#191: 8 Myths About English Fluency

In today’s podcast Andrea, Justin and Ethan talk about common myths about English fluency and give great advice on how to improve your learning process.

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Topics:

• 8 Myths About English Fluency
• You can find an extra advice in our Instagram: @RealLife.English

Words You’ll Learn:

• To have a clean bill of health: a statement that someone is healthy.
• Heartfelt: sincere; deeply or strongly felt.
• To pay (something) forward: when someone does something nice for you, you propagate that by doing something nice for someone else.
• Assume: to suppose, without proof.
• Myths: a widely held but false belief or idea.
• A budding (something): something that becomes larger as part of normal growth.
• Stump: to be unable to answer a question or solve a problem because it is too difficult.
• To pull one’s leg: to play a joke on someone.
• Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
• Put something on a pedestal: to believe that something is perfect.
• Immersion: to be deeply involved with something.
• Blew you away: to be very impressed by someone or something.
• Hinder: to limit the ability of someone to do something.
• Pay off: if an action pays off, it is successful after a period of time.
• A handful of something: a small amount of things.
• Plateau: a state of no change following a period of progress.
• Polish something up: to improve a skill.
• Narrate: to tell a story or to describe events as they happen.
• To get the gist of something: to understand the central matter of something.
• Dormant: not active or growing, but having the ability to be active at a later time.
• Rusty: weakened by lack of recent practice.

Links/Resources:

• Article: 8 Myths About English Fluency
• Article: How to Meet Native English Speakers in Your City

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