职场口语：Memorize key words – since you will not have time to look for them when needed. Knowing the meaning of words is not enough. They aren’t useful until you’ve been through the whole learning cycle. This implies that you have to understand the word, know how to use it, memorize it and be able to recall it when needed. Try to revise vocabulary a week after you’ve learned it and check if you remember it one month later.

职场口语：note:

Knowing the meaning of expressions is different to being able to apply them automatically. Vocabulary is not useful until it’s at the tip of your tongue.

职场口语第三招：ONE-IDEA PHRASES

职场口语：Use one idea to a sentence and build the sentence around the idea. English is a language of few, precise words where economy is a plus. Many listeners are used to short sentences and find it hard to handle several notions in one phrase. It is better to repeat the same ideas in several formats so people who do not follow your point in one way have the chance to understand it in another.

职场口语：note:

Transmit a concept more effectively by explaining it, then giving an example, showing a graph and if possible also by including it in a story, joke or anecdote.

职场口语第四招：GESTURES

职场口语：Magnify facial gestures, since they will help to get your message across in case verbal language fails and people don’t follow your words. Remember that body language transmits a lot of information so don’t be afraid of gesticulating. Listeners will take non-verbal signs as part of your personality and will not pay conscious attention to your gestures. As a foreign speaker your weakest area of communication is verbal language, so make up for this lack with stronger non-verbal signs.

职场口语：note:

It’s important to use gestures when speaking. However, act out your conversation in front of your teacher and check whether your non-verbal signs are suitable for the culture of the country you are

visiting.