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

Or I'm really shy.

I need to learn more phrasal verbs.

I'm not confident, so I need to learn more grammar.

And what's happened in these situations is the student has correctly identified the problem, but they're prescribing the wrong solution to fix the problem.

Because you can learn vocabulary until the cows come home, but that doesn't mean it's going to make you more confident.

And for any of the learners, until the cows come home means you can do it forever, but it's not going to make you more confident.

So it's the same with debating.

Like that student, she said to me something like she wants to learn more about the topic so she can feel confident to debate it.

Now, debating is not about being right or wrong.

Sometimes the person who is wrong can win the debate.

It's not about how much you know.

And I'm not saying that it's not helpful.

I'm not saying, like, don't learn vocabulary.

Don't learn grammar.

I'm not saying don't learn phrasal verbs.

And I'm certainly not saying don't learn the subjects that you want to debate.

But what I'm saying is when you put all of your eggs in that basket, which is another idiom, which means when you think that's the most important thing, it's actually not correct.

learning techniques of how to defend your ideas can actually be sufficient for helping you in debates in many cases, as opposed to, as opposed to just learning about the subject or learning more vocabulary.

And yeah, that's all I wanted to add.

Yeah.

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