How has your English improved so far during your internship?
My listening comprehension has definetly got better. Even if the person speaks fast or with an accent, I understand without any problem. I admit that sometimes I doze off sometimes. So, I have to tell the person "I'm sorry, can you repeat?". Other than that, no problem on this side. Since i've been listening to lot of movies in english, it's never really been a problem.
When it comes to my accent, I still have problems with my "H" but other than that, I don't have anymore problems when it comes to say the "s" at the end of words and better than that. I'm getting better at pronuncing "Th"!! It took me a lot of time to figure out how to do this sound. There's just one problem. When someone speak with me and if the person has an accent, I tend to copy it. I spoke with a patient who was british. It's pretty funny to hear me speak with a british accent.
Fluency: I wouldn't say that I became more fluent but I am definetly not stressed anymore when it comes to speaking with someone. Even better, last week, I was speaking on the phone in english! The easiest subject to talk about are definetly stuff that I speak with my friends everyday. Recently, my supervisor has become more relax and more friendly with me. We started talking about publicity around the hospital (This is about the chores I have to do. It's kind of hard to explain) and we were joking around. It's refreshing.
The only problem is that I tend to avoid some words that I know that I can't pronunce. For example, the word can/can't. When I say it, it's sounds the same. I also avoid saying the word three. This is the most complicated thing to me. At least, people knows that I'm not speaking about a tree!
Humour: Probably the most awkward situation ever. Amanda told me to call some compagnies and ask them about their publicity signage for windows and walls. I do what I have to do and so on, I call all of them. At the last compagny, I was supposed to ask with who they were working. The woman on the phone told me that they work with "Gaylord". I'm speechless and I'm like "Uhh... Gaylord?... Can you spell it? After that the woman spells it, I realised that I did heard well. After that, I had to explain to my supervisor about the compagny. I guess that it was weird after all. My supervisor was also speechless. This is a long story, but I also had to do a research about it on the internet. At least, i didn't get weird websites !
Accurary: I still have to practice the ending of some words. Like, when to pronunce the "ed" and if it should sounds more like a "t" or a "d" etc. For now, this is one of my main goal but like I said, for "s" , I don't have any problem.
Select 5 new words, expressions or structures
Signage: My boss told me to search for signages Idea. At first, I didn't know what she meant but I had my cellphone (I have a dictionnary inside). After that, I searched for the word. Signage is signs for identification, warning or direction. I'm guessing that if I get a job soon, I will probably reheard this word if I'm working in a place that uses lot of publicity.
Familiated: Well, the context of this one is quite special. There's many teens hanging around the hospital and I heard one say "familiated". At first I was like "this is not a word? Is it?". I thought it was weird to hear that and so I decided to note it down and search for it, at the end of the day. Just like I guessed it, It's not a real word. It's more like a slang and it means someone that is being humiliated by a family member. I don't think i'll use this word but it's always fun to have a large slang vocabulary.
Eargasm: Yes, eargasm. Well, I knew this one but I think it was still funny to actually heard it in a conversation. I was moving around the hospital to give out some papers. There was this girl with her sister (or her mother. I'm not sure) and she said "this song, oh my god. Eargasm." I don't know what song she was talking about, but let's hope that it wasn't Justin Bieber!!!
Eargasm is a word to describe that the song you are hearing is so good that you get chills.
Redneck: There this old lady that I often see when I go to the hospital on tuesdays. Last time, I wanted to get in the elevator and she was there. She just started mumbling "freaking rednecks". Maybe I heard wrong but I found that the situation was quite funny. I definetly won't use this word in the future because I don't think it's a nice word. Rednecks are generally uncivilised, uneducated, racist and love outdoor sports (Hunting, fishing...).
I actually don't hear many new words or expression so I'm trying to go with what I have and sometimes words/expressions can be quite weird.
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