Useful catch-up expressions

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lady hey

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lady is an online community for women

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we'll help you to meet new speaking

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partners and practice real conversations

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in english we offer a free trial so that

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you can experience everything on offer

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in a full membership and it's free for

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10 days i've put the link down in the

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description below so that you can start

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your free trial today there are five

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really common english expressions that

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i'm going to teach you first before we

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practice speaking together in our

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dialogue and i want you to listen out

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for them because they're used in context

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and we're going to talk together using

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them later on are you ready

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long time no see so this is an informal

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greeting one that's used when you

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haven't seen someone for a long time

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it's been a long time since you last met

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so you use it when you greet someone you

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say their name you say hello and then

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you use this expression

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hi steve long time no see

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fancy seeing you here

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this is another really useful expression

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especially when you're surprised to see

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someone but it's a pleasant surprise

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like you've run into them in a place

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where you didn't expect to see them now

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it is important