Professional, Technical & Specialist Vocabulary
Language for the things people actually do: manage teams, run an office, design clothes, sew garments, sail offshore, work with engines and structures, report the news, represent a country, or communicate safely in offshore oil & gas environments.
Choose a language
English
24 specialist modules
French
24 specialist modules
Spanish
24 specialist modules
Italian
24 specialist modules
German
24 specialist modules
Explore the specialist areas
Management
2 modules in each learning language
Office
1 modules in each learning language
Fashion
3 modules in each learning language
Sailing
9 modules in each learning language
Professions
1 modules in each learning language
Media
2 modules in each learning language
Engineering
2 modules in each learning language
Offshore
4 modules in each learning language
Make the page work harder for you
A strong language lesson should give you more than a list of phrases. Use this page as a starting point for a real exchange: decide who you are speaking to, what you need to achieve and what could change during the conversation. Say your first answer aloud, then repeat it with one extra detail so the language becomes flexible rather than memorised.
Focus: real situations, useful follow-up questions and natural reformulation.
Build the situation in four steps
Start with one clear message. Add a useful detail such as time, place, priority, preference or risk. Ask one follow-up question. Finish by confirming what happens next. If the page is professional, imagine the same exchange with a colleague and then with a client or supervisor; notice how tone, precision and responsibility change.
Keep practising beyond the first answer
Try the same situation again with one detail changed. A missed connection, a different deadline, a new passenger need, a weather change or an unexpected technical problem forces you to retrieve language instead of simply reading it. That is where the lesson becomes useful in real life.