“Oh my goodness!”

Sometimes you don’t realize the little things you do or say until someone points them out.  In my case my learners love to copy things that I say frequently.  Apparently I say “Oh my goodness” a lot because they walk around the school yard squealing “Oh my goodness”, they even seem to know when I am going to say it before it comes out of my mouth because they say it with me.  I think I am okay with the fact I say this particular phrase a lot though because it could be something a lot worse. I’ve learned that  I also like to draw out the word “okaaaayyy” and I say “how’s it going” a lot.  The good news is though these are simple words or phrases at least they understand and using English.  Randomly they’ve also decided they really like the word daft, one of their spelling and vocabulary words from last week.  This exchange goes both ways though because there are so many things I’ve found myself saying that I would never have said a year ago, for example “are we together?” or I describe learners as serious or clever more often than I should or I’ve started to use the adjective proper quite a bit. The one thing neither of us can seem to master is each other’s accents.