This is an All-Eirs English podcast episode 984 how to make sure your time norms don't ruin a potential connection

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You have plans to meet someone.

How can you update them on when you'll arrive in English?

Plus, find out how late you can be for an American dinner party.

Hey Lindsay, how are you?

Really good Michelle, how are you doing?

I'm doing good. How are you doing? I'm doing good. I have a question. Okay. That's your question.

Okay. If you are going somewhere, yep, to someone, and you want to update them on where you are or tell

them, you know, that you're going to be coming to them, like what would you say to them?

Oh, I would say, you you know I'm almost there you could say something like

that like I'm I'm almost there I'm five minutes away I'll be there soon be there

soon yeah I was just thinking about the yeah the other day I'll be there soon. Be there soon.

Yeah, I was just thinking about the other day,

my friends had this whole big event.

It's like a day long thing we do every year.

But we were kind of slow to leave.

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