Episode 25: Startup co-living

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Our goal is to help startup professionals take their English from intermediate to advanced in just 10 minutes at a time. In each episode, we’ll talk about a topic related to the startup world, and we’ll learn some vocabulary that you can use to sound more natural in your day-to-day business interactions in English.

In episode 25, we’re talking about a trend that has been taking the startup world by storm: startup co-living.

This term refers to living with people who aren’t your family, or living in a larger community with a lot of shared resources. This is gaining a lot of popularity in the world of digital entrepreneurs, digital nomads and startup founders.

If you rent in a co-living community, you’ll get your own living space – it could be a simple bedroom, a studio, or it might even be an apartment. That depends on your budget, of course, but also on the type of co-living community you’re joining.

In this episode, we talk about the reasons why entrepreneurs choose to move to a co-living community, as well as the possible reasons why this might not be a good choice for others.

In episode 25, we’ll also teach you 10 English terms you can use to talk about housing and startup co-living.

Here are a few of the expressions we talk about in this lesson:

a flat fee
amenities
price tag
upmarket

Here’s the episode audio.

Smart Startup English · Episode 25 – Startup co-living (Business English)

In this episode, we mention a few startup co-living options: Flatmates (in Paris) and Colonies (in several cities in France, Germany and Switzerland).

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