Effective English Day in Office

@siZidni (1860)
Indonesia
March 3, 2008 9:24pm CST
For those who is not English as your main langguage. Do you have any experience/good practice of English Day implementation in your office? Nowadays, we are implementing english day only in Friday, when all employee must speak english among them. We aim that with this program all employee will gain improvement in their english speaking ability. and gain more vocabulary. What do you think friends? would you share any experience?
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7 responses
• China
4 Mar 08
Yeah, it is really a good way to improve your English, especially if there are some English native speakers.*_* I speak English much less than when I was in my college, because we usually communicate with our overseas customers by emails. International call fee is too high:( Gradually I find that it is even difficult for me to open my mouse! My English became silence!:( One day suddenly a call from a new customer of Belgium came upon me and I was too nevers to deal with it! So now I am trying to improve my Enghlish, one way is here to chat with freinds all over the world, and in my spare time, I watch English movies and listening to some English materials. What if I have a best freind of English native speaker in my daily life!
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@siZidni (1860)
• Indonesia
5 Mar 08
Did you study abroad? i wish i had been studied abroad too. your english seems very good. Chat with native speaker absolutely give us high impact improving our speaking ability in a good way.
@siZidni (1860)
• Indonesia
13 Mar 08
that's not a joke. yours is very good. do you know some native speaker who could be invited to my company to give some english coach? i am one of team member for english day in my company. please advise me so if you have one. (rate "+" yah utk stiap posting gw) thx anyway
• China
5 Mar 08
Hehe, so glad to hear your praise, thank you very much. I wish I had been studying abroad too, but actually, it is just a wish or a dream, for I cannot afford it now! Sent by company or government is fantastic, but I am not the lucky bird.:-( My major was international business English, that is why I can chat here. But, still far far away from a good English speaker! Let's learn it together!*_*
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@yona06 (585)
• Indonesia
13 Mar 08
We use english every minute all day long at my office. it's a must because most of our clients are foreign people. I even correspond in english with my boss because he wants us to have excellent english, although he's an indonesian himself.
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@siZidni (1860)
• Indonesia
13 Mar 08
wow, isn't hard to speak in language that is our mother tounge every minutes? lidah gw bise kelibet2 tuh He2 but anyway i dream of that environment actually. do you have an idea how to make a refreshment english class for employee? as a member of english day team, i am responsible to coach employeee to have better english knowledge in a class room.
@yona06 (585)
• Indonesia
13 Mar 08
there are a lot of ways to learn english. reading groups are good, you make a group that reads together each taking turns to read out loud (an english book of course), then you can discuss the book later on. or.. watch hollywood movies without the text, if someone gets lost... you can ask one another. a more fun way is to play a game that uses a lot of your linguistic skills like some kind of guessing game.
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@siZidni (1860)
• Indonesia
24 Apr 08
thx yona. that's really great.. now i am preparing myself to conduct an employee coaching tomorrow afternoo. Wish me goodluck!
@diansinta (7544)
• Indonesia
1 Apr 08
I use english every day. Because this Internet cafe is placed at the busiest Kuta, every day tourist come inside and try to ask and talk to me. I can chat with them if they are friendly and not busy. One guest an old lady trying to talk with me with french language. ?? ?? ?? I really don't know what is she talking about. Her name is mama Paullete Lapuyade. Even thought she using another language that i don't know, we connecting just fine. I even got a kiss and hug from mama Paulette. hhh,... i miss her... she gave me a key chain from Korea last time. I really don't want the present, but she is so warm person. Make me more miss her. may be i must learn some france, so i can send her an email, or some thing.
@diansinta (7544)
• Indonesia
4 Apr 08
Thank you very much sidZini. I hope you are successful too.
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@siZidni (1860)
• Indonesia
4 Apr 08
good for you. so dian sinta you are running a warnet business? what a good business at busiest place and many tourist there. hope you run it well.
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@Dasari100 (3791)
• Anantapur, India
7 Apr 09
I am not native English speaker but now i am able to speak and write with anyone so i have my own group which supposed to speak in English only.
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@siZidni (1860)
• Indonesia
7 Apr 09
thx dasari how do you learn english so you can write and speak english well. do you practice it daily? where do you live anyway? if you live in a country that speaking english i bet you will learn it fast
@Dasari100 (3791)
• Anantapur, India
17 Apr 09
I have a group of friends so all the people passion about the language so when we meet so we suppose to speak English then if anyone makes mistakes in line or word so right away feed back will be there so certainly i learned good English.
@Kalistha (15)
• Indonesia
24 Apr 08
due to i'm one of yaour company's member so i follow the rules to use english language every friday. i like that program, we can practice our english, adding new vocabulary, and practice our pronounce.
@siZidni (1860)
• Indonesia
24 Apr 08
aha there you go again Kalistha. i love when i see your profile around here. it means i earn more money he2 yes you have to speak english or i say go out of the office hi2
@lellyp (245)
• Indonesia
16 Jan 09
No, but when am talking with boss we communication use English language. With another people we talking in Bahasa. So for improve my English language am talking with my boss, my bf and my chatting friends. That really good for me.
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@siZidni (1860)
• Indonesia
17 Jan 09
that helps too. practising more and more your english will make it better and better. keep practising lellyp
@goldic (26)
• Indonesia
4 Mar 08
Yup, that is the best way to improve our English skills. But unfortunately that not happen in my office. Everybody still use our main language. But at least I still have a regular communications with my colleague on Germany and Singapore for discussing jobs problem. Everything in English. So for now, improvement can get from that way.
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@siZidni (1860)
• Indonesia
4 Mar 08
Thx Goldic yes, that what we found in our office, if there is a phone call from abroad, employee has problem in responding the call. they'll find the good one for responding the call. that's actually very bad image for our company