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In my office, English is used commonly. There are many e-mail and document in English but, today English emerged suddenly in different situation. That was a telephone meeting.
A telephone meeting is meeting over the telephone literally. Every attendants don't gather to the conference room but are in their desk. A presenter show attendants an agenda and presentations through the intranet and he speaks over the telephone wich we attendants can hear it.
If you imagine that it will be done all in English, you would also imagine that it's hard to catch up with to Japanese. That's true. And unfortunately, since we could not use intranet because of technical trouble, we did it by only telephone and power point today.
It is very difficult to catch up with to me because of two reason. First, attendants are all native English speaker. They speaks English very fast rather than my iPod. Second, I listened English through the telephone. Listening through it is more difficult than listening in face to face because I can't see speakers face or body language. So it is difficult to understand tone of speaking.
Overall, that is good experience for me and I decide to study english more harder.
*picture attached is license by StevenErat
A telephone meeting is meeting over the telephone literally. Every attendants don't gather to the conference room but are in their desk. A presenter show attendants an agenda and presentations through the intranet and he speaks over the telephone wich we attendants can hear it.
If you imagine that it will be done all in English, you would also imagine that it's hard to catch up with to Japanese. That's true. And unfortunately, since we could not use intranet because of technical trouble, we did it by only telephone and power point today.
It is very difficult to catch up with to me because of two reason. First, attendants are all native English speaker. They speaks English very fast rather than my iPod. Second, I listened English through the telephone. Listening through it is more difficult than listening in face to face because I can't see speakers face or body language. So it is difficult to understand tone of speaking.
Overall, that is good experience for me and I decide to study english more harder.
*picture attached is license by StevenErat
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In my office, English is used often.
Or we would say "English is widely used" / "English is commonly used". Though I would pick "commonly" as a last choice in terms of preferred word.
There are many e-mails and documents in English but, today English suddenly emerged in a different situation.
Just swapped to a more natural word order.
It was a telephone conference.
Telephone meeting = phone conference /conference call
Web meeting = web conference
Web presentation / seminar = webcast / webinar
A telephone conference is literally a meeting over the telephone literally.
None of the attendees don't gather in the conference room but are at their desk.
Other ways to say this:
Every attendee is at his desk and nobody gathers in the conference room.
Nobody gathers in the conference room; all attendees are at their desks.
A presenter shows attendees the agenda and presentations through the intranet and he speaks over the telephone through which we attendees can hear him.
Attendants = people who attend to things 随行
Attendees = people who are present at an event/activity
If you imagine that it will be all done all in English, you can also imagine that it's hard for Japanese people to catch up with the speaker.
And unfortunately, since we could not use the intranet because of technical trouble, we did it by only telephone and Powerpoint slides today.
a 'power point' can also mean the 'point' where electricity can be received, so it might be better to make it extra obvious you're talking about the Powerpoint software? Or am I mistaking the meaning?
It is very difficult for me to catch the presentation because of two reasons.
Firstly, the attendees are all native English speakers.
They speaks English very fast compared to what I listen to on my iPod.
Unless you mean your iPod actually speaks (like Siri??)
Secondly, I listened to the English through the telephone.
Listening through it is more difficult than listening in face to face because I can't see the speakers' face or body language.
So it is difficult to understand the tone of speaking.
Overall, it is a good experience for me and I decide to study English even harder.
*picture attached is licensed by StevenErat
Let's take a effort each other : )