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Culture & CustomsTuesday 26 May 2026
Instead of: "I am boring with their traditions"
Say: "I find their traditions fascinating"
The verb "to bore" doesn't work this way in English; "find + adjective" is the natural way to express your feelings about something, and it sounds more genuinely interested rather than passively disengaged.
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