B2SpeakingWriting~9 min

Networking

Pitch yourself, exchange contacts, follow up afterward.

1Learn the essentials

Networking is starting low-stakes professional chats and leaving a door open to talk again.

Keep your pitch short: “I'm a [role] at [place], focused on [thing].”
Show interest first: “What are you working on these days?”
Follow up afterward: “Great to meet you — let's stay in touch on LinkedIn.”

2Warm up & speak

Phrase 1 / 6

So what's brought you here today?

¿Y qué te trae por aquí?

💡 El arranque estándar en un evento: pregunta por el motivo, no por el cargo.

Speak it, or skip ahead anytime.

3Lock it in

Networking1 / 14

¿Y qué te trae por aquí?

Say it in English, then check yourself.

4Practise speaking

B2say it out loud

Three minutes and one contact

The coffee break at a conference. The person you came to meet is free, and the break is short.

Say who you are in one sentence that ends in what you do, not your job title.
Ask them something only they could answer, and say why you are asking.
Ask for the contact, name the one thing you will send, and let them go.

You did it if

You listened more than you talked, asked once, and walked away with something to send.

0 of 3 moves rehearsed

Nothing here is listening or marking you — this is your own rehearsal, and you tick a move when you have said it out loud. For live correction, take the same situation to Rumi, your AI Tutor, in the role-play step below.

5Practise writing

B290–150 words

The message you send two days later

At a conference you talked for ten minutes with a senior engineer at a company you would like to work for, and she said to get in touch. Two days have passed and she has met sixty people since. Write the message: make her remember which conversation was yours, give her something before you ask for anything, and ask for one small thing — not a job.

0 words (target 90–150)

Self-check

Tick each point once your draft covers it.

Where and when you met, inside the first two lines
One concrete detail from the conversation itself, so she knows which person you were
Something useful to her — a link, an answer, a name — before any request
One small request she could grant in twenty minutes, and it is not a job
An easy way out, so saying no costs her nothing

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6Role-play the conversation

Rehearse the full conversation with Rumi, your AI Tutor — live, in-character role-play with gentle grammar & word-choice corrections as you go.

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