#EnglishBootcamp - Day #20

An important challenge is to addapt the ear to the accent, the major challenge is with accents like chineesse and Indian. Another challenge is the speed, We can tell to our partner to talk slower. Finally I think the other important cyhallenge is the vocabulary, in my case professional vocabulary could be easiers than day to day vocabulary.

Intermediate level

1. Understand the context, conversatión on the phone, you don't see the gesture of the person that you talk
2. Don't have a translator or use your body to describe words that you don't know
3. Conversatión on the phone are more faster and concrete generally

1️⃣ Beginners

My routine start at nine o'clock and last 1 hour. Thyrty minutes to read, twenty minutes to listen and ten minutes to speak.

Seee yaaaa!👋🏻

2️⃣Intermediate Hi everyone. Yes, for me is i bit difficult to have a conversation on the phone in English, because in a face to face conversation if you wouldn't know a word, you can express with mimics, but on the phone you wouldn't. That would be the first challenge for me. The second one is the pressure to speak. On the the phone you can't be quiet for long time, so you must talk always that the other speaker take silent. Finally, you can't see the face of your interlocutor, so is too easy to misunderstand when you can't heard well some word.

_ Beginner level:_

My English schedule starts at eight in the morning. My rutine is forty minutes per day: My reading and listen are thirty minutes at watching a serie with English subtitles, I write less at the moment, aproximadly five to ten minutes in some chats or social media comments; and about my speaking only a little bit, five minutes.

3️⃣Advanced . Think about validating and launching your business idea process. Which step is the most important and difficult according to you?

💡 The most important step for me is the idea, having a very clear and unique idea and taking it to the next steps. And of course, defining if the idea is good or bad, what I mean is that it is necessary to validate our idea, and this is the difficult part.

New ideas have unpredictable elements, and if some of them go wrong, they can immediately destroy our plans. Validation reduces risk, accelerates the delivery of a value-creating service to the marketplace, and minimizes costs.

📈 Following the process is also something difficult. Because many ideas stay there or live as an idea and that's it. But taking an idea to the next steps, bringing it to life, turning it into a prototype and being able to launch the idea into the world, is the real challenge.

English Study Routine

Every day, I try to do the challenge very early at the morning or at night, from 6-7 pm. Eventually, I listening to english podcast at 2:00 pm. Throughout the day, I read everything I can in English: posts in social media, articles, my phone's configuration, etc.

1️⃣ Beginners

Good morning platzinauts! Here I share my study routine:

I study English every day. I usually study at Platzi in the mornings at ten thirty during 1 hour. In the afternoon, at six thirty I listen a podcast or read an article in English. On weekends, I like watch movies in English with subtitles.

Regards and have a nice sunday. 😎

++Intermedite Level++

When talking on a phone call, there always would be some issues mostly because of poor reception in the mobile and or phone runs out in the middle of a conversation, but talking on the phone in a different language will cause some additional issues like:

Lack of vocabulary: Whether it's because of you or not, this could be a big issue because you won't be able to express everything you want to.

The other person speaks too quickly: You can always ask the other person to repeat if you didn't get what they said, but doing this repeatedly could annoy them. So you could bring this at the beginning of the conversation and ask them to speak calmly.

No eye contact: When you talk face to face with another person you can show you care and understand what they are talking about, you could even see their facial expressions and body language, but without looking them in the eye you have no other choice than trust them.

Thanks for reading.

2️⃣Intermediate

From my point of view these are the 3 most important challenges when having a conversation on the phone in English:

1. the communication is not always good and clear enough sometimes it sounds soft or with interferences.
2. you can not see the lips from the other person so you can not guess what he/she is saying.
3. sometiems you can feel embarrasment because you can perceive or believe that the other person will not understand you, and sometimes you just do not know how to say what you want to express. So many times you can feel really fool and with anxiety.