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| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4287 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 401 of 706 23 January 2014 at 6:40am | IP Logged | ||
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Things like this always happen when one is a native Anglophone...
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| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4844 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 402 of 706 23 January 2014 at 6:43am | IP Logged | ||
I'm not surprised or shocked about what happened, but I am a bit disappointed. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4287 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 403 of 706 23 January 2014 at 6:52am | IP Logged | ||
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This may sound silly, but I pretend that I am not a native Anglophone by saying that I am
from a non-Anglophone country and pretend that my English is restricted to only knowledge of basic phrases if I want conversation in another language. It helps that my name is not Anglophone, so in that manner I can pretend better. I am not sure if you would want to try that, but it works quite often. I am not sure about how often people switch to English in Japan or Brasil, but in Portugal some do it and some do not. They definitely switch less than in Norway, the Netherlands, or Belgium for example though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4844 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 404 of 706 23 January 2014 at 7:18am | IP Logged | ||
In Japan, if you are not Asian, you will be spoken to in English - sometimes even if the person knows you are not from an Anglophone country. That said, I have tried that technique with some results. It takes a while before the other person stops speaking English to you, and even then they talk to you in "baby Japanese." Of course, I couldn't use that technique at my school. My teaching position requires a native English speaker, so everyone knows I speak English, and it's my job to speak and teach English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5181 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 405 of 706 23 January 2014 at 1:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah I remember a kid from Ireland saying that he pretended not to understand his host family when they
spoke English to him and made them use French. I kinda thought that only worked with other languages but apparently not. I don't know how well that works with people who have more English speaking practice though. I for example am pretty confident when I say something that it's understandable obviously but that wasn't always the case. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5163 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 406 of 706 23 January 2014 at 9:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Better luck next time, kuji. I'm sure there will be many other opportunities, it will
help when the focus will entirely be speaking in Portuguese. Do you work on any active translation drills (i.e. into target language)? I've started to realize they are important for me to activate my skills, even after months focusing only on input. I tend to do them at an A1->A2 level but when I get to an intermediate level I forget about them. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5259 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 407 of 706 23 January 2014 at 10:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Brazilians are friendly people, but there are jerks everywhere who are the exceptions to any rule. Sorry, to hear about this, kuji :(. There will be other opportunities soon, I am certain. Your conversation practice will not have been in vain. Speaking of which, I think it's time that you start to make some of those opportunities happen for yourself. Hop on Orkut and start chatting with Brazilians online and/or maybe do a free language exchange once every two weeks. You are now at the stage where I jumped into DLI- Volume 4. The course, drills and dialogs get more interesting and more valuable from here on out. Hang in there! You're making great progress. Segue, segue, segue...
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5163 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 408 of 706 23 January 2014 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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FB is much more popular nowadays, iguanamon. No one from my circles use orkut anymore.
Anyway, you can find Brazilians anywhere, even at VK, if you want to keep it low profile. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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