Today my question is: what does highlighted words combination mean in phrase 'His wife was having a baby, so he was in a bit of a hurry.'?

It is not understandable for me. Was she pregnant? If not why it doesn't sound like 'She was with her baby'...

But what I say is, if you keep in touch with those who you know, you will never forget them.. Am I right?!

sorry

ex:

I don't remember the person's name:

She:-hey, what's up Raphael ( me )?

Me:-Hey, I'm good! ( I don't remember the name ) And you?

She:-So do I.

Me:-Hey, can you give me your e-mail?

She:-Yeah, sure! it's Paollalopez@live.com.pt

Me:-Thanks Paolla, it's good see you again! ( new I know the name )

BUT, she might to say:

She: Sorry, But I'm not Paolla, I'm Monica. The email's name is not truth!

HAHAHAHAHA, thanks!

Lots of thanks,

missqueu29

I am having one question with me! I would like to have conversation in online with tutors or with computer voice that I can talk to them in english to get out of my fear from talking in english with other?

Is there anyone to help me and correct my english level in speaking?

Thanks for reading and helping me.

Regards,

Samutha

B: Don’t you know what date (day it) is  today?

M: We had like a family reunion and there were a lot of ants (aunts) and uncles and cousins ...("aunt" has two pronounciations in the U.S., the first is as Marco said it, and it sounds like "ant", the second pronounces the "au" and sounds like "awnt".  I use the latter.)

M: Hehe. Well, I had to ask one of my, uh, other cousins like . . .and I like “Oh, men (man), I totally forgot”. Yeah, so, it was really . . .

E: Yeah, or sometimes I might ask some[one](them) to write down their e-mail…

E: Cause usually their full name is spelled down (out) in the e-mail address.

HTH, Cheers

yes I think maxim, already own the site,, you know WHY because he try to give help for everybody and give the best help for every one try to improve his English without anything ,, that what I can understand ,,

Who agree with me for that,,

Thanks again for everybody try to help here ,,

kayally $ saher & saher2009

Think about it dude.:))

THANKS maxim_s  ,,

what about I am in adebt will  be soon here ??

thankssssssssssssssssssssssss

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M: Hello English learners! And welcome back to EnglishPod! My name is Marco.

E: And I’m Erica.

M: How are you Erica?

E: Marco, I’m doing really well today!

M: You’re excited?

E: Aha, we’ve got a great lesson for everyone.

M: Yes, we have a really common situation where we’re gonna use real English, right?

E: Yep, everyday English, English that people really use.

M: And that’s what we want you to learn. What are we talking about today specifically?

E: Today we have a really common situation that is a little bit embarrassing.

M: Hehe. Alright, an embarrassing situation, so, let’s listen to the dialogue for the first time and it’s gonna be kind of fast.

E: Yeah, but don’t worry if you don’t understand everything, because after ten minutes you’ll understand everything.

M: Perfect, alright, let’s listen.

DIALOGUE, FIRST TIME

E: Wow! Nick forgot her name.

M: Yeah, that’s happened to me a couple of times and I’m gonna tell you about it a little bit later.

E: Okay. Alright, well, let’s start with our three “language takeaways”.

Voice: Language takeaway.

M: So, our first word on our language takeaway is in a bit of a hurry.

E: In a bit of a hurry.

M: In a bit of a hurry.

E: In a bit of a hurry.

M: So, Nick was in a hurry.

E: Yeah, that’s right. This is a great phrase. So, let’s listen to three examples of how you can use this phrase.

Voice: Example one.

A: Can you drive faster? I’m in a bit of a hurry.

Voice: Example two.

B: I can’t talk right now, I’m in a bit of a hurry.

Voice: Example three.

C: Ah, I’m in a bit of a hurry, so, I’ll check these files later.

M: Okay, so, it’s clear now. Basically, it means that you don’t have time.

E: You’re moving really quickly.

M: Okay, perfect. Now let’s look at our second language takeaway word and it’s contact details.

E: Contact details.

M: Contact details.

E: Contact details.

M: So, what are your contact details?

E: Basically, this is the information you can find on your business card.

M: Alright, so, we have like our name, our telephone number.

E: Your e-mail address, perhaps your mobile phone number.

M: So, all the useful information, so people can get in touch with you.

E: Yep, so, people can phone you or e-mail you. Okay, so, contact details.

M: Great. Okay, so, our third word is slipped my mind.

E: Slipped mi mind.

M: Slipped my mind.

E: Slipped my mind.

M: So, this is a funny phrase. It’s kind of strange, right?

E: Yeah, slipped my mind. It sounds very weird.

M: Exactly.

E: Okay, so, now we’re going to listen to two examples of this phase. Try and see if you can figure out what it means.

Voice: Example one.

A: I’m sorry I forgot to respond your e-mail. It just slipped my mind.

Voice: Example two.

B: Don’t you know what date is today?

C: Oh, it’s your birthday! It completely slipped my mind.

E: Uh, so, slipped my mind is like “I forgot”.

M: You forgot something.

E: Aha, so…

M: Accidentally.

E: Right.

M: Okay, great! Now, it’s time for “putting it together”.

Voice: Putting it together.

M: Alright, Erica, why don’t you tell our listeners what ‘putting it together’ is?

E: Well, ‘putting it together’ helps you put language together. It helps you be more fluent by knowing how words fit together.

M: Great, so, let’s look at out first phrase today and it’s around here.

E: Around here.

M: Around here.

E: Around here. So, this is like close by, right? [NOTE: “it is close by” or “it is quite near”]

M: Close by, right.

E: Yeah.

M: I can say, for example, ah, “Is there a bank around here?”

E: Yeah, yeah, um, so, that’s “Is there a bank close to here”.

M: Exactly.

E: Now, this phrase around here, we can change it a little bit…

M: Uhu.

E: And it means something a little bit different.

M: Right.

E: I could say “Marco, there’s a great restaurant right around the corner”.

M: Right, and that would mean “There is a great restaurant on the other street”.

E: Yep.

M: Or around the corner

E: Yep.

M: Great. Or we have another example, we can say around there.

E: Around there.

M: Right, so, for example, I can say, uh, “Los Angeles is a great city; I used to live around there”.

E: So, you used to live near Los Angeles.

M: Exactly.

E: Alright.

M: It’s a really good phrase and it’s really common.

E: Yeah. Now, our next phrase in putting it together is terrible with.

M: Terrible with.

E: Terrible with.

M: Terrible with. So, we have a couple of examples that will show you how this phrase works.

Voice: Example one.

A: You’re terrible with numbers. You can’t even remember your own telephone number.

Voice: Example two.

B: I’m terrible with directions. I’m always getting lost.

Voice: Example three.

C: I’m terrible with faces. I can never remember what people look like.

E: Wow! I understand that. I’m also terrible with numbers. I can barely add two plus two.

M: Hehe. Well, yeah, I guess, uh, not everyone is a numbers person.

E: Yeah.

M: I’m terrible with, uh, faces. I sometimes forget what people look like.

E: Really?

M: Yeah.

E: Oh-oh.

M: So, I think it’s time now for us to listen to our dialogue a second time.

E: Okay, this time the dialogue will be a little bit slower.

M: Right.

E: So, try and listen for some of the words we’ve just talked about.

DIALOGUE, SECOND TIME (Slow)

M: So, it’s more clear now, you can understand a lot better, right?

E: Yeah, that’s true.

M: Great, so, now it’s time for us to take a look at “fluency builder”.

Voice: Fluency builder.

E: So, with fluency builder we take some very simple phrases and show you how you can be more fluent or how you can…

M: Sound more native.

E: Yeah!

M: Great. In the beginning of the dialogue Ana said “Nick, how’s it going?”

E: Yeah, this is a great phrase; it sounds really, really natural. You know, sometimes I hear students say “How are you?”

M: Or “How are you doing?”

E: Those are two great phrases, but this one sounds really, really natural.

M: It just sounds more casual.

E: Yeah, let’s listen again to that phrase from the dialogue.

Phrase: How’s it going? How’s it going?

M: Great, so, next time that you find a friend on a street, you can just say “Hey, how’s it going?”

E: Yeah! So, Marco, have you ever forgotten someone’s name?

M: Yeah, it’s happened to me a couple of times and actually the most embarrassing situation was that I forgot a family member’s name.

E: No!

M: Yeah.

E: A family member’s name.

M: We had like a family reunion and there were a lot of ants and uncles and cousins that I hadn’t seen in a while and I just forgot one of my uncle’s names and I was…

E: Oh-oh, that’s pretty embarrassing.

M: Yeah.

E: So, what did you do?

M: Hehe. Well, I had to ask one of my, uh, other cousins like “Hey, who’s that guy?” and he’s like “Oh, that’s Uncle John” and I like “Oh, men, I totally forgot”. Yeah, so, it was really embarrassing, because I didn’t know what to call him, so, I just called him Uncle, cause I didn’t know his name.

E: Hi, Uncle!

M: Yeah. Hehe.

E: Hehe. Yeah. So, when that happens to me when I’m in a business setting.

M: Uhu.

E: Sometimes what I do is I ask for someone’s card.

M: Uh, yeah, that’s the good technique.

E: Yeah, or sometimes I might ask some[one] to write down their e-mail…

M: Hehe.

E: Cause usually their full name is spelled down in the e-mail address. So, that’s my trick when I forgotten someone’s name.

M: Hehe. That’s a good trick and I guess…

E: Yeah.

M: A lot of our listeners can take your advice on that.

E: Okay, so, I think it’s time for us to listen to our dialogue one more time, this time at natural speed.

DIALOGUE, THIRD TIME

E: Well, I hope that you’ve all enjoyed our lesson for today and remember to check out our website at englishpod.com.

M: Where you can find a lot of other resources and you can leave all your questions and comments.

E: Yeah, Marco and I are always on the site, so, we’re happy to answer all of your questions.

M: Exactly, so, now it’s time for us to say…

E: Good bye!

M: Bye!

***

IHTH!

I'm here and I'm working on it.

Maxim

we need help from our HERO  maxim_s transcript this lesson but dont warry elisabeth_yuan   i know Maxim he will do that,dosn't he?

thanks again mate for your help like me and other listenr and students,,,!!!

I used to have good memory. It was not that difficult for me to remember whatever names, faces or numbers. But now I am terrible with all of them. I even couldn't get Will Smith's name out of my mouth last time, although I was able to give the titles of his five movies.

Great to have you with us!  We hope that you will find our lessons fun and useful and if you ever have any questions, please let us know!

MM

I've just finished this lesson now and enjoyed it so much. Many useful phrasal verbs and idioms. I'm so impressed on the liveliness of this community.

Thanks so much to our hosts Erica and Marco and to the other EPOD users. I really appreciated the contributions and comments here. Great thanks to jeking (JP),  stevestrv,  berbog,  hwangd01,  macallus88,  light487,  peret3 and  sebire.

VR

JP

that is

is it necessary to use proverbs and idioms in ur sentence while speaking in english? someone said to me it is necessary bcoz it shows how i have command on that language.

I cannot descrbie these two jokes well by writing here. But I believe it's funny if you can hear that. :P

Maybe someone knows it, and can witer them by funny language.

this is aysha, & really very thank full to english pod and Marco and Erica, i have learn't so many thing from this pod.

well, i want to ask a question

is it necessary to speak English in the same accent and pronunciation as the native speakers speak?

bcoz i'm not an english speaker, so sometimes i'm so much terrible at pronunciation

thanks!!

AE

The examples are:

"You're terrible with numbers. You always forget your own telephone number"

"I'm terrible with faces. I can never remember what people look like"

MM

I appreciate your help.

“Can I have your card”  or
 “Do you have a card/ business card”

The first is the most common.

Very nice subject again.

I have the same problem and sometimes worst, I change the names often! It's so embarrassing!

Erica, Marco, I have some question please.

How is the good way to ask for the personal card from someone? What is the correct term of the card? Is it personal card? Business? Just card? or other name?

Thanks again.

When you meet anyone you've never seen before, just try to associate one's name with some animal\thing\action..OR Ask person to tell you what he\she like very much.

For example,

my name is Bogdan - on B letter we have "Bounty " - famous chocolate bar. )))

So if you met me somewhere, just keep in mind Bogdan - "Bounty". 

Or ask me what is my favourite animal(etc).

For example, Bogdan - Lion. Just repeat it in mind for 5-6 times. )

It's not such a big deal.)))

One more way to memorize names for me is to associate the name of my new acquaintance with the name of my friend I already know.

For example, I have a good friend Michael. Your new acquaintance will be Michael 2. ))))

That's all.

"Sure, you still have my contact details?"  and "Sure, do you still have my contact details?" The majority of people say one or the other. The first is a little more casual, second is more proper.

"Sure, have you still my contact details?" is completely understandable, but Americans don't say it this way. I've heard this type of construction in British movies depicting Victorian and Edwardian eras, but I don't know if the Brits still say it this way.

INSTEAD OF: The following sentences are equivalent.

You should do this instead of that - most common way

You should do this rather than that - #2

You should do this in place of that - #3

You should do this in lieu of that - least common but I still hear it on the radio, for example. Lieu is borrowed from French but we pronounce it "loo".

In the dialoge we heard, "Sure, you still have my contact details, right?" 

Why did she say,".. you still have....?" instead of "sure, have you still my contact details?" or "Sure, do you still have my contact details?"..

Second question. Is there any synonime to "Instead of"? I mean, when you want to say "You shoud do in such way instead of another way (so but not another)".

Thanks a lot)))

btw Someone was recently asking about other accents.Well this will also give you an example of Aussie accent.

thank you

And it's happened to me all the time to slip my mind with Names.

Generally speaking, once meet with such situation, I will pretend to say "hello, ~~~" and talked a lot. And until the conversation is over, then I will ask for him to tell me his contact details in order to meet in future.

Hehe. Actually, that is very embarrasing.

In the same way that saying "I'll be right there" means to be there sooner than saying "I'll be there". The "right" makes the office closer to the corner. Without it, it's possible that the office is further away.

My office is right around the corner.

I am a little confused with the word 'right'. It doesn't mean the direction in this lesson, right? if not, what does it mean ?

By the way, I am terrible with names, numbers and faces. There is a manager who works in a company next to the company which I am working for. I had heard about him frequently before the first time I met him. Then one morning I met him and say hello to him, but when I met him again that afternoon, I was not sure if this guy was him. When he passed by me, I just smiled to him and didn't say hello , for I was afraid of making a mistake with his name and title. About the telephone number, I can remember my cell phone number, the telephone number of my home and the phone number of my office till now.

Thanks Erica and Marco!

in the fact ;we should ask about forgeting names. why?what is the reasonce?

Peret3,

I’m really glad that you enjoyed this lesson.  Marco and I certainly had fun making it.  You asked a few questions about some of the terms that Marco and I use to describe different sections of the show.  Language Takeaway and Fluency Builder are terms we’ve chosen to describe different sections of the show have been made up by the EnglishPod team, and I’d like to share some of our thinking on this here.  

Part of our core mission at EnglishPod, is to teach users English that is current, that is natural, and that is native-sounding; we want to help our users to speak in English as naturally as possible.   We’ve organized our entire show with these thoughts in mind.  

Language Takeaway, is a term we use to describe some of the key words and phrases that we hope our users will “take away”, or remember, from the lesson.  This title is based on the HR term, Key Takeaways.  In this section of the show, we aim to make the key language very memorable though the use of mnemonics and though a cognitive approach to explaining meaning.   Typically, we repeat words several times to make them more “sticky”.  We also try to use memorable or emotional situations to help the user remember the words.  To make our instruction more cognitive, we try to allow the user to figure out or guess the meaning of a word.  Sound effects are a great way of achieving this.  

The Fluency Builder term, also has been created by EnglishPod.   This tool is inspired by two things: first, the fact that many learners often use expressions that are grammatically correct, but sound somewhat natural.    Second, the fact that learners benefit from being taught pre-fabricated chunks of language.  So, with Fluency Builder, we take a typically phrase that learners use, and then show them an alternate way of expressing that idea that sounds very natural.  

This is just some of the thinking that has influenced the development of our show.  I hope it helps to clarify the terms Language Takeaway, and Fluency Builder.  I love getting questions about our teaching philosophy – this is something that I’m really passionate about, so keep the questions coming!

EK

thanks for your hepl

Both "slipped my mind" and "forgot" mean: to not remember.

If you say you've "forgotten", people may feel that you didn't think it was important enough to remember.

If you say it's "slipped my mind", this suggests that you know it, but only temporarily forgot. Therefore, it sounds nicer.

I got it. Thank you so much!

The second example was: I can't talk right now, I'm in a bit of a hurry.

The third example was: I'm in a bit of hurry... so I'll check these files later.

The word with which she describes the phrase was "weird". Weird means strange.

Well done. It's a interesting lesson.

It's so embarrassing if I cannot remember my friends' names when we meet together sometime.  From this lesson I learn a lot of things about that.

BTW, I have two questions when listening this lession.

1. In this lession, you offered three examples to explain how to use the phrase "in bit of a hurry". But I don't fully understand what the last two persons said. Can you help me figure it out?

2. When you talk about the phrase "slipped my mind", you said "slipped my mind" it sounds very /wi/. What does the /wi/ mean and how to spell it.

Thanks!

Interesting lesson.

Great to meet you here on Englishpod!

Thank you for your detail explanation! I see how hard you had worked on answering my question, I really appreciate it! 谢谢:-D

thank you for your explanation, I got it !

It did really happen that something or someone's name "jump out of " mind for a moment in our daily life! Very useful phrase, thank you again!

My computer acted up yesterday. But now it tures to be all right. Strange, ha!

It happens to me when my boyfriend and I went to register our marriage certificates. Someone called my name, but I couldn't recognize him, so I said to him," Hello, good seeing you here, but what's your name?" It embarrassed me very much. After he told me his name, and he was my middle schoolmate. I pretended to let him convince that I know him. Actually, I really couldn't recognize him at all. His name slipped my mind completely. However, I can't be blamed because it's fourteen years that we haven't met each other.

I have a piece of advice: Why don't we talk about internet online chatting software in the future lessons? It's our fashion to surf the net and chatting with people from all around the world. For example: how to say get online, off line, hide online, away, such status of chatting software like icq, oicq, msn, skype and so on.

ruihao,

Great question about department vs. faculty.  In American English, department is a group of professors, researchers, and students who study / teach a particular subject.  For example, the History Department, or the Department of Biology.  Faculty means university staff.

So I could say, I studied in the History Department at Mount Allison University, but I was not a professor, so I was not a faculty member.  

EK

Hope this helps!

it's really nice lesson ,however i'm in a bit of a hurry~

byebye guys~~

wish your happy~~

http://download.uol.com.br/licaodecasa/bbc/grammar/grammar03_script.pdf

Waiting for new lessons :-)

"Wait" and "wait up" is similar, with "wait up" being very colloquial, in the context of waiting for someone to catch up with you. However, there is a slightly different use of "wait up", which is if you are crawling home from a bar at 3 am and discover that your Dad is still up fretting about whether you got home safely, he is "waiting up" for you, as in "staying awake" or "staying up". I think the second usage here is more common in the UK than the first one.

(One of my friends has just claimed he never uses "meet up". I think "meet up" and "wait up" are both Americanisms that you'll hear every now and then over in the UK. I definitely use "meet up" from time to time, but then I probably watch too much TV).

I just say "you" , during the talking I would manage to let him/her speak of his name without his/her notice.

If I didn't remember the name of the greeter, I would try to know his/her name and repeat his name for ten  times or more. 

Next time when I met him again and

Before , to bring any comments to this podcats let first of all greet the ENGLISHPOD Team,by telling them: good job ;they didn't know ,how much they're helping mankind improving,practicing, and more becoming fluent in english ; Thank u so much ;

Hope it will grow up ; hhhhh

Well ,as for this podcats it's really interesting while it's habitual or usual ;

Names most of the time used to slip our mind;

So i think there is no need to worry while we all 're human beings ,i mean we all imperfect ; reason why we forget a lot ; unfortunately it's really embarassing; hhhhhh

Hope we won't forget in the futur  the name we already had known ; hhhhhhh

i have a question not related to this lesson.

what is the difference between 'department' and 'faculty' in universities?

Hi Cassie,

I think in this case, both "slipped my mind" and "forgot" are polite, but to say, "your phone number slipped my mind" sounds a little less bad than "I forgot your phone number".  

This phrase is suggesting that you do remember the phone number, but it just "jumped out of" your mind for a moment.  

Also, be careful that you use this phrase in the past tense -- it slipped my mind.

Great question!  

EK

that sounds more easier. haha:)

"slip my mind" 

it's cool!  Let's give it a shot.

"Your telephone number slip my mind"=I forget your telephone number.

My question is "slip my mind" and "i forget" ,which one is more polite?

I found that you use "meet up" more often than "meet". same as "wait up" is more often than "wait". So, why you add "up"? I know there is mild difference, but I just curious and wanna know!Thank you!

Cassie

Don't worry so much about everybody's name.

Just say:  "Hi, how are you today?"

Then smile.

(Personally, I can't remember anybody's name.  I just say: "Hi how ah yah?")

i can make a record for the persons i have contacted each other. And once i am available, i will take a look at the records in order not to make the names slip my mind. so the embarrassing situation will happen less than before. what's more, if there is something needed  help from others, we can contact them and they can contact us.

so, with time going,we can become good friends and our relationship will become better.

Since so many CPodders have helped me out with my broken Chinese, I thought I'd offer some help here.  Sometimes it is useful to be on the other side and detect when someone doesn't know your name to save them the embarassment and keep the conversation going.

A common signal:

"Hhhheeeyy....so how's it going?"

If they don't drop your name, that's a tell-tale sign, at which point you can re-introduce yourself.

I forgot, this is Englishpod.  Here are some vocabulary items from this post:

"Kudos" - A job performed well.  Giving credit to someone.  I don't think this is used much outside the US.

"tell-tale sign" - a very clear signal about something

"drop your name" - mentioning someone's name.  Another common term "name dropping", which refers to someone who continues to mention names of very important people in their conversations to make themselves look very important. example, "You know the othe day I was having some drinks with Obama and... blah blah blah.  Then we hit it up on the town and bumped into Pasden and Zhu... word"

You can use bith of them.  For example:

Englishpod is the best way to learn English.

Englishpod is the best method to learn English.

I hope that helped!

MM

This situation also happen to me all the time.  it's really embarrassing when meet your old friends. since we don't get contact for ages, their's name slip my mind. but they always very kind remind me. i am really enjoy get together with my friends for old sake's sake

Thanks, good job.

alfa

Hi Everyone!

Thanks for sharing your fantastic stories about forgetting names….it makes me feel less alone to know that there are others out there who forget names also!  

I’m also really happy to see so many of you using the new words and phrases in your comments.  Great work everyone!

Hramzi,

Good advice, and great suggestions on how to find out someone’s name!

Rorrarorra,

What does habebee and habebtee mean?  Sounds quite interesting!

i am terrible with numbers,i hate math.and i also terrible with locations,i usually get lost on the street when i go to a new place,its a little bit embarrassing...but i am good at remembering a person's name and face.

 I have a really embarrass situation also.One time i talk to with a nice ,elegant girl,almost half an hour ,suddenly she said to me:"oh it's really sorry ,your name slip mind~~~how can i call you~~~"when i listened to that ,oh my god i am really embarrassed.Even there are some people beside us ,laugh at me~~

Have your ever met this situation~~haha~~

 usually don't call someone with his/her name if you are terrible with names just used one words to all of people like honey ................

but it depend on country

in Egypt i used habebee or habebtee no problems

It happened to my last Sunday. I couldn't remember the name of a colleague I already know for some weeks. (too much new colleagues in a short time, too much new names!) So  I decided to ask her her name and told her that I'm bad with names. That's when she told me she had the same problem with names! (and she also told me she didn't remember mine)

Thanks for your explanation! It´s clear now.

It´s sometimes difficult to know when to use all those "verb＋up/in" etc :(

"meet up" is used when you intend to meet.

As in the lesson:

We should definitely meet up again...

He is suggesting that they both should make time to see each other again.

concerning the lesson of meeting people we can use for exemple "i don't think we've met my name is x "or "how're you my name is x y but you can call me just x".th
ank you very much

I am also really bad at remember my new friend's Name,

So, i did nothing and try to ask someone else about his/her name and again and again try to remember it.

On the other hand I am great at remembering a person's face.  If I meet you once I will never forget a face. So sometimes I am walking down the street and I may recognize a person but he/she doesn't remember me!

MM

If I forget someone 's name , I usually tell him directly. At same time I will apologize to him.

 i think remain friend's bussiness cards or contact details is really useful .even in a three-day conference .you  know popel in a bit of hurry .but when you have something need to help ,just find their contact details , even their name have slipped you mind for a long time  .just contact them , maybe some of them will give your big hand , it is also very embarrassing she donot know you also .that doesnot matter , remeber to  try ,you will find a way .

my method may be a little bit cunning.sometimes i pretend to know his/her name and,we give our phone numbers to each other,then i ask them how to write their names as i need to save their phone numbers in my cell.

i will take some actions, for example,i will firstly give him/her my name card and then maybe they will give me his/hers.

or, if we are not intimates, after the conversation, i will ask my other intimate classmate or colleague about his/her name. haha~

do you have any other methods?

Hi Everyone!

I hope you enjoy this lesson.  I’m really bad with names, so, I have a question for you: when you forget someone’s name, what do you do?  How do you handle the situation?

EK