Office English: Emails
Do you struggle to write the perfect email at work? It can be difficult to know how formal or friendly to be when you are writing to a colleague, your boss, or somebody at another company. Can you use...
27 Jan 202513min
Should we use jargon?
Lots of people find jargon annoying. Is it useful in the workplace? Pippa and Phil talk about when to use jargon and when to avoid it, with help from journalist Anna Maloney, Anne Curzan from the Univ...
16 Des 20249min
Business Jargon: Jargon about technology
Technology is a big part of many workplaces. Pippa and Phil talk about remote working has impacted language at work. Learn some jargon phrases for the modern office.Find a full transcript for this epi...
9 Des 20248min
Business Jargon: Jargon about success
Pippa and Phil talk about common phrases for goals, measuring them and how we succeed. Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co....
2 Des 20246min
Business Jargon: Jargon about delays
Pippa and Phil talk about some common business jargon that is used to talk about delays and priorities at work. Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your Englis...
25 Nov 20246min
Business Jargon: Jargon about workload
Pippa and Phil talk about some common business jargon to help you talk about your workload.Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc...
18 Nov 20246min
Business Jargon: Jargon for ideas
We use jargon a lot to talk about ideas. Pippa and Phil talk about some common phrases. And a CEO tells us about the new jargon businesses use to impress investors.Find a full transcript for this epis...
11 Nov 20248min
Business Jargon: Jargon for organising
Some people find jargon annoying. But lots of managers use it. Pippa and Phil explain some of the strangest business jargon and why we use it with the help of Anne Curzan, Professor of English Languag...
4 Nov 20246min
