Thanks for listening to Learning English for Work.
We're busy making new episodes for the new year.
In the meantime, we thought you'd enjoy this programme from 2024,
all about business jargon and the strange phrases we use at work.
Hello and welcome to Learning English for Work.
I'm Pippa.
And I'm Phil.
In this podcast, we talk about how you can improve your English in the workplace.
And today we're talking about a big part of work life.
Business jargon.
Now jargon is what we call words and phrases used by a group of people,
like a team in an office, but not everyone understands.
Yeah, so think about acronyms or phrases and shortening words that you use at work.
But if you were to say them at home, people would say, what are you talking about?
Yes, that's right.
You may have experienced this.
You start a new job and everyone's using strange words and phrases and you have no idea what they're talking about.
It's probably not a problem with your English.
It's all jargon.
Yeah, when I started at BBC Learning English, I had that exact problem.