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  • Conversation in English and other languages

  • is back and forth, it's trading information and trading comments

  • So, today someone asked me, "What are your hobbies?"

  • I thought of seven different ways that I could tell them what I really like to do.

  • I responded, "I enjoy playing guitar."

  • "I enjoy, I enjoy playing guitar."

  • I could also say, "I love, I love to play guitar."

  • or, "My favorite thing to do is to play guitar."

  • or, "I spend my free time playing guitar."

  • or, "My passion is playing guitar."

  • or, "For fun, I play guitar."

  • There's lots of ways to show that you take pleasure from doing something

  • And you can ask that person, "Do you play guitar?"

  • "Do you like to sing a song?"

  • "Can we write a song together?"

  • or what ever it might be

  • It is a way to find out whether someone else shares your same hobby

  • or passion or past time

  • Also, it is a polite way to show you are pleased that they asked you about your self.

  • Because that's one of our favorite subjects is talking about ourselves or what we like to do.

  • You can practice these different ways of responding to a question

  • and if you are in an interview or some type of conversation with someone

  • varying the way you describe things you like to do can be very useful.

  • I love to play guitar. I also enjoy cooking.

  • I really like to travel

  • For me, learning to cook something from a different culture is great fun

  • And my passion is for writing songs and teaching English

  • so you can link all of those positive statements together

  • to make a whole paragraph describing all the things that you like

  • The more things that you mention,

  • the higher the chance the person you are speaking with

  • can get to know you better

  • or maybe they share the same hobby

  • I tend to hang out with people who are interested in guitar or cooking

  • or traveling or writing songs or writing about English

  • The old phrase, "Birds of a feather, flock together."

  • an English phrase meaning people that share the same passions and hobbies and beliefs tend to associate together.

  • so for me, there's seven people that I know

  • each from a different country

  • with whom I make music so we call ourselves "The United Nations Band

  • because every one is from a different place

  • but we have that one thing in common and it's the music

  • These are all ways you can respond to the question

  • about your hobby or what interests you in a way that shows you listened

  • and shows that you have some great feeling, passion or love for the thing they asked about.

Conversation in English and other languages

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