The meeting ends. Everyone leaves. And you realize you never said the thing you were thinking the whole time. Today your voice enters the meeting.
In this episode, Maya and Leo dismantle the three fears that keep you silent — fear of being wrong, fear of sounding stupid in English, fear of offending someone — and give you the opinion sandwich: softener, opinion, reason. You'll get opinion frames for every situation ("In my opinion...", "It seems to me that..."), stronger frames for when you're sure, the golden rule of polite disagreement (attack the idea, never the person), the PREP framework, how to invite quiet people in, questions as vehicles for opinions, handling "we already decided that," a lightning round of moments and phrases, and the follow-up that turns a spoken opinion into action.
Made for intermediate learners (CEFR B1–B2).
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