Thanks. I use my own music in the videos. I studied music and played in bands and taught music before becoming an English teacher, and still write and record when I can
Hi there Indeed! It's a great video to watch & learn to write business correspondence but not to a great extent. I'm a corporate trainer & E-mail etiquette is one of my fortes but I help my people to learn 21st-century business writing, not the archaic & it's very important to get your language, punctuation, & sentence formation right. For an instance, there's no harm in using contractions 'cause it's discovered to use in writing for easy & fast communication. In greetings or sign offs, it's not necessary to use either comma or colon & again it's an old-fashioned pattern. In modern English, you can drop periods after Mr, Mrs, Pvt.... Above all, you should write as if you were speaking to the reader & proofreading is always a good practice. Many thanks! Zeeshan
Hello Ma Fuzhong Thank you for your comments. You are right: "for your perusal" is quite common in more formal style but 'for you to read' is not used. I guess you could say that "for your perusal" is usually redundant (i.e. unnecessary) and not really 'plain English', but it is common, and may be useful if you do want the reader to read the document, as opposed to "for your information" where the reader may just note that a document exists, and not actually read it.
+mohammed doman Hi Mohammad Thanks for your question. You need to think what information is important for you as the writer, and what is important for the other person as the reader. Regards David
Hello Sir, Shall use ' for you to read' or ' for your perusal'? I am confused, because most of emails received from business clients they mostly use ' for your perusal' but not ' for you to read'. Thanks
Dear mybusinessenglish.com, my name is rockYhre and I am writing from Slovenia.I would like to thank you for this very useful video. I also have a question. Should the first letter after "Dear ," be in upper or lower case? I mean the word "my" in my comment and the word "Further" in your video. I have seen both and wonder what is more correct. Please note that Microsoft Outlook automatically changes every such word to upper case by default settings. I look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, rockYhre
Hi RockYhre Good question. In most modern business emails/letters you would capitalise the first letter following the greeting. The greeting and sign-off is generally seen as being separate to the body. But, as you mentioned, people do both, but I would think that not-capitalising is more formal/traditional letter style that is being used less and less, especially for business. In a personal hand-written letter I might still use the non-capitalised style - not that I write these very often - just to my aunts! Often used is open-punctuation, where there is no punctuation used in greetings, sign-offs and other 'extra' elements such as dates and addresses.
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+Juna de Bruin Thanks, Juna for your comment. Certainly "Dear + last name" is formal and in some countries is more appropriate than Dear + first name. I've made an annotation to the video to show that option.. In some countries or company settings though, Dear + first name may be formal enough for email style, still with the idea in mind that a real letter is may be reserved for more formal communications. At least that was in my mind when writing the video. It seems however, that the email has taken over almost all functions of "real letters" and therefore, more formal letter style is being used in emails. Also, we has have to think about variations in culture, which affect the amount of formality used. Thanks again. David
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thank you its shows how to write formal english letter
Thanks.
I use my own music in the videos. I studied music and played in bands and taught music before becoming an English teacher, and still write and record when I can
Good video
10/10 would watch again.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO.
Hi there
Indeed! It's a great video to watch & learn to write business correspondence but not to a great extent.
I'm a corporate trainer & E-mail etiquette is one of my fortes but I help my people to learn 21st-century business writing, not the archaic & it's very important to get your language, punctuation, & sentence formation right. For an instance, there's no harm in using contractions 'cause it's discovered to use in writing for easy & fast communication. In greetings or sign offs, it's not necessary to use either comma or colon & again it's an old-fashioned pattern. In modern English, you can drop periods after Mr, Mrs, Pvt....
Above all, you should write as if you were speaking to the reader & proofreading is always a good practice.
Many thanks!
Zeeshan
Thank you very much, you have great lessons that are very useful. As well you have really very beautiful voice.
Thank you for the tips very valuable indeed
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Thank you for your comment!
Thank you, it helped me a lot, i wonder if you have more tutorial videos regarding this subject.
easy to understand. Thanks
Hello Ma Fuzhong
Thank you for your comments.
You are right: "for your perusal" is quite common in more formal style but 'for you to read' is not used.
I guess you could say that "for your perusal" is usually redundant (i.e. unnecessary) and not really 'plain English', but it is common, and may be useful if you do want the reader to read the document, as opposed to "for your information" where the reader may just note that a document exists, and not actually read it.
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Thank you for commenting.
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about the subject , is it necessary to include every info in the letter
+mohammed doman
Hi Mohammad
Thanks for your question.
You need to think what information is important for you as the writer, and what is important for the other person as the reader.
Regards
David
Hello Sir, Shall use ' for you to read' or ' for your perusal'? I am confused, because most of emails received from business clients they mostly use ' for your perusal' but not ' for you to read'.
Thanks
Thank you for your comment.
Dear mybusinessenglish.com,
my name is rockYhre and I am writing from Slovenia.I would like to thank you for this very useful video. I also have a question.
Should the first letter after "Dear ," be in upper or lower case? I mean the word "my" in my comment and the word "Further" in your video. I have seen both and wonder what is more correct.
Please note that Microsoft Outlook automatically changes every such word to upper case by default settings.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
rockYhre
Hi RockYhre
Good question.
In most modern business emails/letters you would capitalise the first letter following the greeting. The greeting and sign-off is generally seen as being separate to the body. But, as you mentioned, people do both, but I would think that not-capitalising is more formal/traditional letter style that is being used less and less, especially for business. In a personal hand-written letter I might still use the non-capitalised style - not that I write these very often - just to my aunts!
Often used is open-punctuation, where there is no punctuation used in greetings, sign-offs and other 'extra' elements such as dates and addresses.
mybusinessenglish.com Thank you for the answer.
Good. What is the music at the beginning and at 08:06 ?
how do i write emails to people who I want to partner with as a promotion.
let's say,
how do I write emails to youtubers that I want to partner with to promote my brand
principle...?
+leahdin yes - I think you meant to point out that the spelling of 'principle' is incorrect... oops!
+louiseruche ;D Yup!
+louiseruche
Thank you, Louise. I've put a note in the description and an annotation in the video. Well picked up. David
Formal is not Dear Brian, but Dear Mr ... ( Dear Ms .. ) or if you don't know the name Dear Sir / Madam
than your email is complete.
+Juna de Bruin
Thanks, Juna for your comment. Certainly "Dear + last name" is formal and in some countries is more appropriate than Dear + first name. I've made an annotation to the video to show that option..
In some countries or company settings though, Dear + first name may be formal enough for email style, still with the idea in mind that a real letter is may be reserved for more formal communications. At least that was in my mind when writing the video. It seems however, that the email has taken over almost all functions of "real letters" and therefore, more formal letter style is being used in emails. Also, we has have to think about variations in culture, which affect the amount of formality used.
Thanks again.
David
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