Hi!
Hi, Georgie!
This is Gabby.
How are you?
Yeah, I'm fine.
I'm pretty good.
It's a good morning today.
I'm just about to go to my work, to my job at the moment.
But I have twenty minutes before.
Okay, perfect.
I'm so happy that we can connect online.
Yes, me too.
It's a great pleasure for me.
Wonderful.
So can I ask, where are you?
Oh, yes, sure.
At the moment, I'm located in Mexico, in the central part of Mexico.
The name of the province or you know the state is San Luis Potos.
Okay.
Wonderful.
I'm always curious to know where Go Natural English students are living because we have
students from all over the world.
It's really great to know that you're there in Mexico.
Tell me about your interest in learning English.
Is it for work or for personal reasons or something else?
It always is for personal reasons.
As you know, mainly it is a tool for communication.
It's a way that you can use to connect with other people from all over the world from
different backgrounds and actually at the moment my job is as technical support specialist
for Honeywell, a global big company.
You know?
I believe you know all the products of the Honeywell company?
Yeah.
Yeah it's a big company, very famous company.
That's excellent.
So you need English for work as well.
Oh, yes, of course.
And really, my activities, my work activities are related with taking calls from my customers
all around... not all around the world, but from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands,
Canada and, of course, the US, the United States, from all over the country.
Do you take calls in Spanish and English?
Yes.
Okay.
Mostly 90% of the time in English of course.
Your English sounds great.
Your accent is really clear and you sound very American to me, actually.
So, congratulations on your English speaking.
I'm curious: Why did you choose Go Natural English?
What are you interested in learning more about?
Well, yeah, that's a good question, of course.
And my interest is that you need to have a big insight, to know more from the inside
the language, in order to use it more clearly with a great emphasis or a great focus on
what you need, and maybe that way I can gain access to a different position in my work,
different operation vacancies for the company.
And to ameliorate, to grow for better.
Let me ask you, how do you think you're doing in our Fluent Communication course?
Tell me, how are you doing?
Are you able to study?
Are you able to learn something?
Have you learned something new?
Yes, of course, the phrasal verbs is always...
well, not a nightmare, but sometimes it's very difficult to understand what's going
on with the phrasal verbs.
Really, to be honest with you, they are very interesting, very funny.
Oh, let me ask you this: It is possible to create phrasal verb from nowhere?
I mean, to take one verb, if you making it and using a verb like it's not usually used
as a phrasal verb, but it's possible to try and form any verb, any normal verb into a
phrasal verb?
Really, you have to learn the phrasal verbs one by one.
There can be some similarities, like "out".
Of course, it always implies "to remove", "to leave", "to exit", "to delete".
It can be something like that.
But maybe there's a more specific meaning.
So, it's really something you have to focus on and look at the examples and see how people
use the phrasal verbs.
But to answer your question, definitely you cannot just make a phrasal verb from any verb.
It would be like, you know, creating a new language.
I'm not sure if people would understand.
Yes, yes, I understand.
So basically, you need to understand phrasal verb, each phrasal verb in context.
Yeah, in context, for sure.
To be applied correctly.
I like to always connect phrasal verbs with the situation when you might use them because
it will help you to remember them.
So if you think about a phrasal verb for example, "get out".
I might think about think about taking the bus, like I need...
Or sorry maybe not with the bus, I would say I need to get out at Central Square, the train
stop.
Or maybe with work: "I need to get out of work early today because I have an appointment."
So I like to think about situations.
Tell me more about how you're doing in the course, because as far as I know, we haven't
heard too much from you on Speak Pipe or on Facebook.
Did you know you can use Speak Pipe?
Do you know about this?
Oh, yes.
Definitely.
To be honest, I want to start over from the course again, from the beginning, to make
a complete review of all the lessons.
And I like the grammar.
I always try to spend some time with the exercise, the quizzes, the grammar quizzes, so I like
the grammar a lot.
And I know it's not always the best way to proceed with a learning approach, or learning
achievement, but yes, I want to review all the courses step by step, part by part.
And one interesting question for me at this point, what is the future of the course?
Because I understand this is a community an active, self-motivated learning community.
So the course will be there for the future?
We can interact in the future with different classes?
How can... for me it's important, how it's possible to give back, to contribute with
the community?
With the future exercises, future plans.
I love that!
What a nice question.
I love that idea.
So, you can of course stay in our Facebook community forever and I love your idea of
giving back, you know, helping if there's questions, you can respond, you can give your
opinion.
Still there's a few more weeks in the course.
I want to encourage you to use Speak Pipe a lot and benefit from the feedback from the
teachers.
I've spoken with several students this week and they all say, "Wow, we really love Speak
Pipe, because we an get corrections and feedback and encouragement from the teachers."
So I encourage you to keep using it.
Okay.
Yes.
Yes, I will.
It's a great tool for communication and of course [inaudible].
Yeah.
Well I know you have to go to work soon, but do you have any other questions for me before
we finish our call?
Well, it's just my opinion, it's a great way to be in contact, be engaged with your learning
achievements.
And yeah, I appreciate all the time for the material.
I know it's a hard work to produce every...
a short video can take you many hours of work, for editing, for...
It's true!
Thank you for appreciating that.
I'm really happy to hear that you're enjoying the course and the materials.
I'm really impressed with your English, too, your speaking is excellent.
I just want you to learn more phrasal verbs, more expressions, and feel even more confident
with that.
Oh, well, maybe I will have the chance to produce some exercises.
So, my idea is to analyze concepts like, for example, the structure of the present perfect
continuous verbs that are very interesting or confusing most of the time.
You know to have a great view, visual about it's usage.
Yeah!
Or the concepts when you can apply a continuous perfect progressive time to a tense for it?
Yeah.
No, absolutely.
It's a good way if you want to create an analysis, it's a good way for you to practice.
But also it's a good thing maybe you can share with other people through our Facebook group
and they can benefit from your work, too.
That would be amazing.
I wish you all the best with your work and with your English studies.
Okay.
No problem.
I'm running out of time.
I need to leave the call because I have three minutes.
Ah, go, go, go!
Okay, thank you so much, George.
You have a wonderful day!
Excellent.
Thank you, Gabby, you too!
Bye.