Ray Addam

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796 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson · Debating Skills in English 🗣️ (with Ray Addam) [996] · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

But that's not how debates start.

You'll be in a discussion or you'll be in a meeting or you'll be with your friends a lot of the time.

And then someone will suddenly say something that you find to be highly disagreeable.

And see if you do not challenge it immediately, because you only have a couple of seconds to respond.

And if you don't challenge it in that couple of seconds and create a dialogue, then the moment's gone and they have basically won the conversation.

So I guess a question I'd ask to the audience and to yourself, Luke, is say you're in my position at that time, what would you have done?

you've got a couple of seconds, they've come in, they've said your idea is stupid and you've got a couple of seconds to respond before the conversation moves forward.

What would you say?

Here's another question.

So you do stand up comedy.

Have you ever dealt with hecklers before?

I heard a comedian once say that he'll ask them to repeat it.

And the benefit of asking them to repeat it is that it gives you some time to think of a response.

And for example, see when people are talking, and this is one of the things I coach some of my students on, especially ones who need to do public speaking or presentations, they'll regularly use these filler sounds.

So why are these filler sounds happening?

The reason... It's like when you have a computer and you open up too many tabs and then you get that little spinning icon before it loads the page, that's basically your computer saying, uh, give me a second.

Okay, here you go.

So...

Whenever you say, um, and then you respond, it's really just that your brain was processing the next thing to say.

It's not like for English learners quite often, it's a little bit more regular because there's more processing power involved in speaking English because it's their second language.

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