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Feb 2023

18m 13s

166. Understanding Business Talk in Engl...

Anna Connelly, Anna Connelly.

About this episode

This is a continuation of episode 158 I did in 2022. A few of you said this was really useful therefore I'm going to do a regular slot looking how to understand business talk to help you when working with native speakers. This time I want to go over some common words and phrases on the topic of problems, implementing changes and difficult situations.

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