Sep 22, 2026 · 7 min · 6 segments
Dans cet épisode, Richard Watson de speakingchess.fr, invite à arrêter de **s'excuser** pour son niveau d'anglais et à transformer la langue en véritable **art martial**…
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So, if you walk into any international meeting, any hotel reception, or any casual dinner party, you will hear the exact same sentence all the time.

You think you're being polite, but psychologically you're shooting yourself in the foot.

And you're basically asking the other person to judge you before you've done anything wrong.

Let's face it, you can't magically make your English perfect right now just by wishing it were better.

So, if you walk into any international meeting, any hotel reception, or any casual dinner party, you will hear the exact same sentence all the time.

You think you're being polite, but psychologically you're shooting yourself in the foot.

And you're basically asking the other person to judge you before you've done anything wrong.

Let's face it, you can't magically make your English perfect right now just by wishing it were better.
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