Personalised training for your career
One-to-one programmes for professionals who want targeted, measurable progress in their language skills.
Book a consultationWhy most professionals stop improving
You have studied English before. You can hold a conversation, write an email, follow a meeting. But somewhere around B1 or B2, progress stalled. Group classes cover material you already know. Language apps repeat the same exercises. You can communicate, but you cannot perform: the board presentation still feels shaky, the contract negotiation still needs a colleague in the room, the technical report still goes through two rounds of editing before it is ready to send.
That gap between "functional" and "professional" is where most learners get stuck. General courses are not designed to close it because it looks different for every person. A finance director preparing for investor meetings needs different skills from an engineer writing safety documentation. A lawyer negotiating cross-border contracts needs different vocabulary from a startup founder pitching to a US accelerator.
Closing that gap requires a programme built around your specific work, not a syllabus written for a general audience.
Language training shaped around you
You have specific goals. Maybe you are preparing for an international role, need to present confidently at board level, or want to pass a language certification. We build your programme around exactly what you need.
Every session focuses on your industry, your role, and the real situations you face at work. No generic exercises. No wasted time.
Language for Specific Purposes: how it works one-to-one
Language for Specific Purposes, or ESP, is a teaching approach that treats language as a tool for a specific job rather than a subject to be studied in general. In a one-to-one setting, this means every element of your programme is built around your actual professional life.
Your work becomes the course material
We do not teach from a textbook. We take real material from your professional life, with confidentiality respected, and turn it into learning content. That might be a client proposal you need to write, a set of slides for a quarterly review, a contract clause you need to negotiate, or the agenda for a meeting you are chairing next month. You practise with material you will actually use, not hypothetical scenarios from a coursebook.
The pace is yours
In a group class, the teacher moves at the speed of the group. In a one-to-one programme, we can spend forty minutes on a single paragraph of a technical report if that is where the difficulty is, or move through an entire grammar point in ten minutes if you already have it. Nothing is repeated for the benefit of other learners. Nothing is skipped because the group needs to move on.
Feedback is immediate and specific
Your teacher hears every sentence you produce and can identify patterns that a group teacher would miss: a recurring preposition error, a tendency to fall back on simple structures when the content gets complex, a pronunciation habit that undermines clarity in presentations. One-to-one feedback targets the specific patterns that hold you back, not generic correction.
One-to-one ESP is not a luxury option. It is the most efficient way to close the gap between where your language is now and where your career needs it to be.
Programmes designed for professionals
One-to-one sessions
Every session is focused entirely on you. Your teacher adapts the content, the pace, and the approach to match your level, your goals, and your schedule.
Exam preparation
Cambridge (FCE, CAE, CPE), IELTS, DELE, DELF. Structured preparation that combines exam technique with real language improvement, not just test tricks. Clear milestones and practice tests at regular intervals.
Sector-specific content
Material built around your field and your actual documents. Whether you work in finance, technology, legal, healthcare, energy, or the public sector, the language you learn is the language your job demands.
Flexible scheduling
Online or in-person in Madrid, mornings or evenings, one session or three per week. The programme fits around your working life, and you can adjust the rhythm as your schedule changes.
Professionals who need more than general English
Our individual clients share one thing: they need language skills that match the demands of their specific role, not a generic course that covers a little of everything.
Executives and senior managers
You present to international boards, lead cross-border teams, or represent your organisation at European-level meetings. You need the fluency and precision that your role demands.
Exam candidates
You are preparing for Cambridge, IELTS, DELE, or DELF. You want structured preparation with a teacher who knows the exam inside out and can target the specific areas where you lose marks.
Professionals moving into international roles
You have been offered a role that requires working in English daily, or you are targeting one. You need to build confidence fast in presentations, negotiations, and written communication.
Sector specialists
You work in a technical field: cybersecurity, finance, legal, engineering, healthcare, or public administration. You need the specific vocabulary and communication patterns that your sector uses, not generic business English.
What one-to-one training actually looks like
A typical session might start with you presenting a set of slides you have been working on for a real meeting next week. Your teacher listens, takes notes, and then works through the specific areas where your language let you down: a sentence structure that weakened your argument, a word choice that was technically correct but would confuse a native-speaking audience, a pronunciation pattern that made a key figure hard to follow.
The next part of the session might focus on the email thread that followed your last client call, identifying where your written English is clear and where it creates ambiguity. By the end of the hour, you have practised with material you will use this week, not material from a textbook you will never open again.
That is what every session looks like. Real work, real feedback, real progress.
How English for Specific Purposes works
Every programme follows a structured path from assessment to real-world competence.
Needs analysis
We assess your current level, identify your target scenarios, and map the language skills your role demands.
Foundation building
Core vocabulary and structures for your sector. Building confidence in the patterns you will use most.
Scenario practice
Realistic simulations of your actual work situations. Presentations, negotiations, client calls, report writing.
Performance and review
You perform in your target language with confidence. We measure progress against your original goals and adjust as needed.
The career case for language investment
Language skills are not a nice-to-have. For professionals in Europe, they directly affect career progression, earning potential, and access to international opportunities.
Questions professionals ask before starting
How is one-to-one training different from a group class?
In a group class, the teacher divides attention across multiple learners with different levels and goals. In a one-to-one programme, every minute is focused on your specific needs. The material comes from your own work, the pace adapts to you, and the teacher can identify and correct patterns that a group setting would miss. Progress is typically two to three times faster than in a group of comparable hours.
What level do I need to start?
We work with professionals at any level from A2 upwards. The needs analysis at the start of every programme establishes your current level precisely and identifies the specific gaps between where you are and where you need to be. We do not use a one-size-fits-all placement test. We assess your ability in the exact skills your role requires.
Can I prepare for a specific exam like Cambridge or DELE?
Yes. We offer structured exam preparation for Cambridge (FCE, CAE, CPE), IELTS, DELE, and DELF. Our approach combines exam technique and strategy with real language improvement, so you are not just learning to pass a test but building skills you can use afterwards. We set clear milestones and run practice tests at regular intervals so you know exactly where you stand before exam day.
How long does a programme typically take?
That depends on your starting level, your target, and how many hours per week you can commit. An intensive programme preparing for a specific deadline, such as an exam or a new role, might run six to twelve weeks with two or three sessions per week. An extensive programme focused on steady improvement might run for a full academic year with one session per week. We agree the timeline during the initial consultation.
Are sessions online or in person?
Both. We offer in-person sessions in Madrid and live online sessions for professionals anywhere in Europe. The methodology, the materials, and the teacher are the same in both formats. Many clients combine the two, meeting in person when it suits their schedule and switching to online when they travel or work from home.
How do you measure my progress?
We set concrete, observable skill targets at the start of every programme. These are specific to your role: being able to lead a client call without preparation notes, writing a technical report without review, or presenting quarterly results to an international board. We assess you against those targets at the start, the midpoint, and the end of the programme, and share a written progress report at each stage.
Your language programme starts with a conversation
Tell us about your team, your sector, and what you need to achieve. We will design a programme built around the way you actually work.
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