English for Creative Careers
ALL the language you need to shine!
English for Art Purposes
It’s never the artist’s job to fit in,
but that’s exactly what current language tuition options expect you to do.
Instread, choose specialist coaching in English for Creative Careers.
You Need Better
Most language learning providers do not know the language skills a creative career needs.
At best, they offer a general/business English mishmash, substituted with a vocabulary list for types of pencils.
(At worst, they sell the same course to every client, regardless of their profession).
Most artists, designers, and creatives are asynchronous, visual, or kinetic learners (with a significantly higher number of them than the average neurodiverse).
Classroom structures kill creativity and individuality while trapping you in learner (not-good-enough-to-speak-yet) anxiety.
The Right Learning Conditions
You are not ‘Bad at English,‘ you just haven’t been given the optimal learning environment and conditions to flourish.
Because they are different for everyone, (and most different for artist and creatives).
At True Voice English, we know you will never have the right words – unless your language learning escapes traditional classroom formats and finds real-world conversation you want to join.
You can do it yourelf, but we have English courses for artists and designers that will save you YEARS.
Find your English courses for Creative Careers options below.
Gigs & Jams
We call our services Gigs & Jams because, unlike any other profession, artistic and creative careers are made and broken in formal/informal settings.
You need to impress quickly, share opinions confidently, use words with precision – and at other times let ideas run fast and free to form new shapes wherever they land.
The only way to grow these language skills is to practice them in realistic contexts.
Not in a classroom.
Not speaking to an English teacher who doesn’t get art*.
With other creatives.
*There’s no guarantee that an English teacher who does ‘get art’ will get your art and know what questions to ask.
Image Credit: The Abandoned Trolley Calendar by Cherie Gilruth
What Do You Need?
All True Voice English training options give you a series of specific situations and creative challenges.
It’s practice-led – so you unearth the language you need to describe your work, by… describing your work!
About Practice-led Language Coaching
We need to push you out of your comfort zone and shake up your practice to make sure you:
Stay interested
Online language courses have a 3% completion rate.
Keep pushing language development
If you only ever draw apples it won’t help you talk world politics. We will nudge you in new directions.
Make the practical elements of the course useful to you.
Don’t waste your time and our time with half-hearted efforts. Give the course 100% and you’ll learn a lot more than English!
Guest artist Dana Hardgrove (UK/USA) sharing her sketchbook
Tips on Choosing Your Course
A Practice-Led 12 Week Course in English for Creative Careers
Take Sketchbook English and you’ll speak with professional artists with their own practices to share all aspects of making and presenting art.
In parallel, you will receive targeted ESOL language coaching to correct errors, perfect pronunciation and develop a feel for the conventions of formal/informal/spoken English across different continents.
Last Minute Panic?
Take the other emergency Art for Professional Purposes coaching options only when you have an imminent deadline to meet.
We’ll get you through your interview but the language acquisition is not so thorough or memorable.
Amplify
For creatives needing a boost.
Amplify is a creativity workshop & visibility challenge.
It’s all about showing up in English – but it’s nothing like English ‘lessons’.
Amplify is an art-making challenge designed to take you out of your comfort zone.
Take our 5-Day Amplify Challenge when you need to feel inspiration and excitement for making your art.
Emergency Online Artist Interview & Presentation Coaching
In a hurry?
We offer an afternoon of coaching specifically for presentation development.
- Private 1:1
Choose this option to succeed at interviews and presentations ONLY if you have a deadline within a month.
Pure | Presentation Skills Coaching
- Private 1:1
- Guest experts
Take this online English course and deliver your message with style.
6 weeks of private coaching. No group. No other students.
Workshop your presentation with a mix of English teachers & coaches, ELT-trained creatives — and practising artists & designers.
Don’t Translate Your Work,
Make Your Work
Online English Course Option for Creative Professionals & Visual Thinkers
Helping Artists, Designers, Makers & Creative Thinkers get fluent in spoken English.
- Flexible, ‘blended’ learning (Whatsapp)
- No loss of studio time
- Private 1:1
- Guest experts
Don’t get squeezed into an ill-adapted education model. Creatives:
- learn differently
- need unique language skills
Communicate in professional contexts without inhibitions or limits. Collaborate, travel, exhibit & sell internationally (and be the creative, world-changing force they can be).
Starts April 2025
September: Makers’ Takeover & Design Week
Live immersion English coaching in Scotland based on collaboration, creation, and conversation in English for Art Purposes.
Meet the makers, discover the UK’s/Scotland’s independent creative culture, make connections, promote your work, find exhibition opportunities, meet peers, make work, take workshops, and visit studios…
Features:
- Homestay Host Accommodation*
- Studio Visits
- Gallery Visits
- Journaling for Well-being Workshop
- Communal kitchen
- Whisky Tasting
*Accommodation £25 per night
The Results
We help reatives and thinkers confidently present their work, successfully collaborate and show up as themselves, and build successful international careers because they can express themselves when it matters.