Corporate Learning Service: Core Learning System

Comprehensive courses develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills for learners at all levels, true beginner through advanced.

• The business English courses focus on practical business English, covering global business issues and introducing learners to common business language that they will use in their daily business interactions.
• Personal feedback and progress information help learners track their studies and include suggestions for extra practice, when needed.
• A course progress test at the end of each course assesses understanding and overall mastery of the key learning points from the course.
• An offline study option allows learners to download an assignment and work on it without an Internet connection.

The Business Skills Courses include challenging, topic-based simulations that prepare learners to participate in conversations with business associates.

• The courses focus on common business situations, including negotiations, telephoning, meetings, and business socializing.
• The realistic conversations allow learners to master practical business expressions and understand differences in tone and appropriateness.
• To prepare for the simulation, learners can study the specific phrases and expressions, hear a sample conversation, and complete focused listening and speaking practice activities.

The GlobalEnglish Mobile Learning Network™ provides business-focused audio and video podcasts that can be downloaded to a portable media player for on-the-go learning.

• Exclusive focus on English for business emphasizes language in highly relevant contexts: meetings, presentations, sales, telephoning, customer service, business writing, and much more.
• Supplemental learning material includes study notes, targeted phrase practice and online exercises.
• Content is easily searchable by topic, skill level, and media type.
• New podcasts are added weekly.

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Online conversation classes for all levels—beginner through advanced—are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

• The classes offer an exciting opportunity to practice speaking with a teacher and other learners.
• Teachers provide helpful feedback during class and encourage active participation to help learners improve their conversation skills.
• Each 55-minute class is based on a weekly business topic, with open classes available as well for learners to ask specific questions or interact with other learners in a more unstructured environment.

Skill Centers contain additional targeted practice activities to strengthen listening, speaking, pronunciation, and grammar skills.

• The Listening Center provides a variety of activities to help learners practice and improve their listening skills to increase their ability to understand spoken English and participate effectively in conversations.
• The Speaking Center gives learners the opportunity to sharpen their conversation skills for a variety of situations.
• The Pronunciation Center builds learners' confidence and fluency by developing their ability to accurately produce the individual sounds of English and helping them improve their rhythm and intonation.
• The Grammar Center provides a topic index with access to the hundreds of grammar activities from the GlobalEnglish courses.

GlobalEnglish Magazine provides reading practice with authentic material from a variety of worldwide media sources.

• Articles focus on business, world events, and popular culture and can be read at the appropriate level: beginner, intermediate, or advanced.
• Each article includes a discussion question to encourage learners to think critically about the information they've read.
• The magazine features a business word of the day, providing translation, definition, a sample sentence, and audio for a new word or phrase each day.