Kate Billington
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
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And then I think my other piece of advice is...
Don't do the thing that people sometimes do where they think they have to learn really difficult words and use them all the time to show that they're really good at English because it doesn't work.
And it actually kind of makes you look silly because you're trying to use words that probably don't fit the conversation that you're in anyway.
And also, you need to focus on being able to use language properly.
in the right places at the right time.
And if you overuse really kind of high level and quite unusual words, that's not what a native speaker would do.
So it's not making you sound more fluent.
It's actually making you sound like you've just learned a bunch of words and now you're trying to put them into conversation.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I do also have, I noticed some students who do that almost at the expense of
of getting the grammar right.
So they'll use a fancy word in a sentence, but the sentence is wrongly constructed.
So it doesn't make sense.
Of course, you can make some more grammatical mistakes and I could still understand you.
That happens a lot, but it's a real contrast between, oh, I can see that you've learned this word, but you're not using the present tense correctly.
So
It makes it look even more like you're not really going about it the right way.
Yes, exactly.
So I guess that's my advice.
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