This is an All-Eirs English podcast episode 966.

Five simple ways to add flavor to your responses in English.

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Today one of our students from the Tokyo Power English weekend asks us about the phrase oh boy can we use it to respond positively and negatively get the answer

plus more fun ways to flavor up your responses in English today

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Hey Lindsay, how's it going?

Hey, not bad, Michelle. I spent some time with my niece over the weekend.

It was, we were celebrating Mother's Day actually and we yeah it was so cool we

we found a place to go where we could make our own pottery we could paint our own pottery

and it's this little shop I bet you would like this this little shop where they have the stuff already made like coffee cups but they're you know they're not

decorated yet so you can go in there and choose their paints and decorate them and then you pay and then they fire them like meaning they glaze them and then you come and pick it up and you have something for your home.

It's so cool.

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