This is an All-Ears-English podcast episode 1481, three bulletproof ways to enter a group conversation in English.

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forward slash subscribe. In today's episode get three things you can listen for when you enter a fast and

chaotic group conversation so that you can respond with confidence and precision in English.

Hey Jessica, how's it going today? It's going great! We had an awesome weekend. We participated in a neighborhood parade.

Oh fun. And it's just, you know, it's so great to see people coming together and making an effort, right, to be outside, to still be safe. Everybody wore masks, but still we were like like we wanted to be in a group together outside you know like doing things so it was yeah

positive oh that's awesome a group is the key right there right I mean

being in community feels amazing you know what I mean and being able to talk to

everyone and participate and have big laughs with them.

Just, right?

I mean, we're wired for this as humans, you know?

Oh, for sure.

Yeah, we need, like our survival instincts, right?

Like the deepest parts of our brains. like the Yes, guys, community. And you can build this one-on-one, of course.

But the thing that we want to talk about today,

guys, in a group, like how do you become a part of a group a productive person in a group right

where you're understanding and sharing yeah I mean a lot of what you guys here on

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