Aubrey Carter

And that's so true.

This is one of the most native natural things you can do is to find out when you should be dropping letters, when you should be assimilating sounds.

So many things that natives do naturally that a lot of language learners don't realize they need to do.

Those phrases like same, me too, where you're connecting by agreeing, but in a really natural way.

Exactly right.

You guys don't want to have that FOMO that comes from missing out on all of these connections and conversations, right?

When you're just sort of in a group but not able to participate, you have FOMO even though you're right there.

That's happened to me before.

You want to be able to participate.

It's such a, yeah, I'm sure.

Right.

Animals, humans, we all feel this.

Nobody wants to be left out.

We want to feel included.

See you next time.

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