Hello, welcome to our course. My name is Shawn McMinn and I will be one of your instructors throughout the coming weeks. Dalia and Ken and I are extremely excited about you joining us here at Business English Basics. There are two main goals for this course. The first is to introduce you to basic business English skills that we feel you will need in the workplace. The second goal is to enhance your English proficiency skills. Throughout the following weeks, you will be introduced to content that's related to business communications and vocabulary building, grammar problems, and other language learning skills that you will need to improve your English. I said there are two goals for this course. Actually, there are three. The third goal is to build a network of language learners, or a community. That includes you. Our experience has shown that courses like this give you the opportunity to network and learn with other participants in this course, and from around the world. We strongly recommend that you take advantage of courses like this, connect to others through Coursera, Facebook, WeChat, WhatsApp, Skype, it's up to you, you choose. Not only will you be able to meet interesting and new people, but you'll also be able to develop a network of learners, where you'll be able to help each other throughout the course and even beyond the course. This is an excellent way for you to improve your English. Okay, have a look at the materials for this module, which includes a couple of animations that describe this course and lets you know what to expect from us and what we expect from you. And also it'll give you more detail about the English specialization that we've created, that will help you improve both your basic skills in English, but also your spoken, and your written, and your cross cultural understanding in business communications. All right? We're looking forward to working with you. See you soon.