About Jake's Business English
Every weekday, a short episode – about 8 minutes – with one story from working life and four phrases you can use at work the next morning. For professionals who use English at work every day, but not as their first language. Level B2 and up.
Who is Jake?
Jake is the narrator we created for this show – an American coach in Prague who lives only in these stories. The people he talks about are made up, too. The situations are the kind that happen in real offices every day. And the English is real.
How we make the show
We write every story and choose every phrase ourselves, and each script is checked before it is recorded. Jake is a fictional narrator, and his voice is computer-generated. The phrases, the examples and the advice are what matter – and those are real.
Where the phrases come from
We didn't guess. We counted. The phrases are chosen from 106 million words of real workplace English – meetings, work emails and company calls. They are ranked by how likely you are to need them at work. How we choose the phrases →
How it helps you remember
Each phrase comes inside a story, because people remember a story better than a list. The free daily email adds one question to think about before you listen, one idea to try that day, and a two-minute quiz that brings earlier phrases back a day, a few days, a week and about a month later – the kind of spaced practice that memory research recommends. And every episode has a full transcript here on the website.