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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6150 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 8 12 June 2013 at 3:58pm | IP Logged |
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A little tip I've found helps when you're stuck at a boring meeting, presentation or lecture. Try and translate the speaker into your target language, on the fly, in your head. It's quite challenging, but I've found it can help develop fluency. It also makes you look like you're concentrating on the speaker. They'll mistake you rapid attempt to conjugate a verb, as a profound and studious look.
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| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4631 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 2 of 8 12 June 2013 at 6:58pm | IP Logged |
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Haha, pretty good idea! I wish I thought about before my semester ended.
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| Astrophel Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5731 days ago 157 posts - 345 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Cantonese, Polish, Sanskrit, Cherokee | Message 3 of 8 13 June 2013 at 1:21am | IP Logged |
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Thank you! That's an awesome idea!
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| Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5424 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Korean, Haitian Creole, SpanishC2 Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 8 13 June 2013 at 6:14pm | IP Logged |
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Used this today.
Started with just Spanish but then got bored of that so did Spanish and Korean- Which was great because the boring presentation was in both English and French, so I got a good three languages in! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4827 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 5 of 8 13 June 2013 at 9:54pm | IP Logged |
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More productive than Business Meeting Bingo anyway.
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| NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4958 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 6 of 8 16 June 2013 at 5:35am | IP Logged |
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This sounds really good...Might try it at work next, the people there bore me so much
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| baskerville Trilingual Triglot Newbie Singapore scribeorigins.com Joined 4245 days ago 39 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: German*, Japanese Studies: Hungarian | Message 7 of 8 19 June 2013 at 5:01pm | IP Logged |
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I tried this two days ago...and I found myself not falling asleep during the meeting. I
even looked interested in the presentation and speaker because I was taking down notes. Actually, I was writing down the words I missed, with the intention of translating them after the meeting. Thanks for sharing! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 8 of 8 23 June 2013 at 12:44pm | IP Logged |
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Oh my goodness, this is an amazing idea! Besides improving your TL, there is the side consequence that you might actually take in a bit of the speaker's message.
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