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Guest Posting Friday

Hello D.Buzz crew, welcome to the Friday Guest post.

We want to collaborate with the community and help everyone learn and grow. Today we are thrilled to be collaborating with @SumatraNate. He has submitted the following article, focusing on learning English, and that is awesome. The article and views expressed are not from D.Buzz, please let us know if you have any concerns or questions about the content in the comments or let us know on Discord. We are open to other guests posters as well, contact us to discuss this more.

Thank you and here is the guest post. :)

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• Please Note : This will be the last guest post from @SumatraNate for a little bit. The D.Buzz team wants to extend a BIG thank you to @SumatraNate for the many great articles. We hope to work with you again soon!

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Hey everyone, my name is @SumatraNate. In this guest post, I will be sharing four new Words of the Week!

Let’s LEAP right in – Learn, Encourage, Acknowledge, and Practice.

LEARN

We had a great group of words this week. If you have not had a chance to review our most recent words, I am sharing their meanings below:

• Plausible (adjective) - can be believed or reasonable
• Reprieve (noun) - a short period of rest / postponement of a sentence
• Tawdry (adjective) - of little value / gaudy
• Abstain (verb) - to go without or withdraw

To read example sentences, be sure to check out @Definitions on D.Buzz, where I share new a word four days a week – Monday through Thursday.

If you prefer to listen to the Words of the Week, watch this video!

ENCOURAGE

My encouragement for the week is: Engage your ears.

We have more ears than mouths for a reason. Communication is as much about listening as it is about speaking. When you are learning a new language, it is important to engage your ears (listening) just as much as you engage your mouth (speaking). Take time to listen to a native speaker - songs, YouTube videos, TV shows.

ACKNOWLEDGE

A big thanks to @ahmadmangazap. I appreciate that you have been writing sentences that I post on @definitions. It means a lot that you are taking the time to practice with new words.

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I believe it is important to acknowledge people's efforts and improvement. How do I plan to do that?

• I want to showcase English learners who are practicing, improving, and becoming better communicators. I hope that I will be able to add your name here soon.
• I will be rewarding quality, authentic engagement with ENGAGE tokens.

PRACTICE

It is time to practice.

Write 1 or 2 sentences using all of this week’s words. There will be a special surprise for the person who writes the best sentence.

Thanks for stopping by and letting me be apart of your English journey!

Have a blessed day, and keep practicing English! I look forward to the next time we can meet again!


Signing off!
@Sumatranate on behalf of @EnglishWithNate and @Definitions

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More About SumatraNate:
I am a native English speaker from the United States who has a passion for helping people become good communicators. While living in Indonesia, I taught conversational English.

Trust me! I understand how hard it is to learn a new language. I have experience learning a new language and interacting with people who are learning a new language.

Communication is an important part of being human. Since it impacts our everyday lives, we need to understand the goal of communication. I believe that the goal of communication is to “hear and be heard.”

• “hear” = carefully listening to what other people say
• ”be heard” = speaking in such a way that people understand our message

The ultimate goal is to understand one another.

Over and out.

- D.Buzz

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