Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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um, it was, it was fun, although now that I look back, I 
was just kind of too young to go, but that actually helped 
me a lot—just two weeks made me so much more fl uent 
than I already was.
4. LISTENING
MAN:
It was hard, is not easy because you have to make 
your living while as you go to school at the same times. 
And back home, most, uh, students just go to school. 
Th
ey don’t have to work to make the living. So it’s little bit 
here, it’s little bit stressful and hard to learn at the same 
time you have to make your living at the same times.
INTERVIEWER:_So_what_would_you_say_was_the_hardest_thing_[_about_learning_English_]__MAN'>INTERVIEWER:
So what would you say was the hardest thing 
[
about learning English
]
?
MAN:
It’s still, sometimes I have little bit heavy 
accent, uh, in my language, so I took some classes to 
imp—, to prove my accent so people can understand me 
a lot more better. But, uh, I learned, when you talk to the 
client, just slow down a little bit because when you speak 
fast like American people sometimes you don’t get the 
point, so I slow down and try to explain it carefully so 
they, I make sure they got the point of what I’m trying to 
explain to-to him or to them.
INTERVIEWER:
Do you have trouble understanding diff er-
ent accents in America?
MAN:
Sometimes. From the South, sometimes, but I 
always listen, and if I don’t understand, I ask again, they 
repeat what you said.

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