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If anyone has questions I’ll be happy to answer them

We’ll finish off with a q&a session

Now, you might think this is

Please feel free to interupt if you have any questions

I just wanted to make sure we're all on the same page

Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking ...

Is it any surprise that our world, marching to the drumbeat of GDP, is teetering on the brink of environmental disaster and filled with anger and conflict?

Now, I don't have all of the answers. I don't know all of the solutions to this problem, but I do know this

So I've shown how tall buildings can be social connectors, but what about public architecture?

I want to pause on that question: What makes a word real?

I'm going to do this as a show of hands: How many of you still regularly refer to a dictionary, either print or online?

Okay, so that looks like most of you.

Now, a second question. Again, a show of hands

Okay, many fewer.

If I asked you to picture the air, what do you imagine?

How many of you have used an electronic spreadsheet, like Microsoft Excel?

Very good. Now, how many of you have run a business with a spreadsheet by hand, like my dad did for his small printing business in Philadelphia? A lot less.

The more interesting question is: Did it matter they were contemplating the parable of the Good Samaritan?

And I know there's some of you who say, "Well, wouldn't it be better, wouldn't the world be a better place if we all just spoke one language?

And you'll suddenly discover what it would be like to be unable to speak your own language.

Emails and other online communication

Learn from real emails how to arrange a meeting, naturally asking for help or advice, requesting information, follow up communications like a human. How to open and close emails formally and informally. Imagine starting an email with “Sorry to be a pain, but can you…, ”Sorry for delay in getting back to you" or "Let me know if it works for you but no hurry"

Ondrej

Startups and apps

This collection is aimed at helping you present your tech startups or apps in English. You can memorize useful phrases for presenting, pitching, being interviewed on your product or service. Use the same clever collocations as successful startups used and still use in their interviews clipped from tech blogs. Such as: "Ping was born from a personal frustration with having a...", "Our Aim is To Bridge The Gap Between...", "At the core of the app lies a clever algorithm that allows" etc.

Ondrej