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hi i'm vanessa from speak english with

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vanessa calm how can you use the words

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though let's talk about it in this

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english lesson you're going to learn how

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native english speakers use the word

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though in daily conversations you're

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also gonna learn a common mistake that

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english learners often make with the

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word though and then we're gonna talk

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about some casual uses of this word

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let's talk about the best way to use it

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in daily conversation the other day i

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met with my friend and she was telling

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me about her job her life or family and

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she had a lot of energy she seemed

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pretty positive but i could tell by the

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look on her face the look in her eyes

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that something wasn't right something

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was a little different her face wasn't

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matching her words so in the situation

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we could say her words are happy but

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look at her face though hmm here we have

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two contrasting parts the first part her

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face is happy she's positive she's

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energetic but look at her face something

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is different something is not matching

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her words so we need to use a

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contrasting word though what if you said

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English is tough learning with vanessa

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is easy though what does this mean we

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have a contrasting part the first part

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learning english is tough it's difficult

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oh it's not always easy but the second

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part learning with vanessa is easy

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though we have a contrasting second

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section of your sentence it's easy

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though so when you use the word though

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you're contrasting with something that

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you already said you could say English

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is tough learning with vanessa is easy

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but this is kind of beginner level

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english and you're here to use advanced

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english so the best thing you can do is

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add though at the end of the sentence

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english is tough learning with vanessa

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is

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easy though you're often gonna hear

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native English speakers combine two

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sentences together using a conjunction

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but English is tough but learning with

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Vanessa is easy though and in

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descendants we already have a

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contrasting word we already are using

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but to show that there's a difference

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between the first part of your sentence

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and the second part of your sentence so

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why do native speakers sometimes add

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though at the end when you're already

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contrasting well this is kind of just

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for extra emphasis your extra

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emphasizing that English with Vanessa is

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easy you're trying to really show a

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difference learning English is tough but

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with Vanessa it's easy though let's take

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a look at a couple other examples let's

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imagine that you hate onions some people

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hate onions they're pretty strong

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tasting you might say well I hate onions

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but this onion snack is pretty good

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though

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your contrasting your hate of onions and

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this onion snack what about if you said

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learning online is great my time is

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limited though my time is limited though

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we have one part learning online is

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great it's a positive statement and then

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you're using a negative statement my

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time is limited though what about if you

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said I like my job Oh waking up is hard

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though for you if you don't like waking

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up in the morning this might be the

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perfect sentence for you I like my job

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Oh waking up this hard though or you

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could say I like my job

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but waking up is hard though now that

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you know how native speakers use though

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in daily conversation let's talk about a

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common mistake that I hear English

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learners use all the time have you ever

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said no it's raining I'm going to go

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hiking anyway though I feel hesitant I'm

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going to marry him anyway though plus

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the rest of your sentence mm-hmm does

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this look structurally different than

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the other sentences what's the main

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thing that you notice that's different

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well though is at the beginning of the

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sentence and this is something that is

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too formal for daily conversations if

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you want to use this in a formal email

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maybe in a really formal presentation go

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ahead no problem but I know a lot of you

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use English just while you're traveling

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or in daily conversations in less formal

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situations so make sure that when you

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use though you put it at the end of that

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contrasting statement don't put it at

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the beginning though I feel hesitant I'm

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going to marry him anyway way too formal

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not natural

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make sure that you use it at the end so

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you could say I'm going to marry him

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well I feel hesitant though you're using

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it at the end and that's natural now

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we're gonna talk about too casual ways

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to use the words though the first one is

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if I said to you that cake looks good

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but it's tastes though Oh what do you

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notice about this sentence did I finish

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it did I say but its taste is bad though

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no I didn't explicitly say what I think

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about the taste but it is implied

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implied means you can understand my

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meaning even though I didn't use those

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exact words so when I say that cake

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looks good but it's taste though you can

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understand that I think the taste and

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the look are opposites we have two

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contrasting statements because the cake

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looks good you can imagine that I think

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the taste is not good it's the opposite

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so you might use this in situations

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where you want to be a little bit more

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polite you're saying something negative

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but you don't want to say it so directly

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let's imagine that you said I like

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Vanessa's videos but her facial

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expressions though oh this means that

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you enjoy my lessons but you don't feel

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the same way about my facial expression

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maybe you think my facial expressions

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are a little crazy or stranger it's just

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not a good fit for your learning style

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but you don't want to directly say that

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you don't want to say I like Vanessa's

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lessons but her facial expressions are

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strange though so instead you're going

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to just stop your sentence maybe have a

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little pause maybe elongate that final

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part her facial expressions though and

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you're kind of letting your listener

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imagine what you think you're not

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directly saying it but it's a little

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more casual it's implied

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for the second casual use of the word

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though you're gonna see this most often

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in really casual situations like an

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Instagram hashtag somewhere like this

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you probably aren't gonna say this in

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conversation you might see this you

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might hear it in a TV show but I want

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you to understand what it means let's

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take the example that smile though here

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we have that plus a noun plus though

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what does this mean well I'd like to

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give you a quick example I saw a video

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clip of a girl who got her purse stolen

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it was just a skit it wasn't really real

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but she said hey he stole my purse and

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this guy runs up to save her and to get

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her purse

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but instead he does a backflip off the

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wall and she looks really surprised and

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says hey he got away he got my purse and

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he looks at the camera really proud and

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says mmm

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that backflip though why did he use the

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word though here he's really just

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drawing attention to something

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impressive it's not a contrast it's not

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really comparing something it's just

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something that he thinks is impressive

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and he wants you to realize that it's

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impressive too so you might say this if

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you are looking at Instagram and you see

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a picture of some famous celebrity maybe

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someone would comment whoa that smile

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though and this just means they think

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that his smile is really handsome they

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want to let everyone know look draw

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attention to his smile

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it's handsome this is more common in

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urban or

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even African American English so you're

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gonna see this you might see this as

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slang but it might not be a good fit for

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you to use in daily conversation but now

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you know what it means before we go

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let's do a quick recap or review you

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might say there is a lot of English

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vocabulary this lesson made it easy

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though I hope that this lesson made it

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easy for you to understand how to use

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the word though when to use it and how

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not to make some common mistakes with

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this word let me know in the comments a

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sentence using the word though try your

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best to use this and repeat it say it

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out loud

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use it yourself thanks so much for

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learning English with me and I'll see

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you again next Friday for a new youtube

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lesson here on my channel

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bye