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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
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The Importance of Speed in English Speaking
I can remember very clearly going to a recipe in a restaurant with my English uncle once. He'd asked for like a pint of beer, a large beer and it came. And he had taken this as some kind of huge affence that the beer not being filled up to the top because it is an acceptable thing if the beer is not right to the top. So I completely agree that sometimes it is often it is the fault of the English speaker. A lot of native English speakers are really bad at adjusting their speed of their voice so they kind of just burst into kind of it. It does sort of a lesson in diplomacy really because it just shows that goodwill is like really important.
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