Phrasal verbs are used all the time in natural spoken English. After a while, learning more vocabulary won’t improve your spoken English at all. You need to learn the little things like the use of phrasal verbs. It’s easy to notice the difference between native English speakers and non-native English speakers. It’s not the grammar and it’s not the vocabulary. How native speakers use slang and phrasal verbs is just so different from non native speakers. Even if a student’s spoken English is quite good, it still only takes a few seconds to notice the difference.
English schools don’t focus nearly enough on teaching how native speakers really talk to each other. There is some weird idea that teachers should teach really formal language. It makes no sense because no one uses this in daily life. Reading an English textbook is a joke. We never say stuff like “hello, how are you today?” although, many books teach things equally crazy.
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