Sorry. What Did You Say?

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Topics

Personal Stories

What is your experience. This is the most powerful conversation we can have to help people understand American language and life.

Culture and survival

• Restaurants
• Tips and tipping
• Drive through ordering
• Talking to teachers
• Talking to teens
• Talking with teens
• Children with special needs
• Language learning in schools
• Medical facilities: Emergency, Urgent Care, doctors offices
• Dentists
• Pediatric dentists
• Western Medicine
• Pharmacy/OTC
• Doctors
• Parties
• Funerals
• Rentals, landlords
• Parents abroad
• Children abroad
• Band parents, PTO (or PTA), and other parent/school groups
• Educational options
• Police
• Fire
• Emergencies
• Home maintenance

Practical living

• Winter weather
• Driving: rules and license
• Driving: winter
• Cars and maintenance
• Eating
• Food and substitutions
• 
  

Listening and speaking

• What did you hear? What should you have heard?
• Words that sound like something else
• D, T, or nothing
• Singlish: pronunciation
• Singlish: cadence
• Vowel sounds
• Word roots: why is English so inconsistent

Learning and minds

• Managing expectations
• Forgetting and remembering
• Personal techniques: lists, cards, conversation, etc.
• AI
• Grammar

Usage

• Come and go
• Please and thank you
• Bring/take
• Go/went/gone
• Make/do

Grammar

• Perfect tense
• Their, there, they're
• Countable and uncountable words
• Phrasal verbs
• Irregular verbs
• Tense
• Prepositions
• Pronouns
• Punctuation
• Articles

Holidays

• Christmas
• New Year
• Thanksgiving
• Easter
• Memorial Day
• Labor Day
• Groundhog Day
• 4th of July/Independence Day
• Black Friday

Teaching/Leading Language 

• Teaching tips
• Techniques
• Pitfalls
• Stories