most English Learners like you learn in school that when someone asks you how are you you should answer fine and you how are you fine fine now there's nothing really wrong with saying this but it's a bit of a boring answer and even worse than that it can stop a conversation dead in its tracks awkward so in today's lesson we are going to give you some more fun effective and Native likee ways that you can answer this question how are you so that every conversation you have can be more Dynamic how are you Ethan I'm
peachy Splendid fantastic wonderful I feel like a million bucks fabulous it makes me think of someone who is just learning with friends and they they start imitating Joey how you doing doing how you doing by the end of this episode you will have learned more than 30 better Expressions than fine and you that you can use in real life conversations a yeah Global citizen this is Ethan from real life English where every single week it is our mission to take you beyond the classroom to speak English confidently and naturally to connect to the world and
to actually use your English as the doorway to living your greatest life so many of you will have had the experience of going through school and learning that when you get into a conversation and someone asks you how are you you answer fine and you and there's nothing really wrong with this but it is a bit boring and even worse than that it can stop a conversation dead in its tracks so if you don't tend to be someone who's super extroverted and easily can keep a conversation going on and on then that's not going to
be the best way to get it started we're going to explore some more fun effective and Native like ways that you can respond to this question how are you so that every conversation you have is more Dynamic and Cass I know to get us rolling with this you have prepared a game so why don't you let us know what you got yeah so this is a game where we're going to pick your brain Ethan today it's like an adaptation of a synonym game we once played and it was so much fun I know our viewers
and listeners really enjoyed this game but this time we're going to explore the alternatives to how are you greetings anything you can name uh how to respond to this question to this greeting let's before we jump into that though because there's been a couple nice Expressions so I mentioned that a conversation can be stopped dead in its tracks and you mentioned the expression you want to pick my brain so what do those two expressions mean okay so to pick your brain means to try to ask as many questions as possible and to uh dig deeper
into a topic I'm interested in and you are an expert in when we add adjective dead to something it means like like in this expression it was dead what was it in its tracks dead in its tracks uh so it means like completely to the fullest can you help me out here it's like you hit the breaks so something stopped dead and tracks it can't continue stop dead yeah so it's like stops and there is no way you can imagine everyone's had that experience probably of being in a conversation and they' be like Hi how
are you I'm fineing you and then yeah I'm fine too and then awkward silence yeah I know the expression dead end so I like you know thought it's a little bit similar it's just like when the end the road ends and there is no way further so it's a dead end there's no exit MH exactly or an investigation can hit a dead end for example when police are looking for a murder and their investigation hits a dead end because there's no more there's no more information that they can get there's no more clues or yeah
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a timer here maybe one of you can actually ask me how are you Ethan I'm fine I'm peachy I'm Splendid fantastic wonderful fabulous also not being so great so I could say you know I'm struggling I'm hanging in there I'm really overwhelmed I'm so so I'm okay I'm me I'm on cloud N I feel like a million bucks can't complain you named like more than 10 variants I guess so I took note of them could did you guys know all of the words and expressions I mentioned I would never use pachy I don't know even
if it's like a pachy from a fruit or pitchy like I don't know what else can be pitchy can you explain this one it means that you're I don't know if I said this to too I'm swell for me those two are really similar it's like yeah good you know every everything's everything's great and for me peachy especially I don't know if this is true but for me it sounds kind of Southern like the American and South you would say peachy and I think it does come from the fruit maybe because you have a good
Peach it's like juicy it's sweet and you're feeling that like eating a good Peach I'm going to use it I'm going to use it because I really a fan of peaches like I'm waiting for the season and I'm peaches like it sounds nice I think like uh the ones that you use for expressing like if you're not doing so well it's like I'm hanging in there is interesting it has even that uh NG sound that can be a challenge right hanging hanging in hanging in there and even the there I've heard people like also use
like an n Sound there right so hanging in there yeah I thought of that one because I actually have my mom visiting me here now and I she was asking about what we're going to be talking about on the podcast today and she's like oh you should mention that this is my least favorite way that people respond to this question is hanging in there really because it just sounds so negative that you're just hanging in there for me it would sound more neutral because it's like it's nothing just like hanging in like you know nothing's
happening but you say that it has more of a negative connotation right yeah because it's it's not so optimistic it's like you're having a difficult time and you're just barely continuing barely carrying on in a sense so it's a nice expression because it's very visual like if you think of someone literally like trying to hang on to something not to fall off it it probably comes from that because a lot of times our words become our actions and so on so you might want to answer that even if you do have this feeling like I'm
just hanging in there like that you know you could give something that's more proactive like you know I'm pushing through or things aren't that great but they're they're only gonna get better totally agree but it reminded me of another phrase in English that like for example when somebody's asking you about your life or I don't know about something or your relationships you can say that things are a little bit up in the air it's like related to Hanging yeah like hanging in the air or things are up in the air it's like uh it's not
decided it's not like un you don't know mm it's not certain thank you yeah yeah especially you I think people use that more for relationships for describing relationships is that it e is that it that their relationships up in the air yeah like things are more up in the air if you want to you don't know you don't know exactly what's going on yeah for me it's more that something hasn't been decided yet so for example your summer vacation might still be up in the air because you and your partner have different places that you
want to go and so so you haven't come to an agreement or compromise yet still up in the air so I was thinking maybe we can we can try something different just to follow up uh this game which is the ways that you can say the question how are you to because sometimes you will be asking instead of responding or you could hear a different someone asking you in a different way right and still know what's cracking what's happening what's going on what's the news how you doing how you going how you feeling how are
things with you what's up what's the news that is interesting like each one has a particular characteristic or a Nuance I'd say that is exploring an area of that question like maybe I really want to know how you're feeling so if you really wanted to know how somebody's doing like not just like starting like small talk but rather trying to investigate which one of those would you use that's really a good point because sometimes people ask you the question just out of politeness but they don't actually want to know like they just want you to
say I'm fine or I'm good or I'm okay right they don't want your life story in that moment but there's other times depending on the person's tone depending on their body language like I imagine you know say I see you easy and maybe you're you're not looking at your best or something it's like maybe I I we're close enough where even maybe I put my hand on your shoulder or something I say how you feeling is it then it's like okay I really want to know what's going on with you I really want to know
what's happening in your life not just a generic I'm fine I'm okay I'm good response right so you should be in person with that person because it's hard to touch somebody's shoulder if you are in I'll I'll touch the webcam can be like huh but you know like uh in Portuguese if you literally translate one very common way of asking that or even responding to that it'll sound in English it'll sound more dramatic it's like is everything okay is everything okay in English I guess in American English it sounds more like you're really asking yeah
are you concerned well but that's interesting because in British English they have they'll ask are you all right which if we say that in American English it sounds like there's something wrong with you so I don't believe that you are all right I don't believe that you are feeling good if you're in England and someone asked you're right they're asking you know are are you good is everything good but if you say that if someone in the state says are you all right they think that maybe you just had an accident you're bleeding you look
sick e let me ask you here um so before that you said that this is one of your mom's uh least favorite uh response to hear to the question to the greeting how are you but do you have your default question and default answer yeah I would probably never say a full how are you so if I did say that be like how are you or how you doing I say that a lot too how you doing so using more of this reduction connected speech how are you how you doing how you going which is
more Australian I actually picked that up from Chad that he would say that all the time and I used to live with him and it somehow just stuck with me so I'll still say that a lot to feel like how you going how you going how you going I'd say that those are my most go-tos for the the question I asked there's other fun ones like what's Kraken of course I I don't actually use that so often there are so many funny ones maybe yeah there are it's insane like and there's always this verb that
you lose the G so it's like yeah what's cracking what's buzzing what's shaking I heard yeah sh what shaking that's more like I don't know like something they hear in the 80s I don't know yeah the 50s the 50s more right but what is so there is this uh what's sizzling or sizzling what's sizzling what is that what is actually the word sizzling I don't think I would ever use that but sizzling is when you put something on the grill and it makes that sound like SI nice there is this phrase what's cooking as well
right what's cooking what's cooking good what's cooking what's cooking good looking yeah that sounds funny if you're trying to hit on someone at the bar maybe at the far but it's interesting so there's always something related to sound or maybe like like what's C cracking or buzzing or sizzling right there's a sound what's that noise I suppose it's fun ways that natives find to to spark up a conversation one of the things in preparing for this conversation that I was thinking about is I think that this sort of word choice is so personal because depending
on your personality you might be the type of person who would use more Creative Expressions like what's cooking or what's sizzling like you guys are saying that's not my personality at all I wouldn't say that in English or any other language but there are some people who they have this kind of bright personality and that the kind of language that they tend to choose really reflects that right so I think you have to think a little bit about what are the kind of Expressions that you use in your native language and trying to find the
equivalent that reflects you in English so just because you learned this expression I'm on cloud n that's one I mentioned earlier meaning that I'm feeling fantastic that would be really positive maybe you are someone very colorful that that's the kind of language you'd use but just because you learn that expression it doesn't necessarily mean that's the right expression for you to use if you are someone who in your native language you might just be the person who says I'm fine I'm good I'm okay so I would just be sensitive to that and really adapt the
language to you know your identity which is something we talk about a lot through the real life way right that identity is such an important part of learning the language true yeah that makes me think about the importance of input because without getting enough context without living your English it's really hard to understand all these like minutia these little details of okay this particular expression it'll sound more like this you know so in order for you to know like you need to live the language so even if you're watching series that that would be already
a nice start like a look at the characters and and see how they speak it'll probably be matching their personalities right the way they introduce themselves and speak it makes me think of someone who is just learning with friends and they they start imitating Joey there's like how you how you doing I I used to hear that all the time from my students yeah although it it is more informal right so I guess it's okay if you don't do the that intonation but they would do the intonation like you're you're sounding like a cartoon or
like Joey how are you doing like I would say a lot how you doing so I don't know if people can tell the difference between that how you're doing and how you doing like Joey says that he puts a lot of emphasis on the the you in the D what's up with that D sound is that New Yorker or Italian what what what is that how you doing doing yeah I don't think it's the D actually I think how you doing it's like a there there's almost like a gutural sound to it like how you
doing guys let me get back you a little bit to our how are you and the response because Ethan I'm I'm listening you know you gave you gave your favorite greetings alternatives for Greetings but how do you respond your favorite things to respond you I don't think you say I'm fine a lot you avoid this gray area because I'm fine doesn't say anything actually yes so I kind of feel and if I remember well you you choose other words I think again it's like if I'm talking to someone and it's like do they really want
to know how I'm feeling or they're just asking to be polite so if it's in the latter sort of case that they just are being polite I probably say I'm good or I'm great everything's okay but if I'm with someone who I'm closer with or they're generally asking that I might you know choose something that's more reflective so if I'm feeling maybe I'm having a really great day and it's like oh I'm awesome I'm doing fantastic I choose a a word like that right I think I wouldn't use an expression so much I don't think
I would ever say like oh I'm on cloud n or uh living life to the fullest yeah who who says that couldn't be better maybe one couldn't be better yeah nice one nice one but imagine if you like for example you using our app and you are on a global speak and you want like you know you connected to a student a real life English app and they say oh Ethan how are you doing your response would be I'm great it's like I'm I'm pretty boring in my response to that but you could choose something
to keep the conversation going I think something that's really helpful is to actually add a little bit more onto that like I'm great because and like share something that happened that day like I'm great I just went rock climbing and had a really great session and then okay it keeps the conversation going rather than just I'm great awkward silence it's so nice that to you brought up the global speak which some of our new listeners maybe they haven't heard about the global speak yet so if that's the case for you that you are new to
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vocabulary never forget it and so much more so definitely check it out for free in the description of this lesson hey guys so there is another fun activity we could do today that I believe may be valuable for our Learners they could use it for shadowing repeat after us Ethan we were thinking with easy what if we could like act out a real life situation like a scenario to greet each other uh you know and you could give us feedback like say if we sounded natural how like what would be the better ways to do
that to answer that question in that particular situation uh EAS did you bring like some imaginary situation real life situation a real common one a real simple situation that you might find yourself in so imagine you run into an old friend on a street and and she asks you hey uh what have you been up to CLA hey hello I'm so glad to see you um you know actually there's been so much going on I think we should grab a cup of coffee and I'll there's this expression spill the beans right I'll I'll share all
the news I'll share all the secrets with you something like that maybe maybe you're like buzzing like there's so so much going on all these news anyone you just want to share it all yeah so actually my life's pretty busy so I think my default would be to say that oh I'm like you know there's so much going on SP spill the beans I don't think we would use so much in this context Spill the Beans is when I know that you're you have some juicy information or you're keeping a secret from me I might
say cassia Spill the Beans what is it what is it you're not trying to not wanting to tell me but you wouldn't use it so much for like catching up with someone um in fact I I took note of that expression to catch up uhhuh to catch up that would be a really great one to use we should grab a coffee and catch up sometime really yeah that's something I that's what I wanted to say so it's feeding this situation more like let's cetch up over a especially if you have a lot to share yeah
because like this person's asking you if they actually mean it what have you been up to by the way what does that mean Ethan yeah that was another really good alternative question it's more specific right than just how are you but it's what have you been doing since the last time that we saw each other what have you been up to mhm like up to actually means that right like doing something or doing and you said something like glad to see you and maybe if you saw hadn't seen someone a long time you might say
it's great to see you again and even something else you could add there is it's been ages that's a really nice expression meaning it's been a very long time since we saw each other or even you could ask how long has it been you know how long has it been since we last saw each other how long has it been how long has it been there there are more uh long time no see but that's a long time no see yeah that's a common sentence I don't one time see yeah is that normal is that
weird if you say that like in a situation that it's like too casual and you're seeing long time no seen are you going to sound like a movie character no if it's a old friend you know someone you had you you've had a close or friendly relationship with it sounds perfect long time to see I brought a more formal situation that actually happens a lot to me so maybe I can learn something here too so we have a lot of online meetings and we don't want to be late for meetings so sometimes um you join
the room and there is only you and some other team member and you too are waiting for the rest to join and you have these two three minutes I don't know to you know talk about something fill the air maybe fill the air oh wow nice sometimes I do feel awkward in this situation because I kind of don't know should I talk or should I not talk so I would ask like so we let let's imagine it's you and me easy on that in that room waiting for other people to join so you just joined
and I said oh hello ezy how are you I'm doing pretty good doing all right uh how about yourself how's your day going um yeah not much just you know waiting for the rest to join I don't know you I really feel awkward in in these rooms sitting alone help us out Ethan what's the best way to deal with this situation sometimes I'm also if I'm being completely honest I also can feel awkward in those situations especially because I think what makes it awkward is that you don't know how long it's going to be before
someone else joints exactly so it's sort of this do we have time to talk about something or are we going to be interrupted did right mhm I think that's the awkwardness of it but I one thing I want to point out there is that Izzy said how how about you but he actually dropped the uh sound from about so he just said how about you which is very common and we can even use connected speech there he didn't do it in this case but you could say how about you that t y becoming a CH
how about you so that's that's really nice to after someone asks how are you and you give your response you can end it by soliciting their response right how about you I think that a really good go-to question to follow up to fill the air in this case might be depending what day of the week it is is either how is your weekend or maybe if you're more towards the end of the week could be do you have any plans for the weekend so people are always either reminiscing about their weekend it's it's when people
tend to have fun plans right mhm so that can always be a good Ace up your sleeve MH what an expression Ace up your sleeve what does it mean if we think of Poker I believe it it would come from the scenario where someone might be cheating at poker because they have an ace up their sleeve like literally the sleeve is I'm not really wearing long sleeve I have a short sleeve but they have an Ace card hidden there so they can get a good hand Ace is like the highest card right yeah and up
someone's sleaves like it's within the sleeves like you're you're hiding something there right so exactly when you said as and when we use it in this case it's it's like a secret weapon or a tool that you have at your disposal so you know Brits have their secret uh weapon to talk about weather and I see Americans have have their secret weapon like weekends let's talk about how we spend the weekend or what are we going to do like over the weekend which is coming right so weather and weekend okay yeah you could always talk
about the weather but that's just so so boring right yeah it's like the awkward situation in the elevator funny you should mention uh secret weapons CIA because I actually found a video uh when I was researching and preparing for this episode and this guy has an interesting question or interesting thing that you can say in these moments that you can easily turn a small talk into a more interesting conversation just by saying that one line so it's a short video it's a short clip let's watch that what do you what do you think I'm Keen
to see this because I feel like it's something that could be helpful for me situations awkward elevator situations exactly it's so useful this is not just for like U English Learners this is for Natives and uh Small Talk amateurs of all kinds yeah mhm I think learning a language ultimately it it can be a really good opportunity to work on our social skills exactly kind know for me which actually I think we're going to talk about next week right CIA but for me that was really important learning languages for coming out of my shell expression
meaning that sort of losing my guardedness and being able to be more open more vulnerable social with people when you first get into a small talk situation I think we need to establish appropriate goals Rachel Greenwald a Matchmaker and an academic has this wonderful saying your goal is to be interested not interesting a lot of us go into these situations thinking that we need to be really fascinating engaging and interesting when in fact we just need to be present and be interested in the conversation that's happening there's always something to say you can always ask
a question my mother-in-law was amazing at small talk she had a black belt in small talk and her superpower was a simple phrase she would pause for a moment and she would say tell me more if you are ever in a in a situation a communication conversation where you don't know what to say most of the time you could simply say tell me more or give me some more detail or what did you mean about that point and just by giving the person an opportunity to speak again that gives you time to find what you
might want to say and to connect to it I liked how he said my mom had a black belt in small talk yeah I took note of that too what does that mean if someone has a black belt in some sort of skill easy to want to explain it yeah like to be highly skilled at doing something right so good that people related to karate and martial arts that's the highest level you can get mhm exactly yeah so it basically means that you've mastered it right so this Ace up your sleeve is tell me more
exactly and I think it's not just like saying it uh like you need the right tone as well right and the right time for using it he even said like she would pause her his mother-in-law would pause and then she'd say that because if somebody just says like hey I'm doing I'm doing great if you immediately respond with like tell me more that's it's going to sound like a machine right so you can pause like hm tell me more you could add something to that like oh that's so interesting or oh that's fascinating tell me
more I think that's sounds more natural than just if you had a very robotic tmy more sort of response or you can say like I would want to hear more about it yeah I would be curious to I don't know anything about that MH by the way guys we just watched this video it was from Matt Abrahams I really like the guy I like I I watched a TED talk with him actually it was a lecture recorded lecture and um I listened to two podcasts with him I guess and he has his own podcast um
I just remember theam but we can link it in the show notes he really knows a thing or two about communication small talk about how to break this barrier and yeah turn a small talk into a meaningful conversation and we do need to record that podcast with you Ethan it would be so interesting to talk about it because yeah many people struggle with that I think I should Master first small talk yeah I I I even have to Master first small talk and then you know going further with the meaningful conversation the hard thing with
a is also Cass I believe you are an introvert and introverts in general tend to feel repelled by Small Talk introverts tend to be more interested in having deep conversations around things that they are fascinated by and but extroverts on the other hands tend to thrive with small talk like they can talk about anything they can have a conversation about anything and be interested in it so it's sort of differing skill set so if you are that introvert I think I think it's gaining the ability to drive that small talk towards something that you're more
interested in and have a can have a deeper conversation about it I think that's that's why the his tip was so good because he was saying if you ask tell me more you're going to say more things and then it'll give you a chance to find something to connect with and when something resonates with you you'll be like oh okay you jump on that and ask more questions related to that or make comments that will be more meaningful to you instead of just you trying to make up questions and responses so questions in general are
a good way to follow up uh like more meaningful questions so don't just ask like how about you because I responded like how about you I'm great how about you but um as Ethan said you can be more specific how about how was your weekend and that will give you more to explore right yeah because like you know many of those even it's not a small talk yet it's just like the starter and they just end up there on the third line like hey how how are you I'm great yeah and you yeah I'm great
too and here comes this like okay this awkward silence I don't know Ethan do you have any third lines how to continue I think that's exactly the topic of the next episode right yeah exactly that like third fourth line what comes even after that yeah we'll have to save that for another day so if you guys struggle with small talk and you would like us to bring you an episode helping you to get those third fourth lines how do you go beyond just the response to how are you then comment down below if you're on
YouTube or you can send us an email at hello reif global.com and let us know if you want an episode on that or you can let us know about any other lessons you would like us to make we might just do that a yeah a yeah all right so let's talk about what we're digging this [Music] week so CIA some of our Learners me mentioned that they're not sure why we asked this what are you digging what does that mean if you're digging something for people who are newer here yeah some people may be confused
because actually the literal meaning of the verb to dig is just to use your shovel and like yeah and dig the ground what you'll be doing in your garden this spring right that's what I'm gonna do yeah um but what I'm digging in this context in our podcast how we use it is what I've been up to right recently or I was enjoying what I was into this week you shared with me ear this week what you did last weekend which it just sounded like so wonderful so lovely so maybe you could share with the
audience about that MAA and I we visited the ostrich farm this weekend does it like ostrich right do you pronounce how do you pronounce pronounce it yeah it it sounds like a g even though I think it's CH E that it ends in ostrich ostrich ostrich it's such it doesn't sound English at all this word to me ostrich yeah probably isn't yeah original for you guys who don't know what it is maybe we can put here the picture of these animal this is actually a bird the biggest bird on earth and what I learned I
think with the hardest egg right I don't know if you got to touch in posture Jake exactly that's what I said I should have brought I bought a shell of an egg it's like this one oh wow yeah it's huge so we learned that actually they are the same age as the dinosaurs so probably they were living at in the same times like as the dinosaurs and they just survived or something and their legs like really look like dinosaurs and now MAA is very happy to have that shell of an egg because she's gonna play
as if it was a dinosaur egg I have a question can you mount a would you say mount a an ostrich or mount on ride maybe I would say ride ride an ride mounts I was thinking more direct translations portuges mount an ostrich Head Hunter might mount an ostrich head on their wall as a trophy oh my God that would I find that a bit disgusting but yeah so right can you ride an ostrich yeah not at that farm they said that um they had practiced it before but they stopped but that's like a universal
practice they do organize ostrich races races but they said that uh it's not allowed to ride an ostrich for more than five minutes so that was like the rule or something like an adult person probably backbreaking for them right yeah I don't know what the word you said heartbreaking heartbreaking backbreaking back breaking maybe heartbreaking too I thought why heartbreaking they feel humiliated being written by human so back breaking exactly yeah I guess so I don't know um but I was surprised because I was interested in learning okay how do they survive our Winters here in
Ukraine because they just come from Africa right but she said that they're very okay help me out here like I don't know they persevere persist persistent I know so so they are resistant to cold or something like that I know resilient I think I was looking for this word thank you EAS so they're very resilient that they can with stand temperatures up to minus 20 Celsius oh wow it's a lot more than a human they're really dinosaurs but because of like a colder climate here in Ukraine they do not um oh I don't know how
to say that so actually you need here the incubators to produce ostrich chicks uh because they don't do that because of the climate like they lay eggs but then humans like people take it away from them and put it in the incubators can you eat ostrich eggs I really want that farm has a restaurant actually where they serve the ostrich omelets they say that one egg can feed like 10 people like that omelet from that one egg that's crazy but we were short of time and like there were many people at the restaurant so I
plan to return there in summer and I hope I can try it try it next time I know some fancy restaurants do ostrich Burgers as well like they make a burger from the ostrich meat oh really where where is it m in the states I know there's some fancy restaurants that do that it's supposed to be good because it's very lean meat yeah they said uhuh so the other day I shared uh a YouTube channel here of these chefs right from the Bon petite magazine and in one of these clips the guy actually cured uh
like an egg yolk he cured it so he put it like in Salt to cure it cured it cured it so to cure something I think it's a more specific word that you would use in uh cooking right especially if you're a chef that you you put something in uh in salt and it'll absorb the salt will absorb all the water and keep it like fresh right I don't know if fresh is the word but it'll it'll preserves it right like you have preserves the salted cod for example or the like presunto these different kinds
of salted Meats was a way that they used to preserve it when they didn't have refrigeration MH but nowadays it's a cultural thing that has persisted that people enjoy eating still these these foods that are cured with salt cured but finally yeah he cured uh an ostrich egg is huge and so he had to use like this this big recipient with like a bunch of salt and in the end at Salt at the end he he used that like as Parmesan cheese what do you do with Parmesan cheese like he shredded gr shredded gr yeah
he he grated it basically on pasta and it looked amazing it looked just like Che he like shredded or graded the egg like the egg but it was C I can share that I want to see that interesting just like a weird in the the show notes as well right mhm and you can do that like you can do that regular eggs but anyway they actually said that it's very hard to crack the ostrich egg so you should use the drill to like get to the all right so CIA it's a sounds like a fascinating
weekend not so typical in your corner of the world I'm guessing to see ostriches right totally not common even a hard word to say ostriches ostriches thank you guys so much for joining us we hope that you have gotten some good tools some good vocabulary language that you can use next time you have a conversation maybe you want to go and try it out right now on the real life English app in the global speak where it's absolutely free you just press a button and get connected to someone else ask them how you doing or
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with us as well and remember that no matter what divides us that which unites us is so much greater 1 2 3 yeah why is it that writing in English seems to be so much easier than speaking I hear Learners say all the time that they need to speak more but every time they have a chance they just freeze I think my biggest frustration is when I have to speak English my brain literally freezes writing is easier for me why on Earth has it become easier to write with time than to speak you feel afraid
of being judged that's why you choose writing over speaking the sort of feeling that they were going to be judged by how many mistakes they were going to
