Hi, I'm Georgiana, your English teacher. Thanks for joining me for a new episode of the Speak English Now podcast.

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Before we start, visit my website, speak Englishpodcast.com and subscribe to my free mini-course. Okay, let's start. Although we don't celebrate Valentine's Day this time of the year, I think as

Christmas approaches, many of us spend more time with our partners. So today, I want to introduce

some funny but useful compliments that will make your significant other feel special.

There are many kinds of compliments, good, bad, original, ordinary, or funny ones.

If you still don't know what they are, don't worry, because I'll explain it to you.

Next, we will practice fluency with a mini-story on a very special competition related to today's

topic. Remember that you can get the text of the episode at speak-Englishpodcast.com. As I said, today I'm going to talk about

compliments, but first, let's define what they are. A compliment is basically a brief comment

on an attribute or quality of a person. There are many types.

And perhaps it's more common to say a compliment to a woman.

Although I think nowadays there are more and more women who compliment men.

I have to say some compliments are tasteless.

That is to say they are rude and instead create the

opposite sense of what is intended. My intention in this episode is to analyze some compliments I

find to be especially witty or funny. Well, let's see the first one.

I don't have a favorite color.

It's pretty much whatever you're wearing.

This is beautiful,

and you can use it to congratulate a woman you're already dating.

Let her know that you have noticed the color of her dress.

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