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The English We Speak. The English We Speak.

Hello and welcome to the English We Speak.

Rosie and I are doing a salsa class tonight.

It's my favorite Latin American dance and I love the music.

Yes, and it's not easy.

One, two, three...

Oh, I'm not very good yet.

I'm still finding my feet.

You're still finding your feet?

No wonder you are so bad.

How can you dance if you don't know where your feet are?

I do know where my feet are Helen. When you say you're finding your feet in English,

it means you're becoming confident at something.

So if I say I'm still finding my feet it means I'm still getting used to a new situation

which might not have anything to do his feet?

That's right, and when you say you've found your feet, it means you've become familiar with a situation.

Let's have a look at some examples then.

Lauren has only been at her new job for four days, so she's still finding her feet.

My daughter started secondary school two weeks ago, but she's already found her feet. She's made loads of new friends and really

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