ESL Podcast 219 – Giving Compliments
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ESL Podcast 219 – Giving Compliments

A2ElementaryJune 13, 202015 min

#ESL Podcast 219 – Giving Compliments ##GLOSSARY **to ask (someone) over –** to invite someone to your home or to the place where you are *Benjy asked Julia over to his place to see the changes he made to his house. **to be more than friends –** to date; to be romantically involved *She told Christopher that they couldn’t be more than friends because she already had a boyfri...

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Welcome to English as a second language podcast number 219. Giving compliments. This is English as a second language podcast episode 219. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillin, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development, in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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This podcast is called Giving Compliments or Saying Something Nice to Someone. Let's Go. A friend from work, Nia, asked a few of us over to her apartment to watch the game. this Sunday and I was really nervous. I've always liked Nia and I was hoping we could be more

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