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It's Day 10, the halfway point!
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You know, if you ever plan to spend money
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on a program that promised fluency in English
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in just twenty days,
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I would try to talk you out of it.
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You could do other things in twenty days,
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like learn twenty new phrasal verbs,
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but you couldn't become completely fluent
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in a language in such a short period of time.
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Basically, I just said...
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What does "talk you out of it" mean?
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"Dissuade" - the opposite of "persuade"
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You talk someone out of something
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or out of doing something.
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Can people easily talk you out of your plans?
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Let's review all ten phrasal verbs
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by reading short story.
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It's less than two minutes. I promise.
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