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Career English Learner Resources

As a Career English learner, you are interested in communicating in English for your job. You need to know the correct forms of English used on the job such as letters, vocabulary and more. Things like slang, advanced grammar formulations, etc. are not so important to you. Here are some recommend resources to begin getting the most out this site for your style of English learning.

Basic Business Letters
A guide to the basics of writing business letters including common salutations, requests and an example letter.

Writing a Cover Letter
The cover letter should always be included when sending your resume or CV for a possible job interview. This letter of application serves the purpose or introducing you and asking for an interview. Here is an outline to writing a successful cover letter.

Making an Enquiry - Asking for Information
We write an enquiry when we want to ask for more information concerning a product, service or other information about a product or service that interests us. Includes standard letter formation and the most common language formulas used to make an enquiry.

Responding to an Enquiry - Request for Information
Responding to a request for information or enquiry. Includes standard letter formation and the most common language formulas used when responding to an enquiry.

How to Write a Business Letter
The basics for most business letters are the same. Use this guide to help you write an effective business letter.

Business/Banking Abbreviations
Interactive tool supplying over 300 definitions to the most commonly used business and banking abbreviations. Choose the abbreviation from the list and click for a definition.

How to Translate a Text Quickly in to English
Use the power of the Internet to translate either text OR an entire Internet page quickly from English into your native language, or vice versa.

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