Practical, honest writing about the English people actually use at work, at university and in everyday British life. Written by the teachers who teach it.
Why an ordinary British sentence can blur into one stream of sound, and how noticing strong and weak syllables makes English easier to hear and to speak.
A British colleague says "we should catch up soon", and then nothing happens. Ten common indirect phrases, what they may mean, and how to check politely.
The gap between Band 6 and Band 7 is not more vocabulary. It is coherence over longer answers, and Part 3 is where that shows.
The same behaviour that sounds confident in one country can come across as slightly pushy in the other. Five tendencies worth knowing.
There is nothing wrong with "Good morning, today I am going to talk about". But five other openings will earn you the room.
Twenty phrases British colleagues actually reach for in meetings, with the indirectness behind them explained.
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