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English Leap Podcast.
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From Speak English with Class.
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Hey, English learners.
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Welcome back to the English Leap Podcast, your cozy little place to improve your English speaking skills and enjoy real conversations.
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I'm Anna.
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And I'm Jake.
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Ah, it's good to be back.
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It is.
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And you seem unusually ready to talk today.
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I don't know why, but I feel like we have a lot to talk about.
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We always have a lot to talk about.
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That is very true.
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And somehow, we never end up talking about exactly what we planned.
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Which is probably why this feels like a real conversation.
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Mm -hmm.
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So wherever you are, get comfortable and stay with us for a while.
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And see where the conversation takes us.
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Hopefully somewhere sensible.
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Why did you look at me when you said that?
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I didn't!
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You absolutely did.
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Okay.
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Before we get into any of that, Jake, I want to ask you something.
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Hmm.
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Have you ever understood every single word someone said to you in English, but still had absolutely no idea what to say back?
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Oh, yes.
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Really?
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Yes.
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And actually, wait, something like that happened to me yesterday.
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Yesterday?
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Mm -hmm.
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What happened?
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I ran into someone I hadn't seen in a long time.
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Okay.
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She smiled, blocked over, said hello, and then asked me one completely normal question. And?
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Nothing.
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Nothing?
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My brain just disappeared.
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Gone?
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Gone.
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What did she ask?
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I'll tell you.
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Actually, no. Wait, wait.
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What?
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I want everyone listening to try it first.
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Oh, okay.
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Imagine someone you haven't seen for a few months suddenly says, Hey, it's been ages.
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What have you been up to?
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What would you say?
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Hmm.
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Sounds easy, doesn't it?
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Very easy when nobody is actually standing in front of you.
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That's the problem.
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Because yesterday she asked me that exact question.
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What have you been up to?
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I understood every word, I knew what it meant, and then my mind went completely blank.
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Oh, Jake, I know that feeling.
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I'm standing there, thinking, come on, say something, anything.
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Which makes your brain work even less.
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Much less.
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Because now you're listening to her and arguing with yourself inside your head.
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Yes, she's waiting.
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Say something.
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Why aren't you saying anything?
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Come on, brain, we know how conversations work.
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Pretty much.
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So, what came out?
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You're going to make fun of me.
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I would never.
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That answer was way too fast.
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Go on.
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I said, I have been doing many things recently.
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Jake.
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I know.
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You actually said that?
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Yep.
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That sounds like the opening line of a monthly report.
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Thank you.
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I have been doing many things recently.
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Please stop repeating it.
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I'm sorry.
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No, no. Honestly, I understand why it happened.
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Thank you.
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Your English didn't disappear.
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You just got caught off guard.
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You weren't expecting the question.
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Someone was looking at you, waiting for you.
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And suddenly your brain wanted the perfect answer.
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That's it.
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The second I tried to sound good, every normal answer disappeared. And then?
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I recovered.
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I said, not much really.
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Work's been busy.
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I've just been keeping busy.
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How about you?
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See?
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Completely natural.
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And much easier.
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Not much, really.
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Work's been busy.
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How about you?
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That's enough.
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That was the funny part.
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The simple answer was sitting in my head somewhere.
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I just couldn't reach it for those first few seconds.
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Hmm.
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I wonder how many people listening know that feeling.
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You understand the question, you know the words, and still...
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Blank.
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Completely blank.
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I think there's something important there.
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What?
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People sometimes believe fluency means you always know what to say immediately.
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Oh, no. Not even close.
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Even in your first language, you sometimes freeze or forget a word or start answering and then realize, wait, that isn't actually what I mean.
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You change direction halfway through all the time.
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Yesterday, someone asked me if I liked working early in the morning and I immediately said yes.
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You do?
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Well, actually, no. That changed quickly.
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See, I like the idea of working early.
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Ah, different thing.
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Quiet house, fresh coffee, beautiful morning light.
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Very peaceful. In reality?
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You're asleep.
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Pretty much.
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So your real answer is?
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I wish I were a morning person.
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That sounds more believable.
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Much more.
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And that little correction, actually no, is real conversation too.
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You're allowed to change your answer while you're speaking.
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You don't have to design the whole sentence before you open your mouth.
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Mm -hmm.
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Sometimes you discover what you mean while you're talking.
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That happens to me constantly.
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I know.
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What's that supposed to mean?
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Nothing.
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Anna?
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Moving on.
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Hang on a second.
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Hmm?
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You laughed at my story, but you told me something embarrassing happened to you recently. Did I?
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Before we started recording.
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I don't remember.
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You remember perfectly.
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Hmm.
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Supermarket.
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Oh.
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There it is.
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I was hoping you'd forgotten.
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Not a chance.
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Fine.
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Last week, I was at the supermarket looking for tomatoes, minding my own business.
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Strong beginning.
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Nothing has happened yet.
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I'm listening.
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I looked across the aisle and saw someone I knew.
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Or I thought I knew her.
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Oh, no. Same hair, same coat, about the same height.
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And you went over?
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Not immediately.
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First, I smiled.
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Okay.
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She smiled back.
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Ah.
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That was the problem.
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Because now you thought...
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See?
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She recognizes me.
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Oh.
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So I walked toward her, completely confident, smiling, already thinking about what I was going to say.
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Mm -hmm.
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I got closer and said, Hey, I haven't seen you in forever. And?
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She looked at me for about three seconds and said, Do I know you?
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No. Yep.
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You had the wrong person.
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Completely wrong person.
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Oh, Anna.
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I'm sorry, I shouldn't laugh.
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You're very clearly laughing.
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I know, but honestly, I would have wanted the floor to swallow me.
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Oh, that's exactly how I felt.
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I wanted to disappear behind the apples, the oranges, the shopping carts, anything.
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What did you say?
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Well, this is where it got worse.
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Worse?
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Because when she said, do I know you, I thought maybe she'd forgotten my name.
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Anna.
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I know.
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Please tell me you didn't.
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I said, it's Anna.
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No. Yes.
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You introduced yourself to the wrong person? With confidence.
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That somehow makes it better.
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It does not.
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Then she gives me this very kind smile and says, I'm sorry, I think you have the wrong person.
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And that's when I finally looked properly at her face and thought, Oh, oh, this is not my neighbor.
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What did you do?
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I said, Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry.
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And thankfully, she laughed.
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Good.
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Then she said, No worries.
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You looked so happy to see me, I didn't want to interrupt.
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Okay, I like her.
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Me too.
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And just like that, the whole moment felt less terrible.
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That's interesting.
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What?
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One good response changed the entire mood.
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Mm -hmm.
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She just brushed it off.
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She did.
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She could have made it uncomfortable, but instead she laughed and said, no worries.
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And that little phrase immediately told me, it's fine.
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Don't make this bigger than it is.
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Those tiny responses do so much.
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They do.
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Sometimes more than the big, carefully planned sentence.
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Because they make the other person feel heard.
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Okay, give me something.
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Something?
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Tell me some random news.
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Hmm, my brother is thinking about moving to another city.
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Oh, really? Where?
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Maybe Bristol?
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No way.
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Has he been there before?
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A few times.
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Does he actually want to live there, or is he still just thinking about it?
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Still thinking, I think.
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But see what you just did?
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What?
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You reacted first.
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Oh, really?
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Then the questions came naturally.
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Well, yeah.
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I wasn't planning a response.
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That's my point.
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You weren't building some impressive sentence in your head.
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I just gave you something back.
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Mm -hmm.
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And those little responses do a lot.
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Oh, really?
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No way.
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Fair enough.
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I get what you mean.
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They tell the other person, I'm here.
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I'm listening.
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Yeah.
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Well, that's what I mean.
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Nice recovery.
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Thank you.
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Give me another one.
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I stayed awake until three in the morning last night.
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Jake.
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What?
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Three?
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Yeah.
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Why?
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I started watching a series.
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Oh, don't even get me started.
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You've done it too.
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Of course I have.
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That moment where you tell yourself one more episode.
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Dangerous sentence.
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Very dangerous.
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Then the next episode ends with something dramatic.
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So now you have to know what happens.
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And suddenly it's three in the morning.
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Yep. Been there.
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Actually, that reminds me of this morning.
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What happened?
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I lost 40 minutes.
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Lost them?
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Gone.
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Where did they go?
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My phone.
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Ah.
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I woke up on time, got out of bed, made coffee, sat down for what I thought would be five minutes.
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I already know where this is going.
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I checked one message, opened one video, watched another video, read a few comments, then I looked at the clock.
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How long?
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Forty -two minutes.
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Forty -two?
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Forty -two.
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What were you watching?
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That's the embarrassing part.
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I barely remember. Of course.
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There was a woman making bread.
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Okay.
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Then somebody organizing a kitchen.
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Useful.
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Then somehow, I ended up watching a man restore an old lamp.
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A lamp?
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An old lamp.
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Why?
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I don't know.
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But by the end, I was emotionally invested.
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Was the lamp okay?
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Beautiful.
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Then it wasn't wasted time.
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No, no, no. Don't encourage me.
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Sorry.
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But I completely lost track of time.
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That happens so easily.
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Especially when you're relaxed.
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You think, I'll just check this.
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And then one thing leads to another.
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Like conversation.
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We started with forgetting how to answer a question.
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Then we went to your supermarket disaster.
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Now we're discussing lamp restoration.
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That is true.
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That's how normal conversation works.
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One thing reminds you of another.
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And actually, we just did it. Did what?
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Wandered.
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Real conversations don't stay perfectly organized.
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Not even close.
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You start talking about work.
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Somebody mentions a colleague.
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Which reminds you of your old job.
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Then you remember that terrible lunch you used to eat there.
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And somehow we're discussing sandwiches.
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That is very realistic.
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The subject changes because one thought pulls on another one.
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And little bridges help.
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You hear things like, that reminds me, or speaking of that, or funny you mentioned that.
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I use, now that you say that, a lot.
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Me too.
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They let you move somewhere new without making the change feel sudden.
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Much better then.
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We will now begin topic number two.
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Please never say that in real life.
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I'll try to control myself.
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Okay, here's a question.
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What if the conversation just stops?
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You meet someone.
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You say hello.
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They say hello.
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You ask, how are you?
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They say, good. And then?
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Silence.
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Ah, the famous silence.
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What do you do?
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First, don't panic.
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Easier said than done.
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True.
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But sometimes silence isn't a problem.
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Maybe the conversation is simply finished.
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That's important.
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You don't have to save every silence.
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But if you want to keep talking… Give them something to work with.
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Instead of, I'm good, you could say, I'm good, work's been a bit busy this week.
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Now I can ask, oh really, what's been going on?
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Or, I'm good, I'm actually looking forward to the weekend.
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Then I can ask, got any plans?
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Mm -hmm.
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I'm staying quiet.
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So the trick is giving the other person a little door.
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Yes, something they can pick up on.
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You know another question people overthink? Which one?
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What do you do?
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Oh, yes.
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People hear that and sometimes feel like they need to explain their entire career.
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When most of the time, one simple line is enough.
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I work in IT.
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I'm in healthcare.
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I'm studying at the moment.
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That kind of thing.
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And if the person is interested, they'll ask more.
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Which is much easier than trying to give them your full professional history in the first 10 seconds.
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Please don't do that at a party.
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Noted.
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Actually, I'm curious about the people listening.
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If somebody met you today and asked, what do you do, what would your natural answer be?
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Hmm, not the perfect answer.
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Not the answer you'd write in an English exam.
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Just the answer you'd genuinely give someone.
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If you feel like it, write one or two lines in the comments.
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I'd actually like to read those.
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Me too.
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Everybody listening has a completely different life.
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Different jobs, different cities, different routines.
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And yet here we all are, having the same conversation.
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Speaking of different routines, what are you doing Saturday?
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Hmm, I'm not sure yet.
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Why?
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My brother wants to try that new cafe downtown.
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Oh, the one near the park?
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Yeah.
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I've seen it.
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Is it good?
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I haven't been.
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Very useful review.
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It looks good.
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He texted me this morning and said, You down for coffee Saturday?
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Ah, you down.
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Very casual.
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Yeah, I just wrote, I'm down.
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And wait, that's funny because I'm feeling down, it means something completely different.
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True.
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Same word, very different Saturday.
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So I'm down can mean, yes, I want to join.
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But I'm feeling down means you're feeling a little sad.
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Context doing its job again. As usual.
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What time are you going?
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11. Unless he cancels.
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Again?
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Not often.
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Last time he did.
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What happened?
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Something came up at work.
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Ah, something came up.
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That's useful.
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Mm -hmm.
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Something unexpected happened, so the plan had to change.
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Like, sorry, something came up.
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Can we do another day?
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And then I say, no worries.
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Even if there are worries.
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Sometimes. Be honest.
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Uh -oh.
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Have you ever had someone cancel plans and secretly felt relieved?
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Yes.
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Thank you.
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Absolutely.
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Even when you like the person? Of course.
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Same.
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You can love your friend and still love your sofa.
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That needs to go on a t -shirt.
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You know the feeling.
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You're tired, you still need to shower, get dressed, leave the house.
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Then your phone buzzes.
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You see, hey, I'm really sorry.
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And outside, you're like, oh, no worries, hope everything's okay.
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Inside?
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Yes!
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that sounds so bad but it's not really about the person No, actually, you've got a point.
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It's about surprise -free time.
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Surprise -free time.
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I like that.
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Suddenly, you have an evening you didn't expect.
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And what do you do with it?
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Hmm, that depends.
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Phone.
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Don't.
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You already admitted it.
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Fine.
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Sometimes phone, sometimes a movie, sometimes I make tea, change into comfortable clothes, put something on in the background.
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And disappear from society.
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Happily.
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By the way, if you're enjoying this conversation, give the video a like and subscribe if you'd like more English like this.
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It also helps more English learners find us.
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And that's all because you still haven't answered my question.
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What question?
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What do you actually do when plans get canceled?
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Oh, it completely slipped my mind.
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See, you forgot already.
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I usually cook something.
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Really?
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Or order something.
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Very different levels of effort.
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Depends on the day.
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You know what cancelled plans remind me of?
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I have no idea.
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That weird moment when you suddenly get extra time and then don't know what to do with it.
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Oh, yes.
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Your brain was expecting one thing, the plan changes, and for a second you just stand there.
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Mm -hmm.
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Which is actually a little like what happened to you yesterday.
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With what have you been up to?
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Yeah.
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Your brain didn't have a prepared path.
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So it went blank.
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And when that happens, you don't have to force an answer out immediately.
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Thank goodness.
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You can buy yourself a second.
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Hmm, good question.
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Let me think.
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That's a good one.
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Or, I've never really thought about that.
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That one gives me a little breathing room.
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Yeah, well, it gives your brain time to catch up.
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Which is usually all it needs.
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You know what people do all the time when they don't hear something?
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Pretend they heard it?
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Yes.
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Someone says something too quickly, you miss half of it.
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But instead of saying, sorry...
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You smile.
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Dangerous.
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Very dangerous, because now they keep talking.
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And eventually they ask you a question about the exact part you missed.
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Then you're in trouble. Been there.
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It's so much easier to say, sorry, I didn't catch that.
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Or, could you say that again?
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And if you understood almost everything, sorry, what was the last part?
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I like that one.
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You're not asking them to repeat the whole story.
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Mm -hmm.
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And people do this in their first language.
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Noisy cafe.
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Sorry, I didn't catch that.
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Bad phone connection.
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You broke up for a second.
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Can you say that again?
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Someone turns away while talking.
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Sorry?
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Sometimes you simply didn't hear them.
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That's all.
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Actually, there's another tiny phrase that confused someone I know.
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What?
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I'm good.
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Ah.
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He thought it always meant, I'm fine.
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It can, but wait, give me an example.
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Anna, want some more coffee?
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No, I'm good, thanks.
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Meaning?
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No, thank you.
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I don't need any more.
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You're not telling me you're a good person.
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Hopefully that's already clear.
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Debatable.
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Excuse me?
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Kidding.
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Okay, another one.
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Want another slice of cake?
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I'm good, thanks.
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Although I've almost never heard you say that around cake.
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That is not true.
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Really?
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Well, okay, maybe rarely.
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There it is.
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See?
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I changed my answer halfway through again.
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Very on theme.
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Speaking of things going wrong… I don't like where this is going.
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You told me you sent a message to the wrong person this week.
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Why do you remember every embarrassing thing I tell you?
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It's a gift.
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Fine.
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What happened?
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A colleague asked if I could help him with something, and I was already busy, slightly stressed, trying to finish something else.
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Okay.
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So, I meant to message my brother, I really don't have time for this today.
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Oh, no. Yep.
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You didn't.
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I did.
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You sent it to your colleague?
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Completely wrong person.
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Jake!
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For two seconds, I considered moving to another country.
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Fair reaction.
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Then I immediately wrote, sorry, that was meant for someone else.
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What did he say?
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Haha, no worries.
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Oh, thank goodness.
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He was fine.
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Honestly, that part was on me.
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I was the one who kept replaying it.
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Were you fine?
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No. How long did it bother you?
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Longer than it should have.
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For the rest of the afternoon, I kept second -guessing every message.
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Oh, I do that too.
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You do?
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Absolutely.
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You write something completely normal, stare at it for too long, and suddenly it looks suspicious.
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Yes.
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I'd type, sounds good, read it, delete it, write it again, then think, does this sound rude?
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So you change it to, that sounds good to me.
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Then that feels too formal.
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And 20 seconds later, you've turned two words into an email.
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Painfully accurate.
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That's what I mean.
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Simple doesn't mean bad.
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Not at all.
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Sounds good.
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No worries.
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Give me a second.
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I'm down.
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That works for me.
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None of those are impressive sentences.
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But they're the kind of lines people actually use all day.
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And when you know them well, you don't have to build every response from zero.
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You can just reach for them.
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That's the goal.
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Not impressive English.
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Useful English.
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English that keeps the conversation moving.
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I saw something recently that made me think about that.
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What?
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I was at a coffee shop.
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Of course you were.
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Let me finish.
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There was an older man talking to the barista, and English clearly wasn't his first language.
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Mm -hmm.
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He was speaking slowly, searching for words, pausing sometimes.
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And the barista just waited.
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That's nice.
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No rushing him, no finishing every sentence for him, no awkward face, just listening.
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That matters so much.
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At one point, the man smiled and said, thank you for being patient with my English.
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Aww.
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And the barista said, take your time, you're doing great.
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I love that.
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Me too.
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It made me think about how much pressure people put on a pause.
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Mm -hmm.
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Like, if you don't answer immediately, something has gone wrong.
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When really, you're just thinking.
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Or searching for a word.
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Which everybody does.
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Yesterday, I forgot the word shelf.
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Shelf?
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Shelf.
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How?
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I don't know.
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I was talking to my sister and the word just...disappeared.
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What did you say instead?
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The wall table.
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The wall table.
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It made perfect sense in my head.
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Honestly, I knew what you meant.
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See?
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Conversation survived.
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Barely.
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And that's actually useful.
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If a word disappears, describe it.
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Give me one.
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Umbrella.
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Hmm.
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You know, the thing you use when it rains.
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An umbrella?
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Yes, that. That.
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Charger.
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The thing I use to charge my phone.
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Receipt.
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That little piece of paper they give you after you pay.
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See?
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You don't have to stop the whole conversation because one word disappeared.
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Mm -hmm.
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Sometimes going around the word is the skill.
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And half the time, the missing word comes back once you stop fighting for it.
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And before we move toward the end, Jake, should we take our little vocabulary walk?
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Our word tour?
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That's the one six useful expressions from today's conversation, all connected to things we've already talked about.
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Good.
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Let's start with caught off guard.
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If something catches you off guard, it surprises you because you weren't prepared for it.
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That question caught me off guard, so I needed a second to answer.
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Or her phone call caught me off guard because I wasn't expecting it.
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Which takes us straight back to my very impressive answer yesterday.
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I have been doing many things recently.
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Please don't bring the monthly report back.
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Fair enough.
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So if something surprises you before you have time to prepare, you can say it caught you off guard.
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Repeat, caught off guard.
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Caught off guard.
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Our second expression is go blank.
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If your mind goes blank, suddenly you can't remember what to say, what to do, or sometimes even what you were thinking.
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I knew the answer, but when everyone looked at me, my mind went blank.
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She asked me a simple question, and I went completely blank.
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And that was the strange part for me.
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I knew what she was asking.
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The answer was there, I just couldn't reach it for a few seconds.
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Mm -hmm.
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Knowing something and being able to reach it immediately are not always the same thing.
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Repeat, go blank.
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Go blank.
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Our third expression is lose track of time.
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Ah, the lamp.
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Yes, the lamp.
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If you lose track of time, you become so involved in something that you stop noticing how much time is passing.
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We started talking after dinner and completely lost track of time.
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I checked my phone for five minutes, lost track of time, and suddenly almost an hour had passed.
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Forty -two minutes in your case.
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I knew you'd remember that.
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Very memorable morning repeat, lose track of time.
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Lose track of time.
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Next is second -guess yourself.
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To second -guess yourself means to start doubting something you already decided, said, or did.
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We said we'd do this, but now I'm second -guessing myself and wondering if we should cancel.
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I wrote the message, read it five times, and started second -guessing every word.
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Which is exactly… no, wait, which is pretty much what I did with sounds good.
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You got there.
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Eventually.
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So, if you make a choice and then keep wondering whether it was the right one, you're second -guessing yourself.
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Repeat, second -guess yourself.
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Second -guess yourself.
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Our fifth expression is pick up on something.
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To pick up on something means to notice something that may not be said directly.
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She said she was fine, but I picked up on the fact that something was bothering her.
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He didn't say he was nervous, but I picked up on it from his voice.
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We used this idea when we talked about giving the other person a little door in conversation.
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Mm -hmm.
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You listen for the small detail they give you, then you pick up on it and keep the conversation moving.
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Repeat, pick up on something.
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Pick up on something.
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And our final expression is brush it off.
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To brush something off means to not let a small mistake, problem, or awkward moment bother you too much.
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I made a small mistake, laughed, and brushed it off.
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The comment was a little awkward, but she brushed it off and kept talking.
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Which takes us back to the woman in the supermarket.
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Oh, yes.
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She could have made that moment painfully awkward, but she smiled, brushed it off, and suddenly I could relax too.
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One small response changed the whole mood.
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It really did.
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Repeat, brush it off.
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Brush it off.
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So today's six expressions are caught off guard, go blank, lose track of time, second -guess yourself, pick up on something, and brush it off.
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Choose just one and connect it to something that actually happened in your life.
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Maybe, I lost track of time on my phone last night.
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Or, that question caught me off guard and my mind went blank.
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When the phrase belongs to your own story, it usually becomes much easier to remember.
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And if you'd like to practice today's English again, you'll find the transcript, vocabulary activities, quizzes, games, and shadowing practice inside the English Leap Club.
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Take your time with it.
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Even ten focused minutes can help these phrases start feeling familiar when you actually need them.
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And maybe practice the word shelf while you're there.
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You're still thinking about the wall table.
724
I am.
725
I was afraid of that.
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And now it's time for Say It Better.
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We'll take a few simple everyday sentences and give you some more natural conversational alternatives.
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The simple sentence may already be completely correct.
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We're just giving you more options.
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First, I don't understand.
731
You could say, sorry, I didn't catch that.
732
Or could you say that again?
733
And if you only missed the last part, sorry, what was the last part?
734
That last one is useful because you're not asking the person to repeat the whole story.
735
Much better than smiling and hoping the missing part somehow explains itself.
736
Speaking from experience.
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Unfortunately.
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Next, wait.
739
You could say, hang on a second.
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Or give me a second.
741
And if you're answering a question and just need a moment, let me think.
742
That little phrase can buy your brain some time without making the pause feel strange.
743
Which would have helped me yesterday.
744
Very much.
745
Next, I forgot.
746
You could say, it's flipped my mind.
747
Sorry, I meant to call you, it completely slipped my mind.
748
Or, I was going to buy milk, but it slipped my mind.
749
We even heard that naturally earlier when I forgot what you'd asked me after the cancelled plans conversation.
750
A very convenient example.
751
I provide a lot of those.
752
Next, yes, I want to go.
753
In a casual conversation, you could say, yeah, I'm down.
754
Or, sure, I'm up for it.
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Want to grab coffee Saturday?
756
Yeah, I'm down.
757
Just remember that I'm down and I'm feeling down mean different things.
758
Context saving us again. As usual.
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Next, it was my mistake.
760
You could say, that's on me.
761
I gave you the wrong time.
762
Sorry, that's on me.
763
Or, I forget to send the message.
764
That's on me.
765
Short, direct, and you're taking responsibility without turning it into a speech.
766
Something I could have used after sending that message to the wrong person.
767
You survived barely and finally I agree you could say you've got a point
768
or yeah I can see that or simply fair enough these are useful
769
when you understand the other person's point even
770
if you don't agree with every single part of it like
771
when I said canceled plans are not always about disliking the
772
person mm -hmm you've got a point nicely done Jake one
773
last question before we finish I know what this is what
774
have you been up to lately not much really work's been busy i stayed up too late watching a series
775
and i sent one message to the completely wrong person much
776
better thank you your turn i lost 42 minutes on my phone introduced myself to a complete stranger
777
and forgot the word shelf strong week very strong funny though at the beginning
778
that question made my mind go blank and now it just feels normal.
779
Because you stopped looking for the perfect answer.
780
Mm -hmm.
781
I just answered.
782
And maybe that's a good place to leave it.
783
Your English doesn't have to be perfect to keep a real conversation going.
784
Listen, react, ask something, change direction if you need to, and keep going.
785
Thank you so much for spending this time with us today.
786
We're really glad you were here.
787
Keep listening, keep speaking, and don't be afraid of the little messy moments.
788
They're part of real conversation.
789
We'll see you in the next episode.
790
Bye for now.
791
Your progress doesn't end here.
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