Advanced Conversational English Course

You CAN communicate effortlessly, spontaneously and you DO HAVE a good command of a broad lexical repertoire and there is little obvious searching for expressions and only conceptually difficult subjects MAY hinder a natural, smooth, flow of language. You ARE able to produce clear, smooth-flowing well-structured speech showing controlled use of organizational patterns BUT you still DO NOT demonstrate a degree of precision, appropriateness and ease with the language which typifies the speech of those who have been highly successful learners.  
You are still not able to convey finer shades of meaning precisely by using, with reasonable accuracy, a wide range of modification devices?! Still, You DO NOT have a good command of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms with awareness of connotative level of meaning?! You still CAN NOT restructure around a difficulty so smoothly a native speaker is hardly aware of it?!

If you want to understand with ease virtually everything you hear or read, summarize information from different spoken and written sources, reconstruct arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation, if you want to be able to express yourself spontaneously, very fluently, precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex situations, JOIN US, because this is what we offer opportunities for. 

Expectations and Goals:

5 weeks does not seem a lot, but the intensity of the training will prove it be just enough for you to see the difference in spoken interaction and production between:

• Expressing yourself fluently and spontaneously and taking part in discussions effortlessly; 
• Using language flexibly and effectively for social and professional purposes and expressing finer shades of meaning precisely, backtracking and restructuring around any difficulty of formulation so smoothly that others are hardly aware of it. 
• Presenting clear, detailed descriptions of complex subjects integrating sub-themes, developing particular points and rounding off with an appropriate conclusion and present a clear, smoothly-flowing description or argument in a style appropriate to the context and with an effective logical structure which helps the recipient to notice significant points.

NOTE: No differentiation is made between levels C1 and C2 in terms of grammar, functions / notions. It is assumed that a C2 student will have mastery of all of the points covered in the C1 document and will be able to use them effortlessly and to add subtleties to the language as suggested above.

Classes will be held twice a week (on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 19:30 to 21:30h) during a period of 5 weeks which is a total of 20 hours for 299KM per person. The minimum number of students for course to begin is 6. If we don't form a group with the minimum number of students, the course won't begin on the planned date.