This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 820, what to do when a native speaker doesn't want to repeat.

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Do you ever have drive.

Do you ever have to ask someone to repeat themselves, but they just tell you never mind?

Today you'll learn how to get someone to repeat themselves with confidence.

Hey Lindsay, how's it going?

Hey Michelle, it's going pretty well.

Just coming off a big weekend.

Last weekend I was hiking and I was running a 10K

and it was just crazy.

A lot of exercise.

Good for you.

You know, I am having some problems with my feet actually.

So now even if I want to, yeah, I'm like having a lot of pain and I think I have like a, I don't know, some sort of problem. so I wear comfortable shoes but apparently it's not enough I do so much walking in New York.

Maybe you need arch supports because I had some pain in my in my shins and I got arch supports to change everything.

Yeah, yeah, I don't know man, but we'll see it, we'll see how it goes and it's kind of like, you know,

it's your lifeline to be able to walk in New York.

It's your life word.

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