This is an All-Ears-English podcast episode 1274, the one filler word that natives use constantly in English.

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today we answer a listener question from fatma it's easy to use the word pretty as an adjective, but can you get really natural

by using it as an adverb or a filler word in English? Learn how to do it today. Hey Lindsay, how's it going?

Hey Michelle, it's going well, it's going well.

I'm actually in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which I've never been to before, and last night we went to this

super weird brewery that was more of a town gathering place.

Every kind of person was there, and they served us Santa Fe Hot Dogs.

And they were hot dogs.

Well, there were hot dogs with of course green chilies and red chili pepper.

Right. All the spicy stuff stuff it was cool actually it was making me

hungry yeah you know what I think would be a really cool thing to do would be do

a hot dog tour of the US and have hot dogs in every part of the US because they're always different styles.

Do you like hot dogs? Could you actually eat that many hot dogs?

Oh, actually no because I felt a little sick even last night to be honest but I like the idea because I know when we went to Chicago

when we were filming the connected communicator guys if you're in that course you know what I'm talking about

I interviewed a family in Chicago and they told me all about Chicago hot dogs and why they never put

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