Textbook English vs Real English | Native Speakers Reveal the Difference

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  Hi, and welcome to the Espresso English Podcast, where you can improve your English in just a few minutes a day.

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  My name is Shana, and I'm the teacher at Espresso English.

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  where you can get online courses and e-books that will help you learn English even faster.

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  Let's get started with today's lesson.

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  When you speak English, do you sound like a textbook or do you sound like a native English speaker?

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  You may have learned sentences from a book or from an English class, which are perfectly correct,

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  but they're just not the way most people would say it in real life.

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  So today, let's look at 10 textbook phrases and replace them with real life phrases that are more common.

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  All right, now let's look at our first example.

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  Textbook English.

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  Do you want to get something to eat?

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  Real English.

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  Want to grab a bite to eat?

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  Instead of do you want to, we simply say wanna.

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  And grab a bite to eat is an informal way to say get something to eat.

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  Textbook English.

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  What are you doing?

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