Carol’s Translation Disaster at Work – Learn English Through Real Stories

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  Hello and welcome to the English Like a Native podcast.

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  My name is Anna and you're listening to week 30, day 5 of Your English 5 a Day, the second season.

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  I'm here every day of the working week from Monday to Friday to help you to have your daily dunk into the English language so that over time...

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  You expand your vocabulary,

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  you improve your listening skills and you start to feel more confident when using the English language.

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  So, today is Friday,

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  which means we bring together all the vocabulary we've looked at this week in one big story.

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  Are you sitting comfortably?

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  Then I'll begin.

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  Carol's Spanish translation test disaster.

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  Let me tell you a story about a friend who's British but lives in France.

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  We'll call her Carol.

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  She had always been someone who liked a challenge.

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  But when she decided to go back to university in 2011,

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  this time in France rather than the UK, she hadn't quite realised what she was getting herself into.

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  After working for several years,

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  She'd made the bold decision to quit her job and pursue a master's degree in international business with languages.

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  Perhaps she should have taken the advice to look before you leap,

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  but it seemed like the perfect opportunity to combine her professional interests with her love of learning.

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  The programme required all students to study English, which was straightforward enough for Carol.

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