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Halloween has arrived! So what does that mean exactly? It means a lot of things: pumpkins and ghosts and spiders but also candy and scary movies and haunted houses. In this episode, I give an overview of Halloween in America as well as where some of today’s traditions come from.

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🗣️ Do you celebrate Halloween in your country? How do you celebrate it?

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This episode tackles two topics: the weird ways we use (or don't use) "the" with geographic features AND a common mistake I hear when people say where they are from. Do you make this mistake?

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Conversation fillers–in linguistics, it’s also known as discourse markers–are words or phrases that have many purposes: conversation fillers can help start a conversation, maintain a conversation, clarify what we say, better show our opinion, or make our words softer.

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In this episode, I'm going to share 5 common mistakes I hear from my students as an English language teacher. They include:

• incorrect use of mass nouns
• much versus many
• incorrect irregular plural nouns
• confusing to tell, to talk, to say, and to speak
• switching adjectives and adverbs

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We talked about anger. We talked about happiness. Now it's time to talk about sadness. Spoiler alert: it's a bummer.

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In episode 19, I shared how to express anger and irritation. In this episode, I share six idioms to express happiness!

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How can we express our anger or irritation? There are a TON of ways. In this episode, I share 6 ways.

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Small talk can be scary, but the other person is probably more nervous than you are! In this episode, I talk about how to start small talk, maintain small talk, and end small talk, so you can feel more comfortable talking to strangers or acquaintances 👍🏻

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"Many" is a common way to say the number of things--many apples, many ideas. But native speakers use other phrases to say the number of things: a bit of, a lot of, a ton of, and more! And sometimes the pronunciation changes, too.

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In this episode, I share my summer vacation to Kentucky! I discuss traveling, various places in my hometown, and attending an amazing event called Summer Slam.

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