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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 611: Having an Overbearing Father.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 611. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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This episode is called “Having an Overbearing Father.” Someone who is “overbearing” is very controlling. This is a dialogue between a father and his daughter, and you’re going to see how the father tries to control his daughter. He thinks it’s normal, she thinks it’s too much. Let’s get started.

Dad: Where are you going?

Eva: Out.

Dad: Out where?

Eva: Dad, I’m nearly a grown woman. You don’t need be so overbearing. You give me the third degree every time I leave the house.

Dad: As long as you live