Shadowing Practice: It's Been Ages - Learn English Speaking with Video
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If you're speaking American English and you see an old friend or a colleague you haven't seen in a while, you can say, It's been ages since we've talked.
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What does this mean?
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To find out, let's listen to an actual conversation.
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How are you?
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I haven't seen you for a few years.
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I'm doing great.
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It's been ages since we've talked, hasn't it?
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It's been a long time, that's for sure.
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In American English, it's been ages is another way of saying it's been a long time
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or a long time has passed since you've seen each other.
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You may remember the word ages being used to talk about different periods of history, like the Ice Age or the Stone Age or the Bronze Age.
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Saying it's been ages uses exaggeration by saying it's been many of those long stretches of time since something has happened.
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