How to BE POLITE in English - Professional English communcation class

About this episode

This episode discusses how to be more polite in English at work using modal verbs and professional vocabulary.

Send us Fan Mail If you want to sound more polite and improve your relationships with your colleagues, clients, and customers, then using things like modal verbs and trying to be less direct can help. This week we look at some ways that you can be more polite when speaking English at work, some professional English vocabulary that can help you with this, and we even have a little English pronunciation lesson in here. If you speak English at work and want to sound more native and natural...

People in this episode

Host: Chris

Topics covered

• politeness
• professional communication
• modal verbs
• English vocabulary
• pronunciation

Keywords

• polite English
• professional communication
• modal verbs
• English vocabulary
• pronunciation

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