์‰๋„์ž‰ ์—ฐ์Šต: English for Call Centers ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ | Role Play Practice - ์˜์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜์–ด ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ธฐ

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call center english roleย  play conversation number one
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call center agent and customer hello thank you for calling acmeย  technology my name is carol how may i help you
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hi carol i'm having troubleย  with your computer program
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i can help you with that sir whatย  kind of problem are you having
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i'm having trouble installing the program
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i'm sorry about the difficulties you'reย  having i'll try my best to help you solve the problem well i'm trying to installย  it on both windows and linux
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i see that's a little complicated
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would you mind if i put you on hold forย  a minute i just need to check on the code
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okay that's fine thank you sir please hold for a minute
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hello sir thank you very much for holding i'mย  sorry but could i transfer you to my supervisor
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sure that's fine i appreciateย  it i will transfer your call now
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call center english roleย  play conversation number two
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hello thank you for calling spirit systemsย  this is tom speaking how can i assist you
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hello i recently bought a new computer andย  i'm having trouble loading your software
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all right ma'am could you please tellย  me which version you are trying to load
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it's the gr something hold on a sec i'm trying to find theย  version of the program sure please take your time
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it is the gr5 turbo thank you ma'am the gr5 turbo
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i'm sorry about the troubles you are havingย  i'll try my best to help you solve the issue
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all right thank you ma'am which operating systemย  are you currently using
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i'm on a mac and the os is mount tam
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i see could i put you on hold for a fewย  minutes i need to speak with technical support
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okay but i need to get back to work soon
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i completely understand it shouldย  only take a couple of minutes
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okay thanks thank you very much forย  holding ma'am i think i found the problem
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great please tell me i apologize but our company has not yet released an update for thatย  os it will be available early next week
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ah now i understand well that explains it
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on behalf of our company i am very sorry for the delay please check ourย  website for the update next week
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okay i'll do that is there anything else i can assistย  you with today no that should do it
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thank you very much for calling ma'am
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yeah okay thanks for looking intoย  it thank you again ma'am goodbye
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call center english roleplayย  conversation number three
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hello thank you for calling horizonย  mobile my name is sarah how can i help you
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yes my bill for this month is doubleย  the amount from last month i think there is an accounting mistake
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oh let's look into this may i have your fullย  name and phone number please yes it is paul s
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thompson my number is 619-563-9810 thankย  you mr thompson for verification purposes
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may i have your date of birth sureย  my date of birth is may 11 1978
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thank you sir could you give me a minute toย  pull up your account information sure of course
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thank you for waiting sir i found yourย  last billing invoice and it does appear there has been an error i thought so weย  are very sorry for the double billing
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i will notify our accounting departmentย  and they will send a new bill
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how long will that take you shouldย  receive it in three to five business days
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okay could you tell me my current balance
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yes of course sir your current balance is 87.16
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okay that sounds about right
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is there anything else i can assistย  you with today no that should do it
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again i apologize for the error thankย  you very much for calling mr thompson
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thanks for getting that sorted out
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it was my pleasure sir thank you goodbye
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goodbye if you enjoyed this videoย  please hit the like button and share it thank you so muchย  for watching and see you next time
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video โ€œEnglish for Call Centers ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธโ€. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: sir, calling, trouble, hold, center. This video has 49 sentences and 681 words to shadow. The speech runs for 8:15. The speaker talks slowly, about 82 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
goodbye/ษกสŠdหˆbaษช/Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.
turbo noun/หˆtษ.boสŠ/A turbine.
carol noun/หˆkษ›ษนษ™l/A ballad or song of joy.
install verb/ษชnหˆstษ”l/To connect, set up or prepare something for use
apologize verb/ษ™หˆpษ‘lษ™หŒdอกส’aษชz/To make an apology or excuse; to acknowledge some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends
invoice noun/หˆษชnหŒvษ”ษชs/A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller hasโ€ฆ
roleplay verb/หˆroสŠl.pleษช/To act out a scenario or fantasy with another person or other people.
verification noun/หŒvษ›.ษนษ™.fษชหˆkeษช.สƒษ™n/The act or process of verifying.
notify verb/หˆnoสŠtษชfaษช/To give (someone) notice (of some event).
supervisor noun/หˆsupษšหŒvaษชzษš/A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
linux nounAny unix-like operating system that uses the Linux kernel.
horizon noun/hษ™หˆษนaษช.zษ™n/The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
get back to verbReturn to (an activity)
pull up verb/หŒpสŠl หˆสŒp/To lift upwards or vertically.
sort out verbTo clarify by reviewing mentally.

์ด ์˜์ƒ์˜ ๋ฌธ๋ฒ•

ํ™”์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์ด ์“ฐ๋Š” ๋ฌธํ˜•์„ ์˜์ƒ ์† ์‹ค์ œ ํ‘œํ˜„๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ •๋ฆฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฌธํ˜•์˜์ƒ ์† ํ‘œํ˜„
โ€œshouldโ€ ์กฐ์–ธ should + ๋™์‚ฌ โ€” ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ข‹์€ ์ผ์„ ๋งํ•  ๋•Œshould only take ยท should do ยท should receive
ํ˜„์žฌ์ง„ํ–‰ am/is/are + -ing โ€” ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋˜๋Š” ์š”์ฆ˜ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผi'm having ยท you're having ยท are trying
โ€œwillโ€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ will + ๋™์‚ฌ โ€” ๊ฒฐ์ •, ์•ฝ์† ๋˜๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ธกi'll try ยท will transfer ยท will be
์˜๋ฌด: must / have to / need to ์–ด๋–ค ์ผ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•  ๋•Œneed to check ยท need to speak ยท need to get

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 13 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I'll, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • Long words โ€” get the stress right: apologize /ษ™หˆpษ‘lษ™หŒdอกส’aษชz/, verification /หŒvษ›.ษนษ™.fษชหˆkeษช.สƒษ™n/, supervisor /หˆsupษšหŒvaษชzษš/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like goodbye, turbo, carol.

์‰๋„์ž‰์ด๋ž€? ์˜์–ด ์‹ค๋ ฅ์„ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ๊ณผํ•™์  ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

์‰๋„์ž‰(Shadowing)์€ ์›๋ž˜ ์ „๋ฌธ ํ†ต์—ญ์‚ฌ ํ›ˆ๋ จ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๋œ ์–ธ์–ด ํ•™์Šต ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ, ๋‹ค์–ธ์–ด ํ•™์ž์ธ Dr. Alexander Arguelles์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋Œ€์ค‘ํ™”๋œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์›๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ์›์–ด๋ฏผ์˜ ์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ๋“ค์œผ๋ฉด์„œ 1~2์ดˆ์˜ ์งง์€ ์ง€์—ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ ๋‚ด์–ด ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒโ€”โ€”๋งˆ์น˜ '๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž(shadow)'์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ™”์ž๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌธ๋ฒ• ๊ณต๋ถ€๋‚˜ ์ˆ˜๋™์ ์ธ ์ฒญ์ทจ์™€ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ, ์‰๋„์ž‰์€ ๋‡Œ์™€ ์ž… ๊ทผ์œก์ด ๋™์‹œ์— ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žฌํ˜„ํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ›ˆ๋ จํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ๋ฐœ์Œ ์ •ํ™•๋„, ์–ต์–‘, ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ, ์—ฐ์Œ, ์ฒญ์ทจ๋ ฅ, ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ ์ฐฝ์„ฑ์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. IELTS ์Šคํ”ผํ‚น ์ค€๋น„์™€ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์˜์–ด ์†Œํ†ต์„ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํŠนํžˆ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์„€๋„์ž‰ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•: ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ณ„ ์ „์ฒด ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ ์ฝ๊ธฐ โ†’