Business English Course

Business English isn't a separate language from general English so much as a specific register, and the difference shows up in fairly concrete ways: email tone that's polite but not overly formal, negotiation phrasing that hedges and softens directly stated positions ("I'd like to propose" rather than "I want"), and presentation structure that front-loads the key point rather than building up to it, which is closer to how English-language business communication generally works than how many other professional cultures structure a talk.

Tutors typically work from real material you actually need to produce or respond to — a draft email you're stuck on, an upcoming negotiation, slides for a presentation — rather than a fixed set of templates, since the same generic phrase ("Please find attached...") can read as perfectly normal in one industry and stiff in another.

Vocabulary work tends to focus on precision: the difference between phrasing that sounds confident versus arrogant, or diplomatic versus evasive, is a matter of specific word choice that's hard to learn from a phrasebook. Negotiation and meeting language gets particular attention, since interrupting politely, disagreeing without derailing a conversation, and steering a discussion back on topic are skills with fairly specific English phrasing conventions that don't always translate directly from other languages or business cultures.

If you're preparing for a specific scenario — a client call, a performance review, a conference talk — mention it when requesting a tutor so sessions work from that material directly rather than general business vocabulary. Written and spoken register often need slightly different treatment too, since an email can be revised before sending while a meeting or call requires the phrasing to work in real time.