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Extraordinary
executive coaches and extraordinary language coaches
Online business leadership resources and online
cross-cultural resources
Translators, translation
resources and localisation agencies
Online
dictionaries and general information resources and
writing services
Central
London universities and Further Education colleges
Language learning worldwide and other education directories
Online language learning resources and online
academic English resources
Extraordinary executive coaches
Paul
Gillespie, Partner at Good Values
Consultant, strategist and CEO mentor
in Corporate Social Responsibility, NGO strategy and marketing, and Corporate-NGO
bridge-building
Brownstone
Executive Coaching
Barbara Phillips, NLP practitioner and coach specialising
in high-achieving, high-powered women
Start
Your Executive Coaching Practice
Start your own life coaching, business
coaching, or executive coaching practice.
Christine
Nancarrow, Therapist
Qualified and specialised professional in CBT (Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy) and a range of other integrated practices, to treat anxieties,
dysfunction, grief, phobias, depression and other disorders, with psychotherapy
based in using imagery, self-instruction, and related integrated techniques to
alter distorted attitudes and perceptions
Nadina
Al-Jarrah, Intercultural Therapy
An intercultural approach to Psychotherapy
and Counselling which recognises that belonging, identity, social background and
culture are at the forefront of our experience
Online
relaxation and stress management advice
Time Management - Improve time management skills and practices. Learn time management principles to get organized, increase your productivity, and make better use of your time.
Liz
McKechnie
Coach in creativity and innovation, personal impact and presentation
skills, with a wealth of experience in designing and delivering courses in developing
actors, using a range of vocal and physical techniques
Felix
Callens
Trainer in transactional analysis
Rasheed
Ogunlaru, Life coach & speaker
To identify, action and achieve life,
career, business or relationship goals. Clients include entrepeneurs, performers,
healers, teachers and professionals
Extraordinary language coaches
Tony Corballis is the Language Coach
for Leaders
Dora Lafkas,
Australian-based language training consultant
Dora Lakfas MA (TESOL),
Cert TEFLA, Grad Dip Ed, BA is a professional with an astonishing track record
as a language coach and consultant in training. Tony and Dora collaborate on:
solutions brainstorming and sharing best practice in curriculum development
joint project development and collaborative publishing
referrals
and professional cooperation
Cher
di Boscio
Language support for psychology and the social sciences; academic
tutor to A Level and GCSE learners; and published travel
writer
Neil Robbie,
teacher trainer and developer
Neil leads a team at possibly the world's
oldest and most prestigious academic English provision, IFCELS
at SOAS, University of London.
Rehan
Kularatne
Conversation on the history of language, culture and the arts
- based in the heart of London's West End
Matt
Murphy is The English Language Coach for Footballers.
If you feel
you are an extraordinary language coach with a specialisation in a certain niche,
then please contact me and let me know whether and why your link should be included
here.
Online leadership resources
Cooperative
Resources International Coping with organisational change
Traditional
leadership
Leadership
theory
Transactional
& transformational 1
Transactional
& transformational 2
New
managers becoming leaders
Non-profit
organisation leadership
Leadership
coaching for non-profits
Leader
success
Sports
leadership models
Leadership
characteristics 1
Leadership
characteristics 2
Leadership
characteristics 3
Leadership
characteristics 4
Leadership
characteristics 5
Classical
models of leadership
Online cross-cultural information
Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions The sometimes criticized but universally-referenced guru of cross-cultural awareness, Hofstede provides on his site useful systems for measuring and analysing cultural and country differences.
Culture applied to companies Schein is a great figure in applying anthropology and cross-cultural study to organisations. This article is particularly focussed on leadership.
The many dimensions of culture, by Triandis. Triandis is a major thinker in cross-cultural psychology.
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
China and Chinese Business Ettiquette
Cross-cultural
information on Japan
Anecdotal
information on Japanese etiquette
Visiting
Japan: essential information
Spanish
cross-cultural and expatriate information Spanish cultural information for
expatriates and visitors to the Costa Blanca
Conflict
resolution and cross-cultural communication Educational programs: conflict
resolution, restorative justice, employment skills for youth & cross cultural
communication and mediation
Cross-cultural
awareness through volunteering Links to international volunteer programmes
around the world to learn cross-cultural empathy. One such organisation Cross-cultural
Solutions sends you to Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ghana, Guatemala, India,
Peru, Russia, Tanzania or Thailand.
Cross-Cultural Understanding: The American Ghost Aspects of non-verbal communication have codes or signals that have to be deciphered because they point to hidden systems of cultural belief and have ideological significance. Monica Rector focuses on non-verbal aspects of behaviour, 'transforming into words some ghosts of the American culture'.
Cross-culture and website communication A cross-cultural analysis of websites from high-context cultures and low-context cultures, by Elizabeth Wurtz
Promoting cross-cultural news and information Multimedia international broadcasting service
Race
relations links
If you would like to add your webpage containing
cross-cultural information to this list of links, please contact me.
Translation services
Use Systran to translate a block of text
Translators'
Cafe
translatorsbase.com
Simultaneous Interpretation - ABPT provides both the interpreters, and the electronic equipment necessary to ensure effective and seamless simultaneous interpretation.
Chinese-English
Translation
English
to French freelance translator
german-english-translator.com
English
to German Translator
German
Translations
Professional Translation Services Agency - Translation services
by native speaker translators in different languages at reasonable prices
Russian Translation
USA
Professional translation services between Russian and English - includes
technical translations and business/personal correspondence
Language
Interface Inc
Provider of English-Russian translation solutions: translations,
interpreting, dual-language databases, computer-based and Web-based training
Lingo24
A wide
range of high quality translation services between all major world languages:
Lingo24 has a global blue chip client list
Spanish
Translations - Translation Agency
Translation agency in USA. Translate
Spanish to any language! Website and software localization
Strictly
Spanish Translation Services
Provides quality English to Spanish translations,
proofreading, editing and website translation
Translation
Service Spanish
Translation services company offering high quality Spanish
translation services at an affordable price:
Spanish translation into a wide
range of languages
English
To Portugese Translator
BB Portugese has a team of professional translators
who provide quality English to Portuguese translation services to virtually every
industry segment.
Translation
Agency
New Zealand Translation Company - Translation Services - Translation
Agency - New Lingo
Language
Translation Services
At 7 Brands, we are proud to offer you translation
services for languages currently used in more than 250 countries.
Free
Translation
Regional localization agencies
elocalize.com
Arabic localization: translation, DTP, web content, help compilation and testing
Online dictionaries
Webster's
Online Dictionary
Wiktionary
A democratically-produced dictionary of definitions and translations
A dictionary of British
slang and colloquialisms
CobuildDirect
Corpus Sampler
A concordancer that can search for collocations (words that
typically go together).
British
National Corpus Concordancer
Provides examples of a chosen word or phrase
from the British National Corpus, giving the whole sentence and where the word
is in that sentence.
Hong
Kong University VLC Web Concordancer
The
History of English
International
English from a British perspective
iTools
Language Tools
Word finding tools and dictionaries of many types
Your.Dictionary.com
Specialist
subject and language dictionaries
The
BBC's pages on accents
Interpret
Internet and mobile slang at Noslang.com
Translate
British slang into American English
A
comprehensive directory of bilingual & multilingual dictionaries
Spanish dictionary
Authoritative Spanish Dictionary
of the Real Academia Espanola
Translation
corpus based on parallel Portuguese and English texts
General information resources
Find Articles An amazing resource to locate articles which are often not found googling
Business Books Review Each year BBR summarizes and reviews only the very best business books.
Xrefer is a provider of reference services for libraries and information centres with access to dictionaries, encylopaedias and such.
Bartleby
is an incredible and unlimited gateway to books online, free of charge.
Writing services
Case
study writer Learn how to write a white paper and case study. The white paper,
case study & technology writer guy is Gordon Graham, an award winning writer with
25 years in technology. He can help you build your white papers on facts, not
fluff.
Tony Corballis
Editing, proofreading, writing and copywriting services
Richard
Woulfe is a writer and dramatist, whose plays have been produced in London
on both stage and radio. He is also a theatre reviewer for uktheatre.net
See extracts, synopsis & cast list of his latest play, "The
Value of Words", a fictitious account of conversations between Ben Jonson
(the playwright) and Sir Robert Cecil (James I's Secretary of State).
Central London universities
(where Tony Corballis has recently or currently teaches, coaches, trains or writes courses)
School
of Oriental and African Studies, at the University of London
Middlesex
University
Kings
College London, at the University of London
London
Metropolitan University
University
of the Arts
Aga Khan
University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
London Further Education colleges
Westminster
Kingsway College: located very centrally
The
College of North West London: excellent and committed teachers - Tony Corballis
has worked here and witnessed a dedicated and high quality provision.
The College of North East London
Southwark
College: excellent language preparation for overseas medical professionals
- Tony Corballis used to manage this and othher departments at Southwark College.
Lewisham College
City and Islington College
Lambeth
College
Hammersmith
and West London College
Recommended private colleges
International
House London
Private
Tutors London A professional private tuition agency based in the London area
with well experienced, qualified and highly educated tutors.
Online general English resources
Ted Power is the ELT man with resources on just about everything!
Listen to English is a great site for using podcasts (with scripts) to quickly improve your English.
Joe-Flo's
Practice Cambridge Exams (Advanced level - also try Proficiency)
ACL: Australian
Centre for Languages (Tony Corballis has developed content on this site)
Capital
Community College: Grammar for advanced writing
UsingEnglish.com
Useful learning materials
BBC
World Service: Learning English
English
Daily ESL resources for non-native English speakers
Real-English.com
Free video-based interactive ESL
Randall's
ESL Cyber Listening Lab
Advanced
grammar
English
Learner
Daily
Grammar
Dave's
ESL Cafe
British
Council listening exercises
English
Study Direct
The
English Club
Online
English Grammar
English
Listening Lounge
English
as a Second language - Kenneth Beare
Grammar
Safari at the Intensive English Institute, University of Illinois
This
site encourages you to work out grammar rules for yourself!
Punctuation
Made Simple. By Gary A. Olson
Online academic writing resources
University
of Hertfordshire: English for Academic Purposes Impressive and comprehensive
advice, materials and exercises by Andy Gillett at the University of Hertfordshire
(recommended by Tony Corballis who met Andy at a BALEAP
conference).
The
Centre for English Language Teacher Education at the University of Warwick
provides advice and exercises.
BALEAP
is the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes.
It is a network of centres where EAP is taught within British Universities. BALEAP
has links to useful resources including EAP website and journals.
Middlesex
University: English Language and Learning Support for students in higher education
Middlesex's very thorough academic English support is offered electronically on
their 'Oasis' pages. Tony Corballis has written materials for both Oasis and for
various Middlesex University courses.
The Australian Centre for Languages
(ACL),which provides
fast quality-assured pathways for international learners to enter the Australian
university system. Tony Corballis has written extensive content for them, found
in their curriculum suite at aclenglish.com
The Writing Lab & The OWL at Purdue (Purdue University) is a great online resource for academic English and is growing every day.
The Virtual Language Centre can help you develop your writing with a self-access guide.
Writing at the University of Toronto
Academic Writing Self-Access Page (from Central European University, Hungary) An interesting site. Links to guides on writing research papers, putting together literature reviews, writing position papers, preparing oral presentations etc.
The Columbia Guide to Online Style
University of Kansas: Research Papers
Turning
an Academic Essay Into a Research Article: University of Toronto Health Sciences
Writing Center
Penning The Past: Advice on Writing in the Historical
Disciplines
Department
of History, Brown University
Postgraduate Research in Law: University of Wollongong
Writing
a Sociology Paper: Dartmouth Writing Program
Political
Science: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
How to write a Literature Review: University of Queensland
Using
Sources in your Writing: Colorado State University
Plagiarism:
How to avoid it. Indiana University
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet. Johns Hopkins University
The Fundamentals of Critical Reading and Effective Writing. By Dan Kurland
Thesis Proposals: The difference between MA and PhD research. University of New South Wales
The PhD Thesis, by Joseph Levine
Other learning links: worldwide
Experience total immersion in English with a homestay in New Zealand. Email for details.
Business Schools Explore a worldwide directory of MBA programs and business schools that includes admission tips, scholarship links, and glossary of terms.
Language schools Worldwide | Spanish French Italian Language Schools First Step offers certified language immersion programs around the world. Learn Spanish, Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese or Greek in numerous travel destinations worldwide.
Language Schools in Italy and France Cactus Education offers unique language portal that allows you to search for language courses all over the world.
Summer Study Abroad Program GSE offers summer study abroad programs in Europe.
Learn
Japanese Learn Japanese with FREE Daily Podcasts.
Spanish only:
Spanish Language Training We specialize in providing the best Spanish language training that ensures success. Learn Spanish Language in London with us consists of a series of 8 or 12 hour one to one training days.
Spanish
Language schools in Latin America If you are searching for quality Spanish
language schools, IMAC is recognized as one of the finest in Latin America.
Learn Spanish in
Peru Travel to Lima and learn Spanish at El Sol. Six levels offered in Spanish
study, plus homestays, volunteer opportunities and more.
Spanish
Learning, Spain Learn Spanish with CLIC IH and improve your day to day knowledge
of the Spanish language at all levels.
Seville
Spanish School Seville Spanish School Services. Learn all about the wide range
of services made available to students at Enforex Seville.
Spanish School in Alicante Alicante Spanish School Services. Learn all about the wide range of services made available to students at Enforex Alicante.
Enforex Spanish Schools Enforex Spanish Language Schools in Spain. Study Spanish in 10 destinations and mix and match if you'd like! 20 types of Spanish programs with accommodation, excursions, activities and the best teaching staff in Spain.
Learn Spanish Learn Spanish. Language offers - Spanish language resources developed by Spanish teachers to learn Spanish online free and Spanish language courses in Spain and Latin America.
Learn Spanish A great way to learn Spanish for free
Notes
in Spanish
Learn in your own time: using podcasts and worksheets from
Marina Diez and Ben Curtis.
