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The English We Speak.

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Hello and welcome to the English we speak from BBC Learning English.

I'm Neil and with me is Fayfei.

Hello.

Now Faye, if you just put on your headphones you'll be able to hear what I'm saying.

Yes I know that.

And you need to push that thing there, we call it a fader, we push that up and speak into the

microphone.

Uh, yes Neil, I already know that.

You see, Faye, you have to be careful not to be too close to the microphone when you speak

because the pressure of your breath will create this sound, we call that a pop, and the recording will

sound bad and our listeners will complain.

Neil, I've been working in radio for over 10 years.

I know how to use the studio. Stop mansplaining!

Faye, I was only doing it to introduce that word, mansplaining.

It's a new word, it's made up of two parts, man and explaining.

Mansplaining is when a man explains something to a woman as if they're stupid or knows less about a subject simply because she's a woman.

Here are some examples.

So there was this guy mansplain and the offside rule to me.

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