A slow English story about cutting through the politeness to actually help someone. 10 simple sentences. Word by word.

📝 Today's sentences

After work, I walked over to the coffee shop on the corner. She was already there.

I spotted her right away. The only one with her laptop closed, just staring at the door.

She apologized like five times before I even sat down. "Sorry to take up your time," she kept saying.

Look, I had to cut her off. If we kept being this polite, we'd waste the whole night.

So I asked her straight up. Which companies. How many interviews. Where she was stuck.

Then I pulled up my own resume on my laptop. I mean, walked her through the whole thing, showed her what to highlight.

We mapped out a four-step plan. Fix the resume. Keep applying to big companies.

At least three LeetCode problems a day. And hey, listen to my podcast too. That's how you prepare behavioral questions in English.

Honestly, once I got direct, she relaxed too. We focused on the real pain points together.

Walking out. Turns out, meeting someone from online isn't as scary as I imagined.

🔑 Vocabulary

• spot /spɒt/

• take up your time /teɪk ʌp jʊər taɪm/

• cut her off /kʌt hɜːr ɔːf/

• straight up /streɪt ʌp/

• walk through /wɔːk θruː/

• highlight /ˈhaɪlaɪt/

• map out /mæp aʊt/

• pain point /peɪn pɔɪnt/

• stuck /stʌk/

• Turns out /tɜːrnz aʊt/

• resume /ˈrezʊmeɪ/

• behavioral questions /bɪˈheɪvjərəl ˈkwestʃənz/

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