Natives Break Rules
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Natives Break Rules

B1IntermediateMarch 2, 202647 min
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Your obsession with grammar is hurting your career. Native speakers break grammar rules all the time! Speaking confidence is what is important, not grammar perfection. In fact, you must break these "rules" if you want to sound confident and natural every time you speak English. 📚 FREE BOOK FOR YOU: Want my complete book for free? 👉 Go to: EffortlessEnglishClub.com/7rules I'll give you my book "Effortless English | Learn To Speak English Like A Native". Completely free. No credit card required. 🎓 READY FOR THE COMPLETE SYSTEM? If you want ALL the lesson...

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The grammar trap that cost you your promotion. You're in a meeting? The boss asks, you know, what do you think we should do? And you say, yeah, I'm thinking, I think, and for a moment, it's short, but for

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moment, your thinking should it be thinking or think, right? I am thinking we should, I think we should. And that hesitation, which happens again and again and again and again and again and again and again in your speech, it makes you look uncertain, not confident. Even though you You have the right ideas because you start looking down, uh, looking up, your speech starts

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getting choppy. We say choppy means lots of breaks, too many breaks. Meanwhile, your American coworker or colleague says, yeah, like I think we got to reduce that churn rate and we've got to focus on retention and subscriptions.

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