Language and Communication Training

I work with clients from all different professions and show them how to communicate clearly and effectively in any situation.

I listen to concerns, make observations, and take time to fully understand the issue. Then we go to work, investigating every area of problematic communication and making it better.

My background is in finance and applied linguistics. I've spent the last ten years preparing candidates for high-stakes English exams so my attention to detail skills are finely tuned and I ensure each project is organized and highly focused.

All of these courses are great for groups and learning with friends is much more fun.

If you'd like to organize a course for your small group (4-8 people works best), let me know and we can plan the details together.

"I've really enjoyed our lessons and feel like they've been helping my speaking a lot. I also really like the way you run the sessions and how encouraging your teaching style is. I always feel a lot more confident speaking after our lessons"

""Everyone's talking to everyone else a lot more. The level of general communication in the lab has really improved. I can't believe how much I'm learning. I thought it would be sessions for ESL speakers but it's not. I'm learning so much that I didn't know existed."

"Every time that I was down, you appeared on my screen with your big smile, saying that everything will be okay and you know how to fix that problem. And that gave me a lot of confidence."

"I want to be able to gather my thoughts quickly and join in discussions.I don't want them to think I'm the foreigner sitting quietly in the corner that can't speak English properly."

I offer all seriously interested clients a free 30-minute video consultation.

"I use AI for writing. I don't need to worry. AI will do it for me."

Well, apart from the moral, ethical, and environmental concerns about that statement, there's another important point about using AI for writing that you need to understand.

AI destroys your idiolect.

Your idiolect is your own personal language style. It's so unique that there's a whole branch of forensic linguistics devoted to tracking criminals based on the way they use language. When you write something, you use your own writing style. Even if you don't notice it, other people do.

AI writing is vague, imprecise, and needs to be edited so that it sounds human. AI writing is really obvious. If you continue to use AI for writing, you won't develop your style so that writing gets easier. You'll ending up losing your idiolect while producing generic statements that nobody wants to read. Also, if you need to heavily edit every single bit of text that AI produces, it will probably take as much time as writing it from scratch. Graphic designers hired to correct AI slop are currently experiencing this.

If you can think clearly, and you know what you want to say, you can write well. It's not a mystery. I've been helping people to learn how to write for many years and I can help you too.