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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

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One of the problems with this kind of teaching content is that it's stripping away all context from the language. If you're going to teach words by definition, list-wise, if you're going through a list, you need to develop your examples and give a lot more information than just simple. The target English vocab, and then just a definite, just the equivalent in the first language. That just doesn't work. You know, that's not how language works. It's like a whole ecosystem. And the words only have meaning in context with other words and collocations and the rest of it. So you've noticed this kind of content of the content. There's loads of

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