Business Vocabulary

Speaking Situation 

Welcoming Visitors:
Welcome to Rupesh Enterprises.
Welcome to Surkhet. I'm Prabin Rawal.

Describing Jobs
What do you do?
What do you do for a living?
What is your occupation?
What type of work do you do?
Where do you work?
-I'm a salesperson
-I'm in sales.
-I'm in the toy business.
-I,m a mechanic at Surkhet Electronics
-I'm a consultant for Ama Dablam Consulting Company.

What company do you work for?
-I work for Worldlink
-I work at Worldlink.
I'm with Worldlink.

What do you do there?
What do you do at Worldlink?
-I'm a software engineer.
- I work in the sales department.
- I'm in customer service.

What do you do at Nepal Software LTD.?
- I am in charge of marketing.
-I'm responsible for sales.
- I program computers

What do you do (in your job)?
What is your main job?
What are you in change of?
-I am in charge of training employees.
- I am responsible for watering the plants.
- I take care of corporate accounts.
- I usually answer telephones.

What does your company do?
-We design software?
- We build storage units.
- We produce small appliances.
-We're in the insurance business.
 
Company Description
What company do you work for?
Which company are you with?
Who do you represent?
-I work for Nepal Software Ltd.
-I'm with Nepal Software Ltd.
-I represent the Nepal Net.

What is the name of your company?
Where are you located?
-The name of our company is....
- Our company is located in...
-Our headquarters is in....

What (type of business) do you do?
What business are you in?
-We are in the computer business.
-We're in computers
-We sell...
-We produce...

Describing products
Tell me about(this product)
Can you give me some information/details about this?
What is special/ unique about this?
What are the specifications?
-Let me tell you about....
-This is our(newest) product.
-This is one of our latest designs.
-It is made of...
-It can be used for...
-You can use it to...
-You can... with it.
-This comes with...

Describing Protects
What are your current projects?
What are you working on (at present)?
What are your major initiatives in this area?
- We are currently working on....
-We are in the process of...
- We are developing....
-We are designing....
-We are building....
  
Asking for information

Company information
What does your company do?- We produce marketing materials.
What is your specialty? What do you specialize in? What is your main line of business? - We specialize in art and design.
What are your major products? - We product office machines. We design software.
What services do you provide? - We provide technical support.

Product Information

Could you give me some(more) information on this? - This is one of our top brands. It's our best selling refrigerator.  This one is the best in its class.

Tell me about this one/model. - This model comes with several features. This particular one has two components.

Information about prices
What are you asking for this? - This (one) sells for Rs,2,500.
What does this sell for? - This one goes for Rs 3,000.
How much is it? - This one is priced at Rs 6,430.

Buying and Selling
May I help you?
What can I do for you?
-Yes, I'd like to buy a pair of shocks.
-They're in the other side of the store, to the left.
-Ok.
-I'm looking for a mobile phone.
-No, I'm just browsing. Thanks anyways.
-How much is this?
It's Rs 100
Is there something I can help you with?
-No,thanks.

Methods of Payment
I'd like to pay(in cash)
I'll put it on my credit card.
Can I charge it?
Could you put that on my bill?
Could I put that on my account?
Could you send me an invoice?
Could you bill me(for that)?
May I... pay in cash, pay by check, pay by credit card, etc.
Could you deliver it to my office?
Do you charge for shipping?
How long will it take?

Explaining
Can you explain...
Can you tell me why...
Why...
What happened....
Well,...
Let me explain,
Let me tell you why....
Here's what happened:

There's a (good) reason for this.
The reason is...
I'm sorry. I can't tell you that (right now).
Can I get back to you on that?
I'll explain ( a little) later.
We'll come to that later.
We'll get to that in a few minutes.

Invitations 
 Informal:
Would you like...
There's a.....(tonight). Would you like to go?
How about going to....?
Do you want to....?
I wonder if you would like to...
I was wondering if you would like to...

Formal:
I'd like to invite you to...
We'd be glad to have you accompany us...

Requesting 
Informal:
Please...
Would you...
Could you...
Would you please....
Could you possibly...

Formal
Could I ask you to...?
Could I have Sunday off?
Could I have Sunday off, please?
Would you mind if I asked you to...? 

Offering 
Informal:
Beer?
-Yes, thank  you. I want drink.

Would you like some coffee?
Would you like some lemonade?
-Yes, please.

How about a glass of beer?
-Sure.Thanks.

Would you like one of these?
Okay.Thanks.
Can I get you something?
No. Thanks anyway.
Can I get you something to drink?
Juice would be fine, thanks.

Formal:
Would you care for some....?
Would you like to try....?
Let me offer you...
Let me get you a/some....