How to Explain an API in English (For Developers)

Your interviewer asks: 'How does your service communicate with the payment gateway?' Can you explain the API request and response flow clearly in English without getting stuck? Practice explaining API requests, responses, and errors clearly in your next tech interview. Learn how to use the present simple and passive voice to describe endpoints, payloads, and status codes. ▶ Watch next: How to Discuss Deployments & Rollbacks in English (First Conditional)    • How to Discuss Deployments & Rollbacks in ...   ⏱ Chapters 0:00 The problem 0:23 Why it matters 0:54 How to say it 2:19 See it in context 3:52 Key expressions 5:01 Your turn to speak 5:24 Quick review 6:25 Final challenge 7:14 Recap & next steps 🎯 Level A2-B1 · Focus: present simple and passive voice · New expressions: endpoint, payload, status code, rate limiting If this lesson helped you feel more confident, please subscribe to the channel and share it with another developer who wants to work internationally. 🔔 @deployyourenglish — English for developers, DevOps, SRE and platform engineers. Lesson 17. #EnglishForDevs #APIs #TechEnglish