BUSINESS ENGLISH FOR PROFESSIONALS & TEAMS IN THE NETHERLANDS & ONLINE

Personalized Business English for company teams.


Lessons built around the work your team actually does.

I help companies turn "good enough" English into confident, on-the-job English, one weekly class at a time.

★★★★★ 5.0 · 500+ lessons taught

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Most courses teach generic English. I do the opposite.

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I build every lesson around what your team actually does: the emails they send, the calls they take, the clients they serve, and the words their industry uses.

A logistics team learns to run a shipment in English.

A sales team learns to pitch.

Two ways to work together

FOR COMPANIES

Team Training

Weekly group classes tailored to your team and level, on-site around Rotterdam and Amsterdam or online. Every program is quoted to fit.

FOR PROFESSIONALS

1-on-1 Coaching

Private lessons built around your job and your goals, using the language of your career as the material.

WHAT MAKES IT PERSONALIZED

Your business is the cirriculum


Your emails

Real messages your team writes, rewritten clearer and more confident.


Your calls

Practice for the meetings and phone calls they take every week.


Your clients

Role-plays built on the customers and partners they actually serve.


Your industry

The vocabulary your field uses, not a textbook's.

Who I work with


  • Small and mid-sized companies with international staff

  • Teams newly working with English-speaking partners or owners

  • Professionals who need English for a new role, interview, or move

  • Lessons available online or in-person in the Randstad (Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Den Haag, Utrecht, and everywhere in between)

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What learners say

★★★★★ 5.0 · 500+ lessons taught


"He knows how to make you feel comfortable and organizes lessons around your needs."

— MARCO

"Always interesting and well prepared, with a friendly, comfortable atmosphere."

— BOGNA

"Timothy observes you and, through that, manages the class better. The guy is very smart!"

— ALDAIR

"The lessons feel smooth and personalized."

— VLAD

ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm TJ O'Brien.

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I'm a native English speaker from the United States, now based in Rotterdam.

Before founding TJ Teaches English, I spent over a decade as a professional foreign language tutor and four years as a high school teacher in Philadelphia, managing full classrooms and writing my own curriculum from scratch.

Today I bring that same personal approach to professionals and company teams across Europe and beyond.

  • Native English Speaker from the United States

  • Level 5 TEFL Certified

  • Professional Educator

  • Master’s Degree

Let’s talk about you.

Everyone has different needs, so every program is quoted to fit.