This is an all ears English podcast, episode 2574.

Learn this English well before you need it.

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Are you looking for an emphatic way to say that something happens way before or way after something else?

Today get a native trick to add to your English to put more energy into what you're saying.

Have you ever walked out of a meeting thinking, I could have said that better?

You understood everything, but your response came out short, or unclear, or not quite like you.

Maybe your ideas are strong, but your English doesn't show it yet. You forget words you

know. You can't explain things naturally, and fast conversations leave you quietly catching up.

That gap can be frustrating, but it's also very specific and very fixable. Our two-minute fluency quiz

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go to all earsenglish.com slash F-L-U-E-N-C-o-r--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- going. Good to see you too, Lindsay. Everything is good over here. How are you? I'm feeling great

today, Michelle, but I have a question for you. Yes. So do you typically wake up well before you

start working or do you just get out of bed and pajama pants, go to your laptop and start

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