Hello naturals, welcome back to go natural English, it's me Gabby your favorite American English teacher today
I match my plants and today I'm gonna help you to speak more professional
powerful English in the workplace you might feel
Frustrated with being limited to really basic English vocabulary, but you don't know where to start
You don't know where to begin to improve your vocabulary
So we are gonna work on that today with 12 words that you should know
To make your English more professional and more powerful
This will help you if you're in a job interview at the workplace in a meeting or in academic
Situations like at your University now
I don't know if you knew this
But I have been an English professor at universities in the United States and in Japan
and I've also been a business English trainer at
multinational corporations both
Abroad and in the US so I am here to help you with your professional English
Now we're gonna take a look at twelve words
Now the number one thing that you want at work or in any of these situations is to sound professional
so using these words at least some of them will help gain you the respect that you
Want and deserve. This is an easy way to sound more impressive in English
and these small changes will make a big impact when you speak stay tuned until the end because the last word is a
Replacement for the most unprofessional sounding word that you definitely want to avoid number one
certainly, you can use this instead of saying yes, or
Okay, which are fine, but very basic boring words. So to sound more professional
Say certainly, for example, if your boss asks, you could you come to the meeting today?
You can say certainly instead of okay, or sure
Would you mind making some extra?
Photocopies for everyone certainly certainly I can do that. Certainly. That's no problem. Certainly
certainly
We can also use the word
certainly to mean definitely for example
This is certainly a wonderful English lesson
Next many people are afraid of change
And they really don't like when they already did some work and then they have to change it
so instead of using the word change, let's
use a more powerful more professional vocabulary word
modify to
modify
Now we're going to have to modify this
Project timeline because we're a bit delayed after some
unforeseen
circumstances
Unforeseen circumstances is a bonus phrase
That sounds very smart which basically means some things happen that you didn't expect
unforeseen
circumstances we need to
modify the schedule because the last speaker ran late so modify is usually used for schedules or
Timelines you can also modify a report or an email to in our professional lives
We all should have goals. But instead of using this very common basic word goals
Let's use a more professional version
objectives objectives
Another option would be
aspiration
aspiration but the difference is objective can be used really for anything a
project your career or
anything that you would like to achieve an
Aspiration is really more about your personal dreams. So for example if you're in an interview
Your interviewer might ask you. Well, what are your goals for your
Professional life and you could say my aspiration is to someday become department manager. For example
But you can also say objective my objective is to become
department manager you could say the objective of the project is to reach
1,000 people instead of saying guess which in and of its self can sound a bit weak. We should say
imagine if you feel like you're not sure about something or you want to share a guess say I
Imagine that's correct. I
Imagine this would have good results. I
Imagine that our boss would agree with this
I imagine this project will take about one week where guests might make you sound a bit unsure
Imagine makes you sound like a visionary
Instead of the basic word think let's use consider
Consider let's consider the possibilities. Will you consider?
Modifying the format now if you're meeting with someone and they're being a bit confusing instead of saying what do you mean?
Which can sound quite direct and not very professional. Ask the person to
Elaborate to explain more to tell you more information or give you examples. Could you?
Elaborate on that last point should I elaborate or is this clear now? Don't say
happen say arise
Arise we've had some unforeseen
complications arise
Surprisingly no problems have arisen
Should any questions arise please don't hesitate to ask
Instead of saying result which is already a good professional English vocabulary word
Let's step it up a level and sake
Ramification now ramification is more specific than a result a
ramification is a result or a consequence but
ramification
usually has a
Negative connotation. So be aware of that. For example, if we modify the timeline the
ramifications could be
severe if you just want to say some positive results you could say consequence or
Results result is just fine - but if you want to sound really smart and there's something negative
That would be the result use ramification. Don't ask for opinions ask for
perspectives or
Prerogatives. What's your perspective on this issue? What's your prerogative?
On this point, I love these words. Let's practice saying them because they're a bit tricky to pronounce
Perspective pay attention to that stress perspective and
Prerogative
Prerogative when I hear this word I do
Always remember the Bobby Brown song or also a Britney Spears songs
So you could listen to those to practice your pronunciation
Now perspective or prerogative are for asking an individual's opinion
But if you want to ask a group of people
you'll sound really smart if you ask what is the
consensus now consensus means what do we generally agree on so you're not asking
for each individual person's opinion
You're actually asking what is the general agreement here everyone? It seems the consensus is okay
Let's see if we can reach a general consensus. Don't say easy. Say straight forward
straightforward means simple uncomplicated or easy but it sounds a lot better when you say
Straightforward than easy. It sounds more professional
More powerful and more academic and smarter. So this project should be pretty straightforward
I don't foresee any
complications now many people consider the overuse of the word like to be very
Unprofessional so especially if you are in an interview or a professional situation
avoid using the word like
Especially more than twice in one sentence
Of course we can use the word like it can mean many things
but if you're using as a filler like
to like
say
Like when you don't know like what else to say? It's like really unprofessional
So avoid using it as a filler and another meaning of like is to say for example
If you'd like to learn all the ways that native English speakers use
The word like you can click up there to watch a really great video where I explain
every way we use it and how you should and shouldn't use it now in a professional situation if you want to say for
Example avoid using like because it's so basic and so overused and instead say for instance
For example or such at we should modify this designs colors
For instance more green and blue. I would like this campaign to have more diversity
For instance. The model should be different ages next week. We are going to be talking about how to ace any
interview how to answer the most difficult interview questions using
professional English, of course
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I hope you enjoyed this video and I'll see you there and then I'll see you in next week for our
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