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Today I'd like to teach you some common expressions with the word "think." You'll learn:
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Some English words have what we can call "disappearing or dropped syllables" – reductions or eliminations of sounds in the middle of the word.
One example is the word favorite:
In today's lesson, you're going to practice your pronunciation with some of the most common English words that tend to have dropped syllables.
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"Know" is one of the most common verbs in English, and I know that you know what it means! But what you might not know is that we use this word in many idiomatic expressions, such as:
You can learn these expressions with "know" in today's lesson!
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The English language has a lot of colorful words, which are great for improving your vocabulary. You'll learn 10 interesting verbs in today's lesson.
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Are you confused about how to use HAVE HAD and HAD HAD in English? Today's lesson will help you! First, we need to understand the present perfect tense and past perfect tense. Both of these tenses are formed by using an auxiliary verb + main verb.
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In today's lesson I'm going to give you four important tips for speaking English faster.
A lot of English learners notice that native English speakers tend to speak fast, so they think that speaking faster will help their English sound more fluent. But you have to be careful – it can be dangerous to try to speak very fast in English if you don't follow these tips.
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In today's lesson, I want to teach you some phrases that you can use in a specific situation – that is when you want to say something but you're not completely certain that it's correct. There are a few different phrases that we can actually use to show that we are saying something that we believe to be true, but we recognize that we might be wrong and we are open to correction.
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Today I want to talk to you about a phrase that's I've seen some students use – and that phrase is "According to me" – to express their opinion. Can we use this in English? Hmm.
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I want to teach you about a mistake that I often hear students making when speaking. It has to do with the difference between "I like …" and "I'd like …" It's a very small difference, but it actually changes the meaning of the sentence and the way we use these phrases.
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In today's lesson, I want to teach you some phrases that native English speakers use when talking about making mistakes. Because you don't just want to say, "I made a mistake. I made a mistake. I made a mistake" over and over, it gets boring and repetitive, so here are some different phrases you can use.
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