Language & Culture: Where do you come from? Where did you grow up and what is your native language? Why would you like to learn a foreign language now? Talk to your online coach about your experiences and learn the most important vocabulary related to language and culture.
City & Surroundings: What city do you currently live in? What do you like about it and where do you enjoy hanging around? Tell your online coach about your daily living environment and boost your confidence in this topic.
Public Transport & Travel: How do you get from A to B on a daily basis? Do you take the underground or do you tend to walk or cycle more? This session will provide you with important building blocks for talking about transport in your chosen language.
Giving Directions & Orientation Asking for directions and orientation in public areas are essential building blocks for everyday life. That’s why this session will teach you all the most important questions to ask for directions so you’ll always know what way to go.
Shopping at the Supermarket: In this session, you’ll practice shopping at supermarkets and markets. Communicate at the till and ask where you can find things. Our coach will help you master your next shopping trip.
At a Restaurant: How do you order at a restaurant and what do you need to watch out for? When do you leave a tip and how do you ask for a recommendation? If you like to eat out every once in a while, then this session will let you practice ordering and everything else you need to know for your trip to a restaurant.
Hobbies: Naturally, you’ll want to talk about what you like doing and your hobbies in a foreign language. This will help you meet new people. Practice telling people about your hobbies with your coach. As ever, our coach will make up an individual vocabulary list tailored to you and your hobbies.
Sport and Leisure: How do you keep fit? What sports do you like watching on TV? Which sports personalities inspire you and how fast can you run 5 kilometers? This session is all about sports and leisure and your coach will get you “fit” for talking about sport in your language.
Friends and Family: What is the most important vocabulary for talking about friends and family? How do I tell others about my friends and how do I introduce them to people? This session will teach you everything about the most important thing in life: friends and family.
Your Next Holiday: We all enjoy chatting about this subject – where are you going on your next holiday? Where have you already been and what fascinated you about the places? Chat with your coach in this session and learn all the most important holiday and travel vocab.
The Weather: It’s the Germans’ favourite subject. What’s tomorrow’s weather going to be like here and can we expect a hot summer? After this session, you’ll understand the weather forecast and you’ll be able to talk to people about all kinds of weather. It’ll be a real icebreaker in small-talk.
At the Doctor’s or Pharmacy: If you live abroad, you’ll have to visit a doctor or a pharmacist at some point and you’re going to have to tell them what you need. In this session, you’ll learn everything you need to know for your next doctor’s visit with your coach.
Your CV: Talk to your coach about your CV and learn how to explain its individual sections. Your coach will also touch upon your individual professional experiences and point out the most important vocabulary for explaining your CV in your language.
Job Interviews: You’ll need to be able to do more than just talk about your CV if you want to ace a job interview. Practice demonstrating your own self-confidence in a job interview with your coach and go over all the questions you might be asked. This will help you make seem professional in a job interview.
Sales Pitches and Customer Talk: Is interacting with customers part of your daily business and do you sometimes have to sell things to them? Then train your sales skills with your coach and polish your perfect sales technique. This session will address your individual needs.
Receiving Guests and Greeting Customers: Everybody knows that first impressions count. This isn’t just true of your native language. The same goes for conversations in any foreign language. If you ever have to receive customers or guests in a professional context then you can make your performance more professional with this session.
Price Negotiations: If you managed to tick the right boxes during a sales pitch, the next thing you’ll need is to be able to agree on a price. To do this, you’ll need to know how to talk about numbers, discounts and reductions and use all the technical terms with ease. Practice how to successfully negotiate prices in this session.
Handling Complaints: Unfortunately, things don’t always run smoothly in professional life. Now and then, you have to make complaints so that you can improve things for your business. But how do you make a professional complaint in a foreign language? This session will teach you everything you need to know about complaints. PS: This session is also helpful in your personal life!
Salary Negotiations: If your CV manages to impress and your interview goes well, you’ll have to negotiate your pay. Many employees associate this time with pressure and tension. It’s difficult to express yourself in a foreign language at times like this. That’s why your coach will practice dealing with these situations with you so that you get the best results out of your next price negotiation.
Delivering Presentations: Presenting your results to customers, colleagues and superiors is an essential part of professional life. To be able to illustrate your results professionally, you’ll need to be able to deliver a presentation confidently. You’ll practice this in this session. If you don’t have any presentations coming up, your coach will go through all the relevant points with you and fine tune your skills.
Discussing Legal Matters: Talking about contracts or other legal matters can even be hard for advanced speakers because the language used is so different from everyday speech. Therefore, your coach will use this session to teach you the most important basic rules so that you can talk about legal topics too.
Accounts and Billing: Do you need to deal with finances in your professional life and discuss accounting matters and get yourself up to speed with them? Then learn all the most important accounting and billing-related words so that you can talk about them professionally.
