#226: How to Use Dating Apps to Learn English
In this week’s podcast, we’re talking all about how you can use dating apps to practice your English. We discuss why these apps are useful to learn English and how you can start today. We’ll also tell you how you can start a conversation and reply as well as some safety issues to be aware of.
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#226 - How to Use Dating Apps to Learn English
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Words You’ll Learn:
- Hell of a something
- What the hell attitude
- Flirt
- Pluck up the courage
- Platonic
- Swipe
- Sketchy (US) / Dodgy (UK)
- Discreet
- Blank profile
- Shallow
- Brash
- Beat around the bush
- Hookup
- Embed / Embedded
- Get catfished
Quick Definitions:
- Joyful: feeling, expressing, or causing great pleasure and happiness.
- “Freshly squeezed orange juice“: if you squeeze an orange, you extract its juice by pressing it with your fingers.
- “Spice up your love life”: make it more interesting.
- Frightened: scared.
- “It’s very important that you get your reps in”: this is a way of saying that you need to practice. A rep (short for “repetition”) is one movement of a muscle in a workout exercise.
- “You’re always hinting at your personal life”: Ethan says this because Ollie often talks about his personal life.
- “We’re not going to dive in too deep into my personal life”: Ollie means that he isn’t going to give you a lot of details about his personal life. To dive in deep means to examine a subject in a lot of detail.
- Small talk: polite friendly conversation about unimportant subjects
- “Add vocabulary to your arsenal“: the equipment, methods etc. that someone can use to help them achieve something
- Break the ice: do or say something to relieve tension or get conversation going in a strained situation or when strangers meet
- Laugh (something) off: To laugh something off means to laugh at an unpleasant situation in order to make it seem less important.
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