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Textbook English vs. REAL English

Published 17 days ago • 1 min read

Stop sounding like a textbook - learn the real phrases native speakers use!

You may have learned sentences from a book or from an English class, which are perfectly correct, but they’re just not the way most people would say it in real life!

Let’s look at 10 “textbook” phrases and replace them with “real life” phrases that are more commonly used in everyday English.

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