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This is Jack Farm to Fluency, 
and this is the latest episode 

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of the To Fluency podcast. 
It is great to have you here. 

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Now today we're going to learn 
an area of English that is my 

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favorite area to learn, or one 
of them in a foreign language. 

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So when I was studying Spanish, 
I used to love learning these 

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types of phrases, and I'll tell 
you what they are. 

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They're called prepositional 
verbs, prepositional verbs. 

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And this is where you have a 
verb, then a preposition, and 

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then an object. 
For example, I love listening to

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music. 
Listen to music, a verb, 

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preposition and then an object. 
And I'm sure when you've been 

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studying English and trying to 
speak English, you're thinking 

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about, OK, what preposition do I
use after this verb? 

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And for example, in Spanish, you
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listen escucha musica, excuse me
for my the way I speak Spanish, 

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but you don't use a preposition.
And then in if different 

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languages, you might use a 
preposition, but it's a 

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different 1. 
So what you can do in this 

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lesson is listen to the phrases 
and then go to the description 

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and learn the phrases because 
they're going to be really 

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useful for you. 
We're going to go through quite 

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a few today. 
I'm going to try and make the 

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examples entertaining and 
relevant and fun. 

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But the key here is to learn the
sentences that I'm going to give

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you and then try to use them in 
similar ways. 

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So I've talked about how you can
practice your writing, and you 

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can practice your writing by 
taking these types of 

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prepositional verbs and creating
sentences that are relevant to 

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your life. 
Because a big mistake I find is 

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that when a student learns new 
vocabulary like a verb, they try

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to use it in ways that that just
don't make sense. 

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And the way it makes sense is if
you learn the verb plus the 

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preposition plus the object. 
And these are just like 

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collocations and collocations 
are king, the words that go 

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together naturally. 
So you can learn these in a 

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natural way by listening to this
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Let's start with believe in, to 
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And this means to have faith in 
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something. 
And the best example here is a 

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question, do you believe in 
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Do you believe in ghosts? 
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ghosts exist? 
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is to have faith in the 
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Now, it can also mean to have an
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or desirable. 
For example, I don't believe in 

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the way things are being 
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So I don't believe in the way 
that things are being censored 

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at the moment, which means I 
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I don't agree with this. 
I think it is wrong. 

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The next one is depend on, 
depend on. 

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I hear a lot of people here 
using depend in, but no, it's 

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depend on. 
And again, it's a great one to 

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know. 
I use it all the time. 

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For example, if somebody says 
will I become fluent in English 

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this year, I say it depends on 
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how much time you spend learning
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So it depends on different 
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You might hear parents say 
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you get later will depend on how
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Or whether we go on vacation 
this year will depend on flight 

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restrictions. 
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this year will depend on flight 
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The next one is look at look at 
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this. 
And we use this to bring 

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someone's attention to or, or 
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The other day it was raining, 
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So I went outside and I said to 
Kate, quick look at the rainbow.

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Look at the rainbow. 
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eyes to see the rainbow. 
Quick. 

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Look at the rainbow outside. 
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looking at me in a weird way. 
That guy is looking at me in a 

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weird way. 
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thinking about something 
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For example, I'll take a look at
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decision later. 
So I'll take a look at what you 

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sent me and make a decision 
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Another example, could you take 
a quick look at my new Lesson 

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plan? 
Could you take a quick look at 

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my new Lesson plan #4 is 
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someone? 
For example, can you apologise 

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to your sister? 
You shouldn't have said that. 

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Could you apologise to your 
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And my boss finally apologised 
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day. 
My boss finally apologised to me

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for shouting the other day. 
Now here I am stressing the word

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finally because it's taking him 
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My boss finally apologised to me
for shouting the other day #5 is

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to agree with, for example, I 
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said. 
I don't agree with a thing you 

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said. 
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episode, I talked about the 
example of I couldn't disagree 

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more or I couldn't agree more. 
But in this case, we're using 

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the simple version. 
Agree with someone. 

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I don't agree with a thing you 
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who never agrees with what we do
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You can say, can you just agree 
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Can you just agree with me for 
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And I don't say this very often,
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Minister. 
He's right. 

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I agree with the Prime Minister,
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The next one is deal with 
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And this can have various 
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focus on to take action to do 
something or to handle a 

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situation. 
For example, I can't deal with 

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everything right now. 
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right now. 
Things are overwhelming. 

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I have too much stuff going on. 
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that. 
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right now, which means I can't 
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Everything is too overwhelming 
for me and I can't take action 

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on everything. 
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with his new school really well,
which means he's adapting to the

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new school really well. 
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new school, it's difficult for 
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They don't know what to do. 
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they don't know their teachers. 
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dealing with his new school 
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And in the workplace, you might 
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the morning. 
Don't worry boss, I'll deal with

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it in the morning, which means 
you'll do what you need to do in

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the morning. 
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actually used yesterday because 
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asked my children, did you thank
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So to thank somebody for 
something, did you thank grandma

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for the present? 
I just want to thank you for 

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being here on this channel. 
I just want to thank you for 

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listening to my podcast #8 is 
suffer from to suffer from 

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something. 
And this means to have some kind

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of problem with something. 
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So for example, I'm suffering 
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moment. 
I have a problem because I'm not

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sleeping very well. 
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sleep at the moment and I'm 
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self esteem right now. 
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confidence. 
I'm suffering from a little lack

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of self esteem right now. 
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smell of something. 
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and says this house smells of 
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smells of liver because I like 
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something. 
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smells of wet dog. 
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So this car smells of wet dog 
#10 is laugh at, laugh at. 

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You're laughing at me. 
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There's a great scene in 
Goodfellas which you might know 

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where someone's laughing at 
someone and he says, do I amuse 

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But you're laughing at me. 

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And you can also just ask the 
question, what are you laughing 

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What are you laughing at? 

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So if somebody's laughing in a 
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them, what are you laughing at? 
And then this is a true story 

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and this might happen with you, 
but it's OK. 

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They started laughing at me when
I started talking in Spanish. 

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They started laughing at me when
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We have two more to go #11 is 
think about to think about 

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something. 
And there's a great line here 

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from a Robbie Williams song who 
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called Feel. 
I think I'll leave a link to the

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song in the description. 
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thinking about thinking, which 
think about that for a moment. 

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I'm contemplating thinking about
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It's a great line because it's 
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It's like looking in various 
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It's quite confusing, but maybe 
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I'm contemplating thinking about
thinking, But here's a more 

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simple example. 
Let us think about it for a 

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couple of days and get back to 
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So let us think about it for a 
couple of days and get back to 

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you. 
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want to ask somebody what you 
what you thinking about right 

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now? 
What are you thinking about 

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right now? 
And the last one is forget 

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about, forget about it, Forget 
about it, which is a New York 

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accent. 
But yeah, let's give you an 

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example here. 
Did you remember to call Mr. 

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Smith? 
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I forgot about that. 
I feel terrible. 

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or starts talking about 
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You might say, oh man, I 
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holiday. 
I completely forgot about that 

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holiday. 
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about the meeting again. 
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You might say, I think Susan's 
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again. 
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prepositional verbs. 
Believe in, depend on, agree 

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with, deal with, thank for, 
suffer from, smell of, look at, 

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laugh at, think about, forget 
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I forgot about that one. 
So like I said, go to the 

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description, look at the 
sentences there and think about 

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ways that you can learn these 
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And also check out that song by 
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It's a good song actually. 
And like I said, create some of 

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your own sentences here that are
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For example, you might want to 
say I completely forgot about 

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complete the sentence. 
Why do people laugh at me when I

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complete the sentence? 
I'm always thinking about 

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complete the sentence and use 
the link in the description to 

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the grammar checker so that it 
can correct any mistakes you 

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make. 
And if it works properly, it 

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should correct any mistakes you 
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So it's a very powerful tool 
tool. 

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There's a link in the 
description to that. 

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So if you have enjoyed this 
episode, then please share it 

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with a friend. 
Be sure to subscribe to this 

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podcast too, if you haven't done
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And yeah, just send an episode 
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Just click the link, share it, 
share on WhatsApp, on Facebook 

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people, call them, call them and

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tell them about the podcast. 
Speak in English as you do it to

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get some practice via whichever 
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I would be very grateful if you 
did that. 

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And again, thank you so much for
being here. 

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It's my pleasure teaching you. 
And while you're here, why not 

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check out some more episodes? 
OK, bye for now.