Thank you to the Danang Union of Friendship Organization's Vietnam-US Society, Young Business People Association Danang City, the Vietnam government, The University of Danang, Georgetown University, the U.S. Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, and the U.S. Department of State's English Language Program for their collaboration to make this project possible.
The project offers two courses that meets twice a week online for fifteen weeks, for a total of sixty hours of instruction. One course consists of communicative English and basic writing skills for professionals in government offices, while the other course teaches English for business and entrepreneurship to professionals.
This course is designed to help professionals and entrepreneurs improve their English competence via discussion based classes on topics related to doing business and start-ups. Topics include networking, writing surveys questions, business vocabulary, and creating then pitching a business plan.
This course teaches communicative English and basic business writing skills for professionals in government offices. Suggested topics include: greetings and introductions in business settings, conferences, diplomatic english in meetings with foreign partners, telephone calls, drafting emails, and business writing etiquette.