Processing Executive (part two)

Special Language Training

After my interview on Monday, I immediately attended the American Accent Training the following day.. it's a special language class with John Clements Consultants Inc.. The training was scheduled for ten days, 8 hours a day..

Each day we do a lot of exercises such as listening, grammar usage, and of course, a LOT of speaking.. all these were intended to polish our English and of course build our confidence..

I was the worst in class... i was the one with the lowest level of confidence... i stammer or pause a lot when answering questions.. and according to my trainer, my face just cringe whenever i hear my name called to answer the question..

Anyway, that's what the training is for... our trainer, Sharon Charlston, did a good job of building my confidence... She gave a lot of good pointers how to answer a question... and that was all i need to get going.. Learning the right way to answer a question is all i need to feel comfortable and consequently build confidence... and feeling comfortable gives me a lot more time to pick the right words for my answer..

Then, after two weeks working on our grammar, accent, voice quality listening skills, and of course building confidence, we had our post-assesment.. it's an interview with John Clements and another one with HSBC.. I did good.. far better than my pre-assesment.. the interviewer thinks so... After two hours, the moment of truth came-announcement of those who made it through the SLT to the CORE training.. The room erupted in cheers as our interviewer declared that all of the eight of us made it!! we are so happy since the previous batches didn't have a hundred percent passing rate...

We are so happy we made it! and we owe it all, especially me, to Sharon.. so we called our group "Team SHARON"

...to be continued