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Feb 2025

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269. Test Your Small Talk Skills: Can Yo...

Anna Connelly, Anna Connelly.

About this episode

The next installment of our Real Business Conversation Series. The aim of these episodes is to build confidence with different accents you can come across in international business. In this episode a finance director from North West England is going to ask you small talk questions. The question is - can you keep up? We will go into each question in detail to help you feel more confident you know how to answer the next time you hear it. Good luck! Anna

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