Common Phrasal Verbs in Business that are used every day
As we investigated in our last article, English has a wonderful habit of making itself very confusing in everyday language. We have taken a look at the Idiomatic Expressions used in business and now we turn to the even more difficult-to-define, Phrasal Verbs. With these verb compositions, you can’t, unfortunately, translate literally every part and…
Continua a leggere...Common business idioms that are used every day
As you are no doubt aware, there are two languages when we talk about English, the English you learnt at school with its grammar and perfections and then that which is actually used every day with slang and idiomatic phrases which can have some particularly strange differences. This difference becomes even further intensified when we…
Continua a leggere...How to write the perfect English E-mail – Part 2
Welcome back to Business English! No doubt you are eager to hear more about how to finish writing that perfect email and you have several of them sitting, waiting in your drafts folder just patiently expecting this second installment of the article! I don’t want to keep you waiting so let’s continue exploring how to…
Continua a leggere...How to write the perfect English E-mail – Part 1
Welcome back to your weekly serving of English! According to research, in 2022 there are around 333.2 billion emails sent every day which means I’m fairly confident every single one of you has sent an email by now and I’m also sure that nearly all of you have had that slight panic as you clicked…
Continua a leggere...Introduction to Business English and its Importance
First of all, I would like to welcome you to Business English, your weekly look at the world of the English Language and its use in the Business environment. I would also like to introduce myself, Tom Roper, an English teacher here in Italy for more than 11 years based in Padova however I was…
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