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Company meeting clarification question
So, to me four words were unclear: biscuits, nudge, furloughed and sack
Since some of them had an unclear pronunciation I would go over them with questions like these
Sorry Andrew, I don’t know the expression “sack” it, would you mind explaining it to me?
I have some trouble following, did you said biscuits?
Sorry Andrew, could you spell it out? I am not catching the word furloughed
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3 Replies
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Hi Andrea,
These are good clarification questions.
> I’d put this one: I have some trouble following, did you said biscuits? in the present continuous: I’m having some trouble following, did you said biscuits?
>and a tweak to a preposition:
So, to me four words were unclear
Can you figure it out?! 🙌
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Could it be “for me”? Dunno why but it felt natural to just type “to me” (my achille’s heel is that I am used to listening and writing and I go by “what feels natural” from time to time 😀 )
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It is ‘for me‘! Correct!
I think the way to be fluent is to do exactly that- just go with what feels natural. (Fluent doesn’t mean correct in this case! It means ‘communicative’)
Of course, if nobody tells you you are making a mistake, then you keep repeating that mistake (believe me – my achilles’ heel in Italian is prepositions. I tend to translate from English and I know it’s wrong to do that, but unless someone tells me the correct preposition I never learn!)
Check this out for tips on prepositions
https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/tips-for-learning-prepositions/
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