Communicating confidently

If you're an international student, join us at the English Conversation Club to improve your English speaking skills through interactive learning.

The English Conversation Club is designed for international students who want to enhance their conversational English skills. It's a social, fun and relaxed setting where everyone is encouraged to talk, share their experiences, practise their speaking, improve their confidence to talk in public and successfully interact with others.

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Join English Conversation Club

You'll meet new people and make new friends while you practise your English and become a more confident communicator.

Weekly English Conversation Club sessions will help you:

  • improve your conversational English
  • become more confident when communicating with others
  • learn about Australian culture
  • network and make new friends
  • have fun!

As a bonus, undergraduate students get 10 Global Leadership Program (GLP) points for participation if they attend all English Conversation Club sessions across all weeks.

Postgraduate students are welcome to attend but are not eligible for GLP points.

Program overview

The purpose of English Conversation Club is to:

  • Create a safe and relaxed space for students especially international students to enhance their conversational language skills and confidence.
  • Encourage students to engage with MQ by sharing about their lives, experiences and knowledge with other students.
  • Provide an opportunity to network, connect and have fun with other students.

Check this page and visit our Instagram page regularly to get the latest information on our new dates and topics.

Date, time, venue

The English Conversation Club will run from 12pm - 1pm the following days:

  • Tuesday 20 February
  • Thursday 29 February
  • Tuesday 5 March
  • Thursday 14 March
  • Tuesday 19 March
  • Thursday 28 March
  • Tuesday 2 April
  • Thursday 11 April

Mid-Session Break

  • Tuesday 30 April
  • Thursday 9 May
  • Tuesday 14 May
  • Thursday 23 May
  • Tuesday 28 May

An email will be sent out with all of the sessions dates once you register.

Location: Library Building, level 4, room M4.01

Register now

We will send you an email reminder with the venue detail before the session.

Would you like to meet like minded friends at social events? Interested in doing more fun stuff with the Buddies? Come check out one of the Buddy Program events!

What's on

Testimonials

There is nothing better than being in a English speaking club. It's much more than I expected. Join us!

Ju Young Ban (Andy) BCom-ACCG student from Korea

It gives me more chance to speak and learn the culture from different countries, meet new friends and old friends, and develop your mind.

So Chung Kay (Kaize) BCom-ACCG student from Hong Kong

This is what I appreciate from the English speaking club: meeting new friends, interesting discussion topics, improving my English, getting to know about life in Australia and the really nice group leaders.

Yuanye Gao (Paul) BCom-ACCG student from China

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