Most English courses sort you by level: A2, B1, C1. That works when your goal is “better English”. It works badly when your goal is one specific thing — a presentation in six weeks, a client call you keep avoiding, incident reports that keep coming back for corrections.
A tailor-made one-to-one course starts from the task instead. We ask what you have to do, when, and in front of whom, and build the syllabus backwards from that.
What people actually ask for
These are real shapes of request, not a menu we invented:
- Communication with Aged Australians for Medical Professionals — idiom, indirectness, hearing loss, family in the room. Clinically competent, stuck on the human part.
- Presenting at a conference in English — one talk, a fixed date, and the need to survive the Q&A rather than read a script.
- Filming stories and reels in English for your own business — small business owners who want to sell to English-speaking customers on camera and freeze the moment they press record.
- English for Aged Care and Disability Support Workers — handover, documentation, escalating a concern, difficult conversations with families.
- Professional Communication for Engineers — site meetings, written scopes, explaining a technical decision to a non-technical client.
- Business Writing for Client-Facing Roles — emails that land, proposals that read as confident, saying no without damage.
- English for Automotive Technicians — workshop English, customer explanations, and the exam bands sponsored staff need for permanent residence.
- Job interviews in Australia — the thirty-second lift version, STAR answers, and what an Australian panel is actually listening for.
If your request is not on this list, that is normal. The list is examples, not limits — the course is built from what you bring.
How it works
- Tell us the task. What you have to do, by when, and what currently goes wrong.
- We measure where you are. A 30-minute one-to-one diagnostic gives a real starting point and an honest number of weeks — not a guess.
- We write the syllabus around the task. Named for the professional skill, with the work situations it covers listed explicitly.
- You work one-to-one with a teacher who has done this before, 60 minutes a session, online, in your time zone.
Why the name of the course matters
Because someone other than you often reads it. A manager approving professional development budget, or an accountant deciding how to treat the expense, sees the course title first. “General English Intermediate” reads as personal. “Communication with Aged Australians for Medical Professionals” reads as work.
So every tailor-made course we build is named for the professional skill it targets, the invoice carries that title with dates and amount, and the description lists the work tasks it improves. Whether a given expense is deductible, or payable by your employer, is a question for your own tax agent or your employer's finance team — but the documents are there to have the conversation with. How to make that request is covered here.
Prices
| Format | Price (AUD) |
|---|---|
| First lesson, to see if it fits | $29 |
| 1 lesson per week | $65 per week ($65 per lesson) |
| 2 lessons per week | $124 per week ($62 per lesson) |
| 3 lessons per week | $180 per week ($60 per lesson) |
| 4 lessons per week | $220 per week ($55 per lesson) |
| Package of 10 lessons | $550 instead of $600 |
| Two people learning together | from $78 per week for the pair |
A short, sharply defined course — one presentation, one exam component, one recurring work situation — typically runs 8 to 20 sessions. Longer programs exist where the goal is broader.
What we will tell you honestly
If the diagnostic shows your English is already sufficient for the task, we will say so and suggest the minimal polishing instead of selling a course. If the deadline is unrealistic for the gap, we will say that too, before you pay.
Book the 30-minute diagnostic ($29, credited toward your first month if you enrol within 7 days), or describe your task and we will tell you what the course would look like.