Real Talk #043 – Talking about video call problems
Episode description
Isn’t it frustrating when you are on a video call and all of a sudden you experience technical difficulties? Sometimes the video is faulty. Sometimes it’s the audio. What should you do? In this Real Talk episode, Andrew and Kassy give you many expressions that will help you deal with these situations.
Fun fact
We like to think that video conferencing is a recent invention, but the ability to see and speak with someone from far away has been around since the invention of television in the 1930s!
Expressions included in the study guide
- To cut out
- To lag
- To be frozen
- Our connection is bad
- Let’s try that again
- I lost you
- Can you hear me now?
- To turn [something] on and off
- It might be my [something]
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Real Talk #043 – Talking about video call problems
Episode description
Isn’t it frustrating when you are on a video call and all of a sudden you experience technical difficulties? Sometimes the video is faulty. Sometimes it’s the audio. What should you do? In this Real Talk episode, Andrew and Kassy give you many expressions that will help you deal with these situations.Fun fact
We like to think that video conferencing is a recent invention, but the ability to see and speak with someone from far away has been around since the invention of television in the 1930s!Expressions included in the study guide
- To cut out
- To lag
- To be frozen
- Our connection is bad
- Let’s try that again
- I lost you
- Can you hear me now?
- To turn [something] on and off
- It might be my [something]
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Sign inHosts: Andrew Bates and Kassy White
Music: Something Elated by Broke For Free, Sleepless Aloha by Reed Mathis
Episode preparation/research: Andrew Bates
Audio editor: Andrew Bates
Transcriptionist: Heather Bates
Study guide writer: Matty Warnock
English editor: Stephanie MacLean
Business manager: Tsuyoshi Kaneshima
Project manager: Jessica Cox
Image: Chris Montgomery (Unsplash.com)
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