What do you need to be successful in the United States?

You know that English skills are important if you want to be successful in the United States. However, English skills will give you only 50% of the tools that you need to succeed. The other 50% of your success comes from cultural competence.

What is culture?

Culture is made up of our basic values and assumptions about life. It is the way we communicate, how we solve problems and what we consider logical. We might believe that these values and assumptions are shared by people from different parts of the world but in fact, they usually are not. Therefore, without examining culture, we don't even realize that we are all playing the same game (life) with a different set of rules. Learn more about culture...

What is cultural competence?

Cultural competence is a deep understanding of your own cultural identity, cultural values and how those values influence the way that you interact with people in the United States. Through cultural competence, you can also gain knowledge of American cultural values and communication styles and learn how to use that knowledge to be more effective in your professional and personal interactions in the United States.

We offer customized cultural training in Boston and New York.

• Doing business in the United States

• Interviewing in American culture

• Communicating across cultures

• Exploring your cultural identity

• Understanding American culture

• Adjusting to life in the United States and the stages of culture shock

• Helping your family adjust to life in the United States

Hi, my name is Lindsay.

I am the founder and cross cultural expert at English and Culture Tutoring Services. I am passionate about culture and in my own experience living and working new countries, I know that cultural competence is crucial.  I will be your cultural competence coach. We will create a coaching plan that is specifically based on your cultural competence needs.

We offer a unique service.

We strongly believe that both cultural competence and English language skills are necessary for your success in the United States.

Our students receive between 1 and 5 hours of cultural competence coaching in addition to their private English lessons.  We are the only English tutoring company that offers both cultural competence coaching and private English lessons at a time and location that is convenient for you.