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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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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. It's like it's the same comprehension process as my native language, but it feels different somehow....

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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!