Business travel language guide podcasts
This four-part series provides essential phrases for business travellers and can be listened to on your PC, or taken away on MP3 player to learn on your way.
Presenter Chris Alden speaks to language experts and learns common phrases and cultural dos and don'ts.
ArabicLearn how to:
- Say welcome and other greetings
- Say thank you, please, and yes and no
- Recognise words which are common to English and Arabic
- Explain that you don't speak Arabic
Chris Alden is joined by Helen Sellamy, who teaches Arabic for Cactus Language Training, who provide foreign language tuition for individuals and companies in the UK and worldwide.
Listen now (8 min 47s)JapaneseLearn how to:
- Say hello in different circumstances and times of day
- Introduce yourself with last name, and company name
- Give compliments in restaurants
- Recognise words which are common to both languages
Chris Alden is joined by Yoshiko Jones, co-ordinator of the Japanese teacher training course at the Language Centre at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
Listen now (8 min 5s)MandarinLearn how to:
- Say hello, good morning and pleased to meet you
- Use tones which express meanings
- Order drinks and say thank you
- Avoid mistakes in this challenging language
- Recognise words which are common to both languages
Chris Alden speaks to Jin Wang, a teacher of both Mandarin and Cantonese at the Language Centre of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
Listen now (6 min 21s)HindiLearn how to:
- Greet people and introduce yourself
- Say thank you and goodbye
- Say pleased to meet you, and convey that you like something a lot
- Find words which are common to both languages
- Recognise 'Hinglish', a mixture of Hindi and English used by urban youth and accepted in wider and business circles.
Chris Alden speaks to Naresh Sharma, who is a Hindi language trainer with Communicaid, a culture and communication skills consultancy based in London.
Listen now (7 min 40s) 
