Find out in our programme about phone slang. The English We Speak: 27 August 2013. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Find out more about page archiving.

This week, talking on the phone in English can be hard, but there are some standard phrases which you can use Some of us are afraid to make and receive phone calls in English.

A course about business communication. Telephone: appointments. Introduction. Making an appointment can be complicated if two people are very busy.

Every morning, Ahmed Shariar Sarwar makes it his daily ritual to call number 3000 on his mobile phone to get lessons in English -- his passport to a better life in impoverished Bangladesh.

A course about business communication. Telephone: challenge. You said '3.00 is difficult but he's free after 4.00.' Well done! Saying that a time is 'difficult' is a polite way of saying that you ...

DHAKA Every morning, Ahmed Shariar Sarwar makes it his daily ritual to call number 3000 on his mobile phone to get lessons in English — his passport to a better life in impoverished Bangladesh ...