EPISODE · Apr 3, 2026 · 17 MIN
CEO Gets INTERROGATED By His Own Job Candidate (C1 English Lesson)
from English with Thiago · host Thiago Alencar
⭐Get the B2 EDGE APP for structured practice: https://studio.com/thiago🔥Get my pronunciation course:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/pronunciation-course📓Get This FREE PDF to start upgrading your vocabulary:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/free-pdf-3A startup CEO scheduled a job interview. The moment the call started, the candidate took over — firing questions about the CEO's education, his qualifications, his team size, even whether the company had a website. The CEO never got a chance to ask a single thing. Then the candidate hung up and said he wasn't interested. This story went viral. And it's packed with the kind of vocabulary that separates a B2 speaker from a C1 speaker of English. In this video, we read the original article paragraph by paragraph and break down the words that matter: straightforward, spiraled, probing, barrage, reciprocity, skewed, dismissive, lingered — and more. This is real English, in a real context, with real stakes. That's the only way vocabulary actually sticks.
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⭐Get the B2 EDGE APP for structured practice: https://studio.com/thiago🔥Get my pronunciation course:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/pronunciation-course📓Get This FREE PDF to start upgrading your vocabulary:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/free-pdf-3A startup CEO scheduled a job interview. The moment the call started, the candidate took over — firing questions about the CEO's education, his qualifications, his team size, even whether the company had a website. The CEO never got a chance to ask a single thing. Then the candidate hung up and said he wasn't interested. This story went viral. And it's packed with the kind of vocabulary that separates a B2 speaker from a C1 speaker of English. In this video, we read the original article paragraph by paragraph and break down the words that matter: straightforward, spiraled, probing, barrage, reciprocity, skewed, dismissive, lingered — and more. This is real English, in a real context, with real stakes. That's the only way vocabulary actually sticks.
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