Hearing what is said is not always easy.
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Repeat verbatim (Repeat what was said) — Distance exercise. The exercise «repeat verbatim» gives high-quality contact, mutual understanding with people increases.
In order to qualitatively repeat what was said by the interlocutor, it is necessary not to be distracted during the hearing, including to your own objections; be able to understand the sometimes complex or confused thoughts of the interlocutor.
To work out the exercise, the following scheme of work helps:
1. A continuous repetition of the text of the interlocutor (or a film, for example, “Garage”) to oneself.
2. While repeating to myself, I begin to highlight key words and phrases,
3. I put the text in the background, focusing on finding a common meaning.
4. Relax, let go, catch the general meaning with a picture or formulate it in your own words.
When working at a Distance, there may be the following wording …
The task is to hear the interlocutor. How I work:
- 5 times a week for 30 minutes a day I watch any program on TV and repeat (to myself) every phrase after people with a delay of 1-2 seconds. How translators translate the text to another interlocutor with a delay.
- I read the text, say one sentence and repeat it out loud. 30 minutes a day, 2 times a week (Monday, Wednesday).
- I read the text one line at a time and copy it onto paper / electronic paper (10 sentences), once a week.
ORR: I can exactly, verbatim repeat the question or request addressed to me.
Penalty: for an unfulfilled exercise, I wash 1 pan or my floor in one room (I see what is more relevant). Reward: I will buy myself a tasty something once a week, which my hands do not reach.
Tips from Distancers
The exercise helped to avoid a lot of conflict situations. First, when I repeat what was said, the person may not quite like what he said. Secondly, when I am focused on the interlocutor, I think about him and about his words, and not about my thoughts about his words. Thirdly, it makes it possible to better understand the interlocutor and to answer him exactly to his words, and not to those that I thought of or focused on.
Findings: at first it is better to start with short sentences (1-2). And long sentences, at the first stages, should be recorded on paper, if there is such an opportunity (or create such an opportunity to write it down on paper). In some cases, you can use a voice recorder, then check.
At the first stage, you need to repeat the entire text verbatim in the simultaneous translation mode, i.e. with a delay of 2-3 sec. The task of the first stage is to enable automatic repetition of everything that the speaker says. To quickly master this skill, you need to learn how to concentrate your attention.
The following techniques can help with this:
1. Replay tracking.
On a piece of paper I mark the start time of the exercise. After 5-10 minutes (when I remember or look at the paper) I note the current time and the quality of my replay in the past minutes.
Scale: + I repeat well, ~ I repeat, but I get distracted, — I forgot about the exercise.
2. Articulation.
Open your mouth and silently pronounce the entire text. Thus, not only the mind, but also the body is included in the work — concentration increases.
The methods described above help fast turn on the auto repeat skill. I have an automatic repeat turned on for 1,5 weeks. Prior to this, I had been training the Rep verbatim without assists for 5 weeks with no visible results.
In 2 cases out of three, as I noticed from the last event, when you specifically repeat what a person tells you, he says: “I didn’t mean it.” And as a matter of fact, he himself takes a few seconds of pause and already, albeit with difficulty, but still tries to correct the wording. It was even funny. The girl asks a question, for example, to the topic that they say: “Am I doing the right thing, that on a date on the first I need to show the man my true face and show myself just like that. what am I?» As a result, missing all the details and details of this topic, her question sounded like this: “Am I doing the right thing that I leave a mystery about myself and set the task not to show myself on the first date, but the goal is to leave a positive impression of myself with a man in order to so that he wants to meet with me again?