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Every KeepReap series — short English pages that build on each other. Pick a thread and work through it, or read any page on its own.

• Saying difficult things at work in English

  Disagreeing, declining, apologising and admitting you did not follow — the four conversations where the wrong register costs you standing.

  5 pages

• Sounding professional in English without sounding stiff

  The phrases that get flagged as unprofessional are usually the vague ones, not the casual ones. What to replace them with.

  4 pages

• Writing work emails in English

  The lines people actually stall on in a work email: the opener, the ask, the chase, the sign-off, and the attachment sentence.

  6 pages