#131 How to avoid awkward conversations in English
Speak English Now Podcast: Learn English | Speak English without grammar.
Georgiana
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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We're going to continue to see some bad strategies that I don't recommend in conversations.
Interrupt others.
Interrupting someone always has its risks, especially in more formal settings or with people we don't know.
I don't like being interrupted at all, especially since I can lose track of what I was saying. This means that sometimes I don't remember exactly what I was going to say.
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| 0:37.4 | we're going to continue to see some bad strategies that I don't |
| 0:42.0 | recommend in conversations. |
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| 1:32.3 | If you remember last week, we saw some unwise ways to interact in a conversation. |
| 1:38.3 | Today, we're going to continue with more things you shouldn't say or do when you have a conversation in English. |
| 1:46.8 | This is what we saw in the previous episode. |
| 1:51.1 | Talking about the weather. |
| 1:53.4 | Not listening to the other person. |
| 1:56.2 | Talking too fast, too softly, not articulating well, or not pausing, talking about negative things, |
| 2:06.3 | talking about boring things, and my favorite, messing up. Remember I told you how easy it is to |
| 2:14.3 | mess up? That's why we always have to be careful. |
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