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Feb 2025
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803 - Is it Really or Very

Michael DiGiacomo Happy English
About this episode
I think this is really going to be a helpful lesson for you today. Very and really are two very basic words in English, but I do know that they can be really confusing for a lot of English learners. So if you sometimes use one of them in the wrong situation, you’re going to want to listen to this podcast English lesson till the end. 

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