This is an All-Ears English Podcast episode 1,645, the Duolingo English Test with Josh McPherson.

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board slash app. Did you know that if you want to go abroad, you may not have to take the

isles or the TOEFL? Yes, there is another exam out there, and today we have our guest,

Josh McPherson, on the show, to tell us what we need to know about the Duolingo English test.

Welcome, Josh, to All-Ears English. I'm so excited to have you here. How are you today?

I'm good. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. It's a real honor.

Awesome. Guys, for our listeners, today we have a guest on the show. His name is Josh McPherson

from TST Preppy. Focuses on TOEFL Preparation, and I'm excited to talk about test prep today,

but Josh, I heard that you are from New York City. Is that right?

That's right. Yeah, it's, you know, I say New York City, but it's actually Long Island,

so it's a place called Valley Stream. Yeah, so a little bit outside of it. It's close to me.

A little outside. All right, but you grew up in New York. I mean, that is a lifestyle, right?

That's a life. I lived in New York for a little while in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Tell me

something. Tell our audience something that we, maybe we don't know about New York City and the

New York City lifestyle. Sure. Well, New Yorkers don't go to tourist attractions the most part.

I think it's the biggest thing when the people here that I'm from New York, they ask me about

the Empire State Building Statue of Liberty Times Square. I say I avoided them my whole life.

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