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Postby jeffers » Sat May 09, 2020 12:54 pm

I think the context makes it clear with ".... will doubt your professionalism", but pig-headed describes a person who is particularly stubborn. It is rude, but I couldn't say whether it is inappropriate for the discussion. Describing the students as "stubborn" would be rude as well.
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Postby Ingaræð » Mon May 11, 2020 8:05 pm

aaleks wrote:Also I use one "little trick" I used long time ago for getting rid of translating in my head when watching something in English. It's a kind of "mental shadowing" - I repeat the text I hear (dialogues in a series, etc). silently in my head focusing on that repeating process without thinking about meaning. For some reason this always increases my listening comprehension. I don't know why and how it works, it just works, at least for me.

This trick is amazingly good, and works at any level. I started doing this a few years ago for French, sort of mentally 'replaying' the audio I'd just heard, and my listening comprehension improved rapidly. Now I can hear something and instantly react appropriately, and a few moments later I realise that I didn't translate or shadow, and it's so weird that this 'understanding' just magically happened in my brain. :lol: It's like it's the same comprehension process as my native language, but it feels different somehow....
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Re: aaleks's log

Postby eido » Wed May 27, 2020 11:50 am

Well, you’ll always be Russian, even if you’re speaking English. And that’s perfectly fine! We English speakers need a little Russian flavor in our lives. Don’t throw away your identity for some silly English. I love reading your posts. They sound fluid as always. There are just a few errors that sound non-native, but that’s not a big deal. I mess up way more than you ever could. As my Korean friend would say, 파이팅!
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