Practice speaking American English with Native English Speakers

Finding a place to live

May I speak to Nancy, please?

speaking

Uh hi, my name is Mari, and I'm calling about the room for rent.
I saw your ad at the campus housing office.

Oh, right. OK, uh, are you a student?

Well, right now I'm just studying English, but I'm planning to start college full-time in March.

I see. Where are you living now?

I've been living in a house with some other students, but I don't like it there.

why, what's the problem?

Well, first of all, it's really noisy, and it's not very clean.
The other people in the house are real slobs(=someone who is lazy and untidy
).
I mean they never lift a finger to clean up after themselves.
It really bugs※ me! I need a place that's cleaner and more private.

※bugs me= annoy me 
She annoyed him with her stupid questions.

Well, it's really quiet here. We're not home very much.

What do you do? (= What's your role as ……)
I teach English at the college.

Wait a minute! Didn't we meet yesterday at the placement exam?

Oh….you're the girl from Japan!
What was your name again?

Mari.

Right, What a small world!

It really is. By the way, who else lives in the house?
The ad said there are three people.

Well besides me there's my husband, Andrew, and my cousin,Jeff.
He's a musician and a part-time student.

Uh, are you OK with having male roommates?

Sure, as long as they're clean and not too noisy.

Don't worry. They're both easy to live with.

Ok. Um, is the neighborhood safe?

Oh sure. We haven't had any problems and you can walk to scool form here.

It sounds really nice. When can I come by and see it?

Can you make it this evening around five?
Then you can meet the guys too.

yeah, five o'clock is good. What's the address?

It's 3475 Hayworth Avenue. Do you know where that is?

No, I don't.

Ok. From University Village you go seven clocks east on Olympic and Alfred, there's a spotlight.
Turn left and go up one and a half blocks.
Our house is in the middle of the block on the left.

That sounds easy.

Yeah, you can't miss it. Listen, I've got to go.
Someone's at the door. See you this evening.

Ok, see you later.