How to Talk About WORK in English Like a Native — Our First Jobs, Careers, and Natural English Expressions
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How to Talk About WORK in English Like a Native — Our First Jobs, Careers, and Natural English Expressions

B1IntermediateSeptember 8, 202631 min

LISTEN with the Interactive Transcript (and SPEAK) on the RealLife App for FREE What was your very first job? In this episode, Ethan and Izzy look back on their first work experiences. Join the conversation as they discuss what it really takes to find your "calling," push past your comfort zone, and step out of the "zoo" of formal education into the real-world "savannah." What you'll learn in this episode: Helpful phrasal verbs and expressions for describing life-changing "aha moments" and epiphanies. Essential vocabulary for discussing jobs, careers, and business (like knack, vocation, foot...

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looking word. We have a lot of words like this in English that we borrow from French.

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Ah yeah, citizens of the world! Welcome to the RealLife English podcast where we help you to become a confident, natural English speaker, connect to the world, and actually use your English as the doorway to living your greatest life.

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So listen until the end because you are going to learn expressions that will help you discuss work while listening to a natural real life conversation where Izzy and I talk about our first jobs and how we became entrepreneurs. By the way Izzy, what is an entrepreneur? Ah, it's a person who runs a business, who decides to start your own business and run it,

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lead it, right? A lot of times without so much resources, I would say. Exactly. It comes from French, in case people didn't already notice that it's a very French looking word. We have a lot of words like this in English that we borrow from French. And it's built from two words in French, which are onsre, which means between and

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