Do you know how to speak global English?
A Star - Communication Skills (in English) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKclbT4LtiA

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0:02 this video today is for everybody who is a native speaker you speak English as your first language or perhaps you speak English to a C2 level so you're very
0:14 high level native like speaker and I'm talking to you because when you are speaking to people who have learned English as a second or
0:29 foreign language they do not always understand you you might be looking at them and thinking wow the English is so great they can
0:38 communicate about all these things they obviously are totally fluent now that might be true but it's to a certain
0:47 extent and you have to know that everybody in the world these days is speaking Global English which means when you have a
0:56 Dutch person speaking to somebody from Thailand they're speaking English most probably but it's the English of the world it's not necessarily exactly the
1:08 same as the English that you will hear in Birmingham so what are some of the things that you need to watch out for to
1:18 make sure that you are being understood because when you come into a conversation you can ruin that whole conversation by speaking English in a
1:29 certain way first of all if somebody asks you to slow down slow down not for 1 minute not for five minutes but for the whole time
1:42 it takes courage to ask you to slow down and if somebody does this they don't want to have to do it
1:50 again secondly you need to be aware of the words you're using now imagine if I said this to you um I'm going to give this document a
2:02 once over and then I'll go through it and figure out what it is that we need to be getting on with maybe you understood me I
2:11 understood me but for somebody else who has learned English as a sec a foreign language going I'm give it a once over
2:24 go through it figure out what we need to be getting getting on with so we've got give a once over go through figure out get on with now these are so
2:38 difficult to learn and remember in English because just think about the word go you can have go out go up go into go through get on go on
2:49 with the possibilities are endless and each one has a different meaning usually there is a word you can choose with the same meaning that does
2:59 not involve involve a verb with a preposition which is called a phrasal verb by the way in case you didn't know so please try to be aware of what
3:11 vocabulary you're using and lastly idioms are super fun and great but if you spend your whole time saying oh yes let me give you a ballpark
3:24 figure people won't necessarily understand what you're talking about and even between British and Americans for example it's not always easy so imagine
3:35 what it's like between an American and an Italian not easy so all you native English
3:47 speakers I hope you've enjoyed this few little tips and next time you're in a global situation you'll be thinking about your
3:58 Global English