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Business Builder - Tuesdays
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Blog Topics
Business Builder: Why Language is Important in Advertising
You might think that advertising in another language is easy; it's just about getting a good translation, right? Well, not really. If you translate adverts from your language into English, without thinking about tone and culture, you will find your ads looking like my examples pictured here - scary and inappropriate…
Business Builder: Being a Good Doctor in Great Britain and Ireland
Are you a doctor in Great Britain or Ireland? Perhaps (maybe) you are a doctor in another country but you want to move to the UK or Ireland. Wonderful! We need your expertise and experience, and I want to thank you for helping people everywhere you go. I would just like to share some information about important cultural expectations where I live, and how to help you be the kind of doctor that people here really need.
Business Builder: New Business English Grammar Quiz Available!
Business English grammar quizzes are back! Well, one of them is back. Wright English is a one-person business so please be patient with me.
Business Builder: Describing Upward Trends in Graphs
There is so much vocabulary for describing trends in visuals like graphs and charts, that we are looking at different trends each week. This is also a great article for people preparing for their IELTS as this is the vocabulary you will need for the academic writing portion if you take this version.
Business Builder: Why Trusting ChatGPT with All of Your Business English Isn’t Smart
At this point, the majority of businesses already use AI to reduce their menial (simple unskilled) workloads, and one of the most common uses for AI is helping businesses check their business English materials. But with all this increase in AI usage, have any problems or patterns been made clear? Yes, many.
Business Builder: What Do You Want From IELTS Training?
There are plenty of companies and individuals out there offering some kind of IELTS preparation course online or face-to-face; this is nothing new. I’m not interested in offering what everyone else does though. I want to know what you can’t find, what you wish was available, and how you want to prepare for IELTS.
Business Builder: Warning Signs of a Bad Business English Teacher Part 2
More warning signs that your Business English teacher is a bad teacher, all from my life experience and years of teaching around Europe.
Business Builder: Warning Signs of a Bad Business English Teacher Part 1
I taught Business English for years to companies like Siemens, Bayer, DHL, and even the local government of North Rhein Westphalia when I lived in Germany. In that time I had a lot of experience meeting people in different industries, different jobs inside those industries, and even different kinds of specialist scientists…
Business Builder: English for the Arts
Whether you are an actor, a screenwriter, a director, a voice artist, or a performance poet, Wright English has something to offer you in English for the Arts.
Business Builder: Business English for Banking
Business English is a passport (travel document) to the English-speaking world, and each sector (job area you work in) has different vocabulary, skills, and grammar. Let’s take a look at Business English for Banking.
Business Builder: Supporting Your Customers and Sounding Like You Care
You might be thinking, “Sounding like we care? Of course we care about our customers!” Let me ask you, when you are on the phone to customer services, listening to someone read the same script for the 3000th time, do you feel like the representative cares? I’m going to guess the answer is “no”.
Business Builder: Making Christmas Time Office Greetings Easy
I’m extremely happy to tell you that the modern workplace is a multicultural environment, which means most people have colleagues from other cultures and parts of the world. Wonderful! The problem is, that when it comes to Christmas time in a traditionally Christian country, people are not sure what to say.
Business Builder: Translations of Corporate Jargon
The most important part of speaking English is being understood, and that is especially important when you are speaking English for Business. There’s no point giving your team instructions in a language they don’t speak.
Business Builder: How to Make Reports More Interesting to Read in English
No matter how advanced your English is, it can be a real challenge to make paperwork interesting to read. It is especially difficult to do when English is your second language. So, I’m here to give you some very simple tips that will help you create paperwork people want to read.
Business Builder: Is My Business Contact in the USA / UK Being Impolite?
If you are a business person and you are experienced with talking to mostly British or American contacts, you might ask yourself this question sometimes: Are they being impolite to me?
Business Builder: Conditionals for Politeness
In many business cultures across the world, if you need something or want to offer something you can simply say, “I need this”…
Business Builder: Can I Learn Business English from a Book?
It is natural to want to improve your Business English skills with learning materials designed for your business. Unfortunately, there is a limit…
Business Builder: Good British English Job Interview Behaviour
How should you behave when your new boss could be British English?
Business Builder: Business English services for Cartoonists and Illustrators
My business, Wright English, offers two services designed especially for cartoonists, and illustrators…
Business Builder: Business English for Construction
As a construction worker or builder, you might think you don’t need excellent English…