Register is the level of formality in your language. In emails, register affects your choice of greeting, vocabulary, sentence structure, and sign-off. Using the wrong register is one of the most common mistakes in professional…
📖 From Sourov's world: I once reconstructed a career from fifteen years of sent emails. Every important conversation I ever had professionally — every request, every objection, every result — was in an email. A…
In English, you do not 'make' homework — you 'do' it. You do not 'do' a mistake — you 'make' one. These are collocations: word partnerships that native speakers use automatically, without thinking. I learned…
From Sourov's world: My first phone call in French after moving to La Réunion was about a gas bill. No face to read. No body language. No way to point at anything. Just words and…
From "Bye" to professional — the structure that works every time
💬 The email that cost me a meeting: Early in my career I wrote an email starting "Hey, just wanted to check in..." to the CEO of a hotel group I was trying to work…
🎙 From the classroom: Over eighteen years in hospitality, I wrote hundreds of emails to VIP guests, suppliers, and managers. The best emails I ever received — and sent — all had one thing in…
In my email archaeology project, I turned 15 years of data into readable summaries. The language of data is the language of business — and of IELTS Task 1.
I ran team briefings in Sydney with staff from 12 countries. The meeting phrases below kept everything on track — and on time.
I was interviewed in three languages for jobs across three continents. Here's what I learned about what actually works in an English job interview.
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