Language programmes built for your team
In-company, online, extensive, and intensive training in English, Spanish, French, and Arabic. Designed around your industry, your schedule, and your goals.
Talk to us about your teamWhy generic business English courses fall short
Most professionals already have some English. Many can get through a general meeting, read an email, or introduce themselves at a conference. Where confidence breaks down is when the stakes rise: presenting a technical roadmap to a board, negotiating a clause in a contract, explaining a regulatory position to a visiting auditor, or handling a live incident call with a partner team three time zones away.
Generic business English courses are built for the average learner. They cover broad vocabulary, neutral scenarios, and textbook situations that rarely match what your team actually does at work. A cybersecurity lead preparing for a vendor review gets the same material as a sales manager rehearsing a demo. After twelve weeks, both feel slightly more fluent in English as a general subject, but neither is meaningfully better at the specific job they were hired to do.
That is the gap. And it is the reason we stopped using coursebooks more than twenty years ago.
Training that fits the way your team works
Generic courses teach generic language. Your team needs to negotiate contracts, present to stakeholders, write reports, and handle client calls in their target language. We build programmes around those real scenarios.
Every programme is designed from scratch, taking into account your sector, the team's current level, and the required outcomes.
Language for Specific Purposes: what that actually means
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 learned in general. It is the methodology behind every programme we build, and it is why our outcomes look different from what most corporate learners have experienced before.
We start with your team's work, not with a syllabus
Before we design a programme, we sit down with the team leader and the participants themselves. We ask what the team produces in English on a typical week: reports, presentations, emails, calls, meetings, specifications. We ask where they get stuck. We ask what success would look like six months from now. Then we build the programme around those answers.
The material comes from your actual documents
Rather than using a generic business English coursebook, we take sample material from your team's real work, redacted where needed for confidentiality. That might be a past client proposal, a regulatory filing, an internal technical spec, a board deck, or a recorded team meeting. We turn those documents into learning material: vocabulary lists, discussion prompts, writing exercises, and role plays that mirror the actual language demands your team faces.
Every session has a measurable outcome
"Improved confidence" is not a measurable outcome. "The team can independently lead a quarterly review meeting in English" is. Every programme we build has a set of concrete skills the team should have acquired by the end. We track progress against those skills at regular intervals and adjust the course content if something is not landing.
ESP is not faster because we rush. It is faster because we do not waste the team's time on language they do not need.
Flexible formats for every team
In-company training
We come to your office in Madrid. Group classes tailored to your sector, delivered on your schedule.
Online programmes
Live sessions with our teachers, wherever your team is based across Europe. Same rigour, full flexibility.
Intensive courses
Fast-track programmes for teams preparing for specific projects, events, or deadlines.
Extensive courses
You choose the format and frequency of classes, available for individuals, small or large groups.
Material designed for your industry
A law firm negotiating cross-border deals needs different language skills from an engineering team presenting technical specs. A cybersecurity unit writing incident reports needs different vocabulary from a startup pitching to investors. The gap between "good at English" and "good at your job in English" is wider than most organisations realise until they try to close it.
That is why every programme we design starts from the specific work the team does. In a finance-focused programme, we build around earnings call transcripts, analyst briefings, and the precise language required to discuss risk and regulatory reporting. In a cybersecurity programme, we work with incident writeups, vulnerability disclosures, and live vendor calls. For a legal team, we focus on clause negotiation, cross-border contract drafting, and the vocabulary of disputes and settlements. For startups preparing for international fundraising, we build around investor updates, board packs, and the conversational agility a founding team needs when a due diligence call goes off script.
We build course material around the terminology, scenarios, and communication styles that matter in your sector. A coursebook cannot do that, which is why we stopped using them.
The same rigorous approach across every language
The global default for business. We specialise in English for finance, legal, tech, security, engineering, and public sector.
Essential for teams operating in Spain and across European Spanish-speaking markets.
Critical for operations across France, Belgium, Switzerland, and francophone institutions.
Opens doors across the Middle East and North Africa. Vital for energy, finance, and infrastructure.
What a programme looks like from first call to outcome
Every engagement follows the same phased approach, regardless of the sector or language. The timeline flexes to match the scope and urgency, but the steps do not change.
Discovery call
A short conversation with the decision maker and, where possible, the team leader. We ask about the business context, the specific gaps, the timeline, and what a successful outcome would look like from the company's perspective.
Needs analysis
We meet the learners themselves, either in a group workshop or through short individual interviews. This is where we collect the actual documents, recordings, and scenarios that will shape the programme. We also establish each participant's starting level through a standardised assessment.
Programme design
We build the course outline, the materials, and the lesson-by-lesson plan. We share this with the team leader before anything is delivered so there are no surprises about scope, content, or direction.
Delivery
Sessions run on the agreed format: in-company in Madrid, online for teams elsewhere in Europe, or a hybrid of both. Each session has a defined skill target and practice activity, not just general conversation.
Mid-programme review
Around the halfway point, we check in with the team leader and the participants separately. If the programme is off course, we adjust. If a skill is turning out to be more important than we anticipated, we build more of it into the remaining weeks.
Outcome measurement
At the end of the programme, we reassess against the original skill targets. The team leader receives a written report that compares starting levels, final levels, and the specific competencies acquired.
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Answers to the questions HR and L&D teams ask most
What is Language for Specific Purposes (ESP) training?
Language for Specific Purposes is a teaching approach that builds language skills around a specific professional context rather than teaching language as a general subject. In business, this means designing the course around the real scenarios, documents, and vocabulary a team actually uses at work. It is the methodology behind every programme we deliver.
How long does a corporate language training programme take?
The length depends on the starting level of the team, the depth of the required skills, and the available time. Intensive programmes typically run six to twelve weeks. Extensive programmes run over a full academic year, usually with weekly or twice-weekly sessions. We agree the timeline with the team leader during the initial consultation so the structure fits the business calendar.
Can you train teams outside of Madrid?
Yes. We deliver in-company training to organisations in and around Madrid, and we work with teams across Europe through live online sessions. The methodology, the teachers, and the course design are the same in both formats. Many of our current clients are distributed teams working across several European offices.
How do you measure progress in a language training programme?
We set concrete, observable skill targets at the start of every programme. These might include running a quarterly review meeting independently, writing a clear technical report without review, or leading a client call without a translator present. We assess each participant against those targets at the start, the midpoint, and the end of the programme.
What level does my team need to start training?
We work with teams at any level from A2 upwards. For groups with a wide spread of levels, we either split the group into sub-cohorts or design the programme so activities scale up or down for different participants in the same session. The needs analysis stage establishes each participant's starting point before any course design begins.
What makes Melton different from generic business English providers?
Two things. First, every programme is built from scratch around the team's actual work, not assembled from a standard catalogue. Second, our teachers have been designing sector-specific training for over twenty-five years. We have delivered programmes to government institutions, scale-ups, finance teams, cybersecurity units, and everything in between. That body of experience is what a new provider cannot offer.
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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