Learn English Phone Phrases 🤳📱📶

Yeah. Uh huh.

Uh huh. Okay. Yeah, that sounds good.

Hey, um, yeah, I gotta... I gotta go

actually, I'm, I'm standing here making an

English lesson right now, so I'll have

to give you a call back later. Okay? Yep. Bye.

Well, hey.

Hello, and welcome to this English lesson about things

you say when you're on the phone, and in

particular, things you say when the phone call isn't

going well, when you're having problems.

By the way, that wasn't a real phone call.

I was just pretending.

And you heard the first phrase

there, the phrase, I gotta go.

When you're on the phone and you need to

do something else and you need to stop the

conversation, often you'll say, hey, I gotta go.

I'll give you a call right back.

So welcome to this English lesson.

I'll teach you a few more phrases you

can use when you're on the phone.

So phones don't always connect well, sometimes you're

having a phone conversation and you can't hear

what the other person is saying.

Or maybe they'll say something and then

you won't hear them for a split

second, and then you'll hear them again.

So often we will then say this.

We'll say, hey, you're cutting

out, or, you're breaking up.

Either of those two phrases simply means

that as the person is talking, maybe

you're only hearing every other word.

Maybe I'll try to mimic that for a sec.

If I was to talk right now, it would sound like this.

So in the edit, hopefully you understood that I switched

that phrase so that the sound dropped out a bit.

It wasn't your video acting badly.

So two phrases we often use when we're having

trouble hearing the other person, we say, hey, you're

cutting out, or, hey, you're breaking up, meaning that

you're having trouble hearing every word that they're saying.

So let's say you're in a situation where

the person is cutting out and you can't

quite hear every word that they're saying.

What do you say to them so

that they repeat what they're saying?

Often I just say this.

I say, sorry, you're cutting out.

What was that?

It's kind of rude and direct, but

it's quite often what I will say.

I will say, what was that?

A nicer way to say it is to simply say,

hey, you're breaking up, or, hey, you're cutting out.

Could you please repeat what you just said?

So if you're like me, having a normal

conversation, even if I'm talking to Jen.

I might say, hey, what was that?

I didn't hear you.

Or if you want to be really nice, you

might say, hey, could you please repeat that?

Oh, and on a side note, I did

just drop my skates off to get sharpened.

It's that time of year here in Canada.

There's skating on Tuesday afternoons

for people my age.

I'm not going to say how old I am,

but I dropped my skates off today and I'm

planning to go skating when they're done.

So speaking of conversations that are cutting out,

there's two more phrases I should teach you.

If the other person is cutting out, you

might hear me say something like this.

Hello, are you there?

Hello, are you there?

So if I can't hear the other person, if

they're talking and halfway through their sentence I don't

hear anything, I might say, hello, are you there?

Are you there?

And then if the other person says, hey, Bob,

you're cutting out, I'm having trouble hearing you.

I might move, I might walk somewhere else.

And then I might say, can you hear me now?

Can you hear me now?

Those are two very common things to hear

someone say when they're using a phone.

Either they say, hello, are you there? Are you there?

Or they say, can you hear me now?

Let me move a little bit.

Can you hear me now?

So I think the way we normally talk about a

connection where you can't hear someone and they can't hear

you is to say you have a bad connection.

And you might even say that to someone.

You might say, Jen, I think we have a bad connection.

And then you would probably say one of two phrases.

You might say, I can hardly hear you.

Or you might say, can I call you right back?

Sometimes when you have a bad connection, if

you just hang up and call the person

back, sometimes it's really clear the next time.

I'm not sure how phones work in

your country, whether you have all these

problems, but they're pretty common in Canada.

Sometimes you say, hey, I think

we have a bad connection.

I can hardly hear you.

Can I call you right back?

So sometimes when you're having a

phone conversation, it just ends.

You didn't hang up and the other person didn't hang up.

The connection is just so bad

that it ends, it disconnects.

And in that situation I usually think this,

and sometimes I say it out loud.

I might say, oh, I lost him or, oh, I lost her.

So the connection is disconnected.

We are no longer able to talk to each

other and that's what I'll probably say, oh, I

lost him or oh, I lost her.

I often wish that the battery in my

phone would last forever, but it doesn't.

So sometimes when I go to make a phone call

and I notice that I'm at one or 2% battery,

I will tell the other person, hey, let's talk quickly

because my phone is going to go dead.

It's nice to let the other

person know that that might happen.

That way if the phone call ends suddenly, they'll

know why it happened because you told them that

your phone was going to go dead.

So I do wish the battery would last forever.

They obviously don't.

So sometimes it's nice to just say, hey, let's

talk quickly, my phone is going to go dead.

Well, hey, thank you for watching this

English lesson about common things English speakers

say when they're on the phone.

I hope you were able to learn a few new

phrases that you can use in your next English conversation.

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