A voicemail message
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John: Hi, this is John. Thanks for calling. I'm not here at the moment, so please leave a message and I'll call you back.
Marina: Hi, John, this is Marina Silva calling from Old Time Toys. Your colleague Alex gave me your phone number. She said you can help me.
I need some information on your new products. Could you please call me when you are back in the office? My phone number is 0-2-0-8, 6-5-5-7-6-2-1.
Also, can you please email me your new brochure and information about your prices? My email address is Marina, that's M-A-R-I-N-A, dot Silva, S-I-L-V-A, at O-L-D-T-I-M-E hyphen toys dot com.
Thanks a lot. I look forward to hearing from you.
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No l have never make a calling in english
Yes, I do make calls and say things i'm English, but it's almost unusual, although I don't leave voicemails i'm English
Sometimes i need to speak with contractors from other countries, but nowadays everyone uses Whatsapp, so we don’t need to leave voicemails. As for phone calls, i usually make them with brazilian contractors.
i used to write messages in English and send by emails or whatsapp
Marina said some words unclear, for example, she said "all" instead "old", and she pronounced "a" instead "e" for "oldtime(a)". In those moments I'm starting to worry and become distracted. Anybody knows how to overcome this?
Hello AzizKA,
One of the things about English is how many different ways of speaking it has. Sometimes these are dialects connected to where a person comes from. In the UK, for example, it's enough to travel 50km - say, from Manchester to Liverpool - to hear a completely different accent. In addition, there are many non-native speakers of English. In fact, English has the distinction of being the first living language (i.e. not a dead language like Latin) which has more non-native speakers than native speakers. All this means that you will hear many different ways of speaking and we try to reflect that in the texts on our site. Marina is a fluent speaker whose English is excellent but she is a non-native speaker and has a Portuguese accent.
The best way to get used to the range of voices you will hear in English is to listen to a lot of them. Familiarity makes it easier, and this is why we have such a range of voices on LearnEnglish.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
No, I only write messages in English. I don't like making calls or leaving voicemails.
I have never done this before but I want to try too