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immersion is often hailed as the most
efficient and effective way to learn a
foreign language
in many ways it's true with all the
language learning methods out there
nothing else comes close to having to
think and interact with your environment
in the language you're learning
unfortunately though most language
learners wrongly assume that the only
way to experience language immersion
is to pack up and move to a foreign
country but not everyone can afford to
spend a summer abroad
just to learn a foreign language luckily
there are other ways to immerse yourself
these methods are less obvious but they
are effective in this video we'll take a
look at five steps you can take for the
ultimate language immersion experience
at home
number one transform your digital world
into your target language
technology is an indispensable part of
modern life
we interact with phones computers
tablets and other electronic devices
throughout the day
why not take these interactions and use
them to practice your target language
most devices give you the option of
switching the language of the operating
system
switching your phone or laptop interface
to your target language
won't make you fluent but it will help
you engage with the language in a very
practical way
multiple times every day another way to
transform your digital life
is to check which sites you use on a
daily basis and use them in your target
language also
a great example of this is switching
your version of google
using google in your target language
will allow you to search for things in
that language
and you're more likely to get results in
that language as well
so if you're looking for a popular band
a show or
food something that's usually written in
your target language
it will actually be easier to find
information about it if you switch your
version of google
of course you can also change popular
social networks like facebook or twitter
you can even go to news sites for your
fill of global news
do you like podcasts try listening to a
couple popular podcasts in your target
language
number two write out a speech or
conversation in your target language
a surefire way to increase your ability
in a foreign language
is to write out a mock conversation or
speech in that language
pretend you have to give a speech on one
of your favorite topics
it could be anything from sports hobbies
or even your favorite movie genre
now take some time to write out your
fictitious speech
inevitably you will hit some roadblocks
but when you get stuck
research the words or grammar points you
don't know
this is a highly effective and practical
way to increase your vocabulary
and it'll help you practice thinking in
a different language
writing a long connected train of
thoughts exposes the gaps and weaknesses
in your language studying
once you know what these are you're free
to practice them and use them to
continue on with your speech
this is also a great way to learn new
words in the context of your entire
speech
context is king when you're learning a
language learning words in the context
of other words and sentences
helps you surmise what new words mean it
also helps you get comfortable with how
these words are practically used
not to mention context helps you to
remember and recall new information more
easily
number three practice with native
speakers
there are a lot of great learning
resources out there for anyone learning
a new language
however nothing quite comes close to
practicing the language with a real
person if you live
in or around a large metropolitan area
there's a chance that there are some
native speakers nearby
check and see if your area has any local
language exchanges or language speaking
groups
you're likely to find a native speaker
there if you can't make a connection
locally you can search online
just as there are language exchanges in
the real world there are also online
ones
most of which are free number four
connect with other language learners
native speakers aren't the only people
who can age you on your language
learning journey
practicing with other learners is also
helpful don't worry if you practice with
someone who has a higher or lower level
in the language than you
if you're the more advanced learner you
can learn a lot by teaching someone else
as you help someone else understand
difficult words or grammatical concepts
you'll find that you start to better
understand them yourself
if your learning partner has a higher
level they can be the one to help you
overcome the hurdles you encounter as a
beginner after all
what better way to learn than from
someone who as a language learner has
been in your shoes
number five reward yourself in your
target language
at the end of a busy day we all love a
little relaxation and me time
one of the most enjoyable and effective
ways to develop your language skills
is to kick back and enjoy the language
while doing leisure activities
whether it's listening to music watching
a movie or tv show
reading a book or even enjoying a good
online video binge
even spending just an extra 30 minutes a
day doing something you love in your
target language
can yield some serious long-term results
if you're a beginner start with more
basic content
you might have to start out listening to
simple songs or even watching children's
shows
after a while though you'll be able to
dive into the meatier stuff
and more engaging stuff as your
proficiency increases
learning a foreign language doesn't mean
you have to spend your days straining
over grammar rules or textbooks
any way that you can take your learning
off the page and make it more enjoyable
will help you learn faster immersion is
a powerful way to learn a foreign
language
and now more than ever the immersion
experience isn't limited to just world
travelers
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resources you can experience the
language without ever having to leave
your hometown
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to englishclass101.com to cook
i'm going to cook dinner tonight to cook
is to prepare a meal using heat
tonight i'm going to cook chicken
marsala
i'm going to cook beef stew
to fry to fry
i don't want to fry the chicken because
it's too
unhealthy to fry something is to cook
something
in hot fat or oil french fries
are fried and fried things are unhealthy
so when you eat fried foods you want to
eat in moderation
i don't because fried stuff is delicious
but
you should to add to
add before you eat you should taste the
food
and add salt if necessary
to add in this context means to add
something else onto a dish
to put more of something onto a dish so
you might add salt
to a dish or add some paprika to the
chicken
to cut to cut could you please cut up
that beef
to cut is to use a knife to cut food
to make it into smaller pieces usually
so you can
bite it or so you can mix it more easily
i cut my steak so i can eat it you make
food
smaller into more bite-sized pieces by
cutting
to mix to mix
mix all of the spices in a bowl before
putting them in your dish
to mix is to combine so you might
combine or
mix all of your ingredients together
before
cooking or doing something else with
them you might mix
ingredients together to create a dish
breast feed
all right the first word is breast feed
breastfeed
means uh feeding a baby
using the milk from the mother so
there's like baby formula
which you can give to babies um or
there's just natural milk
the mother's milk which is breast milk
uh or what the verb that we use is to
breast
feed a baby so in a sentence
many mothers choose to breastfeed their
children
in this sentence you're not supposed to
drink alcohol while breastfeeding
change a diaper the next expression is
change a diaper change a diaper so
diapers are the
pieces of cloth or like the disposable
things that babies wear because
babies of course don't have the ability
to use the bathroom like a grown
uh human or like even like children can
so
babies need diapers so to change a
diaper means
to take off a used diaper and put a new
clean diaper on a baby
in a sentence i had hoped that i'd never
have to change a diaper in my life
put on a bib the next expression is to
put on a bib
so a bib is any is like a protective
cloth that goes right here so actually
at some restaurants even for adults like
um where there's a like a lot of
oil or even like ribbed restaurants i
think sometimes
they'll give you like customers a bib
but for babies who are very messy eaters
you can put a bib on the baby to protect
the baby's clothes while they eat
so in a sentence put on his bib and give
him some mashed carrots
change clothes the next expression is
change clothes again of course you can
use this for yourself
or or for adults this is not an a baby
only phrase this is not a baby only
phrase
so to change clothes if the baby's
clothes are dirty or it's just time to
i don't know you just need to change the
baby's clothes you can say
uh let's see like let's change the
baby's clothes
that's all so in a sentence after her
accident she had to change her clothes
that's a weird out of context sentence
sing a lullaby ah the next expression is
sing a lullaby
sing a lullaby lullaby is a song that is
especially to help a child go to sleep
so they're usually really like quiet
soft songs they have like a nice
like soothing sound to them so
singing a lullaby is like a classic way
to
calm an upset child down
so for example let's see when i was
little my mother used to sing me a
lullaby before going to sleep that's
true she sang me edelweiss from the
sound of music my mom used to sing me
lullabies that she'd made up on the spot
that's that if i ever become a mom
that's going to be me like i'm just
making up the lullaby i'm gonna be like
go to sleep i'm really tired i hope you
go
to sleep now i think you should
the first expression is i think you
should blah blah blah
i think you should is a very neutral not
so strong
not so weak way to give advice i think
you should
get a different haircut i think you
should
find a new job i think you should give
me
all your money can't hurt i think you
should is a very typical
way to give advice or just i think is
okay or
you should is okay too in this sentence
i think you should find a new apartment
why don't you the second expression
is why don't you blah blah blah so
it uses the negative why don't you
so that means it's a bit softer it's a
bit more of a weak way to give advice
so why don't you uh
take a day off or why don't you help me
with my homework
uh that's sort of a sneaky way to give
advice and ask for help
at the same time why don't you um
i don't know find a new hobby for
example so these are kind of
weak ways to give advice in this
sentence
why don't you get a pet have you thought
about
have you thought about blah blah blah so
have you thought about it sounds it's
you're giving your advice
but this is a question for the listener
so have you thought about blah blah blah
it's sat you're
you're sharing your opinion but you're
kind of making it
sound like uh maybe it was the
listener's idea or maybe the listener
has thought of this thing before
so this is also a fairly soft way to
give advice
so like have you thought about going to
a different city
have you thought about moving in with
your friends something like that
so these these are probably going to be
um questions that are a little bit more
serious like i don't feel like we would
use this for
really casual or really light questions
but maybe for something a little more
serious and a soft way to give advice
in this sentence have you thought about
looking for a new job
i don't know if is a good idea
so this is um kind of a negative way to
give advice or to share your opinion
it's
i don't know if blah blah blah is a good
idea
so you're giving someone advice
not to do something so for example i
don't know if getting a pet is a good
idea
or i don't know if starting a new
project is a good idea
these are different ways that you can
say uh you don't
think or you think that the other person
should not do something but this
is a soft way to express it in this
sentence
i don't know if taking a year off work
is a good idea
maybe you should try the next one is a
suggestion to try something so this is a
soft but
kind of encouraging expression maybe you
should try
blah blah blah maybe you should try blah
blah so
uh you are encouraging someone to
attempt something to try something maybe
not forever but just for a short period
of time
so maybe you should try volleyball maybe
you should try
playing sports maybe you should try uh
spicy food maybe you should try
something so it's
encouragement to do something new this
is kind of positive but it's a fairly
soft way
to give your advice here maybe you
should try
studying a new skill 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
sing along to a favorite song alright so
the first tip for improving your
pronunciation is to sing along to a
favorite song
so if you uh i should add though this
favorite song
should be in your target language so if
you're studying english
pick a favorite english song and sing
along to that song
or try to sing to the song just from
memory too so singing along to your
favorite song can help you with
pronunciation can help you with the
rhythm
sometimes of the language you're trying
to learn
so it can be really fun and it can be a
good way to practice your pronunciation
in a sentence i like singing along to my
favorite
songs read out loud the next tip for
your pronunciation is to read out loud
so reading out loud you can choose
something that's
interesting for you and you're in
english if english is the language
you're studying
so pick something maybe it's a news
article or maybe it's a
book you're interested in maybe there's
an author you're interested in
find something in your target language
in english
and try reading it out loud so don't
just read
in your mind but read the words out loud
speak them
so that you can get comfortable
pronouncing those words
and you can try reading the same passage
or the same sentence multiple times to
make it smoother
so this can be a really good tip um for
and it
i think it also improves uh your natural
ability to pick up grammar too because
if you're reading something like in a
book for example you can kind of pick up
the natural rhythm of grammar and you
also slowly get a feeling for
the correct ways that words should
connect together so this i think is a
really good tip
in a sentence i sometimes read out loud
to practice pronunciation
that's true repeat lines you hear in tv
shows
the next tip is to repeat lines you hear
or the words you hear in tv shows or
movies things like that
so this means not only
words don't only repeat single
vocabulary words yes maybe you find a
vocabulary word that is really
interesting
or it sounds funny or something like
that but
by repeating a full sentence or a full
line in a tv show or in a movie you're
putting the words together so not just
one word but making a whole sentence so
feeling kind of the flow of your
language that you're studying
so this can be a better way to actually
practice
making sentences in repeating sentences
instead of just
words so you can repeat after characters
and tv shows i sometimes do this when
i'm like watching japanese tv
ah and then i try and spit it back out
it's hard to do sometimes when it's like
the first time you've heard a word or
the first time you've heard a grammar
point
but you can still understand that
sentence it's interesting so try to say
it
and it's kind of fun actually i think in
a sentence
try repeating lines from tv shows to
practice
practice speaking in phrases not single
vocabulary words
the next tip this is very similar to my
tv show tip is to practice speaking in
phrases
not in vocabulary words not just single
vocabulary words
even if you're not repeating lines from
tv shows
when you practice speaking don't just
speak in
nouns so sometimes for example uh i'll
hear people just use
noun like they'll use a noun and maybe a
verb
like i tomorrow beach
something like that and yes we can
probably guess
based on that how like the the meaning
the speaker's meaning
but you need to practice making a whole
sentence so
yes you know those words i tomorrow and
beach and the listener can
probably guess what you mean but you
need to
practice all those little words in the
middle like
like i'm going to the beach tomorrow so
make a full sentence practice making
full sentences
don't only practice single vocabulary
words make the whole line it's really
good
sometimes i think my students get
irritated like they'll
like i force them to practice full
sentences like so
i'll say like have you ever been to
germany and they'll say yes i'm like
okay for the purposes of practice
can you make a full sentence and they'll
say i have been to germany like that's
an extreme example
but like i try to push that you know
making the full sentence it's
it's silly sometimes but just trying to
do that
okay uh so in a sentence speaking in
entire phrases is helpful for practicing
the rhythm
of a new language speak a lot with your
teacher
and ask them to be strict with you
onwards okay
so the next tip is to speak a lot with
your teacher
and ask them to be strict with you so
this is kind of two tips in one
one speak with your teacher so if you
have a teacher
um make sure you're speaking
in their class if you if wherever
possible sometimes i'll have students
join my class and maybe they feel shy
or whatever and they don't speak very
much but please speak with your teacher
so that your
teacher can correct you your teacher can
give you
at least if they're a native speaker or
maybe even if they aren't a native
speaker
your teacher can give you corrections
and if you don't speak
your teacher cannot help you in most
cases so please speak with your teacher
and if you like you can tell them please
be strict about my pronunciation
so sometimes people will say please help
me with my pronunciation
specifically and then i can stop them
every time they make a mistake and we
practice that
sound especially th sounds like the
like using um using your mouth a little
bit differently
can be really uncomfortable for some
people but if
your teacher can point out those things
like th sounds
the this that these those those th
sounds ending er
sounds um practicing those with your
teacher can be a really good way
to work on your pronunciation so in a
sentence
speak a lot with your teacher they can
correct you and help you
improve concert the first word for
talking about music
is concert concert is a live show
concert is yeah the performance is
happening in front of your
eyes so uh concerts are really popular
worldwide i think
depending on where you live you might
hear them called live shows but
usually in american english we just say
concert
a concert so in a sentence i'm going to
a concert this weekend
to see in concert the next expression is
the verb we use
for a live show so the next expression
is to see
in a concert or to see in concert so we
use
uh the artist's name along with this
phrase so for example i'm going to see
coldplay in concert i'm going to see
adele
in concert so you use i'm going to
see artist name in concert or
um in a concert what are you say in
concert or in a concert both are okay
so in a different sentence i'm going to
see my favorite band in concert
meaning live who do i want to sing in
concert i want to see michael jackson in
concert
yeah i would have loved to see him in
concert he's my favorite
to listen to music to listen to artists
the next word or the next phrase is to
listen to
plus music or to listen to an artist so
you can use uh this verb with
the type of music or with a specific
artist or band or group that you like so
i like to listen to rock music i like to
listen to
pop music whatever another sentence is i
like listening to
beyonce i like yeah so you can use to
listen to
or listening to both are fine here i
like listening to
funk it's fine i like listening to funky
artists is fine i like listening to
queens of the stone age is fine all of
these are great
who do you listen to i listen to lots of
things
to write a song to write music the next
expression is to write a song
or to write music so if you want to make
music yourself you can say write a song
which just means
one song maybe three or four minutes
usually
in popular music or to write music in
general
so um you can use both of these
expressions song is more specific
music is more general so in a sentence
my friends started writing
songs recently or in a different
sentence writing music is really fun
track the next expression is track
track so we can use song yes but
for example when you look at a an album
like on itunes or maybe like a cd for
example
each uh each song is assigned a number
that's the track
number so we can say uh i like
track number three or track three we use
track to talk about a song so you can
say this is a good
song or this is a good track both are
okay to use song and track are both fine
so in a sentence i really like that
track from his album
happy the first word is happy as you
might have guessed
happy happy is a happy word when you
feel
good when you feel positive when you are
excited you can say i'm happy
i was so happy to see my friend the
other day what makes me happy
food i'm happy right now energetic
energetic when you feel happy perhaps
you also feel energetic
you have that sort of like uplifting
feeling this chair is squeaking every
time i move up
i don't really describe my friends or
people as energetic
i might say a dog or a cat is energetic
like wow
your dog is so energetic what is she
doing she's running everywhere is she
okay
maybe i would say about myself i'm very
energetic
today if i've had a lot of coffee like
now lonely
the next word is lonely lonely i don't
want to talk about this word
maybe you've been spending a lot of time
alone or there's someone that you really
want to see
or you want to see your family members
or maybe you're working too much i don't
know
whatever it is maybe you just you feel
like you want to
talk to people or you want to see people
be around people
but you can't you can use the word
lonely to describe that feeling
i i've only been working for the last
few months i haven't had a chance to
spend much time with my friends i'm
feeling kind of
lonely nervous the next word is
nervous nervous is used for any um
tension
any anxiety excited but in a bad way
about something when i was a child
before my piano performances i would get
so
nervous i would be so nervous my hands
would start to shake and then i couldn't
play the piece i'd been practicing for
months that's why this is great because
you're not here forgive me don't be
disappointed in me
upset upset is a really really useful
word
anytime you feel sad angry
depressed disappointed unhappy in
general
you can say i'm upset or he or she is
upset
it's just a general unhappy word but it
doesn't mean
unhappy it just means something is wrong
there's a way a person usually behaves
but i'm upset means something's not
right in a sentence i might say i'm
really upset about my performance last
year
i was too nervous and my parents were
disappointed in me i'm sad now
whoa yeah okay equation
the next math word is equation equation
so
uh up until now we've been talking about
a part of an equation but the whole
math problem uh everything there
is called the equation so the process
that you need to do
in order to solve an equation
an equation is something that you do to
solve a problem this this part is the
equation this part is the solution
the the ending the result is the is the
solution
the problem is called the equation the
process the math process
you do to find a solution percent
percent this is very a very useful word
you can use
uh of course when doing math or math
problems
but you can also use this when shopping
for example so a sale is five percent
off 10 percent off it represents a
discount
you can also use percent to describe
effort levels for
example a sports team a coach might tell
his team
i need you to work at 100 today so it
it's used to express the level of
something but it can also be used
in sales and in math related terms npc
npc means non-playable character there
are other characters within the game
that move the story forward
but that you cannot play as you cannot
become that character but you interact
with them
i have to talk to an npc in order to
move this quest forward
next is camper a camper is someone who
is waiting
for a creature to spawn
so a person who's waiting for the
monster to appear is called the camper
you can use camping as a verb too to
talk about that like i'm camping
this monster really people camp other
players
i suppose so depending on the kind of
game you're playing mmo is a massively
multiplayer online game
means you can play online with a lot of
different people essentially
the next word is sister a female sibling
is your sister you can also use sister
for a female person that you feel very
very
close with so i might call my female
friend who's i'm very close to my sister
my brother likes to shorten it to sis
you might also hear sista
as well if you are silly
sister whoopi goldberg was in a famous
movie called sister act
the next word is brother brother is a
male sibling
you can also use brother to refer to a
close male friend
common variations of brother are brother
bro
bra rosie broski depending on what kind
of person you are you can choose to use
any number of those
like i might sarcastically say to my
friend cool story bro
like if he's told me a story that's not
very exciting in mario for example the
name of the mario games is actually
super mario
brothers but brothers is abbreviated as
b-r-o-s super mario bros
yeah just be careful about your use of
bro because it sounds a little bit
like a college age boy uh that's kind of
kind of the feeling of the word bro oh
brother where are though
sand castle the next word is sandcastle
sand castles are usually kids make them
they use like buckets
so kids will like put sand in a bucket
or like they
move sand into piles and design
castles or these really complicated
mazes or something they make things make
buildings out of sand we call those
sand castles um so in a sentence my
brother and i used to make sand castles
on the beach when we were kids that's
true
in this sentence get the buckets and
we'll make a sand castle
cooler so cooler is a noun in this case
cooler is the place you keep your drinks
and your food it's a it looks like a
suitcase but it has a special
lining inside that keeps cold
things cold so you can put ice inside
and it will keep your food and drinks
cold while you are at the beach
in the hot weather so in a sentence uh
did you put a bunch of beers in the
cooler i forgot ice for the cooler
the next word is small small smaller
smallest small
and little are extremely similar i would
pretty much use them in the same way
however we don't say when i was a small
kid
we say when i was a little kid or you
could say when i was small
the next word is large large and big are
very much the same i will say though
that large is used on clothing sizes big
is not when we talked about big we
talked about how
big can be used to refer to something
that's very popular large is not used to
refer to something
that's popular large is used on for for
sizing i feel
only so like a house can be large but
it's used to refer to like the physical
size of something
uh large and in charge large larger
largest
this is the largest the bottom is in the
zoo
i have to go daughter daughter a
daughter is a female child
i wonder if i will ever have a daughter
brother-in-law
brother-in-law so we use in-law to mean
our married partners family members
not my brother but my partner's brother
in-law
is used after any family member's
position or family member's
title to show they belong to my
partner's
family originally but now they're part
of my my extended family
as well i'm going out for drinks with my
brother-in-law tomorrow night
father-in-law father-in-law so we have
in-law here meaning
uh my partner's father so my
father-in-law
is very kind the next word is
work be careful about using work as a
noun and work as a verb
your work refers to your job your
responsibilities your tasks at your
office or your workplace
you can use it in a phrase like i have a
lot of work to do or please help me with
my work
i like to go to work it can be used to
just refer to anything artistic in
general so it can mean it can
be a painting it can be a building it
can be a sculpture it can be
i don't know whatever anything artsy can
be referred to as
work as in i really like that new work
by that
artist or did you see so-and-so's new
work twerk
the next word is week uh week refers to
the seven day period that we have
decided
is one week here in the modern world
commonly used in expressions relating to
your
activities as in i go to the gym once a
week or i see my friends twice a week or
i have to work every day of the week
monday through friday is referred to as
uh
weekdays saturday and sunday weekend
next word is month month is um there are
12
months in a year my favorite month
depending on which country i'm in i
generally like
autumn months like uh october i think i
usually like the month of october
september october is good because it's
not too hot not too cold and halloween
is coming and that's my favorite holiday
hannah montana try oh my gosh
try is the next word ah i'm trying my
best
i try every day to work very hard have
you ever tried ramen
i tried ramen yesterday and it was
really good do you try to exercise every
day
i'm trying to sleep go away the next
verb is
leave leave leave me alone
leave your doors unlocked don't leave
your doors unlocked
i have never left
a hot air balloon without
first taking a picture the next
verb is call call is the next friend
give me a call
please call me later call me maybe
call your mom on her birthday every year
she'll be happy
call call you're a seagull
have you ever called the wrong number
have you ever called
a dog by
another dog's name
clothing clothing
cloud cloud
beard beard
beautiful beautiful
bed bed
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cut it out the next phrase is
cut it out now
this is usually what a parent would say
to a child
when they want them to stop doing
something
stop it in other words cut it out
really it's any situation that you want
to have stopped
now let's say my friend likes to
click her pen all the time
and i'm getting really annoyed i would
turn to her and say
cut it out michelle i'm upset
the next phrase is i'm upset
upset here means not happy
angry frustrated
i'm upset you can say this in many
different ways the intonation is
important if you're trying to remain
calm
what's wrong becky i'm upset
i mean i'm really upset but i'm not
going to show you or you can really just
yell this like i'm upset with you
i'm upset who do you think you are who
do you think you are
so you say this to someone when you feel
that they're being way too proud
maybe way too selfish they think they're
number one
they've done something and you can't
believe they
were so bold as to do that like who do
you think you are
superman you can't run that marathon
tomorrow with no training
who do you think you are who do you
think you are the president of the
universe
watch your mouth watch your mouth
we say this when someone is using bad
language or language we think is too
strong
for the situation a lot of parents will
say this to their kids
or a lot of you know people fighting in
a relationship might
say that to each other so i'm not going
to use the language here but if i said
something
very strong very rude my mom or
my friend might say hey watch your mouth
be careful about what you say
you're not listening to me the next
phrase is
you're not listening to me pretty clear
right yeah you're not listening to me
let me say it again i don't
want to go or something like that you're
not listening to me is used when we're
getting angry
because we really don't think that
person is listening to us
so we say hey you're not listening to me
i've been saying it
many times but you're not listening to
me let me say it again
i want a raise let's stay together
loving you whether times are good or bad
happy or sad al green from
let's stay together our first amazing
love quote is
from al green from his song let's stay
together now first
i'm going to say it for you then i'm
going to sing it
okay let's stay together
loving you whether times are good
or bad happy or sad
now for al green it's very important
that you get very what we call
groovy you gotta get you feel the groove
and this chorus this comes from the
chorus
let's let's stay together
loving you whether times are good or bad
happy or sad thank you al green that was
beautiful
al green love it every time nice slow
song playing on a friday night with your
girlfriend or boyfriend
so this quote i love it because it means
that
al green or whoever is singing it to you
is going to love you
no matter if it's good times or bad
times
if you're happy or if you're sad and it
kind of reminds me of the classic
american wedding vows that we say
we say i will love you this is not exact
but we say i will love you in sickness
or in health till death do we part
i like this song a lot we should love
each other
in good times and bad right it's not
true love if you're just loving in good
times right
i want you there in the bad times too
bette midler
from wind beneath my wings our second
amazing love quote is you are the wind
beneath my wings we first heard this
from bette midler
in her song wind beneath my wings
now this is a very beautiful song about
it comes from a movie
called beaches that was about two
basically
best friends so she's singing this to
her best girlfriend
and she's saying you are the wind
beneath my wings in fact you are the
person who
gives me this feeling that i can fly and
you support
me so that i feel like i can fly so
you're the wind kind of
beneath my wings and it's this
line is in the chorus repeated many
times in the song
and it goes like this did you ever know
that you're my hero
you're everything i would like to
be i can fly higher
than a knee goal
for you are the wind beneath
my wings something like that i love that
that movie will make you cry by the way
girls get the tissues ready
oh and then the spell was cast
and here we are in heaven for you are
mine
at last edda james from
at last okay our third amazing love
quote is
edda james this is from her song at last
oh and then the spell was cast
and here we are in heaven
for you are mine at last now let me talk
for a minute
about the phrase the spell was cast
it's kind of like a witch that can cast
a spell
on you and so if you have a spell
cast on you it's like you are
under this like this um command
from someone else and you are acting
different
because they made you do something but
it's like
you're so in love with this person that
it's like you'll do anything for them
you're under a spell you know we might
say
and so it's like we're in heaven
together it feels like we're in heaven
i've been waiting so long to be with you
here we are
you are mine at last now this may
not surprise you but this is a popular
wedding song
eddie james sang this i want to say back
in the 1960s i might have that wrong
but it also became popular from the
beyonce movie
a few years ago where she played etta
james and
beyonce sang this song as well this
quote is right in the middle of the song
so don't be
don't be surprised when i start very
strong here here we go
oh and then the spell was cast
and here we are
in heaven
for you a man
at last there's a lot of quaver
in the voice in that song actually
it does come at the end of the song
sorry not the not the middle but
beautiful song recommend that song at
last
check it out by etta james i keep the
ends out
for the tie that binds because you're
mine
i walk the line johnny cash
from i walk the line our next amazing
love quote is
from johnny cash one of my favorites the
quote is a little
difficult i think so listen closely i
keep the ends out
for the tie that binds because you're
mine
i walk the line the tie that binds
means a like a tie or a connection to
someone
you're bound to that person and johnny
actually wrote this song
for his first wife vivian as kind of a
promise to her that he would not
cheat on her on the road so by this
lyric
uh he's saying i keep my eye out
in case anyone i keep the ends out here
he says which is like his eye
i keep the i my ends out for any
potential connection i don't want to be
connected to anyone else
because you're mine i walk the line now
walking the line means like to follow a
strict
line or path and not go out or away from
that line to follow the rules
basically because you're mine i'm
following the rules
i am keeping my eye out in case i make
any
connections that i'm not hoping or
wanting to make
i keep the ends out for the tie that
binds
because you're mine i walk the line
sorry johnny had to go high on that one
johnny did not follow those rules in
fact when he met his second wife june
carter cash
who turned out to be the love of his
life and on the day he met her he said
you're the woman i'm gonna marry someday
my baby don't care for shows
my baby don't care for clothes my baby
just cares for me nina simone
from my baby just cares for me
oh my god i love this song oh my god oh
my god i love this song
the next amazing love quote is i'm gonna
say it's my favorite i
just love this song it's by one of my
favorite singers of all time nina simone
absolute legend wonderful pianist
okay here's the quote my baby don't care
for shows my baby don't care for clothes
my baby just cares for me now
maybe by the end there you realize my
baby is not
her actual baby like baby no no this is
her
lover her love interest so she's saying
my baby don't care for shows my baby
doesn't care about going to plays
or maybe movies my baby don't care for
clothes
my baby doesn't my lover doesn't care
about buying the latest fashion trends
my baby just cares for me my lover just
cares about me so we don't need anything
fancy we don't have to do anything
special
we just need to care and be with each
other and so
it's a it's a great it's a great quote
also notice here the grammar is
completely wrong
my baby don't you should say my baby
doesn't
but this is for a stylistic flair if you
will
so here is part of this amazing song
here we go
my baby don't care for shows
my baby don't care for clothes
my baby just cares for me
oh where is my piano back up that song
is gorgeous please check out the whole
song
phrase number one i get to check this
off my bucket list
in english we have this phrase to kick
the bucket
which means to die so to make a bucket
list
is to make a list of things to do before
you die
now for me one of mine was to go in a
hot air balloon
i had tried to do it for the first time
in 2009
but the morning i went the trip was
canceled
so here i am again uh more than
six years later and i'm trying again and
this time it was successful
so i get to check it off my bucket list
i get to do this thing
before i die and i did it english class
101 listeners it was so exciting
so you should make a list of things to
do before you die your own bucket list
phrase number two will you marry me
so today is actually valentine's day and
it's
very popular on valentine's day and
anytime you're planning to
propose to your special someone to
go to a special place and i can't think
of a more special place than in a hot
air balloon
there's enough space trust me in the
basket to kneel down
at least from my country the usa it's
customary to
get down on one knee it doesn't really
matter which knee at least i've never
thought so
and you get down you kneel on one knee
and you say will you marry me
now unfortunately listeners i did not
see any marriage proposals on
my balloon yesterday but i bet you today
there are over 30 balloons that go off
here in bagan myanmar i bet you
someone proposed oh it would have been
such a beautiful moment
will you marry me that is phrase number
two phrase number three
this is a first for me so going in a hot
air balloon as i said i had never done
it before
so it is a first for me a first being
the first time
i have done something i'm sure there are
many firsts that you can think of in
your life that you've had
and maybe many more firsts that you'd
like to have so
this was a first for me or this is a
first for me
phrase number three maybe a first for
you could be the first time that you've
ever
had sushi or the first time that you've
ever
climbed a mountain i mean there are so
many firsts that you can have
this is a first for me getting in a hot
air balloon
phrase number four the view is
incredible from up here
now this is something that we use in
english to say whenever we've gone to
the top of an observation tower
the top of a mountain the top of a
temple like i went to this morning
or really any high place that you go to
to take a great photo or to get an
incredible view
we say the view is incredible from up
here
phrase number five what a ride champagne
time
so at the end of my balloon ride
yesterday as soon as we dropped into
the field below we had a beautiful
picnic basket
unfurled on the field in front of us and
we got to enjoy
a glass of champagne to celebrate and
when we finished something
some incredible ride some maybe could be
in the car on a bus
it could be from a bad experience or a
good but we say
what a ride what a ride and
when we're about to drink champagne we
say champagne time
this expression from after riding in a
hot air balloon
originally came from the pilots of these
balloons wanting to make sure the
farmers
in the fields where they landed didn't
get too upset
so they would offer the farmers some
champagne along with any guests they may
have
in their balloons and that's where the
tradition first came from so
what a ride champagne time phrase number
five
how much is it to how much is it to
how much is it to the airport you might
ask this
question to find out how much it costs
to take a train
or a bus or a taxi to where you need to
go
if you get into a taxi for example and
you ask
how much is it to the airport the taxi
driver will tell you
thirty dollars he'll tell you the price
you need to pay to get to the airport
if you're taking a train you might ask
the ticket seller
how much is it to the airport and the
ticket seller will tell you
the train to the airport costs ten
dollars for example
that way you know how much it costs to
go to where you need to be
does this bus go to does this
bus go to does this bus go to the
suburbs
does this bus go to is a way of asking
whether or not the bus that you're
looking at
has the destination that you need so you
might get on the bus
and ask the bus driver does this bus go
to
the suburbs whatever destination and the
bus driver will answer and tell you yes
get on or no you want a different bus
what time is the next bus what time is
the next bus
what time will the next bus arrive by
asking what time is the next bus
you're asking when the bus is going to
come to the bus stop
or whatever station the bus will stop at
this way you know what time you need to
be at that bus stop
the train is running late the train is
running late
the train is running late again
this is something i say all the time in
new york city
the train is running late if the train
is running late
that means you will probably be running
late when you get off the train
where are the ticket machines where are
the ticket machines where are the ticket
machines in this station
a ticket machine is a machine that you
go to to purchase your tickets
you might see this in any station
whether it's a subway station
or a regular train station or sometimes
even a bus station there will be kiosks
that you can go to
to enter the information and purchase
your ticket
by watching english movies and tv shows
and enjoying the feeling when you can
understand a word or a sentence
yeah i do this too when you
enjoy something when you find
entertainment value in something like
music
movies tv and you there's that moment
when you pick up
or when you understand what your
favorite character said or you
understand
like a key point in the story it's a
really really good feeling
it makes you want to continue watching i
think
so that's a really really nice feeling i
think
and you can do that by enjoying media so
it's a fun way to learn and it's a fun
feeling to experience
okay the next way to motivate yourself
is
by reading english news articles blogs
and magazines to get a feel for formal
and casual language so the style that we
use here like in english class
101 and this on the videos on this
channel is quite casual most of the time
or at least
in these videos it's very casual but the
way that i speak in the way a newspaper
is written the way a magazine is written
the way a
a newscaster presents the information
these are all different ways of
communicating
we're using the same language yes but
they are different styles so it's
important to try to understand those
differences
and to become familiar with them so try
to find a few different things that you
can enjoy
the next way to motivate yourself is
after dinner
you write about your day in a journal
in english okay this is an interesting
idea so just take a few minutes after
dinner
or before you go to bed to write
something in english about what you did
that day or maybe
so you have a chance to talk about
future tense or to use the future tense
you can use
you can talk about your upcoming plans
or the things you're going to do the
next day
so you can talk about past tense what
you did that day
maybe present tense how you're feeling
as you're writing your journal for the
day
and future tense to talk about your
upcoming plan so journaling can be a
really effective exercise for motivating
you
okay the next way to motivate yourself
is by practicing with flash cards of
useful words and phrases for 15 minutes
every day on the train i actually do do
this i use but i use an application to
study in japanese to study kanji
and 15 minutes every day adds up over
the course of a week
you can learn a lot of information in a
short period of time
and if you live in the country where
your target language is spoken then you
might even find the word you studied on
the train
you see it like after you leave the
train you might see that word later on
in your day so you can immediately
feel like an extra sense of motivation
by knowing that
this thing you're studying is applicable
it's something you can use
right away it's a really cool feeling so
this is a tip i
honestly i use this last i make sure to
thank
anyone and everyone who corrects my
english uh yeah
i i think this is really important
because people are really nice they
don't want to correct you when you make
a mistake
but sometimes people do they're really
polite about it and they tell you the
more
tell you a more natural way or they give
you a suggestion for how to improve your
english
make sure you say thank you like repeat
after them
and then say thank you so that you know
it's motivation for them
to tell you again in the future to help
you again in the future so make sure to
say thank you
to anyone who helps you with your
english personally
i think that or i would just use i think
that
personally makes it sound a little bit
more polite i think
you can use this to introduce an opinion
for example
personally i think that pizza is amazing
personally i think that dinosaurs
would have been delicious personally
i think that cars should
be made
to enjoy
with okay i'm friends
end it there personally i think that you
shouldn't worry about it
yes that's probably a much more useful
sentence than dinosaurs would be
delicious
the next expression is what does blah
blah blah mean
so where here is the word you don't know
so for example
what does pasta mean what does
stegosaurus mean so a word like
stegosaurus is a really strange
word that you probably don't know
stegosaurus is a type of dinosaur we're
on a very dinosaur
i don't know jurassic we're on a
jurassic adventure at the moment
so this is a pattern you use when you
don't know
uh when you don't know the meaning of
the word and you would like someone to
explain it to you so if you say what
does stegosaurus mean
then someone can say oh it's a dinosaur
it's kind of like
it's a sort of short guy it has a bunch
of spikes on its back and it has a long
tail and it gets into a fight with the
tyrannosaurus rex if you saw the movie
fantasia
by disney okay
so in this sentence what does
complication
mean it means problem okay the next
pattern you can use
is can you tell me more about blah blah
blah so on a topic that you would like
more information about you can say can
you tell me more about the soccer game
last week can you tell me more about the
plan for the party next week so
something you would like
more information about you can say can
you tell me more about
this thing okay so in a sentence can you
tell me more about your
sandwich options that is a useful
sentence
that is a useful sentence okay in this
sentence here
we don't have that back home can you
tell me more about it
this is use the reverse pattern okay uh
the next expression
is if it were up to me if it were up to
me i had to teach this in a class a
couple weeks ago actually
if it were up to me means if i could
make the decision
if this was my if this were my decision
uh blah blah blah so meaning if i could
make the
choice this is what i would do but one
point here is
the nuance is it is not my decision
this is not my decision but if it were
my decision
i would do blah blah blah so for example
if it were up to me every day would be
saturday
but it's not right so um
that's that's always the underlying
that's always the
kind of basic nuance of this phrase
some this decision is not mine okay here
the example is
if it were up to me i would
take my boss to dinner oh my
things just got scandalous
the next pattern is i feel like blah
blah blah
you can use i feel like when you
introduce
a suggestion or something that you would
like to do especially for food
drinks or activities so for example i
feel like coffee
i feel like italian food i feel like an
action movie
there's some activity or something you
would like to do
at the end of this pattern i feel like
bowling this afternoon
something needs to go here some sort of
activity
of course you can use this expression to
talk about your feelings
i feel like something but this something
must be a noun it must be a noun like if
you feel really great
i feel like a million bucks for example
if you feel really bad i feel like
garbage that's a nice expression that
somehow just came out of my head anyway
you can use this in two ways but
this must be completed with a noun
phrase at the end of the sentence
hi everybody my name is alicia today i'm
going to talk about how to pronounce the
ending
ed sound in past tense regular verbs
so i'm going to talk about how to make
the three different sounds that we use
when we're using the past tense forms of
these verbs so let's get started
okay so as i said this is for
uh regular past tense verbs so verbs
which take an
e-d ending um verbs which don't take an
e-d
ending in the past tense i'm not going
to talk about those in this lesson
just e-d ending verbs so past tense
conjugations
okay so there are three different
pronunciations that we use
for this ed sound i'm going to talk
about each one and kind of a rule
that can help you as you try to decide
the best or the most
correct pronunciation okay let's first
look at a
t ending sound so by this t i mean a t
sound at the end of the verb so a few
examples uh
first is walked second talked and typed
so walked talked typed you can hear the
e d
sound at the end of each verb it's
spelled
e d but the pronunciation is a t sound
so walked talked typed
we make a t sound so the rule for this
why do we use the t
sound here when we're looking at the
infinitive form of the verb so remember
the infinitive form is like the basic
form of the verb
i have it underlined in black here if
the infinitive
ends in an unvoiced sound we use this
t pronunciation so i'll talk about
unvoiced in just a moment here
but in this case the infinitive forms
are walk talk
and type walk talk and type so the
ending sounds are k
and here so these are called unvoiced
sounds so for this point and for some
points in the rest of this lesson
it's useful to know the difference
between a voiced sound and an
unvoiced sound so a voiced sound
is a sound that we make using our vocal
cords so
the if you put your hand on your throat
and you can feel your vocal cords
moving like activated that's a voiced
sound
an unvoiced sound however is a sound we
make
without using our vocal cords something
that doesn't require
us to activate our vocal cords so
i said in this case for the t sound
we use this sound for infinitives which
end in an unvoiced sound
meaning our vocal chords are not
activated so here as i said
walk ends in a sound talk ends in a
sound and type ends in a sound
so for k sounds and sounds our vocal
chords are not activated we're not using
our vocal chords to make this sound
so we apply a t sound for the end of the
verb
uh when we're conjugating into past
tense so this is the first type of
pronunciation
for today okay let's look at the second
type for today
the second type is this d ending sound
and by d
i mean it like a soft d sound so a few
examples
i have smelled breathed whispered
lied booed and kneed
so in each of these you can hear there's
this soft d sound for the ending not an
e d sound ed but a d sound a soft d
sound so in this case how do we know
that we should use a
d sound at the end of these
in this case we should use this sound
for infinitives which end in a
voiced sound so as we learned up here
voiced sounds are sounds that require us
to activate our vocal chords
so in this case uh the end of the
infinitive form
here smell is the infinitive so the
ending sound
requires vocal chord activation so i'm
using my vocal cords to make a
uh sound here same thing with breathe
this th sound at the end the i have to
use my vocal cords to make this sound
next one whisper the er sound here
uses my vocal cords so i'm using the d
whispered
we see the same thing the last three
examples i have here use vowel sounds at
the end so lied
booed need these are voiced sounds so
we need to use a d sound to end uh
to end the word so this is when we use
the
ending okay let's look at the last type
over here the last type is this
id ending it's like an id sound
let's look at some examples so here i
have wanted
pleated and started
these are all examples of infinitives
that end in a t
or a d sound so here the infinitive form
of my first example want ends in a t
sound
my second example plead ends in a d
sound
and my third example uh start ends in a
t
sound as well so for infinitives which
end in a t
or a d sound a t or a d sound we use
this
id ending so wanted pleaded
started so these are the three types
of ending ed sound uh pronunciations
so if you're having trouble uh trying to
decide how to pronounce
an ed sound you can kind of think of
these rules
to help you i hope um but if you want to
know like
which sounds are unvoiced or which
sounds are voiced if it's hard for you
to determine like when
you are using your vocal cords or when
you're not using your vocal cords
here's a quick tip so here are some
or here are the unvoiced consonant
sounds
so the unvoiced consonant sounds meaning
the consonants that we make
without using our vocal cords are ch
and the th sound in think think
so all of these sounds are unvoiced if
we make these sounds
we're not using our vocal chords to make
them so sh
for example and and these are common
ones
but we're not actually using like our
voice to make them
so that means that voiced sounds are the
other sounds
so if it's not in this list it's a
voiced sound
one thing to be careful of here though
is that the th
sound in the word like they uh is
actually a voiced sound so we have a
voiced
they th sound they they and we have an
unvoiced th sound like in think think so
in the word
think i'm not using my vocal chords in
the word
they or the for example i am
so th has a voiced and an unvoiced
pronunciation
so this is something to keep in mind and
maybe to help you as you practice
but these are the three pronunciation
types for ending ed sounds i hope that
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know your verbs my name is alicia and in
this episode we're going to talk about
the verb
follow let's go
so the basic definition of this verb is
to move behind someone
or something and to go to the same place
that that person
or thing is going to examples i'll
follow you to the park
follow me i know where we're going
the conjugations of this verb now
present
follow follows past
followed past participle followed
progressive following
now let's talk about some additional
meanings of this verb
okay the first additional meaning is to
understand to understand
examples i don't follow you do you
follow
so we can really just replace the word
follow with understand here in the first
example sentence
i don't follow you we can say i don't
understand you
it means i don't understand what you're
saying or i don't understand what you're
thinking
i don't follow you it sounds more casual
like i don't follow your
train of thought train of thought means
like the path you took to arrive at your
destination thinking wise
follow you just sounds more casual it's
like i can't understand i can't
follow the path of your logic in other
words so i don't follow you
in the second sentence it's a question
do you follow meaning
do you understand do you understand what
i'm saying so follow can mean
understand quite simply okay let's go to
the second
meaning for this verb so the second one
is to happen
after something else to come after
something else
examples of this a delicious dessert
followed the roast chicken
a luxurious hot spring experience
follows a massage on this one day tour
in these example sentences we see follow
is used to describe
something that happens after something
else in the first example sentence i
mentioned a dessert
that followed a roast chicken so yes
dessert is being presented first in the
sentence
so i said a delicious dessert followed a
roast chicken
so that means a delicious dessert came
after
a roast chicken so followed yes followed
shows the thing that came
after the other thing so we see the same
thing in the second example sentence a
luxurious hot spring experience
follows a relaxing massage so
yes luxurious hot spring experience is
first in the sentence
however we're using the verb follows so
that means it comes
after a massage in this case so yes it's
presented first in the sentence but
this use of follow means come after
so that means we're presenting a
sequence in this way let's go to the
third meaning
which is to obey to obey
so to obey something okay examples of
this to obey
did you follow the instructions on the
instant ramen she decided to follow her
manager's advice
so in both of these sentences we're
meaning obey with the verb
follow so we could say did you obey the
instructions on the instant ramen
but obey sounds quite strong we use obey
for like people who are in positions of
power
above us so in this case uh with ramen
it's packaging so we usually say follow
the instructions on the packaging so
meaning obey the instructions on the
packaging
but obey is quite a strong word we use
follow
instead in the second sentence she
followed her manager's advice
it's like she obeyed her manager's
advice so yes a manager is in a position
of power above you
sure obey is typically used when we
are given like strict orders for
something like
like military or like something from the
president something from very high up
and like very strong orders like
like obey your commanding officer or
something like that
in this case it's advice meaning that
it's probably not so
serious it's like a suggestion and it's
a manager
so she has probably like a workplace
relationship
so we would probably use follow
someone's advice
in this case so follow means obey but
it's not
quite as strong not nearly as strong
much softer so the fourth meaning
is to be very interested in something
and to watch that thing
closely examples of this i don't really
follow sports
she's been following the news very
closely so the first example sentence is
a negative
i don't really follow sports meaning i
don't really have much interest
in and therefore i don't really watch
much sports
in the second example sentence she's
been following the news very closely
it means she's been very interested in
and watching a lot of
news lately so this use of follow is
quite convenient it it includes meanings
of being interested in something
and watching something carefully or
closely
so to follow a topic or to follow
an activity so this means being
interested in that activity
and doing or seeing or reading about a
lot of
it
variations let's look at some variations
of this firm the first variation is
to follow suit to follow suit this means
to do the same thing
as the person previously mentioned in
the sentence or
in the situation examples my manager
just quit the company
i think i'm gonna follow suit her
boyfriend decided to leave the party so
she followed suit
so in both of these examples we see one
person
makes a decision or takes an action and
the other person
does the same thing we show that with
the expression
follow suit so in the first example my
manager quit the company
i think i'm gonna follow suit so i think
i'm going to do the same thing as the
person i just mentioned
so my manager quit the company i think
i'm going to do that as well i think i'm
going to follow
suit in the second example sentence her
boyfriend decided to leave the party
so she followed suit so he left the
party
she decided to do the same thing he did
she
followed suit past tense she did the
same thing he did
so follow suit means to do the same
thing as the
person previously mentioned the next
variation is to follow
through to follow through we often use
to follow through
on or to follow through with something
this means to keep a promise or to do
something
you said you were going to do examples i
hate it when people don't follow through
with their plans
that's true that's called flaking okay
example sentence number two
i'm going to follow through on my
resolution to find a new job
okay so here we see a couple examples so
the first one is sort of a negative
statement i hate it when people don't
follow
through with their plans meaning i hate
it when people
don't do the things they say they're
going to do
so i hate it when people make a plan and
break the plan
or make a suggestion and don't do that
thing so
they don't follow through with their
plans in the second example the speaker
previously made a resolution a
resolution is a kind of
goal so the speaker previously made a
resolution
the speaker has decided to follow
through meaning to
uh to try to achieve that resolution to
try to
do that action so that means that the
speaker is going to find
a new job so the speaker is going to do
the thing
he or she promised to do the last
variation for
follow today is to follow in someone's
footsteps to follow in someone's
footsteps this is kind of an easy one to
imagine so
to follow in the same footsteps as
someone who walked
before you however that person who
walked before you
is typically a parent or maybe a
grandparent or someone
senior to you that you admire example
sentences
he's following in his father's footsteps
and becoming a lawyer
she decided not to follow in her
mother's footsteps after all
so to follow in someone's footsteps
typically refers to a career choice
so in the first example sentence we saw
lawyer so he decided to follow in his
father's footsteps meaning he decided to
do the same thing
his father did as a career
become a lawyer so meaning chose the
same thing as his
parent in the second we see a different
situation
she decided not to follow in her
mother's footsteps meaning she chose a
different career path
from her mother or she chose a different
life path from her mother
so to follow in someone's footsteps
means to do the same thing
usually the same career as their parent
or their grandparent so those are a few
new ways to use the verb
follow i hope if you have any questions
if you want to try to make a sentence or
if you know some other ways to use
follow
please feel free to try it out in the
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good for some uh
i really have to sneeze hi everyone my
name is bridget and welcome to today's
lesson
the topic for this lesson is top 10
must-know verbs when cooking
let's get started to cook
to cook i'm going to cook dinner tonight
to cook is to prepare a meal
using heat tonight i'm going to cook
chicken marsala i'm going to cook
beef stew to fry
to fry i don't want to fry the chicken
because it's
too unhealthy to fry something
is to cook something in hot fat or oil
french fries are fried and fried things
are unhealthy so when you eat fried
foods you want to eat in moderation
i don't because fried stuff is delicious
but
you should to add to
add before you eat you should taste the
food
and add salt if necessary
to add in this context means to add
something else onto a dish
to put more of something onto a dish so
you might add salt
to a dish or add some paprika to the
chicken
to cut to cut could you please cut up
that beef
to cut is to use a knife to cut food
to make it into smaller pieces usually
so you can
bite it or so you can mix it more easily
i cut my steak so i can eat it you make
food smaller into more bite-sized pieces
by cutting
to mix to mix
mix all of the spices in a bowl before
putting them in your dish
to mix is to combine so you might
combine or
mix all of your ingredients together
before
cooking or doing something else with
them you might mix
ingredients together to create a dish
to season to season
to season is to add spices to a food
to make it taste better usually you
season
every dish with salt and pepper to
mash to mash for great mashed potatoes
you should add garlic to the potatoes
to mash is to crush food so that it
becomes almost
paste like so mashed potatoes is a very
common example of this
also in the uk you might find mushy peas
which are
sort of mashed to saute
to saute i sometimes like to saute
asparagus instead of boiling it to saute
is to quickly fry something in hot fat
to put to put put
cold water into the mixture or you'll
get lumps
in the stew to put in this context
means to add to something or to move
into place
i put salt in the stew and i put the
dish
in the oven to slice to slice
if you want them to cook evenly you
should slice the carrots to be the same
size
to slice means to cut i sliced the apple
i sliced the pizza i sliced the cake
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welcome back to ask alicia the weekly
series where you ask me questions and i
answer them
maybe first question this week comes
from
puallam hi pualam pualam says hi alicia
i would
like to know the differences between the
verb to be
and to become for example which one is
correct
i want to be a teacher or i want to
become
a teacher thanks um both of these are
correct actually so in this case to be
and become have the same meaning but
become tends to sound more formal like
if you say i want to become a teacher
it sounds a bit more formal than saying
i want to be a teacher
it's also easier to say i want to be a
teacher
so you can use them in the same way when
you're talking about
becoming something else or when you're
talking about something
turning into something else i want to be
can be used uh in more casual
expressions
another example would be like i want to
be rich someday
or i want to become rich someday so
i want to be rich sounds more casual
it's more commonly used than i want to
become rich but they communicate the
same
idea so i hope that this helps you
thanks very much for the question
okay let's go on to your next question
next question comes from israel diaz hi
israel
israel says what's the difference
between used
to or used to and used for
okay well it kind of depends on your
sentence
so used to or used to like i said that
when i read the question
so depending on the sentence this word
or this phrase rather can take different
meanings
so used to can mean
something that you did in the past like
i used to play golf
or i used to eat pancakes for breakfast
every morning or i used to go to
the forest to go hiking with my family
every summer
i used to do something that refers to a
past activity that's no longer true
used to however talks about the purpose
of something
so like this phone is used to make
calls or like this camera is used to
record video
so we use used to before a
verb so this thing is used to do
that so that's talking about the purpose
of
something then used for is similar it's
also talking about purpose but we're
following the expression with a noun
instead of a verb so like this phone is
used
for phone calls this camera is used for
videos so we're following the expression
with a noun instead of a verb
so depending on the sentence used to or
used to they're spelled the same
will be read differently and it will
have different grammatical functions
used to and used for have the same
purpose
but we have to make slight changes to
our grammar after
that expression so i hope that this
helps you understand the differences
thanks very much for the question
okay let's move on to your next question
next question
comes from dongfang again hi dongfang
dongfong says hi alicia i'm an english
learner from china
what does it mean when someone says i'm
not practicing the law
anymore i heard this sentence in one of
my favorite dramas called
better call saul i understand the
sentence
but i'm a little confused about the word
practice here is this a common use
yeah this is a really nice question
great catch
so practice is a very special verb
that we use in certain jobs certain
professions
so commonly this is doctors and
lawyers that use this word so they use
the word
practice before their field of expertise
and it just means do or to be active
in their practice so in this case and
better call saul
it's practicing law or i'm not
practicing law
that means i'm not actively doing like
legal work right now i'm not
active as a lawyer right now a doctor
could say like
i've been practicing medicine for six
years that means
i've been active as a doctor for six
years
so practice here does not mean like
practicing doing something it means
actively participating in that
job so again this is very specific for a
couple of different jobs like lawyers
and doctors so
very specific word nice catch and thank
you so much for this question
hope that helps you okay let's move on
to your next
question next question comes from
silverway hi again silverway silverway
says hi alicia
what does i'm blown away mean oh yeah
okay
i'm blown away can mean i'm surprised or
like i'm shocked
so it's kind of it tends to be more of
like a positive expression like i'm
blown away by all the questions you guys
send or like i was blown away by how
good that dinner was or like
i was blown away when i saw that
my best friend had decided to get a
mohawk
so it's like something is surprising or
shocking or
both maybe and you can actually use it
for negative situations
as well you can also use this in past
tense like whoa that blew me away that
movie blew me away
so it just means shock surprise um if
something bad happens like someone is
really rude you could say like wow that
person just blew me away or like i was
so
surprised at how rude that person was so
i hope that that helps you understand
the phrase to be blown away thanks very
much for the question
all right let's move on to your next
question next question
comes from proof fee johnny hi pruthvi
pruthfi says hi alicia what is the
difference between
lot of and plethora of um
plethora is kind of a formal and rarely
used word
so a plethora of something means lots
and lots of something yes
but we tend to use it for like
extravagant
situations so like for example the
researchers discovered a plethora of
treasures in the egyptian king's tomb
we really don't use this so much in
everyday speech
it sounds too formal in most cases but
again if you're talking about something
that's
like really kind of big and extravagant
you might use the word
plethora to describe that a plethora of
something
so i hope that this helps you understand
the word plethora thanks very much for
the question
so that's everything that i have for
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next week bye bye have you seen the
movie the three amigos
steve martin yeah do you remember
a plethora of pinatas there's a whole
scene there
where they talk about they're talking
about a party that's coming up
and they're like did you get the pinatas
for the party and they're like see
see and then and then they're like how
many pinatas did you get would you say
that you got a plethora
of pinatas and you're like oh it's a
plethora
hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia
the weekly series where you
ask me questions and i answer them maybe
first question comes from
habib azadani hi habib habib says
what does let alone mean oh yeah nice
question
okay let's start by introducing two
examples he can't drive a car let alone
teach someone how to drive
she doesn't have time to cook let alone
bake
okay so in these two examples we see in
the first part of the sentence there's
an
impossible situation introduced so
he can't drive a car and she doesn't
have time to bake so these are like
impossible or really difficult
situations
then we introduce another impossible
situation in the second part of the
sentence
and we emphasize that that too is
impossible
by using let alone so in this case
the even more impossible thing is
teaching someone else to drive
in the first sentence and baking in the
second sentence
so we often see these kinds of patterns
when we're like
asking for help with something or like
we're making a request
for something for example can davy teach
me how to drive
he can't drive a car let alone teach
someone else how to drive
can you ask alicia to bake me a cake
alicia
she doesn't have time to cook let alone
bake
so you see that there's like this other
impossible situation
emphasized and introduced with let alone
so that's what it means it doesn't mean
like
leaving someone alone but we use let
alone
in front of verbs this way to show
totally impossible situations
so i hope that this helps you thanks
very much for the question okay
let's move on to your next question next
question is from
nayef hinayev nayef says hi alicia
what's the difference between
possibly and probably okay here um
possibly means that something can be
done it is
possible something we are able to do
you can think of possibly as meaning
like
maybe so some examples sorry for the
last minute request but can my friend
join us at the restaurant
possibly let me call the restaurant will
you have time for a meeting later
possibly i have to do some paperwork so
probably on the other hand indicates a
high
level of potential of something so
possibly is very
neutral possible is also very neutral
it's just
something that we are able to do it can
be
done probably however
refers to like an actual chance of
something and a very
good chance of something so like there's
a 70
chance something is going to happen so
if we take the same example sentences
as in can my friend join for dinner
probably let me call the restaurant
and will you have time for a meeting
later
probably i just need to finish some
paperwork we can see
that the level of certainty in the
situation changes
with possibly it's like maybe i don't
know there's a chance
could be i don't know with probably it's
like there's a very good chance that
that thing is
okay so i hope that this helps you
understand the difference between
possibly and probably thanks for the
question all right
let's move on to your next question next
question comes from antonio lopez hi
antonio
antonio says what's a tag question cool
okay
tag questions are like tiny tiny
questions that come
at the end of a statement examples you
weren't serious were you
he's coming to the party isn't he we
forgot our passports didn't we
i'm late aren't i so at the end of each
one of these sentences is this tiny
little question
so it's like something that we finish
our sentence with in order to confirm
the first thing we said in the sentence
so you'll notice in each of these
sentences
if the beginning statement is in the
negative
the tag question will be in the positive
and vice versa
if the beginning statement is in the
positive the tag question will be
negative
so we use tag questions just to confirm
what we said in the beginning part of
the sentence i hope that this helps you
thanks very much for the question okay
let's move on to your next
question next question comes from
felipe yakomosi hi felipe
felipe says what's the usage difference
between
two also and as well
okay um for the purposes of this answer
i'll talk about just one use of the word
to which means in addition so we see
two a lot at the end of a phrase or at
the end of a sentence like in
me too or you too or he wants to come to
or i like that too we see that there at
the
end of the phrase let's move on then to
talking about also
we use also before verbs usually in the
simple present tense or in the simple
past tense you can see also at the
beginning of a sentence
as well and we use it in this position
when it affects the whole sentence
so some examples we should get some
snacks
we should also get drinks today i'd like
to talk about sales
i'd also like to talk about growth going
forward
and then when you see also positioned at
the beginning of the sentence it affects
the whole sentence
so for example hey can you pick up
dinner on your way home
also put some gas in the car will you
please finish this report by today
also stop stealing pens from my desk
so in these ways we see also used to
mean and and it tends to come before
verbs or it can come before a full
request
finally as well as well tends to
function in the same way as
two we use it a lot at the end of a
phrase or like at the end of a list of
items
but it sounds more formal than two okay
so thanks very much for the question i
hope that that helps you
all right let's move on to your next
question next question comes from
benny hi benny benny says what does it
mean when someone says
cut it out and when can i use this
phrase oh cut it out means
stop we use this when someone is doing
something that's like annoying or
repetitive
so it's like if someone's poking you or
maybe if like someone keeps throwing
things across the room at you
it's something small and annoying and
you want them to stop
doing that you can say cut it out cut it
out it's usually in that way
if you just say cut it out it doesn't
sound so like strong
so usually we make it sound like cut it
out
so it sounds like you're irritated
another way that we
express the same thing is by saying
don't don't
so especially young kids will use don't
or maybe cut it out
to mean stop doing that thing don't
means like don't
do that thing like don't throw things at
me or
don't poke me whatever it is but we'll
say don't
so cut it out is just a casual way to
say stop i hope that that helps you
thanks for the question
all right that is everything that i have
for this week thanks as always for
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next week bye hi everybody welcome back
to ask alicia the weekly series where
you ask me questions and i answer them
maybe first question comes from
silverway again hi again silverway
silverway says hi alicia could you
please tell me the meaning of the word
you use so much in your lessons
nuance does it mean difference or
something else oh yeah sure
so nuance means small difference
or for like vocabulary for language
learning it means like
suggested meaning so another way to
think about
nuance is like like it's a color so if
we imagine the color
red we can understand what red means but
inside red there are many different
types of red right
so we can imagine a nuance is like one
of those
types of red it's like one way of
understanding
something so a sentence like i'm not
interested in him or i'm not interested
in her
this means like interest yes we see
interest in that word
but the nuance of this phrase the
feeling of this phrase is like
romantic interest i'm not romantically
interested in him i'm not romantically
interested in her
so that's an example of nuance so we
understand like the category
interest but the nuance the small
difference in
meaning is about like romantic like
relationships in this case
so yes nuance means small difference in
meaning
uh for this channel um it can also mean
small difference in
flavor in food for example or like small
differences
in facial expressions so another example
sentence might be
we can communicate nuances through our
body language and facial expressions
so nuance means small difference in
meaning i hope that that helps you and
yes that word gets used a lot on this
channel
thanks very much for the question let's
move on to your next question
next question comes from agains elland
hi again
again said hi alicia can you explain the
difference between
seams and looks like yeah sure um let's
start with
looks like there are actually two
patterns for looks like
i want to talk about this a looks like b
pattern first we use this when we want
to talk about something that has
a similar or the same appearance as
something
else a looks like b so
like that cloud looks like a rabbit your
brother looks like a mouse
so these patterns mean that thing a or
person a
has a similar appearance to thing b
or person b so that's the first meaning
of
looks like the first way we use it the
second way that we use
looks like is to talk about guesses that
we make
based on visual information so
information we get with our eyes
so when we can see something and make a
guess about it
we can use looks like for example
it looks like it's going to rain or it
looks like your dog is pretty hungry
so we can see something that gives us
information
about what might happen next or we can
make a guess about the situation
using something we can see okay so with
that in mind let's continue to
seams we use seams yes to make
guesses sure just like with looks like
the second meaning of looks like
but we use seams for things that we
cannot quickly
check we cannot quickly confirm his new
girlfriend seems nice
are you okay you seem really tired today
so
you can use seams for guesses that you
make based on things you can see
yes but i think it sounds more natural
to use
looks like in those cases so seams is
used for stuff that we
can't quickly check but maybe we don't
get that information
based just on stuff we can see so i hope
that this helps you thanks very much for
the question
all right let's move on to your next
question next question
comes from felipe yakomozi again hi
felipe
felipe says could you explain the
pronunciation differences between the
following words
one then and than
and two sure and sure
okay sure so let's start with the first
pair of words
then and then then
then so maybe it's a little easier to
hear
when speaking slowly the differences
than
than but actually another good way that
you can
kind of discover which word is being
used is to consider the way the word is
used in the sentence
so it's not that native speakers are
listening to each word
separately we're listening to the whole
sentence so we're not
just paying attention to one sound but
we're thinking of the way the sentence
is made
so you'll see than used a lot in
comparative sentence structures
examples i like dark colors more than
light colors
we should buy more drinks than snacks
she said your dessert was better than
all the others so you can see here that
all of these sentences use a comparison
we're saying something is better than
something else so we know that than
is being used there but even though
we're saying it really quickly and it
sounds like
then we understand the correct spelling
because of the grammatical structure of
the sentence
let's compare this to how then is used
i have to go to the office this morning
then i'm going to the airport
we saw a movie then ate dinner he broke
up with his girlfriend last week
he seemed pretty sad since then okay
so you can see that these are not
comparative sentences
the first two examples are like sequence
examples so one thing happened
another thing happened after that so we
use then
to show that in the last example
sentence we're using then to refer to
a period of time so you'll notice then
that like the positioning of the words
the grammatical function of the words
these are different
so again you can listen rather to the
whole
structure like the way the sentence is
made instead of focusing just on those
sounds
than and then regarding your second
question about
shore and sure these have different
sounds in american english
though they could have very similar
sounds in british english
again just listen for the ways these
words are used
shore is a word that would probably be
used when talking about the beach or
someplace
near a body of water sure is used to
express agreement or to ask a question
like are you sure
sure so think about the ways these words
are used not
just their individual pronunciations i
hope that this helps you thanks for the
question
okay let's move on to your next question
next question comes from diana hi diana
diana says hi alicia could you explain
the subjunctive mood
oh yeah subjunctive mood is a pretty big
topic actually to speak about it quite
generally we
use subjunctive mood to talk about like
unreal situations so like wishes
possibilities suggestions like making
demands
also an important point to note is that
the subjunctive mood is not
a tense it's not a tense it's rather
like
kind of a a way of communicating
unreal information it's uh sort of uh
like it follows its own grammatical
rules so let's look at a few examples in
the subjunctive mood
i wish i were there to celebrate your
birthday with you
if i were you i would look for a new job
we demand he give us a refund
so in each of these example sentences
the subjunctive mood is used to
communicate something that's
not real so we see a wish in the first
example sentence
an unreal situation in the second one
we're seeing like a piece of advice
for an unreal situation and the third
one is a request or a demand
this is considered unreal because the
demand like the thing
being requested or demanded has not
happened yet or it may not
happen so subjunctive mood is
not so commonly used actually because it
is kind of difficult to use for many
people
it has like its own grammatical rules
which you can see a good example of in
the third example sentence here
like we demand he give us a refund
like there in most sentences we would be
required to conjugate the verb to
gives like he gives something but when
we're using the subjunctive mood
it takes on this kind of grammar he give
us a refund
so it is kind of tricky it is a bit
complex the subjunctive
i would suggest if you're interested in
learning more about the subjunctive and
how to make statements like this
start by learning a few of the common
patterns so
by that i mean like the if i were or i
wish i were so those are the first two
example sentences here
those are some great patterns that you
can use to start making
subjunctive mood sentences um other
things
can get a little bit uh trickier uh
getting into like some future
perfect tense statements in the
subjunctive mood uh but maybe i can make
a whiteboard video or two about that in
the future
so i hope that this gives you kind of an
introduction to the subjunctive mood
thanks very much for the question all
right let's move on to the next
question next question comes from
wajahat khan hi wajahat
says hi alicia what is the meaning of
the word
g-whiz and how can we use it in our
everyday life
situations sure so uh g-whiz is
an old-fashioned word that means wow
cool amazing but it's very old-fashioned
it sounds like something
people said in like the 1950s in the u.s
we really don't use this word now it's
something we would only use if we want
to
sound sarcastic or if we want to make a
joke so if you use this now you're
probably going to sound sarcastic
like a raise gee whiz thanks
free tickets to disneyland gee whiz like
it just sounds
really silly it sounds silly even giving
these example sentences
so i wouldn't really recommend using
this in everyday life these days just
because it does sound old-fashioned and
it sounds more like a joke
but it really means wow or amazing or
cool
so i hope that that helps you thanks for
the question okay that's everything that
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next week bye-bye hi everybody my name
is alicia
in this lesson i'm going to talk about
the difference between who
and whom two commonly confused words so
let's find out
how to use them and a few hints for how
you can decide which
is the correct word to use in a sentence
okay
let's begin with the word who so we use
the word
who when we refer to the subject of a
sentence
so let's look at a couple of examples
here
in red i have who is he who stole my
drink
and who is using my computer so i have a
few questions here
in this uh set of examples who is used
to refer to the subject
of the sentence so each one
serves as the subject here all right and
we can answer these questions
with a simple reply so who is he we
could say
he is my friend who stole my drink we
could say she stole your drink
who is using my computer he is using
your computer
so here again we have he she and he
as the answers for these questions i'll
come back to this point in just a moment
for now though let's contrast this point
with whom
when we use whom so we use whom to refer
to the
object of a verb or a preposition
so let's look at a couple examples here
whom
should i speak to regarding this inquiry
whom does this book belong to
to whom do i submit my report
so in each of these sentences
whom serves not as the subject of the
sentence
but as the object of a verb or a
preposition here
so again i have a couple of example
answers for this point
here i have uh for this first example
whom should i speak to regarding this
inquiry the answer could be something
like
you should speak to him for the second
one
whom does this book belong to this book
belongs to
her to whom do i submit my report
we can answer with submit your report to
him okay so the reason that i've
included these example answers
is because these can give you a really
good hint
for how to decide whether you should use
who or
whom so i have up here this hint the
first hint really
is to try substituting he or she and her
or him in your original sentence so for
example
in this sentence who is he or who stole
my drink or who is using my computer
if i substitute he or she in one of
these sentences for example here
he is using my computer or she is using
my computer
the sentence is correct grammatically so
that means
i can use who and that's the correct
choice again
who stole my drink uh she stole my drink
or
he stole my drink the sentence is
grammatically correct
so i should use who however down here
if i say he should i speak to regarding
this inquiry
or to he for example like these these
don't make grammatically correct
statements so we can't use he or she
here
though these questions get a little bit
more complicated
these sentences it might be a little bit
difficult to decide then am i am i using
he or she should i use
him or her it's not so clear in those
cases where you're not clear again
using the original sentence we can take
a look at the answer for the sentence
so try to make a sample answer for the
question
if you can answer the question using he
or she
as i've done here he she and he you
should use the word
who if you can answer it with her or him
use whom use whom so down here you
should speak to
him this book belongs to her submit your
report to
him if you look at the answer for the
question or a sample answer for the
question
and you use him or her in the answer you
should use whom
if you look at a sample answer and you
use he or she in the answer you should
use
who so this can be a really helpful tip
to decide whether you should use who
or whom if it's difficult to remember
you can kind of think about focusing in
on the word
him because him ends in an m
sound just like whom ends in an m sound
so if you kind of remember in your brain
whom
matches with him sort of so those m
sounds uh her and him therefore make a
pair
so if you have trouble remembering
between he and she and her and him
you can use that m rule to remember that
the m sound in him
fits with whom just one other point
about
use of who and whom um typically at
least in american english
we tend to use who more often
in everyday speech not as many native
speakers
are so like strict about their use of
whom in everyday conversation
of course some people are for sure but
if you focus
too much on using who and whom correctly
in your speech
you might come off you might sound a
little bit like pretentious to some
people
again it depends on the kind of people
you're speaking with but in general
casual conversations most people or i
should say
many people just use who in almost
every sentence even if whom is probably
grammatically correct
we tend to rely more on who in casual
speech
so you will find the native speakers
technically do make mistakes with this
i'm sure i do as well
so i would say don't be too concerned
about always getting the difference
between these two correct
especially in speech if however you're
writing something formal or if you're
making
a formal presentation it might be a good
idea to consider this
so just for your reference this is a
couple of or these are rather a couple
of examples
and a couple of ways that you can try to
decide which of these words to use so i
hope that this
was helpful for you of course if you
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soon bye-bye hi everybody my name is
alicia welcome back to top words
today we're going to talk about 10
phrases for
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
uh 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 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 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 um you want
to inform your listener about
so have you heard about is usually said
very quickly
have you heard about so the you 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 it
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 so i was talking with
someone means you were having a
conversation
uh 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 where it seems like something's
wrong with this person they're unhappy
they're sad they're angry
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 the next expression is i have to tell
you about
blah blah blah i have to tell you so
have to becomes hafta
i have to tell you about it has a nice
sound i have to tell you about 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 blah blah blah
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 so those are 10 phrases that you
can use for
gossip i hope that those are useful i
hope you don't gossip too much i don't
really like to gossip
that much but sometimes it's a little
bit useful so
give them a try if you want to try them
out a little bit you can do so in the
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bye hi everybody welcome back to know
your verbs my name is alicia and in this
lesson we're going to look at the verb
watch let's get started
so the basic definition of the verb
watch
is to focus the eyes on something that
is
moving usually we expect it to move so
like now you're watching
this video in a sentence
let's watch a movie later can i call you
back i'm watching a baseball game
so let's look at the conjugations for
this verb
present watch watches
past watched past participle
watched progressive watching
now let's talk about some additional
meanings of this verb
the first additional meaning is to stay
with someone or to stay with something
to ensure safety like to kind of guard
that thing or to protect
that thing examples i have to watch my
neighbor's kids for a couple hours
can you watch my plants for a while next
month
okay so in both of these sentences we
see the verb
watch is used to mean ensure
the safety of something in the first
example sentence
it's i have to watch my neighbor's kids
so we're ensuring the safety of the kids
in the second sentence we use plants can
you watch my plants it
doesn't mean like forever like watch the
plants grow
it means just make sure my plants are
okay while i'm out of town for something
similar
it doesn't mean watch my plants forever
it just means
to make sure my plants are safe like to
take care of my plants
while i'm out of town for example so
also the nuance here the feeling here
is that this is just a temporary
situation
so when we're watching someone's kids or
like watching someone's pet while
they're away
it's just a temporary situation okay
let's go to the second
extra meaning for today uh the second
one
the second meaning of watch is to be
careful of something
to be careful of something examples
watch your language he needs to watch
his weight
so in both of these we could replace be
careful
with watch so in the first one we could
say be careful
of your language in the second one be
careful of your weight
so in other words there's some kind of
danger or you need to be careful because
something about your behavior or
something you've said
something you've done is maybe not a
good idea
so be careful of that thing but we say
watch instead watch that thing instead
of be careful of
that thing in addition so we can also
just use
watch out as a set phrase which means be
careful
in general so if we're in a situation
where we
quickly want to warn someone of
something like danger
something bad might happen we can say
watch out
really quickly so watch out doesn't mean
like
look or watch something it means be
careful
we always say watch out if you have time
and if you want to be specific you can
say watch out
for something like watch out for that
car or watch out for that child
watch out for those bees watch out for
your computer it's going to fall
something like that we always say watch
out for
or just in quick situations watch out
just means be careful
as well
all right let's go on to the first
variation so the first variation is
watch it watch it so watch it also means
be careful like watch out or just the
regular watch
your something but watch it is very
casual
and actually kind of aggressive so watch
it
implies like if you don't take care
i might do something bad to you like
it's so it's quite an aggressive phrase
examples watch it i'm walking
you better watch it kid you better
watch it or else i'm gonna
do something bad to you i don't know so
it's aggressive it's an aggressive
phrase
and you should not use it with people
who
are above you you should not use it in
polite situations
i would not really recommend using this
but you might see this in tv shows
in other media watch it it means be
careful
but it's aggressive okay let's go to the
next variation
the next variation is to keep watch to
keep watch
this means like to stand guard to guard
against like to protect something
this expression means like to guard
against danger and it often means
alone like often you're doing it by
yourself while someone else like
sleeps so examples i'm going to keep
first watch tonight
you keep watch i'm going to get some
sleep
so to keep watch means like to stay
awake or to stay
alert looking for something that might
be dangerous
so you can see this in movies where like
people are traveling somewhere and
they're camping out on the side of the
road
like maybe in lord of the rings or
something where everybody's sleeping but
one person is awake
near the fire watching to see if
anything dangerous happens and then they
wake up other people
if something dangerous is coming so
they're sort of the guard
in that case so to keep watch in that
case okay
let's go to the last variation ah the
last variation
okay the last variation is to watch
one's
back to watch one's back
so to watch your back let's use that to
watch your back means to be cautious
about your safety to be cautious about
your safety so to be careful about
yourself
not because of some like physical object
like a bus is gonna come and get you i
don't know
no it means like someone uh an enemy
might try to do something bad to you so
watch your back
examples of this you'd better watch your
back stevens
uh one more example hey watch your back
you're making enemies
so in these cases watch your back is
said rather seriously and
with the meaning that you need to be
careful someone might try to hurt you in
the future
it could be physically it could be
financially it could be like your
reputation
whatever watch your back mean be careful
like someone might try to hurt you
in some way however be careful
um this expression watch your back is
totally different from
got your back so watch your back and got
your back totally different
got your back is a support phrase like
i've got your back
means i'm supporting you no problem i
will try to help you
or i'll try to support you i'll try to
keep you safe i've got your back
no problems watch your back means be
careful
you might be in danger you should be
careful you have enemies so
quite different watch your back got your
back alright so i hope that you got a
few new meanings for the verb
watch that you can use there if you have
any questions comments or if you want to
try to use the verb watch please feel
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next time bye hi everybody welcome back
to know your verbs my name is alicia and
in this episode we're going to talk
about the verb
follow let's go
so the basic definition of this verb is
to move behind someone or something
and to go to the same place that that
person
or thing is going to examples i'll
follow you to the park
follow me i know where we're going
the conjugations of this verb now
present
follow follows past
followed past participle followed
progressive following
now let's talk about some additional
meanings of this verb
okay the first additional meaning is to
understand
to understand examples i don't follow
you
do you follow so we can really just
replace the word
follow with understand here in the first
example sentence
i don't follow you we can say i don't
understand you
it means i don't understand what you're
saying or i don't understand what you're
thinking
i don't follow you it sounds more casual
like i don't follow your
train of thought train of thought means
like the path you took to arrive at your
destination thinking wise
follow you just sounds more casual it's
like i can't understand i can't
follow the path of your logic in other
words so i don't follow you
in the second sentence it's a question
do you follow meaning do you understand
do you understand what i'm saying so
follow can mean understand
quite simply okay let's go to the second
meaning for this verb so the second one
is to happen
after something else to come after
something else
examples of this a delicious dessert
followed the roast chicken
a luxurious hot spring experience
follows a massage on this one day tour
in these example sentences we see follow
is used to describe
something that happens after something
else in the first example sentence i
mentioned a dessert
that followed a roast chicken so yes
dessert is being presented first in the
sentence
so i said a delicious dessert followed a
roast
chicken so that means a delicious
dessert came after
a roast chicken so followed yes followed
shows the thing that came
after the other thing so we see the same
thing in the second example sentence
a luxurious hot spring experience
follows
a relaxing massage so yes luxurious hot
spring experience
is first in the sentence however we're
using the verb
follows so that means it comes after a
massage
in this case so yes it's presented first
in the sentence but
uh this use of follow means come after
so that means we're presenting a
sequence in this way let's go to the
third meaning
which is to obey to obey
so to obey something okay examples of
this to obey
did you follow the instructions on the
instant ramen she decided to follow her
manager's advice
so in both of these sentences we're
meaning obey with the verb
follow so we could say did you obey the
instructions on the instant ramen
but obey sounds quite strong we use obey
for like people who are in positions of
power above
us so in this case with ramen it's
packaging
so we usually say follow the
instructions on the packaging so
meaning obey the instructions on the
packaging but obey is quite a strong
word
we use follow instead in the second
sentence she
followed her manager's advice it's like
she obeyed her manager's advice
so yes a manager is in a position of
power above you
sure obey is typically used when we
are given like strict orders for
something like
like military or like something from the
president something from very high up
and like very strong orders like
like obey your commanding officer or
something like that
in this case it's advice meaning that
it's probably not so
serious it's like a suggestion and it's
a manager
so she has probably like a workplace
relationship
so we would probably use follow
someone's advice
in this case so follow means obey but
it's not
quite as strong not nearly as strong
much softer so the fourth meaning
is to be very interested in something
and to watch that thing
closely examples of this i don't really
follow sports
she's been following the news very
closely so the first example sentence is
a negative
i don't really follow sports meaning i
don't really have much interest in
and therefore i don't really watch much
sports
in the second example sentence she's
been following the news
very closely it means she's been very
interested in
and watching a lot of news lately so
this use of follow is quite convenient
it it
includes meanings of being interested in
something and watching something
carefully or closely so to follow a
topic or to follow an activity so this
means being interested
in that activity and doing or seeing or
reading about
a lot of it
variations let's look at some variations
of this verb the first variation
is to follow suit to follow suit
this means to do the same thing as the
person
previously mentioned in the sentence or
in the situation
examples my manager just quit the
company i think i'm gonna follow suit
her boyfriend decided to leave the party
so she followed suit
so in both of these examples we see one
person
makes a decision or takes an action and
the other person does the same thing
we show that with the expression follow
suit so in the first example my manager
quit the company
i think i'm gonna follow suit so i think
i'm going to do the same thing as the
person i just mentioned
so my manager quit the company i think
i'm going to do that as well i think i'm
going to follow
suit in the second example sentence her
boyfriend decided to leave the party
so she followed suit so he left the
party
she decided to do the same thing he did
she
followed suit past tense she did the
same thing he did
so follow suit means to do the same
thing as the
person previously mentioned the next
variation is to
follow through to follow through we
often use to follow through
on or to follow through with something
this means to keep a promise or to do
something
you said you were going to do examples i
hate it when people don't follow through
with their plans
that's true that's called flaking okay
example sentence number two
i'm going to follow through on my
resolution to find a new job
okay so here we see a couple examples so
the first one is sort of a negative
statement i hate it when people
don't follow through with their plans
meaning
i hate it when people don't do the
things they say they're going to do
so i hate it when people make a plan and
break the plan
or make a suggestion and don't do that
thing so
they don't follow through with their
plans in the second example the speaker
previously made a resolution a
resolution is a kind of goal
so the speaker previously made a
resolution the speaker has decided to
follow through meaning to to try to
achieve
that resolution to try to
do that action so that means that the
speaker is going to find a new
job so the speaker is going to do the
thing he or she
promised to do the last variation for
follow today is to follow in someone's
footsteps to follow in someone's
footsteps this is kind of an easy one to
imagine
so to follow in the same footsteps as
someone who walked
before you however that person who
walked before you
is typically a parent or maybe a
grandparent or someone
senior to you that you admire example
sentences
he's following in his father's footsteps
and becoming a lawyer
she decided not to follow in her
mother's footsteps after all
so to follow in someone's footsteps
typically refers to a career choice
so in the first example sentence we saw
lawyer so he decided to follow
in his father's footsteps meaning he
decided to do the same thing his father
did
as a career become a lawyer so
meaning chose the same thing as his
parent
in the second we see a different
situation
she decided not to follow in her
mother's footsteps meaning she chose a
different career path
from her mother or she chose a different
life path from her mother
so to follow in someone's footsteps
means to do the same thing
usually the same career as their parent
or their grandparent so those are a few
new ways to use the verb
follow i hope if you have any questions
if you want to try to make a sentence or
if you know some other ways to use
follow
please feel free to try it out in the
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i really have to sneeze hi everybody
welcome back to know your verbs my name
is alicia and in this lesson we're going
to talk about the verb
stop let's go
so the basic definition is to finish
doing something
to stop example sentences stop hitting
me
i need to stop laughing so much
now let's look at the conjugations of
this verb present
stop stops passed
stopped past participle stopped
progressive stopping
now let's talk about some additional
meanings of this verb
the first meaning here is to pause
during an activity examples
let's stop for lunch they're stopping at
the supermarket on their way to the
party
so each of these example sentences shows
some
pause in an activity the first example
sentence
let's stop for lunch could mean like
maybe people are working
let's stop meaning let's take a break
eat lunch and come back to the activity
so let's pause
do this thing come back later let's
pause let's stop
for lunch the second example sentence
they're stopping at the supermarket on
their way here
means they the people here are coming
to some location coming to a party maybe
and
on the way in the act of coming they're
going to
stop at the supermarket so pause the
activity of coming
and go to the supermarket to get
something and then continue
coming to the party or continue coming
to the event so
there's some pause we can use stop to
mean pause
in some other activity the next meaning
is to block
something to block something we often
use this for like a hole or a leak
or we need to keep something out of
something else like
rushing liquid like water for example
examples
we stopped the leaky pipe with special
glue
we stopped up the hole with old fabric
so you'll see in the second sentence
there i used the preposition
up to stop up something when you're
using
stop to refer to fixing a hole so
meaning
putting things into a hole to fix a hole
we typically use the preposition up step
up a hole step up a leak
stop up a crack i suppose mostly for
whole though
so when you want to talk about blocking
something else out we can say to stop
something like to stop the water as well
means you block the water
but if you're talking about um like
filling a hole
like to stop something from coming in um
you can use stop
up the hole so it means you block
something so we could say
uh stop the water from coming into the
river or like
stop the bugs from coming into the house
by putting a screen
on the door for example you're blocking
them from coming in
the third meaning for this lesson is to
cause
not to move to cause not to move
examples
can you stop the car i feel sick stop
moving
i'm trying to take your picture so to
cause not to move
means to maybe seize the operation
c's means stop but seize means to make
something come to an
end so like in the first example
sentence stop the car
it means i want the car not to move i
feel sick
so to cause something not to move is to
stop
that thing the fourth meaning of this
verb for this lesson is to
not operate to not operate this is
especially used for like machines
examples uh oh my computer has stopped
working
they're stopping work at the factory
early today so this means some
operation is not happening so some
something is not operating it's not
continuing
so in the first example my computer has
stopped working i used the past tense
stopped stopped my computer has stopped
working means like oh
it's not working so it was working now
it's not
it's stopped it is no longer operational
in the second sentence it's about a
factory uh in the second sentence i'm
using the progressive form they're
stopping work at the factory early today
so this sentence means there's a plan at
the factory
to stop work early today so we use the
progressive form
they're stopping work early to refer to
a determined plan
a plan that's been determined prior to
the conversation they're stopping work
today
so that means operations will cease
they're not going to continue
let's continue on to some variations now
the first variation of the verb
stop is to stop by to stop by it means
to visit
for a short time so to stop by the house
to stop by the store to stop by the
supermarket
other examples stop by the house
sometime and say hello
we're going to stop by the bar later it
just means to make a short visit
we'll stop by a place or you can just
say we'll stop by later
it means if the if the place is
understood by the listener
you can drop the place we'll stop by
later it's fine
the next variation is stop at nothing
stop at nothing interesting phrase
this expression means someone is willing
to do
anything in order to achieve
something willing to do anything so
we'll stop we'll we'll cease
for no reason we'll stop at nothing in
order to achieve something
examples i'll stop at nothing to get a
date with that movie star
he'll stop at nothing to get that boat
he wants so meaning
these people will do anything to achieve
their goal they will stop at nothing to
achieve their goal
right so those are a few maybe new ways
to use the verb stop
for you i hope you got something new out
of this lesson if you have any questions
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a sentence using the verb
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hi everybody my name is alicia and today
we're going to be talking about 10
of the hardest words to pronounce
according to you guys so we collected
some information from you on facebook
thanks very much for sending in your
ideas
and these were the top 10 uh most
difficult words
for you to pronounce so let's get
started absolutely
absolutely absolutely might be tough to
pronounce
absolutely means 100 absolutely is uh
an agreement phrase are you going to
that music event next week
absolutely yes 100 definitely absolutely
loot like a loot l-u-t-e
b grime the grime apparently means dirty
i've never heard
nor used this word before but perhaps
it's difficult to pronounce
begrime the door to my apartment was
begrimed
in the storm last week breakfast
the next word is breakfast breakfast is
hard to pronounce
but that is the meaning of breakfast
you're breaking the fast so a fast is a
period of time without eating
and to break means to just well in this
case breaking something it doesn't refer
to like
crushing a thing but um stopping
something to break the fast
of the night in other words so you're
fasting during the night you're not
eating
so you wake up in the morning you break
the fast but we don't say breakfast we
say breakfast
in a sentence this morning for breakfast
i ate
a bowl of cereal with grapes and i had a
coffee too
colleague colleague yes colleague many
of my students struggle with this they
say
colleague or they say call you
or something because the spelling of
this word is really really strange
there's that g-u-e
at the end or more commonly i feel it's
just co-worker
colleague sounds slightly more formal to
me than co-worker somebody who you work
with or somebody who
you have a business relationship with in
some sense could be a person from
another company could be somebody from
your own company
anyone who you do business dealings with
is your colleague can be your colleague
in a sentence i'm going to a networking
event with my colleagues next week
miscellaneous that misc miscellaneous
it's just
the spelling i think maybe is confusing
for this word miscellaneous
miscellaneous just means other stuff or
just other
uncategorized stuff i keep a lot of
miscellaneous items in a drawer in my
house
maybe they don't they don't really fit
into one category like it's not kitchen
things it's not
clothing it's just sort of a mixture of
of things miscellaneous things
negotiation the next word is negotiation
negotiation yeah there are two
t's in this but neither t is a hard t
they're both very soft that sh
sound because they're followed by the i
and another vowel that she
a negotiation negotiation refers to
a compromise between two people you're
trying to make a decision and
you negotiate in this case it's a noun
form negotiation
business negotiations continued for more
than a month with this important deal
realm realm i see why this one's hard
it's that rome
part little realm it's a weird word
isn't it it's used to talk about just
like
the kind of a fantasy world is sort of
the nuance of this phrase the realm uh
in a sentence
let us go to the realm where the elves
live
and eat their bread unfortunately
the next word is unfortunately
unfortunately
unfortunately just means too bad uh you
can use this to
to start bad news for example like
unfortunately i can't come to work today
because i'm sick or
unfortunately i broke my arm at the
basketball game last week
or unfortunately my haircut is
bad vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary
vocab vocabulary vocabulary
vocabulary vocabulary just refers to
the uh words in a language my vocabulary
in my second language is really really
low
i need a bigger vocabulary so that i can
express myself more clearly
world world ah i see why this one's hard
world world hard to pronounce that rld i
think
uh together is tough plus that w at the
beginning as well it's such a short word
but you have to say
so many weird things at the same time
world
your tongue is going like this
in a sentence i have traveled all over
the world and the best food is
in my stomach
that's the end so those were 10 hard to
pronounce words
give them a try slowly at first and just
kind of try to work up to
saying it at a more natural speed if you
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you don't need new
shoes you need new feet hi everybody
welcome back my name is alicia
and today we're going to be talking
about some english tongue twisters i'm
joined again by
michael hey everybody so today we're
going to be talking about some things in
english that are difficult to say that
might be difficult for you and they're
probably going to be difficult for us to
explain so let's get right into it
michael what is your first tongue
twister my first tongue twister is
how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if
a woodchuck
could chuck wood one more time a little
bit faster
how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if
a woodchuck could chuck wood excellent
and there is a traditional response to
this one you're familiar with the
response
once you tell me it's a question right
this this is it ends in a question
there's a question mark on your car and
the traditional response is
it would chuck all the wood that a
woodchuck could if a woodchuck could
chuck wood
ah yeah i have it on one of my cards
actually i think too
this was totally unplanned i would like
to point out yeah here it is
it would chuck all the wood that a
woodchuck could if a woodchuck could
chuck wood
so you can you can use this with your
friends if you want all right let's do
it real quick ready okay
how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if
a woodchuck
could chuck wood it would chuck all the
wood that a woodchuck could if a
woodchuck could chuck wood
all right there's one down okay uh
let's see we've talked about that one
already so i guess i'll go with another
classic one
that i've known since i was little this
one uses the p
sound a lot peter piper picked a pack of
pickled peppers
lots of p sounds in this one can you
speed it up for us
well i don't know if i can say it in the
first place peter piper picked the
[ __ ]
have you not heard this one before i
have it okay peter piper
picked a pack of pickled peppers hold on
one more time peter piper picked a pack
of pickled peppers for me it helps if
you snap
okay peter piper picked a pack of
pickled peppers peter piper picked a
pack
oh my god i can't do it maybe it's
better if you don't read it those are
peter no no you i can't do it peter
piper picked a fact of pickled peppers
that wasn't very good i wasn't perfect
one more time one more time peter piper
picked a pack of pickled peppers
one more three more times peter piper
picked a pack of pickled peppers
peter piper picked oh dude i i can't do
it
peter piper picked a pack of pickled
peppers there we go peter piper picked a
pack of pickled peppers peter piper
picked a pack of pick
oh man that's tough the piece man i
can't do the piece
oh wow these can't do you either okay
go to your next one what's your next one
uh no my
brain is frazzled now okay uh oh i just
like this one i've actually never heard
this before
but i like it because there's a lot of
th's in it and a lot of
foreign people who are learning english
let me say that
a lot of non-native english speakers
have trouble with th that's been true
for a lot of my students regardless of
where they're from what their native
language is so
the 33 thieves thought that they
thrilled the throne throughout thursday
well i've never seen this one yeah me
either but i just thought it was good
because
i remember th so the 33 thieves thought
that they thrilled the throne throughout
thursday
want to give it a try yeah i'm gonna try
the 33 thieves thought that they
thrilled the throne throughout thursday
that's a good one that's a really good
one for th sounds i think
it's not it's i think the consonant
sounds like the hard consonant sounds
like the p
sound or the well maybe even the w sound
a little bit like it's easy to say that
quickly but this one's really tough to
say quickly i think and clearly
the 33 thieves thought that they throw
this
it just doesn't come out as smoothly
maybe spitting a lot maybe
maybe so okay i guess i'll go to my next
one i really have
no faith that i'm gonna be able to say
this at all this is like the hardest
thing that i think
i was able to find i'm gonna have to
read it slowly the six
sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick
yeah what okay yeah the sixth sick
sheik's sixth sheep's sick yeah the
sixth
six oh like the second word you can't
even say it
it's really hard one more time all right
this the sixth sick chic
sixth cheap sick the sixth oh that was
good that was good
that was way better yeah we'll just
leave it on that one that's six i did it
once
the sixth sixth chic sixth sheep sick
that's really hard it's really i don't
think i can say it any faster than that
the sixth sixth sheik's sixth oh oh
i can't i'm i'm the loss of words
okay one more time okay
the sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's
sick the sixth
sick oh one and one says two two got it
out the one time
i was solid i'm sorry i gave it up i
give up okay
what's your next one my next one is
the soldier's shoulder surely hurts
another one i've actually never heard
but i liked it because everyone knows
sally sells
seashells down by the seashore the s and
the sh is confusing
and many times in english like surely
there's no sh but it makes that that sh
sound so it's a fun one
yeah the soldier's shoulder surely hurts
the soldier's shoulder surely hurts
wanna give it a try the soldier's
shoulder surely hurts this is the tough
part here for me anyway is this the
soldier's
shoulder making that sound really
clearly is that the soldier's shoulder
surely hurts
yeah yeah you make it sound so easy wow
professional not really
okay uh on to the last one this one
is really short actually it's only two
words
but it's tricky it's really tricky i
can't say this fast
irish wrish wrist watch
okay irish by itself is fine wristwatch
is fine but together they're really hard
to say
irish
i can't say it irish wrist watch
really hard irish wrist watch yeah
very slow okay irish oh wow it's really
hard it doesn't it seems easier than it
is yeah i was saying i thought come on
okay i irish wristwatch irish
[Laughter]
irish wristwatch irish wristwatch irish
wristwatch
nice there we go okay irish wrist
can't sing this one irish wrist
i can't try it this one's hard this
one's really hard for me but yeah only
two words
it's just it's just that combination of
the sh and the r
that's just i can't i got nothing on
that one
all right do you have any more no i
think that's it oh wow
that was a good one that was really
tough that was really tough okay we'll
give them a try
please give them a try and if you have
any tongue twisters preferably in
english
please share them with us in the
comments there are great ways to
practice your pronunciation
and you can impress your friends if you
can do them quickly thank you again for
joining us and we'll see you again soon
bye top essay oh hi sorry i forgot to
say hi again
hi everybody and welcome back to weekly
words this week
the topic is going to be s-a-t
words words that students who are
studying for the s.a.t
the s.a.t is a kind of college
preparatory test or a test that students
take usually to
apply for colleges the words are
typically fairly challenging
for high school students and these are
some of the words that
might cause trouble for some people
so let's begin the first word is
assiduous
assiduous is a word that means somebody
who is a persistent or who is
always trying to do their best to work
really really hard
you might have a co-worker who is
deciduous i suppose you could also use
it
if you're just describing anything
that's hard working like ants for
example you might say ants are very
assiduous creatures they work hard they
can lift more than their own body weight
okay that's pretty good next intuitive
intuitive someone who is intuitive is
someone who has a good
instinct or they're able to sense what
the right thing is to do without you
know having to
be taught what the right thing is so
uh let's say maybe you're going surfing
for the first time and it comes to you
really really easily
uh after just your first couple tries
your friends might say like wow
you're really intuitive you know how to
do this without you know having to take
a lesson or anything
great job a good trait to be intuitive
precocious precocious is another usually
a positive word
precocious is usually used for children
children who
are kind of strangely talented at
something
even when they're very very little so
maybe you've seen on youtube a kid who
can play the piano
extremely well even though he or she is
five years old
we might say he's precocious or she's a
precocious child she can do so much but
she's so
young it's usually a very impressive
thing that the kids are able to do
all right the next one is evanescent
evanescent
evanescence evanescent is another
adjective which means something that
fades away rather quickly or something
that's very short-lived
oh to be very romantic about it you
might say the scent of her perfume was
very evanescent you could smell it
for a brief moment and then it faded
away yeah that was kind of nice
the next word is anecdote an anecdote is
usually some kind of a short
funny story that's a retelling of an
event that happened to you
it might be a written story or a spoken
story oh
want to hear an anecdote about my last
trip to bali it was hilarious
i don't know that i'd ever say that
though it's not something you'd use so
much in casual conversation i feel like
a critic
might write this word about someone
else's writing the anecdotes she chooses
to include in her writing are very
humorous
for example okay well we've learned a
few sat words that
students might have trouble with when
they're studying for the test in their
high school years
i hope that you find some of these words
useful and can use them in your daily
life as well
thanks for joining us this week and i
will see you again next time bye bye
okay welcome back to weekly words
weekly words uh i'm alicia and today
we're going to talk about
words that make you sound smart oh i'm
all over this one
first word is esoteric when something is
esoteric
it's all right so the word esoteric
refers to
um something that requires specialized
knowledge
so in a conversation somebody might use
this word to say sorry to be esoteric
and then they'll continue talking about
some subject or some concept that
requires a certain level of knowledge in
the given field
next word superfluous superfluous just
means
extra really so can a person be
superfluous
so superfluous yeah just just refers to
stuff that's
um maybe not necessary or the x the
extra just stuff or extra
extra things uh in a given context so
maybe you know
oh i have so much superfluous stuff in
my kitchen of course
using superfluous in such a casual way
like that is very unnatural but you
could do it
if you really wanted to sound smart
acquiesce acquiesce
means to um like you might have oh like
can i say a line from pirates of the
caribbean something like
he will not acquiesce to your request or
she will not acquiesce to your request
just means she won't obey or listen or
do as
told um but that's it's the same exact
meaning to acquiesce to
accept something uh yeah to go along
with
angst angst refers to just kind of this
like that that unhappy feeling this sort
of angry or maybe melancholy
or just feeling like you know you're
misunderstood so a teenager
or i suppose a teenager themselves might
not use this word but the parents of the
teenager might say
oh my teenager is so filled with angst
kitsch kitsch kitsch refers to in my
mind anyway
just um junk honestly it's the little
things that you know
might crowd your house like a snow globe
or special little ornaments or just um
you know decorative knickknacks
you might say oh my aunt's apartment is
really kitschy
it means she has maybe like a lot of
knickknacks or the style is just kind of
all right that is the end so those were
a few words to make you sound
smart i hope that you learned something
i certainly did and i'll see you again
next time thank you
bye all right welcome back to weekly
words i'm alicia
and this week we're going to talk about
commonly
mispronounced mispronounced wow
this week we're going to talk about
commonly mispronounced words words that
are often
pronounced incorrectly this is funny
i enjoy mispronouncing this first word
the first word is
hyperbole hyperbole um it's not
hyperbole
though it does sound very funny to say
that hyperbole just means
to exaggerate something um or to make to
blow something up make it
uh really extreme my friend uses a lot
of hyperbole when she talks about her
life stories i really don't think some
of those things happen to her
hyperbole not hyperbole next
antarctic not ah
oh i see antarctic is the correct
pronunciation of this word
some people say an antar antarctic
really
oh i guess when you're saying this word
quickly you might leave out that
first c in the antarctic so don't say
that don't do that say antarctic
the the very very cold region the arctic
is the north cold region on the planet
earth the south is the ant arctic
they're sort of like almost a hiccup in
the word they're antarctic
oh uh in a sentence i'm thinking about
taking a cruise to the antarctic what do
you think i need
a penguin suit etc not
etc oh yeah okay i've heard i hear this
ek x thing a lot etc is just used at the
end of a list
to imply that you mean other things
so the list is not exclusive to the
things that you've listed
other things can also be included in it
so in a sample sentence
types of fruits are apples oranges
peaches etc
there are others as well so don't say
etc that's not correct
etc it's good the next word is
jewelry what not mones
the next word is jewelry jewelry i think
i'm probably guilty of this
mispronunciation
i can't say that word mispronunciation
where the word kind of gets a little bit
smushed together
and we say jewelry instead we miss that
that
second e sound in there it should be jew
ellery
uh in a sample sentence maybe you would
say i'm shopping for some jewelry for my
mother for her birthday
jewelry we're too lazy prescription
not prescription okay a prescription is
something that
a doctor gives you when you're sick and
you require medicine the doctor will
write you a prescription
some people might say prescription
wow okay i didn't even notice and i was
doing it while i was telling you guys
not to
do it that's embarrassing prescription a
doctor writes you a prescription not a
prescription
uh when you go to the doctor's office
the doctor might say here is your
prescription
end all right well we've learned that i
apparently can't pronounce some words
the way that they're meant to be
pronounced
so please work on your pronunciation i
will work on my pronunciation too
thank you for joining us on weekly words
this week i will see you next time
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weekly words my name is alicia and today
we're going to talk about
words with weird silent letters i like
the title of this one let's get started
the first word is pterodactyl a
pterodactyl
is a dinosaur this was a flying dinosaur
from the late jurassic period i totally
knew that on my own
pterodactyl begins with a p but we don't
say the ps
just starts with a t sound in a sentence
you might say the pterodactyl is my
favorite dinosaur
the next word is mortgage ah my students
messed up this word mortgage like last
week in class
mortgage has a t in it but we don't say
the t it sounds like mortgage like
there's no t
at all a mortgage is um the payment that
you make on your house
every month if if you've had to take a
loan from a bank
in a sentence my mortgage payments are
very reasonable i hope the next word is
isle isle is a weird word
so yes there's an s in the word isle but
it is not pronounced i slay it's
pronounced i'll
isle with an a in front is the space
between
uh rows of seats on an airplane for
example or the space between
shelves and a supermarket any sort of
pathway is an
aisle in a sentence please keep your
feet out of the aisle on the airplane
because the cart might bump you
the next word is fo faux has an x at the
end when it's spelled on paper but we do
not say
folks we don't say that we say
fo fo means fake faux means something
that's not real
uh very commonly you'll hear this in
terms of faux fur
as in i prefer to wear faux fur because
i don't believe
that we should kill animals all right
the next word is asthma
we were just talking about how i have
asthma asthma is uh spelled very weirdly
there's a th
in there but we do not say the th it's
it sounds like asma
asthma asthma is a respiratory condition
you might have asthma it's very common
where it might be difficult for you to
breathe sometimes you need to take
medicine
in a sentence i carry my inhaler
everywhere because i have asthma
and that's the end of words that have
weird silent letters so be careful when
you come across these in writing because
they sound a little bit different than
the way they're spelled thanks again for
watching weekly words this week we will
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i don't know how to end this hi and
welcome back to weekly words i'm alicia
and i don't know what i'm going to talk
to you about yet but let's start
today's topic is words that vary by
region
creek i say creek you might hear the
word
crick qrik the word creek means
uh a small river essentially uh there's
a creek in my backyard
for example um sure the next word is
coyote i say coyote
how do other people say this word coyote
oh yeah coyote i don't say that a coyote
is kind of a
dog-like animal it's a wild animal about
the size of a dog with a howl at night
we had them in oregon where i'm from
uh i definitely heard them at my house
last night i heard the coyotes out in my
pasture okay the next word is
root r-o-u-t-e root
it's how i say it you might also hear
the word pronounced
route root r-o-u-t-e means the way
through um a city or a town or some kind
of path
in other words um r-o-o-t which this
word sounds like is the system that's at
the bottom of a plant that plant uses to
get nutrients you know with little
hairy fibers i'm so good at explaining
plant biology
oh i know a good route to get from
school to the park later let's take that
on our bicycles
that was oddly specific the next word is
apricot
or you might hear apricot as well it's a
fruit
um so you might say hey did you bring
any apricots to the picket
pick it to the bacon apricots no
it's not picket on the other hand is a
word that means protest
there's a freebie in there uh for
example you might say hey i really like
those apricots you brought me the other
day they were delicious
okay the next oh the next word is
caramel
i say i think i say caramel oh this is
making me doubt myself
there's caramel and there's caramel they
both refer to
a sugary sweet substance that's often a
type of candy or often inside a type of
candy it's really really delicious
so you might say oh my favorite kind of
candy is caramel
or my favorite kind of candy is caramel
uh just depends on where you're from
apparently in the east
the east coast they say caramel on the
west coast it seems we say
carmel that sounds about right to me you
can choose
end hooray what was this one called
ah this has been words that vary by
region you can choose which region
you're from perhaps but it's probably
best for you to be consistent when
you're speaking so that you don't
confuse the person listening
to you hope you enjoyed and i will see
you again next time bye
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hi everybody my name is alicia and today
we're going to be talking about the top
25
english verbs by frequency so let's get
into it
b is the first english verb b refers to
existence
i want to be an astronaut i think you
would be
a great person for this job be yourself
let's be friends
i could have been a writer if i wanted
to be
the next verb is have i have a dog
i have an idea what do you have how many
do you have how much money do you have
do you have any friends how have you
been
have you seen my mom i can't find her
have
yourself a merry little christmas the
next verb is
do do you want some pizza do you have a
dog
to do dooby dooby do if you're frank
sinatra
i do the things that you do
better say say say
say what you want same names
say you love me do you know what i'm
saying know what i'm saying
the next verb is get get a life get a
job get a haircut
get a better suit stevens what you got
i could have gotten a pony but i went
with a lizard instead
i'm getting tired that's not true
the next verb is make make a cake make
your mother proud
someone outside is making a strange face
at me through the window at the moment
that is a true story
make a living
through legitimate means
the next verb is go go big or go home
i'm going to the beach you should go to
the beach you should go to the forest
go to a baseball game with me
past tense of goes went i went
spelunking on my holiday
the next word is no this is an
interesting word because no
is actually not commonly used in the
progressive tense no is commonly used in
present tense
to refer to your mental state or your
emotional state so we don't really say i
am knowing really
but we can say i know i know the answer
what do you know about this issue he
couldn't have possibly known the
location of the treasure
how many people do you know i knew it
the next verb is take take a cake
take a break take your
self to bed you should take a
vacation have you ever taken a bath the
next word
is see we'll see i'll see you later
the next verb is come come as an expert
please come to my house come to a party
i'm gonna come over to your place later
the next word is think think i think
you're great he thinks pizza is the best
food
i'm thinking about lunch i'm thinking
about coffee what are you thinking about
i've been thinking about something
that's a hanson song
uh have you ever thought about the
meaning of life look
look is the next verb please look at the
camera look over there look over here
look a dog look at your mom oh my gosh
would you look at that look at the time
look it's a bird it's a plane it's
actually a bird look at that
is it me you're looking for hello next
word is
want want what do you want i want food
how many coffees have you ever wanted i
wanted to go to the dry cleaners this
morning but i ran out of time
that's true the next verb is give give
me a break
i'm going to give you a raise stevens
i'm giving you the axe fired give me a
break
give me break break my health please
like kick her
i have given you everything i have go
onto mordor frollo
i could have given you the world and
instead i gave you a carpet
uses the next word use don't use a pen
i like using chocolate when i make food
are you using me for my brain
next is find we could have found buried
treasure last weekend
i'm finding nemo
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yeah tell is the next verb tell me a
story
tell me lies tell me sweet little life
tell
me the truth the whole truth and nothing
but the truth
i'm told that you are an extremely
good opera singer i'm telling you
to leave tell
lies every day don't tell lies the next
word is ask
ask please pronounce this correctly it
is not ax many native speakers make this
pronunciation mistake and it really
bothers me
ask ask me about
my collection of
rare donut recipes
ask your mom about her life
why don't you ask your boss to the party
how about you ask your coworker for some
advice about this issue
i should have asked for help but i
didn't
the next verb is work work is work i'm
working now
seem to seem the weather seems nice
today
he seemed a little angry this morning
feel is the next word
feel i feel happy feelings
how does it feel feel
feel clap along if you feel like that's
what you want to do
try oh my gosh try is the next word ah
i'm trying my best i try every day to
work very hard have you ever tried ramen
i tried ramen yesterday and it was
really good do you try to exercise every
day
i'm trying to sleep go away the next
verb is
leave leave leave me alone
leave your doors unlocked don't leave
your doors unlocked
i have never left
a hot air balloon without
first taking a picture the next
verb is call call is the next verb give
me a call please call me later
call me maybe call your mom on her
birthday every year she'll be happy
call call you're a seagull
have you ever called the wrong number
have you ever called
a dog by
another dog's name and
that's the end that was the most fun
episode i've ever done anything
so those are 25 english verbs some very
very common english verbs give them a
try we've talked about a lot of
different grammar forms and a lot of
different ways you can use these verbs
so please practice them
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look at that do you want to build the
snow leave your babies outside of the
movie
leave your
attitude at the door
there are a lot of verbs in english okay
hi everybody my name is alicia and today
we're going to be talking about 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 uh
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 co-workers 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 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 ah
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 uh 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 ac but because they were copy
editors and they have a very very sick
sense of humor
they thought they would market ok 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 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 going to 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
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 as 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 cu 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 uh so those
are
25 very common words uh and phrases in
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