Keigo at work · Lesson 7

Making calls: asking for people, setting times

お忙いそがしいところ恐おそれ入いります。さくら商事しょうじのチェンと申もうします。

Calling a client: give your company and name, ask for someone, call back or ask them to call you, say why you’re calling, set a time, hang up politely.

Practise Paid

In this lesson

  1. 01Main dialogue: phoning to arrange a meeting
  2. 02When the call connects: your name, and whom you want
  3. 03When the person is out
  4. 04Saying why you’re calling, and setting a time
  5. 05Finishing and hanging up

Practice

  • Match each phrase to its meaning
  • What would you say?
  • Which one is appropriate?
  • Choose the phrase for each blank
  • Rewrite for a call to a client
  • Put the call in order

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