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Imagine you have to quickly write down a difficult business english word in a meeting. Or maybe a name or email address. Do you struggle to tell the difference between I and E? Here's an easy spelling trick I share with all students that find this hard. They tell me it works great so I want to share it with you too. 

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Imagine you start working in a new company. You meet another senior manager and you want to invite them for a coffee and find out more about what they do. What are the best ways to do this? I share with you 3 natural business English phrases used by native speakers. This snippet was inspired by a recent question from a client.

Advanced vocabulary breakdown:

• To put someone on the spot - force someone into a difficult or awkward situation,like saying yes or not to something.
• It would be great to..
• To grab/get a coffee
• At somepoint

Are you starting a new job where you will be using your English communication? Say hello on LinkedIn and let me know. It would be great to hear from you.

About Little Snippets: Mini episodes with to-the-point business communication tips to keep you learning and moving forward before the start of the brand new season of Confident Business English on 25th September 2024

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Have you got an interview coming up? Or maybe you will in the future? Doing an interview can be one of the most pivotal points in your career when you have to use your English. It could literally mean getting the job or not. Here as a guest today to offer their expert insight is Clare Whitmell from Smart English Coach. 

Clare will give you practical guidance and frameworks about how to answer 3 of the most common interview questions:

1. Tell me about you.
2. Tell me about a time when..
3. What are your strengths and weaknesses

Definitely worth the 14 minute listen! 

Clare's Links:

English At Home

Smart English Coach 

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This is the 2nd in a series of podcasts dedicated to the things that you want to learn about the most. This was suggested by a listener and I think it's a great topic. I hope it's useful. Thank tsutsu123456 for the suggestion.

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I've noticed recently that connectors are a really important part of expressing yourself in English at work. I wanted to share some thoughts on this and tell you about some of the things Spanish speakers get wrong with connectors.  

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This episode was suggested by Victor who is a listener and has been a supporter of the podcast for while - thank you for the idea. I chose this one because I thought it would be very useful to you as meetings as something that all of us have to face at work, therefore it's good use of your time to learn the correct ways to talk about them. I really hope you like the episode at the end I've got a word, phrase or structure that hardly anybody uses but everyone should. 

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I've been making a list of some of the things my clients have real difficulty with or mistakes that I see a lot. I want to share them with you so that you can benefit from knowing what they are. I teach both for one of the leading English teaching companies in Spain and I do private coaching I work with many Spanish speaking professionals across a huge range of professions. If you are interested in private business English coaching with me, sign up to my newsletter below where you will be the first to know about my 2022 coaching programmes that I am launching. 

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I've been looking forward to doing this episode for a long time. Nearly all jobs have to work with some form of numbers, figures, data or even emails and telephone numbers but this is something that a lot of people don't ever practice. In this episode I give you a brief overview of some key points to remember, common mistakes to avoid and some surprising differences between English and Spanish. 

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I'm going to share with you some really common questions that you can use to ask in different business situations such as offering more help, asking people to do things, checking if something is viable, double checking etc. Questions are really important in the workplace, we need to get things done and to do that we need to ask questions. Definitely not one to miss. 

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There are different roles in a meeting but leading a meeting is perhaps the most important. You've got to welcome and introduce people, kick off, keep the flow of the meeting going and make sure that people contribute and stick to the agenda. This is nothing new in your own language but in English I know it might feel overwhelming at times when you have 5 people staring at you waiting for the meeting to start. Let me help you with some core vocabulary for each phase of standard business meeting.

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