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hi everybody my name is alicia and i'm

joined again in the studio by michael

hello and today we're going to be

talking about english conversation

strategies so let's get right into it

let's start with michael what is your

first strategy for keeping an english

conversation going this is very

important

don't say i'm fine thank you and you

you hear this all the time from second

language english learners or non-native

speakers you learn this it's one of the

first things you learn in an english

class it's easy it's good it's basic

it's foundation okay that's fine but as

soon as you can switch it up because to

me when i meet a foreigner and they come

up and if they say hey how are you

say oh i'm fine you know i'm good

whatever how about you and they say i'm

fine thank you and you and it's just

it's almost robotic because i've said it

so many times and when i hear that i

think ah their english isn't that good

and inside i'm just gonna be really

polite and say hello and talk slowly and

try to get out of there as quick as i

can so really impress the foreigner in

my opinion i think the best way to do it

is say something you know use a big word

or just like a slang word something like

that when i hear that i go wow man i

want to know what this person thinks i

want to get their point of view and i'm

really excited and then i've had great

conversations because of that um yeah

that's a really really good one and

actually i think on this youtube channel

actually from a couple years ago there's

a video

all about

better answers to the question how are

you then i'm fine thank you and you or

if someone says hey how are you i'm good

you

are

fine you

never i'm fine thank you and you never

but try to actually use you know

a phrase that a native speaker would use

and then that's a clue to the native

speaker that oh maybe this person is

ready for a conversation beyond you know

basic english so that's a really good

point i like that i didn't think of

things not to do i only thought of

things to do

though okay cool um let's see let's go

to my first one um oh

so um this strategy in general is just

ask the other person a question

i think and i'm guilty of this too when

i'm learning another language i tend to

only get input like somebody else is

always asking me the questions and then

i forget myself to ask the other person

a question so one question that i like

to ask or you know a variation any kind

of wh question is good like a who

question what where

something like this if you've been

paying attention you can use any way to

transition in your conversation this was

in a previous video you can ask

something like anyway up to anything fun

this weekend this is a pretty casual

conversational question that you can ask

just about anybody

whether you've just met them or whether

you've known them for a while but just

just get in the habit of asking other

people the question don't wait for

someone else to ask you the question

um so that that's one strategy that i

try to use to keep things going yeah me

too i agree and i'm gonna say same zs

because actually two of my questions

were exactly what you said agree 100

this is kind of cheating these should be

one but

so always ask questions

so you know again you forget it's really

easy i'm really guilty of this

english non-english whatever i'm i'm

guilty of this um and the other thing is

ask deep open-ended questions so if you

ask a yes or no question so again like

alicia was saying

it just dead ends you can't just say you

know

do you like cheese yes or no right so

you want to say what do you think about

cheese what is your favorite kind and

kind of open it up to something else and

let it let it just kind of snowball

right

right yeah i think i think that that's

that's really a key like i have another

variation on it which i guess i'll just

continue on to because it kind of

relates to what you're talking about

like he's saying always ask questions

always ask deep open-ended questions so

like you may you just said don't ask a

yes or no question because yes or no

ends with the yes or the no so one of

the things that i'll do is um use a

pattern similar to this like hey did you

see or hey did you hear about blah blah

blah so you can use this little blah

blah blah as your you can ask about the

news

you can ask about something funny you

saw on the internet you can ask about um

you know some something that you heard

from another friend of yours whatever uh

it's just a way to check in with the

other person and say oh did you also

experience this thing that i experienced

let's talk about that so that might be

another question that you can use with

people i like that one i really like

that one because

you got to stay within people's comfort

zone so maybe you ask and maybe they

don't want to right so a good thing is

did you hear about it that's up to them

maybe they don't want to talk about it

they can say oh yeah i heard about that

and you can kind of feel

the the atmosphere and and realizing

maybe i shouldn't talk about this change

the subject or they get passionate and

they start talking about it and there

you go and just let it go um

yeah absolutely one thing again i'm

guilty of is is you do got to keep keep

returning it right don't let it don't

just say oh yeah and what i think about

that

bring it back ask them what about you

that's that's a common thing i forget

about yeah yeah yeah okay

um good i have one more this one um

use when you see fit don't i guess

just

okay i'll just introduce it compliment

the other person or compliment the other

person this can be a nice strategy just

to show that you're enjoying the other

person's company um it can be as simple

as oh i like your shirt today or oh

that's a nice dress you're wearing today

or oh did you get a new haircut that

looks good on you something like that so

this is a nice a nice way to make the

other person maybe want to spend more

time with you i think yeah i agree 100

um two things

one i think it's a good conversation

starter sometimes um if you've got to be

careful with a stranger it can be creepy

it can be a little uncomfortable what

you're complimenting right but if it's

something like if they have a t-shirt

and it's a band that you both like

that's a great conversation starter and

you feel wow we're connected you know

number two

the second thing i was thinking about is

that

keep it honest i love i love a sincere

compliment it really means a lot more

and and it really does butter them up

kind of get them open to to having more

conversations deeper that kind of thing

um but one of the things people do which

which i don't like is let's say they say

hey nice shirt and then the person out

of habit will say oh you too i like your

shirt too

just my opinion i don't think this feels

really natural doesn't really feel

sincere so i would i would save it make

a mental note and go hmm

i need to return the favor i need to

give them a compliment but wait until

you notice something you really do like

and say hey actually i love blah blah

yeah i think that's a great point like

when you you can sense whether someone

is being sincere or not what is your

next strategy for continuing an english

conversation well

don't be afraid to open up

i like this one i think this is good a

lot of people will be kind of shy they

won't open up too much again within

within your comfort zone but i like this

one because people return the favor

because if you're just having small talk

and you say you know the weather's nice

today blah blah

you can only go so far so don't be

afraid to say something personal again

trust your judgment don't be a creeper

don't go we don't want to hear certain

things about your life don't don't be a

creep

don't be a creep don't be weird don't be

strange and like what you're saying

about opening up open up is just a

phrase that means to share something

about yourself um so it can be as simple

as what you did last weekend or what

you're going to do this weekend or a

project that you have coming up it

doesn't mean that you have to spill all

of your life's secrets to the other

person but just showing that you're

willing to share something more personal

about yourself can help ingratiate

yourself or can help

you know

make the other person help the other

person understand you a little bit

better

that's a good tip i like that tip that's

hard to do though it's hard it's a

little bit scary i think to share parts

of yourself but it's good it's a good

way to meet people and make friends

all right i think that's all is that all

that you have yeah that's all i got okay

all right well those are some

interesting uh

strategies to keep an english

conversation going so give them a try if

you're ever at a loss for words and

don't know what to say you can try one

of these strategies and hopefully it

will help you out um please let us know

if you have any other strategies or

anything else that you would like to use

or you try to use when you are having

trouble keeping a conversation going

leave us a comment and let us know what

it is top 10 language learning

strategies let's begin

befriending or dating someone who speaks

english

watching movies or listening to music in

english

read english newspapers or magazines

record your voice and compare your

pronunciation with native english

speakers

download dialogue tracks and listen to

english conversations

repeat the phrases that you hear out

loud again and again

review all the lessons on

englishclass101.com to master them

completely

read lines slowly at first then re-read

and increase your speed

set small and measurable learning goals

with your personal deadlines

try harder lessons to challenge yourself

and improve faster and ways to stop

translating in your head let's get

started

identify objects around you in english

the first way to stop translating in

your head is to identify the objects

around you in your target language so if

you're studying english that means you

look at the objects around the room look

at the things in your life don't think

of them in your native language first

think of them in your target language

first so if i look around the room i see

a computer i shouldn't think my native

language word i should think my target

language word so start with the items

and the situations in your everyday life

if i say computer in english maybe i

should say computa in japanese i should

say not i don't know water in english i

should say omizu in japanese so

start associating the words in your

target language with your everyday life

now so if you're studying english that

means start getting familiar with the

things in your everyday life in english

repeat phrases you hear native speakers

use

tip number two is to repeat the phrases

that you hear native speakers use so if

you're watching this channel for example

or you're watching a tv show or a movie

listen for the way that native speakers

make those phrases if you hear a phrase

you have never heard before or you hear

an interesting combination of words try

to repeat them yourself don't just

listen try to say them yourself if

you're in a public space and it's

difficult for you to do that fine

practice in a place where you feel more

comfortable maybe if you have some

private space to practice just repeat

them get your mouth used to saying the

words the way that the speakers the

native speakers do so if you never

actually say words if you're only taking

in if you're only listening and you're

not actually producing the language it's

it's kind of hard to

to practice and to

to really hone your pronunciation to

improve your pronunciation so when you

listen to native speakers try to repeat

after them so for example if you're

studying english you can try to repeat

after this video you can repeat after

the things i'm saying because maybe i'm

using an expression or i'm using a

certain

series of vocabulary words together the

way a native speaker would and it's

maybe a good idea to try to practice the

ways that native speakers put their

words together so try to repeat after

native speakers especially when you're

looking at media and you can do this

when you're reading books too you can

try to read out

read out loud interesting lines of books

that you find or something that maybe is

difficult for you very nice practice tip

make a situation where you can't escape

into your native language

make a situation where you can't escape

into your native language essentially

means immerse yourself of course going

to that country or going to a place

where you can speak only that language

is very difficult for some of you

totally understand but if in your life

you can create a situation in your

library in your room in your house

somewhere for just an hour or i don't

know maybe a day i don't know what your

schedule is like but if you can create a

situation or create an environment where

you have no choice but to use that

language and you cannot escape meaning

you cannot

go back to using your native language as

a crutch you can't use the native

language at all it forces you to use the

language that you're studying so of

course if you are lucky enough to live

in the country or to live in a place

where people speak the language you're

studying great but you have to go out

and interact with people you have to put

yourself in a place where you have no

choice but to speak it's very hard and

it's very scary and it's very

embarrassing at first but if you take

time to find places and to make

environments that are comfortable for

you where you feel comfortable making

mistakes and asking questions it's very

valuable for your learning process this

is actually something that i did totally

i totally did this my japanese wasn't

very good for

a long time but then i started making

friends who could not speak english

actually i just did this through finding

hobbies there was a hobby that i had i

joined a group i joined actually a

school to where i could learn how to do

that hobby and everything was taught

only in japanese and the people in my

class only spoke japanese mostly and

then maybe we would go off for drinks

and food

late at night or on the weekends and

everybody spoke only japanese and if i

couldn't communicate even simply in

japanese i had no hope of keeping that

friendship together so it forced me to

study it forced me to think about the

words they were using

and to try to learn those words those

patterns as well as how to produce them

naturally myself so i was learning the

vocabulary words the people around me

were using and learning how to apply

them on my own that was only possible

because i had no escape in those

situations so try to do that

even if you can do it yourself in your

house it's super helpful i think

watch tv and movies in your target

language without subtitles

tip number four is to watch tv and

movies in your target language without

subtitles without subtitles so i think

that watching uh

with subtitles can be very beneficial um

so if i'm watching something or if you

want to watch something with subtitles

on great but i sometimes find that i can

in my case i i think too much about

reading the subtitles and i forget to

listen so maybe if you've seen a movie

in your target language a few times

with the subtitles on try turning the

subtitles off and think about the like

character's body language the words

they're using um you can always look

that up later look up the you know the

words you don't know in a dictionary but

try to do it where you're focusing

completely on the way that people are

using their words try not to use the

subtitles so

kind of play around with it a little bit

if there's a word that's difficult for

you to hear you can actually turn on the

subtitles in like the in the native

language of the movie as well that's

something that i've done like if uh like

if i wanted to study japanese it's very

useful when the actual words spoken in

japanese appear on the screen sometimes

it's easier for me to catch a word if i

see it visually and i hear it at the

same time so another way to kind of um

explore how you can use tv and movies is

to actually turn on the closed captions

like the the

the words on the screen in the native

language of the movie so uh so this is

sort of two points in one so one watch

movies without subtitles meaning

subtitles in your native language and

hint two is to watch movies um with

closed captioning on but the closed

captioning is in your target language

not in your native language so you can

try those two things with tv and with

movies

don't bring a dictionary to your lesson

tip number five is don't bring a

dictionary to your lesson okay so

give me a second here so i understand

the dictionaries especially electronic

dictionaries we have them on our phones

now are very very convenient um of

course it's important to use them and

it's a they're a great resource to have

however one thing that really bothers me

and

that i think is detrimental it's not

helpful for students is when

students are in a lesson and they're

practicing conversation and they reach a

point in the conversation where they

don't know the word they want to use

they know it in their native language

and they don't know how to say it in

their target language they pull out

their dictionary they say to this the

person listening to them their practice

partner in their lesson where they have

a limited period of time

just a moment and then they look it up

on their phone it takes a few seconds

the flow of the conversation stops and

then they say a word and it's like whoa

no

that's not you don't have that ability

you don't have the ability to do that in

a conversation with a native speaker

most people like if you go to a bank and

try to open a bank account are you

really going to pull out your dictionary

and sit there and try to

communicate you know just a moment just

a moment as you look up each word you

don't know no or if you do that's not a

real conversation so instead try using a

different strategy by that i mean if you

find a word you don't know in

conversation explain the word to your

conversation partner maybe they know the

word if you're speaking with a native

speaker this is a chance for them to

teach you a word i find that when people

take the time to teach me a word i

remember the word much better than just

looking it up on my dictionary so try to

resist maybe you can bring a dictionary

to your lesson but don't use it or try

not to use it in your conversation

practice it's just it destroys the flow

of a conversation so instead practice

the skill of describing the vocabulary

word you want to use and learn how to

ask the meaning of a word or learn how

to ask for a vocabulary word from your

partner so you can use an expression

like ah what's the word that means blah

blah blah or um you know it's this thing

that does this and this and this so this

is an opportunity for you to describe

characteristics of something or find a

different way you can use your body

language you can use whatever you have a

lot of tools but try not to use a

dictionary in a conversation because

it's not realistic

train responses to common questions

number six is a quick one i think number

six hint number six i have is just to

train responses to common questions

train responses to common questions so

for example a very common question in

english is hey how are you

you should know how to answer this

question just have a default response

hey how are you i'm good

if it takes you

a long time to answer the question hey

how are you

you need to practice i think that's a

pretty good

a pretty good indicator so for example

sometimes i ask students a question like

that they they haven't quite

gotten the idea of how to respond just

yet they they're not so quick at

responding i say uh hey how are you and

they say yes

and then they think and they go i'm uh

i'm good and it's like that's a very

common question so think about just a

default response that you can spit out

that you can quickly say if it's how was

your weekend or hey what's up or what do

you want to do for dinner tonight think

about like just a handful meaning just a

few responses to those questions and

train them quickly just how are you i'm

good how are you i'm okay how are you

not bad there's three so

it's just training responses to those

questions there's no reason to be

surprised by a question like how are you

like that's a very common question so

for those common questions train

responses to that we've got a bunch of

videos especially beginner level videos

for some example responses you can do so

don't get

stuck with these little questions just

train a few responses practice a few

responses till they feel natural to you

it'll save you time and it'll help the

person asking the question too to move

forward in the conversation yay

study with materials that don't provide

a translation

the next tip is to study with materials

that don't provide a translation so by

this i mean if you're using worksheets

and or some kind of textbook or whatever

and it has

your target language the language you're

studying and it has your native language

next to it while this can be useful i

feel that if you can studying your

materials only in your target language

and then simplified explanations for

more detailed points also in your target

language can be a little bit better so i

don't want to say like you should only

study things in your target language and

nothing from your native language

because of course like it can be helpful

sometimes to look up a word or to

understand a grammar point in your

native language but where possible if

you can find something that provides

simplified explanations in your target

language it can be really really helpful

because again you're thinking you're

learning to think on like a simpler on a

more basic level about the language

you're studying in the language that

you're studying so this can be really

really good so finding some materials to

use where there's no translation maybe

you can practice

of course with with books and with

written materials but also with like

video materials as well so there are a

variety of different ways that you can

find materials in your target language

like in video and tv so some things to

think about there are the level of

vocabulary words people are using in the

media content you're watching

who the media content is intended for

children young adults adults

the speed at which the speaker is

talking so like i have the ability to

change the level of difficulty of

videos based on the rate of speech the

vocabulary words that i use and how many

like idioms and things i use so i could

make a video very difficult we could

make a very like a very difficult video

series by

leveling up our vocabulary use or by

speaking very quickly or as you might

see in like our english and three

minutes series

we can also use very simple vocabulary

and speak at a low rate of speech so

maybe right now this is a very

intermediate level video so please think

about that so not just for written

materials but also for your audio and

visual materials think about um who your

audience is the level of the material

and so on it can be really fun uh and it

can be helpful to think about your your

target language in your target language

all right we're almost done

study phrases in addition to single

vocabulary

the next tip is study phrases in

addition to single vocabulary word so

yes of course vocabulary is important

but i find it personally very very

useful to look at how a vocabulary word

is used in a phrase because sometimes

using it in a phrase helps you

understand the nuance of that vocabulary

word really really well so if i like a

word like crazy for example in english

depending on the situation where the

word crazy is used it could mean

something different it could mean like a

person who's mentally confused or mixed

up it could also mean something really

good it could mean something really bad

so if we look only at the word crazy

it's quite difficult to understand

really the meaning of the word but if

you look at the way the word is used in

a phrase you can get a lot more

information so take a look at the way

people use words in phrases not just a

single vocabulary words you can learn a

lot more that way i think

do your daily activities in english

where possible

the next tip is to do your daily

activities in your target language so if

you're studying english that means try

to do some daily activities in english

if possible so this can be very very

boring stuff but just think about it

when you're doing the activity so like

right now i'm filming a video for

englishclass101.com or i'm going to work

i'm cooking breakfast i'm doing the

laundry what do i have to do tomorrow so

try thinking about your everyday life in

english if you're studying english try

thinking about your everyday activities

the people that you meet what are you

doing so this is a way to help you

practice your verbs so if you don't know

if you're i don't know you're doing

something at work and you're like oh my

gosh how do i explain the what's the

verb for you know

a picture like i want to blah blah a

picture what's the word you can check a

dictionary at that point and go ah it's

draw i i need to use the verb draw for

draw a picture so you can find these

little gaps in your everyday life these

little gaps in your knowledge if you

think about your everyday activities in

your target language if you don't think

about it in your target language you

might not realize you have vocabulary

gaps or phrase gaps here and there so

this is a really good and kind of funny

actually way to study

use a learner's dictionary for new words

the last tip is to use a learner's

dictionary for new words so in english

there are learners dictionaries

available in english so my favorite my

personal favorite is merriam-webster

merriam-webster is a fantastic

dictionary resource they're so

interesting and they have tons of like

historical information i really do just

sit and like read things on the

dictionary page lately it's true but um

of course there's a definition there's a

meaning for words there are example

sentences for words but merriam-webster

also has what's called a learner's

dictionary if you find a word that you

don't recognize you can check it

in a dictionary in a learner's

dictionary and it gives you a simplified

a simple explanation in simple english

of that word so instead of checking it

in your native language you can check it

in your target language so again this

helps you to understand the word um that

you are that you're focused on but you

understand it from

the language you're studying not from

your native language so using a

learner's dictionary can be really

really useful as well

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language gifts of the month 10 ways to

report speech let's go

say

the first word is say say as a verb say

is a very neutral word you can use to

report someone's speech to explain

something someone

said in the past so for example he said

the barbecue was cancelled

just a simple neutral report

tell

the next verb is tell

tell is used when one person is giving

information to another to tell someone

something they did not know before don't

say tell me your phone number that's

weird but like can you tell me where the

station is can you tell me where to buy

a

hamburger can you tell me where to

pick up my new car like so giving

someone information they don't know or

or on the other hand explaining

something one way to another person so

don't tell me what i can't do is a very

good lost reference if you've ever

watched lost

so tell another example sentence my boss

told me i was doing a good job

speak

uh the next one is speak speak so we use

speak when we're talking about uh

language ability like i speak english i

speak japanese we can use speak in the

past tense to report something but it

usually sounds a little more formal so

like i spoke to my boss about or i spoke

to my parents about or i spoke to my

boyfriend or girlfriend about blah blah

blah

that using speak instead of talked

makes it sound a little bit more formal

so you can use speak but it's going to

sound polite in a sentence my colleagues

spoke with me about an upcoming project

was like

okay the next one the next two actually

are very very casual expressions so when

you're speaking with friends and you're

kind of talking about a quick maybe

somewhat emotional conversation you will

hear native speakers especially

americans perhaps this is unique

somewhat to americans use the phrase was

like i was like he was like she was like

this is a very casual way to report

speech and you'll hear it often very

very quickly together

so someone will say i was like what and

then she was like no and then i was like

yeah

that's the kind of pattern you'll hear

it in very very quick ways to report

speech but the subject changes i was

like he was like she was like we were

like this is a way to share what happens

quickly instead of i said he said she

said which might sound a little too

formal we can use i was like he was like

to do that instead so this is a really

fun one and if you can use this

naturally i think that it'll really help

you sound more natural too so in a

sentence and then he was like i love

that movie

was all

the next one is also a similar to was

like we have the expression was all so

it was all

don't worry about all all does not have

the meaning of the whole of something or

a complete something instead was all

this set phrase is used to report speech

usually this one is used when there's

some kind of emotional

uh

emotional aspect to your conversation or

it's a little dramatic or maybe a little

exciting we use it the same way as was

like in that very very quick style of

speaking and then he was like and i was

all and then she was like and i was all

we use those together but i was all has

a little more emphasis i feel i tend to

use it when my when i want to express a

stronger emotion and i was all no way or

and i was all what so

you can use it for those very like

surprised emotions or maybe angry

emotions was like and was all are both

used in very casual situations so in a

sentence and i was all oh my god me too

talk

the next word is talk so talk similar to

uh say is a fairly neutral verb when

reporting speech

you'll use it in a situation where

someone is giving new information

to you

but maybe it's a two-way conversation so

for example we talked about blah blah

blah

for a topic or

my boss talked to me about blah blah

blah so maybe new information is being

exchanged but the conversation is two

way there are multiple participants with

tell it's like the nuance is sort of one

person is reporting information giving

information with talked it's there's an

exchange happening there so keep in mind

when you use the word talk you will say

either i i talked to or i talked with

someone

and then you'll usually have a topic so

i talked to my friend about blah blah

blah

i talked to my friend about my new

apartment i talked to my boss about a

raise i talked to my boss no i talked to

my dog about

what dogs do okay

so if there's some kind of there's some

kind of exchange happening there you'll

need to use to or with

when you're referring to the person or

entity you're talking to

and you'll use about to refer to the

subject so you can use this one

when you're when you want to discuss

exchanges of information so in a

sentence she talked to me about my

family

mention

let's go to the next one the next one is

mention mention is used when like

something is just there's just one small

point in a conversation like just a

little side note or maybe it's not the

focus of a conversation but just

something someone says

quickly or there's just a little thing

that you hear oh you mentioned something

about blah blah blah or you mentioned

that a new project like it's it's maybe

not the focus of the conversation but

something that you heard a little bit

about that's that's when we use the verb

mention we can also use it in a

statement like please uh mention any

skills you have on a resume so it's the

nuance is sort of like a like just a

little bit of information is when we use

mention so in a sentence our manager

mentioned upcoming changes at the

company

to go on and on

okay the next expression is to go on and

on so to go on and on means just to talk

for a very long time so maybe you have a

co-worker or a friend or a family member

that just talks and does not stop

talking

we say to go on and on that's the

expression we use so in a sentence the

speaker at the seminar was going on and

on about the topic if you really want to

emphasize it you can say what's going on

and on and on and on and on and that

really emphasizes that the person

continues to speak so if you know

somebody um who does that a lot you can

use this expression to talk about them

according to uh the next expression here

is according to according to is used uh

actually in the news or like to

officially report something so according

to sources or according to the police

according to the government official

according to my teacher according to my

mother these are like direct reports of

information and they're direct reports

of information from a specific source so

according to the newspaper

my f

neighborhood has 50 000

amazing

ramen shops that's not true

but if i want to instead of just saying

my neighborhood has 50 000 amazing ramen

shops i'm giving a source for that so

according to my newspaper this is this

is where i got the information so this

is important to use in news in

newspapers and any kind of official

documentation you will see and hear

according to in these cases ah in a

sentence according to a witness at the

scene the suspect escaped

report great so um the next one is

report so reports similar to according

to we use report in more official

situations so to officially share

information like to report to the police

to report to your teacher to report to

your boss sometimes it means to submit

documentation like to to give someone a

written report sometimes it's to share

information officially just just with

your voice to report news or to report

an update

so when you want to

give and give official information we'll

use the verb report so in a sentence

sources in the area report that the

accident was not serious

thank goodness

all right

top 10 must know phrases for the

restaurant

let's get started a table for three

please

a table for three please

you tell them the number of people that

you are total so that the host can bring

you to an appropriate table

a table for two please a table for five

please

could i please see a menu

could i please see a menu

usually menus are given to you as soon

as you sit down at your table but if

that's not the case and you need to ask

this is a polite way to do it could i

please see a menu i'd like to try this

dish

i'd like to try this dish

when looking at a menu hopefully you'll

find something you want to eat i'd like

to try this dish

could you leave out the onions

could you leave out the onions if there

is an ingredient in the dish that you're

ordering that you don't want you can

always ask the waiter if it could be

prepared without that ingredient so for

example i might say could i get the

burger but with no cheese could you pass

the salt could you pass the salt when

you're at a restaurant especially if

you're at a big table with a lot of

people you might not always be able to

reach things

so you would ask could you pass me the

salt could you pass me the ketchup could

you pass me another napkin

waiter waiter

a waiter is someone who takes your order

and brings you food in america and in

many other western countries it's more

polite to call a waiter to your table by

simply saying excuse me or if you see

another waiter walking by but it's not

your waiter you can always say

excuse me if you see our waiter could

you please let them know to come to our

table can we get separate checks can we

get separate checks

this is actually something that's very

common especially in america if you

might go out with a group of friends or

even if you're on a date sometimes you

might want to get separate checks pay

for your own things that way you can all

pay separately just for what you

yourself ordered and you won't have to

worry about owing each other money or

calculating off a big huge bill

are there any specials today are there

any specials today a special at a

restaurant is a dish that isn't usually

on the menu it's something that's

special but it's a special that the chef

is offering that day or that week or

that month so sometimes if you don't see

what the specials are you'd ask your

waiter excuse me are there any specials

today could we have the bill please

could we have the bill please this is

how you request that the check or the

bill comes to your table can we get the

check please could we get the bill

please

you're asking this to your waiter who

will then bring you the check and you

can pay 10 words that you can use at a

bar let's go to buy a round the first

expression is to buy a round to buy a

round means uh to buy a round of drinks

essentially a round of drinks means one

drink for everyone in your group one

drink for everyone in your party by the

way the word party is used to mean group

at a bar or restaurant the number of

people in your party is the number of

people in your group so to buy a round

means to buy a drink for everybody in a

sentence our boss began the party by

buying everyone around in a different

sentence you're buying the next round

on the rocks

the next expression is on the rocks on

the rocks is a way to order a drink when

you say on the rocks it means your drink

on ice only so rocks are the ice in your

glass so you can imagine the ice the

pieces of ice in your glass the ice

cubes or an ice ball these are like

rocks so saying i'd like a whiskey for

example on the rocks means just whiskey

served over ice that's what on the rocks

mean so in a sentence i'd like a gin on

the rocks

straight up the next expression is

straight up so a straight up drink is

different from an on the rocks drink a

straight up drink is chilled

with ice but it's strained so there's no

ice in the drink but it is it has been

chilled with ice so a straight up drink

there's nothing else in the glass but it

is a chilled drink in a sentence uh i'd

like a martini straight up some people

use the word straight or straight up but

they mean neat which is the next word

we're going to talk about so keep in

mind straight or straight up means

chilled

that's one of the key points here so

yeah a martini straight up is a chilled

martini

neat

so the next expression is neat

to order a drink neat means the drink is

not chilled and there is no ice it's

just it's just the the alcohol it's just

the liquor there's nothing

special about it a neat drink is only

the drink that's it nothing happens to

it so in a sentence i'd like a whiskey

neat

pint

half pint the next expression is really

two expressions these are words you use

when you order beer they are pint and

half pint depending on the country that

you live in pint can be a different size

they vary by

a few milliliters depending on the

country where you live in a half pint

then is roughly half of the pint size so

a half pint and a pint

are two ways two sizes we use to order

beer in a sentence can i have a half

pint of this stout

chaser the next expression is chaser so

a chaser is something you use to follow

an alcoholic drink chasers are often

used after shots so shots are small

drinks that are usually kind of strong

in alcohol content and they have a very

strong taste so some people like to have

something after that and they call it a

chaser so the image is that the the

second drink is chasing

the first drink into your body you can

think of it that way the chaser is a

non-alcoholic drink so it could be water

it could be soda it could be something

like that juice maybe so chaser in a

sentence shots of tequila are often

followed with chasers

to be tipsy the next word is to be tipsy

to be tipsy is a way to describe your

feeling when you're drinking so if you

can imagine when you're uh when you're

standing straight up uh when you're

standing as regular you're very like

confident and tall and you don't move

very much but if you feel tipsy this

comes from the verb to tip like this so

something tips

to one side or another

think of your body in this way so we use

the word tipsy the adjective tipsy um to

describe this feeling maybe you're not

so steady on your feet you could tip

over ah at any time that's called being

tipsy from alcohol okay so in a sentence

uh let's see i'm a little tipsy i need

some water to be drunk the next

expression is to be drunk so we talked

about the word tipsy so tipsy is a

little bit like a little unsteady but

drunk is just a mess you're just you're

just a disaster maybe you're being noisy

you're being loud it's difficult to

control your body or your friend's body

whatever so drunk is usually seen as a

negative thing um

so yeah so drunk uh expresses

yeah it's it's just not pretty sometimes

so in a sentence your friend is drunk

let's take him home

to call it a night the next expression

is to call it a night to call it a night

means to decide to finish at the bar to

go home uh you're ready to be done so uh

here i'm going to call it i'm going to

say this is tonight tonight is finished

so in a sentence

it's been a long evening i'm gonna call

it a night i mean i'm going to go home

i'm done it's a casual expression

hangover and then one more that you can

use maybe the day after you visit a bar

is hangover so a hangover is a noun

hangover is the word we use to describe

the feelings after drinking too much so

maybe you feel sick to your stomach you

have a headache your body is sore

there are a number of different feelings

you might have when you feel hung over

to be hungover is another way to say it

but when you have a hangover it usually

doesn't feel very good in a sentence i

have a hangover today i'm not going

drinking tonight 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

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 give

some information about what you've been

up to maybe a hobby something that you

did recently an event something

interesting you saw whatever people want

to make that connection with you and

it's a good chance for you to continue

speaking the next word is please please

is a polite phrase used when you want

something from someone else you can use

this as a response when someone offers

you something like in a restaurant for

example would you like more water would

you like something to drink oh please

the next phrase is thank you thank you

is used to express your appreciation you

can use thank you with everybody the

next phrase is you're welcome you're

welcome when someone says thank you you

can say you're welcome no biggie i use

no biggie as in no biggie is short for

no big problem 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

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

mark it okay for all clear to make a

joke because o and k do not start all

and clear but it caught on

among everybody in the world

anyway okay

is used to agree with somebody else well

it can be used actually to express a

positive or kind of a slight negative i

feel transitioning in your conversation

you can say okay now we're going to talk

about blah blah blah okay the next

phrase is excuse me excuse me it's used

to get someone's attention in english

when you don't know the other person for

example in a store a supermarket maybe a

stranger on the street you need to ask

directions you can use excuse me you can

use excuse me in the supermarket excuse

me can you tell me where the hot sauce

is if you've done something rude in

public you can use excuse me i

personally do not do rude things in

public ever

i'm sorry is the next word we're gonna

talk about i'm sorry is used to

apologize when you have made a mistake

or someone you know has made a mistake

and you're connected to it or you just

feel bad you can use i'm sorry you made

a mistake at work i'm sorry

you

forgot to feed your cat i'm sorry

sorry about that you bump someone next

to you oh sorry what time is it is the

next phrase when you need to check what

time it is what time is it when you ask

someone else what time it is maybe you

say this to yourself too check your

watch check your phone check a clock

pretty straightforward phrase there

aren't really any short versions so

that's an easy one

where is the plus a location so you can

use this for

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 see you later is that

you're probably going to meet that

person again later on in the same day

the last phrase is really really is a

very useful word because you can use it

to show you're interested in a

conversation with upward intonation

really really tell me more or to show

that you're not so interested in the

conversation with downward intonation

really so there are many other words

that you can use similar to really in

this way like seriously or oh

oh and so on so it's a really good

practice for your intonation but ways to

say hi this should be fun let's get

started first is yo

this one is a little bit casual in case

you couldn't tell used for close friends

maybe family members if you have kind of

a silly relationship with them just

quick short easy to do in a sentence

yo how's it going howdy howdy uh

traditionally associated with cowboy

culture i suppose you should play a

banjo maybe or you've just gotten off a

horse i don't know i use howdy from time

to time howdy howdy howdy

that's my banjo

yeah in a sentence you might say

howdy folks welcome to the

barbecue place

next is hey hey is good friendly phrase

you can usually use hey with a wave and

smile look happy if you don't people

might think that you're down in the

dumps people might think you're not in a

very good mood in a sentence hey

uh i heard you got engaged last week

congratulations something like that it's

usually kind of a cheery happy

expression all right next is what's up

uh what's up is the long form of sup

this does not literally mean what is

above you right now if you want to be

funny you can say the ceiling or the sky

but that joke gets old really fast and

chances are the person you're talking to

has already heard it before it just

means what are you up to what is going

on with you in a sentence what's up did

you have a good weekend typical response

to what's up is not much find out some

more responses in english in three

minutes we did an episode on this

nothing much how about you that's pretty

good pretty good pretty good pretty good

[Laughter]

i don't know what i'm doing the next one

is long time no see you can use this

when you haven't seen the other person

for a long time you're at a party or an

event or whatever anytime it's been a

long break you can decide how long long

is not the day before or the week before

maybe a few weeks or a month whatever is

unusual for you and this other person

when you see them you can say hey long

time no see how have you been ten words

for talking about beauty and skin care

so let's begin all right the first word

is makeup makeup is all makeup

everything we're going to talk about

almost everything we're going to talk

about later is makeup makeup is usually

used by women but maybe men use makeup

too makeup is

usually put on the face to change the

appearance of the face in some way so in

a sentence i use makeup almost every day

or i wear makeup almost every day use

and wear are both okay the next word is

eye shadow so eyeshadow is makeup which

goes on top of the eye so the eyelid

this part is called your eyelid

eyeshadow goes here on top of the eyelid

so in a sentence what kind of eye shadow

do you use

the next word is eye liner eyeliner so

eyeliner is used to draw a line to draw

lines near the eyes that means it's safe

to use near eyes it depends on the

person and their style but maybe they

use eyeliner to make lines in different

ways

on their on their face on near their

near their eyes in a sentence eyeliner

is really difficult to put on okay the

next word is lipstick lipstick uh

there's also lip gloss too uh lipstick

is kind of the traditional just like a a

single color you apply it just on your

lips and it gives i don't know not

sometimes shiny sometimes a very neutral

i don't know depends on the lipstick lip

gloss gives lips like this very glossy

almost like liquidy appearance so

lipstick and lip gloss have different

effects in a sentence

you have a lot of lipstick

the next expression is foundation

foundation is the makeup product it is

applied to the skin usually of the face

so it's used to make the face seem like

all one color foundation maybe people

apply it with i don't know like a spongy

thing or with their hands or a brush

there's like a

i forgot what it's called isn't like a

sponge i don't know something is it a

beauty blender is that a thing i think

so i i don't know i don't know i'm the

wrong person i don't know is it it's a

beauty blender a thing i'm not very good

at the beauty stuff either i don't know

anyway foundation is intended to make

your skin color appear even foundation

so it's called foundation because it's

like the base the foundation for the

rest of your makeup so the foundation is

the kind of the basis so once your skin

color is all

correct and the same then the other

parts we can fix the other parts that's

my theory anyway in a sentence there are

a few different types of foundation all

right the next expression is blush blush

is usually applied on your cheeks and

it's like a pink or red color it gives

the appearance of blushing so when we

feel embarrassed or maybe we feel

excited our cheeks might turn red

so blush is makeup which creates that

effect of blushing this is usually a

pink or red color to simulate to make it

look like you're blushing even if you're

not really in a sentence do you wear

blush the next expression is bronzer

bronzer so we talked about blush which

is supposed to give your skin the

appearance of being pink or blushing

bronzer gives skin the appearance of

being more bronze or more tan so you can

apply this maybe in summer and it makes

your skin look a little more tan which

you might like other people also may use

bronzer to create shadows because it

makes the skin a little bit darker in

the places where it's applied so there

are a few different ways to use bronzer

in a sentence bronzer is nice in summer

the next word is face wash face wash so

this is a special soap that's for your

face specifically for the face maybe

your face is very sensitive or you have

some

trouble spots or i don't know there's a

specific wash you use for your face only

in a sentence a good face wash is

important for clear skin oh the next

word oh the dreaded i have a couple

words here that are maybe problems all

of us deal with the first kind of

problem word on this list is acne acne

is an uncountable noun acne refers to

usually this is this a problem happens

for like teenagers or people around that

age but adults can also have acne

acne is like imperfections in the skin

sometimes they're itchy or they're

painful red bumps on your skin or maybe

they're not painful but they're just

blotches or a number of different ways

that acne can can be an issue which

we'll talk about in the next word too

but acne is an uncountable noun

is just about that problem skin problem

in general acne bad acne in a sentence i

had acne when i was a teenager so the

next word for today there are two words

here there's pimple and zit these are

both words we use to refer to the

individual

parts of acne acne we can say i have bad

acne or maybe my acne is improving today

but acne is maybe the whole condition of

your face like everything your face is

situation each part each one of those

little

uh problem spots we we call that a

pimple or a zit the difference pimple

sounds a little bit smaller usually zit

sounds a bit bigger and maybe maybe more

painful

so

but either way pimples and zits are both

words we can use to describe

acne so in a sentence i hate getting

pimples 10 words you can use to talk

about hygiene or cleanliness so let's

begin

to wash your hands

the first expression is to wash your

hands to wash your hands is with soap

and water uh in the restroom somewhere

so wash your hands before

cooking or wash your hands after using

the toilet for example in a sentence

wash your hands after using the bathroom

to shower the next expression is to

shower to shower or to shower or maybe

you prefer to take a bath so to shower

is usually standing up though you can do

it sitting down depending on the country

you live in i suppose to shower is that

yeah the water just hits you

continuously to take a bath is you sit

in the bathtub you sit down and you are

surrounded by water that is a bath

surrounded by one sitting down

surrounded by water in your home on

purpose

is a bath

if it's not on purpose you should

probably call a plumber

because that is not a bath that is an

emergency

[Laughter]

all right uh in a sentence i shower

every day or i love taking a bath every

once in a while

to brush your teeth the next expression

is to brush your teeth to brush your

teeth so with a toothbrush usually in

the morning maybe at night as well you

brush your teeth you clean your teeth uh

in a sentence make sure to brush your

teeth in the morning

to style your hair uh the next

expression is to style your hair to

style your hair means to to arrange or

to fix your hair the way you like it so

today i styled my hair like this you

styled your hair like that

eyes tomorrow maybe i'll style my hair

in a ponytail i probably won't

maybe you can put your you can style

your hair in a mohawk or in a fauxhawk

or in a bouffant bouffant that's that

focus oh yeah it's focusing yeah

that's a bouffant

all right so to style your hair uh in a

sentence

it takes a long time to style my hair

that's true my hair is naturally

explosive and so i have to straighten it

before like everything and then as soon

as humidity gets it it goes

it makes that sound too

to shave

the next expression is to shave to shave

is to remove hair like if you're a man

here usually uh

to remove the hair here with a razor

with another like a a blade of some kind

or

maybe you remove body hair or hair on

your legs whatever uh you we use the

verb to shave to shave with a razor

in a sentence shaving is a pain

or sure meaning shaving is troublesome

soap or cleanser

the next word is soap or cleanser so

soap is just used to clean your skin or

yeah to clean your face maybe

to clean your hands we do not use soap

for the stuff you use to clean your

teeth soap is used for like body cleaner

or maybe um

what you use to wash your clothes so

soap or a body cleanser in a sentence i

like nice smelling soaps and cleansers

that is true who does not

deodorant

the next word is deodorant deodorant so

deodorant is the product you might put

on your body to prevent

unpleasant smells so usually it goes in

this region so this is called the armpit

this region so arm and then pit so like

yeah kind of this cave-ish area in your

arm we call the armpit

but

it's common to apply deodorant here you

might put it in other areas on your body

but the goal is

to prevent

bad smells or um to in some cases just

stop sweating completely uh so this is

deodorant well deodorant actually if i'm

gonna be strict here deodorant is used

to

stop unpleasant smells antiperspirant

is used to prevent sweating so

perspirant comes from perspire so to

perspire means to sweat anti means not

or stop so an anti perspirant is a

product to make you stop

sweating

so deodorant is the smell one

antiperspirant is the sweat one

sometimes you can buy a deodorant and

antiperspirant together

great in a sentence wearing deodorant is

important especially in summer

mouthwash

the next word is mouthwash mouthwash i

hope is easy to understand it's wash

it's

something to clean the inside of your

mouth so uh

you can use this like

in the morning maybe after you brush

your teeth or after lunch maybe to keep

your breath uh smelling fresh

but it usually is in like a blue or a

green or maybe an orange color and kind

of has a minty or citrusy taste but you

put it in your mouth and kind of swish

like

i don't know i can't swish nothing

you swish it around in your mouth and

then spit it out and that's mouthwash so

you've washed your mouth with this

product in a sentence i like minty

mouthwash

toothpaste the next word is toothpaste

so toothpaste we do not say like tooth

soap or tooth cleaner or whatever we use

tooth paste for uh the product to clean

our teeth the product we use to brush

our teeth is called tooth

paste

uh so in a sentence

i need to buy more toothpaste

shampoo and conditioner the next

expression is shampoo and conditioner so

shampoo and conditioner are commonly

used together

in the shower or in the bath maybe

shampoo usually comes first we shampoo

shampoo is soap for your hair really and

then conditioner is a treatment for your

hair conditioner

is used to make your hair feel softer or

more moisturized so often times they're

used for shampoo and then conditioner

together as a set so in a sentence i

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gossip let's go

oh my god so

the first phrase is oh my god so so oh

my god so is a introductory phrase you

can use to start your topic with like a

surprise factor so you say oh my god and

then so is your transition phrase so for

example oh my god so i have to tell you

about this movie i saw or oh my god so i

saw my neighbor

in the shopping mall this morning or oh

my god so

did you see my new dog it's kind of a

weird one usually it's about a person

not about a dog but who knows

you won't believe what happened to me

the other day

the next expression is you won't believe

what happened to me the other day you

won't believe what happened to me the

other day meaning something happened to

you

and you think it's going to be a

surprise to the person listening to you

you won't believe what happened to me

the other day so it's a very fast phrase

because it sounds like you want to share

very quickly like you won't believe what

happened to me you can drop the other

day if you want or you said you can say

you won't believe what happened to me

this morning you won't believe what

happened to me last night you won't

believe what happened to me this weekend

you won't believe what happened to me

over my winter vacation so that you

won't believe what happened to me gets

very very quick and short so examples uh

you won't believe what happened to me

the other day i ran into my ex-boss or

you won't believe what happened to me

the other day i

tripped and fell down a flight of stairs

or uh you won't believe what happened to

me the other day i got a new parrot

sure i don't know maybe one of you can

use that

guess what

the next phrase is very short the next

phrase is like an exclamation so an

excited statement and a question

guess what

guess what so

guess what is inviting the listener to

guess

what happened to you guess what

the full question would be guess what

happened or guess what happened to me

but we only say guess what so guess what

and sometimes the listener guesses and

sometimes the listener just says what

usually the listener just says what

uh ask 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 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

a person you can use a person or have

you heard about a situation you can use

both uh you can use a an object too so

have you heard about the new iphone or

have you heard about the new office

policies um you can use that

for pretty much anything you want to

inform your listener about so have you

heard about is usually said very quickly

have you heard about so the 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 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 or

it seems like something's wrong with

this person they're unhappy they're sad

they're angry

uh some kind of negative emotion we use

this so it's like what's up with stevens

i haven't heard from him lately what's

up with your brother he seems really

upset or what's up with your

neighbor why is he so noisy or what's up

with your boss he's so strict so it

sounds like there's some problem we

usually use this intonation what's up

with what's up with

to introduce somebody who has a problem

we don't say what's up it's not that

it's not that sort of hello

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 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 ten words for

talking about space

planet the first word is planet planet

so planets are those really really big

things that we have in our solar system

now there are officially eight because

pluto is no longer considered a planet

in my example sentence pluto used to be

considered a planet

star

the next word is star star so stars are

those very very bright objects that you

can see in the sky sometimes at night

that's the closest star to us is the sun

the sun is a star and we can see a lot

of other stars if we look up into the

night sky sometimes in a sentence it's

hard to see stars from big cities

solar system the next expression is

solar system solar system so solar

system in our case here on planet earth

refers to the system of planets and

objects which are near our star so our

solar system now there are eight planets

in our solar system used to be nine

planets sorry again in pluto eight

planets in our solar system and then um

we can talk about other objects which

maybe enter our solar system like

like

comets for example or a meteor or

some other events might happen in space

within our solar system so our solar

system is the area surrounding our sun

and our planets that we know of in a

sentence mercury is part of our solar

system

comet the next expression is comet a

comet is actually an icy body that is uh

slightly melting and then releasing

gases so that's what produces that look

a comment okay in a sentence comets are

really cool

meteor

oh right so yes the next word is meteor

meteor or just meteor so essentially

meteors are different from comets

because comets are made of ice meteors

however are made of rock so these are

two different kinds of objects that can

that move around in space in a sentence

lots of meteors burn up before they pass

through the atmosphere

meteorite

the next word is meteorite meteorite so

this is an important distinction that

many people don't know about actually

this drives me crazy too so a meteor is

the is the space rock it's in space or

it's in the atmosphere a meteorite

however is the rock if if the meteor

makes it if the meteor can pass through

the earth's atmosphere and fall to the

surface of the earth that rock then is

called a meteorite so in space

in the atmosphere it's a meteor when it

falls to earth it is a meteorite that

becomes a meteorite when it hits the

earth so fun facts okay that's the

difference between the two in a sentence

have you ever seen a meteorite

supernova

supernova supernova so the explosion of

a star is a huge event a supernova is

the name of it so the star explodes and

that's what we call it it's called a

supernova a star explosion in a sentence

supernovas must be incredible things

black hole

ah alright the next expression is black

hole black hole black holes are the

subject of a lot of study

they have intense gravitational pull so

meaning they have very strong gravity

black holes will pull other objects into

them um

it is said that like a time stops in a

black hole or and like if you get too

close to a black hole if you get too

close to the event horizon of a black

hole you yourself will be pulled into

that hole too it's pretty crazy so like

the event horizon is the point at which

um there's no there's no turning back

from like you can't you can't escape

essentially the gravitational pull of a

black hole once you're within the event

horizon of that space it's like crazy

you're done for all this kind of stuff

so interesting so in a sentence black

holes are mysterious

galaxy

okay

uh alright so the next word is galaxy

galaxy before we talked about the

expression solar system

so solar system is kind of our region of

space the region we're familiar with but

the next step up so if you think of the

solar system as kind of your

neighborhood a little bit you could

think of maybe the galaxy as like your

city or your country maybe it's sort of

the next step out so a galaxy is made up

of lots and lots of stars maybe other

planets other solar systems many other

solar systems in one

galaxy so i think yeah we belong to the

milky way galaxy i believe in a sentence

our galaxy is made of lots of different

stars and planets earth

the next expression is earth earth earth

is our planet earth is the planet we

live on earth is yeah habitable meaning

humans can live here this word i

included it in this vocabulary list

because it is a very good word to

practice your pronunciation it is the

word earth earth that r and the th sound

can be difficult to pronounce together

er f earth so this is a great word to

use to practice your pronunciation earth

so in a sentence our planet is called

earth ten words for talking about sleep

let's go

to wake up

the first word is to wake up to wake up

is to open your eyes probably in your

bed or the place where you are sleeping

to wake up is to

uh to become conscious to become

awake every day you wake up uh

presumably hopefully in a sentence i

woke up three times last night

to get up to get out of bed

all right the next word is to get up or

to get out of bed so that means to

physically move your body from your bed

out of bed to stand up from your bed to

get out of your bed we say to get up or

to get out of bed in a sentence i got up

at eight o'clock this morning

to snooze

the next word is to snooze so we have to

snooze an alarm and also to snooze so to

snooze means to take a short sleep to

have a short sleeping time or to snooze

an alarm is

when your alarm goes off in the morning

you have a button most alarm clocks have

some button you can press so the alarm

will turn on again in like you know five

or ten minutes or something so to snooze

an alarm is to like to ask your alarm to

wake you up again a few minutes later

that's uh to snooze so we have to snooze

an alarm and two snooze meaning like a

short light sleep in a sentence i always

snooze my alarm at least once that is

usually true

to oversleep

the next word is to over sleep to over

sleep means to sleep too much or to

sleep late actually no it doesn't mean

to sleep late

to sleep late means just to sleep until

a late time in the day

oversleep means sleeping beyond

the time you wanted to get up so for

example if my alarm

is set for eight o'clock but i wake up

at nine o'clock i overslept i slept

beyond my wake-up time so we can use

oversleep to talk about times when you

sleep

too much you sleep

more than your body needs you to so

maybe your body needs depending on the

person like six to nine hours or so but

if you sleep like 14 hours we can say

that's over sleeping you're sleeping too

much

that's the nuance here in a sentence i

overslept on my first day of work

nap

the next word is nap nap is a short

sleep so a nap is maybe 30 minutes one

hour just a short sleep a short rest so

a lot of people will take a nap in the

afternoon for example or maybe children

actually take naps for example in

preschool or when they're very very

young they have an afternoon nap a short

sleep like

yeah just

like an hour or so i imagine in a

sentence i love naps actually i do like

naps i don't like naps because when i

take a nap it becomes a sleep it's

always like i wake up four hours later

and i'm like okay well i've destroyed my

sleep schedule

dream

the next word is dream dream so dreams

are those those visions those images you

see those maybe experiences it seems

like you have when you are asleep in a

sentence i always have weird dreams

nightmare

so the next word is nightmare nightmare

is a word which means bad dream or scary

dream negative dream so

children maybe have nightmares a lot

they wake up crying or they're really

upset by nightmares monsters terrifying

things happening and so on in a sentence

do you ever have nightmares

to go to bed

the next word is to go to bed so before

we talked about to get up or to get out

of bed this is the opposite to go to bed

means to get in your bed uh to to try to

go to sleep

to go to bed in a sentence i usually go

to bed fairly late

to hit the hay to hit the sack the next

expression is kind of a s i don't know a

slang expression uh we have to hit the

hay and to hit the sack these both mean

to go to bed um

they both mean to try to fall asleep but

we just use them in more casual

situations the image here of hit the hay

is with your body hitting hay like

laying down in hay

i believe historically because hay was

used to stuff

things that people slept on

so that's why we have this expression to

hit the hay with your body same thing

for to hit the sack so a sack full of

something soft to sleep on

is where this expression comes from in a

sentence i think i'm gonna hit the hay

to fall asleep

the next expression it is to fall asleep

to fall asleep you're in bed and you

finally you lose consciousness you

you stop being aware you are asleep in

that moment we say you fall asleep in a

sentence it takes me a long time to fall

asleep

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top 10 must know prepositions and

conjunctions for english learners

let's get started two

two

i threw the ball to my dad

two is sort of directional it it's

saying that it's going

towards something

i wrote a letter to my mother

i went

to the mall

i went to the park my mom asked me to go

to the store to buy some bread

to a destination to a person

from

from

from is the opposite of two from implies

where it's coming from the place of

origin so if i'm going to the mall i'm

coming from my house this letter is from

my daughter

from

how long does it take you to get from

your house

to your job

to and from they go together

with

with

with

it means

together with something

i am at the movies with my friend

i went out to eat with my friends

i go shopping with my boyfriend

with means you are together with

something i like to have

grilled cheese with tomatoes on it

i'm here with my book

at

at is a very short word i always go to

bed at 11 o'clock if i'm lucky i usually

go to bed at around 1 in the morning

unfortunately i get very little sleep

at specifies a time or a place

let's go to the movies at

two in the afternoon

um i'm at home right now where are you

we decided to meet at the beach

it's a pinpoint of time or location

in

in

in

means you are inside of something or in

the middle of something it means being

immersed in something i am in bed right

now

the cat is in the box

uh

the child is in the tree the plane is in

the sky

i graduated school in 2019

in

on

on

i left the book on my desk

on

means on top of i like ketchup on my

fries so that means my french fries are

here and i like to put ketchup on them

the man is on the roof

the car is on the street

the motorcycle is on my nerves

but

but

i think i remember her name but i'm not

sure

but is a way to add a negative to a

sentence

so for example

i really love eating cake

but i don't eat it often because it's

not healthy

i'd love to go to the movies with you

but i have too much work to do

i really like you but i don't want to

date you

and

and

and is a very common word you will hear

all the time

it's a way of adding on a new

subject or thing to your sentence

i love candy and pizza

i'm hungry and i'm tired

my friend moved to spain and i moved to

canada

i love playing outside and i love being

inside and is a way to add on a new

subject or thing to what you're talking

about

so

so i have a toothache so i went to the

dentist

so is a way of adding

an example another way to say because of

this i did this

you say something and then you add so

and then what follows is the effect so

there's the cause

so the effect

so

i was feeling very hungry so i had some

pizza this video is going to be pizza

themed everyone apparently

i was really tired so i took a nap i was

in the mood for some adventure

so i got on an airplane and flew to

mexico

that sounds nice

or

or or is a way of presenting a choice

so for example

you can either have pizza

or you can have candy i don't know if i

should go to the movies or if i should

go to the mall

which color do you like better

red or green it presents differences of

choice today's video is on words

americans overuse i haven't seen these

words yet but apparently it's going to

be a series of words that we as

americans i'm american

um we overuse we use too often so let's

start uh oh the first word is definitely

definitely is definitely a word that

americans overuse we use it to

put emphasis at the end of a phrase to

put emphasis at the end of a sentence

as in

oh

that party last week was so great yeah

definitely or to agree with somebody

like that uh oh god literally oh just in

the last few days i've seen the word

literally so many times on the internet

and used in just such stupid ways the

word literally

means actually or truly something this

is literally the best hamburger i've

ever eaten

so

literally meaning truly or actually

would mean that in that person's entire

life that is the best hamburger they've

ever eaten however it gets misused a lot

in sentences um like george bush was

literally supporting the war in iraq or

something like that taking a phrase like

that literally would have to mean that

you know the president former president

would be you know physically supporting

a war with his body onward

onward hilarious hilarious is the next

word i like to use the word hilarious

when something is actually funny

hilarious of course means something that

is really funny super funny it's a step

above funny maybe two steps three steps

i don't know however people like to use

this word in place of laughter

so uh for example friends are talking

and instead of just laughing the friend

will say that's hilarious

well if it's so hilarious just laugh oh

this must be the last one because this

is the worst one this word is like

um i've probably said it

several times already today for the for

the purposes of this video

the word like is used as a filler word

so it's the same as something

such as um or uh or hmm for example we

use like

as a filler word when we're trying to

think of something you it's not uncommon

to hear the word repeated like three

four five times in a row when someone is

thinking they'll say oh you know that

party that i went to like

like uh like uh like uh do you know who

was there it just invades your speech

sometimes when you're trying to think of

something and no other filler words come

out but the word like does

ah this wasn't the last word there is

another one seriously

seriously is used oh it's good for

anytime you receive bad news um well not

from your boss it's a really casual word

um but if you hear something um like

your friend lost their job and you can

sympathize with them or maybe empathize

with them by saying seriously oh that's

too bad or oh tell me like all your

problems oh my god i just use like oh

god oh i hate myself generic trademarks

oh oh these are all examples of brands

that where the name of the brand has

become synonymous with whatever the

brand product itself is this is going to

be fun jacuzzi oh really a jacuzzi is a

brand i didn't know that see

okay jacuzzi is a hot tub essentially

it's just it's a it's a type of hot tub

but so many people have come to know

that jacuzzi equals hot tub that jacuzzi

now just means hot tub even though it's

the name of the brand

uh so you might say hey come over to my

house this weekend we're all gonna have

a

no you might say oh i just bought a new

jacuzzi do you want to come in no that's

creepy too

i'm thinking about buying a jacuzzi do

you have any recommendations

next chapstick you might use chapstick i

use chapstick chapstick is just a brand

of lip balm so whenever your lips feel

dry or when they feel chapped

you put chapstick on your lips

in a sentence you might say i carry my

chapstick with me everywhere i love it

kleenex kleenex is another great example

of a brand that now equals a product oh

here's kleenex is this actually kleenex

no this is ascool

can you see it no this is actually this

is not kleenex but we'd probably refer

to this as kleenex yeah tissue these are

just they're just tissues it's not even

made by not even made by kleenex

can you pass me a kleenex

next is post-its oh post-its are very

useful they're just a small notepad

here's another one there's some notes

written on it already this is a small

one also not made by post-it but it's

the same it's the same sort of thing

it's just a piece of paper that has a

sticky back and you can stick it to

things but post-its now people will ask

for a post-it instead of just a sticky

back note paper

i guess i guess post-it is an easier

thing to say what else would you call it

if not a post-it sticky paper

arm

glue note

i'm waiting for you entrepreneurs next

is band-aids this was the first one that

i thought of actually when i saw this

topic band-aids when you get hurt when

you get a paper cut it's that little

piece of

kind of tapey

bandage that you peel

stuff off of

and then you stick on whatever you've

just hurt

but that thing

is just called a bandage right it's a

sticky bandage there are a lot of sticky

things on this list most of the time i

think when you get a paper cut or

something at work or at school or

whatever they'll say oh my gosh do you

need a band-aid there's words that vary

by region creek i say creek you might

hear the word crick

crick and the word creek means uh a

small river essentially uh there's a

creek in my backyard for example

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

a city or a town or some kind of path in

other words

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 uh 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

caramel that sounds about right to me

you can choose phrases that aren't cool

anymore woohoo

i probably say a whole lot of these

phrases so i'm about to embarrass myself

the first phrase is sweet oh sweet's not

cool anymore sweet means cool sweet

means something that's good you might

say oh man that skateboard trick you

just did was sweet

groovy i still say groovy um groovy

means cool groovy means good it was used

in the 70s when you know funky groovy

music was popular

in a sentence like oh hey

those are some groovy moves on the dance

floor

i don't know if we can use that going

steady going steady is kind of an

old-fashioned phrase as well going

steady just means you're dating someone

who is dating someone else like me and

trisha are going steady it just means

you're dating you're a couple

not oh this is this word is actually

what the entire holiday of april fool's

day is based around

that's a lie

particularly i would say for junior high

school students this phrase is um

very popular they might say something

like hey

steve thinks you're cute not

so in other words it's often used as an

insult duh

oh

duh

duh

duh is used when someone says something

really stupid or something really

obvious

so if you say something like uh oh hey

it's raining the other person who can

also maybe look out the window you're

both sitting in front of might say duh

because you've just indicated something

very very obvious you can also use duh

to make fun of yourself when you do or

say something really stupid

as soon as you realize this you can go

ah duh yeah intermediate latin phrases

this is gonna be fun bonafide

that sounds like an american thing like

like we we bastardized that word a bit

bonafide then means something that's

genuine or something that's um

truly representative of something else

um so

if someone says he's a bona fide

gentleman for example it means he's

truly a gentleman i don't hear this word

very often at least among the people i

spend time with perhaps you might hear

it especially in an old movie i think

vice versa vice versa means um basically

it just means to switch positions of

something so you might say oh i could

come to your house and then we could go

no this is a terrible example i could go

to your house or vice versa meaning you

come to my house so saying vice versa it

leaves the listener to fill in the

opposite of whatever else you're saying

yeah that's actually kind of a useful

phrase that's still used quite a lot i

hear a lot in kind of business english

alma mater alma mater i'm a mater alma

mater just refers to the college that

you graduated from so

whatever it is uh whatever your

university is you could be from you know

harvard university you would say oh

harvard is my alma mater

that's it

carpe diem carpe diem carpedia means

seize the day so it's a kind of a

motivating phrase um you can say it

maybe when you leave the house for work

for example if you're feeling like you

need an extra bit of motivation you

might say ah carpe diem to yourself

status quo status quo refers to the norm

or whatever is the regular in society

for example right now let's see what's

this what's a status quo

i don't know

politics that won't infuriate anybody so

maybe uh in one place the status quo

might be to eat vegan maybe oh it's you

know eating vegan is the status quo

we're going to look at some common

english idioms let's begin the first

word or phrase rather is about to about

to means you're going to start something

you're going to begin doing something

for example i'm about to start

explaining this idiom to you hey

okay the next word or phrase idiom

the next idiom is by the way the word

here they've used is incidentally it's a

way to transition to another topic

that's related to what you're talking

about for example this week i'm going to

a party by the way did you hear about

the party happening next week so they're

somewhat related

okay uh the next idiom is in a way in a

way

this is kind of in a way it was a good

thing that the burrito shop was closed

because otherwise i would have eaten way

too much and you can use this to show

that there are maybe two sides to a

situation maybe some things are negative

maybe some things are positive next is

on the other hand i hear this a lot on

the other hand is a way of just saying

however or to share two different sides

to a story for example i think my

co-worker is really irritating on the

other hand at parties he's really funny

so you can show two maybe different

sides to a point with this phrase

next is a matter of fact as a matter of

fact as an idiom this is a long way to

just say actually or really it's a

little bit more formal sounding so you

might use it in a business meeting for

example everybody at the business

meeting might feel a little bit unsure

about the previous month sales

and you can begin your presentation by

saying something like i know everybody

was a little bit unsure about last

week's or last month sales performance

but as a matter of fact things improved

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how to curse like an english native

speaker

piss a slang term for urine for example

don't piss your pants

you can say this when

you're really scared or anxious

for example if you're about to go on

stage to make a speech or perform

someone can say

don't piss your pants you can do it

pissed off to be really angry

when i'm angry i can say hey i'm really

pissed off at you right now why did you

do that for

loser used to describe an uncool person

in high school my friends and i would

use this a lot

and we would say

hey loser how's it going

idiot you used to insult people by

saying they're not intelligent

of all the mean things that you can say

this is on the lighter side but people

still use it

shoot

this is used to show disappointment or

frustration without using a stronger

curse word

shoot i spilled my coffee

shut up

you can use this when you want them to

be quiet or there's something surprising

that you just heard you can say

shut up no way

ticked off to be really angry you can

say this

with pissed off

so this is actually an older term not

many people use this as much anymore

because most people actually just use

pissed off fool this is similar to

saying someone is like a clown you can

say

you're acting like a fool right now

jerk this is a light insult used to

describe someone who is mean

for example if there's someone bullying

another person that person is being a

jerk

wimp this means someone who isn't strong

there is a movie out right now

called diary of a wimpy kid have you

seen it have you not i haven't yet 10

ways to say hello in english

good morning

good morning is the first thing you say

to someone when you see them in the

morning good morning sir would you like

a cup of coffee good morning could i

please get some orange juice good

morning i'm still tired from the night

before

hello

hello is the most common greeting you'll

hear that and hi

hello is a polite nice way to greet

someone when you see them hello

everyone says it you cannot go wrong

saying hello hello can be used at any

time of the day no matter whether it's

morning or at night

or at 4am

when you see someone you can say hello

and it will still be appropriate

long time no see long time no see

it's not necessarily grammatically

correct but it's a saying that we have

hey long time no see

what it means is that you haven't seen

that person in a long time

so it literally means long time no see

long time no see is something you say to

someone when you haven't seen them in a

while

hey john

long time no see how are the wife and

kids

how have you been

hey how have you been i haven't seen you

in a long time

how have you been is asking someone how

they're doing and how they've been for

the past

however long if you haven't seen them in

a while

you might say

hey long time no see how have you been

how have you been

that's past tense it implies that you

haven't seen them in a while and you

want to hear about how they are and how

they've been for all of that time that

you haven't seen them hey long time no

see how have you been

how are you

how are you

means how are you doing how are you

feeling how is everything

it's a standard thing that you might say

to anyone even if you've seen them the

day before you might see them today and

say hey how are you

how's it going

hey how's it going

how's it going is a more informal way to

say how are you

so how are you and how's it going they

mean the same thing

it's asking

how you're doing how you are feeling is

everything okay with you

what's up

what's up is another way of saying

hey how's it going but this one is even

more informal so you might say this to

friends hey what's up

and they'll say nothing just

living my life you know day in and day

out

hey what's up

hey what's up

good afternoon

good afternoon

how are you would you like some lunch

good afternoon is a polite way to greet

someone in the afternoon

so if you run into your boss

you might say good afternoon it's very

nice it's polite not a lot of people say

it to their friends

but it's it's a polite way to greet

someone good evening

good evening is a nice way to greet

someone in the evening time you can only

use this phrase in the evening because

it's wishing someone a good evening it's

saying hello at a certain time of day

good evening

would you like some dinner

good evening have you eaten yet

all of my examples involve food it seems

it's nice to meet you

it's nice to meet you this is something

that's very common to say the first time

that you meet someone you might shake

their hand and say hi it's nice to meet

you my name is bridget my name is

it's telling that person that you are

happy to be meeting them it's a pleasure

to meet them hi it's nice to meet you

hi everyone i'm gabriella

how are your english listening skills

in this video you'll have a chance to

test them out with a quiz

first you'll see an image and hear a

question

next comes a short dialogue

listen carefully and see if you can

answer correctly we'll show you the

answer at the end are you ready

a woman is asking a store clerk

something at a bookstore

which book does the woman want to see

[Music]

excuse me i'd like to take a look at a

book on that shelf

which book would you like

the one about cars

one moment please

this one

yep that's right

here you go

which book does the woman want to see

a woman is asking a store clerk

something at a bookstore

which book does the woman want to see

excuse me i'd like to take a look at a

book on that shelf

which book would you like

the one about cars

one moment please

this one

yep that's right

here you go

a man and a woman are looking over a

menu at a restaurant

what's the man going to order

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what are you going to order

the pizza looks delicious i think i'll

go with that

i had pizza yesterday so

okay then what about the hamburger

sounds good

i'll go with that

what's the man going to order

a man and a woman are looking over a

menu at a restaurant

what's the man going to order

what are you going to order

the pizza looks delicious i think i'll

go with that

i had pizza yesterday so

okay then what about the hamburger

sounds good

i'll go with that

a man is calling the doctor's office

what time does he need to be at the

doctor's office by

[Music]

hello how can i help you

what time do you close today

we close at six o'clock but please come

in before 5 30.

okay

thank you

what time does he need to be at the

doctor's office by

a man is calling the doctor's office

what time does he need to be at the

doctor's office by

hello how can i help you

what time do you close today

we close at six o'clock but please come

in before 5 30.

okay

thank you

a boy is reading from his journal

what was the first thing the boy did

today

the weather was great today

i went swimming this afternoon at the

pool

and i went to a movie in the evening

i also studied all morning

today wasn't bad

what was the first thing the boy did

today

a boy is reading from his journal

what was the first thing the boy did

today

the weather was great today

i went swimming this afternoon at the

pool

and i went to a movie in the evening

i also studied all morning

today wasn't bad

a woman and a man are looking at a

photograph

which photo are they looking at

[Music]

this is a photo of the soccer team your

son is on isn't it which one is your son

this one

oh he's the tallest one

yep he's even taller than the coach

which photo are they looking at

a woman and a man are looking at a

photograph

which photo are they looking at

this is a photo of the soccer team your

son is on isn't it

which one is your son

this one

oh he's the tallest one

yep he's even taller than the coach

did you get it right

i hope you learned something from this

quiz

let us know if you have any questions

see you next time

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