by Olivia Augustin | May 21, 2025 | Business, Featured
Not every project problem is a technical one. Sometimes it’s a missing detail. Other times? Too many details. Misunderstood emails. A nod you thought meant “yes,” but really meant “not quite.” When you’re working on an international engineering team,...
by Olivia Augustin | Jul 3, 2023 | Accents + Dialects, Functional English
There’s the Academie Française, the official guardians of the French Language. There’s High German from the highlands of Germany, which is still considered standard German. There’s “standard” Japanese, the most commonly used form. But there isn’t a standardized...
by Olivia Augustin | Jun 8, 2023 | Business
For non-native English speakers, navigating an international business setting can be daunting. Their brains are constantly on alert, learning jargon and idioms and understanding cultural nuances. Having to shift from being a confident expert to someone struggling to...
by Olivia Augustin | Mar 17, 2023 | Business, HSE, Technical English
You have more impact on health and safety than you think you do as an engineer. We all have beliefs that inform our actions, and these values affect how we communicate and make decisions. Even if you spend most of your time drawing, drafting, and crunching numbers,...
by Olivia Augustin | Oct 3, 2022 | Featured, Functional English
Are you among the many people who believe that learning a new language and engineering are completely different skill sets? Although you wouldn’t be a minority, you’re not entirely right. Your engineering skills can actually help you learn a language. And it’s not...
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