Business English

Do you want to feel confident with your English at work?

Book your FREE introduction session today

Improve your business English and excel in your workplace with our private or group English classes. Our experienced business English teachers, with corporate backgrounds, create bespoke materials to get the best out of you, boost your self-confidence and prepare you to use English effectively in the workplace.

All industries, professions, backgrounds and levels

Following an introduction session, our teachers work with you to create a learning plan specific to your English needs. Class activities vary depending on industry, job position and individual objectives. Examples include presentations, open conversations, debates and role-plays.

You’ll get full access to all our online supporting courses too!

Zoom

Empower your employees to feel confident using English in the workplace with our bespoke in-company group classes with a native British English teacher.

Group classes take place on Zoom with a recommended class size of up to 6 students. Level tests ensure students have similar English abilities and a private dashboard tailored to each group ensures students are up to date with course details. Discounted prices for group classes available. 

FAQs

After booking your introduction class above, you’ll receive an email with a Zoom link. You can click on this link to access the class at your booked time. You can easily reschedule or cancel this session using links sent to you via email. 

You don’t need to prepare anything for your introduction session. It’s a chance for us to see your English level, understand your goals and English and discuss the logistics of timetable and payments. It is your chance to ask us any questions about how we teach, including our methodology and materials. 

That’s completely up to you! You can choose to have a daily, bi-weekly or weekly class. All private students must have a minimum of 4 hours per month, with the exception of the first calendar month, in case you wish to start in the middle of the month. 

We have a 24 hour cancellation policy. Any classes cancelled with more than 24 hours’ notice from the starting time of the class will be cancelled and you will have the chance to reschedule this class. Any classes cancelled within 24 hours of the starting time of the class will be charged at full price with no refunds available and no possibility to reschedule.

No. At the end of each calendar month, you can decide whether to continue another month. We will reserve your scheduled classes 2 months in advance in the hope that you will continue with us. This ensures your teacher will be available for you and this time won’t be taken up by other learners. 

At Virtually Fluent, we recognise the British public holidays as bank holidays. If your class falls on a public holiday, the class will be cancelled and you can reschedule it with your teacher. If your class falls on a local public holiday, you must inform your teacher at the beginning of that calendar month to rearrange the class.

Yes, we’re more than happy to invoice companies directly. We have experience registering as suppliers for companies and can provide all necessary documentation.

You can keep track of your booked classes on your account, where all Zoom links can be found too. We also send email confirmations for each class.

We provide a 15-minute waiting window at the beginning of each class. If you don’t appear in the online class within the first 15 minutes, the class will be automatically cancelled with no refund available.

Yes. You can send your teacher emails, presentations, documents or anything you wish to review or discuss. Any information sent to your teacher will be in the strictest confidentiality and anything sent to your teacher via our website will be protected by our privacy policy: https://virtually-fluent.com/privacy-policy-and-cookie-consent/.

Each student will have a personal Google Drive folder shared only between yourself and your teacher. Your teacher will summarise each class and upload all materials used in class to your folder so you can easily access all your materials. All private class learners receive full access to our supporting grammar and vocabulary courses too. These can be accessed on our website. 

Yes. Zoom is our main communication tool, but we can arrange alternatives if Zoom is not available for you including Skype, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams, Whatsapp and Facetime video or audio calls. You can discuss this with us in your introduction session.