So if you are one of the millions who dream of being a nurse in London or an IT professional in the United States, you must seriously give ample attention and focus in mastering English (i.e. its grammar or correct usage). You might think that speaking basic, conversational English is enough. The truth is that emphasis on correct, decent, and business-like usage is what counts at the end of the day.

So while still working on your college education or gaining ample work experience in your own country for that career-abroad-dream, you better start equipping yourself with a competent command of the English language prior to your interview for *visa application*. The one who starts ahead will most likely see the greener pastures sooner than those who do not.

For basic English training, a lot of online courses specializing on grammar and pronunciation are available. www.upei.ca offers a competent training program starting with a diagnostic examination to determine the student's competencies and weaknesses which will be given more concentration. This makes the program a personalized, needs-based training. The program will then proceed to identifying the most common problems on the student's use of English and solving these through the succeeding stages of the program. Usually, the first two steps are followed by the identification of the different parts of speech concentrating on their functions in different contexts, the correct way of putting these parts of the speech together (phrase and sentence structures), identifying and solving commonly encountered problems in sentence formation (parallelism, modification, pronoun reference, subject-verb agreement, voices, tenses, etc.) and the use of correct style. The whole course costs $267.50 and has a duration of eight weeks. However, the program is a non-credit course.