Product Description

Speak Business English Like an American is the new book & audio CD set designed to help you succeed on the job - whatever you're doing, wherever you're working. The set is great for self-study, with dozens of helpful exercises to reinforce the material.

American English speakers use many phrases and expressions on the job. If you don’t know these expressions, you’re left out of the conversation. You’re out of it. This book & CD will help you speak business English like an American — quickly and confidently. Once you have the knack, no one can take it away from you. With this book and CD, your career will benefit for years to come.

You’ll learn the idioms & expressions that you hear at work. What do your colleagues and coworkers, your customers or clients really mean? How can you use these expressions too?

Language is always changing and business English changes especially fast. That’s why we’ve explained the most up-to-date expressions — today’s business English. Now you’ll be able to use these expressions, too. People will marvel at your command of English.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23481 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Review
"Enhanced with the addition of an audio CD, Speak Business Like An American is the ultimate instructive guide to the hundreds of expressions and idioms heard at the workplace daily. Amy Gillett provides the language student wanting to gain fluency in doing business in the American marketplace with consistent, easy to use constructs that are accurate, appropriate, and effective. Speak Business English Like An American is very highly recommended for those new to the business workplace and in need of being able to communicate fluently in standard American English." -- Midwest Book Review, March 2006

From the Back Cover
Be more effective on the job! Communicate like a native speaker of English!

American English speakers use many phrases and expressions on the job. If you don’t know these expressions, you’re left out of the conversation. You’re out of it ... and nothing makes you feel so like a foreigner. This book & CD will help you speak business English like an American — quickly and confidently. Once you have the knack, no one can take it away from you. With this book and CD, your career will benefit for years to come.

You’ll learn the idioms & expressions that you hear at work. What do your colleagues and coworkers, your customers or clients really mean? How can you use these expressions too?

Language is always changing and business English changes especially fast. That’s why we’ve explained the most up-to-date expressions — today’s business English. Now you’ll be able to use these expressions, too. People will marvel at your command of English.

In this deluxe book & CD set, you'll find: - Over 350 of today's most common American English business idioms & expressions - Dozens of exercises to help you master the material complete with answer key so you can correct yourself — instantly. No wondering if you were wrong! - 30 everyday conversations on topics like how to run a meeting ... how to discuss a difficult decision ... how to conduct a performance review ... and many more business situations. - Multiple usage examples of each idiom or phrase - Illustrations of many of the idioms — what a great way to remember them! - An audio CD with the voices of eight native speakers of American English

About the Author
Amy Gillett is the author of the bestselling Speak English Like an American (also available at Amazon.com) — now sold in ten countries with more than 20,000 copies in print. She has taught English as a Second Language (ESL) in the Czech Republic and in the United States and now she’ll teach you. With this book and CD, you can take her classroom with you! Amy knows Business English — she has an MBA from Cornell University, along with degrees in foreign languages and literature from Stanford University.

Customer Reviews

An excellent book for improving business English
I used this book and CD system with my students, a group of adults in an ESL class at a community college. They really enjoyed it! They found the dialogues interesting and realistic. The idioms in this book are excellent. The exercises are helpful too, and we appreciated being able to go to the publisher's website (Language Success Press) and getting supplementary exercises for this book for free.

A "must" for any non-native business English learner
Although many of the idioms and expressions Ms. Gillett brings to the page are typical in non-business usage, the huge number of idioms and expressions related to American business English (as opposed to British business English--in some cases they are quite different!) is an asset to any student of this subject.
The contents are grouped in chapters by common subject, e.g. Discussing a New Ad Campaign, Motivating A Co-Woker, and Conducting a Performance Review. Learning new idioms and expressions is made simple by an easy-to-read dialog that demonstrates (and can be used with a partner) the usage of each idiom, and then is followed by self- or partnered-checking and review. The accompanying CD clarifies pronunciation, rhythm, and intonation.

I highly recommend this text to all--native or non-native speakers of English--who want to fast-track themselves into usage of the American business vernacular.

My qualifications to review this book? I teach this subject, among others, at UCSC Extension.

The ultimate instructive guide to the hundreds of expressions and idioms heard at the workplace daily
Enhanced with the addition of an audio CD, Speak Business Like An American is the ultimate instructive guide to the hundreds of expressions and idioms heard at the workplace daily. Amy Gillet's provides the language student wanting to gain fluency in doing business in the American marketplace with consistent, easy to use constructs that are accurate, appropriate, and effective. Speak Business English Like An American is very highly recommended for those new to the business workplace and in need of being able to communicate fluently in standard American English.