English Language Lab

English Language Lab

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Mini Courses

Learn at your own pace.

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Rachel Boyce
Jan 01, 2025
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The courses, and why they’re here

Weekly articles give you sparks. Monthly classes give you live practice.

The Mini Courses sit between the two: structured, focused, and designed to fix the specific things that hold intermediate learners back at work.

No certificates.

No assignments to submit.

No twelve-week commitments.

You work through them at your own pace, in any order, picking up whichever one you need this week.

What’s on the shelf right now

  • Public Speaking and Presenting. The one people ask for most. How to open, how to land a point, how to handle the bit where your brain goes blank in front of ten people.

  • Business Skills: Active Listening. The skill that makes you sound senior in meetings, even when you’re not. How to actually follow what’s being said, ask the question that moves things forward, and reflect back without parroting.

  • First Impressions: Meeting and Greeting. The first thirty seconds of any professional interaction, done properly. Phrases that work, phrases that don’t, and how to stop introducing yourself like a nervous teenager.

  • Common Mistakes: “-ed” and “-ing” Adjectives. The grammar slip that quietly marks you as a non-native speaker. “I’m bored” versus “I’m boring” is the famous one, but it goes deeper. Fix it once, keep it fixed.

  • Common Mistakes: “For” and “Since”. The time-reference mistake that trips up even advanced learners. Short, focused, and you’ll never get it wrong again.

  • Listening, Watch, Read, Write. A proper system for using the English you already consume (films, podcasts, articles) to actually improve your speaking. Most learners consume passively. This course shows you how to consume actively.

More courses on the way

These are the first six. More are being added regularly, always focused on the specific things that hold professional learners back rather than general “intermediate grammar” filler.

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