Here are some useful phrases you may hear or use when you are speaking to your friends or colleagues.<\/p>\n
Have you ever been to a foreign country?<\/em><\/p>\n How long have you been working here?<\/em><\/p>\n How long have you been staying in California?<\/em><\/p>\n Can you speak English?<\/em><\/p>\n Do you speak English?<\/em><\/p>\n Are you married?<\/em><\/p>\n Have you got any children?<\/em><\/p>\n Do you come here often?<\/em><\/p>\n Have you worked here for a long time?<\/em><\/p>\n Do you enjoy your stay in Mumbai?<\/em><\/p>\n Do you like it here?<\/em><\/p>\n Are you enjoying it here?<\/em><\/p>\n Do you speak Spanish?<\/em><\/p>\n Could you speak more slowly, please?<\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019m sorry \u2013 I don\u2019t understand.<\/em><\/p>\n Could you speak a little louder, please?<\/em><\/p>\n Could you repeat what you just said, please?<\/em><\/p>\n Could you repeat that, please?<\/em><\/p>\n Thank you for a pleasant evening.<\/em><\/p>\n I hope we will meet again sometime soon.<\/em><\/p>\n It was nice to meet you.<\/em><\/p>\n That was a pleasant surprise.<\/em><\/p>\n Here is a sample conversation.<\/p>\n Maya is at her friend Krishna\u2019s party. Rahul comes to introduce himself to her.<\/p>\n Rahul:<\/strong> Hi, I\u2019m Rahul. I\u2019m a friend of Krishna\u2019s.<\/p>\n Maya:<\/strong> Oh, glad to meet you. Krishna has told me a lot about you. You\u2019re his roommate, right?<\/p>\n Rahul:<\/strong> Yes, I\u2019m his roommate. You work with him, don\u2019t you? What do you do, exactly?<\/p>\n Maya:<\/strong> I am a web designer. What about you?<\/p>\n Rahul:<\/strong> I work at a bank.<\/p>\n Maya:<\/strong> Oh\u2026 Where are you from?<\/p>\n Rahul:<\/strong> I\u2019m from Shimla.<\/p>\n Maya: So what do you think of the weather in Chennai? It must be too hot for you.<\/p>\n Rahul:<\/strong> It is. Sometimes the heat gets unbearable.<\/p>\n Maya:<\/strong> Are you going to stay here for long?<\/p>\n Rahul:<\/strong> I\u2019m not sure. I would like to move to Bangalore or Kolkata.<\/p>\n Maya:<\/strong> So you don\u2019t enjoy your stay here.<\/p>\n Rahul:<\/strong> I do. I love South Indian food and Chennai has got a number of amazing restaurants. I\u2019ve also got several good friends here. Heat is the only problem I face in Chennai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are some useful phrases you may hear or use when you are speaking to your friends or colleagues. Have you ever been to a foreign country? How long have you been working here?...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-sample-english-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Situation<\/h3>\n