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  • A brand new ballgame
    A completely new and different situation
  • Pronunciation: Let the Confusion Begin
    Refers to how confusing pronunciation can be for learners
  • Let's dive into
    Let's start exploring or discussing something in detail
  • Breeze through
    Do something easily and quickly
  • The Case Case
    Refers to the complexity of grammatical cases in some languages
  • Like some linguistic Jenga game
    Refers to something tricky like rearranging sentence structures carefully as in the game Jenga
  • A cheat sheet
    A quick reference guide that makes something easier to understand or do
  • Like being dropped into a new video game with no tutorial
    Feeling lost or overwhelmed in a new situation without any guidance
  • We see you tripping over pronunciation
    We notice you are having difficulty with pronunciation
  • Simplicity… or so you’d think
    Something that appears simple but might be more complicated than it seems
  • Energy drinks
    Humorously implying that extra energy is needed to deal with a difficult task
  • Gender-free zone
    Refers to English not having grammatical gender for nouns unlike some other languages
  • Cue mistakes
    Mistakes are likely to follow in this situation
  • Sometimes it clicks
    It suddenly makes sense or is easily understood
  • A piece of cake
    Something very easy to do
  • No need to rearrange everything like a linguistic Jenga game
    No need to constantly change word order it's simpler than that
  • Hit a snag
    Encounter a problem or obstacle
  • What's the point?
    Why is this necessary or useful
  • Head-scratching
    Something puzzling or confusing
  • Glad that every noun gets treated equally in English
    Refers to the relief that English doesn’t have gendered nouns unlike languages that do