How To Communicate With Foreigners Correctly In English?

 

Traditionally, people in English speaking countries (especially American You call your name or your phone number, or even a work unit or address, at the very beginning. Such as: Hello (Good morning,... "This is 2856123" (Hello, Hello, my phone number is 2856123.) Or "This is Marg" s phone or This is Mary speaking "(I am Marie). Some people only answer Hello when they answer the phone, and wait for the other person to start talking. But this way will inevitably lead the other party to put forward "Is this 7856111?" Is this the 7856111 call? Or "Is that Peter 's phone?" Is this the Peter's house? Such problems will inevitably lead to a lot of time and words before the official calls. Therefore, do not just say Hello, which is far from our domestic counterparts.

 

If you find that the other person is looking for another, or dial the wrong number, you'd better repeat your phone number, and then tell the other party "Sorry you" ve dialed the wrong unmber (sorry, you dial the wrong number). Or simply answer: "Sorry wrong number," do not hang up the phone without saying a word. Similarly, if we dial the wrong number ourselves, we simply say to the other person, "Sorry (I 've dialed) wrong number," and hang up again.

 

use in When you call or answer the phone, you can ask, "who are you?" But when you speak in English, you must never ask, "Who are you?" When you ask which person you are, you can use the following ways:

 

Who 's that / who' s speaking, please? Who are you, please?

 

Whom an I speaking to? Who is calling with me?

 

May I have your name? May I ask your name?

 

Is that you,... ? / Is... There, please? Is so and so in?

 

When answering questions or introducing yourself, you can use This is. It 's... Speaking. It is (Mary) here / Hello, Mary here. This is 3132459 and so on, can not be used "I am..." If you are looking for someone else, you can use "Yes, speaking".

 

When someone is answering the phone, you can use "You" re wanted on the phone "or" Someone wants you on the the "(someone is calling you). You can also say "There 's telephone call for you" (with your phone).

 

If the person is around, you can say "It" s for you, Tom "or" For you Tom "(Tom, looking for you). If the person you are looking for is on the phone next door or somewhere else, when you call, you will call him later when you receive the phone call, please wait for a while. You can use Hold on (the the), and you can see it. If the person you are on the phone can't find at the moment, answer the question as soon as possible and ask if the person is willing to leave a message. At this time, "May I take a message for you" can be used. I can bring you one. A message? Do you? Or "Would you like to leave a message?" (do you want to stay?) Vice versa, if you call someone, the other person happens to be away, you can also ask the person who answers the phone to take a message or leave a note, then say, "Could you take a message for me please?" Then you can simply say to the caller, "Please tell him that I want to speak to him." (please tell him that I have something to tell him), or "Tell him that I called" (tell him I called), also can say: "Will you please tell him to to"? Will you tell him to call me back?

 

Of course, phone calls are neither perfect nor annoying. For example, when you call someone, you are very busy with party. You'd better show your apologies in a polite way, and you can say, "I am sorry to make a phone call to you when you". When you are very busy now, I am calling you, I am very sorry. If you have a very urgent matter to call someone, it is early morning or midnight, you can say: "I am sorry to have called you so early, but......" "(so early to call you, I'm sorry, but...) Sorry to have waked you wp.