Kayla (English With Kayla)

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882 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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English Vocabulary Help · Adjust Your Ears to Fast English · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

So this phrase, it's used when you're kind of frustrated or annoyed with a situation.

I actually say this all the time to my friends or to my husband.

Again, it's really kind of a negative phrase and it's used in a more casual, informal environment.

But here you say, you gotta, you gotta, instead of you have got to be kidding me.

I can't even say the whole phrase.

You have got to be kidding me.

I say, you gotta be kidding me.

You gotta.

So here again, always,

more connected speech go ahead and repeat you gotta be kidding me nice if you repeated that out loud you're definitely sounding more american in your english let's move on to the next phrase i'm just trying to figure it out i'm just trying to figure it out

Here, the main reduction that we hear is, I'm just trying to, trying to, trying to.

Again, a lot of times in English, I'm sure you're very familiar with it.

English speakers will say ta instead of to, and here it all comes into one word.

I'm just trying to, trying to, trying to.

So go ahead and practice that once more, repeating.

I'm just trying to figure it out.

Nice job, let's move on to the next portion of this lesson.

Let's go over a few natural English expressions that I think are a little tricky for English learners, but they also just help you sound more natural and speed up your English a bit.

The first one, that threw me off.

That threw me off.

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