ESL From Canada Canadian Workplace Slang
ESL From Canada Canadian Workplace Slang explains the slang and the run-together contractions newcomers hear on a Canadian job. It covers phrases such as touch base, circle back, win-win and give'er, spoken forms including couldya', don'tchya, betchya', dun'no, gon'na and gim'me, and the polite ways to ask a colleague what one of them meant. ESL From Canada publishes lessons with a native Canadian speaker.
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Eleven entries in all: touch base, circle back, win-win and give'er, then the spoken contractions couldya', couldn'tya, don'tchya, betchya', dun'no, gon'na and gim'me. Each comes with its meaning and a short workplace example, and couldn'tya is marked as the sarcastic one. A closing section supplies three sentences for asking a colleague to repeat or explain something.
You read each phrase inside the sentence a coworker would say it in, with the plain words underneath, which is what makes the run-together forms easier to catch when somebody says them quickly. The three sentences at the end give you something to say the moment you miss one: that you did not catch it, a request for the meaning, and a repeat back of what you understood.
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