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Some prior knowledge is recommended before starting Technical English — Being Understood at Work.

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Technical English — Being Understood at Work includes 4 modules and 12 lessons. You learn at your own pace.

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Technical English — Being Understood at Work

Your English is fine in writing and it fails you out loud. This is the method that fixed that for working engineers and analysts: write a script, mark it, read it aloud five times, record the first take and the last take, and listen to both. Four set pieces, all recorded by you.

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Technical English — Being Understood at Work

Briefing

You are competent. You read specifications in English, your written messages are clear, and nobody has ever complained about them. Then you speak, live, to people, and it goes badly. You lose the word. You start a sentence you cannot finish. You say the tool name and the room stays blank. That is not a language problem. It is a preparation problem wearing a language problem's coat. This segment is the method as it actually ran with working professionals — a SOC analyst in Barcelona, an Italian threat-intelligence analyst, a Russian-speaking infrastructure engineer, a Polish network engineer. You write a script. Not notes — a script, in full sentences, five minutes, three cases. You put the unresolved things first and label everything ongoing or completed. You take the jargon out and put human language in: "someone's Windows PC", not "the endpoint". You attach a "so what" to every technical statement, because naming a tool and stopping is the fault that appeared independently in two separate learners. You mark the page for emphasis and pauses. You read it aloud five or more times in one sitting. You record the first attempt and the last attempt, listen to both in order, and the difference is audible — which is the only feedback that has ever convinced anybody. You will build and record four things: a stand-up, a shift handover flagging a suspicious service account, an incident briefing for a manager who does not do technology, and an answer to a hostile question you did not see coming. No grammar. No accent work. Your accent is fine and it is staying.

Course outline · 4 modules

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01 Before You Open Your Mouth
3 lessons·1h 18m

Notes collapse under pressure. A script does not. That is the whole argument of this module and it is not a stylistic preference — it is what happened, repeatedly, to people who improvised because…
02 Order, and Words People Use
3 lessons·1h 32m

Most people brief in the order things happened, which buries the one thing the room needed. Unresolved first. Then ongoing. Then completed, last and short. And the word "endpoint" leaves the room and…
03 So What
3 lessons·1h 41m

You named the tool. You never said why anybody should care. Every technical statement you make in front of a stakeholder carries three parts and you are shipping one of them. Tool, impact, ask. Say…
04 When It Goes Wrong Live
3 lessons·2h 8m

Everything so far assumed you get to finish your sentence. This module assumes you do not. It ends with the full session — cold take, script, five passes, final take, both played back — which is the…

Frequently asked

What will I learn in Technical English — Being Understood at Work?: Your English is fine in writing and it fails you out loud. This is the method that fixed that for working engineers and analysts: write a script, mark it, read it aloud five times, record the first take and the last take, and listen to both. Four set pieces, all recorded by you.
Do I need prior experience?: Some prior knowledge is recommended before starting Technical English — Being Understood at Work.
How long does Technical English — Being Understood at Work take?: Technical English — Being Understood at Work includes 4 modules and 12 lessons. You learn at your own pace.
How do I get access?: Technical English — Being Understood at Work is included with any paid subscription.

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