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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 329: Being Persuasive.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 329. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California. How are you today?

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This episode is called “Being Persuasive.” “To be persuasive” means to try to convince someone that what you are saying is true or right, or to do something. Let’s get started.

Sylvia: How would you like to take my sister, Donna, to the movies this weekend? You’d be doing me a favor.

Joon: Why? What’s wrong with her?

Sylvia: Nothing is wrong with her! She just broke up with her boyfriend of four years and she’s down in the dumps. She’s shy, so I thought I’d try to set her up on a date.

Joon: Off the top of my head, I can think of a dozen things I’d rather do than to take out anyone’s