Hello and welcome to Effortless English. I'm back! Yes, I'm back. Sorry, I've been working a lot teaching here in San Francisco and also working with my Effortless English club. So I didn't have much time for the podcast but things are slowing down a little bit so here we are again. Today's

topic is perfection.

Perfection. Many English learners want to be perfect. They want to speak perfect English English English English.

Maybe you want to speak perfect English. Well, I need to tell you

something. I need to be totally honest with you. You will never

speak perfect English never never never

forget that goal.

Perfection is impossible.

I am a native speaker.

I have two master's degrees.

I studied teaching English. I've written professionally.

I do not speak perfect English. I make mistakes all the time.

When I write something, for example, if I write an article for a magazine,

there's always a lot of mistakes. I just made one just here. There are always a lot of mistakes.

Always. I have to write it many times. I write the article one time and

then I go back and there are a lot of mistakes. I have to change it. Oh, that's a mistake,

that's a mistake. Sometimes there mistake sometimes there are grammar mistakes sometimes

spelling mistakes sometimes the English just is not clear or powerful when I speak I

make mistakes sometimes a little tiny grammar mistake you might notice in my

commentaries because I don't edit these podcasts very much if I make a little mistake

I don't change it why not most English teachers try to be

perfect they want you to think they are perfect English speakers and if they have a

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