Business English Job Interview Listening Practice: Professional Experience and Language Skills Q&A

Learning English is not just about mastering grammar and vocabulary; more importantly, it's about using it naturally in real-life situations. However, textbook sentences are often too formal and differ significantly from actual daily expressions. To speak authentic and natural English, you need exposure to real contextual conversations. Here, we have selected frequently used daily English expressions covering social, work, travel, and other scenarios, helping you move beyond "textbook English" and learn phrases genuinely used by native speakers. Below is the content of this edition of New Cambridge Business English (Elementary) Unit 17b. Keep practicing, and your English will become more practical!

So Mr. Rebera, I'd like to ask you a few questions about your professional experience and qualifications if I may. Sure. Now your CV says that you've experience of dealing with clients from different countries. Could you tell me which countries you've dealt with? My department publishes translations of foreign books. Most of them are English language books. So I deal with America, Lord, and Britain. And sometimes Italy too. So America, Britain, and Italy. So your English is obviously very good and you speak Italian too. Could you tell me how good your French is? It's okay, I did French as part of my degree. But it is as good as my English or Italian. So that's reasonable, French. Now on your CV you say you have good keyboard skills. Could you tell me how many words a minute you can type? About 50, I learned to type as part of my studies. I need to practice a bit more. You're not the only one; I still use two fingers. And what about computers? Could you tell me a bit about which programs you use? At the moment I use Microsoft Word. I say only need the computer for correspondence. In my last job I also use PowerPoint for our presentations. You use PowerPoint? Did you design the presentations yourself? The training director plans them. But I had to do the actual computer work and make sure it worked properly during the presentations. So that was at Informatica. But it says here in your CV that you left in 1996. Could you tell me why you left? I think the main reason was languages. I liked my job at Informatica, but all our clients were Spanish. So I never got to use my languages. Then when I saw the advertisement for the job at Elifionis Gormif, and I'd always been interested in publishing, so I applied. So why do you want to change jobs now? Well, I still feel that I don't get enough practice with my languages.

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