Elif is collecting money for a goodbye gift at their office in New York, and she asks Rohan for forty dollars. Listen for how he says it's too much without refusing, and how she fixes it.
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Practice · 3 min
Record Rohan's line "Forty? Oh. Okay. That's, um—that's quite a bit, actually." Leave a short gap after each of the first three words. Play the model and compare. The pauses carry the message before the words do: the listener hears "that's too much" long before he says "quite a bit."
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