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[Zero87]

I had a full immersion to preapare my FCE, which I took yesterday. I think it was all fine but the listening test which was f***ing hard!

Greetings!!!

The listening is always f***ing hard!

[marcosocio]

Hi Marco, I'm very happy for your FCE.

Greetings!!!

The listening is always f***ing hard!

Thank you all! Yes, Zero, you're quite right!

What is Austria like? What is the food like? What are the interesting places that you visited?

Now I know why we don't usually hear about Austria on TV: there are rules which are followed, everything works just fine, the streets are clean, you got a receipt for everything you buy and so on. I was also quite impressed by the local people: German speaking people are usually said to be cold and unfriendly but, even if I found someone like that, most of them were kind and available. For instance I don't speak a word in German but EVERYBODY speaks English fluently and many (mainly in tourist location) speak also a little Italian, so communication was not at all a problem.

And here's the drawback: food. It's just terrible. Soup, soup and soup: green, orange, white but always soup. (Cooking a ton of pasta would have been far easier, in view of the fact we were all Italian...). Second course: meat and potatoes, everyday. Surely better than soup but not enough to make up for that. Thank God he invented McDonald's! There is one between McDonald's and Burger King every 50m. Their number is really impressive!

I've been to Innsbruck (very pretty and small), Salzburg (I would have surely enjoyed it more if it hadn't been snowing all day long), Vienna (I was impressed by how huge are its cathedral and Shonbrunn palace) and Mauthausen (very very sad, visiting those places where thousands of people were killed made my skin crawl).

[Luca]

I had a full immersion to preapare my FCE, which I took yesterday. I think it was all fine but the listening test which was f***ing hard!

Greetings!!!

The listening is always f***ing hard!

I'm going to have the same exam test on June but unfortunately we're not practicing enough during this period, and I hope the voice of the listening part will be understandable!

[Zero87]

I'm going to have the same exam test on June but unfortunately we're not practicing enough during this period, and I hope the voice of the listening part will be understandable!

Oh, then... ehm... ehm...

... what is the same of the italian "in bocca al lupo"?

I try "in the mouth of the wolf".

I found "cross fingers LucaM".
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[Meringolo]

"Break a leg"

I prefer "good luck"

[Stellinelm]

I prefer "good luck"

but again ride the snake




p.s. : ...well, soft shoulders and happy landings

[Luca]

You can say "break a leg" or simply "good luck"...

Thanks!

[Stellinelm]

I couldn't agree more.