Your Business English Starter Pack

Build these habits to sound natural at work:

• Replace formal phrases with their casual equivalents ("I will send it" becomes "I'll shoot it over")
• Learn five new business phrases per week from real sources like LinkedIn, podcasts, or work emails
• Watch for coded language and ask trusted colleagues what phrases really mean
• Use action metaphors naturally: "drive results," "move the needle," "push back"
• Match the formality level of whoever you are emailing — mirror their style

Business English is a dialect of its own. The faster you learn its rules, the faster you stop sounding like a textbook and start sounding like a professional.