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Crazy occurence when listening to second language #31 (permalink) Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:19 am   Crazy occurence when listening to second language
 

Hi Pamela!

I must admit that we left the track of the topic?s initial theme and came to some other ones.

Pamela wrote:
Hi Michael
I didn’t expect that I would stumble onto my nickname in this thread. That was really surprising. Wink


So, I hope you didn?t feel annoid when I mentioned you in interdependence with the job-search. I mean, from some of your former posts I understood that you finished studying indeed but you?re working on your professional development, too. I beg your pardon if I?d have missinterpreted you.

Pamela wrote:
I think you forgot to mention our good and active members Tamara and Tom. Laughing Wink I am full of praise for the HUGE progress they are making.


Seriously, I envy Tamara and Tom for their great progress in the English and don?t hesitate to admit that. Often enough, when I?m just lurking Embarassed I can figure out some difficulties in the English I would never come across on my own. So it?s always interesting to watch their posts.

Pamela wrote:
I’m not a student except for my part-time study but if you mean my being here as a student I’d rather agree with you.


And also interesting are your posts even if I must admit that I likely wasn?t capable of reading them all. So I possibly have overseen what your current job/profession is and what you study in part-time. Please forgive my being inquisitive when I ask you here for some information. It?s just a question and you don?t need to answer if you don?t want.

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Crazy occurence when listening to second language #32 (permalink) Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:28 am   Crazy occurence when listening to second language
 

Tamara wrote:
Quote:
can also mean that your wishes and promises aren?t serious

No, Michael. For that it should be a bit different… figure (as I’m aware from my early school time Smile Laughing )
And not behind the back, but 'in the pocket' Smile

Quote:
deliberation of customers

I don’t understand using the word in the context Sad Could anybody explain it to me, please?
Quote:

deliberation of customers

I think it means the slowness, the sluggishness of customers, or their circumspection in bying the product. AS he'll work in sales department his task will be to speed up the customers when they are too cautios, simply to convince them to make that step.
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Crazy occurence when listening to second language #33 (permalink) Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:33 am   Crazy occurence when listening to second language
 

deliberation of customers

I think it means the slowness, the sluggishness of customers, or their circumspection in bying the product. AS he'll work in sales department his task will be to speed up the customers when they are too cautios, simply to convince them to make that step.

(I've mistaken puting this reply to another topic).
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Crazy occurence when listening to second language #34 (permalink) Tue Nov 07, 2006 13:53 pm   Crazy occurence when listening to second language
 

WOW moniker, you exactly expressed what I intended to say but in a better English!

I mean, to sale something always requires the trader or salesclerk to force the customer?s or client?s insight for the necessarity to buy it or at least the desire to get the provided article. It?s rather obvious when you think about a car-trader. They often are that skilly in forcing the customer?s desire that it is very hard to stand it finally, isn?t it?

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Crazy occurence when listening to second language #35 (permalink) Tue Nov 07, 2006 18:32 pm   Crazy occurence when listening to second language
 

Sorry for having retarded the answer, Fan of Arabian horses (by the way, it's a bit uncomfortable to refer to you with this name, kind of long or...) and thanks for lauding my English. It's so shaky and really needs an encouragement.
I am glad if I came close to your prospective job description.
Instead of "necessarity" maybe it'd be better to use "necessity". I don't think "necessarity" exists in our language. I mean English. By now it's almost our language. We all are addicted to it.
Good job to you!
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Crazy occurence when listening to second language #36 (permalink) Tue Nov 07, 2006 18:38 pm   Crazy occurence when listening to second language
 

Sorry, I didn't noticed your name in the closing. Michael is simpler and easier. Is it pronounced in English way like /maikl/ or in German or Franch?
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Crazy occurence when listening to second language #37 (permalink) Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:19 am   Crazy occurence when listening to second language
 

Hi moniker!(By the way, you also chose an unusual nickname)

Thanks for correcting my silly mistake necessarity=>necessity.

There isn?t anything to apologize. We all do have some other tasks and issues beside of talking at the site, so that we don?t can chat or write here the whole day long.

Regarding my name: your pronounciation in English is correct.
In German you would pronounce it like you read it, whereas the "i" would sound like the English "e", the "a" like the "u" in us and the "e" like the English "a". I don?t know how familar you are with the German but as you asked I?d like to add that the German "ch" sounds more like the whisperring of a snake or the spitting of a cat.
In France my name would be "Michel" for a man/boy. Whereas the "i" and the "e" would be pronounced like in German and the "ch" like in the English "kitchen".

Hope I didn?t exaggerate my explanations but till now I don?t have any information about your mother-language. Might be you introduced yourself at the new-member-forum. If so, I failed not looking there and it?s on me to apologize.

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Crazy occurence when listening to second language #38 (permalink) Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:44 am   Crazy occurence when listening to second language
 

Fan of Arabian horses wrote:
moniker!(By the way, you also chose an unusual nickname)

Hi

(Taking the opportunity to become acquainted Smile)
can I ask, whether moniker / monicker is just a (perhaps, AmE?) slangy word for 'nickname'?
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Crazy occurence when listening to second language #39 (permalink) Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:05 am   Crazy occurence when listening to second language
 

Tamara wrote:
can I ask, whether moniker / monicker is just a (perhaps, AmE?) slangy word for 'nickname'?


Right you are, Tamara -- 'moniker/monicker' is slang for 'name' or 'nickname'.

It's also the way some British people would pronounce the noun Monica followed by a vowel sound, e.g. 'Monica is...':['monik9riz].
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Crazy occurence when listening to second language #40 (permalink) Wed Nov 08, 2006 19:02 pm   Crazy occurence when listening to second language
 

I was searching for my nickname for this forum and as I couldn't select any, I called myself just moniker which would be exactly a slang version for nickname. My real name is nice, but here I prefer to be called as Moniker.
Introducing myself to the forum? I don't know what to say that might be interesting for you. If you permit I don't reveal my native language for some personal reasons. I see the people of my nationality through the forum and I've chosen to remain in the shade. It's much more engaging to speak with unknown persons for me. About myself I can say few words. I studied classical (dead) languages and speak fluently one Romance (live) language and I'm familiar with German, not proficient in speaking it though. I've worked as a researcher and as an interpreter. Now I have this passion for English. I wish my English were flowing as a liquid melody, but it's not that good yet. So it's my high hope and I don't give up it untill.... you know.
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Crazy occurence when listening to second language #41 (permalink) Wed Nov 15, 2006 14:04 pm   Crazy occurence when listening to second language
 

Fan of Arabian horses wrote:
My first work-day there will be the 15th of November and it seems to be a pretty pleasant work.

Hope, it is even more nice and pleasant than expected. Smile
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Crazy occurence when listening to second language #42 (permalink) Wed Nov 15, 2006 21:31 pm   Crazy occurence when listening to second language
 

Hi Tamara!

Thanks for your good wishes! I enjoyed them. To be honest, I started working there last Thursday already and to tell the truth it?s been very pleasant and nice. Have been working there for a week I must admit that it?s not only pleasant (it really is) but also I have to learn much. Well, like Freddie Frinton said I?ll do my very best. Wink

By the way, how are you? Although lurking at the site, all the time, I not really was able to see how you do behave. Embarassed Nevertheless, I hope you?re fine, too and I?d like to read more about you.

Michael

P.S. I?m always impressed by your painstakingly (meticulous) way of learning the English.
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Crazy occurence when listening to second language #43 (permalink) Thu Nov 16, 2006 8:47 am   Crazy occurence when listening to second language
 

Hi Michael!

Very glad to read that anxious suspension has now (successfully) finished and life still justifies hopes. Smile

I'm alright, generally. To/by all appearances. Smile
Sometimes behaving perfectly, sometimes… anyhow. Smile
Life goes…

All the best to you! (And to your Arab. Smile)

Tamara
P.S. I suppose if I had less analytical background and the kind of thinking, I would have much fewer difficulties in learning English that is at(?) a far cry from formal languages. Smile

P.P. S. My version is: 'After having worked there for a week, I must admit…'
...
P.P.S. Cheers! Smile
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Crazy occurence when listening to second language #44 (permalink) Thu Nov 16, 2006 22:01 pm   Crazy occurence when listening to second language
 

Cheers Tamara(sometimes an angel, sometimes a devil)! Smile

Happy to hear you?re feeling fine. Well, anyway I thought that feeling could be substituted by behave. Nevertheless, it?s been nice to read your self-appreciation regarding your behave. Very Happy

See you

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