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Let's practice American English conversation.
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Yeah, I'm taking a few classes online this summer.
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Are you finding your groove with studying again?
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Finding your groove means figuring out how to work something into your routine,
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how to make everything go smoothly.
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So far, so good. I'm actually enjoying the content, so it doesn't really feel like a chore.
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A chore is something boring or a little bit difficult that you have to do.
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Although last week I did have a bone to pick.
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A bone to pick is an idiom that means a problem that you need to talk out with somebody.
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Oh, What was the issue?
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I missed an answer on a multiple choice question
on the quiz and when I looked back through the
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lesson materials that word was nowhere to be found.
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Hmmm. You can't be expected to define terms that weren't covered.
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Exactly.
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Notice, Americans usually drop the T in the word, “exactly”.
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