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  • It's Day 10, the halfway point!

  • You know, if you ever plan to spend money

  • on a program that promised fluency in English

  • in just twenty days,

  • I would try to talk you out of it.

  • You could do other things in twenty days,

  • like learn twenty new phrasal verbs,

  • but you couldn't become completely fluent

  • in a language in such a short period of time.

  • Basically, I just said...

  • What does "talk you out of it" mean?

  • "Dissuade" - the opposite of "persuade"

  • You talk someone out of something

  • or out of doing something.

  • Can people easily talk you out of your plans?

  • Let's review all ten phrasal verbs

  • by reading short story.

  • It's less than two minutes. I promise.

It's Day 10, the halfway point!

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