 | VOCABULARY to survive - przeżyć, przetrwać, przetrzymać
to be able to - móc, potrafić, być w stanie
to speak English - mówić po angielsku
useful - pożyteczny
language - język
impossible - niemożliwy
to run - prowadzić (np. biznes)
airline - linia lotnicza
the UK (=The United Kingdom) - Zjednoczone Królestwo
limitation - ograniczenie
ability - zdolność, umiejętność
to communicate - komunikować się
customer - klient
in fact - w rzeczy samej, de facto
to come from Greece - pochodzić z Grecji
end - tu: kraniec, kres |
Lesson 6
How English helps you survive in businessStelios Haji-Ioannou: Well obviously I've survived in business, by being able to speak English and Greek, which is not very useful outside Greece - so definitely English must be the business language.
I think it would've been impossible to run an airline in the UK without speaking English - that would've been a serious limitation to your ability to communicate with customers.
And in fact, when people ask me, "Do you... I mean, you come from Greece - why didn't you start the airline in Greece" or "Why didn't you go to France or Germany or everything else", and one of the things I say is, that you know, Greece is too small, it's in the wrong end of Europe, and out of the big markets, the German, the French and the English, the only language I could skip... er... speak, was English, so I had to come to London.
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