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Welcome back to Business English Pod for the second part of our series on <a href="https://www.businessenglishpod.com/category/business-idioms/" title="business English idioms" rel="noopener" target="_blank">English idioms</a> related to <a href="https://www.businessenglishpod.com/category/it-and-computers/" title="technology English" rel="noopener" target="_blank">technology</a>.
Every day you use dozens of high-tech devices and apps to communicate, plan, organize, monitor and store information. It’s almost impossible to imagine the workplace before modern technology. It’s also almost impossible to imagine the English language without all the idioms we use related to technology. 
If you want to be on the same wavelength as expert English speakers, you can’t ignore idioms. And I just used a prime example there. If you are “on the same wavelength,” it means you understand each other. This comes from radio technology, where you have to be tuned to the same frequency to receive a signal. 
As you can see, an idiom has a special meaning that isn’t always clear. You can think about the words on their own, but that won’t help you. You need to learn idioms as chunks of language, with a special meaning beyond the individual words. In this way, you will be able to communicate even better in English.
In this lesson, we’ll rejoin a conversation at an engineering company between Maggie, Antonio, and Finn. They are <a href="https://www.businessenglishpod.com/2025/02/02/bep-412-business-english-idioms-about-technology-1/" title="BEP 412 – Business English Idioms about Technology (1)" rel="noopener" target="_blank">continuing their conversation</a> about upgrading the tech systems in their company. In their discussion, they use many idioms related to technology. See if you can spot some of these, and we’ll explain them later in the debrief.
Listening Questions
1.	What does Antonio say about HR and their training plans?
2.	Why didn’t the company move to PayWorks software a couple of years ago?
3.	How does Antonio describe the new servers that are available?
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