This is an All-Ears-English podcast episode 974.

Present Perfect Panic.

We have the antidote today.

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dot com forward slash subscribe today Today our listener Kledson asks us for help with the present perfect.

Today let's dive into this tense and we'll give you some overall things to think about when you implement

this tense so that you can stop panicking and start connecting. You listen to this podcast four days a week. This is a great start, but now let's find

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Hey Lindsay how's it going?

Excellent Michelle how are you? I'm good how are you? Wait I already asked you that you

do you ever do that? Oh I do I've done that that before. It's crazy. How are you? How are you? How are you? I'm good. Okay. Anyway, all right. So it's getting to be summertime. Have you been to the beach yet this summer?

You know what? Not really. Let's see. No, I definitely haven't been to the beach in my bathing suit to hang out

yet. Well, actually I went to Nicaragua on February. Does that count?

Sure, why not?

Do you like the beach?

I like the beach, but I don't like to sit around too long.

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