Demo Class Notes ( Alice – Tibo)

My name is Alice, I graduated from my Uni 3 years ago and I take 2.5 years to get a masters degree and now my job is related to bitcoin.
My job is to find projects and invest in them. I need to have meetings with project leaders.

I work for an investment fund.
I think the numbers of my words are small and when I want to talk a sentence I need to think a long time to make a sentence.

I think foreign teams they speak too quickly and pardon after pardon I can’t understand them.
I can understand them when I see the words on the computer.

it is more easy compared with meetings because I can search the words.

listening and I ask questions

my college they type the things they talk
I think when people talk to me when they heard my sentences they will think I am not good at English

the style I speak english is not good I think

The accent is a big difficult for me to communicate.
And my job needs professional English accent.

My name is Alice, I graduated from university 3 years ago and I took 2.5 years to get a masters degree and now my job is related to bitcoin / I work in web3 / I work in the crytocurrency investment fund 
My job is to find projects and invest in them / I am responsible for finding projects and investing in them.
I need to have meetings with project leaders / founders.

I have a poor vocabulary  and when I want to make a sentence I need to think for a long time. / I need to think for a long time before I can speak.

I think foreign teams (they) speak too quickly and I ask them to repeat again and again but I still cannot understand everything they say.

I can understand them when I see the words on the computer. / subtitles

it is easier compared with meetings because I can search the words.  / I can check the dictionary

The hard part is listening and when I ask questions

my colleagues type the things they say / my colleagues write the meeting minutes  
I think when people talk to me when they hear my accent they will think I am not good at English  / English is not my mother tongue 

the way I speak English is not good I think

The accent is a big difficulty for me to communicate.
And my job needs professional English accent.

Vocabulary

valuation (n) how much a company is worth
I asked them for the valuation of this round

portfolio (n) all the investments one holds
We are part of the a16z portfolio

difficult (adj)
Understanding how Uni V3 works is difficult

difficulty (n)
There are many difficulties with self custody

virtual (adj) which you cannot touch / only existing as information
NFTs are virtual art

to withdraw (n) to move out of a bank or exchange
I couldn’t withdraw from FTX

withdrawal (n)
FTX paused withdrawals

to deposit (v)to put money in a bank / exchange
I deposited some eth on FTX

to process (v) deal with information and decide an outcome / result
It will take us 2 weeks to process your application

deposit (n)
Coinbase took 2 days to process my deposit

Custody (n) keeping money safe
Coinbase offers custodial services

meeting minutes (n) document giving a recap on everything that was discussed
Tom wrote the meetings minutes and sent them to me

subtitle (n) text under a video
Thanks to ChatGPT we now get subtitles in teams

accent (n)
I have a strong Chinese accent when I speak English

vocabulary (n) words you know in a language
I need to improve my vocabulary on investing.

cryptocurrency

Pronunciation

foreign

bear

bull

priority

college (university)

colleague (people you work with)