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Sep 2022
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No more pauses or hesitation when you sp...

SHAYNA OLIVEIRA
About this episode

If you're working on improving your spoken English, you might have a problem with pauses

Maybe you start a sentence, but you hesitate because you're not sure how exactly to express your thought in English. You know how to say it in your native language, but you're just not sure how to translate it.

This is really annoying because even though you can speak some English, you feel slow and incomplete - you definitely don't feel like you're fluent.

Today you're going to learn how to eliminate pauses and hesitation when you speak.

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