Instant confidence boost when you use English at work. Go from intermediate to advanced!

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Business English with Christina


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- Today, you'll learn seven ways to transform
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your school English into real-world business English.
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And you'll get an instant boost to your confidence
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when you use English at work and start going
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from intermediate to advanced English.
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Hi, I'm your English coach, Christina,
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and welcome to "Speak English with Christina,"
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the best place to become
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more confident speaking business English step by step.
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Now, last time we talked about how to use virtual immersion
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to get off of that intermediate plateau and to speak
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more advanced English naturally and confidently.
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Now, how does that work exactly?
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Basically, when you immerse yourself in English
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with your own plan or with my Virtual Immersion Program,
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Business English Mastery, you progressively switch
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your brain over to English.
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You're really living a lot of your life in English each day,
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so you start to think in English and stop translating
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in your head, and it just happens naturally
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and progressively because you have
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your daily English routines,
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you start sounding more natural, more advanced,
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you feel more comfortable and more confident,
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and you're making lots of little changes over time.
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So you may not even really see the difference
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because it's little changes, but over time,
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for example, a few months, those changes add up
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to make a big difference in your confidence
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and your English level.
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And when you do an immersion like this,
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it's a virtual immersion or a physical immersion,
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but virtual immersion seems to be more possible right now.
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But when you do it, you learn more,
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for example, in three months than you do with a year
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of traditional lessons, at least that's what the students
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in my Virtual Immersion Program say.
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Now, to show you an example of what I mean,
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today, I wanna teach you seven tiny changes
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that you can make in your business English immediately,
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like today, like right now.
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In these examples, I'll show you the thing
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that most intermediate learners say,
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and you'll see that it's perfectly correct,
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grammatically, it's correct,
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it's polite, it's nice, it does the job.
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People will understand you,
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but I'll show you what you might say right now
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and then show you a more advanced, maybe more natural way
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of saying it so that you can start including
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these expressions in your English at work.
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So before we get into that, if you feel like
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that's what's lacking in your English today,
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grab a pen and some paper,
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and make some notes
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so that you can put these expressions on your desk
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where you can see them and you can use them
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repeatedly 'cause repetition leads to remembering.
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All right, the first expression,
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in the context of planning a meeting,
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less advanced learner might say,
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"Can we meet to discuss it?"
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It's perfectly okay,
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but more advanced, more natural,
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maybe a native speaker might say,
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"Can we find some time to get together and talk about it?
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Can we find a time to get together and talk about it?"
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You can write that down and you can use it
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whenever you want to try to organize a meeting,
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to discuss something with someone.
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Another expression, for example, in the context of,
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maybe you're working together on a project,
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today, you might say,
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"Give me an update when you have more information."
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More advanced, more natural expression,
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"Keep me posted.
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Keep me posted."
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It means the same thing.
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Another context, now, at a restaurant,
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you might not be able to go to any restaurants right now,
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but in the future, you never know,
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you want to invite your coworker
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or your client, and maybe today, you say,
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"I'll pay for this. It's for me."
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We understand what you mean, It's nice,
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but if you want to really impress them, you can say,
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"Let me get this. It's my treat.
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Let me get this.
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It's my treat."
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And that means you want to pay for their meal.
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Another context, let's say you're at work
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and you would like some ideas from your coworker,
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today, you might say,
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"Can I ask you for some ideas?"
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It's totally fine,
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more advanced natural expression,
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"Can I pick your brain?
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Can I pick your brain?"
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It means like, can I get some ideas out of your brain,
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very useful expression.
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Another one, in email,
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this time, very common.
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You're writing lots of emails in English, I imagine.
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At the end of your email, you might say,
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"I wait for your response or I'm waiting for your response."
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But the more advanced typical expression that we put
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at the end of emails is,
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"I look forward to hearing from you.
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I look forward to hearing from you."
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If there's one expression you take from this video,
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take that expression because you'll use it 50 times a day.
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Another situation, you are on the phone,
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someone calls and they asked for information,
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today, maybe you say,
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"Please wait, I'll find the information."
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It's fine, it's polite, but if you wanna be more advanced
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and natural you can say, "Can you hold on one sec?
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I'll find out.
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Can you hold on one sec?
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I'll find out."
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And here, one sec,
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that's just a a short way of saying one second,
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so you're basically just asking them to wait,
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but in a more natural advanced way.
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And our final expression,
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it's when you are leading a meeting,
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you're opening a meeting,
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today, you might say,
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"Thank you for your presence at the meeting today."
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It's fine, it's a little formal,
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so depends on the context of the meeting.
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But if you want something that is more natural,
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perhaps a bit like, what I would say if I was leading
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a meeting is just,
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"Thanks everybody for being here today.
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Thanks everybody for being here today."
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And those are just seven tiny changes that you can make
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right now after watching a 10-minute video on YouTube.
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But imagine how confident, incredible,
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and comfortable you will feel in your work
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if you make thousands of little improvements like these
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over the next three months, for example,
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when you're doing a Virtual Immersion Program.
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Now, the next steps for you is to,
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please subscribe to my channel so that I can give you
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more video lessons to help you become
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more confident speaking English step by step.
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And if you want to know more about how you can do
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a virtual immersion with me and my team
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over the next few months, watch this video.
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It presents my Virtual Immersion Program,
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Business English Mastery, and you'll see
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that we will build your English routine,
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improve more in three months than in one year
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of traditional lessons.
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Go ahead and click over there to watch
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and I'll see you in that video.
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