1-day Seminar Top 50 German Horror Mistakes in Business
This one day seminar will introduce the top 50 language mistakes that Germans make in business. The course focusses on 3 elements:
- The top mistakes when writing an email
- The top 50 wrongly used words in business
- The top mistakes in Grammar/punctuation
Course Details
“Look at the backside of this brochure” If this sentence sounds good to you then you need to attend this 1 day course, for what you just said was “Schau dir mal den Popo dieser Broschüre an!”
Likewise, if the sentence “You must not sign the contract today” sounds good to you then you definitely need to attend this course as you just said “Sie durfen den Vertrag heute nicht unterschreiben!”
When Germans speak English they are unaware that every fifth sentence, on average, has a mistake in there which could, at best, be laughed at, at worse could be totally misinterpreted and change the whole meaning of the sentence.
In this one day seminar you will learn what they don’t teach you in school – the top 30 mistakes made by German speakers in English. Our personal favourite and most often heard:
“I am working by my firm since 1995”
To find out why this lovely sounding sentence is totally wrong (3 mistakes) and what you have actually just said, come to this seminar! Come in and find out and let yourselves be surprised, even the runaways amongst you!
In one day I have learnt more than I have done in my entire career. I had been using “must not” the wrong way for so many years! This course has revolutionised my emails. What a great training!
Tatjana Baimeewa – Schenker Deutschland AG
How to enrol:
The process:
- Request a quote via our contact form
- We send you a needs analysis and placement test (gratis) for up to 8 participants per seminar
- We fix a date
- You receive your certificate
- We follow up with you – staying in contact and supporting you with English emails (gratis)
1-Day Seminar – English for Advanced Logistics
This one-day seminar will cover all topics required for advanced logistics including:
- Documentation and finance in freight/logistic
- Legal English for contracts and RFQs
- Supply Chain Management
- Warehousing, labelling and packaging
- Insurance Claims
- Customs
- Road Haulage/Intermodal Transport
- Lorries, trailers, containers and equipment in freight
- Modes of transport
Note: It is possible to focus 4 or more of these elements for a course
Excellent trainer – really relevant to my everyday work as a dispatcher
Anonymous – Course participant – Schenker Deutschland AG Mainz
How to enrol:
The process:
- Request a quote via our contact form
- We send you a needs analysis and Logistics placement test (gratis) for up to 8 participants per seminar
- We fix a date
- You receive your certificate
- We follow up with you – staying in contact and supporting you with English emails (gratis)
1-Day Seminar – Communication in Logistics
This one-day seminar will cover all topics required for communication in logistics including:
- Emailing in logistics. The Dos and Donts
- Telephoning and Telecons in the world of logistics
- Presentations in logistics
- Meetings on logistics topics
- Key business, logistics and communication vocab
- Grammar for communication
Our trainer was amazing. She let us speak freely at every time and pointed our our mistakes an a very diplomatic way. We then discussed these. A few participants made noticeable progress in this one day!
Anonymous – Course participant – Schenker Deutschland AG Hannover
How to enrol:
The process:
- Request a quote via our contact form
- We send you a needs analysis and Logistics placement test (gratis) for up to 8 participants per seminar
- We fix a date
- You receive your certificate
- We follow up with you – staying in contact and supporting you with English emails (gratis)
1-day seminar – English for writing
Writing in English for business is a different ballgame to speaking. In this one-day seminar you will learn the following:
- English for emails
- English for reports
- English for newsletters What will be taught:
- Writing vs speaking vocabulary
- Punctuation
- Top 10 German mistakes when writing
- Grammar for writing
- The perfect email template
- Reports – structured language
- Newsletters – writing creatively
Note: It is possible to focus on Emails, newsletters and reports or just one or two of the above.
How to enrol:
The process:
- Request a quote via our contact form
- We send you a needs analysis and placement test (gratis) for up to 8 participants per seminar
- We fix a date
- You receive your certificate
- We follow up with you – staying in contact and supporting you with English emails (gratis)