Advantages of keeping it simple

In this episode, Christina and Kristina talk about: expressions we use regarding keeping things shorthow keeping things short is sometimes more difficultand how speaking simply can benefit English learners The extra mile (useful English vocabulary you'll hear in the podcast): to the point = relevant, concerning the matter at handa comeback = retort; quick clever replyto condense = express (a piece of writing or speech) in fewer words; make conciseDo you want the transcript of the podcast, more vocabulary resources and live conversation practice?Join the Faster Fluency Conversation Club!You'll become more fluent and more confident in English faster, in a fun community of professionals from around the world!Brand new! Here's the link to the transcript! Use code 'FFCC50' to receive 50% off your 1st month in the club!  Special!! Buy 5 months, Get 1 free!! Buy 10 months, Get 2 free & an Individual Evaluation session!! We meet 6 times a week: Mondays 18:00-19:00 CET (France time)Tuesdays 13:00-14:00 CET (France time)Wednesdays 20:00-21:00 CET (France time)[NEW SESSION!!]Thursdays 0:00-1:00 CET (France time)Thursdays 11:00-12:00 CET (France time)Fridays 12:30-13:30 CET (France time)    You can also check what time it is for your time zone with the Time Zone ConverterDetails about joining: https://mybusinessenglishcourses.com/faster-fluency-conversation-club/join-now------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Welcome to the Faster Fluency Conversation Club podcast by Business English with Christina. The Faster Fluency Conversation Club takes place on Zoom and is a way for you to improve your fluency and confidence in English by talking about real world topics. We meet for one hour every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday and we would love you to join us. If you want to practice your English, become more confident and meet people just like you from all around the world and have guidance from my expert teachers and me, just click in the show notes. Our podcast listeners receive a 50% discount on the first month of membership with the discount code FFCC50. Come and join us today.Christina:Hi, Kristina. How are you doing today?Kristina:I'm good. How are you?Christina:Good. I think I just jumped into there without any kind of introduction, but that's okay. We're keeping it short and to the point today.Kristina:Right.Christina:Yeah. So that's the topic of our podcast today, is all about the advantages of keeping it simple, simple is better, the question, do you sound like a snob in English, because you're not using simpler language? So yeah, we'll talk about all of that. I guess we can start off with, Kristina, I feel like in English we have a lot of different expressions around advice about keeping things short. What do you think?Kristina:Yeah. We have these little sayings, have these little phrases that we'd like to use, like short and sweet.Christina:Exactly. Or short and sweet like the acronym KISS, keep it short and sweet.Support the show

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