Business cards
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Preparation
Transcript
A
A: Hello, Doctor Miller. It's nice to meet you.
B: Please call me Peter.
A: OK. Are you a medical doctor? It must be helpful when you sell medical equipment.
B: Actually, no. My doctorate was in electronic engineering, but it's still helpful for me when I sell our equipment.
B
Good morning, everyone. I'm happy to be here today to tell you about our new project. My name is Alessandro Rossi. I'm the project leader on the Starlight programming project.
C
Pleased to meet you. Here's my card. My real name is Megumi Tanaka, but people who are not from my country think it's difficult to say my name, so I use another name, Meg, when I'm working internationally.
D
Hello, everyone. My name's Andres Mulligan. I'm very happy to be joining this team for the next few months and learning more about research and development.
In Turkey business card includes name,company logo and company name ,position and some contact details (email address,phone number etc.)
Which information do people have on their business cards in your country?
I didn’t observe closely, so I’m unsure about it. I believe full name, email address, and phone number are essential. Additionally, it may include the company name and position.
My dictionary:
New word I have learned today:
'Limited', a kind of a company that has private owners
(Ltd.)used in the name of a limited company [Ref].
[Ref]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/limited?q=%27Limited%27
Best regards.
The business card is rather obsolete in my country; however the main informations are name, address, e-mail, company name, phone number and Whatsapp; sometimes on the business card we also find an aphorism or a logo.
In my country, South Africa. What you find on the business cards of people is: Your business name, your name, phone number, address, and email.
In Brazil where i live, we have in ours bussines cards infomation like name, service we made, whatsapp number, email and instagram account.
Bussines cards usually includes company name, email, phone number, address.
In my country, people usually don't have business cards. In my case, I never see someone giving a bussiness card, so for me it is very weird to see that happened.
In my country, business cards usually includes the company logo, the person's full name, and a contact number.
I will talk about my currently residence in UAE. It is simple also has email,name, company name and phone number with white background