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Easy English with Wojciech Szelągowski · 1:1 · online

You’ll know what to say — even when you don’t know what to say.

Fluent English for adults. One to one, on Teams, human to human.

An hour where you do the talking — your topics, your situations, your world. No textbook chapter is waiting for us.

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For you, privately For your work

Wojciech Szelągowski on the phone.

For you, privately

Everyday English

  • Family and friends, neighbours, the school run abroad
  • Travel: the hotel, the airport, “how do I get there?”
  • Culture and cuisine, film and theatre
  • Sport, hobbies, your free time

The confidence to talk — rather than translate in your head first.

For your work

Professional English

  • Board presentations and management meetings
  • Investor pitches and roadshows
  • Negotiations: trade, financial and legal context
  • Conference speaking, panels, Q&A
  • Job interviews with an international employer

I know what a room like that sounds like — and I can get you ready for it.

How the hour works

  • You do the talking.Most of the hour is yours: your topics, your world.
  • Phrases, not word lists.Chunks that belong together — make a decision, take a risk — not word-by-word “student English”.
  • Grammar in context.No rule sheets: we fix the patterns in what you actually say.
  • Natural spoken English.Rhythm, melody and a General American accent, understood the first time.

What you get

  • An agenda before every session.
  • Live feedback: what worked, what to say instead.
  • Your phrases, for your situations — ready to use tomorrow, not a list of single words.
  • The skill of not freezing — one sentence that restarts you when your mind goes blank.

What we work on

Be easy to understand. Stay confident under pressure.

Most lessons lean towards the music of English — the part that makes you clear, not the part that makes you “accent-free”. Tap a point to hear it in a real sentence.

One sentence, four layers

Why rhythm and melody first? In classroom studies, learners trained on them became easier to understand in spontaneous speech, while drilling single sounds alone did not get them there (Derwing, Munro and Wiebe, 1998; Gordon and Darcy, 2022). The accent itself rarely disappears — and it doesn’t need to.

Hear a lesson pattern: cabin crewThe phrases for the job interview, then the same job on board. Whole phrases, not single words.
Transcript
  1. I’m responsible for checking guests in.
  2. Most of my time is spent dealing with guests.
  3. One of the challenges is solving problems fast.
  4. I need to make sure that every guest is happy.
  5. I’d like to work as cabin crew.
  6. I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
  7. Welcome on board.
  8. Can I see your boarding pass, please?
  9. Let me help you with your bag.
  10. Could you fasten your seat belt, please?
  11. Please make sure your seat is in the upright position.
  12. Can I get you anything to drink?
  13. Is everything all right?
  14. Can I help you with anything?
  15. Let me check that for you.
  16. I’ll be right back.
  17. I’m sorry for the delay.
  18. We’ll be taking off shortly.
  19. Please stay in your seat while the seat belt sign is on.
  20. Thank you for flying with us.
  21. Have a nice day.
Melody
Falling or rising pitch. Statements that sound like questions. Pitch, not volume, for emphasis.
Rhythm
English keeps time on stressed syllables; Polish gives syllables more equal weight. Sentence stress and pauses that let people follow you.
Connected speech
Weak forms and the schwa, linking (turn_it_off), the American flap (better, water), small words reduced.
Sounds
Single consonants and vowels: th in think and this, final devoicing (bed is not bet), -ing endings.
Word stress
Long words, stressed in the right place: reSPONsible, PHOtograph but phoTOgraphy.

It doesn’t have to be perfect English. It has to be clear and convincing.

Situations I’ve helped with

  • A finance director before a board. Defending a refinancing plan in English, under real scrutiny. We rehearsed the actual slides and the actual questions.
  • A mid-career manager before an interview. We worked through her own career story — not textbook answers — until she could tell it under pressure.
  • No agenda, just conversation. He wanted to feel at ease talking to people while travelling. That was the whole brief.

Anonymised. Roles and sectors changed where needed.

The practicals

Setting
1:1, on Teams
Length
One hour, yours
Schedule
10:00–21:00, flexible
Level
Intermediate and up
Accent
General American
Privacy
Full confidentiality

Your move

Let’s talk.

Call or write. We start with one hour — if it works for both of us, we agree a rhythm.