Business Skills

Small Talk: Dining out with business partners

Kirstie Crail — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:07:04 +0200

We focus 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.

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Managing problems with colleagues

Kirstie Crail — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:21:08 +0100

Imagine a colleague hasn't completed some work on time. What do you say? And what if you're the colleague who hasn't done the work? We look at both sides in this short exercise.

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Helping people — with the right language!

Deborah Capras — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:15 +0200

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.

The price is right

Kirstie Crail — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:16:19 +0200

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.

Let's have some rapport

Kirstie Crail — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:07:33 +0200

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.

Expressing sympathy

Kirstie Crail — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:21:02 +0100

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.

Late, but still welcome!

Kirstie Crail — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:21:00 +0100

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.

Welcome!

Deborah Capras — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:13:01 +0200

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.

Get contacts!

Kirstie Crail — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:13:40 +0100

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.

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More and more difficult

Deborah Capras — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:40:05 +0200

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.