Mobile, Social and On-Demand Business English Technology Tools for the Enterprise

Mobile, Social and On-Demand Business English Technology Tools for the Enterprise

Bersin & Associates: Mallon/Clarey’s Blog

Up until last year, I was a graduate student at Syracuse University. A working, middle-aged native English-speaking U.S. student in a program dominated by young non-native English speaking Asian students. Needless to say when the phrase “control freak” came up in a conversation with another native English speaking student (long story) there were a lot of puzzled looks especially among the new students. Phrases like “control freak” don’t really come up in structured language courses they took to learn English. They come up in “real” life. The Urban Dictionary vs. the Webster’s Dictionary. It’s the same at work. Acronyms, business jargon, the language of the organization and the language of business. In situ.

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