How to talk about NUMBERS and MATHS | Business English lesson
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How to talk about NUMBERS and MATHS | Business English lesson

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 28, 202627 min

Send us Fan Mail Talking about numbers can be challenging, especially if English is your second language. Today we’re discussing vocabulary that we can use to speak about calculation, math, and numbers, in English. We’re mostly focusing on idioms and informal English that can be used in professional situations today. We’ll also hear the answer for last week’s English grammar quiz, and you’ll get a new grammar quiz question. Also, if you're studying for the IELTS, TOEFL, DET or Cambridge English tests and exams then you might find some of the...

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Welcome back to the Breakout of Business English podcast. My name is Chris. I'm a business English and communication coach and I've personally worked with over 1000 international professionals just like you to improve the way that they communicate at

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work in English. you so much for listening and for your time and our topic today is numbers or more specifically how we talk about numbers. Now I thought I'd done a podcast episode about numbers already. As soon as I wrote the title of this episode I

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I decided to go back and check, but no, apparently I've never done a deep dive into the vocabulary and ideas that we can use to discuss numbers at work. We've discussed data, graphs, charts, and trends, but we've never spent a whole episode just covering numbers. So here's a question to get us started and I'd love to see an answer to this

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