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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

Inleiding

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.

Cursusopbouw · 4 modules

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  1. 01 Voordat je je mond opendoet
    3 lessen·1h 18m

    Aantekeningen bezwijken onder druk. Een script niet. Dat is het hele argument van deze module en het is geen stilistische voorkeur — het is wat herhaaldelijk gebeurde met mensen die improviseerden…

  2. 02 Volgorde, en woorden die mensen gebruiken
    3 lessen·1h 32m

    De meeste mensen briefen in de volgorde waarin dingen gebeurden, wat het ene ding dat de zaal nodig had, begrafft. Onopgelost eerst. Dan lopend. Dan voltooid, laatst en kort. En het woord "endpoint"…

  3. 03 So What
    3 lessen·1h 41m

    Je hebt de tool benoemd. Je hebt nooit gezegd waarom iemand erom zou geven. Elke technische uitspraak die je voor een belanghebbende doet, bestaat uit drie onderdelen en je verzendt er één van. Tool,…

  4. 04 When It Goes Wrong Live
    3 lessen·2h 8m

    Tot nu toe werd ervan uitgegaan dat je je zin af kunt maken. Deze module gaat ervan uit dat je dat niet doet. Het eindigt met de volledige sessie — ruwe opname, script, vijf passes, final take, beide…

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