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Jun 2025

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285. Core Business English Skills: Train...

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Let's build your confidence with your core skills - understanding when your colleagues are speaking quickly. In this episode, I focus on business english phrases with connected speech to help you identify key sounds which will enable you to quickly recognise what people are saying.

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