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Lesson | Business English Skills: How to Navigate Tone, Formality, and Directness in Emails
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Lesson | Business English Skills: How to Navigate Tone, Formality, and Directness in Emails
Instructor: Richard Moore
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MC
Reviewed on Jun 25, 2022
The lesson makes me clear to catch which is formal and which is direct as it will tell you when you are informal or how you should be indirect.
AJ
Reviewed on Nov 3, 2020
But course is unfinished. Nothing happens after week 1.
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Reviewed on Jul 18, 2022
I completed the course but there is no certificate
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