Martin Hawes: Teach yourself to 'speak' money

Money has its own language. Few beyond the cognoscenti can speak "money" and, in my view, this is a major reason for people being turned off finance.

Every field requires its own technical language, but you should never let yourself be excluded from a field because of vocabulary.

You should be suspicious of people who want to intimidate with jargon – if they cannot explain something simply, you should run a mile.

Regrettably, "money" is not an easy language to learn. Like English, it is a language where there are many synonyms. Those who are fluent can use different words for the same thing. 

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