A Guide to Clear Thinking (Read-Along)
English with Dane

A Guide to Clear Thinking (Read-Along)

B2Upper-intermediateMay 20, 202620 min

Send us Fan Mail Here's an article I came across from that had a good lesson to teach. It's about self-serving bias, and how we protect ourselves and blame others when we feel like the idea we have of ourselves is challenged. As always, we'll mine it for vocabulary, so make sure you write down the words that catch your eye. Let me know what you think.

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On this episode of English with Dane, we are going to read an article together. We're going to mine it for vocabulary. We're going to clear up, vamos a aclarar, we're going to clear up any tricky phrases or expressions we find along the way. And most importantly, we are going to learn a few valuable lessons on how to think more clearly,

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which I think is something we could all benefit from. Ojo que se usa from when losamos to benefit. You benefit from something. So that's the plan.

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I was recently talking to a listener who said she enjoyed the episodes where we don't center everything around the English language and instead learn from real world content. So I thought a read-along would be perfect for this week's episode. I honestly enjoy these episodes more too because it gives me a chance to dive into things that

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