Speak English Like a Local Formula
What you'll learn
- Which elements in your approach to improving your spoken English skills so you will approach native-like. And how to do it!
- How to improve all aspects of your pronunciation so it will keep improving to the point you are satisfed with it.
- How to improve your expressive ability, so you can express what you mean clearly.
- How to improve your language structures so it will reflect the meaning you wish to convey.
- How to improve your confidence when you speak.
- What you need to do so you will be able to communicate confidently with anyone you need to.
Requirements
- Be able to speak with some fluency and accuracy already. Anybody with at least IELTS 6 to 8.5 Or TOEFL 70 to 115
- Need, interest AND desire to improve your speaking skills.
- This course is NOT about improving your knowledge. It is firmly focussed on improving all the skills necessary to substantially improve your spoken English. So that must be what you are seeking.
Description
This online course is designed for Professionals whose first language is not English and who have already achieved a good level of spoken skills but find that they feel they are still held back in how they speak and how they are understood.
Typically these people are employed professionals, or ones seeking employment. These people need to achieve an accomplished level of mastery to be able to fulfill their duties and perform at a standard they and their managers, colleagues and clients are satisfied with. Of course, there may be others for whom this course would be appropriate.
This course will not be teaching you grammar rules and basic pronunciation. We assume that at an intermediate to advanced level, which you will need to be at to enroll in this course, you have already achieved a certain level of competence in these areas. Of course you may still have gaps in your understanding as well as your skills. These will be addressed as holes that need repair, not teaching you from scratch. Though of course if that is needed, that can also be done.
More typically at these levels you may well be struggling to express what you have already learned in a way that is at an acceptable level and that sounds confident and relaxed. The reason for this is typically to do with the practices you use. Use ones that aren't fit for purpose, then guess what? So, what you will learn here are effective, tested practices that can positively help you get the results you are after.
Try it out and you will be surprised at what you can achieve.
Who this course is for:
- Professionals whose first language is not English and who have a need to speak English at a professional level. Typically, these kind of people have a need to be easily understood and not standout with pronunciation or expression that is too far from the norm. They also need to have the ability to express themselves clearly and precisely as well as have the ability to connect with those who they talk to.
- This course is intended for these professionals who either live in an English speaking country or have a need to communicate with English speaking professionals in their own country (not a n English speaking country) or through an online medium such as Zoom or direct phone calls.
- These people have been typically been learning and using English for a while and have either got to a level that they can't seem to move on from OR are just progressing too slowly.
Instructor
- 4.1 Instructor Rating
- 3 Reviews
- 1,011 Students
- 1 Course
Bio
Early on in my teaching of English as an additional language, I became very clear that most people seem to struggle to get to "high" levels of speaking despite having spent sometimes years in learning it. That always bewildered me as ALL of us mastered our first language and many people master many more later on. So why the struggle?
I have worked for over 40 years in the area of learning and teaching of languages. I have specialised in teaching English (and also training of teachers in this area). I have consistently sought answers to this conundrum and over time understood exactly why there is such a problem.
I tested my theories and practices with people from all works of all life, with varying levels of education (from literally no formal education to world-renowned experts in their own fields) in a number of languages (both as a learner and as a teacher).
I have now developed a hybrid online/coaching program for highly motivated learners who are driven to achieve a level of English that won't hold them back in their careers or lives. This program gets these people to the levels they need, as long as they follow the program!
Formal Qualifications
Bachelor of Economics ( Monash University)
Graduate Diploma of Teaching English as an Other Language (Deakin University)
Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics (The University of Melbourne)
Publications
Language Learning Unlocked ( How to dramatically improve your language learning) ISBN: 0-9872416-0-5
Language Memory Unlocked ( How to dramatically improve your memory for learning languages)
English Pronunciation Unlocked