Welcome our new rep and gain consultative support. We're pleased to announce that Cary Bohlin has joined us as our new primary TOEIC USA representative. He has over a decade of English language training experience and is happy to provide complimentary consultative support to you. Read more or call Cary now at (202) 776-9657.

How effective are your hiring practices? Employers are focusing too much on hiring costs and too little on long-term match with their needs. Result: 44% say recruits are not satisfactory. Read about this new study in the International Business Times. 

Mastering English as a "couch potato": best practice. You already know that watching English-language television can help improve your students' listening and speaking skills. This blog post from Learning English Online provides several strategies to maximize their success.

Business English site of the month. "The new weekly "Rolls off the Tongue" blog teaches common idioms using cute cartoons along with full explanations and some interactive features.

Order now, use later, and save. Get quantity discounts, then test to suit your own schedule throughout the year. The start of school  is the perfect time to take advantage. Contact Cary Bohlin at (202) 776-9657 or cbohlin@amideast.org for details.

Hidden meanings of pronouns. Small differences in the ways we use words can provide a huge amount of unexpected information about us. Dr. James Pennebaker, chair of the psychology department at the University of Texas, Austin, discusses his research in a fascinating interview published in Scientific American.  

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