SkillExpress
Linguaphone's performance product. Build fluency on your cross-cutting professional communication situations: running meetings, presentations, negotiation, customer relations, oral exchanges.
Our SkillExpress concept
SkillExpress is Linguaphone's performance product. It is designed for employees already close to the required level who need to become more effective in cross-cutting professional communication situations — the ones found in every role: running meetings, presentations, negotiation, customer relations, oral exchanges, phone calls, professional writing.
It is a tailor-made pathway, like all our training programmes. We start from your day-to-day and your priorities, and your native or bilingual trainer calibrates the programme around your real work situations — both what you prepare independently on our digital platform and what you put into practice live with them.
Each situation follows the same framework: 12 hours split into 6 modules of 2 hours, with 50% self-paced work and 50% live practice with your trainer. You then work your way through the situations that genuinely matter for your role, at the pace that suits you.
SkillExpress is available in 9 languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and French as a foreign language.
Good to know: you can combine a SkillExpress with a Booster intensive to work on both performance and level. If you are looking for deeper work on the situations specific to your profession, take a look at SkillPerfect.
Why choose SkillExpress?
Targeted performance
12 hours to become genuinely effective on one communication situation — not a diffuse programme trying to cover everything.
Cross-cutting situations
The situations common to every role: meetings, presentations, negotiation, customer relations, phone, professional writing.
50% self-paced · 50% trainer
Digital preparation upfront, targeted live practice with your trainer. Up to 30% more effective than classic training.
Expert B2B trainers
Native or bilingual, selected for their knowledge of real work situations and professional stakes.
Situations covered
Every SkillExpress pathway is built around the communication situations that matter for your role. They all follow the same format: 12 hours, 6 modules of 2 hours.
Running meetings
Attend, contribute to or lead a meeting, in person or remotely.
Presentations
Build and deliver simple or complex presentations with impact.
Negotiation
Contribute to or lead a negotiation, defend a position, reach agreement.
Customer relations
Hook, build trust, add nuance, handle objections.
Phone & conference calls
Professional calls, conference calls, key spoken expressions.
Professional writing
Emails, minutes, clear and effective professional documents.
Oral exchanges
Communicate with ease during international professional exchanges.
Welcoming visitors
Welcome visitors, give directions, run a site tour.
Professional reading
Read and understand professional documents in your field.
Looking for deeper work on the situations specific to your profession, using your own documents and reference frameworks? Take a look at SkillPerfect.
How it works
A 4-step pathway designed to save you time:
We listen
We gather your needs, your constraints and assess your level.
We build
We design your tailor-made individual pathway.
You train
Independent prep then live practice with your trainer.
We measure
A post-training assessment validates your progress and satisfaction.
Training with Linguaphone means
- Effectiveness: individualised training with content tailored to your needs. You train with native or bilingual trainers who have significant professional experience.
- Flexibility: when you want, where you want. Our digital tools allow you to train while adapting to your schedule and constraints.
- Support: your trainer and a monitoring team ensure the smooth running of your training. They know how to support you to become operational quickly, build confidence and open up new opportunities.
- Trust: Linguaphone has over a century of experience. We are France's leading independent group, experts in language training, and quality certified.
TESTIMONIALS
What our learners say
"My trainer adapted her training materials, content and type of activity to match my requests relating to my professional activity. I was quickly able to learn the vocabulary needed for my professional role."
"I had a negative view of group training, but after this first session, I completely changed my mind. The trainer knew how to put me at ease when speaking English."
"I really appreciated my trainer's teaching approach and his ability to adapt to my expectations: focusing on discussion, listing grammar points to review at the end of each lesson so I could work on them at home. I also appreciated the way my trainer ensured long-term memorisation of new knowledge (repetition, testing...). The lessons were nothing like school and felt more like friendly exchanges on diverse and varied topics."
"The human and pedagogical qualities of the trainers. With this training, I was looking to improve my speaking skills. My trainer knew how to find topics and discussion angles to encourage my oral participation. Thanks to his great open-mindedness, we were able to cover a wide range of subjects, thus promoting the use of various types of expressions and vocabulary. Thank you so much for these fruitful and fine meetings! That was such a pleasure!"
"I had an excellent training experience with my trainer. She is very attentive. I had good TOEIC preparation. I highly recommend."
"The trainer is an excellent teacher who understood what I was looking for and adapted her lessons to my needs. She prepares lessons every time. She has me listen to videos related to the insurance industry, which allows me to learn professional vocabulary useful for my job. I truly feel that these lessons are making a real difference!"
"Excellent trainers: they build confidence, encourage, give lots of valuable advice for working outside of lessons, know how to spot grammar problems and explain the rules. They choose varied working methods and topics. And on top of that, very friendly. I really enjoyed this face-to-face training and have decided to start a new session because I know I am making good progress."
"Great responsiveness from the trainers, quality of the training and availability of each trainer, along with their good humour. My trainer is brilliant and made me forget I was speaking English (incredible)."
"I appreciated everything. I was looking for a discussion where I could listen and respond, and that is exactly what I got with my trainer. I recommend."
"The trainer is patient, a great educator, cultured and open-minded. He adapts and yet gives me the feeling that I am making progress, which encourages me. I always look forward to the next training session."
"I really appreciated the personalised refresher training and the simulation of a presentation during a job interview."
"The teacher was truly attentive and really made sure I progressed over the week, adapting the lessons as my needs evolved."
"The trainer is one of the best teachers I have ever had! She is always in a good mood and funny. She makes you want to learn English and improve. The richness of the programme, the quality and diversity of the teachers... Excellent training."
"The techniques proposed by the teachers to help me improve were perfect. The fact that the trainers were of Mexican origin was a real plus for me, as their Spanish is very clear and their pronunciation is excellent."
"Excellent educators. My trainer is clearly the best English teacher I have ever had in the professional world and even throughout my education. She should teach young children because she would make them want to master a language."
"My trainer adapted her training materials, content and type of activity to match my requests relating to my professional activity. I was quickly able to learn the vocabulary needed for my professional role."
"I had a negative view of group training, but after this first session, I completely changed my mind. The trainer knew how to put me at ease when speaking English."
"I really appreciated my trainer's teaching approach and his ability to adapt to my expectations: focusing on discussion, listing grammar points to review at the end of each lesson so I could work on them at home. I also appreciated the way my trainer ensured long-term memorisation of new knowledge (repetition, testing...). The lessons were nothing like school and felt more like friendly exchanges on diverse and varied topics."
"The human and pedagogical qualities of the trainers. With this training, I was looking to improve my speaking skills. My trainer knew how to find topics and discussion angles to encourage my oral participation. Thanks to his great open-mindedness, we were able to cover a wide range of subjects, thus promoting the use of various types of expressions and vocabulary. Thank you so much for these fruitful and fine meetings! That was such a pleasure!"
"I had an excellent training experience with my trainer. She is very attentive. I had good TOEIC preparation. I highly recommend."
"The trainer is an excellent teacher who understood what I was looking for and adapted her lessons to my needs. She prepares lessons every time. She has me listen to videos related to the insurance industry, which allows me to learn professional vocabulary useful for my job. I truly feel that these lessons are making a real difference!"
"Excellent trainers: they build confidence, encourage, give lots of valuable advice for working outside of lessons, know how to spot grammar problems and explain the rules. They choose varied working methods and topics. And on top of that, very friendly. I really enjoyed this face-to-face training and have decided to start a new session because I know I am making good progress."
"Great responsiveness from the trainers, quality of the training and availability of each trainer, along with their good humour. My trainer is brilliant and made me forget I was speaking English (incredible)."
"I appreciated everything. I was looking for a discussion where I could listen and respond, and that is exactly what I got with my trainer. I recommend."
"The trainer is patient, a great educator, cultured and open-minded. He adapts and yet gives me the feeling that I am making progress, which encourages me. I always look forward to the next training session."
"I really appreciated the personalised refresher training and the simulation of a presentation during a job interview."
"The teacher was truly attentive and really made sure I progressed over the week, adapting the lessons as my needs evolved."
"The trainer is one of the best teachers I have ever had! She is always in a good mood and funny. She makes you want to learn English and improve. The richness of the programme, the quality and diversity of the teachers... Excellent training."
"The techniques proposed by the teachers to help me improve were perfect. The fact that the trainers were of Mexican origin was a real plus for me, as their Spanish is very clear and their pronunciation is excellent."
"Excellent educators. My trainer is clearly the best English teacher I have ever had in the professional world and even throughout my education. She should teach young children because she would make them want to master a language."
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