Business English for IT and tech teams.
Many of my students work in tech: developers, CTOs, project managers, founders of software agencies. They usually know the technical vocabulary better than I do.
What's harder is everything around it, like explaining a delay to a client, pushing back on a deadline, running a meeting, or explaining a technical decision to someone who isn't technical at all.
The English that happens around the code.
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Stand-ups and team meetings
We practice giving a clear update in under a minute and jumping into a discussion without waiting for the perfect moment (it never comes).
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Clients and non-technical people
You'll learn to explain what you built and why it matters, without the jargon, to people who just want to know if it works.
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The difficult conversations
We practice saying no, negotiating scope and timelines, and explaining a bug or a missed estimate - politely, but clearly.
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Writing
We work on tickets, documentation, Slack messages and emails that are short and easy to understand on the first read.
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Moving into a lead role
When you go from writing code to leading people, the English changes too - you give more feedback, present more often, and spend more time convincing people.
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Your own mistakes
I write quizzes from the mistakes you make in class, so the corrections actually stick. Here's one I made for a CTO, one for an e-commerce developer, and one for a SaaS project manager.
I won't teach you what a pull request is, because you already know that. What I will do is make sure that when you explain one, or anything else, in English, people understand you the first time.
If your company has a training budget, I can invoice your employer directly. If you want to warm up on your own, try the daily stand-ups and negotiating scope and timing topics in my warm-ups.
- Ben
Three steps, and the first one is free.
- Book your free 30 minutes
Tell me about your role, your team, and where English slows you down.
- We plan around your work
We build the classes around your meetings, your clients and your projects instead of generic textbook topics.
- Practice
Classes are 1-on-1 on Google Meet and cost $50 for 60 minutes. Every correction goes into our shared class document.
Work in tech? Let's talk about your team.
Book your free 30 minutes and tell me about your role, your team, and the calls you dread the most.
Book your free 30 minutes After that, classes are $50 for 60 minutes. See how classes work