Speak English Professionally: In Person, Online & On the Phone
Do you want to speak better English? This course will help you reach that goal. Speak English Professionally: In person, Online and On the Phone will boost your English speaking skills. In this 5 week course, you will learn how to identify and make a strong personal introduction. You will develop and demonstrate the speaking skills for group discussions: how to agree or disagree, how to clarify, restate and summarize. You will review and practice how to give information and respond to requests on the phone. You will study and role play effective interviewing. You will prepare and give a sales “pitch”, introducing a product or service. Throughout the course, you will adjust how you speak English and you will become more fluent and accurate when you speak. You will demonstrate culturally appropriate body language and tone. As you work through the course, you will complete self- and peer-evaluations. Through a combination of lectures, comprehension and vocabulary quizzes, practice and performance, you’ll gain the skills and confidence to communicate well in English, anywhere in the world.
By the end of this course you will:
• Change how you speak English
• Improve your pronunciation and fluency
• Increase your English vocabulary
• Identify how culture influences your speech
• Use culture to help you speak correctly
• Demonstrate the best body language for different cultural settings
• Know statements, questions and responses for different settings and situations
Status: Public Speaking
Public Speaking
Status: Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Course·16 hours
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MA
5.0·Reviewed Dec 9, 2020
Thank you for the valuable opportunity to participate in this course. Lectures were very useful and easily understandable. Thank you again for the lecturers for their work.Best RegardsM.Arshadh
JB
5.0·Reviewed May 17, 2020
It was a good course and I enjoyed this course by doing assignments and all the videos were very much clear and examples were so helpful for understanding the topic in a better way... Thank you
AR
5.0·Reviewed Jul 2, 2020
It increases my confidence level very much.i learnt alot about word stress and intonation throughout the whole course . And the instructor's speaking is so much clear. Thank you very much🥰🥰🥰
BS
5.0·Reviewed Aug 31, 2020
I enjoyed while doing this course . I leart how to speak in the office and phone converstions . Mostly i understood that in small sentance only the matter should convey to the oppposite person
AS
4.0·Reviewed Jun 17, 2020
I had a great experience taking this Course. This Course is well structured and designed especially for beginners to improve their fluency in English speaking and taking it to a new level.
MY
4.0·Reviewed Aug 6, 2019
I really appreciate this course. This course is crucial for students and for professional (beginners). However the most important thing is, those links which are shared in reading sections.
SE
5.0·Reviewed Aug 15, 2019
really I'm very enthusiastic in this course , the instructor gives me an important information which I didn't heard before , I'm very glade to this .thank to my instructor and thanks coursera <3
DP
5.0·Reviewed Apr 8, 2023
An excellent course to develop good communication skills.There were many things I didn't knew. Like word stress and intonation and how elevator speech can change one's life.Thankyou so much
RG
4.0·Reviewed Dec 13, 2021
perhaps if you add more exercises where I could practice more my pronunciation or put me in some situations which are quite similar to reality, that will improve easier and quicker my skills I think.
AE
4.0·Reviewed Apr 9, 2020
I was very happy taking this course , I have learned a lot of things and the assignments were very good practice of the language, thank you for this opportunity to have a such experience here!
VR
5.0·Reviewed May 9, 2020
This course is really amazing. The assessments make it more fun to do and use what you learnt in the module to actually practice and get peers review about it. Really love it. THANK YOU COURSERA.
SM
5.0·Reviewed Jan 27, 2020
I had a great experience taking in this class. It's very easy to understand and practical. In every week I have learned more and more and it helps me improve my speaking a lot. Thank you so much.
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Amber van den Hil
1.0
·Reviewed May 13, 2016
In my opinion this course does not teach you to 'speak English professionally', but it teaches you to 'learn how to speak English'. I was looking for a course that would teach me how to write professional emails and have professional phone conversations, like which words I should use, what common sentences are or how to build up professional sentences. I am a bit disappointed and think this course was a waste of time for me. This is really meant for people that are learning to speak English and don't know how to pronounce words or how to respond to people in a really easy way.
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Samiur Rahman
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 27, 2017
This is a great course. I really learned a lot of things. And the instructions and teaching methods are easy to follow. I recommend it everyone who wants to improve their professional English skills.
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bar363363
1.0
·Reviewed Jun 16, 2016
It's a mix of too much basic and irrelevant tips from different realms: pronounced english (which, in my opinion could be a great course of it's own), public speeking (only the basic of how to deliver which can be sum up to one page) and how to interact with other people (like how to say you are agree or disagree??? I strongly believe that if a person can understand those videos, I'm pretty sure that he knows that 5-years-old-extremly-basic-stuff).
As much I like this concept of coursera, "speak english professionally" or even "speak english" is really a big statement for that course. Actually, from what it seems, the main point of that course is to get the students to purchase the full package of courses that the Georgia Tech Language Institude is offering. If you really like to know a great course that relates to the topic, I strongly advise you to check out the course "Public Speaking" by Dr. Matt McGarrity here at coursera. Best of luck.
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Samar Samah Abd Elbaqi
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 16, 2019
really I'm very enthusiastic in this course , the instructor gives me an important information which I didn't heard before , I'm very glade to this .
thank to my instructor and thanks coursera <3
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Varsha Rathore
5.0
·Reviewed May 9, 2020
This course is really amazing. The assessments make it more fun to do and use what you learnt in the module to actually practice and get peers review about it. Really love it.
THANK YOU COURSERA.
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Nirjo Marak
5.0
·Reviewed May 3, 2020
I've benefited a lot by pursuing this course. Small pronunciation and word stress has been cleared. I would suggest non-English speakers to take up this course to enhance their English language skill.
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Aditya Kumar
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 18, 2016
i liked the way the instructor took forward the course. She conducted the course in almost the same way what she was teaching, she was a live demonstration of all the concepts taught
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Suchada M
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 28, 2020
I had a great experience taking in this class. It's very easy to understand and practical. In every week I have learned more and more and it helps me improve my speaking a lot. Thank you so much.
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Ana Ivkov
1.0
·Reviewed Feb 20, 2019
It’s impossible to cancel the subscription, which is too much to begin with. It’s impossible to reach anyone. There is no customer service reps who can help out. It was one big hassle. You should do something about your customer service, it’s horrible. I’m sorry for being this negative but that’s the fact.
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Anand Kakani
1.0
·Reviewed Apr 12, 2016
Way too elementary.
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GVS ANANTA LAKSHMI
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 5, 2020
very useful. i liked and enjoyed the journey of learning in these five weeks. the instructor is very clear and taught very interestingly. Thanks to her. she looked poised and cheerful and professional
2.0
·Reviewed Jul 5, 2016
The course is great but beginners but not for intermediate and advance learners. I must appreciate Coursera for providing free courses. Thank you
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Lara Alhalaby
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 6, 2019
Although I have been teaching English for more than two years, this course has indeed improved my speaking skill to have more natural and fluently no matter what the situation is.
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Haris Siddiqui
1.0
·Reviewed Dec 12, 2017
I was hoping alot from this course. But it contains so basic things only.
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Nityasri sumathi
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 18, 2020
I would recommend this course to everybody.I learnt a lot in this course.This course boosted my confidence in speaking English. This course was really helpful to improve my fluency and pronunciation
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AJ Zissler
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 19, 2017
This course is one of the most relevant and superb Coursera offerings I have taken recently. I teaching business English online to professionals and managers with multinational corporations around the globe. Since my lesson content includes all of the communication activities in this course ---- I was able to enhance my own knowledge and expertise to benefit our private sector clients. I learned new strategies which greatly improved my expertise. Thank you! We hope Coursera continues to offer such a top notch course.
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Marta Rodriguez
1.0
·Reviewed Jun 13, 2016
I was expecting something else, very basic information.
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Minh Nguyen
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 26, 2019
Very great program for ESL learner at intermediate level. I am looking for something at higher level. However, I found your course was very interesting. I have learned new communication skills for the very first time. Something that I thought I have already knew it. I will introduce your class to my international friends. Wish you all the best and your succeed in this program.
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Ghada Abdelaal Elsaman
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 20, 2019
This course was really helpful to me.It taught me a lot about talking on phone.It attracted my attention to the right pronunciation of number ,can and can't.Through this course I learned how to make a professional presentation with its main parts.I appreciate this course and many thanks to its staff .
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Rodrigo Silva De Oliveira
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 18, 2019
The course is really useful as a source of information for you to explore. Some of the explanations especially on the rhythm of English and sentence stress was really good. I recommended it to all my students. Thank you, professors!
