Guides and tips to help you communicate confidently in English at work.
Learn the spelling patterns that split British and American English, plus the tech exceptions where only one spelling actually works. 27 free exercises.
Knowing the vocabulary is not enough. This is the actual script: the phrases to clarify requirements, state assumptions, narrate tradeoffs, and handle pushback out loud, in order.
The structure every design doc needs, plus the exact phrases for goals, non-goals, alternatives considered, open questions, and asking for sign-off, without sounding either too hedgy or falsely certain.
Non-native speakers tend to undersell their work in English: vague tasks instead of quantified impact. The exact phrase formula and 7 before/after rewrites for your self-assessment.
The situation-behavior-impact framing senior engineers use to give direct, useful feedback in English, in 1-on-1s and after a code review, without it landing as an attack.
Opening on time, keeping a group on track, inviting quieter people in, assigning action items, and closing with a clear outcome. The exact phrases for running a meeting in English, not just attending one.
How to describe an outage factually in English without turning the timeline into a list of who messed up. The five sections every postmortem needs, plus blaming-vs-blameless phrasing pairs.
The English vocabulary QA and test engineers need beyond basic bug reports: test plans, test cases, acceptance criteria, severity versus priority, and the exact phrase for release sign-off.
The exact phrases for walking a new hire through the codebase, naming a hack without sounding unprofessional, checking they understood without sounding condescending, and following up after week one.
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