Speak Better English with Harry
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Clear, practical English for intermediate and advanced learners. Speak Better English with Harry helps you use natural English with confidence in real situations — at work and in everyday conversations. Each episode focuses on vocabulary, collocations, phrasal verbs, and expressions that native speakers actually use, explained clearly and simply by an experienced native English teacher. This podcast is ideal if you already know the basics and want to sound more natural, fluent, and confident when you speak English.
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Nov 4, 2026 • 27min
How to Describe Your Job in English: 12 Useful Verbs [612]
Build stronger Business English with 12 practical verbs for describing your role, responsibilities, achievements, and professional experience. Learn how to talk naturally about managing, supervising, coordinating, liaising, handling issues, developing improvements, delivering results, advising others, and reporting. Ideal preparation for workplace conversations, CVs, and job interviews.
Oct 28, 2026 • 39min
How to Describe Feelings and Reactions in English | 15 Advanced Expressions [611]
Learn 15 advanced expressions for describing emotions and reactions naturally in English. Explore the differences between frustration, irritation, and being fed up, plus disappointment, feeling overwhelmed, uneasiness, apprehension, surprise, relief, reassurance, and encouragement. Also discover polished ways to express praise, strong approval, and delight in everyday and professional conversations.
Oct 21, 2026 • 19min
How to Make Suggestions in English | Business English for Meetings [610]
Learn practical Business English for making suggestions in meetings and brainstorming sessions. Explore natural phrases for introducing ideas, building on colleagues’ contributions, asking for clarification, and disagreeing politely. The lesson also covers discussing costs, weighing alternatives, reaching decisions, and assigning clear next steps through realistic workplace scenarios.
Oct 14, 2026 • 24min
Advanced English | 12 Business English Idioms You Need to Understand at Work [609]
Explore 12 essential business English idioms used in meetings, project discussions, and workplace conversations. Learn expressions for sharing updates, handling hidden concerns, tackling unexpected obstacles, changing requirements, delaying priorities, taking responsibility, and reworking failed plans. Ideal for professionals and advanced learners building confidence in international work settings.
Oct 7, 2026 • 25min
Business English | 15 Project Words and Phrases for Work [608]
Build your project-management vocabulary with 15 practical English terms for workplace discussions. Explore scope, stakeholders, task ownership, resources, deliverables, milestones, deadlines, dependencies, risks and blockers. Learn language for rollouts, sign-off, handovers and realistic project updates involving events, finance and new systems.
Sep 30, 2026 • 17min
15 English Idioms to Describe People Naturally [607]
Explore 15 natural English idioms for describing personalities, from sociable party animals and clever smart cookies to bossy boots, couch potatoes, and wet blankets. Learn expressions for cheerful, secretive, practical, energetic, stingy, and calm people, with a final review of their positive, negative, and neutral meanings.
Sep 23, 2026 • 31min
20 Must-Have English Phrasal Verbs for Meetings and Updates [606]
Master 20 essential Business English phrasal verbs for meetings, project updates, and workplace discussions. Learn how to introduce topics, review information, catch colleagues up, track progress, handle delays, investigate problems, assign next steps, and approve final work with greater confidence.
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Sep 16, 2026 • 22min
Business English | How to Make Small Talk in English at Work [605]
Learn practical English for workplace small talk with managers and clients. Explore safe conversation topics such as journeys, weekends, workweeks, weather and local recommendations. Discover ways to ask follow-up questions, respond with empathy, keep personal details private, and transition smoothly into a meeting or end a conversation politely.
Sep 9, 2026 • 22min
Business English | What to Say When Someone Interrupts You in an English Meeting [604]
Learn how to handle interruptions in English meetings without losing your point or sounding aggressive. The lesson covers accidental overlap, online meeting delays, colleagues who speak over you, challenges before you finish, and repeated interruptions. Discover ways to stay calm, avoid unnecessary apologies, acknowledge comments, and retain the floor professionally.
Sep 2, 2026 • 21min
Business English | How to Say No to Last-Minute Requests at Work [603]
Learn practical Business English for handling last-minute requests without sounding rude. Explore phrases for explaining tight deadlines, clarifying priorities, proposing realistic alternatives, setting specific delivery times, sharing urgent work, and distinguishing a quick check from a full review.
