Business English tutors

Business English is sold as a level, above intermediate and below fluent, which is the wrong shape. It is a set of specific situations, and almost nobody needs all of them. The meeting where you have to interrupt without sounding rude. The email that says no and keeps the relationship. The presentation where the slides carry half the work. The call where somebody's accent is new to you. A person can be excellent at three of those and lost in the fourth. So the first useful thing is to look honestly at your own week. If your job is almost entirely written, paying for conversation drills is buying the wrong subject, and you will feel the waste around month three. If you are on calls all day and your writing goes through a colleague anyway, the reverse. Say which it is at the start, in plain terms, and be specific about the situation rather than the skill. The second thing is what to bring. Coursebooks teach a generic office that resembles nobody's. A real email thread with the names removed, a deck you actually presented, the minutes of a meeting you found hard to follow: an hour spent on those is worth three on invented material, because the vocabulary of your industry and the habits of your particular colleagues are most of the difficulty. Meeting in person suits this, since you are usually working through printed documents together. The first lesson is free, so bring something real to it.