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Our missions are: (1)increasing business leadership and strategic competencies (2) proficiency achievement in business language (English) We have coached, tutored and trained individuals and business professionals whose mother tongue is either non-English or English. These include multinational executives, employees and their family members; from many countries like Vietnam, China, Japan, India, S. Korea, the Philippines, France, Germany, Spain, Malaysia, Mexico, Taiwan, USA, Canada, and many others who benefited from our expertise.
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

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 



Saturday, January 26, 2013

Few Tips in Practicing Your Language During Celebrations

Happy Australia Day"

credit: @junteet

Today, is the Australia Day Holiday of our friends down under. 

You can use the following tips at any time you are in a celebratory event, holidays, on vacation or at any location.

Few Tips for Language Practice During Celebrations:
Whenever possible and convenient, another way to practice your second language is by engaging a conversations with people around you. Take time off from your busy schedule and meet with family and friends and converse with them in your second language, like English. Please find below some tips that will help you gather new learnings:
1. Find an opportunity of practicing your English speaking, start from greeting someone with new phrases and gambits
2. Do not to speak in your Mother tongue so that you can gain more practice
3. When speaking with friends, take note of new words and their distinct way of saying words and phrases
4. Ask for meanings of words or phrases that you will hear. Someone will be happy to share you what they meant
5. Pay attention on the social implications and usage of phrases and words. Do not assume that the way it was used in your gathering has the same way of usage in another situation. Try to understand the setting, who is speaking, and what they are talking about. In that way, you will know how to use it after wards
6. Always look for an extended meaning of words and phrases as you are learning in that way you will increase your knowledge and proficiency in using them correctly

Enjoy and share us your experiences when possible. We will enjoy hearing from you. You can always email us at: info@ideasnconversations.com

If you have friends who would like to learn Conversational English or other living skills for career advancement and better opportunities. Share them our website link "Our 2013 Programs"  We are in your neighborhood, so you can just choose the location that is most convenient from your location.

For more information and inquiries, you can call us directly at : +1 (650) 241-3207 and our Coach will be happy to speak with you to answer your questions.


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Sunday, January 13, 2013

Four Essential Techniques Lead to Learning Language Competency of Global Business with Results



There are ways in improving and learning the global Business Language - the English Proficiency.  You acquire the highest level of Business English Proficiency instead of acquiring English skills. The latter is focused on measured and tactical execution of grammatically-based language use. 

While Business English, is integrated with Communication Competency and Proficiency. It illustrates the holistic understanding about the English language, cultural implications, usage of expressions and terminologies, its functions within specific utterances for a given setting in either business or personal.  IdeasN's Coaches have the competency in developing realistic Critical Thinking  abilities. By having this ability, it becomes your important differentiator as a professional or an individual. Your capabilities in influencing, creativity and effectiveness in communication will follow. We coach you from the most basic up to achieving the highest level of Proficiency that you are capable of.

The following techniques are offered as tips for anyone to self-learn the basics that will develop your confidence to eventually become better communicator. 

Four Essential Techniques in English Learning Lead to Results
1
Learn and create adequate English vocabulary supply with understanding: 
Read materials that were written in English such as websites, blogs, articles, books, newspapers, journals, magazines, researches, technical essays, industry news and English dictionary with diacritical marks. By spending at least 30 minutes a day, you will learn new technical words. 

An effective learning tool is to keep a small pocket booklet on your side when reading. Write every new word that you will come across. Then take a dictionary and understand the actual meaning of the word. Go back to the original material that you were reading and understand how the word was used. Every writer uses words differently depending on the setting of the material. Many use simple words, complex terminologies, idiomatic expressions or slangs that relate to the circumstances illustrated in the material.  

It is essential to pay attention on how words are formed, connected, described and expanded with time and locations.  These are all important functions of words; including their arrangement. The key is to understand how they are being used. When in doubt, always seek the assistance of a Coach who can explain to you the linguistic features used.

2
Develop a 'Linguistic Ear' that is focused on distinct sounds and enunciation: 
Listen carefully to different Agents of English sounds. When listening to an English speaker, train your ear to carefully listen on the distinct sounds of vowels and consonants within words. It is somehow difficult for a non-English speaker to train one’s ear to differentiate distinct sounds without the help of an experienced Language Coach or Teacher.  Besides people, other agents of sounds are devices that broadcast people’s voices speaking English language like televisions, radios, movies, YouTube videos, electronic devices and gadgets. When listening to these devices, practice to be attentive with how words are enunciated or pronounced. 

Please note, that every speaker has a unique and distinct way in producing an English sound either vowel or consonant. Understanding the cultural background and its implications to speaking will be essential. Somehow, many use the English dictionary as their point of reference in learning the linguistic sounds but the speaker was enunciating it differently. Regional differences and locations of English speakers also play a role. 

It is important to keep in mind that when learning English, you need to understand your current location, its regional difference from others, and how people say certain things and differ from other English speakers in other locations – this is a dialectical difference.  There is no one sound that fits all when it comes to sounds of the non-formal English language usage. In a formal environment, majority of people try to use the formal sounds of English vowels and consonants, however certain regions cannot be avoided due to regional accents. An English Language Coach helps learners to train their linguistic ear effectively by modeling the actual sounds, word formations, enunciations and stresses of words.

3
Use of technical vocabulary, phrases, and conversational utterances:
To become at least a good conversationalist, one must demonstrate adequate technical vocabulary, phrases and appropriate utterances when engaging in a conversation.  The techniques 1 and 2 above helped the learner to acquire simple ways in developing a supply of words and understanding sounds. When engaging to a conversation with other English speakers, you are expected to use and show your knowledge and proficiency level in exchanging ideas, thoughts, commentaries, share opinions on certain topics that are being discussed.  Practice makes perfect in the best option to become conversationalist.  

When you are not confident, accelerate your focus and practice techniques 1 and 2. Practice with friends and family members. Read materials, then discuss the topics, use words and phrases that you come across in different materials. Pay attention on how the sounds must be enunciated. Most people who like to become proficient at their best hire an English Language Coach who will evaluate their progress and engaging activities. Hearing an unbiased feedback will help learners to gain better and faster results of higher proficiency level.

4
Immersing oneself in real-time conversational situations:  
The best option to learn and validate your authentic sounds, usage and practical expressions and utterances would be to engage in a real time conversations with other English speakers. Do not be afraid to commit mistakes. Everyone commits an error - learn it from experience.  When you come across of someone rude in terms of correcting your errors, don’t give up, ignore the rudeness and don’t speak to that person again until you are better to square of.  Find others who will understand and supportive to your learning process. Most importantly is to enjoy the moments when sharing ideas and conversations.  During this event, you are technically validating your proficiency in comprehension about other’s ideas. 

It is important to validate your proficiency in using the English language in a specific time, event, location, and setting whether personal or in business.  The quicker you can engage in meaningful conversations the better you become as a conversationalist. The more practice you will engage, the higher your proficiency will achieve, up to a point that you will be speaking like Native Speakers. Speak to your Coach often and solicit unbiased feedback about the progression towards higher level.



Majority of individuals who had difficulties in language, business and leadership proficiency became successful after they were coached with actual strategies, sessions, and workshops that helped them acquired the needed competency for their business and personal goals. 

As always your comments and insights are welcomed and will be appreciated. 


Saturday, December 15, 2012

Advanced Business English that Results to Leadership Competencies

"The power of innovative thinking, critical reasoning, communicating affectively and learning new insights enable us to connect with others throughout our lives. The skills are intangible to many but these are the competencies that will make us adequately communicative as human beings."



Facts: 
Our Researches show that there is a growing deficiency in the area of Advanced Business English Competency among individuals who are leading teams, communicating extensively to external parties outside a given organization, cannot explain or sustain effective communicative proficiency when speaking with an audience, notwithstanding that a bigger population of Expats deployed in many English speaking countries cannot demonstrate adequate competencies in Business English as a business language.  58 percent up to 71 percent range of internationally deployed workforce have acknowledged their handicap is on Business English Skills in Advanced Level to support the demand and communication requirements of their jobs. 

Innovative Goals:
Among the workforce of multi-national organizations from other countries, who migrated to the United States and other English-speaking countries needed extra efforts in exploiting their inabilities of articulating their ideas with their co-workers. To increase the needed level of proficiency, one must register in Advanced Business English Class, Coaching or Workshop that will enable usable techniques and skills of being a leader at a given work setting.

Limitations Prohibit Career Advancement:
While there is an enormous desire to increase one's competencies in Advanced Business English after arrival at their new environment. Majority have failed in making strategic decisions to learn effectively. Instead, they enrolled in traditional ESL Classrooms and centers that provided those Generic ESL Lessons and did not develop their business technical English competencies.


Reasons Why ESL Lessons are Incorrect:
Item
Description
1
ESL Class does not provide the development of Advanced Business English Competencies
2
Many ESL Teachers were not trained to teach or coach Advanced Business English Curriculum for Leadership Candidates within the business environments
3
Many ESL Teachers did not have actual business experiences working in various industries and corporate settings that require business acumen integrating technologies and language
4
Advanced Business English is a linguistic specialty that is only acquired through the help of experienced Adult Coach who has been immersed to various industries and cultural settings
5
The competencies acquired through the specialized curricula or workshops can be used immediately at learner's environment because the sessions were created based on their “Summary of Identified DifficultiesSM
6
The Coach in Advanced Business English demonstrates multi-linguistic competencies that are relevant to business focus; leverages success at targeted specific business sector of the learner



Program Brief Summary:
The Advanced Business English for Effective Communication Program is designed to increase the proficiency and competency of any individual who aspire to demonstrate leadership and communication competencies by learning many essential factors that create effectiveness within the business community in an advanced level. It provides relevant, action oriented, results driven, learning experiences that are applicable in any business setting, relationships and transactions. Session-based Modular Lessons are created based on “Summary of Identified DifficultiesSM from individuals pursuing a career advancement.

Methodologies:
Our experienced Coaches / Trainers / Tutors will use techniques that overcome the identified difficulties of the Learner. These various learning approaches will validate results through interactive, effective, easy-to-experience and realistic impact to identified difficulties. Activities will change progressively in order to support the in-progress level of proficiency which results to demonstrable skills and effectiveness.


Overview of Scope:  
Item
Description
1
Understanding which mechanisms illustrate effective speech in speaking
2
Business Language Structures that demonstrate results
3
Techniques in communicating that articulate results at work
4
Engaging effective conversations with critical and persuasive thinking
5
Modifying enunciations that are relevant to listeners and specific audience
6
Sensible speaking that are driven with meaningful ideas

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


Components:

Twelve Modular Sessions of two hours each

Intensive Program Participation

Continuing Progress Proficiency Evaluation
Competency Demonstration + COC

Benefits from completing this program:
Learner will achieve the following;
Item
Descriptions
1
An Advanced Proficiency Level in Effective Business English and Communication
2
Handy techniques in speaking affectively as a Leader
3
Better communication skills that articulate ideas toward any audience


For more details and inquiries please call +1 (650) 241-3207. Please note that Classes of Ideas N Conversations are being held in 7 Bay Area locations; Campbell, Cupertino, Milpitas, Palo Alto, San Jose, San Mateo and Sunnyvale. It is a matter of choosing the closest to your location.

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Conversational Communication Challenges Can Be Resolved with Bold Decision


"Many hear the sounds of enunciated words and phrases influenced heavily by the mother tongue instead of listening to the meaningful essence of what is being communicated." - Terrenal 

Here is a personal question for yourself.


Is any of the following illustrated my inabilities, deficiencies or frustrations today or may be in the past?
  • I have poor verbal and written communication skills
  • Inability to articulate myself to my peers at work and outside work because I do not speak the English language well
  • I am a Team Leader but has issues in communicating verbally and effectively with my team members
  • I cannot advanced myself in my career as I felt my communication skills are not proficient
  • I lack leadership skills and wanted to accomplish more results
  • I always find myself below par when engaged in conversational topics with friends
  • I have been to numerous interviews but cannot land the job due to my communication skills and conversational inabilities
  • When explaining something to others I was always searching for the right words or phrases
  • Speaking in front of others is always been my problem, I always read my powerpoint line by line when I present and cannot articulate additional information that were not listed in the presentation
  • At numerous occasions, I've been tasked to relate with Excel Spreadsheets but don't have any knowledge of using it
  • I went to school and learned English but I cannot express myself conversationally like other English speakers, however I can write my ideas well
  • I have been living in the United States for few years but still cannot speak English well, I have also attended many ESL classes at various centers
  • I am new in the area and working for a technology company, however my English is very limited

What can you do?
For someone who experienced any of the above listed 'facts', that were frustrating conversational issues, difficulties of demonstrating communicative efficiency with team members, co-workers, with friends and acquaintances. It is highly suggested to give oneself a new personal development and gain better competency, achieve more progress in the near future and be BOLD.

It is also a fact, that there are many (individuals or organizations) that discriminate those who do not communicate well. "Many hear the sound of enunciated words and phrases influenced heavily by the mother tongue instead of listening to the meaningful essence of what is being communicated." - said  J. Terrenal. 

To remedy those challenges, learn the real Conversational English Competency through the help of an experienced Coach in Communication, Linguistics, Business and Leadership. This type of Coach integrates the whole self of the learner's backgrounds, difficulties and future endeavors for success.

We like to hear your experiences and thoughts. Please share them to us and we always appreciate your inputs. Thank you.


Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Are there faster route of learning the English language?

In many instances Speakers of other languages besides English have great challenges when they like to use the English language practically in Speaking or Writing. Many have had lessons in English during an earlier schooling, however these lessons did not give them the real proficiency in verbal or written communication.

When they began working in an English speaking environment, additional pressures and challenges will occur. They face difficulties in articulating their ideas with their colleagues and business audience. These  inabilities will also hinder their prospects for promotion and career advancement.

Is it possible to learn English conveniently and not attending school? 
Yes you can! Select your options. And it is for Real!


What should I do?


How will I gain an Advanced Level of  Proficiency?
 With whatever goals that you like to achieve in a short period of time, your best adviser is your Coach. The content of your sessions must be critically developed to match with the "Summary of Identified Difficulties" that will be provided by your Coach. To achieve a meaningful result, you need to work with Ideas N Conversations' Coach. 

We always appreciate to hear about your insights and experiences. Let us know what you think!
You can email us to: info@ideasnconversations.com or share your inputs to the area for your comments. Thank you.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Pre-Halloween Business English Learning for Engaging Communications


We coach adults, who like to become the BEST and who like to learn the techniques of demonstrable 'engaging communications'. Available lessons are Advanced Business English for Effective Communication, Leadership Skills for Business, ESL for Adults, Conversational English for Work and Personal Use.

Ideas N Conversations (http://www.ideasnconversations.com) help you achieve your English Proficiency for your business and personal use. Experienced in tutoring or coaching individuals who came from non-english speaking countries like Japan, India, Singapore, S. Korea, China, Malaysia, France, Germany, the Philippines, South American countries, United States, etc .

Our Coaches, work with individuals who are employed in any profession, expat spouses who need to learn English for their day-to-day activities, those who are in college or graduate school and others who are US born individuals who like to improve their English communication skills and proficiency for better career advancement.

What do you get from Ideas N Conversations?
1. You will learn customized lessons that will increase your communication proficiency, you don't get these lessons from traditional class types or centers
2. The lessons solve your difficulties and very important to your current endeavors
3. We turn your weaknesses to become strength because you will gain high level of proficiency in communicating your ideas with others
4. Techniques in coaching you are progressively changing to sustain your improvement and will continue to gain higher level of proficiency
5. Learn how to use the language forms in Business English as well as Conversational English, which reflect correctness in both speaking and writing. Having all these, you will get better opportunities that will advance your career, and be able to communicate better with anyone among customers and colleagues

Please call +1 (650) 241-3207 to discuss your difficulties.  We conduct group classes for those who like to learn with other learners at the same time.


Locations that may participate in our learning venues are: Morgan Hill, San Jose, Willow Glen, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Campbell, Cupertino, Los Altos, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Redwood City, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Milpitas, Newark, Pleasanton, Union city and etc.

As always, we like to hear from you and let us know your insights and or how we can help you.