English for Work

Practical English for the situations you deal with at work

Choose a guide or course for meetings, emails, difficult conversations and pronunciation. Each one focuses on a specific problem, so you can start with the English you need most.

For non-native professionals who already use English at work.

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Start with the problem

What do you need help with at work?

Choose the workplace situation that causes you the most difficulty in English. Each guide gives you practical language you can prepare, adapt and use exactly when you need it.

Speak Up in Meetings 78 Workplace Emails Say No and Push Back Fix Misunderstandings Pronunciation Course

Find the words faster

Speak Up in Meetings

€17

You understand the discussion and know what you want to say, but finding the words quickly can be difficult.

Prepare useful English for the moments when you need to join the conversation, interrupt, buy time, ask a question, give your opinion or disagree.

Start speaking without waiting too long
Join fast-moving discussions and interrupt politely
Buy time when you need a moment to think
Ask for clarification and useful information
Give your opinion, disagree and raise concerns
Check decisions and next steps

The result: You go into the meeting with useful phrases ready to use. So when you want to speak, you already have the words you need. You don’t have to think about how to construct the sentence in English while other people are talking. You can join the discussion more quickly and say exactly what you want to say.

For face-to-face and online meetings.

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Stop rewriting every email

78 Workplace Emails

€19

You know what your email needs to say, but you’re not sure how direct, polite or formal it should sound in English.

Choose the email template closest to your situation, replace the details and adapt it to your work.

78 complete workplace email templates
Subject line, full message and closing included
Requests, reminders and follow-ups
Asking for help, information, approval or more time
Declining requests and writing careful refusals
Friendly, Neutral, Firm and Formal tone labels

The result: you have a complete email to work from instead of spending hours rewriting every sentence before you send it.

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Set limits without sounding blunt

Say No and Push Back Politely

€7

Someone asks you to take on more work, finish something sooner or agree to something immediately. You need to respond clearly without sounding rude or agreeing too quickly.

This guide gives you short replies you can use in conversations, calls, Teams and Slack.

Buy time before you agree
Say no when you do not have capacity
Challenge a deadline that does not work
Handle last-minute requests
Ask your manager to choose between priorities
Respond to work outside your role or agreed scope
Know what to say when the other person keeps pushing

The result: you can give a clear answer, explain what is possible and offer another option when there is one, without automatically saying yes.

For conversations, calls and work chats.

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Deal with difficult situations

Fix Misunderstandings in English

€9

Something was misunderstood, the wrong information was used or work has already started based on a misunderstanding.

This guide helps you explain what happened, correct the misunderstanding and make it clear what needs to happen next.

Stop the wrong action before it goes further
Explain briefly how the misunderstanding happened
Give the correct instruction, date, file or information
Take responsibility when the mistake was yours
Handle situations where the other person is already annoyed
Confirm what needs to happen next
Use complete replies for more difficult situations

The result: you can correct the problem and make the next step clear without over-apologising, blaming the other person or struggling to explain what went wrong.

See Fix Misunderstandings

All four guides are digital. You get access after purchase and can use them on your phone, tablet or computer.

Make your spoken English clearer

English Pronunciation Course

Work on the English sounds, word stress, sentence stress, rhythm and intonation that affect how clearly people understand you.

Follow structured lessons and practise the areas of pronunciation that are difficult for you. Use the course to improve your pronunciation for:

meetings and calls
presentations
conversations with colleagues and clients
everyday spoken English

The result: your speech becomes easier for other people to understand, and you spend less time repeating or correcting what you have said.

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The real teacher behind it

Practical English you can actually use

Harry has taught English and workplace English for more than 15 years.

His teaching focuses on the situations non-native speakers deal with in real life: finding the words quickly, choosing the right tone, understanding which expressions fit the situation and communicating clearly without making English more complicated than it needs to be.

The guides and courses are designed to give you English you can prepare, practise and use in your own work.

15+ years teaching English

Free 2-minute quiz

How would you handle these meeting situations in English?

Answer eight common meeting situations and check how you respond when you need to interrupt, clarify something, buy time, disagree or deal with other common meeting moments.

You’ll get your result and a free PDF with useful meeting phrases.

Test Your Meeting English

Start with what you need most

Choose the English that will help you at work

If meetings are the main problem, start with Speak Up in Meetings. If another situation is more important right now, choose the guide or course that matches it.

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