English LadderEnglish for Work · 17 professional fields
Business and Professional English
A useful business message makes the purpose, evidence and next step clear. These courses help you explain a recommendation, question an assumption, negotiate a constraint and respond professionally when expectations differ.
Choose the work you do
Start with your responsibilities: office administration and bookkeeping/payroll cover daily coordination and records. Finance, financial advice, and investment management and banking serve different audiences. General law, international law, patent law, and legal operations address distinct work. Cross-border M&A integration follows the post-acquisition combination of cultures, systems, and operations; consulting, strategy, project management, HR, and leadership cover broader decisions.
Make the practice practical
Read a case and identify what the speaker can confirm. Give a brief spoken response before looking at the model. Then ask a partner to challenge one assumption or request a clearer next step. Compare the available message choices and explain which one preserves the facts.
Your professional English courses
Each course includes eight cases, vocabulary and grammar, complete professional dialogues, guided language checks, speaking practice, one complete printable learner book and AI extension prompts.
Cross-Cultural Leadership English
Lead diverse teams with clear expectations, inclusive meetings, constructive feedback, and respectful disagreement.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookLaw English
Legal workplace English for client intake, privilege, litigation, discovery, contracts, compliance, settlement, and advocacy.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookFinance English
Professional English for accounting, FP&A, treasury, banking, investments, audit, risk, and corporate finance.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookFinancial Advice English
Client-facing English for discovery, recommendations, disclosures, risk profiling, retirement planning, and difficult conversations.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookCorporate Strategy English
Executive-level English for strategic diagnosis, tradeoffs, portfolio choices, growth, M&A, uncertainty, KPIs, and board narratives.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookHuman Resources English
A human-resources English curriculum for hiring, onboarding, performance feedback, employee relations, investigations, benefits, compensation, policy explanation, workplace conflict, and dignity-preserving directness.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookProject Management English
A project-management English curriculum for scope, schedule, risks, dependencies, stakeholder alignment, status reporting, change control, delivery governance, and difficult timeline conversations.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookInsurance English
An insurance English curriculum for underwriting, claims, policy language, coverage disputes, actuarial assumptions, broker communication, fraud concerns, compliance, and customer escalation.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookBanking Operations English
A banking operations English curriculum for KYC, AML, loan operations, payment exceptions, fraud, customer complaints, audits, operational risk, and regulatory communication.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookConsulting English
A consulting English curriculum for discovery, hypotheses, stakeholder management, scope, executive recommendations, slide narratives, implementation risk, and client pushback.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookLegal Operations and Compliance English
A legal operations and compliance English curriculum for contract workflow, policy implementation, audits, controls, investigations, privacy requests, training, third-party risk, and governance communication.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookOffice and Administrative Assistant English
Coordinate calendars, handle calls, support meetings, manage document versions, query supplies, welcome visitors, arrange travel, and hand over competing tasks clearly.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookBookkeeping and Payroll English
Resolve invoice and receipt queries, explain reconciliation differences, clarify time exceptions, and hand over payroll approvals and period-close records.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookInternational Law English
International legal English for cross-border intake, governing-law clauses, service abroad, arbitration, enforcement, treaty interpretation, evidence coordination, and settlement discussions.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookPatent Law English
Patent-practice English for invention interviews, prior-art discussions, claims, drafting support, office actions, international filing, freedom-to-operate reviews, and licensing.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookInvestment Management and Banking English
Advanced English for investment mandates, portfolio risk, performance reporting, investment committees, valuation, transaction diligence, capital raising, and information barriers.
8 lessons · 1 learner bookCross-Border M&A Integration English
Practical post-acquisition English for Day 1 continuity, decision rights, workplace norms, HR differences, IT cutovers, customer communications, synergy tracking, and operational handover.
Grammar you can use at work
Choose your support
These materials suit intermediate to advanced learners. Use B1 sentence frames for support, B2 practice for independence, or C1 challenges for greater precision. These are study suggestions, not certified level assessments.