Services
Conversation Coaching
For various reasons, English language learners may have few opportunities to practice speaking English in everyday life. When a skill is not used regularly, it weakens. Conversation coaching provides the opportunity to practice your spoken English, face-to-face with a native speaker. This method enables continuous feedback to the student, so you know immediately what you are doing correctly and what needs to improve.
With conversation coaching, you will learn to communicate like an American, discuss American cultural topics and customs, use formal and casual styles, learn body language, idioms, phrasal verbs, and more. Conversation coaching will improve your speaking confidence, which will increase your willingness and desire to communicate in English. When you are able to speak a language with confidence, you are more likely to interact with people and share your thoughts, ideas, and opinions. This enables you to connect more effectively with the English speakers you encounter every day.
Accent Reduction
English spoken with a particularly heavy accent can be a barrier to communication. If native English speakers experience difficulty understanding your speech, your accent may be causing confusion. Accent reduction training can eliminate this problem by teaching you detailed vowel and consonant sounds, correct syllable and word stress, proper intonation and rhythm, how to avoid common mistakes, and more.
The goal of accent reduction training is for you to be more easily understood by native English speakers. With a lighter accent, you will experience improved communication with coworkers, business associates, customers, teachers and professors, and people you meet every day.
Vocabulary Building
English is a wonderful language in that it enables you to express exactly what you wish, often in multiple ways, using different words. To effectively utilize this power, you must possess a strong vocabulary. However, it is insufficient merely to know individual word definitions. Context, associations, common usage, and formality must be understood.
People form perceptions of you based upon your speech. A strong vocabulary is important to make the best impression possible. Business, academics, and professional and personal relationships all benefit from a strong vocabulary.
Grammar Workshop
Grammar is the set of structural rules and patterns of use that govern a language. To facilitate detailed and meaningful communication in any language, its grammar must be studied and understood. While it is possible to achieve a survival level of competency in a language by memorizing a number of words and phrases, mastery of a language cannot be obtained without a thorough knowledge of its grammar. By studying grammar, you will greatly improve your ability to speak and write well.