In this episode Goyo focuses on popular idioms that use "strike" and "hit," but don't actually refer to anything violent. These include:

Strike while the iron is hot

Strike up a conversation

Hit me up

Hit the sack

and

Hit upon something

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In this episode, Goyo discusses a informal practice that is common in English. When speaking emphatically about what someone has said, a speaker will omit the word "said" and introduce the quote with the words "like" or "all." Check it out!

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English can be a bit cruel in how it is spelled. Through a process known as "syncope," words get pronounced by native speakers in a shorter, more efficient fashion than how they are spelled. This episode focuses on these examples:

• Chocolate
• Interesting
• Clothes
• Comfortable
• Average
• Vegetable
• Camera
• Every

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