We Don’t Speak the Same Around Everyone
English with Dane

We Don’t Speak the Same Around Everyone

B2Upper-intermediateDecember 3, 202524 min

Read this article with me. We change the way we speak depending on who we're talking to. I think we can all agree on that. Some do it more than others, and some ethnicities HAVE to do it more than others, in order to try to avoid being stigmatised or stereotyped. I thought this was SUCH an interesting article about the Costs of Code-Switching and how we are impacted by it. This article focuses more on how Code-Switching affects black professionals in the US, and gives a really interesting view into a world that perhaps most of...

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This episode of English with Dane is sponsored by the app Spoken. Spoken is designed for intermediate level English learners who want to practice their speaking skills and feel more confident, because it is what it is that we like the most. This app makes it quick and easy to do short daily speaking tasks.

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You see a random topic and you have to talk about it for one minute. It also helps you improve on each speaking activity by suggesting alternative vocabulary, and it actually shows you your grammar mistakes. My favorite thing about spoken is that you can also collect

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little plants as you progress and you can actually have a little collection going, which seems silly, but I think actually really helps with staying consistent. So download spoken, try it for free and start working on

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