- Today, you'll learn seven ways to transform
your school English into real-world business English.
And you'll get an instant boost to your confidence
when you use English at work and start going
from intermediate to advanced English.
Hi, I'm your English coach, Christina,
and welcome to "Speak English with Christina,"
the best place to become
more confident speaking business English step by step.
Now, last time we talked about how to use virtual immersion
to get off of that intermediate plateau and to speak
more advanced English naturally and confidently.
Now, how does that work exactly?
Basically, when you immerse yourself in English
with your own plan or with my Virtual Immersion Program,
Business English Mastery, you progressively switch
your brain over to English.
You're really living a lot of your life in English each day,
so you start to think in English and stop translating
in your head, and it just happens naturally
and progressively because you have
your daily English routines,
you start sounding more natural, more advanced,
you feel more comfortable and more confident,
and you're making lots of little changes over time.
So you may not even really see the difference
because it's little changes, but over time,
for example, a few months, those changes add up
to make a big difference in your confidence
and your English level.
And when you do an immersion like this,
it's a virtual immersion or a physical immersion,
but virtual immersion seems to be more possible right now.
But when you do it, you learn more,
for example, in three months than you do with a year
of traditional lessons, at least that's what the students
in my Virtual Immersion Program say.
Now, to show you an example of what I mean,
today, I wanna teach you seven tiny changes
that you can make in your business English immediately,
like today, like right now.
In these examples, I'll show you the thing
that most intermediate learners say,
and you'll see that it's perfectly correct,
grammatically, it's correct,
it's polite, it's nice, it does the job.
People will understand you,
but I'll show you what you might say right now
and then show you a more advanced, maybe more natural way
of saying it so that you can start including
these expressions in your English at work.
So before we get into that, if you feel like
that's what's lacking in your English today,
grab a pen and some paper,
and make some notes
so that you can put these expressions on your desk
where you can see them and you can use them
repeatedly 'cause repetition leads to remembering.
All right, the first expression,
in the context of planning a meeting,
less advanced learner might say,
"Can we meet to discuss it?"
It's perfectly okay,
but more advanced, more natural,
maybe a native speaker might say,
"Can we find some time to get together and talk about it?
Can we find a time to get together and talk about it?"
You can write that down and you can use it
whenever you want to try to organize a meeting,
to discuss something with someone.
Another expression, for example, in the context of,
maybe you're working together on a project,
today, you might say,
"Give me an update when you have more information."
More advanced, more natural expression,
"Keep me posted.
Keep me posted."
It means the same thing.
Another context, now, at a restaurant,
you might not be able to go to any restaurants right now,
but in the future, you never know,
you want to invite your coworker
or your client, and maybe today, you say,
"I'll pay for this. It's for me."
We understand what you mean, It's nice,
but if you want to really impress them, you can say,
"Let me get this. It's my treat.
Let me get this.
It's my treat."
And that means you want to pay for their meal.
Another context, let's say you're at work
and you would like some ideas from your coworker,
today, you might say,
"Can I ask you for some ideas?"
It's totally fine,
more advanced natural expression,
"Can I pick your brain?
Can I pick your brain?"
It means like, can I get some ideas out of your brain,
very useful expression.
Another one, in email,
this time, very common.
You're writing lots of emails in English, I imagine.
At the end of your email, you might say,
"I wait for your response or I'm waiting for your response."
But the more advanced typical expression that we put
at the end of emails is,
"I look forward to hearing from you.
I look forward to hearing from you."
If there's one expression you take from this video,
take that expression because you'll use it 50 times a day.
Another situation, you are on the phone,
someone calls and they asked for information,
today, maybe you say,
"Please wait, I'll find the information."
It's fine, it's polite, but if you wanna be more advanced
and natural you can say, "Can you hold on one sec?
I'll find out.
Can you hold on one sec?
I'll find out."
And here, one sec,
that's just a a short way of saying one second,
so you're basically just asking them to wait,
but in a more natural advanced way.
And our final expression,
it's when you are leading a meeting,
you're opening a meeting,
today, you might say,
"Thank you for your presence at the meeting today."
It's fine, it's a little formal,
so depends on the context of the meeting.
But if you want something that is more natural,
perhaps a bit like, what I would say if I was leading
a meeting is just,
"Thanks everybody for being here today.
Thanks everybody for being here today."
And those are just seven tiny changes that you can make
right now after watching a 10-minute video on YouTube.
But imagine how confident, incredible,
and comfortable you will feel in your work
if you make thousands of little improvements like these
over the next three months, for example,
when you're doing a Virtual Immersion Program.
Now, the next steps for you is to,
please subscribe to my channel so that I can give you
more video lessons to help you become
more confident speaking English step by step.
And if you want to know more about how you can do
a virtual immersion with me and my team
over the next few months, watch this video.
It presents my Virtual Immersion Program,
Business English Mastery, and you'll see
that we will build your English routine,
improve more in three months than in one year
of traditional lessons.
Go ahead and click over there to watch
and I'll see you in that video.