Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 549

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  Hi there, this is Harry.

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  Welcome back to Advanced English Lessons with Harry,

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  where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language,

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  to help you with your conversational skills, your business English skills,

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  interview skills, whatever your goals are, we're here to help.

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  And for those of you and your friends or family who want one-to-one lessons, well,

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  you know what to do, just...

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  get in touch www.englishlessonviaskype.com and you can apply for a free trial lesson.

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  And we'd be very happy to hear from you and very happy to help you.

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  So what are we going to do with you today?

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  Well, in this particular lesson, we're going to talk about vague language.

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  Okay, vague is... what means unclear, unclear language.

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  And when we talk, it's always good to be very, very precise and very specific.

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  And in that way, people will understand exactly what you mean.

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  But there are times when we speak English that we can use vague language and it's quite acceptable.

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  So I'm going to go through this type of language, what it is, what it means and then how to use it.

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  So don't.

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  feel that all the time you have to be exactly precise you don't have to be and there are words and expressions that we use that are very definitely vague but they're there for a purpose okay so let's go through them so first of all we've got vague nouns thing okay so She's got something in her eye.

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  You don't know what it is because you can't see it,

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  but you know because she's rubbing her eye that she's got something in her eye.

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