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In Skill Up! (3), our Small Talk section focuses on the language you will need for dining out. In this test, we look at a typical dialogue at the start of a business dinner.

When was the last time a colleague offered to help you with something? If the answer is never and with nothing, you may need to start offering your colleagues some help first.

Business involves talking openly about money and getting the right product, service or deal for the right amount of money. Try using more idioms to talk about money and prices.

It's very important to create a rapport with your business partners. Here online, we have a short exercise to test your knowledge of rapport-building.

It’s hard enough finding the right words to use in response to bad news in one’s own language, but it’s even harder in a foreign language. We look at some of the typical phrases for everyday occurrences, and for more serious situations.

We've created an exercise to test your reactions in a situation when things don't quite go according to plan. Sometimes, there is simply no time for the usual introductions.

Your visitors from the UK are about to arrive. Are you ready to greet them? What are you going to say? Welcome...  at/in/to? Take our test. 

Of course, there are excellent social networking sites in German, but if you’re looking to improve your business English – or your chances at working in an English-speaking environment – we suggest you sign up for one of the accounts in English.

Does your team get along? Or are you finding it more and more difficult to work together? Maybe you should think more carefully about what you want to say, before you say it.