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Communication strategies for engineers working across borders, languages, and cultures. Practical advice for international projects and multicultural teams.
Authentically Aussie: How Engineers Get Hired in Australia
Thinking about moving to Australia as an engineer? The timing might be better than you think. Australia is short on...
Writing Work Emails in English (Without the Panic)
You can hold a technical conversation, defend your work in a meeting, and handle the hard parts of your job in a...
All Your Ducks in a Row: Language Barriers & Home Buying Abroad
Highly educated, highly capable professionals still freeze up mid-sentence in a foreign language. That's the starting...
Clear Is Kind: A Crossover Episode with Aimee Arsenault
Engineers are trained to communicate in steps. Step 1, step 2, step 3. Read the diagram, follow the procedure, done....
Systems at Work: Recognizing Patterns in Business English
Everything can sound new and confusing when you're learning a new language, especially when it comes to a language...
Vienna Waits for You: Reinventing an Engineering Career
In this episode of English for Engineers, I sit down with Andrea Zimmerl, a fellow Viennese and a fellow engineer, who...
Junk the Jargon: Why Engineering Jargon Isn’t Clear
In this episode of English for Engineers, I sit down with Becky Paroz, a 30-year veteran of the Australian...
007: License to Talk
In this episode of English for Engineers, I share why I started this podcast in the first place, then walk through...
Why Logic Alone Can’t Hold Your Team Together
In this episode of English for Engineers, I sit down with Catherine Stagg-Macey, executive coach, team coach, and...
Do You Want to Be Right, or Do You Want a Relationship?
That is not a trick question. And for engineers on international projects, it might be the most important one you ask...
Let the Drawings Speak: How Engineering Culture Changes Across Borders
In this episode of English for Engineers, I catch up with an old schoolmate, Christian Urich, a civil and...
Lost in Translation: How Culture Shapes Business Communication
You can have perfect grammar and still get completely misread. That's the whole premise of these two episodes — one...
Why International Teams Misread Each Other’s Response Times
A Japanese engineer emails a question to his German counterpart. The German technician knows the answer and replies...
Rubber, Pants, and “My Fault”: The British and American English Mix-Ups That Actually Matter
A senior lawyer, the head of an entire legal department, turned bright red on a train. He was escorting a 19-year-old...