What you meant is “hoe gaat met u”

I am teaching dutch as a second language For people that are willing to learn dutch.

Yea, that’s it. Now I remember.

I had a friend that spoke Dutch and i learned a few phrases. But all I remember is “how are you?”
But, as you can see, I have difficulty with grammar for even that phrase.

Richard,  our old mate Bandito has been waxing lyrical about the crabs and beer in Costa Rica and is already feeling misty-eyed and nostalgic for the Bush-43 years, so I’ve just left a voice message on your answering service (add+1 to the number above) suggesting that you check us out again.  We have some enthusiastic young home-schooled contributors in the agora lately, you would enjoy the ambience.  Regards,  douglang.

Richard Blank - 05 May 2008 04:30 AM

The first thing that I can say is that we have $5 a pound lobster and 50 cents beer (that is for after work).

Actually, Costa Rica is pure paradise. We have an expression here,“pura vida” which means pure life.

Hopefully, you can come and visit one day.I may have some good suggestions for you.

Richard

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I know this is quite a few months late. But the main character in CSI, Gil Grissom, just retired from the show, ostemsibly to
Costa Rica.

DJF,

Excellent question. Unfortunately, I do not have the answer.

By the way…GO CATS!

douglang,

Thanks for the reply. Clever post. You may be right!

sabrina1,

Nice to meet you. We teach for inspiration, right??? It isn’t for the money.

LukeJavan8,

I will keep an eye out for him. By the way, Mel Gibson does spend alot of time here. Just boiught 300 acres of land down south.

There are lots of call center companies in the Philippines. We are not native English speakers but those people are good especially handling some bad-mouth costumers. Man power is good cause they give good compensation, too! The shift is, though, tough. ggrr..!!

sleeper,

I agree 100%. In my opinion, there are many good call center agents everywhere. From the executives that I know in the Philippines, they share the same concerns as I do. We are always looking to raise the bar and work together to make the industry stronger.

In addition, their level of English is quite impressive. The downside, many do not speak Spanish which seems to be an important asset these days in the United States market.

Richard

Really good to hear from you.  Doug had said that the conversation with you was great.  I PMd him to tell him you were back, but he is extremely busy now: he may log on the site, however, stay tuned.

They give good offers, too! Like free use of gym, swimming pool, good ambiance, free coffee, soft couch. Maybe, it’s the reason they could keep agents. In addition to that, I like it when they don’t have any dress code. They talk over the phone and the costumers don’t even know if they wearing anything or not. ehehe! We’ll, I prefer working on flip-flops.

I’ll check out your company later. ^^

I think I’d like to retire there.

LukeJavan8,

Good to see you again as well. Stay cool.

Sleeper,

I like to tell my agents that the clients cannot see how “good looking"they are so they must enhance their phonetics.

Sounds more like a country club there than a call center. We just have good foosball competitions in the kitchen. I was thinking about a pinball or pacman machine.

Richard

Not being rude, how old are you? To be fair, I’m 20.

a young 36.

A wise man once said, “to be a cool cat, you must live 9 lives”. I believe that I am on my 5th.

Richard

Pretty young to own a company. How many agents doyou have?

Really? I thought that I was late in the game.

I am currently at 83 agents. More quality than quanity. The last thing that I want is a “1984” type of call center.

Richard