This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 2103.

Tried and True Tips for English Expressions.

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We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection not perfection with your

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To create connection it helps if you use language chunks that native speakers have used their whole lives.

Today get four native chunks, where you must follow the word order to be correct and to connect.

Hey there Aubrey, how's everything going today?

Excellent, how are you doing?

I'm doing great. Aubrey, where were you born and raised? Where in the world were you born and raised?

I was born in Utah and we lived there a few years so that then we moved to Idaho when I was like five so this is a little tricky because a lot of people are like born and raised in the same place yeah

but then for others like you're born somewhere and then move quickly and so it's a tricky question.

So you're born somewhere and then raised somewhere else.

Yeah.

I was born to raise in the same place.

So I was born and raised in Key, New Hampshire.

Little Town, our claim to fame is that we were the scene where they filmed

Jumongi, so we love that.

Oh, that's awesome. I love that film. The new ones or the old ones? The old one, the original. Yeah, of course. Oh yeah. I remember seeing

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