This is an All-Ears-English podcast episode 902, how to answer the phone naturally and professionally in English.

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Hey Michelle, what's going on? Hey Lindsey, not too much, not too much, how are you?

Well, I am really good because if all goes as planned, today is February 26, I should be in Nicaragua and learning to surf and hiking volcanoes.

Nice, nice, exciting.

Yeah, a little vacation, right?

I figured, hey, February March is like the hardest time

of the year in Boston, because you want winter to be over,

but it's just not over, you know? I know. I know I know yeah especially yeah

you're just like getting towards the end of it because in the early one to you're

it's kind of exciting you're wearing your winter clothes and it's the holidays and now you're like oh my

God let me get rid of this jacket you know yeah so so the weather in Nicaragua

was supposed to be pretty nice this time of year so I'm excited I mean I

practiced my Spanish a little bit on I talkie and got myself a tutor practice

for it and so let's see how it goes. Awesome.

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