RealLife English Podcast #191: 8 Myths About English Fluency

By Ethan | July 29, 2020

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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8 Myths About English Fluency
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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.

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