AEE 295: How to Be Pushy Without Being Pushy in English

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Come have a conversation with Lindsay and Michelle in the comments section of our blog! Come back to: http://www.allearsenglish.com/295 Get your free IELTS Cheat Sheet: http://www.allearsenglish.com/evaluation Today you’ll get six ways to check on someone’s progress in a non-pushy way in English! Do you ever want to get the status of someone’s progress on a project or an assignment but do you get confused about how to ask without making the person feel pressured? Today you’ll find out how to do it successfully in English. Ways to check on progress: “How’s it going? I look forward to receiving the files.” “Any updates? ” How are things progressing?” “How are things moving forward?” “How are things going?” “Do you need any feedback on anything?” “Do you want me to check your work?” Slightly more direct ways to check on progress: “What’s your timeline?” “How’s your timeline looking?” “I just wanted to check in. When do you think you’ll be able to get that done?” What other phrases do you use when you want to check on someone’s progress? Let us know in the comments below. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 295,
0:05.0	How to be Pushy Without Being Pushy in English.
0:09.0	Welcome to the All-Eears English podcast where you'll finally get real native English
0:17.3	conversation and fluency for business and life. We believe in connection not perfection when it comes to learning English.
0:27.0	Now here are your hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl coming to you
0:36.9	from Boston and New York City, USA. Do you ever want to check on someone's progress in English, but not want to sound pushy when you do it?
0:51.0	Today you'll get six ways to check on someone's progress in a
0:55.3	non-pushy way in English.
1:05.0	Hey Michelle, what's going on? What's going on?
1:07.0	Hey Lindsay, not too much, not too much, how are you?
1:10.0	I am doing really well today, and I want to fill you in on a stressful and kind of
1:15.8	awkward situation that I was in the other day and I think some of our
1:19.6	listeners maybe have also been in this situation and this you know we want to help our
1:24.2	listeners move to that next level of English by making their English more
1:28.2	nuanced more specific and more sophisticated right Michelle Michelle? Yeah, definitely.
1:33.0	Oh, yeah, I want to hear about it.
1:35.0	What happened? Yeah, so you know, we have a team of people helping us out at Allers English
1:40.0	and we had hired a couple of people to do some voice work for us, and I wanted to know why the project was taking longer than I thought it was taking.
1:49.0	And so I was preparing an email to check in on this person but I thought how can I not be
1:54.8	too direct how can I not be too rude you know I'm sure that this is the challenge
1:59.6	that our listeners run into when they're at work in an English-speaking workplace and you know
2:04.2	sometimes you don't want to just say is it ready yet or when will it be
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