Welcome back to Business English Pod for the second part of our series on idiomas ingleses relacionado a tecnologia.
Every day you use dozens of high-tech devices and apps to communicate, plano, organize, monitor and store information. It’s almost impossible to imagine the workplace before modern technology. It’s also almost impossible to imagine the English language without all the idioms we use related to technology.
If you want to be on the same wavelength as expert English speakers, you can’t ignore idioms. And I just used a prime example there. If you are “on the same wavelength,” it means you understand each other. This comes from radio technology, where you have to be tuned to the same frequency to receive a signal.
Como você pode ver, an idiom has a special meaning that isn’t always clear. You can think about the words on their own, but that won’t help you. You need to learn idioms as chunks of language, with a special meaning beyond the individual words. Desta maneira, you will be able to communicate even better in English.
Nesta lição, we’ll rejoin a conversation at an engineering company between Maggie, Antônio, e encontrar. They are continuing their conversation about upgrading the tech systems in their company. Em sua discussão, Eles usam muitos idiomas relacionados à tecnologia. Veja se você consegue identificar alguns desses, e vamos explicá-los mais tarde no debrief.
Perguntas de escuta
1. What does Antonio say about HR and their training plans?
2. Why didn’t the company move to PayWorks software a couple of years ago?
3. How does Antonio describe the new servers that are available?
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