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Business Language: Why Being Polite Is Harder than it Seems

As we begin to work across cultures for business, conventions of politeness can become mysterious and hard to work out. So how can we handle politeness more effectively?

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Business Language: Why Being Polite Is Harder than it Seems

Weekly Top 10

Business Language: Why Being Polite Is Harder than it Seems

Business Vocabulary Idioms – Animals

Business English Meetings: Reading between the Lines

Business Vocabulary Idioms – Gambling

Business writing: 6 more tips for writing great emails

Business Writing: Power Up Your Resume

Business Language: 13 Words Ending in -ee

Asking for a Raise? Try This

Business Writing: Are Your Emails Too Negative?

Business language: 5 types of words you need in business

Business Vocabulary Idioms: Baseball

Business English as a ‘Lingua Franca’

Business English Writing: Planning a Report

Business Vocabulary Idioms: The Wild West

American or British English – which should I learn?