How to Communicate Better With Native Speakers

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In a way, it's like native speakers as custodians of this language. Everyone has to suddenly take on that responsibility. You don't want to use distribute because it sounds too formal. And so you say, hand out. Sometimes just that awareness can feed into your communication. In a way, you kind of are aware of the language that you're using. That can make a huge difference to being er understandable.

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