Shadowing Practice: What a Sucessfully Booked Meeting Looks Like #coldcalling - Learn English Speaking with Video

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This is Mark calling with...
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I was wondering if you had a moment.
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Sorry.
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I was wondering if you had a moment or if I got you at a bad time.
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I know you're probably pretty busy.
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No, what's up?
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Yeah, no, I really appreciate it.
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So I'm calling with you.
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We're a fintech company, and what we do is solve 100 % of manual accounting tasks within our platform.
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It's something similar to, have you ever heard of?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, it's something similar.
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to that, you know, we've had some success and we've we've been able to save companies,
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you know, a lot of time for them and their finance team and give them more visibility and, you know, get some money back with our platform.
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I'm not really sure where you're at, but it's just curious, you know, if you'd have any time this week
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or next week to just kind of overview the platform with our with a guy named
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He's one of our business development managers.
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He's been at for 20 years and just switched over within the past year or two.
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And, you know, it wouldn't be a waste of your time.
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Just curious if you had any bandwidth or, you know, any time either this week
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or next week just to see the platform and see if it could be a fit for you guys.
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Well, these next two weeks are going to be busy for us.
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We have our fiscal year end at the end of March and we're just kind of gearing up to that.
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And then we got and then April is just full of auditors and everything.
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But, you know, sometime after that.
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Yeah, I mean, I can throw something on the calendar.
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So the let's see.
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So, does like the third week of April sound okay?
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Like the week of the 17th?
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Yeah, we're okay.
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Let's see.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “What a Sucessfully Booked Meeting Looks Like”. This video has 31 sentences and 316 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:53. The speaker talks at a natural 168 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 12 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
curious adjective/ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
gear noun/ɡɪɚ/Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
solve verb/sɒlv/To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
manual noun/ˈmæn.j(u)əl/Synonym of handbook.
calendar noun/ˈkæl.ən.də/Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.
fiscal adjective/ˈfɪskəl/Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
sometime adverb/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.
overview noun/ˈoʊ.vɚˌvjuː/A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
visibility noun/ˌvɪz.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/The condition of being visible.
bandwidth noun/ˈbændwɪdθ/The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band.
auditor noun/ˈɔːdɪtɚ/One who audits bookkeeping accounts.
fintech noun/ˈfɪntɛk/Financial technology, that is, technology (usually information technology) that is focused on finance.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • I know you're probably pretty busy.
  • It's something similar to, have you ever heard of?
  • He's one of our business development managers.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 12 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, we've, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like curious, gear, solve.

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