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we are going to use a conversation
to exercise your english- speaking
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muscles all right let's do this here
we go here's the first sentence of
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this little conversation I want you to
hear it and say it that means listen
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to it and then repeat it I tried to call
you last night but the lion was busy for
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hours did you catch it try again I tried to call
you last night but the lion was busy for hours
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I tried to call you last night
but the lion was busy for
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hours I tried to call you last
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night but the line but the
line but the line was busy for
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hours I tried to call you last night
but the lion was busy for hours
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sorry I wanted to call you too but
I was talking I was talking to my
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mom sorry I wanted to call you
too but I was talking to my
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mom sorry I wanted to call you too but I but
but but but but but I was talking to my mom
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but I was talking talking talking talking
talking talking to talking to talking to my
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mom but I but I but I but I was talking to my
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mom but I was talking to my
mom but I was talking to my
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mother sorry I wanted to call
you too but I was talking to my
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mom sorry I wanted to talk to
you too but I was talking to my
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mom that was a long conversation that
was a long conversation we talking to
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her for hours I know I told her
I was busy but she just kept
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jabbering all right I'll say it again I know I
told her I was busy but she just kept jabbering
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I know I told her I was busy but she just kept
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jabbering but but but but but but
but but just kept but just kept
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jabbering do you know this word
jabbering jab jab jab jab it's
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talking she just kept talking she just
kept going on and on and on she this
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this is jabbering jabbering she just
kept talking and talking she just kept
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jabbering I know I told her I was busy but
she but she but she but she but she just kept
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jabbering I know I told her
I was busy but she just kept
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jabbering all right my mom is like that
too my mom is the same my mom is like that
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too but we never talk for more than an
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hour but we never talk for more than an
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hour my mom is like that too but we but we but we
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but we but we but we never
talk for more than an hour
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my mom is like that too but
we never talk for more than an
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hour but we but we never talk but
we never talk for more than an
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hour we usually don't either but this time she had
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a million things to talk about she
had a million milon things to talk
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about we usually don't either but this
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time she had a million things to talk
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about we usually don't either but this
time but but but this time but this time
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but this time she had a million things
to talk about one more time we usually
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don't either but this time she had
a million things to talk about you
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try we usually don't either but this
time she had a million things to talk
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about all right let's role play that that's
the conversation right there now we're going
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to go back and forth I'll be the red text
and you're the blue text and then we'll
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switch all right here we go I tried to
call last night but the LI was busy for
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hours that was a long
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conversation my mom is like that too
but we never talked for more than an
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hour so she was just jabbering
away huh okay okay I get it I
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understand let's switch rolls this
time you're the red text all right
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go sorry I wanted to call you but I wanted
to call you too but I was talking to my
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mom yes it was I know I know I told her
I was busy but she just kept jabbering
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well you've never met my mom that woman can talk
we usually don't either but this time she had a
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million things to talk about all right I added
a lot extra to that conversation didn't I boom
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good workout keep moving forward one step at a
time I'll see you in the next practice session
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