Maximize the Learning of English as a Second Language

Program Title: English as a Second Language (ESL) / English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)

Brief Summary:

This program is designed to increase the proficiency and competency of the individual in using English as a Second Language for a day-to-day activities for daily living in an English speaking country or setting.  It provides meaningful action oriented, results driven, learning experiences that are applicable in any setting of business, relationships and daily transactions.

Do you know your level of proficiency when speaking in English? 
The following mock-up descriptions will give you a self-identifying level which make you feel the need of learning additional proficiency or not.

Mock-Up Description of  Conversational English Proficiency
Level 1	Searching for words or think a long time about the correct words to say when sharing information or speaking with another English speaker
Level 2	Can say basic utterances, gambits and information but very limited in a free flowing conversation with another English speaker
Level 3	Can handle an average conversation but limited in expanding thoughts and ideas
Level 4	Can express oneself easily, expand thoughts and ideas, and demonstrate adequate supply of vocabulary to use and can engage into a long topical conversations
Level 5	Speaks like a native English speaker, uses various expressions that are common in everyday living, at informal or formal setting, in private or business environments.

Philosophy:

The Whole Language influences the intent of anyone who likes to learn, improve and gain proficiency in using English as a Second Language. This will create the experience of a meaningful exchange of discussions, verbal interactions within a professional or personal environments, performing a job or searching a new job, like a native speaker of English.

Approach:
Our experienced American Mentors / Coaches / Trainers use techniques that overcome the identified difficulties of the Learner and must match it with the current level of proficiency. These various learning approaches will sustain results through interactive, effective, easy-to-experience with realistic impact to identified difficulties. Activities will change progressively in order to support the growing level of proficiency which results to demonstrable skills and effectiveness.

Components:

Twelve Modular Sessions of two hours each
Intensive Program Participation
Continuing Progress Proficiency Evaluation
Competency Demonstration + COC

Overview of Scope:
Item	Description
1	Learning to use mechanisms for effective conversations
2	English structures that demonstrate results in speaking, writing, comprehension and cultural implications use
3	Techniques in articulating one's ideas with clarity
4	Topical meaningful conversations with friends and colleagues
5	Utterance modification to influence listeners and specific audience
6	Sensible conversations that are meaningful

(Note: Specific sessions are customized to the identified level of difficulties)

Curriculum Terms and Fee Schedule:

1. Tuition Fees are pre-paid 

2. 2:12  Intensive and interactive Sessions

3. Customized class topics based on learner's assessed proficiency

4. Class type: 1/1 tutorial, dyad, or clusters of 4, max of 8 class

5. Learner's Centered: Whole Language Approach and Results-oriented Methodologies

6. Cancellation: 48 hours' Notice

After completing this class:

- acquired handy techniques in speaking fluently

- gained an intermediate to advanced proficiency in Business English

- assimilated better communication skills with correct use of grammatical functions in both conversational speaking and writing, including culture and social implications of the English language within business or personal settings.

American Coach Background:

Over 20 years of experience in teaching English Language Courses (basic to advanced curricula) among college students, adults and young adults, ESL/ESOL students from many countries like Vietnam, Japan, S. Korea, the Philippines, China, Mexico, France and other non-English speaking countries. Career professional in both private and public environments. Have worked with clients in over 40 countries. Students acquired better opportunities in career and living after speaking English fluently.

Coached, trained and tutored business professionals whose mother tongue is not English. These include multinational executives, employees and their family members. Demonstrated English proficiency was helpful in the performance of their duties and responsibilities within an English speaking country.

For more details and information, please call +1 360 312 4300  or send an email to: IdeasNConversations

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1. Name:

2. Telephone:

3. Email Address:

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We like to hear from you or from your friends who may be interested to participate in any of the programs that we conduct.

Easter Sunday is a Cultural Renewal and Celebration Among Christians

The Lenten Season begins from Ash Wednesday and it will end with a Joyous Easter Sunday, particularly in the Catholic Faith.  Catholic devotees flock into churches during the Passion Week from Holy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday Vigil up to Easter Sunday to commemorate the passion of Jesus Christ up to his Resurrection on Easter Sunday.

Good Friday - Commemorating the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ:

credit: Theophanes_the_Cretan, 16th Century

Receiving the Holy Light - Saturday Vigil 

credit: Maggas @en.wikipedia

"Because the new liturgical day begins at sunset, the vigil begins between sunset on Holy Saturday and sunrise on Easter Sunday outside the church, where an Easter fire is kindled and the Paschal candle is blessed and then lit. This Paschal candle will be used throughout the season of Easter, remaining in the sanctuary of the church or near the lectern, and throughout the coming year at baptisms and funerals, reminding all that Christ is "light and life.""

A Blessed Easter:

Christians across the globe celebrate Easter Sunday, where the replica of the cross that Jesus was crucified on and his resurrection are important symbols of Christian Faith. Many Americans and cultures across the world illustrate their celebratory events with decorated real eggs, chocolate eggs, materials that are made of rabbits, lambs, and or hares. Stores carry various forms of chocolates and candies in the shape of an egg.. Abundance of Easter Lilies are also available in many supermarkets and flower shops. And many designs of Easter cakes across bake shops. Easter is one of the most vibrant celebrations during the Spring Season in the United States.

Skype Conversations on Cultural Implications in Communication and Business

Our next Skype Session and Conversation is now open 

What to do: (follow direction below)

• Register your slot immediately to participate. 
• Slots are limited to impact engaging conversations and learning.  
• Will chat with you then.

For additional information, please call +1 (650) 241-3207 or email us at: info@ideasnconversations.com 

Ethnicity and Competency Create an Effective English Speaker

Your English proficiency can always be improved at best.  Regardless of your ethnic origin you will gain proficiency when you empower yourself. Thousands of books have been written about this, thousands of educators have been teaching in schools.  Thousands of individuals desire to speak effortlessly like the native English speakers do.

There are realities about English Proficiency and Competency. One needs to understand that English Speaking is not only based on the way “Americans” or “English (UK Citizens)” “Canadians” or “Australians” speak.  Everyone regardless of country and rich ethnic origin, English is a language that can be spoken or written. However, one must note that each individual from various countries has cultural uniqueness that influences the way English is spoken.

By demonstrating the competency in English speaking regardless of your ethnic origin and accent is the most essential. Having the English language as the means of effective and clear communication is an equally important function that majority missed when reacting to differing sounds of English speakers. A respectable Linguist, Noam Chomsky once presented that English competency is formed from the complex activity of the human mind that integrates innate systems interactions between culture, language, experiences, environments and other unknown links within self.

Two types of English Speakers:

The first ones are those who were born with English speaking families and cultures. Majority did not learn the formal English language functionality features. Some went to school and learned the formal forms of the English language and its use in order to communicate effectively in their chosen profession;

Second type of speakers, are those who were born with non-English speaking families and cultures. Many of them acquired certain proficiency level in speaking and or writing in English. Majority learned English as a Second Language in order to communicate effectively with English speakers.  However, many individuals who learned English as a Second Language do not express themselves proficiently. This is because of the influence of the school curriculum which they attended. Many English classes internationally do not focus on developing Conversational English Proficiency. Instead, learners acquired high proficiency skills in writing and grammar, basic to intermediate proficiency in comprehension but low to below basic proficiency in vocabulary, syntax, culture, thought coherence and speaking.

Globalization Challenges:

As global societies entered the 20^th Century, there were influxes of non-English speakers who migrated to English speaking countries. Globalization continues and still increasing and expanding in the 21st Century, we are seeing more and more communication issues.

Today, many commercial environments are facing a deluge of their employees who are non-proficient in English speaking. This is the impact of globalization that allowed the migration of workforce with technical expertise to augment technical shortage of workforce in English speaking countries. 

In 2012, research identified that there was a growing deficiency in Business English Competency, particularly among global workforce demonstrating weaknesses in conversational / business English language with approximate range of 58% to 71%. Surveyed organizations that were operating globally acknowledged that their workforce’ handicap is in Business English Competency to support the demand and communication effectiveness in their jobs.

Solution to the Deficiency of English Competency:

Ideas N Conversations offers various classes that will increase the proficiency of individuals; and are in Seven Bay Area locations. Each class is focused on acquiring living skills for advancement, immediate usability of learned information from class, integrates business environments of learners, creates a venue that progressively solve the identified difficulties of learners. This will allow learner to gain English Competency as a business or personal language within an English speaking community.

Learn Conversational English "Let's Chat Live via Yahoo Messenger"

Business and Conversational English - the Emerging Global Necessity

Globally, English is the understood preferred language of major business enterprises. It is the emerging conversational language required among professionals who are deployed to work internationally or has responsibilities that will interface with multi-country based business operations. Internationally inclined business men or women and their families demonstrate proficiency in the English language. 

Most recently, experienced professionals in Linguistics, Global Business and Cross-Culture arena are finding that there is growing gap regarding English proficiency particularly with limited Conversational Business English competency.

Researches show that there is a growing gap of this deficiency, particularly among Expat workforce demonstrating weaknesses in the language with approximate range of 58% to 71%.  Internationally based workforce in the field acknowledged that their handicap is on Business English Skills to support the demand and communication requirements of their jobs. 

Regardless of the profession, white collar or blue collar job, temporary or permanent status - English has become a burden among workers and employers. This is brought along by globalization of organizations and workforce migration across cultures. In addition, a misconception prevails that when you speak English you already very competent in working and become a part of the driving force of a business enterprise. Unless you understood its  intra-cultural implications or the called Socio-linguistics of the English language then you are capable.

Business and Conversational English language competencies and proficiencies are required to those who like to work in English speaking countries, they will learn to speak English within the business premise.

Among the workforce of multi-national organizations from other countries, who migrated to the United States, they face many challenges when articulating their ideas with their co-workers. They will need to increase proficiency level in their Conversational Business English.

For the employees who are English speakers, they also face many challenges when it comes to writing and articulating their ideas. They get confused on many grammatical features of the English language. This is because they did not learn the correct usage of linguistic features when growing up. Today, when engaged in speaking and or writing reports for management consumption they often commit mistakes like the non-native English speakers.

Do I like to acquire or increase my Conversational Business English Proficiency?

It is a matter of personal decision making. Prioritizing your business preferences for advancement or selecting to  become a misfit at workplace and feel inadequate professionally. 

There are many choices available when it comes to learning environments and comes along with those choices are the costs associated to poor versus quality results. When it comes to acquiring the necessary skills in Conversational  Business English Proficiency, there are limited options with quality and results. 

Ideas N Conversations is one that is unique and is based in the Silicon Valley (San Jose, California). Their techniques and professional approaches in coaching and training are customized by their experienced Coach / Trainer. Lessons are matched with the assessed learning deficiency of the individual, personalized that will provide significant improved learning adaptable for immediate use at the workplace. Their learning philosophy and business practices are far and beyond compared to the usual practices of the traditional adults language learning centers.  Results and Return On Investments are their priority for their clients. Take advantage of their Summer Promotions!

In the global internet, English is also becoming the global language that is dominating the internet webpages, and social media.  In 2011, a study shows that more than 56 percent of all website use English as their content language. 

This means that English is being adopted to become a Universal Language.  If you have a dificiency or weakness in English, you better start learning so by the time this has become almost everyone speaks it, you are in the advanced level to talk and share your ideas with anyone.

We Speak Virtually to gain Conversational English Proficiency Via Skype or Yahoo

The Program: Interactive Conversations Through Practice with Multi-media Technologies (via either Skype or Yahoo Messenger) is a modern results and media-driven program that creates the experience, global interaction among individuals who like to develop the essential skills and competency in conversations; discuss topical issues while learning many linguistic features that make your ideas become relevant to your audience. When you live in an English speaking country, use the language like the way native English speakers do. The program simulates a virtual interaction and learning among remotely based individuals through Skype.

The Goals: Its purpose is to achieve a certain level of proficiency that articulates ideas, concerns, descriptions, perspectives, opinions, comprehension and emotions without fear and hesitation.

Topic Scope: Each scheduled session will have a conversational linguistic theme and topic focus. 

All topics include the development and practical use of concepts in speaking. When talking or conversing with another individual, it is essential to understand the correct usage of terms, words, sounds, phrases, language forms, idiomatic expressions, quotations, lingua franca, technical terminologies and articulation surrounding day-to-day living. The proficiency in English Conversations creates meaningful and engaging interactions in a formal or informal setting whether socially, personally  or in a business setting.

Overview of Scope:
Item	Description
1	Learning to use mechanisms for effective conversations
2	English conversational structures that demonstrate results
3	Techniques in articulating your ideas with results
4	Topical meaningful conversations with friends and colleagues
5	Utterance modification to influence listeners and specific audience
6	Sensible conversations that are meaningful

(Note: Specific sessions are customized to the identified level of difficulties)

After participating in a conducted Assessment of Difficulties, the Registration and sessions will follow. The Coach will host and moderate all activities. Attendees will be provided with the session content ahead of the scheduled session in order to encourage readiness and active participation. Attendees will bring their ideas, thoughts, insights, experiences and concerns to the session.

Requirements:

1. Must have a Skype or Yahoo Account
2. Pre-Registration required 

3. One on one tutorial is available for independent learning
4. Or In-cluster of 4 individuals per scheduled session is available
5. Others will be given a separate schedule when specific schedule is full

Who can Attend: Any individual who would like to increase their proficiency in speaking English and gain conversational skills without boundary.

Curriculum Terms and Fee Schedule:

1. Tuition Fees are pre-paid 

2. 2:12  Intensive and interactive Sessions

3. Customized class topics based on learner's assessed difficulties

4. Class type: 1/1 tutorial, dyad, or in-cluster of 4 individuals

5. Learner's Centered: Whole Language Approach and Results-oriented Methodologies

6. Venue: Virtual via Skype or Yahoo Messenger

7. Cancellation: 48 hours' Notice

For more details and inquiries:

Please call +1 650 241 3207  or send an email to: info@ideasnconversations.com

Website: http://www.ideasnconversations.com

Trainers Professional Competencies:

Over 18 years of experience in teaching English Language Courses (basic to advanced curricula) among college students, adults and young adults, ESL/ESOL students from many countries like Vietnam, Japan, S. Korea, the Philippines, China, Mexico, France and other non-English speaking countries. Career professional in both private and public environments. Have worked with clients in over 40 countries. Students acquired better opportunities in career and living after speaking English fluently.

Trained, coached and tutored business professionals whose mother tongue is not English. These include multinational executives, employees and their family members. Demonstrated English proficiency was helpful in the performance of their duties and responsibilities within an English speaking country.

Interactive English Conversations through Practice with Multi-media Technologies

Interactive English Conversations through Practice with Multi-media Technologies^SM 

English is a language that is globally spoken by individuals; who work in multinational organizations, who travels internationally, who likes to pursue international career, who likes to add a second language to speak, and those who like to interact with other English speakers for either business or personal use.

credits: IdeasN, Skype, Yahoo

Through the use of modern multi-media technologies and with universal English language, global conversations are possible.

The Program: Interactive Conversations Through Practice with Multi-media Technologies is a modern results and media-driven program that creates the experience, global interaction among individuals who like to develop the essential skills and competency in speaking; discuss issues, when you live in an English speaking country, use the language like the way native English speakers do. The program simulates a virtual interaction among globally based individuals by learning together through Skype or Yahoo Messenger. 

The Goals: Its purpose is to achieve a certain level of proficiency that articulates ideas, concerns, descriptions, perspectives, opinions, comprehension and emotions without fear and hesitation.

Topic Scope: Each scheduled session will have a conversational linguistic theme and topic focus. This will be provided by the Coach who will host and moderate the activity. Attendees will be provided with the topic scope so they will be ready and can participate actively. 

Requirements:
1. Must have an Account of either Skype or Yahoo Messenger
2. Pre-Registration required
3. Attendance is limited to 4 individuals per scheduled session
4. Others will be given a separate schedule when specific schedule is full

Who can Attend: Any individual who would like to increase their proficiency in speaking English and gain conversational skills without boundary.

Must have an account in either Yahoo Messenger or Skype.
Note: Sessions on either account are independent with each other, we do not mix them together for ease of technology and participant's location.

A.1 Via Yahoo Messenger:

A.2 Via Skype:

For inquiries: please call +1 650 241-3207 and to register please email to: Registration for Learning

To Avoid being auto-deleted:

When you email us with your inquiries, please avoid going to a 'Spam box and be auto-deleted'. We suggest that please provide the following information, then our Coach will give you a call or reply to your inquiry.

1. Name:

2. Telephone:

3. Email Address:

4. Zip Code:

We like to hear from you or from your friends who may be interested to participate in any of the programs that we conduct.

Relative Reference Links:
1. Program - Conversational English
2. Workshop - Conversational English
3. Business English in Conversations
4. Fluency in Speaking
5. Do I Need to speak English Well?

Learning ESL (English as a Second Language) with Conversational Focus

ESL is known to be the language that is needed by new migrants to a country where English is a primary language.  Speakers of non-English languages are encouraged to learn English as their second language. This will provide them the ability to communicate with other people in the Englis-speaking country. Especially when doing daily living activities. 

Expectations from Learning ESL:

ESL / ESOL is a subset of Applied Linguistics. It covers utterances, writing, reading, grammar, comprehension and cultural implications. The main objective is to learn and acquire English proficiency in order to use English like the way native speakers do. The results of classes are expected that Learner must be able to demonstrate adequate control and use of English when communicating in either verbal or written. The Learner must have acquired adequate words or vocabulary, expressions and cultural implications of the language use at a given setting.

An excellent program to enroll with is to learn English language within 6 weeks that are conducted by experienced Language Trainers. When you have enrolled in ESL class for over a continued period of time today and did not learn to speak better and unable to control your thoughts and ideas. Your class was not based on your identified deficiencies for learning. 

The acquired proficiency level in all areas such as reading, writing, speaking, comprehension and cultural implications must be measured effectively. The proficiency results must be demonstrated during conversations of topics relating to any day-to-day living or by sharing unique and informative ideas that illustrate meaningful thoughts and meanings with another individual. It will be useful in business environments as well.

To learn more about improving your English language proficiency in either ESL or Conversational English, please contact us: info@ideasnconversations.com 

Leadership Competencies Reinforce Effectiveness within People

Program Title: Leadership Competencies Development 

"The most powerful drive in the ascent of humankind is the pleasure we derive from our own skills."  Adapted from J. Bronowski

Growth is developed through effectiveness of learning, and sensible outputs will become the results. When an organization is growing, there is an absolute requirements to develop the efficiency of the people within your organization. Oftentimes, a big gap of skills or competencies of team members become hindrance to the performance of the job roles. These were contributed by facts that people who were given such responsibilities did not acquire any type of coaching, professional development, advanced competencies improvement along the way. Organizations do not have the abilities to implement 'leadership and succession ladder for advancement' that identify potential leaders of the organization.

Through our continuous research, we have developed strategic techniques and practices that emphasize on the integration of the undeniable link between coaching, learning and development, personal, professional achievement, competencies, results, returns on investments sustained with high performance. Organizations of the 21st Century must demonstrate business cultures with key competitive advantage in order to become successful globally.

Brief Summary:
This program is designed to increase the competency of the individual by learning important facets of basic leadership and management practices that will demonstrate effective communication, organization, people's competency, business goals and ROI integrating the whole landscape within a high performance organization in an advanced level and globally. It provides meaningful action oriented, results driven, learning experiences that are applicable in any setting of business, relationships and daily transactions.

Approach:
Our experienced American Coaches / Trainers will use techniques that overcome the identified difficulties of the Learner and match it with the current level of proficiency. These various learning approaches will sustain results through interactive, effective, easy-to-experience with realistic impact to identified difficulties. Activities will change progressively in order to support the growing level of proficiency which results to demonstrable skills and effectiveness.

Components:
Twelve Modular Sessions of two hours each
Intensive Program Participation
Continuing Progress Proficiency Evaluation
Competency Demonstration + COC

Scope of Leadership Development for Global Success
Item	Code	Description
1	INC-Lead01	Coaching Business Leaders
2	INC-Lead02	Leadership Development and Strategies
3	INC-Lead03	Business Partnership and Collaboration
4	INC-Lead04	Effective Communication and Conflict Management
5	INC-Lead05	Business Language the Key for Global Success
6	INC-Lead06	Cross Culture Competencies Development
7	INC-Lead07	Strategic Human Capital & Resources Management
8	INC-Lead08	Managing Global Risks and Mobility

After completing this class you must have:

- gained an intermediate to advanced competency in leadership
- acquired handy techniques in leading teams and organizational skills
- assimilated better communication skills with correct use of grammatical functions in both conversational speaking and writing, including culture and social implications of the English language within business or personal settings.

Terms and Fee Schedule:
Tuition Fees are pre-paid
Receipt will be issued

Fees as Non-Refundable
Acceptable form of payments: PayPal, Major Credit Cards
48 Hours Cancellation is required to be entitled for re-scheduling of missed class

American Coach Background:

Your Coach / Trainer is internationally experienced as Business Executive, Coach/Trainer and English Linguistics Educator, with 14 plus years of coaching and teaching at various levels and areas of English lessons for adults and young-adults. Your coach work with professionals and college students, who need additional skills in Advanced Business English, speaking conversationally, writing technically, developing documentation, reporting, research, essays, short stories, narrative segmentation, grammatical competencies in both speaking and writing, and learning the arts of communication in order to advance in career and be successful.

Avoid being auto-deleted:

When you email us with your inquiries, please avoid going to a 'Spam box and be auto-deleted'. We suggest that please provide the following information, then our Coach will give you a call.
1. Name:
2. Telephone:
3. Email Address:
4. Zip Code:

We like to hear from you or from your friends who may be interested to participate in any of the classes that we hold. For more details and information, please call +1 650 241 3207 or send an email to: info@ideasnconversations.com