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and she's old or nicely put elderly so elderly is a little bit more formal um and something else you'll notice in english too so when something is perceived to maybe be bad you...
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lady
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and she's old or nicely put elderly
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so elderly is a little bit more formal
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um
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and something else you'll notice in
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english too so
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when something is perceived to maybe be
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bad
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you
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can make it into the comparative form
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um
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making it have an er at the end so can
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we go back a slide
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um i think it was in the last slide can
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we um probably up or
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oh okay well anyway in the last slide we
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saw it's fine if not okay cool
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um you know we have the word bigger
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um bigger there it's like
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it makes it a little softer and more
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polite we have the same thing with
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you could say she's older
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yeah she's an older woman so
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older than what
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i don't know but it's it's you know
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she's older than maybe most people were
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talking about it's just a more polite
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way to say it
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um yeah
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yeah hello fatima from iran thanks for
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joining
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um all right
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and i think that was it so
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i hope you guys oh and also in their 20s
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oh yeah good to add too
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so you can say the specific number um
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but you could also say um so if i don't
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want to say
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especially say i'm like
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35 for example
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and someone asks how old i am i can pay
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oh you know i'm in my 30s
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i'm not giving a specific answer but you
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know i'm either i'm somewhere between
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30
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and 39
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i'm in my 30s she's in her 20s
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he's in his 70s
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yep
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okay so i hope you guys took some notes
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because we are going to do a worksheet
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together now
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oh exciting yes so
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getting some good practice let's
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hello again
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so
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like we said earlier
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the app has
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the lingoni english app has tons of
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different ways to practice the things
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you learn in our videos
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and the worksheets are
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one of them
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and there's not shared yet just so you
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know i know okay um the worksheets are
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one of them so with these you can
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download them not right now but in the
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app you can download them and print them
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and write on them yourself which is what
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i would do i like to write
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um or you can or you can do it on the
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computer like we are going to do it now
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so so both options are there
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um
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yeah and so we're showing you this this
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is in our app um if you click in the
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link
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