“What level of English do I need to work remotely with international companies?” This is the most frequent question I get about remote work.

I usually answer that it should be confident and it’d be good to have some prior experience communicating with foreigners. But what is considered “confident”? It doesn’t mean you should speak it perfectly well with no mistakes, mistakes are ok as long as they don’t make it hard for people to understand you.

Your speech can be very simple but it should be fluent enough for people to understand you with no extra effort your comprehension skills should be strong enough so that you could understand both what people ask of you both verbally and in writing.

There is no secret sauce to learning languages other than frequent practice but there is a way to speed it up and maximize the progress over time by either moving to an environment where where people speak this language or by at least taking lessons from a native speaker.

I’ve partnered up with Antishkola to tell you about the benefits of learning foreign languages with teachers who are native speakers. I have shared my experience and thoughts and I hope they are helpful.

You can also use my code to REMOTEEVERAFTER to get an additional lesson if you sign up for any of their courses.
Disclaimer, the article is in Russian. Here is the link to the article.