taking the minutes of meeting

@zills66 (1419)
Saudi Arabia
June 13, 2011 7:56am CST
i was nervous considering that it took me a lot of concentration just to understand and figured out what they were saying. to tell you the fact, i am finding a hard time to understand their english! God! i cannot even trascribe what i have written! grrr... what shall i do? advice please!
4 responses
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
13 Jun 11
Concentrate and work. If u cannot transcribe what u have written the mistake is on u. take care. I found two posts of you have been deleted. have a good day.
• Bangladesh
13 Jun 11
Hey feel very sad for you. That happens to me as well. Its a really tough situation. Anyways you should just stop talking much and just say ok ok yes no thats what i did when i faced similar situation like that. Like as it was a meeting you can not just run away from that situation or even can't just tell them that you don't understand really hard but still you just can ignore and finish the meeting as soon as possible.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
13 Jun 11
okay, the important thing is that you have to make sure you do understand what they are talking about, what the discussion was.. that way you can put key words and still be able to transcribe whatever they were talking about in full details after the meeting. if you cannot help it, you should just try to record the whole meeting in a voice tape recorder. they key though is that you will have to know who is currently speaking... i wish you goodluck!! ;)
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
13 Jun 11
zills--initially everything will appear to be difficult. After a few days u see -- u will be the master. Yes. perseverence is what is required. In case u come across a difficult word -- write it in ur note book. then come to laptop/computer and find out the meaning from online dictionary. Talk in English to an extent possible. Make friendship with people who can talk english well. Watch english news. Read english newspaper. If u have any other problem, feel free to ask us.