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top 10 language learning strategies
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befriending or dating someone who speaks
english
watching movies or listening to music in
english
read english newspapers or magazines
record your voice and compare your
pronunciation with
native english speakers download
dialogue tracks and listen to english
conversations
repeat the phrases that you hear out
loud again
and again review all the lessons
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completely read lines slowly at first
then re-read and increase your speed
set small and measurable learning goals
with your personal deadlines
try harder lessons to challenge yourself
and improve faster
and ways to stop translating in your
head
let's get started identify
objects around you in english the first
way to stop translating in your head is
to
identify the objects around you in your
target language so if you're studying
english that means
you look at the objects around the room
look at the things
in your life don't think of them in your
native language first think of them in
your target language first
so if i look around the room i see a
computer i shouldn't think
my native language word i should think
my target language word so start with
the items and the situations in your
everyday life if i say computer in
english maybe i should say computa in
japanese
i should say not i don't know water in
english i should say omizu
in japanese so start associating the
words
in your target language with your
everyday life
now so if you're studying english that
means start
getting familiar with the things in your
everyday life
in english repeat phrases you hear
native speakers use
tip number two is to repeat the phrases
that you hear
native speakers use so if you're
watching this channel for example
or you're watching a tv show or a movie
listen for the way that native speakers
make those phrases
if you hear a phrase you have never
heard before or you hear an interesting
combination of words
try to repeat them yourself don't just
listen try to say them yourself if
you're in a public space and it's
difficult for you to do that
fine practice in a place where you feel
more comfortable maybe if you have some
private space to practice
just repeat them get your mouth used to
saying the words
the way that the speakers the native
speakers do
so if you never actually say words if
you're only taking
in if you're only listening and you're
not actually producing the language it's
it's kind of hard to to practice and to
to really hone your pronunciation to
improve your pronunciation
so when you listen to native speakers
try to repeat
after them so for example if you're
studying english
you can try to repeat after this video
you can repeat after the things i'm
saying
because maybe i'm using an expression or
i'm using
a certain series of vocabulary words
together
the way a native speaker would and it's
maybe a good idea to try to practice the
ways that native speakers put their
words together so try to repeat
after native speakers especially when
you're looking at media
and you can do this when you're reading
books too you can try to read out
read out loud interesting lines of books
that you find or something that maybe is
difficult for you
very nice practice tip make a situation
where you can't escape
into your native language make a
situation where you can't escape into
your native language
essentially means immerse yourself of
course
going to that country or going to a
place where you
can speak only that language is very
difficult for some of you
totally understand but if in your life
you can create a situation in your
library in your room
in your house somewhere for just an hour
or
i don't know maybe a day i don't know
what your schedule is like but
if you can create a situation or create
an environment where you have
no choice but to use that language
and you cannot escape meaning you cannot
go back to using your native language as
a crutch you can't use the native
language at all
it forces you to use the language that
you're studying
so of course if you are lucky enough to
live in the country or to
live in a place where people speak the
language you're studying
great but you have to go out and
interact with people you have to put
yourself in a place
where you have no choice but to speak
it's very hard and it's very scary and
it's very embarrassing
at first but if you take time to find
places and to make
environments that are comfortable for
you where you feel comfortable making
mistakes
and asking questions it's very valuable
for your learning process this is
actually something that i did totally i
totally did this
my japanese wasn't very good for a long
time
but then i started making friends who
could not speak
english actually i just did this through
finding hobbies there was a hobby that i
had
i joined a group i joined actually a
school to where i could learn how to do
that hobby
and everything was taught only in
japanese
and the people in my class only spoke
japanese mostly
and then maybe we would go out for
drinks and food late at night or on the
weekends and
everybody spoke only japanese and if i
couldn't communicate
even simply in japanese i had no hope of
keeping that friendship together
so it forced me to study it forced me to
think about the words they were using
and to try to learn those words those
patterns
as well as how to produce them naturally
myself so i was learning the vocabulary
words
the people around me were using and
learning how to apply them
on my own that was only possible because
i had no escape
in those situations so try to do that
even if you can do it yourself in your
house it's super helpful i think
watch tv and movies in your target
language without subtitles
tip number four is to watch tv and
movies in your target language
without subtitles without subtitles so
i think that watching with subtitles can
be very beneficial
so if i'm watching something or if you
want to watch something with subtitles
on
great but i sometimes find that i can in
my case i
i think too much about reading the
subtitles and i forget to listen
so maybe if you've seen a movie in your
target language a few times
with the subtitles on try turning the
subtitles
off and think about the like character's
body language the words they're using
um you can always look that up later
look up the
you know the words you don't know in a
dictionary but try to do it
where you're focusing completely on the
way that people are using their words
try
not to use the subtitles so um kind of
play around with it a little bit if
there's a word that's difficult for you
to hear
you can actually turn on the subtitles
in like the
in the native language of the movie as
well
that's something that i've done like if
uh like if i wanted to study japanese
it's very useful when the actual words
spoken
in japanese appear on the screen
sometimes it's easier for me to catch
a word if i see it visually and i hear
it at the same time so another way to
kind of
explore how you can use tv and movies
is to actually turn on the closed
captions like the
the the words on the screen in the
native language
of the movie so uh so this is sort of
two points in one so one
watch movies without subtitles meaning
subtitles in your native language
and hint two is to watch movies um with
closed captioning on not
to your available okay so give me a
second here so i understand the
dictionaries
especially electronic dictionaries we
have them on our phones now are very
very convenient
of course it's important to use them and
it's a they're a great resource to
have however one thing that uh really
bothers me
and that i think is detrimental it's not
helpful for students is when uh students
are in a lesson and they're practicing
conversation
and they reach a point in the
conversation where they don't know the
word they want to use they know it in
their native language
and they don't know how to say it in
their target language
they pull out their dictionary they say
to this the person listening to them
their practice partner
in their lesson where they have a
limited period of time
just a moment and then they look it up
on their phone
it takes a few seconds the flow of the
conversation stops
and then they say a word and it's like
whoa
no that's not you don't have that
ability you don't have
the ability to do that in a conversation
with a native speaker
most people like if you go to a bank and
try to open a bank account are you
really gonna pull out your dictionary
and
sit there and try to communicate you
know just a moment just a moment
as you look up each word you don't know
no or if you do that's not a real
conversation
so instead try using a different
strategy
by that i mean if you find a word you
don't know in conversation
explain the word to your conversation
partner
maybe they know the word if you're
speaking with a native speaker this is a
chance for them to teach you
a word i find that when people take the
time to teach me
a word i remember the word much better
than just looking it up on my dictionary
so try to resist maybe you can bring a
dictionary to your lesson but don't use
it or try
not to use it in your conversation
practice it's just
it destroys the flow of a conversation
so instead
practice the skill of describing the
vocabulary word you want to use and
learn how to ask the meaning of a word
or learn how to ask for
a vocabulary word from your partner so
you can use an expression like ah what's
the word that means blah blah blah
or um you know it's this thing that does
this and this and this so
this is an opportunity for you to
describe characteristics of something or
find a different way you can use your
body language you can use
whatever you have a lot of tools but try
not to use a dictionary in a
conversation because it's not realistic
train responses to common questions
number six is a quick one i think number
six hint number six i have
is just to train responses to common
questions
train responses to common questions so
for example
a very common question in english is hey
how are you
you should know how to answer this
question just have a default response
hey how are you
i'm good if it takes you
a long time to answer the question hey
how are you
you need to practice i think that's a
pretty good uh
a pretty good indicator so for example
sometimes i ask
students a question like that they they
haven't quite
gotten the idea of how to respond just
yet they they're not so
quick at responding i say uh hey how are
you and they say yes
and then they think and they go i'm uh
i'm
good and it's like that's a very common
question
so think about just a default response
that you can spit out that you can
quickly say
if it's how was your weekend or hey
what's up or what do you want to do for
dinner tonight
think about like just a handful meaning
just a few
responses to those questions and train
them quickly just
how are you i'm good how are you i'm
okay how are you
not bad there's three so it's just
training responses to those questions
there's no reason to be surprised by a
question like how are you
like that's a very common question so
for those common questions
train responses to that we've got a
bunch of videos
especially beginner level videos for
some example responses you can do
so don't get stuck with these little
questions just train a few responses
practice a few responses till they feel
natural to you it'll save you time
and it'll help the person asking the
question too to move forward in the
conversation
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study with materials that don't provide
a translation
the next tip is to study with materials
that don't
provide a translation so by this i mean
if you're using worksheets and or some
kind of textbook
or whatever and it has your target
language the language you're studying
and it has your native language next to
it while this can be useful
i feel that if you can studying your
materials
only in your target language and then
simplified explanations for
more detailed points also in your target
language
can be a little bit better so i don't
want to say like you should only study
things
in your target language and nothing from
your native language because of course
like it can be helpful sometimes to look
up a word or to understand a grammar
point in your native language
but where possible if you can find
something that provides simplified
explanations in your target language it
can be really really helpful because
again
you're thinking you're learning to think
on like a simpler on a more basic level
about the language you're studying in
the language that you're studying so
this can be really really good so
finding some materials to use
where there's no translation maybe you
can practice
of course with with books and with
written materials
but also with like video materials as
well so
there are a variety of different ways
that you can
find materials in your target language
like in video and tv so some things to
think about there
are the level of vocabulary words people
are using in the media content you're
watching
who the media content is intended for
children young adults adults
uh the speed at which the speaker is
talking so like i have the ability to
change the level of difficulty
of uh videos based on the rate of speech
the vocabulary words that i use and how
many like idioms and things i use
so i could make a video very difficult
we could make a very like a very
difficult video series
by leveling up our vocabulary use or by
speaking very quickly
or as you might see in like our english
and three minutes series
um we can also use very simple
vocabulary and speak at a low rate of
speech so maybe right now this is a very
intermediate level video
so please think about that so not just
for um
written materials but also for your
audio and visual materials think about
um who your audience is the level of the
material and so on
it can be really fun uh and it can be
helpful to think about
your your target language in your target
language all right we're almost done
study phrases in addition to single
vocabulary
the next tip is study phrases in
addition to single vocabulary words so
yes of course vocabulary is important
but
i find it personally very very useful
to look at how a vocabulary word is used
in a phrase because sometimes using it
in a phrase
helps you understand the nuance of that
vocabulary word really really well
so if i like a word like crazy for
example in english
depending on the situation where the
word crazy
is used it could mean something
different it could mean like
a person who's mentally confused or
mixed up
it could also mean something really good
it could mean something really bad
so if we look only at the word crazy
it's quite difficult to understand
really the meaning of the word
but if you look at the way the word is
used in a phrase
you can get a lot more information so
take a look at the way people use words
in
phrases not just as single vocabulary
words you can learn a lot more that way
i think do your daily activities in
english where possible
the next tip is to do your daily
activities in your target language
so if you're studying english that means
trying to do some daily activities in
english if possible
so this can be very very boring stuff
but just think about it
when you're doing the activity so like
right now i'm
filming a video for englishclass101.com
or
i'm going to work i'm cooking breakfast
i'm doing the laundry
what do i have to do tomorrow so try
thinking about your
everyday life in english if you're
studying english
try thinking about your everyday
activities the people that you meet
what are you doing so this is a way to
help you practice your verbs so if you
don't know if you're
i don't know you're doing something at
work and you're like oh my gosh how do i
explain the
what's the verb for you know a picture
like i want to
blah blah a picture what's the word you
can check a dictionary at that point and
go ah it's
draw i i need to use the verb draw for
draw a picture
so you can find these little gaps in
your everyday life
these little gaps in your knowledge if
you think about
your everyday activities in your target
language if you don't think about it in
your target language
you might not realize you have
vocabulary gaps or phrase gaps here and
there so this is a really good and kind
of funny
actually way to study use a learner's
dictionary for new words
the last tip is to use a learner's
dictionary for new words so in
english there are learners dictionaries
available in english so
my favorite my personal favorite is
merriam-webster merriam-webster
is a fantastic dictionary resource
they're so
interesting and they have tons of like
historical information i
really do just sit and like read things
on the dictionary page
lately it's true but um
of course there's a definition there's a
meaning for words there are example
sentences for words
but merriam-webster also has what's
called a
learner's dictionary if you find a word
that you don't recognize you can check
it
in a dictionary in a learner's
dictionary and it gives you
a simplified a simple explanation in
simple english
of that word so instead of checking it
in your native language you can check it
in your target language so
again this helps you to understand the
word
um that you are that you're focused on
but you understand it
from the language you're studying not
from your native language so using a
learner's dictionary can be really
really useful as well
all right 10 ways to report speech
let's go say
the first word is say say as a verb
say is a very neutral word you can use
to report
someone's speech to explain something
someone said in the past so for example
he said the barbecue was cancelled
just a simple neutral report
tell the next verb is tell
tell is used when one person is giving
information to
another to tell someone something they
did not
know before don't say tell me your phone
number that's weird
but like uh can you tell me where the
station is can you tell me where
to buy a hamburger can you tell me where
to
pick up my new car like so giving
someone information they don't know or
or on the other hand explaining
something one way to another person
so don't tell me what i can't do is a
very good lost reference if you've ever
watched lost
so tell another example sentence my boss
told me i was doing a good job
speak the next one
is speak speak so we use
speak when we're talking about uh
language ability like i speak english i
speak japanese
we can use speak in the past tense to
report something but it usually sounds a
little more
formal so like i spoke to my boss about
or
i spoke to my parents about or i spoke
to my
boyfriend or girlfriend about blah blah
blah
that using speak instead of talked
makes it sound a little bit more formal
so you can use
speak but it's going to sound polite in
a sentence
my colleagues spoke with me about an
upcoming project
was like okay the next one uh the next
two
actually are very very casual
expressions so when you're speaking with
friends and you're
kind of talking about a quick maybe
somewhat emotional conversation
you will hear native speakers especially
americans perhaps
this is unique somewhat to americans use
the phrase
was like i was like he was like
she was like this is a very casual way
to report
speech and you'll hear it often very
very quickly
together so someone will say i was like
what and then she was like no and then i
was like yeah
that's the kind of pattern you'll hear
it in very very quick ways to report
speech
but the subject changes i was like he
was like she was like we were like
this is a way to share what happens
quickly instead of i said he said she
said
which might sound a little too formal we
can use i was like
he was like to do that instead so this
is a really fun one
and if you can use this uh naturally i
think that it'll really help you sound
more natural too
so in a sentence and then he was like i
love that movie
was all the next one is also similar to
was like
we have the expression was all so was
all don't worry about all all does not
have the meaning of the whole of
something or a complete something
instead was all this set phrase is used
to report
speech usually this one is used when
there's some kind of
emotional uh emotional aspect to your
conversation or it's a little dramatic
or
maybe a little exciting we use it the
same way as
was like in that very very quick style
of speaking
and then he was like and i was all and
then she was like and i was all
we use those together but i was all has
a little more emphasis
i feel i tend to use it when my when i
want to express a stronger emotion
and i was all no way or and i was all
what
so you can use it for those very like
surprised emotions or maybe angry
emotions
was like and was all are both used in
very
casual situations so in a sentence and i
was all
oh my god me too talk
the next word is talk so talk similar to
uh say is a fairly neutral verb when
reporting
speech you'll use it in a situation
where
someone is giving new information
to you but maybe it's a two-way
conversation
so for example we talked about blah blah
blah
for a topic or my boss talked
to me about blah blah blah so maybe
new information is being exchanged but
the conversation is two-way there are
multiple participants with tell it's
like
the nuance is sort of one person is
reporting information
giving information with talked it's
there's an exchange happening there
so keep in mind when you use the word
talk
you will say either i i talked to or i
talked
with someone and then you'll usually
have a topic so i talked to my friend
about
blah blah blah i talked to my friend
about my new apartment i talked to my
boss about a raise i talked to my boss
no i talked to my dog about what dogs do
so there's some kind of there's some
kind of exchange
happening there you'll need to use to or
with
when you're referring to the person or
entity you're talking to
and you'll use about to refer to the
subject
so you can use this one um yeah when
you're when you want to discuss
exchanges of information so in a
sentence she talked to me about my
family
mention let's go to the next one the
next one is
mention mention is used when like
something
is just there's just one small point in
a conversation like
just a little side note or maybe it's
not the focus of a conversation but just
something someone says
quickly or there's just a little thing
that you hear
oh you mentioned something about blah
blah blah or
you mentioned that a new project like
it's it's maybe not the focus of the
conversation but something that
you heard a little bit about that's
that's when we use the verb
mention we can also use it in a
statement like please
uh mention any skills you have on a
resume so
the nuance is sort of like a like just a
little bit of information
is when we use mention so in a sentence
our manager mentioned upcoming changes
at the company
to go on and on okay the next expression
is to go
on and on so to go on and on means just
to
talk for a very long time so maybe you
have a co-worker or a friend or a family
member
that just talks and does not stop
talking
we say to go on and on that's the
expression we use so in a sentence
the speaker at the seminar was going on
and on about the topic if you really
want to emphasize it you can say what's
going on and on and on and on and on and
that really emphasizes that the person
continues to speak
so if you know somebody um who does that
a lot you can use this
expression to talk about them according
to
uh the next expression here is according
to according to
is used uh actually in the news or like
to officially report something
so according to sources or according to
the police according to the government
official according to
my teacher according to my mother these
are like direct reports
of information and they're direct
reports of information
from a specific source so according to
the newspaper
my f neighborhood has 50
000 amazing ramen shops
that's not true but if
i want to instead of just saying my
neighborhood has 50 000
amazing ramen shops i'm giving a source
for that so according to my newspaper
this is this is where i got the
information so this is important to use
in
news and newspapers and any kind of
official documentation you will see and
hear according to
in these cases ah in a sentence
according to a witness at the scene the
suspect escaped
report great so um the next one is
report so
reports similar to according to we use
report in more official situations so
to officially share information like to
report
to the police to report to your teacher
to report to
your boss sometimes it means to submit
documentation
like to to give someone a written report
sometimes
it's to share information officially
just just with your voice to report
news or to report an update so when you
want to
give and give official information we'll
use the verb
report so in a sentence sources in the
area report that the accident
was not serious thank goodness
all right top 10 must-know phrases for
the restaurant
let's get started a table for three
please
a table for three please you tell them
the number of people that you are
total so that the host can bring you to
an appropriate table
a table for two please a table for
five please could i please see a menu
could i please see a menu usually
menus are given to you as soon as you
sit down at your table
but if that's not the case and you need
to ask this is a polite way to do it
could i please see a menu i'd like to
try this dish
i'd like to try this dish when looking
at a menu
hopefully you'll find something you want
to eat i'd like to try this dish
could you leave out the onions could you
leave out the onions
if there's an ingredient in the dish
that you're ordering that you don't want
you can always ask the waiter if it
could be prepared
without that ingredient so for example i
might say
could i get the burger but with no
cheese could you pass the salt could you
pass the salt
when you're at a restaurant especially
if you're at a big table with a lot of
people
you might not always be able to reach
things so
you would ask could you pass me the salt
could you pass me the ketchup could you
pass me another napkin
waiter waiter a waiter is someone who
takes your order
and brings you food in america and in
many other western countries
it's more polite to call a waiter to
your table by simply saying
excuse me or if you see another waiter
walking by but it's not your waiter
you can always say excuse me if you see
our waiter could you please let them
know to come to our table
is there any dairy in this dish is there
any dairy in this dish
this is something you would say if you
have a dairy allergy
a dairy intolerance or you just don't
like dairy
you're asking the waiter about the
ingredients in a particular dish
i do this all the time is there any
cheese in this
no okay and if there is an ingredient
that you don't want
for example onions you could say are
there any onions in this
and the waiter might say yes and if you
don't want it you could always request
could you leave out the onions could you
prepare it without the onions please
can we get separate chex can we get
separate chex
this is actually something that's very
common especially in america
if you might go out with a group of
friends or even if you're on a date
sometimes you might want to get separate
checks pay for your
own things that way you can all pay
separately
just for what you yourself ordered and
you won't have to worry
about owing each other money or
calculating off a big huge bill
are there any specials today are there
any specials today
a special at a restaurant is a dish that
isn't usually
on the menu it's something that's
special but it's a special
that the chef is offering that day or
that week or that month
so sometimes if you don't see what the
specials are you'd ask your waiter
excuse me are there any specials today
could we have the bill please
could we have the bill please this is
how you request
that the check or the bill comes to your
table
could we get the check please could we
get the bill please
you're asking this to your waiter who
will then bring you the check
and you can pay 10 words that you can
use at a bar
let's go to buy a round the first
expression
is to buy a round to buy a round
means to buy a round of drinks
essentially a round of drinks means one
drink for
everyone in your group one drink for
everyone in your party
by the way the word party is used to
mean group at a bar or restaurant
the number of people in your party is
the number of people in your group
so to buy a round means to buy a drink
for
everybody in a sentence our boss began
the party by buying everyone
around in a different sentence you're
buying the next round
on the rocks the next expression is on
the rocks
on the rocks is a way to order a drink
when you say on the rocks it means your
drink
on ice only so rocks are the ice in your
glass
so you can imagine the ice the pieces of
ice in your glass the ice cubes or an
ice ball these are like
rocks so saying i'd like whiskey
for example on the rocks means just
whiskey uh
served over ice that's what on the rocks
mean so in a sentence
i'd like a gin on the rocks straight up
the next expression is straight up so a
straight up drink is different
from an on-the-rocks drink a straight-up
drink is chilled
uh with ice but it's strained so there's
no ice
in the drink but it is it has been
chilled with ice
so a straight-up drink there's nothing
else in the glass but it is a chilled
drink
in a sentence i'd like a martini
straight up
some people use the word straight or
straight up but they mean
neat which is the next word we're going
to talk about so keep in mind straight
or straight up means chilled that's one
of the key points here
so yeah a martini straight up is a
chilled martini
neat so the next expression is neat
to order a drink neat means the drink is
not chilled and there is no ice
it's just it's just the the alcohol it's
just the liquor there's nothing
special about it a neat drink is
only the drink that's it nothing happens
to it so in a sentence
i'd like a whiskey neat pint
half pint the next expression is really
two
expressions these are words you use when
you order beer
they are pint and half pint depending on
the country that you live in
pint can be a different size they vary
by a few milliliters depending on the
country where you live in
a half pint then is roughly half of the
pint
size so a half pint and a pint are two
ways two
sizes we use to order beer in a sentence
can i have a half
pint of this stout chaser the next
expression is
chaser so a chaser is something you use
to
follow an alcoholic drink chasers are
often used after
shots so shots are small drinks that are
usually kind of strong in alcohol
content
and they have a very strong taste so
some people like to
have something after that and they call
it a chaser so the image
is that the the second drink is chasing
the first drink into your body you can
think of it that way the chaser is a
non-alcoholic drink so it could be water
it could be soda it could be something
like that juice
maybe so chaser in a sentence shots of
tequila are often followed with chasers
to be tipsy the next word is to be tipsy
to be tipsy is a way to describe your
feeling when you're drinking
so if you can imagine when you're when
you're standing
straight up when you're standing as
regular you're very like confident and
tall and you don't move very much
but if you feel tipsy this comes from
the verb
to tip like this so something tips uh to
one side or another
think of your body in this way so we use
the word
tipsy the adjective tipsy to describe
this feeling maybe
you're not so steady on your feet you
could tip over
at any time that's called being tipsy
from alcohol
okay so in a sentence uh let's see i'm a
little tipsy i need some water
to be drunk the next expression is to be
drunk so we talked about the word tipsy
so tipsy is a little bit like a little
unsteady but
drunk is just a mess you're just you're
just a disaster maybe you're being noisy
you're being loud it's difficult to
control your body or your friend's body
whatever so drunk is usually
seen as a negative thing um so yeah so
drunk
uh expresses yeah it's it's just not
pretty
sometimes so in a sentence your friend
is drunk let's take him home
to call it a night the next expression
is to call it
a night to call it a night means to
decide to
finish at the bar to go home uh you're
ready to be done
so uh here i'm going to call it i'm
going to say
this is tonight tonight is finished
so in a sentence it's been a long
evening
i'm going to call it a night mean i'm
going to go home
i'm done it's a casual expression
hangover
and then one more that you can use maybe
the day after you visit a bar
is hangover so a hangover is a noun
hangover is the word we use to describe
the feelings
after drinking too much so maybe you
feel sick to your stomach you have a
headache
your body is sore there are a number of
different feelings
you might have when you feel hung over
to be hungover is another way to say it
but when you have a hangover
it usually doesn't feel very good in a
sentence
i have a hangover today i'm not going
drinking tonight
at the top 25 english phrases so let's
get started
the first phrase is hello hello of
course is used as a greeting you can
greet your friends you can greet your
co-workers your family with this phrase
just by saying
hello hey hi what's up hello sup
yo pretty much any time of day you can
use hello
hello the next phrase is good morning
good morning is used as a greeting
in the morning you can kind of feel when
morning ends for you
good morning is nice and polite or even
just morning
with your close friends or close
co-workers the next phrase is good night
good night is fine we don't use this to
greet other people we use it when we're
saying goodbye to other people at night
family members particularly mothers and
fathers to say good night to their
children before they put them to bed
you can say it to your friend in a text
message or in an email if you've been
talking for a while good night
so the next word to talk about is
goodbye uh use it when you say goodbye
to your friends when you leave your
friends goodbye
bye of course take care have a nice day
peace out that's another way to say
goodbye okay the next phrase is
i'm plus your name of course this is a
way to introduce yourself you can use
i'm in my case alicia i'm alicia to
introduce yourself in any situation
new friend i'm alicia okay the next
phrase is what's your name what's your
name is used to ask someone else what
their name
is so what is your name sounds a bit
tried to use what's your name if you
forget someone's name you can say
sorry what's your name or sorry what's
your name again next phrase is nice to
meet you nice to meet you
anytime you meet someone new nice to
meet you is fine
good to meet you is a little more casual
great to meet you sounds very excited
pleasure to meet you sounds like maybe a
formal situation or a business context
okay the next phrase is how are you how
are you
is it's just a friendly way to check in
with the other person you can use it
with friends your family
your coworkers maybe even your boss to a
certain degree
uh how are you how you doing the next
phrase is i'm fine thanks and you
uh if you saw english in three minutes
we talked a lot about this phrase uh
instead of i'm fine thank you and you
say i'm good thanks how are you just
shorten it make it a little bit more
natural
how are you good how are you great how
are you
not so good how are you okay and so on
so when someone says how are you
offer i usually say i'm good this week i
blah blah give some information about
what you've been up to maybe a hobby
something that you did recently an event
something interesting you saw whatever
people want to make that connection with
you and it's a good chance for you to
continue speaking
the next word is please please is a
polite phrase used when you want
something from someone else
you can use this as a response when
someone offers you something like in a
restaurant for example would you like
more water would you like something to
drink oh please
the next phrase is thank you thank you
is used to express your appreciation you
can use thank you with
everybody the next phrase is you're
welcome you're welcome when someone says
thank you you can say you're welcome no
biggie
i use no biggie as in no biggie is short
for no big problem
the next word is yes yes of course yes
means is any positive expression
someone asks you a question and the
answer is a positive answer you say
yes yep uh-huh yeah we no
next i'm guessing i know it yep the next
word is no
no is a negative response to something
when you have to give a negative answer
so as you can probably guess um the long
form of no is
negative i like to use nope it's very
very casual
not gonna happen my parents would use
that with me to soften that a little bit
if you want to show a negative response
to something like let's go for dinner
tonight
what do you want to do like do you want
to go out not
really no i don't think so
to soften it the next word is okay okay
this word comes from copy editors okay
when they had to check a manuscript um
they had to label the manuscript
all clear a c but because they were copy
editors and they have a very very sick
sense of humor
they thought they would mark it okay for
all clear to make a joke because
o and k do not start all and clear but
it caught on
among everybody in the world anyway
okay uh is used to agree with somebody
else
well it can be used actually to express
a positive or kind of a slight negative
i feel
transitioning in your conversation you
can say okay now we're going to talk
about
blah blah blah okay the next phrase is
excuse me excuse me it's used to get
someone's attention
in english when you don't know the other
person for example in a store
a supermarket maybe a stranger on the
street you need to ask directions you
can use
excuse me you can use excuse me in the
supermarket excuse me can you tell me
where the hot sauce is
if you've done something rude in public
you can use excuse me
i personally do not do rude things in
public ever i'm sorry is the next word
we're gonna talk about i'm sorry is used
to apologize when you have made a
mistake or someone you know has made a
mistake and you're connected to it or
you just feel
bad you can use i'm sorry you made a
mistake at work i'm sorry
you forgot to feed your cat i'm sorry
sorry about that you bump someone next
to you oh sorry
what time is it is the next phrase when
you need to check what time it is
what time is it when you ask someone
else what time it is maybe you say this
to yourself too
check your watch check your phone check
a clock pretty straightforward phrase
there aren't really any
short versions so that's an easy one
where is the plus a location
so you can use this for um a building or
a store we don't we're not going to use
this where is the
for a place a city name or a state name
or a country name
to do that you would need to remove the
but where is the bank where is the post
office you can use this to ask
directions to ask for help
in your house or at work where is the
copy machine
where is the file i need where is the
blah blah blah
where is the bathroom is perhaps a very
important question to know
the next one is may i use the restroom
may i use the restroom is a polite
uh and soft expression that you can use
if you need to use the toilet you need
to use the washroom
when you're at someone's house for the
very first time when you're in a place
that you're that is new to you you can
ask may i use the restroom
more casually can i go to the bathroom
to be very polite you can say may i go
to the bathroom the next phrase is i
would like to order
something you can use this at a
restaurant probably or in any situation
where you need to place an
order i'd like a pizza i'd like
a beer can i get the check please this
will be used at a restaurant when you've
finished your meal and it's time to go
can i get the check please
in a very very casual situation you can
just say check please
that's fine the next phrase is see you
soon see you soon is used with friends
and family members perhaps
uh when you expect to see them again
soon after saying goodbye to them this
is used at the end of the conversation
you're going separate directions
see you soon see ya is also good or just
see you
to make it a little more formal you can
say i'll see you again soon make a full
sentence out of it that way
the next phrases see you later see you
later it's very similar to see you soon
but the point is
with see you later is that you're
probably going to meet that person again
later on in the same day
the last phrase is really really is a
very useful word because you can use it
to show you're interested in a
conversation with upward intonation
really really tell me more or to show
that you're not so interested in the
conversation with downward intonation
really so there are many other words
that you can use similar to really
in this way like seriously or oh oh
and so on so it's a really good practice
for your intonation
ways to say hi this should be fun let's
get started first is yo
this one is a little bit casual in case
you couldn't tell
used for close friends maybe family
members if you have kind of a silly
relationship with them
just quick short easy to do in a
sentence
yo how's it going howdy howdy
uh traditionally associated with cowboy
culture i suppose you should play a
banjo maybe or you've just gotten off a
horse i don't know i use howdy from time
to time howdy
howdy howdy
that's my banjo yeah in a sentence you
might say
howdy folks welcome to the
barbecue place
next is hey hey is good friendly phrase
you can usually use hey with a wave and
smile look happy
if you don't people might think that
you're down in the dumps people might
think you're not in a very good mood in
a sentence hey
uh i heard you got engaged last week
congratulations
something like that it's usually kind of
a cheery happy expression
all right next is what's up uh what's up
is the long form of
sup this does not literally mean what is
above you right now
if you want to be funny you can say the
ceiling or the sky but that joke gets
old really fast and chances are the
person you're talking to has already
heard it before
it just means what are you up to what is
going on with you in a sentence what's
up
did you have a good weekend typical
response to what's up is not much
find out some more responses in english
in three minutes we did an episode on
this
nothing much how about you that's pretty
good pretty good
pretty good pretty good
i don't know what i'm doing the next one
is long time no see you can use this
when you haven't seen the other person
for a long time
you're at a party or an event or
whatever anytime it's been a long break
you can decide how long long is not the
day before or the week before maybe a
few weeks or a month whatever is unusual
for you and this other person
when you see them you can say hey long
time no see how have you been 10 words
for talking about
beauty and skin care so let's begin
all right the first word is makeup
makeup is
all makeup everything we're going to
talk about almost everything we're going
to talk about later is
makeup makeup is usually used by women
but maybe men use makeup
too makeup is usually put on the face to
change the appearance of the face in
some way
so in a sentence i use makeup almost
every day
or i wear makeup almost every day use
and wear are both
okay the next word is eye shadow so
eyeshadow is makeup which goes on top of
the eye so
the eyelid this part is called your
eyelid eyeshadow
goes here on top of the eyelid so in a
sentence
what kind of eyeshadow do you use
the next word is eye liner eyeliner so
eyeliner is used to draw a line to draw
lines
near the eyes that means it's safe to
use
near eyes it depends on the person and
their style but maybe they use eyeliner
to make
lines in different ways on their on
their face on near they're near their
eyes
in a sentence eyeliner is really
difficult to put on
okay the next word is lipstick lipstick
uh there's also lip gloss too uh
lipstick is kind of the traditional just
like a single color you apply it just on
your lips and it gives
i don't know not sometimes shiny
sometimes a very
neutral i don't know depends on the
lipstick lip gloss
gives lips like this very glossy almost
like liquidy appearance so lipstick and
lip gloss have different effects
in a sentence you have a lot of lipstick
the next expression is foundation
foundation is the
makeup product it is applied to the skin
usually of the face
so it's used to make the face seem like
all
one color foundation maybe people apply
it with i don't know like a spongy thing
or with their hands or a brush there's
like a
i forgot what it's called isn't it like
a sponge i don't know something
is it a beauty blender is that a thing i
think so i i don't know i don't know i'm
the wrong person
i don't know it's a beauty it's a beauty
blender thing i'm not very good at the
beauty stuff either i don't know
anyway foundation is intended to make
your skin color appear
even foundation so it's called
foundation because it's like the base
the foundation
for the rest of your makeup so the
foundation is the
kind of the basis so once your skin
color is all
correct and the same then the other
parts we can fix the other parts that's
my theory anyway
in a sentence there are a few different
types of foundation
all right the next expression is blush
blush is usually applied on your cheeks
and it's like a
pink or red color it gives the
appearance of
blushing so when we feel embarrassed or
maybe we feel excited
our cheeks might turn red so blush
is makeup which creates that effect of
blushing this is usually a pink or red
color
to simulate to make it look like you're
blushing even if you're not really
in a sentence do you wear blush the next
expression is
bronzer bronzer so we talked about blush
which is supposed to give your skin the
appearance of being pink or blushing
bronzer gives skin the appearance of
being
more bronze or more tan so you can apply
this maybe in summer and it makes your
skin look a little more
tan which you might like other people
also may use bronzer to create
shadows because it makes the skin a
little bit darker
in the places where it's applied so
there are a few different ways to use
bronzer in a sentence bronzer is nice in
summer
the next word is face wash face wash so
this is a
special soap that's for your face
specifically for the face
maybe your face is very sensitive or you
have some
trouble spots or i don't know there's a
specific
wash you use for your face only in a
sentence
a good face wash is important for clear
skin
oh the next word oh the dreaded i have a
couple words here that are maybe
problems all of us deal with the first
kind of problem word on this list is
acne acne is an uncountable noun
acne refers to usually this is this
a problem happens for like teenagers or
people around that age but adults can
also
have acne acne is like imperfections in
the skin sometimes they're itchy or
they're painful red
bumps on your skin or maybe they're not
painful but they're just
blotches or a number of different ways
that acne
can can be an issue which we'll talk
about in the next word too but acne is
an uncountable noun
is just about that problem skin problem
in general acne bad acne in a sentence i
had
acne when i was a teenager so the next
word for today there are two words here
there's pimple and zit
these are both words we use to refer to
the
individual parts of acne acne we can say
i have
bad acne or maybe my acne is improving
today
but acne is maybe the whole condition of
your face
like everything your face is situation
each part
each one of those little uh problem
spots we
we call that a pimple or a zit the
difference
pimple sounds a little bit smaller
usually zit
sounds a bit bigger and maybe maybe more
painful
so but either way pimples and zits are
both
words we can use to describe acne so in
a sentence
i hate getting pimples 10 words you can
use to talk about
hygiene or cleanliness so let's begin
to wash your hands the first expression
is to wash your hands to wash your hands
is with soap and water
in the restroom somewhere so wash your
hands before
cooking or wash your hands after using
the toilet
for example in a sentence wash your
hands after using the bathroom
to shower the next expression is to
shower
to shower or to shower or maybe you
prefer to take a bath
so to shower is usually standing up
though you can do it sitting down
depending on the country you live in i
suppose to shower is that
yeah the water just hits you
continuously
to take a bath is you sit in the bathtub
you sit down and you are surrounded by
water
that is a bath surrounded by one
sitting down surrounded by water in your
home on purpose
is a bath if it's not on purpose
you should probably call a plumber
because that is not a bath that is an
emergency
all right uh in a sentence i shower
every day or i love taking a bath every
once in a while
to brush your teeth the next expression
is to brush
your teeth to brush your teeth so with a
toothbrush
usually in the morning maybe at night as
well you brush your teeth you clean your
teeth
uh in a sentence make sure to brush your
teeth
in the morning to style your hair uh
the next expression is to style your
hair
to style your hair means to to arrange
or to fix
your hair the way you like it so today i
styled my hair like this you styled your
hair like that eyes
tomorrow maybe i'll style my hair in a
ponytail
i probably won't maybe you can
put your you can style your hair in a
mohawk
or in a fauxhawk or in a bouffant
bouffant
that's that focus oh yeah it's focusing
yeah
that's a bouffant all right so to style
your hair
uh in a sentence it takes a long time to
style my hair that's true
my hair is naturally explosive and so i
have to straighten it before like
everything and then as soon as humidity
gets it
it goes it makes that sound too
to shave the next expression is to
shave to shave is to remove hair like
if you're a man here usually uh to
remove the hair
here with a razor with another like a a
blade of some kind or maybe you remove
body hair or hair on your legs whatever
you we use the verb to shave to shave
with a razor in a sentence shaving is a
pain
for sure meaning shaving is troublesome
soap or cleanser
the next word is soap or cleanser so
soap is
just used to clean your skin or
yeah to clean your face maybe to clean
your hands we do not use
soap for the stuff you use to clean your
teeth soap is used for
like body cleaner or maybe um
what you use to wash your clothes so
soap or a
body cleanser in a sentence i like nice
smelling soaps and cleansers
that is true who does not deodorant
the next word is deodorant deodorant so
deodorant is
the product you might put on your body
to
prevent unpleasant smell so usually
it goes in this region so this is called
the armpit this region so arm
and then pit so like yeah kind of this
cavish area in your arm we call the
armpit
but it's common to apply deodorant here
you might put it
in other areas on your body but the goal
is
to prevent bad smells or
to in some cases just stop sweating
completely
so this is deodorant well deodorant
actually if i'm going to be strict here
deodorant
is used to stop unpleasant smells
antiperspirant is used to prevent
sweating so
perspirant comes from perspire
so to perspire means to sweat anti means
not
or stop so an anti-perspirant is a
product to make you
stop sweating so deodorant is the smell
one antiperspirant
is the sweat one sometimes you can buy a
deodorant and antiperspirant together
great in a sentence wearing deodorant is
important especially in summer
mouthwash the next word is mouthwash
mouthwash
i hope is easy to understand it's wash
it's
something to clean the inside of your
mouth so
uh you can use this like
in the morning maybe after you brush
your teeth or after lunch maybe to keep
your breath
uh smelling fresh but
it usually is in like a blue or a green
or maybe an orange
color and kind of has a minty or citrusy
taste
but you put it in your mouth and kind of
swish like
i don't know i can't swish nothing you
swish it around in your mouth
and then spit it out and that's
mouthwash so you've washed your mouth
with this product in a sentence i like
minty mouthwash
toothpaste the next word is toothpaste
so toothpaste we do not say like tooth
soap or tooth cleaner or whatever
we use tooth paste for uh the
product to clean our teeth the product
we use to brush our teeth is called
tooth paste uh so in a sentence
i need to buy more toothpaste shampoo
and conditioner
the next expression is shampoo and
conditioner so
shampoo and conditioner are commonly
used together
in the shower or in the bath maybe
shampoo usually comes first we shampoo
shampoo is soap for your hair really and
then conditioner is a treatment for your
hair conditioner
is used to make your hair feel softer or
more
moisturized so often times they're used
for shampoo
and then conditioner together as a set
so in a sentence i like trying new
shampoos and conditioners
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gossip let's go oh my god
so the first phrase is
oh my god so so oh my god
so is a introductory phrase you can use
to
start your topic with like a surprise
factor so you say oh my god
and then so is your transition phrase so
for example oh my god so i have to tell
you about this movie i saw or
oh my god so i saw my neighbor in the
shopping mall this morning or
oh my god so did you see my new dog
it's kind of a weird one usually it's
about a person not about a dog but who
knows
you won't believe what happened to me
the other day
the next expression is you won't believe
what happened to me the other day
you won't believe what happened to me
the other day
meaning something happened to you
and you think it's going to be a
surprise
to the person listening to you you won't
believe what happened to me the other
day
so it's a very fast phrase because
it sounds like you want to share very
quickly like you won't believe what
happened to me
you can drop the other day if you want
or you said you can say you won't
believe what happened to me this morning
you won't believe what happened to me
last night you won't believe what
happened to me this weekend you won't
believe what happened to me over my
winter vacation so that you won't
believe what happened to me gets very
very quick
and short so examples uh you won't
believe what happened to me the other
day
i ran into my ex-boss or you won't
believe what happened to me the other
day
i tripped and fell down a flight of
stairs or
uh you won't believe what happened to me
the other day i got
a new parrot
sure i don't know maybe one of you can
use that
guess what the next phrase is very short
the next phrase is like an exclamation
so an excited statement and a question
guess what guess what so
guess what is inviting the listener to
guess what happened to you
guess what the full question would be
guess what happened or guess what
happened to me
but we only say guess what so guess what
and sometimes the listener guesses
and sometimes the listener just says
what usually the listener just says
what uh as so meaning you should
continue the story
so if you say guess what i quit my job
or
guess what i saw my best friend
with a new guy i haven't seen before
another example uh guess what i got a
new car
something like that so some kind of
shocking like
um difficult to guess situation
i haven't told you about this yet the
next expression is
i haven't told you about this yet i
haven't
told you about this yet so have not
becomes
haven't i haven't told you about this
yet so maybe you've told you have told
other people but this specific person
maybe you have not told that person your
news or some information
yet but this yet implies
you are planning to or you want to tell
them this so
it's it's kind of creates a little
suspense i haven't told you about this
yet
so we could use this like i haven't told
you about this yet i'm going to france
next summer or i haven't told you about
this yet but i broke up with my
boyfriend last night
or i haven't told you about this yet but
i'm throwing a big party for my
co-worker this weekend can you come
other examples i haven't told you about
this yet i saw my boss
out for dinner with someone who's not
his wife oh my god that's not true
that's not true or i haven't told you
about this yet
i heard that the company is gonna
go bankrupt also not true
okay so those are some pretty juicy
juicy gossip that's an expression we use
we say
juicy gossip is something that's like
really really
interesting gossip or really interesting
story about people we say
juicy gossip for that have you heard
about
the next expression is have you heard
about blah blah blah
have you heard about can be followed
with a noun phrase have you heard about
a person you can use a person or have
you heard about
a situation you can use both uh you can
use a
an object too so have you heard about
the new iphone or have you heard about
the new
office policies um you can use that
um for pretty much anything you want to
inform your listener about
so have you heard about is usually said
very quickly
have you heard about so the u becomes
shortened to
yeah have you heard about have you heard
about blah blah blah
so have you heard about the new
secretary have you heard about
our new boss or have you heard about my
co-worker quitting his job
have you heard about the neighbors above
us
they're moving so you can use people
here for
gossip expressions or you can use
objects um
in this expression just to introduce
something new very useful phrase
have you heard about my mom
sorry mom i don't know why you came into
that one okay
so the other day the next expression
is kind of like the beginning to a story
so
maybe this can be for gossip maybe it
can just be
like a story something interesting or
maybe boring
that happened to you the expression is
so the other day
so the other day so the other day
the other day here means not today some
other day
which day it doesn't really matter it's
not really important but we say
the other day someday in the past this
expression is used for
so we can say so the other day i was
sitting at my desk in the office when my
manager
came and asked if he could speak to me
or so the other day i was shopping and i
ran into my ex-boyfriend
or so the other day i was renting a car
and the former president
of the united states came into the car
rental shop
what all right so the other day just
some day
in the past so i was talking with
and the next one you can use
um maybe for gossip sometimes but also
you can use for making plans
it's so i was talking with someone
and blah blah blah so i was talking with
someone means you were having a
conversation
at another time with a person and you
want to
kind of report information or share
something from that conversation
with the person listening now so
i might say so i was talking with risa
and i think that we should plan a party
for this weekend what do you think
so i was talking with my
team about this and i think that we
should make some changes
so that's a very kind of everyday work
situation
use of this phrase um but you can also
use it for gossip like
so i was talking to my best friend and i
think i'm gonna move
or i was talking to my parents and i
think
it's best if we break up oh so it can be
for plans it can be for gossip it can be
for just
any conversation plus a report
what's up with the next expression is
kind of a little like mysterious
then the expression is what's up with
blah blah blah
usually what's up with person for gossip
meaning there's like the nuance here is
there's some
problem or it seems like something's
wrong with this person they're unhappy
they're sad they're angry uh
some kind of negative emotion we use
this so it's like
what's up with stevens i haven't heard
from him lately what's up with your
brother he seems really upset or what's
up with your
neighbor why is he so noisy or what's up
with your
boss he's so strict so it sounds like
there's some problem we usually use this
intonation what's up with
what's up with to introduce somebody who
has a problem we don't say
what's up it's not that it's not that
sort of hello
um expression it's a it's an expression
for a problem
you can also use a noun phrase that is
not a person here like
what's up with this new office policy or
what's up with this new rule at work or
what's up with this new item on the menu
at this restaurant it's super weird
so what's up with blah blah blah has
sort of a negative nuance you can use it
for people
to talk about strange behavior what's up
with
you have you heard from
lately the next expression is have you
heard from blah blah blah
lately have you heard from person lately
have you heard from stevens lately
i haven't seen him have you heard from
your mom lately have you heard from your
dad lately have you heard from your
brother lately
have you heard from your landlord lately
i don't know why you hear from your
landlord but
have you heard from someone lately there
is sort of an ex
like a little bit of an expectation that
you
are in contact with the person involved
in this sentence like you have some
relationship maybe it's a family
relationship romantic relationship
professional relationship
there's some relationship with this
person and
lately it's like have you heard from
them recently
lately in the last few days in the last
few weeks
so you can use this if for example you
are
looking for someone or you're worried
about someone you can use this here
you can also use it just just to check
in about some other person
without asking that person directly so
like if i want to ask about
i'm using risa in my example risa is our
japanese channel host
um if i want to ask about how risa is
but i don't want to ask risa i know
maybe she's busy or i don't know for
some reason i
it's difficult to talk to her i can ask
like my co-worker i can say
hey have you heard from risa lately it
seems she's really busy or have you
heard from so and so lately it seems
they're busy
so if i want to ask about another person
but i don't want to bother this person
or that something makes it difficult
i can use have you heard from blah blah
blah recently or
lately to ask about them very useful
phrase
i have to tell you about next expression
um ah the next expression is i have to
tell you about
blah blah blah i have to tell you so
have to becomes
have to i have to tell you about has a
nice
sound i have to tell you about blah blah
blah or i have to tell you about
something so i have to tell you about my
weekend i have to tell you about stevens
i have to tell you about my mom i have
to tell you about my boyfriend i should
tell you about my girlfriend
whatever it is some person used at the
end of this sentence
creates a nuance like there's exciting
news about that person
or i have to tell you about this thing
that happened you can use a situation at
the end of the sentence too
but you're using i have to at the
beginning of this sentence
so that sounds like it's really
important like i feel
it's so important it's my responsibility
to tell you because
this is so exciting of course you can
use this in more boring situations as
well like i have to tell you about the
new office policy
you can use it in that way with a very
flat intonation
but for gossip purposes use i have to
tell you about
that sounds really good so what do you
have to tell somebody about
i have to tell you about this new idea i
have for a business or
i have to tell you about what happened
to me last night okay
so there are these really exciting ways
that we can introduce
things that happened or that we can talk
about people or whatever
okay ten words for talking about space
planet the first word is planet planet
so planets are those
really really big things that we have in
our solar system now there are
officially eight because pluto is no
longer considered a planet
in my example sentence pluto used to be
considered a planet
star the next word is star
star so stars are those very very bright
objects that you can see
in the sky sometimes at night the
closest star to us
is the sun the sun is a star and we can
see a lot of other stars if we look up
into the night sky
sometimes in a sentence it's hard to see
stars from big
cities solar system the next expression
is solar system solar system so solar
system in our case here on planet earth
refers to the system of planets and
objects
which are near our star so our solar
system now there are eight planets in
our solar system
used to be nine planets sorry again
pluto eight planets in our solar system
and then we can talk about other objects
which maybe
enter our solar system like like
comets for example or a meteor or
some other events might happen in space
within our solar
system so our solar system is the area
surrounding our sun and our planets that
we know of
in a sentence mercury is part of our
solar system
comet the next expression is comet a
comet is actually an icy body
that is uh slightly melting and then
releasing gases so that's what produces
that look
a comment okay in a sentence comets are
really cool
meteor oh right so yes the next word is
meteor
meteor or just meteor so essentially
meteors are different from comets
because comets are made of ice
meteors however are made of rock so
these are two different kinds of objects
that can
that move around in space in a sentence
lots of meteors burn up before they pass
through the atmosphere
meteorite the next word is meteorite
meteorite so this is an important
distinction that many
people don't know about actually this
drives me crazy too so a meteor is the
is the space rock it's in space or it's
in the atmosphere
a meteorite however is the rock if
if the meteor makes it if the meteor can
pass through the earth's atmosphere
and fall to the surface of the earth
that rock then is called a meteorite
so in space in the atmosphere it's a
meteor
when it falls to earth it is a meteorite
that becomes a meteorite when it hits
the earth
so fun facts okay that's the difference
between the
two in a sentence have you ever seen a
meteorite
supernova supernova supernova so
the explosion of a star is a huge event
a supernova is the name of it so the
star explodes
and that's what we call it it's called a
supernova a star
explosion in a sentence supernovas must
be
incredible things black hole ah
alright the next expression is black
hole black hole black holes are the
subject of a lot of study
they have intense gravitational pull so
meaning they have
very strong gravity black holes will
pull other objects into them
it is said that like uh time stops in a
black hole or and like if you
get too close to a black hole if you get
too close to the event horizon of a
black hole you yourself will be pulled
into that hole too
it's pretty crazy so like the event
horizon is the point at which um there's
no
there's no turning back from like you
can't you can't escape
essentially the gravitational pull of a
black hole once you're within the event
horizon
of that space it's like crazy you're
done for
all this kind of stuff so interesting so
in a sentence
black holes are mysterious galaxy
okay uh all right so the next word is
galaxy galaxy before we talked about the
expression
solar system uh so solar system is kind
of our
region of space the region we're
familiar with but
the next step up so if you think of the
solar system as kind of your
neighborhood a little bit
you could think of maybe the galaxy as
like your
city or your country maybe it's sort of
the next step out
so a galaxy is made up of lots and lots
of stars maybe other planets
other solar systems many other solar
systems in one
galaxy so i think yeah we belong to the
milky way galaxy
i believe in a sentence our galaxy is
made of lots of different stars and
planets
earth the next expression is earth
earth earth is our planet earth is the
planet we live on
earth is yeah habitable meaning humans
can live here
this word i included it in this
vocabulary list because it is a very
good word to practice your pronunciation
it is the word
earth earth that r and the th sound
can be difficult to pronounce together
er f
earth so this is a great word to use to
practice your pronunciation
earth so in a sentence our planet is
called
earth ten words for talking about sleep
let's go to wake up
the first word is to wake up to wake up
is to open your eyes probably in your
bed or the place where you are sleeping
to wake up
is to uh to become
conscious to become awake every day you
wake
up uh presumably hopefully in a sentence
i woke up three times last night
to get up to get out of bed all right
the next word is to get
up or to get out of bed so that means
to physically move your body from your
bed
out of bed to stand up from your bed to
get
out of your bed we say to get up or to
get out of bed
in a sentence i got up at eight o'clock
this morning
to snooze the next word is to snooze
so we have to snooze and alarm and also
to snooze
so to snooze means to take a short sleep
to have a short
sleeping time or to snooze an alarm
is when your alarm goes off in the
morning
you have a button most alarm clocks have
some button
you can press so the alarm will turn on
again in like you know
five or ten minutes or something so to
snooze an alarm is to
like to ask your alarm to wake you up
again
a few minutes later that's uh to snooze
so we have to snooze an alarm
and two snooze meaning like a short
light sleep
in a sentence i always snooze my alarm
at least
once that is usually true to oversleep
the next word is to over sleep to
oversleep means to sleep too much or to
sleep
late actually no it doesn't mean to
sleep late
to sleep late means just to sleep until
a late
time in the day over sleep means
sleeping
beyond the time you wanted to get up so
for example
if my alarm is set for eight o'clock
but i wake up at nine o'clock i
overslept
i slept beyond my wake-up time so we can
use oversleep to talk about
times when you sleep too much you sleep
more than your body needs you to so
maybe your body needs
depending on the person like six to nine
hours or so
but if you sleep like 14 hours we can
say that's over
sleeping you're sleeping too much that's
the nuance here
in a sentence i overslept on my first
day of work
nap the next word is nap nap is a
short sleep so a nap is maybe 30 minutes
one hour just a
short sleep a short rest so a lot of
people
will take a nap in the afternoon for
example or maybe
children actually take naps for example
in preschool or when they're very very
young they have an afternoon nap a short
sleep like
yeah just like an hour or so i imagine
in a sentence
i love naps actually i do like naps i
don't like naps because when i take a
nap
it becomes a sleep it's always like i
wake up four hours later and i'm like
okay well i've destroyed my sleep
schedule
dream the next word is dream
dream so dreams are those those visions
those
images you see those maybe experiences
it seems like you have when you
are asleep in a sentence i always have
weird dreams nightmare
so the next word is nightmare nightmare
is a word which means
bad dream or scary dream negative dream
so uh children maybe have nightmares
a lot they wake up crying or they're
really upset by nightmares monsters
uh terrifying things happening and so on
in a sentence
do you ever have nightmares to go to bed
the next word is to go to bed so before
we talked about to get up or to get out
of bed this is the opposite to go to bed
means to get in your bed
to to try to go to sleep to go to bed
in a sentence i usually go to bed fairly
late
to hit the hay to hit the sack the next
expression
is kind of a s i don't know a slang
expression uh we have to hit the hay
and to hit the sack these both mean to
go to bed
um they both mean to try to fall asleep
but
we just use them in more casual
situations the image here of hit the hay
is with your body
hitting hay like laying down in hay
i believe historically because uh hay
was used to stuff
um things that people slept on so that's
why
we have this expression to hit the hay
with your body
same thing for to hit the sack so a sack
full of something
soft to sleep on uh is where this
expression comes from in a sentence i
think i'm gonna hit the hay to fall
asleep
the next expression it is to fall asleep
to fall asleep you're
in bed and you finally you lose
consciousness you
you stop being aware you are asleep in
that moment we say
you fall asleep in a sentence it takes
me a long time to fall asleep
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top 10 must know prepositions and
conjunctions for english learners
let's get started two two
i threw the ball to my dad
two is sort of directional it's saying
that it's going towards something
i wrote a letter to my mother
i went to the mall i
went to the park my mom asked me to go
to the store
to buy some bread to a destination
to a person from
from from is the opposite of two
from implies where it's coming from the
place of
origin so if i'm going to the mall
i'm coming from my house this letter
is from my daughter from
how long does it take you to get from
your house
to your job to and from
they go together with with
with it means together with something
i am at the movies with my friend i went
out to eat
with my friends i go
shopping with my boyfriend with
means you are together with something
i like to have grilled cheese with
tomatoes on it i'm here with my book
at at is a very short word
i always go to bed at 11 o'clock if i'm
lucky i usually go to bed
at around 1 in the morning unfortunately
i get very little sleep
at specifies a time or a place
let's go to the movies at two in the
afternoon
um i'm at home right now where are you
we decided to meet at the beach
it's a pinpoint of time or location
in in in
means you are inside of something or
in the middle of something it means
being immersed in something
i am in bed right now the cat is
in the box uh the child is in the tree
the plane is in the sky i
graduated school in 2019
in on on
i left the book on my desk
on means on top of i like
ketchup on my fries so that means my
french fries are here and i like to put
ketchup on them the man
is on the roof the car is on the street
the motorcycle is on my nerves
but but i think i remember her name
but i'm not sure but is a way to add a
negative
to a sentence so for example
i really love eating cake but
i don't eat it often because it's not
healthy
i'd love to go to the movies with you
but
i have too much work to do i really
like you but i don't want to date you
and and and is a very
common word you will hear all the time
it's a way
of adding on a new subject
or thing to your sentence i love
candy and pizza i'm hungry
and i'm tired my friend moved to spain
and i moved to canada i love playing
outside
and i love being inside and is a way to
add on
a new subject or thing to what you're
talking about
so so i have a toothache
so i went to the dentist so is a way of
adding an example another way to say
because of this i did this
you say something and then you add so
and then what follows is the effect so
there's the cause
so the effect so i was feeling very
hungry
so i had some pizza this video is going
to be pizza themed everyone
apparently i was really tired so i took
a nap
i was in the mood for some adventure so
i got on an airplane
and flew to mexico that sounds nice
or or or is a way of presenting a choice
so for example you can either have
pizza or you can have candy
i don't know if i should go to the
movies
or if i should go to the mall which
color do you like better
red or green it presents
differences of choice today's video is
on
words americans overuse i haven't seen
these words yet but
apparently it's going to be a series of
words that we as americans i'm american
um
we overuse we use too often so let's
start
uh oh the first word is definitely
definitely
is definitely a word that americans
overuse we use it to
put emphasis at the end of a phrase to
put emphasis at the end of a sentence
as in oh that party last week was so
great
yeah definitely or to agree with
somebody like that
uh oh god literally oh
just in the last few days i've seen the
word literally
so many times on the internet and used
in just such stupid ways
the word literally uh means
actually or truly something this is
literally the best hamburger i've ever
eaten
so literally meaning truly or actually
would mean that in that person's entire
life that is the best hamburger they've
ever eaten
however it gets misused a lot in
sentences
like george bush was literally
supporting the war in iraq or something
like that taking a phrase like that
literally would have to mean that you
know the president former president
would be
you know physically supporting a war
with his body
onward onward hilarious
hilarious is the next word i like to use
the word hilarious when something is
actually funny
hilarious of course means something that
is really funny super funny
it's a step above funny maybe two steps
three steps i don't know
however people like to use this word in
place of laughter
so for example friends are talking and
instead of just
laughing the friend will say that's
hilarious
well if it's so hilarious just laugh oh
this must be the last one
because this is the worst one this word
is like
um i've probably said it several times
already today for the for the purposes
of this video
the word like is used as a filler word
so it's the same as
something such as um or
uh or hmm for example we use like
as a filler word when we're trying to
think of something
it's not uncommon to hear the word
repeated like three
four five times in a row when someone is
thinking
they'll say oh you know that party that
i went to like
like uh like uh like do you know who was
there
it just invades your speech sometimes
when you're trying to think of something
and no other filler words come out but
the word like does
ah this wasn't the last word there is
another one
seriously seriously is used
oh it's good for any time you receive
bad news
um well not from your boss it's a really
casual word
um but if you hear something um like
your friend lost their job
and you can sympathize with them or
maybe empathize with them by saying
seriously oh that's too bad or oh tell
me
like all your problems oh my god i just
use like oh
god oh i hate myself want to speed up
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