee.   Another copy, ok?

* Neutral

* Can I have another coffee, please?      I’d Like another copy, please.

* Polite

* Could I have another coffee, please?    Could I have another copy?

* Very Polite

* Do you mind if I ….. May I have ……Might I have……

*  Too Confusing the Above, So What is the Answer?

* Being Professional in English’s Advice

* When Asking To Do Something = Could I + VERB

* When Asking Someone To Do Something For You = Could You + VERB

* Works in All Situations in the Professional World

* Difficult to Forget One Solution

* Common Criticism is What Happens if the Participant Hears Other Version?

 

 

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Why is emailing so important?

Where is the training for an important competence?

Is there a system to simplify professional emailing?

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Many of our clients spend a great deal of time emailing and, obviously, much of this is done in their first language. However, more and more are finding that the companies they work for are changing to a policy of all English internal emails. Even if this has not yet occurred for some, the incidence of writing an email in English is increasing every day. Given that they already spend so much time in emailing, the extra effort required to write in English is adding to the time spent in front of the computer, which means less time on other important aspects of their work. This podcast looks to dramatically simplify the process of professional emailing in English by the introduction of the “Sandwich Model”.

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Why is emailing so important?

Where is the training for an important competence?

Is there a system to simplify professional emailing?

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Many of our clients spend a great deal of time emailing and, obviously, much of this is done in their first language. However, more and more are finding that the companies they work for are changing to a policy of all English internal emails. Even if this has not yet occurred for some, the incidence of writing an email in English is increasing every day. Given that they already spend so much time in emailing, the extra effort required to write in English is adding to the time spent in front of the computer, which means less time on other important aspects of their work. This podcast looks to dramatically simplify the process of professional emailing in English by the introduction of the “Sandwich Model”.

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Shownotes:

Today, we are going to discuss the linguistic needs associated with introducing someone to another person in a professional English manner. And that happens a great deal, particularly when there are overseas visitors to your home location.

Now, you’ve been asked to look after them, so the task of introducing them to other people in your company is yours. Your chance to make a good impression, both on the visitor and within your company.

The problem is how do you do it?

This podcast will answer this question.

 

Remember Where You Are

* In professional environments there are only adults

* Adults are more than capable of looking after themselves

* Brief and Effective

 

This is….this is

* Ask the question, Introduce X to Y, and what do you hear?

* What is needed is Professional English – but why are we not taught this?

* This is….This is….

* A mother tongue professional should say this

 

Assume Nothing

* Biggest Mistake possible

* What is the worst that could happen?

 

First Names or Surnames

* British and Americans prefer first names

* If in doubt use surnames

 

The Etiquette of Gender and Seniority

* Women should be introduced to the other person first

* MsorMr

* The more senior person should be introduced to the other person