This is an All-Eirs English podcast episode 854.

Should you speak the way you write?

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Today we get a meaty question from Takashi who wonders if the top heavy

style of writing also works for English speaking. Find out the key takeaway to

consider every time you write something or say something in English to connect.

Hey Michelle, what's going on with you?

Not too much, Lindsay, not too much, how are you?

Well, I have a little bit of a cold, a head cold, but I guess you can't tell, huh?

You can't tell that I'm stuffed up?

I can't hear it, Lindsay.

I'm sorry you don't feel well though,

but no, I mean, you sound good to me.

Yeah, I feel okay physically,

just a little head cold, no big deal,

this kind of thing, this kind of stuff

that catches up with us once in a while

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