{"id":53110,"date":"2014-11-26T01:02:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T01:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/aee\/english-make-friends-italki-teacher-nice-vance\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T15:55:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T15:55:25","slug":"english-make-friends-italki-teacher-nice-vance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/english-make-friends-italki-teacher-nice-vance\/","title":{"rendered":"AEE 226: How to “80\/20” Your English to Make More Friends with italki Teacher Nick Vance"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can you make the most of the time you invest in studying?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today Lindsay talks with Nick Vance about the 80\/20 principle, and how it can improve your English conversations!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nick believes that 80% of the positive benefits of something come from 20% of the input.  In business, some customers are more valuable than others.  With friends, though you may have many, only a few are truly close.<\/p>\n

In learning English, most of the grammar mistakes a new learner makes are really the same mistake over and over.  Correcting these most common 20% of mistakes would eliminate 80% of all grammar mistakes.  The best way to identify these is by working with a teacher who can help point out your mistakes.<\/p>\n

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Lindsay recommends italki as our #1 English-learning solution online. Choose from more than 400 teachers to work on your business English or to pass your next big exam.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Another way to work with the 80\/20 principle is to prepare answers to the most common questions you might get from native English speakers.  This will help you comfortably get conversations started \u2014 which is probably 80% of the work!<\/p>\n

You might prepare answers to questions like:<\/p>\n