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Speaker 1: Do you need to recharge? No, no, I'm not talking

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about your phone. I'm referring to you. Maybe you need

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to slow down a bit or take a break. If

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any of those feelings are relatable, you've come to the

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right place. Today we're going to talk about slowing down,

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taking care of ourselves, and getting back our energy.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: Alright, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael here

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from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode nine eighty three,

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talking about rest in everyday English. Today we're going to

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look at some natural phrases native speakers use when they

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need to rest, slow down, or recharge, especially after being

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busy or feeling stressed. Let's start off with the most

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basic phrase, take a break. We use take a break

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when we stop working or stop focusing for a short time.

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Doesn't have to be long. For example, you might say

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I've been cleaning the house non stop all morning, I

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need to take a break, or at work, someone might say,

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let's take a short break and come back in ten minutes.

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You can also use take a break as advice, like

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you know you've been staring at that screen all day,

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why don't you take a break. This phrase is simple, polite,

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and very common. The next one is slow down. Slow

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down sounds like something you might say when someone is

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driving too fast, but in this context, we use slow

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down when life feels too fast or too intense. It's

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not about stopping completely, it's about changing the pace. Like recently,

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I've been working on two new courses and a bunch

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of new podcasts and videos. Maybe I need to slow

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down a bit. Or if someone looks exhausted, you might

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say you've been pushing yourself too hard. You should slow down.

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This phrase often comes up when people are talking about health, work,

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life balance, or long term stress. Another very common phrase

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is take it easy. We often use take it easy

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when we're talking about resting without pressure. For example, I'm

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not doing much this weekend. I'm just gonna take it easy.

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Or if someone is sick or tired, you might say,

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take it easy for a few days and see how

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you feel. After Steve had his knee surgery, his doctor

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told him to take it easy for a month. Take

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it Easy is casual and friendly and has a caring

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and relaxed tone. And by the way, take it easy

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is commonly used in other situations as well, like if

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someone is angry or upset, you can say something like Okay,

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take it easy as a way to calm them down,

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and we say hey, take it easy as a friendly,

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casual way of telling someone goodbye. Next, let's talk about

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get some rest and rest up. We often use get

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some rest when someone is tired or needs recovery, Like

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at the end of a long day, you can tell

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your friend, hey, you look exhausted. You should get some

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rest tonight. And last night one of my friends invited

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me to go out for a drink, but I just

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told him that I wanted to stay home and get

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some rest. In a similar way, we use rest up.

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Sometimes adding up after a verb means do that completely,

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So when you rest up, you rest completely. Like I've

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been training for a marathon for a few months now,

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but the day before the race, I'm just gonna stay

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home and rest up. When you rest up, you save

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your energy or save your strength for another time. Now,

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let's look at some technology related words. The first one

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is recharge. When you finished using your phone for the day,

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you plug it in to recharge the battery right Well

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with this image, we use recharge when our mental battery

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needs more energy, and we use recharge when we need

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to pause for a while to get more mental or

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emotional rest. Like I didn't go anywhere this weekend, I

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just stayed home to recharge, or spending time with my

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family helps me recharge. Recharge sounds positive. It means you're

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doing something or doing nothing so you can come back

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with more energy. And here's one more technology related phrase,

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to unplug. Literally, unplug means to disconnect a device from

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the power source. Like after you vacuum the floor, you

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unplug the vacuum cleaner and put it away. That's the

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basic meaning of unplug. By the way, the opposite is

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plug in. You plug in the vacuum, clean the room,

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then unplug the vacuum. Well, when it comes to people,

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unplug means to disconnect yourself from something like stop using

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your laptop or your phone. Like me, for example, this weekend,

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I'm going to unplug and not think about work. Or

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sometimes I need to unplug and spend time away from

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my phone. Using unplug this way is very common nowadays,

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especially when people feel overwhelmed by constant messages and notifications

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and social media. All right, so let's put this all together.

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We take a break when we stop for a short time.

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We slow down when life feels too fast. We take

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it easy when we want to light pressure free rest.

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We get some rest when we're tired and need recovery.

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We recharge to get our energy back, and we unplug

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when we disconnect from technology. Nice set of English phrases

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to talk about relaxing and keep in mind, the best

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way to remember English like this and any other word

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or phrase in English, is to take that word or phrase,

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write it in a sentence that's true for you or

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true in your world, and then memorize your sentences. That's

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how you build fluency. Hey, thanks for listening, and remember

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learning another language is not easy, but it's not impossible,

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and I'm here to help you on your journey.

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