My first interview in English...a huge challenge! I'm going to have an interview in english next week. Since I've accepted that challenge, my english learning has been growing rapidly! Off course I

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My first interview in English...a huge challenge! I'm going to have an interview in english next week. Since I've accepted that challenge, my english learning has been growing rapidly! Off course I make a lot of mistakes, but I must think where I coming from...the majority of the countries around the world has introduced the english learning into their education system. But in Brazil it wasn't happened in that way and because of that, I couldn't learn english at school (I've attended to public school my entire life!). Now I have to understand and speak english as so well as I can...in fact, I have a lot of doubts but maybe studying almost 5 hours a day might be helpful! The countdown for the interview has begun and I have less than 7 days. So what do you think that I should do as soon as possible? Have you ever faced a situation like that?

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My first interview in English...a huge challenge!

I'm going to have an interview in English next week.

Since I've accepted that challenge, my English learning has been growing rapidly!
Off course I make a lot of mistakes, but I must remember think where I am coming from...the majority of the countries around the world have has introduced the English learning into their education system.
But in Brazil it wasn't happened, in that way and because of that, I couldn't learn English at school (I've attended to public school my entire life!).
Now I have to understand and speak English as so well as I can...in fact, I have a lot of doubts but maybe studying almost 5 hours a day might be helpful!
The countdown for the interview has begun and I have less than 7 days. So what do you think that I should do as soon as possible?
Have you ever faced a situation like that?

Good post. Just a few things to make it sound more natural.

I have not ever been in your situation, but something that might help would be to watch a TV series in English without any subtitles. That way you would get a lot of exposure to native English speakers. It is also a fun way to study. Good luck with your interview!

Felipe, try to play an interview with a native speaker. That should help you to get used to it and later feel more confident. Also you can research a bit about the type of interviews. I can recommend you the podcast "You are hired" on the British Council web-site. I suppose that suits well here. Best of luck!

If you feel stressed, try talking to someone in English to warm up. If you don't have anyone to talk to, talk to yourself. Just try using this language before the interview, so you don't panic. You know the topic you're going to talk about, right? Try to imagine it in your head. Think of everything you may have to say, and say it. I've been in similar situation. I wasn't supposed to talk with interviewer, my friend was, but he suddenly asked for my opinion and I was like: "Yeah, me... I think... too... What?" xD I'd never really used spoken English before, so I sounded like a drunk person. At least it was funny for everyone xD

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