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Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

0348 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—to be in its infancy

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Language Learning, Education, Self-improvement

4.7756 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2015

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today’s expression and dialog: to be in its infancy How’s your new company going? Nicely. We’re still in our infancy. Have you broke even? Not yet. Maybe in 6 months.   Please subscribe on iTunes and get this podcast EVERY DAY! Support Coach Shane by giving $1 a month! Our sponsors: Click on JOIN CLASSES and get ALL the information! (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) Our YouTube channel:

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to easy English expressions.

0:11.0

You and me every day, come on, let's master English.

0:31.0

Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast.

0:35.2

Thank you so much for listening to today's podcast.

0:42.5

Today's podcast is brought to you by D-D.M. My class. I will tell you about that class at the end of the podcast. Today's expression is to be in its infancy. So something is in its infancy. In its infancy, infancy, I-N-F-A-N-C-Y. Infancy. That means the period of time

1:04.7

when you were a baby. So I was born in Texas in the United States and I lived there for three months

1:15.5

and then I moved, well my mom obviously moved to Wisconsin and I grew up in Wisconsin. So I spent

1:24.5

part of my infancy in Texas and then the rest of my infancy with mom and dad in

1:33.2

Wisconsin.

1:35.0

So did you grow up in the same town, in the same state, in the same country?

1:40.9

Did you spend your infancy in the same place? Where? Think about it. Where did you spend

1:47.0

your infancy? If it's the same town, maybe you can think about the neighborhood or the city.

1:54.5

Yeah. But this expression, we don't usually think about babies. We think about businesses or science projects, something like that.

2:06.4

So I have a plan to be the Internet's most famous English teacher,

2:12.5

but my plan is in its infancy.

2:16.2

It's just a baby plan. It's not really doing anything. It's still growing.

2:22.0

The plan is still growing. This is a great expression. Check out the dialogue.

2:29.8

How's your new company going?

2:31.8

Nicely. We're still in our infancy.

2:34.6

Have you broke even?

2:36.0

Not yet. Maybe in six months.

2:40.5

Yes, especially when talking about companies.

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