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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for spending time with me today. I'm sure

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that you'll feel that by listening to this podcast you'll

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be spending your time wisely. Today I'm gonna help you

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build your vocabulary, and I hope that doesn't make you

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too spent.

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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: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast Episode eight thirty four.

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Here's how to spend. Hello and welcome. Thanks for joining

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me for another episode of the Happy English Podcast. I'm

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your English teacher Michael, and I'm so glad you're here

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with me today. We're going to talk about using spend,

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a small word with a lot of power. Now you

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might just think that it's about money, but spend has

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a few really useful and interesting meanings, and if you

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are like a lot of English learners, you might sometimes

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get tripped up on how to use spend. So let's

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break it down together. The most common way we use

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spend is with time. You can say that you spend

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time doing something, or you can mention a specific amount

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of time, like today I spent an hour cleaning the house.

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Thanks Max, I spent an hour. You can also spend

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the weekend, spend three years, or spend your whole life,

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like I spent a lot of time looking for a

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new computer, or we spent the weekend in Boston. It

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was great. Jenny said. She spends several hours a day

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working in her garden and it shows it looks amazing.

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You can also spend time with someone, like I spent

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the day with my grandmother, or we love spending time

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with our friends on the weekends. So spend time with

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someone is a warm, friendly phrase, and in a similar

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but deeper way. You can spend your life doing something.

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We use spend your life doing something when we talk

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about long term projects or activities like mother Teresa spent

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her life helping people, or Frank and his wife bought

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an RV so they can spend the rest of their

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life traveling around the country. It gives a sense of

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pers and how someone uses their time overall. Of course,

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you can also spend money. You can say that you

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spend money on something, or you can be more specific,

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like spend one hundred dollars or spend a lot of money,

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like Jack said he spent a lot of money on

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that suit, or Eddie spent one thousand dollars in Vegas

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and lost everything, and me, well, I don't go to

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Starbucks much. I don't want to spend five bucks on

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one cup of coffee. And speaking of money, it's a

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good idea to spend wisely. This means to use your

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money in a practical way, like not wasting your money.

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I remember when I was a kid and I got

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paid the first time for my part time job. My

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dad told me to spend my money. Why it's good advice, right.

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We usually use spend wisely when we talk about money,

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but spend wisely can also be used for time too,

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Like we only have three days here in New York City,

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so let's spend our time wisely so that we can

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see and do as much as possible. And here's another

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cool way to use spend We can talk about spending energy.

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This is a pretty common way to talk about things

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that take a lot of work or focus. When you

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spend energy doing something, you're using your effort, Like we

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spent a lot of energy researching the best way to

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upgrade the website, or Jenny spent a lot of energy

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putting together a really nice party for Jack's birthday. In

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other words, it took her a lot of effort and

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hard work to make that party happen. You get the idea.

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Spending energy is all about putting in effort. And by

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the way, you can also be spent. When you spend

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all of the energy in your body or the energy

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in your brain, you are spent. That's right. To be

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spent means to be exhausted or really tired. You might

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say something like I was totally spent after the race,

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or maybe you look spent. What happened? When you say

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I'm spent, it's like saying I've got nothing left in

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the tank, no more energy. You're done. You're spent, So

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there you go. Spend might seem simple, but it's a

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super useful word with lots of real life uses. Keep

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an ear out for it in conversations and try using

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it in these different ways. You'll sound more natural and fluent.

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And hey, thanks for spending some time with me today.

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I hope it was time well spent. Keep in mind,

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the best way to remember English like this and any

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other word or phrase in English, is to take that

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word or phrase, write it in a sentence that's true

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for you or true in your world. Then memorize your sentences.

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thirty four. Remember, learning another language is not easy, but

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