THE SLANGMAN GUIDE TO BIZ SPEAK 1: Slang Idioms & Jargon Used in Business English (Slangman Guides to Biz Speak)

If you do business with Americans, this book is for you! If you don't know the essential American slang and idioms used by all business professionals, you risk embarrassment, loss of respect, and loss of money. Entertaining dialogues, activities and games will quickly help put you "get the inside track"...that's slang for "get the advantage"! Our books contain the most common slang and idioms used every day by Americans. Look at this example: English taught in schools: "For now we will stop talking about this issue." Real American English: "Let's table this discussion." Both of them mean the same thing, but "Real American English" is the way Americans speak. With our books, you will learn American English conversation using slang and idioms naturally through dialogues, pictures, quizzes, games, etc. You'll be talking like a native "in no time" (very quickly)! This book includes Business expressions dealing with: Computers, Marketing, Meetings, Advertising, The Internet, and more... This book was written by American native and slang expert Slangman David Burke. There are no "dirty" or impolite expressions in this book. For the best results, purchase the audio CDs or cassettes. All the books in the slangman guide to Street Speak series include dialogues with popular slang & idioms, fill-in exercises, reading, writing, listening, & speaking exercises, context exercises, matching the picture with the idiom, column matching, vocabulary drills and games, find-the-slang-word drills, crossword puzzles Contains chapters on slang, idioms, and jargon associated with: the workplace ; computers ; the Internet/e-commerce ; marketing ; advertising ; negotiations ; meetings ; abbreviations ; and acronyms and shortcuts