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C4: OK, that’s good, so I’d like you to tell me again a little bit about what brings you here and, um…’.
A13: < yes
C4: and > particularly um, the areas where you really want to improve your English [laughs].
A13: yes erm well I got a good mark in school English at the baccalaureate but baccalaureate ex- it was [laughs] exclusively written erm so I’m still not very at ease in conversation
C4: hmm hmm
A13: erm I’m led professionally a bit personally I hope more erm to + me to the need to understand English
C4: hmm hmm
A13: erm in writing sometimes orally like erm conference < seminar
C4: hum hum >
A13: where there are speeches in English where I’m sometimes a bit lost even [laughs].
C4: OK, and do you often do this?
A13: erm not often but it’s happened to me in previous jobs I’ve done seminars in England erm with speeches in English so it was planned that there would be translations and so on but it’s < very
C4: *** >
A13: it’s very limited what you can what you can do when you have to go through translations um and it happened to me once or twice to go to conferences where not all but all the presentations were made in < English and I was completely lost
C4: yeah, that happens in France too umm >
A13: so um there you go < um
C4: and what kind of texts do you write, eh?
A13: and in writing um > it’s more like um economic and financial texts um pff the kind um situation analysis um I work in a mutual company < in the
C4: yes >
A13: insurance sector anything to do with health insurance I can have articles um I can have articles submitted to me which are in English but um I must admit that < um
C4: OK >
A13: it’s less difficult than speaking but still, um
C4: then it’s articles in very specialised fields < it’s not popularisation
A13: yes, with a vocabulary um > that I don’t necessarily um have a reference to
C4: yes
A13: and
C4: < and the text structures themselves too, eh?
A13: well, and sentence structures um > a bit journalistic sometimes, so there’s a lot of idiom, things that aren’t < easy when you’ve done literary English
C4: yes, that’s right, because sometimes > popularisation is difficult
A13: there you go < exactly
C4: more difficult > sometimes than a real technical text
A13: Exactly, so that’s it, um, in the end that’s what interests me, so I’d like to be more at ease with English so that, um, I can go and study elsewhere’.