If you are interested in technology you will know what Internet of Things means. Techies another word for technical people.

On the other hand we have something like IoT, it’s an acronym – which stands for Internet of Things, this is an excellent example of a more recent buzzword, it’s a lingo adopted from the Science and Technology field and I hear it almost everywhere in the news now, it also appears inside the magazines for techies. This could be our lingo! There we go I started the trend now. Hmm….Who comes up with this lingo, I have no idea! It’s like cool bananas, we can use cool bananas here at English Made Simple. So the word customer-centric is essentially a buzzword in the business world, sales and marketing world more specifically. If a company claims to be customer-centric it just means that they are customer orientated or customer focused. Remember this guys, every company will have their own jargon, so you will need to learn two things really, the general slang and also the industry specific slang in whatever industry you happen to be working in.įor example, if you are in Sales and Marketing you will hear this popular phrase: customer-centric. Corporate jargon is lenguaje corporativo in Spanish.

Learning the corporate lingo is like learning another language sometimes.Įarlier I mentioned the word” buzzwords”, what’s a buzzword? Buzzword also known as buzzword bingo, or business speak, or business jargon, or colloquial business language and my favourite which is “weasel words”, it is just colloquial language used by corporations.Īnother word for jargon is slang, modismos. I wish something like this existed when I entered the workforce for the first time. So if you are currently employed overseas or if you are working for a multinational company where you have to talk in English, communicate in English, you will find today’s episode extremely useful. I will share a few jargon phrases that can be heard around offices practically every day. Hey amigos, welcome to the short and sweet episode of the English Made Simple show, my name is Milena from In today’s show I will share a few office buzzwords that are commonly used around the workplace. Hello guys and gals, you are listening to the English Made Simple Show, this is episode number 1-0-7, one hundred and seven, numero ciento siete. I will share some examples with you which you can start implementing right away. Learn Business English Vocabulary – Corporate phrasesįollowing on from the previous Short and Sweet episode (episode 105) today we are going to learn more about the corporate jargon or corporate buzzwords.

Office buzzwords bingo