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地道美語聽力播客English as a Second Language Podcast (ESLPod)，是一家位于美國加州洛杉磯的英語教育研究機構推出的英文聽力會話，于2005年7月23日首播， 主播Dr. Jeff McQuillan為南加州大學的語言學博士， 現專注于外國語學生的英語學習研究。該播客在iTunes store播客的教育子分類中，與Grammar Girl Just Vocabulary常居前三甲。

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Bonnie: I wanted us to meet today to talk about ways to reduce our overhead . One suggestion is for us to outsource some of our operations. I’d like to hear what you think are the pros and cons of doing that.

Jean-Luc: I think that, in principle , it’s a good idea. It would save us a lot of money, but I see a downside . We would lose control of some of our key in house operations.

Bonnie: Well, I think that we want to focus on non-core operations , such as IT oraccounting . I know that other companies have outsourced their call centers , but that would take a lot of training, especially with our call volume .

Jean-Luc: I completely agree. I don’t think that the call center needs to be micro-managed , but it does take more oversight than IT or accounting for quality control , especially if we decide to go offshore .

Bonnie: Okay, I think we’re thinking along the same lines . Let’s call a meeting with the rest of the staff to get their thoughts. How about next Tuesday at 10 a.m.?

Jean-Luc: That works for me. I’ll send out an email out to everybody today.