{"id":40,"date":"2007-02-18T01:06:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T08:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/2007\/02\/18\/bep-34-int-meetings-clarifying-what-was-said\/"},"modified":"2007-07-22T21:55:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T13:55:08","slug":"bep-34-int-meetings-clarifying-what-was-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/2007\/02\/18\/bep-34-int-meetings-clarifying-what-was-said\/","title":{"rendered":"BEP 34 INT &#8211; Meetings: Clarifying What Was Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/wordpress\/podpress_trac\/web\/126\/0\/BEP034INT-Clarifying1.mp3\">Download BEP 34 INT &#8211; Meetings: Clarifying What Was Said<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first in a two-part Business English Podcast series on clarifying. To clarify means to make clear.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;ll look at phrases and skills for clarifying what was said. For example, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t quite catch that. Could you say that again?&#8221; This is useful when you don&#8217;t hear clearly or when someone speaks too fast.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in the second podcast, we&#8217;ll be looking at language for clarifying what was meant, for instance &#8220;What exactly do you mean by that?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The listening today is from a shipping company. You&#8217;ll hear Wim Zeldenhuis and Andre De Vries in Rotterdam call their American colleague Benny McClenahan in Boston.<\/p>\n<p><h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/StudyNotes\/BEP034SN-Clarifying1.pdf\" class=\"lipdf\">BEP 34: Study Notes.<\/a><\/h2><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download BEP 34 INT &#8211; Meetings: Clarifying What Was Said This is the first in a two-part Business English Podcast series on clarifying. To clarify means to make clear. Today we&#8217;ll look at phrases and skills for clarifying what was said. For example, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t quite catch that. Could you say that again?&#8221; This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,10,17],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}