Robert Iglesias
Joined: 04 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:37 pm Post subject: Having a hard time understanding the native English speakers |
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Regarding verbal communication, very often than not, I have to tell the native English speakers to repeat what they have said before I can understand them. Do I appear dumb doing it? To all native English speakers, what do you think?
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myprofe
Joined: 29 Jun 2004
Posts: 425
Location: Madrid, Spain - Native Boston, USA
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:57 am Post subject: more often than not |
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The expression is: more often than not.
Ignorance has nothing to do intelligence. The first sensation we all have when learning a second language is that the native speakers speak very quickly. It's not that they speak quickly but that, not being fluent, we can't process what they are saying that fast. In other words, we are slow listeners. We may still be focusing on individual words rather than groups of words, phrases or expressions.
If anybody is dumb in this exchange it would be the native speaker who, after being asked to repeat several times, is not capable of altering his way of speaking in order to make it easier for you to understand him.
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