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How Native Speakers Really Speak
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Let’s be real for a second.When you first start learning English, you probably think native speakers talk like the recordings in your textbook:
“Hello, how are you today?”“I am fine, thank you. And you?”
Then you meet a native speaker and they say:
“Hey, how’s it goin’?”“Good, you?”
And your brain goes: Wait. What language was that?
Here’s the thing — most learners aren’t bad listeners.They’re just listening for a version of English that doesn’t exist in real life.
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