This was a fun chat with Anthony, a self-confessed geek. He did well and tailored the questions to me specifically because he knows I do a lot of online work. We discussed big data, bitcoin and android apps as well as his work in Australia for local government.
I think he's pretty busy so finding people to talk to online is tricky and he is a bit lazy because he is in Australia, an English speaking country and has English speaking friends :-)
He said he practises with them, but I want him to record and listen to those conversations using his mobile phone (the Soundcloud app is great). The reason he wanted me to help him was to iron-out the things in his speech that caused slight misunderstanding with less sympathetic listeners at work. if he records conversations at work and listens again he will start to hear what he is doing that confuses people and should naturally correct.
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