Smart English Coach
Smart English Coach helps advanced English learners communicate clearly, confidently and naturally at work.
Each episode shares practical strategies and coaching insights to help you express complex ideas, stop overthinking your English, and speak with authority.
Hosted by Clare Whitmell, English teacher and coach with 20+ years’ experience helping professionals reach advanced fluency.
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How To Sound Professional When You Speak English
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If you use English for your work, "disfluencies" in English are something you should avoid.
In this episode, I interview Craig Wealand, an English teacher and podcaster, who specialises in fluency, disfluency and advanced communication skills.
Craig explains how disfluencies stop you from sounding professional, and gives several examples of what they are.
If you want to find out how to avoid making them, come along to Craig's session at the Advanced English Summit.
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Advanced English Summit
What is the Advanced English Summit?
It's a 3-day event especially for intermediate level English learners who want to get to advanced English level.
Come along to 10 different sessions (on speaking, listening, grammar, writing, vocabulary AND exam skills.) All the speakers are professional English teachers, coaches and podcasters.
It's completely free and live on Zoom.
Advanced English Summit
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