One working language, spoken with confidence
When a team spans five offices and three native languages, meetings default to whoever's most comfortable speaking up. Aplora builds the confidence to contribute in the shared working language, not just follow along.
Talk to us about your teamThe problem with 'just pick a working language'
Standardizing on a company working language solves the writing problem instantly, everyone can read an email. It doesn't solve the speaking problem: people can follow a call perfectly and still say nothing, because live back-and-forth is a different skill.
Aplora rehearses the specific moments that make a meeting hard: jumping in, disagreeing politely, giving a clear update, so speaking up stops being the risky part.
A real conversation, not a quiz
Employees rehearse the exact situations their job puts them in, out loud, with an AI tutor that listens, replies, and corrects in the moment. This is what one session looks like.
Standardizing on English alone vs. Aplora for Teams
| Feature | Standardizing on English alone | Aplora for Teams |
|---|---|---|
| Reading & writing | Solved by email and shared docs | Same, plus live speaking practice |
| Live meetings | People go quiet, or default to their first language | Rehearsed meeting and standup scenarios build the confidence to speak up |
| Content | Generic grammar course | Meeting, standup, and cross-team scenarios |
| Time zones | Fixed class times exclude someone | On-demand, any time zone |
| Visibility for managers | None | Usage and progress per person |
What distributed teams will actually rehearse
Not a vocabulary list. Real lines, rehearsed out loud with an AI tutor, until they come out naturally when it counts.
In the standup
- This week I finished...
- I'm blocked on...
- I'll have an update by Friday.
Disagreeing politely
- I see it differently, here's why.
- Can we consider another option?
- I'd like to push back on that.
Before the meeting
- Quick context before we start...
- Let me walk you through the changes.
- Flagging this ahead of the call.
Questions from teams
Do we need to pick one language for everyone?
No. Aplora practices whichever language your team has standardized on, in the scenarios your meetings actually involve.
What if people are at very different levels?
Aplora meets each person at their own level and builds from there, so a beginner and a strong intermediate both get useful practice.
Does this cover written communication too?
The focus is speaking, meetings, standups, live back-and-forth, since that's usually the harder skill for distributed teams, not email.
We read every message ourselves, no automated sales funnel.
Talk to us about your team
No automated sales funnel, we read these ourselves. Tell us a bit about your team and we'll follow up with next steps.
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