BBC Learning English Business Jargon
BBC Learning English Business Jargon is a series of ten short episodes on the language of the workplace, presented by Pippa and Phil and made with Business Daily. Each episode takes one area of jargon, among them meetings, ideas, workload, delays, success, technology and organising people, explains the phrases and brings in a specialist on why so much of this language exists at work.
100% Free (unlimited): Every episode in the series is free to anyone, with no account and no payment: the audio, the explanations of the phrases and the material that goes with each programme. The episodes stay on the site and can be listened to in any order and as many times as you wish.
How It Helps Your Business English
Ten episodes make up the series, from What is jargon to Should we use jargon. In between come episodes on jargon for meetings, for organising people, about ideas, about workload, for delays, about success and for technology. Each one is a short programme in which two presenters explain the phrases and a specialist is brought in to discuss why the language is used.
Start with the first episode for the idea of jargon itself, then pick the episode that matches the part of your job where the language gives you trouble. Listen once for the phrases and a second time with the programme material in front of you to fix the spelling and the stress. The specialist interviews give you the arguments for and against using the phrases yourself.
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