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Apr 2017
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439. Reading Books to Learn English

Luke Thompson
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This episode is all about books. Iโ€™m going to recommend some self-study books for learning English, talk about the value of reading books in English and then go through some of the books which I have in a pile on my desk and talk to you about them - just to inspire you to do some more reading this year, in English of course!

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