The InFluency Podcast

525. The "ping pong" trick that makes English small talk feel natural

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Show Notes

Sometimes the best conversations are like a ping-pong match. 🏓 No awkward silences, no gaps, just fast flowing conversations. Today, we're taking a scene from the TV show, First Dates to practice exactly that.

We'll go sentence by sentence: you listen and test your comprehension, then we'll break it down, and shadow it together, paying attention to intonation, rhythm, stress, and pronunciation the whole way through.

This is a great exercise for shadowing, but also, if you wanna practice your flirty side in English ;)

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