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Jun 2020
19m 19s

Shortened Words You Must Know!

LIAM
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( I recommend checking the YouTube version of this episode as I have written all the examples on the screen and it could be hard to understand without those.) One of the reasons native English speakers are hard to understand is because we contract/shorten a lot of words or groups of words. In this episode I introduce the most important ones that are used regularly in every English speaking country!

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