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English Idiomatic Expression: “Out of the Question”
Hello my friends, and welcome back to yet another English idiomatic expression video! In today’s video we’re going to look at the following expression: OUT OF THE QUESTION This expression is typically used when you want to say that something is totally impossible, that you can’t do it, or that some other person can’t do…
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How to Practice English for FREE? Make Phone Calls!
Hi Guys! 🙂 How about getting out of your comfort zone and practice your English by calling people you don’t know? Does that sound scary? Well – it is! But that’s the thing about real life conversations – they’re always a little bit scary because there’s always a certain amount of stress involved. And where…
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Passive English Input Isn’t Going to Improve Your Ability to Speak!
This is another one of those videos where I’m responding to a YouTube comment, and this time around the person in question commented on a video where I was talking about what to do if you’re living in an English speaking country without any opportunities to speak with locals. So here’s the comment: And obviously…
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What to Do If I Find Spoken English Self-Practice Boring…
Hello my friends! In this video I’m addressing the following question that I get asked a lot: Robby, you’re constantly saying we should practice English with ourselves, but it’s really boring… What do you suggest? Well, it’s true – I keep going on about the effectiveness of spoken English self-practice like a broken record, and let…
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Ask Robby: Why Do I Start Forgetting English After Moving Back to My Country?
In this video I’m responding to Arzhin’s comment which you can read here and here’s what he asks: Robby I have been in an English country for 4 years. So I could speak English very well. Then I backed to my homeland. So since one year ago I am living on my homeland. But because…
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Sometimes LESS is MORE When It Comes to English Improvement!
Have you ever felt truly overwhelmed when trying to improve your English due to the fact that you’re trying to learn A LOT of new stuff over a short space of time? Well – you may want to stop putting yourself under such pressure because sometimes less is more when it comes to your English…
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Did You Realize That Being Tired Affects Your Fluency?
You might not have thought about it before, but the simple fact of the matter is that your mouth is a muscle and as such it’s prone to you being tired. When you’re tired, your physical performance suffers – but you don’t see it as something weird because it’s just natural, right? Now, when you…
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Answering Questions: Can’t Practice Fluency, What to Do If My Fluency Dwindles When I Speak With Others and More…
I couple of days ago one of my YouTube followers asked me the following question: The problem is that I just can’t practice fluency because I’m in my country where they don’t speak English although I’m really good at writing I put great efforts on my essays and powerful vocab and idioms and sentence structure…
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Having English as the ONLY Language in the World Would Be a Disaster…
A while ago I published an article called It’d Be Great to Have English as the Only Language in the World in which I looked at a purely fictional scenario of a world where English would be the only language spoken. Now, in that particular article I looked at the positive aspects of such a…
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Can You Become Fluent in English if You Don’t Have a Talent for Languages?
Time and time again I’ve been told by all sorts of different people that I have a talent for languages. And when they find out I speak three languages fluently – Latvian, Russian and English – their opinion of my abilities is pretty much identical: “Robby, you’re naturally gifted when it comes to language learning!…
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