English lessons

Research shows that miscommunication is usually due to mispronunciation (or a lack of vocabulary) and not deficiencies in grammar or fluency. Clarity of speech is sadly overlooked in many schools and universities. Melanie Hussell is the only Business English teacher in Belgium whose English lessons focus on this key language competence as she believes it is essential.

Melanie’s online platform contains a full pronunciation course around the 44 English sounds, word stress and common mispronunciation errors made by business professionals. She focuses on areas of pronunciation that affect global intelligibility. Meaning are you understood? This is especially important when communicating across geographical borders.

She loves empowering multinationals with their English and has helped French and Dutch speakers and Portuguese, Turkish, Romanian, Argentinians, Chinese and counting.

If you would like more information about Speak Up, Melanie’s company, her additional (vocabulary, meeting language, grammar are standard) areas of expertise as an English teacher, such as presentation skills, and access to useful resources, please click here to Melanie’s About page.