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🏡 🏠 Homes are places where we can relax and have fun with family and friends. They are also places full of language - ‘living room’, ‘kitchen’, ‘refrigerator’, the list goes on! 😎 Sit back and take a moment to learn 7 new ‘home’ words with our ‘home’ vocabulary challenge. Tell us how many more ‘home’ words you know in the comments.⁣

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👋 Have you heard our NEW easy podcast?⁣

In each episode we have real conversations in easy English and teach you some useful vocabulary.⁣

Here’s 5 things we’ve learned so far! ⁣

🎧 Listen to the podcast to hear them in conversation. Link in bio.⁣

📱 And follow the Learning Easy English podcast on your podcast app so you don’t miss an episode!⁣

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You might already know one meaning of ‘cut off’ ✂️, but we can also use ‘cut off’ in a few more ways! 😱 Andrew’s here to give you three common uses of this sharp phrasal verb. Be creative and give us an example sentence with ‘cut off’ in the comments! 🥰
Lots of English words have more than one meaning! 😲 Here are three meanings of the word ‘snake’. 🐍 Can you give some examples of your own? 🤨

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'still' or 'yet'? 🤔 Sometimes students mix these words up, but do you know the difference? 🫵 Leave us a comment telling us which sentence is correct. ✍️ We'll tell you the answer later! 😊

Learn about the difference between 'still', 'yet' and 'already' with Phil by clicking the link in our bio.⁣

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😱🗣️ Can you understand the fast, connected speech that native English speakers use? 👩‍🏫 Sian’s here to help you understand a very useful question AND you’ll learn some features of connected speech to improve your pronunciation. Don’t forget to ✍️ have a go and share your answers – you’ll find the answer to the second sentence in the comments!

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❤️ 💓 You’re going to adore this post– we’re sure of it. Learn these 5 alternatives to ‘love’ and tell us about the people and things you care deeply for! 🥰

(These aren’t perfect synonyms and may have slightly different grammar when used in a sentence).⁣

EXTRA: Learn the language for talking about online dating in this epsiode of 6 Minute English. Link in bio.⁣

🧐 🍫 🛍️ What do you do too much of? We can add ‘aholic’ or ‘oholic’ to a noun (or part of a noun) to make a word that describes someone who drinks, eats, shops etc. too much and too often. Sometimes the word you make can be used jokingly; at other times it can describe a very serious situation – it depends on the context. ⁣

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EXTRA: Learn more about English suffixes in this lesson on our website. Link in bio.⁣