How to Start and End a Video Call | Go Natural English

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hello again it's me Gabby from gonaturalenglish.com and today we're
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going to talk about something really important a lot of people have been
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experiencing some big changes lately have you had to change your work to work
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from home you used to have face-to-face meetings but now you need to have video
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conferences from home while you're working remotely well today we're gonna
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talk about how to start and end a video conferencing call in English now this
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might seem simple but there are some really important details that will help
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you to have a smoother beginning a more confident conversation and a really
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strong close or ending to your video call many people make the huge mistake
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of being really unprepared about how to begin and end a video call and so today
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we're gonna learn some really quick and easy ways that you can improve your
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video calls whether they're on Zoom or Skype Google Hangouts or whatever video
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conferencing platform you use after watching this video you're gonna have
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much better calls whether they are for work professional reasons or just casual
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calls with your friends and family people nowadays are doing a lot more
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video calls real quick I want to give a huge thank you to Ling goda for
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a tremendous opportunity for you to improve your spoken English skills your
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confidence and fluency by practicing online with their expert native tutors
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as of now over 25,000 people have participated in the Ling
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Gotha language sprint and shared with me their positive feedback about how it has
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impacted their lives positively so I can't wait to share the details with you
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about how you can participate and benefit from the next lingo to sprint
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but now let me talk about how to begin your video call I want to know from you
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can you tell me how you usually start and end a video call tell me the words
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or the phrases that you use leave them in the comments and you can check to see
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if they're good appropriate and correct a couple quick notes for your video call
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even though you're not face-to-face eye contact it is still super important so
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as soon as you get your video call connected make sure that you're giving
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the feeling of eye contact now it's a little strange because you're not face
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to face but don't look down and don't only look at the face of the other
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person or people with whom you're speaking you need to look into the
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camera on your webcam or your laptop or your mobile phone whatever you're using
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to give the feeling of eye contact to the other person this is still super
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important even if you're just doing a video call and not in person second it's
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a really good idea if you're doing this for work or professional reasons to
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record the call of course always asking if that's okay with other participants
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first or take notes during the call sometimes it can be a little
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overwhelming when you're dealing with technology and you don't want to forget
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what you actually talked about during your phone meeting right now to start
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the call of course you can imagine you might say something like hello or hi or
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if it's a more casual call you might say hey if you're talking with maybe your
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boyfriend or your girlfriend you'd say hey babe if you're talking with someone
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more professionally of course we want to keep things really more formal and not
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so casual like hey babe or hey honey in a professional call you want to say
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hello and then a rest the other person by name so for
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example hello mr. Smith or hello mrs. Rodriguez so nice to talk with you or
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you might say good morning mr. Smith or if you're on a first-name basis you
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could say good morning or good afternoon John or Mary or whomever you're speaking
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with if it's later in the day you could say good evening but be careful please
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don't say good night this is a common mistake and native English speakers
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don't say good night until it's time to go to sleep and so on a
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videoconferencing call you're probably not going to sleep so you don't want to
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say good night simply say good evening as a greeting now since we're on a video
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call you might want to do a quick tech check I usually ask can you hear me can
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you see me is the audio working is the video working just to make sure
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everything is running smoothly before I start the conversation then another
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greeting like how are you today how has your day been so far or how is work
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going how's everything these are all really good second greetings
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after hello to just start the conversation a little bit of small talk
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is always a good idea so one more time how are you how is it going how is your
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day so far how is work how's everything now your response to these questions
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should be shorts positive and to the points the response should really be one
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or two words maybe good great everything's fantastic
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can't complain never better now I actually made another video on this very
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topic how to respond to the question how are you fluently confidently like a
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native speaker and I'm going to link to that right up there so that you can
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watch that next professional calls should now talk about the purpose of the
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call or go over the agenda for example you might
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say I'd like to talk about XY and Z another way of saying this using a
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phrasal verb is let's go over X Y & Z or I'd like to review XY and Z if you've
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already talked about something before I'd like to cover X Y & Z in this phone
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call or this video call so again the verbs to use are talk with you about go
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over something or cover something alright so now that you've successfully
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begun your video conference call you're gonna have your conversation and then at
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the end you need to end it do not just say bye and then end the conversation
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this is a big mistake that I see people making that might not feel very
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confident in their English fluency maybe you don't have the vocabulary or the
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phrases you need to end a conversation smoothly but if you just say okay bye
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it feels abrupt and rude so let me share some phrases that you can use to and
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your conversation like an English pro it's always a good idea to say thank you
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thank you for talking with me today or thank you for taking the time to talk
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with me today thank you for taking the time to chat with me today or thank you
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for making time for meeting with me today there are a few different
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variations which can all convey the same meaning you can choose which one you
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like to use the best if you're having a business meeting it's always a good idea
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to summarize what you talked about it was great talking with you about X Y & Z
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or I really enjoyed being able to cover X Y & Z with you today I appreciate your
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time going over X Y & Z today it's been a pleasure talking about X Y & Z with
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you and it's always a good idea to state the
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next action steps for example I'll follow up with you in a couple of days
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I'll touch base with you in a couple of days these two phrasal verbs follow up
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and touch base are super common and you should use them when you're talking
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about the next steps in your communication with someone you can
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follow up or touch base by email phone or video call or even in person you
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could also use the phrasal verb to get back in touch with you so use follow-up
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touch base or get back in touch with you soon finally after you say thank you
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summarize and talk about the next action steps you can close your call by saying
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simply bye or goodbye if you're having a more casual call with friends or family
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you might say buh-bye or if you have a more casual business you could say see
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you later or talk to you soon so I hope these phrases and these tips
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for your video conferencing calls were helpful I want you to feel more
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confident and fluent in your English skills if you have any questions about
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these phrases let me know in the comments now I promise I'd give you
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know the phrases you really need to use them to practice them and that's how it
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