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819. What does it really mean to be “good at English”?

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

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IELTS Speaking Band Descriptors

Fluency, grammar and Lexus all help us to achieve fluency. Without pronunciation, we can't get our words out fluidly and clearly. Grammatical accuracy is mainly significant if errors cause misunderstandings. In the test, they will tolerate a certain amount of error in your grammar. But after a while, if you want to get up to the eights and nines, then you need to be using almost no errors in your English at all. I wonder what score Santi would get if he took an IELTS speaking test.

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