What we do, through our company, JBM Consultants, to help people who are afraid to speak, that's our main jobs, to get people who study English for ten years, for twelve years, to get them to finly feel open, feel free to use the English they've learnt instead of giving them so many new vocabulary words and teaching them so many new things. We teach them how to express themselves now, how to walk out the door, feel free to go on the street, talk to someone, for they're open and proud of their English, instead of thinking "my English is so bad".
我们JBM咨询公司所做的，就是帮助那些不敢开口的人说英文。我们的主要工作就是，让那些学了十年二十年英文的人，能够自如使用他们学到的英语，而不是仅仅教他们新的词汇之类的东西。我们教他们如何表达自己，如何走出去对别人讲英文，主要是他们获得了对自己英文水平的信心，为自己的英文感到骄傲，而不再想“我的英语真差”。
主持人:Could you tell us the proper way to greet someone? 能介绍一些适当的和别人打招呼的方式吗?
J.M.:For the American business culture, the confidence is the key to most business. Sometimes confidence is more important than, not the product you offering but the image of the product. Sometime confidence is more important than how much money you have in the bank. So when you give a greeting to someone from America ,one of the big thing you want to do is to give a very firm handshake. We have a term called "the fish hand"-someone give a very weakened shake. We really associate someone's handshake with their level of confidence. So when you greet someone, you should be bold, be very proud of yourself be very proud of the company you work for, or the product you sale.
在美国文化中，自信是至关重要的。相对于你的产品或产品形象来说，有时候自信更重要。
有时候自信会员比你有多少钱重要。所以和美国人打招呼时一定要注意握手时要坚定有力。我们有句俗话叫"死鱼一般"表示握手不用力，显得不热情。我们会把我手用力的程度和你的自信程度联系在一起。所以当你们问候别人时一定要对你的公司或你所卖的产品充满自信。
主持人:Someone asks: have ever seen the episode "Friends"? Is it close to the real life in America? 请问您看过"老友记"吗？它能反映出美国的现实生活吗？
J.M.:Well, yes I know, "friends" is real American English, but any TV show or movie you see is going to be bigger than real life, but "friends" is very close, maybe as close as some of the TV shows and movies. I hear many people say I know about the American culture, because I'v seen your movies. But I'v seen a lot of Chinese movies, and they doesn't represent Chinese culture a lot of times. So "friends" is close, but the English that you can learn from it is real, maybe another show I can recommend for the people is called "the office". It's similar to friends but it's not business setting.
看过看过，"老友记"是一部真正的美国式电视剧。但现在很多电视剧或者电影都是现实的夸张。但是它像另外一下小部分电视剧或电影一样非常接近现实。我听到过许多人说他们了解美国文化，因为他们看过美国电影。但是我也看过不少中国电影，很多时候反映的并不是中国现实的文化。所以"老友记"相对来说很接近美国现实文化，在它里面你可以学到真正的美国英语。我这推荐另外一部不错的片子"Office"给大家，和老友记差不多，也不是商业性质的片子。
主持人:Could you tell us about your favourite song? And your favourite clause? 能说一下您最喜欢的一首歌曲和最喜欢的一句话吗？
J.M.:My favourite song and favourite clause is so difficult. I will have to say My favourite song and I don't know why, there is a band from America called "counting crows", and they have a song called "daylights fadding" .I think it's a very very beautiful song, and it's maybe type of another song by the same band called "perfect blue building". My favourite clause, I believe is by TS Elly, but i don't call to me and then. "the true measure of a man is not by the size of the wallet, but by the size of the mind and his heart".
这对我来说不太好回答。有一首歌我也说不清为什么喜欢这首歌，它是美国一个乐队"counting crows"的"daylights fadding"，我觉得这首歌不错，很好听。另外还有一首他们乐队的类似的叫"perfect blue building"。另外最喜欢的一句话是TS Elly的叫"衡量一个人的标准是看他的思想和志向，而不是金钱"。
主持人:Why do you like that song?你为什么喜欢那首歌？
J.M.:It's going to be difficult for answer, both of those songs I think express a lot of emotion, I really don't like pop music in America, because I don't think there is real emotions behind their real feelings, it's all about money. So with those songs there is very strong emotions, very strong feelings behind them.
这也不太好回答，这两首歌都蕴含了很深的情感在里面。还有我个人不喜欢美国的流行音乐，因为那些都太商业化了，没有任何情感在歌曲里面。
主持人:Ok before to end the show today, is there anything you would like to share with us? 那今天讲堂结束前还有什么想和观众说的吗？
J.M.:Yes，we had a lot of questions about English, and a lot of questions about how to meet people, how to introduce yourself, and how to get to know people if you are nervous. Match.com was nice enough to bring its on today. So I'd like to mention match.com in china. It's a great service, if you would like to improve your English, and you can meet a lot of English speakers on there. And also If you're very busy with a lot of business questions, if you are very busy with business professional, there is a lot of really great people that you can meet on there. People that you would not have time to meet otherwise. So match.com in china is a very good choice for meeting people and improving your English. And you can also go to www.match.com.cn.
当然，今天回答了好多关于英语的问题，几乎都是关于约会、问候、自我介绍，还有就是在紧张时如何了解别人。我觉得match.com是一个很好的地方让我们了解更多关于这方面的问题。在这里我还想提一下在中国match.com也是很不错的，提供了很好的服务。在上面可以遇到很多说英语的人，同时可以提高你的英语水平。还有如果你有很多商业上的问题的话，都可以找到很多很多平时没时间去见的人去聊天。所以在中国match.com是一个很好的提高英语水平的选择。现在还可以登录www.match.com.cn.