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Learning English Conversations
Everyday expressions and real English conversations to help make your everyday conversations easier.
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Episodes
An old hand
Someone who's skilled and experienced
Out of the loop
Learn a phrase about missing out.
Rub it in
Learn an expression about enjoying someone's misfortunes.
Smombie
Are you a smartphone zombie?
Freegan
Are you someone who only eats food that has been wasted or thrown away? Learn a word that describes what you are
Barking up the wrong tree
Have you ever made the wrong assumption? Here's a dog-related phrase to describe your actions
Cloud cuckoo land
Can you make the impossible possible? This phrase implies you can't but what's it got to do with a cuckoo?
A taste of your own medicine
Payback time
Happy-go-lucky
Relaxed about the future? Here's a phrase that might describe your character
Whizz-kid
Young, clever and successful: find out a phrase that describes someone like this
The best of both worlds
Can you enjoy the advantages of two different situations at the same time? You can if you use this phrase
Bone idle
Are you taking it easy or just being lazy? Here's a phrase to describe your condition
To cut a long story short
Have you got a story to tell? Here's a phrase about just telling the important bits
A thing
Beards have been 'a thing' for a while. Is it now time to shave them off?
Just the ticket
Rob and Feifei help teach a phrase to describe something you really want or need
Do a runner
Is it time to go? Here's a phrase about avoiding a tricky situation
All that jazz
We love slang, idioms, phrases and all that jazz! Learn a new phrase with us
Not gonna lie
A phrase to use when you're being brutally honest
Up your game
Don't know which one to use? You need to up your emoji game
To shout it from the rooftops
Have you heard the good news? This programme has something to shout about!
To blow the cobwebs away
No spiders involved. It's time to get lively and learn a new English phrase
A knees-up
Want to go to a party? This phrase might help you get an invitation
To put someone on the map
Need directions to learn a new English phrase? Here's one about a map and being famous
Down in the dumps
Feeling unhappy? Here's a phrase to describe your mood but don't take it too literally!
Excuse me!
Rob keeps saying 'excuse me' but what does he really mean? You and Feifei are about to find out the many uses of this phrase
A sting in the tail
Rob's become a bee keeper but there's something more unpleasant to this hobby than being stung. Find out how a sting in the tail doesn't just come from bees!
So done with
Are you doing something very boring? We have just the phrase for you!
lolz
You might know the slang expression ‘LOL’, but do you know about ‘lolz’?
Have a go
Poor Neil gets a lot of criticism in the programme. Of course, it’s all to help you learn English!