If you want to improve your fluency, learning popular expressions will help you feel more comfortable talking to native speakers and help you speak more naturally.

There are hundreds of expressions we use regularly, but this list of 25 is a great place to start:

Dealing with difficult and disrespectful colleagues can be frustrating and uncomfortable. Having to deal with them in a different language add another complication into the mix.

As a non-native speaker working in an international environment, communicating clearly and effectively in English is essential.

A collocation is a group of two or more words that are usually used together. Using them makes your English sound a lot more natural because collocations are based on real-life, frequent usage of particular words used in a specific order.

For example, while it would be grammatically correct to use "fast glance," native speakers say "quick glance."

Here are some more business collocations for you to use: