Aubrey Carter

Because when someone's telling a story, it always still should be a back and forth, but it's often up to the listener to make it a back and forth, right?

I do this really often.

They're giving these interesting details.

And if something is sort of surprising, or I'm excited to know what's next, I'm going to say like, really?

What did he say?

How did they react?

And it's often awkward for them to ask sort of like a question.

They're telling a story, right?

But you can ask interesting questions.

Well, it's just interesting to think about why this helps so much, right?

It requires very little vocabulary, just these simple sentences.

And it buys you time to process language or think of vocabulary.

So you're participating while also kind of giving yourself a chance to think of what you could say.

So it's sort of just like a double edged sword in a positive way.

It makes you sound engaged and confident, keeps you having to be quiet.

So you have something to say, ask questions until you have something to add.

He's like, I want to be part of the conversation.

Yes.

Three is to be in a course, to be learning vocabulary very proactively.

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