Hello, you guys.

Hoje eu continuo falando sobre o HEAR (eu já comecei a falar dele nesse podcast).

Transcrição

Hey, you guys! What’s up? So here’s another episode of Inglesonline Podcast, and… remember when I talked about the word “hear”, a couple of weeks ago? I said that there was probably going to be a second episode about that same word, so here it is. Remember, I’m talking about hear, h-e-a-r, not ‘here’ as in ‘where I am right now’. And just a reminder: to see the transcript and every episode of this podcast, go to inglesonline.com.br and click ‘Podcast Inglesonline’.

So let’s start with something really simple, you know, ’cause… sometimes we think we know stuff, and… if we read certain things, we understand them, because they’re simple. And if other people say those things, we get what they’re saying, but… Sometimes we haven’t heard or read those things enough and so we can’t say them… when we think we should say them. So, the first expression, so to speak, that I wanna talk about is ‘Can you hear me?’ And also ‘I can’t hear you’.

When would you say that? When you’re talking to someone on the phone, or on Skype, or on a video conference and you’re not sure that your voice is coming through clearly. In other words, you’re not sure that that person on the other side of the line can hear you clearly. So you can simply ask ‘Can you hear me?’ Well, if the other person can’t hear you, he or she won’t hear your question, so they’ll probably just say “I can’t hear you!”

Here’s a true story. I said before that Steve Ford and I are going to record a podcast together, and so two days ago we got together on Skype to test the recording capabilities of my equipment. Well, it turns out that it wasn’t working. I didn’t realize that Steve couldn’t hear me, so I started talking to him. After a while he said something like “Ana, I can’t hear you”.

Another true story. I used to have a cell phone I bought, like, in 2003 or 2004, I think. It was a very simple cell phone, it didn’t have a camera, it didn’t have anything, but it worked just fine. And because it had always worked well, I became a fan of that brand. So a few months ago I decided to buy a new model, ’cause I wanted a cell phone with an integrated camera… so I ended up finding a really nice phone by that same brand on Americanas.com.

I bought it, and quickly realized that the quality of the calls was much inferior than the calls made with my previous phone. So what’s happening now is that very often, when I’m talking to someone, I’ll say ‘Excuse me, I can’t hear you very well’. I can’t hear you. Please, speak up! I can’t hear you.

And this is a great one for people who work in offices. How often do you place a call to someone, and that person is not available, so… you leave a message. Or, let’s say you’ve called someone to ask them a question, or to ask them to do something for you, and now you’re waiting for them to call you back with the answer. You are waiting to hear from them. You’re still waiting, you’re waiting to hear from them.

So let’s say your boss asked you to contact someone in another department and ask them to email you some data. You made the call this morning, the person wasn’t there, you left a message and you are still waiting to hear from...