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you need to do is visit one

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you could also just check out the link in the

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there's also version so if you're

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studying on your phone or tablet

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or computer i recommend the

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digital version looks really

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nice on screens but

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if you would rather prince off the transcript

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and you know have the physical paper

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in your hand then i recommend

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the pdf file it's great for printing

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in about

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i didn't laugh at me for updates

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and

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the honest with you not

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you much has happened since then

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it was was

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really rainy week last week

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here in seoul where i live

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ends actually it's even raining

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right now i don't know in the background

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of this audio maybe you can hear the

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sound of the rain falling

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against my window perhaps

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the sound is coming through i

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hope not but it's possible that you can

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hear a faint rain sounds

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in the background but anyways

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because of the rain the rain really

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go outside too much i just stayed

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at home a lot last week and on

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tuesday evening we had the livestream

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for tulips members and that was really

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fun was great to hang out and spend some time

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with some of our members now

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aside from the livestream in

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other news from last week's have

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a big announcement personally this is

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a big announcement for me and i think

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many of you can relate to

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this as well because i know

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our audience is composed is made

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up of long term

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language learners of course

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some of you are new to

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english study but a large part of our audience

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has been learning english studying english

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maybe even studying other languages

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as well for years and years

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and years and i've been studying

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korean as my second language

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for on , off

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for getting close to ten years

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now although i did takes about

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a five year gap in the middle of

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that time but yeah i've been learning

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korean for a long time and

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as has has milestone

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that i accomplished last week because

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i completed a one year

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streets of using unseat

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every single day with

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no missed days so

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anti is anti free flash

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card program that i really enjoy

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and it's just a program

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that you can use to learn a vocabulary

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that's what i use that's force for reviewing

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the key vocabulary that's

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isi or encounter when

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i'm reading books in korean

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or listening to podcasts in korean

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watching you tube videos in korean that

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kind of thing when ever i see

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a key word that i think is interesting

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and want to learn and make a sentence

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card in on t and then i can review

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it later and the idea here is that

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through repeated reviews

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the will be able to get a sense of this

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words and then the next time in

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the future that you hear it you'll be able

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to recognize it and when this happened

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several times you recognize it again

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and again and again in the

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wales so to speak like when

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you're just consuming content

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in that language or then eventually

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you'll get a really deep understanding

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of how that word is used and then

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eventually you'll find that you'll be

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able to use the word when you're speaking

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as well and i've found that repeated

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and key study like this as

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really helped my vocabulary in korean

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so , what and key is and a

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nutshell ends although i've been using

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anti for years this was the first

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time i've been successfully

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able to complete a one year streak

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with no exceptions so i felt

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proud of myself i gave myself

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a pat on the back and

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the street continues the streak is not over

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it's continuing so i'm hoping

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that i'm can make it til next year with

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no brakes as well and

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for any of you who are out there that's

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wanna use a program like on t

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for your english study i think it could

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be a really cool way to study

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with tulips you know you could find

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some sentences that are interesting to

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you even from an episode like this

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and then copy them from the transcript

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make a flash card wisdom in

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on t and review them again and again

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every day just kind of like how i

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do my auntie flash cards

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in korean every day and i

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think that would be an excellent way to build

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your vocabulary so your interest

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see the boat on keach co to youtube

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type it in a n k i i'm

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not sponsored by on key or anything

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in fact it's a free app free

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software is totally

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open source and ah yeah

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it's just an application that i've found

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to be really helpful and so i think maybe

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you could benefit from it as well and

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like i said if you're interested in learning

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more about it just go to youtube

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typing on key and there will be so

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many different tutorials an explanation

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videos about how to use it that

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can really help you get started

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the i crossed that milestone

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off of my bucket list a one

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year streak on and t i was so

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happy last week when i was able

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to achieve that goal but

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, else happened last

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week that wasn't so cool wasn't

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so awesome in fact it was

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a little bit stressful and

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that is that last week i

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lost my wedding ring ring

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i can't believe it i lost my wedding my i

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recently celebrated my one year

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anniversary in may and

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to be honest i was shocked at it took

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me so long to lose my wedding

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ring like i thought that i would have

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lost his much sooner than

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than this but i made it over a year

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without misplacing or losing my

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ring but last week i did week

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it's don't worry though the story

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does have a happy ending and i'll

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share this story with you now how

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it's a long story and a minute trying things

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brief so i'll a

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puddle some of the details and keep it short

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as short as i can at least i think

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you guys know that sometimes i tend

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to go on and on and blaber

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a lot but i'll try to keep it brief so last

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week when i lost my wedding ring

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wedding was thence initially too

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stressed out because i knew that i had

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lost it in how a

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had been raining all day as it

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has been recently and

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i didn't go outside at

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all that day when i lost it

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so i knew that it must

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be in the house somewhere and

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had a feeling that i probably misplaced

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it when i took it off to do

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the dishes where it

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disappeared to in the house was

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a complete and total mystery

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i wasn't too stressed out at first because

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i knew it was in the house and that it would

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show up sooner or later i

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realize that i lost the ring at

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night and my wife was already sleeping

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then so i didn't really wanna like

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wake her up by searching for it right

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then so i actually went

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to bed and to start or wake

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up the next day and i'll be able to find

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the ring and everything will be

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cool well the

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next day came and i looked for my

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ring pretty much on and off

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all day but i couldn't find

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his and as hours

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went by i started to get

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a little bit nervous and i thought

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back on the previous day and

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it was true that i was home all day

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but i also remembered that i

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did leave the apartments

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to go outside and take out the garbage

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so , got really panicked over the decided

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blake did my ring somehow fall

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off my hands when i was taking the garbage

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out and fall into the garbage

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bag and get taken away to the garbage

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dump by the garbage truck of i

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started having these negative thoughts

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so i retraced my steps

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and i went down to the garbage

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and recycling area of my building

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and looked around with no luck

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it wasn't there at all this is

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a little bit growth spurt i even did find

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my garbage bags from the

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previous day and i

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poked around in the garbage the

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garbage little bit to see if

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the ring was there again

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no luck couldn't find it at all

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then i also

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remembered that the previous day

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i had cleaned one of our rugs

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by beating the rug while

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i was holding it outside on

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our balcony so ,

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thought maybe my ring didn't fly

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off my finger while i was beating

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the rugs out to beat out

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to means to hit a

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rug just like you could beat somebody

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up or like beat somebody by punching

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them i was kind of hitting the rugs

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you know to clean all of the dust

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and debris off of the rug

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though our apartment is actually

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on the fourth floor of our

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building and i got really scared like

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oh my god if the ring fell

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off my finger while i was beating the rug

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and it fell down for stories

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to the grounds then there's probably

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no way i could find it actually

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right under our balcony is a parking

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area so i went down to the parking

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area and looked all around

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i scoured the area below

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our balcony and again

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no lock i

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scoured the area scoured

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s c o u r

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e d scour

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means to look for something very

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very carefully so i

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scoured the parking area below

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the balcony and i had no

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luck at all and , this

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points in the day guys i

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would say that it was almost

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the evening evening at

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this point i did start to get a bit stressed

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out about not finding my wedding ring

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so ring made up my mind to

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do just a big search was like

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this search was i'm gonna find this ring pretty

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competent like ninety five percent

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confidence that it's inside the apartment

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so i decided to get to work to

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a big search of the apartment one more time

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and signs ring so

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i put on some headphones

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i collected a good podcast and

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i got to work methodically

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checking my apartment room

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by room by room now

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, after about forty minutes

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searching the ring turned up

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thankfully burned

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up turned up when something turns

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up it means that it was found

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so i found the ring for

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the ring turned up it means

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the same thing and can you guys guess

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where the ring was it will

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in a really weird location it was

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actually wedged between

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the cushions the cushions bench for

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our kitchen table so our

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kitchen table has two chairs

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plus one longer bench and

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where the to christians meets

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in those the bottom cushion and the box

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cushion on the bench in

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that cracks the ring was

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way down waged in the

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middle the be waged somewhere

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means like squished in between

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two pieces or something so the ring

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then was wedged in that crack

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between the cushions and

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i was able to find it there now

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that seems like a pretty normal place

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i guess for like something to fall out

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of your pocket and slide into

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but the weird thing was i don't remember

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sitting on the bench at all

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the previous day so

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, was a bit missed a

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bit surprised a bit confused

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all of those words we can use in this situation

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when you don't really understand excel

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has missed was confused

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surprised surprised it's all

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in all at the end of the day i didn't really

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care too much about how the ring

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got there ring guess that will remain

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that mystery for all time pets

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for was just happy that i ended

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up finding it's and got it

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back it was a big

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really

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and now it's

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i am for this week's vocabulary

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lesson

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i'm gonna teach you all about a common

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idiomatic expressions it

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is on and off use

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expression to talk about situations

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when he start doing something and

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then you stop and then you start

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again and then you stop your

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on and then you're off did

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you hear when i used it in this episode

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in fact i used it into

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separate spots why don't we

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rewind go back and listen

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to those parts of the episode a couple

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more times

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i've been studying korean as

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my second language for on

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and off for getting close to ten

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years now i've been studying

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korean as my second language

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for on and off

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for getting close to ten years

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now the

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next day came and i looked for my

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ring pretty much on and off

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all day the next day came

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and i looked for my ring pretty

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much on and off all day though

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i talked about learning korean on

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and off and also

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about searching for my ring on

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and off maybe you guys

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could say that you studied english

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on and off i'm sure many

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of you have taken long breaks in your study

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at some points and if you have

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well then you could say something

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like i've been learning english

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on and off for five years war

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however long you been learning english

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for you have to change the time based

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on your specific situation the

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sentence like this communicates that

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the time you've been learning english

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until now has in

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total been five years

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but that haven't studied continuously

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that whole time that during

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that time at some point you've

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taken some breaks

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i've prepared some example sentences

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for us to study with that will help

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us to learn this expression of

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bit more deeply why don't we take

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a listen to them now

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example sentence number one

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when i was a university student i worked

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on and off as a bartender

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when i was a university student

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i worked on and off as

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a bartender

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let's

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break that example sentence down the

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speaker of that sentence said

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that when he was a university student

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he worked on and off as a bartender

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so this means that he works

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for a bit and then stopped working and

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then started working and then stopped working

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maybe like during the summer vacation

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time he would work more and then when

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then was busy with school he would work less

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were not exactly sure about

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when about when and when he took breaks

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but we do know that he had this pattern

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because he works on and

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off and that's what this means right that

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he worked for a time and he stopped

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working and then he started again

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this kind of pattern example

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sentence number two

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it's been raining on and

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off all day so you better bring an

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umbrella with you when you leave

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it's been raining on and off all day

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so you better bring an umbrella

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with you when you leave

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let's break this sentence down

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the speaker said it's been raining on

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and off all day so

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this means that it rains

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and then it stops raining and then it starts

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raining and then it stops raining though

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because of this unpredictable weather

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could rain rain snap rain

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rain has been on starting and

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stopping all day so because of this unpredictable

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weather the speaker says that you

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better bring an umbrella with you

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when you leave this is a

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way that we can make a very strong

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suggestion you better bring

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an umbrella his legs

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a really strong suggestion

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guys and if you wanna say

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that doing something is highly highly

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highly recommended then you

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can use that phrase you better

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do something you have to be

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almost careful with this because it is

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a really strong suggestions

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for example maybe a parents when

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they are threatening their child

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like they could say something like you better do

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your homework or else no

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video games for a month riots

18:45

almost like they're threatening them so

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it is a suggestion but we use it

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in this way ah as a very

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very strong suggestions

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so just be careful when using that expression

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to suggest something to someone

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because you don't wanna give somebody

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the wrong impression by

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being too strong with your speech

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example sentence number three

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jack and jill have been dating on and off

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for three years and currently

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their on jack

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and jill have been dating on and off for

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three years and currently there

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on

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let's

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break down that example sentence

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so jack and jill have been dating

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on and off for three years you

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know any couples like this they

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dates and then they break up and

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they're dating again and they break up and

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they get back together and they break up there on

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and off on and off so

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this couple jack and jill they

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are dating on and off their together

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they break up and currently there

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on we heard the speaker say currently

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there on that means

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that they are together right now his

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snakes that point in

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relationship cycle where

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they are currently together

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that's it, for this episode everyone thank

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listening great job at making it

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to the end of today's lesson

20:13

and getting some english practice in

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today you can feel proud about yourself

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for doing that because this

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is what you need to do to get fluent

20:22

in english so you're doing the work, you're

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taking the right steps that you need to take

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