Please hold the line
Does phoning in English make you nervous? Perhaps you’re worried that you don’t understand the other person? That needs training.
Grab your headset, go to www.spiegel.de and test whether you’ve understood the callers.
More phrases for closing your email messages
Here we are back again with five more phrases you might like to use to close your email messages.
Remember to add your favourites to your ‘toolbox’ and keep them near your computer.
Looking forward to your reply
Regards (of course you can still use this phrase – as well as ‘Best regards’ and ‘Kind regards’. However, it’s nice to be a bit more creative now and again, isn’t it?)
Take care
Thanks for your help
Thank you for getting back to me so quickly.
On leadership
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
A handy dictionary
Do you know the difference between Hispanic and Latino? And what about the difference between England, Great Britain, The United Kingdom and the British Isles? Or the difference between Persian and Iranian? They’re quite tricky, aren’t they? If you’re like me and get confused now and again, you must read this article (link to: www.qz.com). You’ll find that this is a handy dictionary of commonly misused and mixed-up geographical terms. I must say that I learned a lot. But I’ve probably forgotten half of what I read! So I need to read it again from time to time.
Short conversation
Mandy, a teenager, had been talking on the phone for almost half an hour and then she hung up.
“Wow!” replied her father, “That was short. You usually talk for two hours or more. What happened?'”
“Oh,” smiled Mandy, “It was the wrong number.”
The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Russia or France?
How good are you at recognising flags? Do the Telegraph’s little quiz (with 10 flags) to find out.
I’m afraid I failed rather miserably! 🙁
