Last Saturday was the 4th of July, the national holiday in the US. That means that Americans everywhere were cooking out (faisaient de barbecues), watching fireworks (des feux d’artifice), and…
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Maybe you want to reduce your French accent because you realize that you are not always understood by your American colleagues. Or you just want to improve your pronunciation in…
First of all, BIG news! Your Speak Better, Feel Great Newsletter is changing from French to English! Today’s message is a little longer than normal, because I’ve got so much…
When you receive a visitor in your company, you want to be friendly and polite, to make a good impression. You greet him, you offer him a coffee, you do…
A new foreign colleague comes to work in your department! Yey! Perhaps it’s an expatriate who joins your team for a few years. Perhaps he is a trainee from another…
Many of your colleagues from The SBFG Community have told me they enjoy watching videos during their lunch break. It’s true that, when you don’t have a lot of free…
Your CV will be so perfect that you have to think about preparing your interview too! My course “Get my top 11 tips to succeed in your job interview in…
Even if you mostly need English to work, you don’t just work with your colleagues and your foreign clients. You take coffee breaks and you go to the restaurant too….
Here is a discussion that really happened between my husband (with his strong French accent – it’s him in the video) and my father (real American): My husband: I like…
When I was employed in a training company, I worked for a French director. We were 2 Americans, 3 English and an Australian under his management. Let’s say that the…