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In this episode, let's take a look at the most common New Year's resolutions. Then you will practice your English fluency with a mini-story. It's curious how the passage of time is perceived according to age. Young people don't think much about it. Middle-aged people think about the things they still want to achieve and realize that they have less and less time.

Don't worry; I won't get too philosophical in this lesson. :) I'll go ahead and talk about New Year's resolutions.

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Merry Christmas, everyone! I'm Georgiana, your English teacher, and my mission is to help you speak English fluently. And if you want to help me, share the podcast with your friends and family.

And today, I will talk about Christmas Markets in New York. And with a fun mini-story, you will improve your speaking.

New York's holiday markets often include ice skating, twinkling lights, great food vendors, and fun holiday activities.

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Today, we continue talking about money in English. You will learn new expressions, and I'll give you some advice on how to save money.

Here are some of the expressions about money we will learn in this episode:

• Money doesn't grow on trees
• A penny saved is a penny earned
• Flat broke
• Live from hand to mouth
• Save for a rainy day
• Daylight robbery

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Today, you will learn new idioms in English with MONEY. I will teach you some English expressions related to money. And with a point-of-view story, you will learn grammar without memorizing any boring rules.

Depending on the culture, people talk about money or get really uncomfortable when someone brings up this subject. However, everybody needs money nowadays, so today, we will learn expressions about money because "money makes the world go round."

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In this episode, let's look at some bad strategies and attitudes that don't quite work in conversation. I mean, like having awkward conversations.

All right, have you ever been with someone and not know what to talk about? It's happened to me sometimes. Every once in a while, we run into situations where it's difficult to continue the conversation.

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Today we have a very interesting topic:

• I'm going to talk about three concepts that are often confused: irony, sarcasm, and cynicism.
• Next, you'll practice verb tenses with a short story about two kids who have a problem on a frozen lake.

Yes, many language learners indeed know more grammar than the average native speaker, yet they can barely speak fluently. That's why I recommend my mini-course.

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In today's episode:

• I'll be talking about one of the most celebrated holidays in the United States: Halloween.
• After that, you'll practice your speaking with a new mini-story.

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the last day of October. I would say it's very popular because everybody's excited about it, especially children.

The word Halloween comes from an old English expression, "All Hallows' Eve," and it means the day before All Saints' Day.

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Today, I talk about how to stop making mistakes when speaking English. And how to improve writing.

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Next, we'll practice fluency with a question-and-answer exercise.

Many students asked me over the years how to avoid making mistakes when speaking English.

To speak fluently, you have to do it without worrying whether you speak perfectly.

So as I was saying, it is very important to listen to understandable content.

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• In this episode, you'll learn some new tongue twisters in English to help you with your English pronunciation.
• And with a mini-story, you will improve your fluency. A mini-story is very simple but very powerful. I ask easy questions on purpose so that you can simulate a conversation. It's like talking with another person in English.

So, do you remember what a tongue twister is?

For example, "Peter Piper picked a pickle of pickled peppers."

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• Today, we will continue the accent reduction exercise with some fun tongue twisters in English.
• And with the help of a point-of-view story, you will learn grammar in context without memorizing any boring rules.

Last week we started this accent reduction exercise by focusing on the S sound with the help of some fun tongue twisters.

So, let's remember the tongue twisters we used last week to help you improve your English pronunciation.

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