He said to me: 'Calm down - make sure you're getting the proper message across and it's not getting lost'.

他告诉我：‘冲动是魔鬼——确保你能得到正确的信息，不要把自己搞迷糊。’

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Making mistakes in a foreign language is nothing to worry about. What matters is getting your message across, not whether you use all the right words, tenses, cases, etc.

在外语的学习中出现错误没有什么可担心的，重要的是你能从中得到你的信息，并不是你能否使用所有的单词，时态，语法等等。

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It seemed a key element of the corporate message was not getting across.

FORBES: No More Monkeying Around