The quality of your company's written communications is a competitiveness issue.
Is your company's written communication with international clients as clear as it should be? Do members of your team who use English on a daily basis have a sufficient command of the principles of composition and style?
If you feel that your company's English language skills need a summertime brush-up, this half-day BPCC Academy course held in association with experts from Lacrosse Legal & Financial Translations is just the ticket. It focuses on getting across the key principles of clear written English.
Aimed at people for whom English is not their first language, the course sets out to explain the cultural differences that often lie at the heart of miscommunication, offering practical guidelines and do's and don'ts.
Taught by two experienced practitioners who are well-versed in using English within the Polish corporate setting, the course will give an overview of the essentials of clear written English. At the heart of the course will be a presentation of Lacrosse’s innovative Living Words concept for learning to communicate in English.
In business life we rely largely on a core of words we learnt long before starting work. But when working in English, it’s translating these high-frequency words that causes Poles most trouble.
Living Words starts from the presumption that non-native speakers do translate from their mother tongue, even if they are not aware of the fact (English courses tend to ignore this basic truth). The course takes a core of these everyday problem words (brakować, uzgodnić, wychodzić or zgadzać się, for instance) and shows how to express the ideas behind them in good English.
This course is a must for any Pole, regardless of profession, who works regularly in English and would like to master this core of everyday language.
Due to unprecedented demand for this popular course, the BPCC has had to repeat it a month later, with companies who sent people on the first edition hurrying to place staff on the second one - so please book promptly to avoid disappointment.
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The course tutors:
Jacek Koba, an expert in teaching written English of 20 years’ experience. Between 1998 and 2008 he was in-house editor at a Big Four accountancy firm, polishing the written English in the firm’s correspondence with clients. In 2002 he authored Tip of the Week, an anthology of his weekly language advice to colleagues. He has also taught business English at Nowy Sacz Business School as well as delivering corporate language training in Warsaw. Jacek has an MA in English from Maria Sklodowska Curie University in Lublin.
Michael Dembinski, born and educated in the UK, has been living, writing and teaching and translating into English in Poland for many years, in between promoting bilateral trade between Poland and the UK. He has a post-graduate diploma in journalism, and has edited the monthly magazine of the Confederation of British Industry for nine years. Since moving to Warsaw, he has taught English to lawyers and senior managers, and as well as translating into English, he corrects texts written by Polish authors.
