Gerund for Work
Your English is not the problem.
The way you use it in the room is.
Most people we work with read and write English better than the people they report to. What costs them is the meeting they stayed quiet in, the email that buried the ask, and a phrase nobody told them had aged.
Three things that hold people back — none of them grammar
Staying quiet in meetings
In many Indian workplaces, waiting to be asked is respect. In a global team it reads as having nothing to contribute — and that reading follows people into appraisals.
Emails that bury the ask
“Hope this mail finds you well” costs you the most valuable line in the message. Your reader decides in two lines whether to act now or later.
Phrases that have aged
“Please do the needful.” “Kindly revert back.” “Myself Ravi.” Understood by a billion people. Quietly expensive with a client abroad.
Start by finding out where you are
Five checks, ten minutes each. Not grammar tests — every option in them is correct English. What differs is what each version signals to the person reading or hearing it.
No sign-in, no email, nothing stored. It runs entirely on your phone.
Three levels
Everyone covers all five strands. The level decides how deep each one goes — and it is set by a fifteen-minute conversation, never a written test.
A written test puts almost every Indian professional in the top level, because they read and write far better than they speak.
“I can handle the predictable parts of my job in English.”
Knows the words and freezes when asked something unexpected. Status updates, asking for what you need, saying when something is late.
“I can handle the unpredictable parts — and disagree without damage.”
Copes until someone pushes back or goes off-script. Clarification without embarrassment, saying no with an alternative, reporting what someone said.
“I can influence — present, persuade, hold a senior room.”
Fluent, but loses the room when it matters. Recommendation first, saying exactly how certain you are, structuring an argument someone can follow.
Five strands
Email and async updates
The ask in line one. Chasing without “gentle reminder”. Writing that reads as senior rather than formal.
Speaking under pressure
Town halls, unexpected questions, the moment you lose your thread. What to say instead of freezing.
Meetings and interjections
Getting the floor. Disagreeing without damage. Closing with who does what by when.
Chat and messages
Never sending “Hi” alone. Tone in a medium with no face. Three-line status updates.
Global fluency
The phrases that have aged, the grammar underneath them, and where each one actually matters.
One hour a week. Two minutes a day.
The session
60 minutes, live, small group. One idea, a board, and everybody speaks. No lecture.
The app
Five sentences from that session. Hear it, say it, hear yourself. Two minutes, any time.
The email
One short summary on Friday. What you worked on, what to try next week. It comes only to you.
Next session
We start with what happened when you used it.
What we do not do
No scores
Nothing is marked. No percentage, no grade, no red flag. You will never be told your English is 72% correct, because that number would mean nothing.
No accent training
The goal is being understood, not sounding foreign. We will never ask you to change how you sound.
Nobody at your company sees it
Not your manager, not HR. Only your trainer. This is not a limitation — it is the reason it works.
If you believed your English mistakes reached your appraisal, you would practise the things you are already good at. Everybody would. So the honest answer is the useful one: this is between you and your trainer.
Who teaches it
Haigreeva Kondury has taught English for fifteen years, and still teaches school students every week — which is where most of this material was tested first. Gerund, the app behind the programme, has over 3,000 questions, all written by him.
Why an Indian teacher, specifically
There are no articles in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil or Telugu. So “I have fever” sounds completely correct to a fluent, educated Indian speaker who writes English every day — there is nothing to transfer from, and the error stays invisible.
The same is true of “Myself Ravi”, “My stomach is paining” and “Please do the needful”. Every one is understood by a billion people. Every one costs a little attention in the wrong room. A trainer who has not lived on both sides of that does not know which ones matter.
What he will tell you honestly
If a fifteen-minute call suggests this programme is not what you need, he will say so. Some people need presentation coaching, or confidence work, or a conversation with their manager — not English training. That is a short call, and it saves everybody a wasted quarter.
Where to start
Take one of the checks. It takes ten minutes, nobody sees the result but you, and you will know more about your own English at the end of it than a brochure could tell you.