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top 10 language learning strategies

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befriending or dating someone who speaks

english

watching movies or listening to music in

english

read english newspapers or magazines

record your voice and compare your

pronunciation with

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conversations

repeat the phrases that you hear out

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completely read lines slowly at first

then re-read and increase your speed

set small and measurable learning goals

with your personal deadlines

try harder lessons to challenge yourself

and improve faster

and ways to stop translating in your

head

let’s get started identify

objects around you in english the first

way to stop translating in your head is

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

i don’t know maybe a day i don’t know

what your schedule is like but

if you can create a situation or create

an environment where you have

no choice but to use that language

and you cannot escape meaning you cannot

go back to using your native language as

a crutch you can’t use the native

language at all

it forces you to use the language that

you’re studying

so of course if you are lucky enough to

live in the country or to

live in a place where people speak the

language you’re studying

great but you have to go out and

interact with people you have to put

yourself in a place

where you have no choice but to speak

it’s very hard and it’s very scary and

it’s very embarrassing

at first but if you take time to find

places and to make

environments that are comfortable for

you where you feel comfortable making

mistakes

and asking questions it’s very valuable

for your learning process this is

actually something that i did totally i

totally did this

my japanese wasn’t very good for a long

time

but then i started making friends who

could not speak

english actually i just did this through

finding hobbies there was a hobby that i

had

i joined a group i joined actually a

school to where i could learn how to do

that hobby

and everything was taught only in

japanese

and the people in my class only spoke

japanese mostly

and then maybe we would go out for

drinks and food late at night or on the

weekends and

everybody spoke only japanese and if i

couldn’t communicate

even simply in japanese i had no hope of

keeping that friendship together

so it forced me to study it forced me to

think about the words they were using

and to try to learn those words those

patterns

as well as how to produce them naturally

myself so i was learning the vocabulary

words

the people around me were using and

learning how to apply them

on my own that was only possible because

i had no escape

in those situations so try to do that

even if you can do it yourself in your

house it’s super helpful i think

watch tv and movies in your target

language without subtitles

tip number four is to watch tv and

movies in your target language

without subtitles without subtitles so

i think that watching with subtitles can

be very beneficial

so if i’m watching something or if you

want to watch something with subtitles

great but i sometimes find that i can in

my case i

i think too much about reading the

subtitles and i forget to listen

so maybe if you’ve seen a movie in your

target language a few times

with the subtitles on try turning the

subtitles

off and think about the like character’s

body language the words they’re using

um you can always look that up later

look up the

you know the words you don’t know in a

dictionary but try to do it

where you’re focusing completely on the

way that people are using their words

try

not to use the subtitles so um kind of

play around with it a little bit if

there’s a word that’s difficult for you

to hear

you can actually turn on the subtitles

in like the

in the native language of the movie as

well

that’s something that i’ve done like if

uh like if i wanted to study japanese

it’s very useful when the actual words

spoken

in japanese appear on the screen

sometimes it’s easier for me to catch

a word if i see it visually and i hear

it at the same time so another way to

kind of

explore how you can use tv and movies

is to actually turn on the closed

captions like the

the the words on the screen in the

native language

of the movie so uh so this is sort of

two points in one so one

watch movies without subtitles meaning

subtitles in your native language

and hint two is to watch movies um with

closed captioning on not

to your available okay so give me a

second here so i understand the

dictionaries

especially electronic dictionaries we

have them on our phones now are very

very convenient

of course it’s important to use them and

it’s a they’re a great resource to

have however one thing that uh really

bothers me

and that i think is detrimental it’s not

helpful for students is when uh students

are in a lesson and they’re practicing

conversation

and they reach a point in the

conversation where they don’t know the

word they want to use they know it in

their native language

and they don’t know how to say it in

their target language

they pull out their dictionary they say

to this the person listening to them

their practice partner

in their lesson where they have a

limited period of time

just a moment and then they look it up

on their phone

it takes a few seconds the flow of the

conversation stops

and then they say a word and it’s like

whoa

no that’s not you don’t have that

ability you don’t have

the ability to do that in a conversation

with a native speaker

most people like if you go to a bank and

try to open a bank account are you

really gonna pull out your dictionary

and

sit there and try to communicate you

know just a moment just a moment

as you look up each word you don’t know

no or if you do that’s not a real

conversation

so instead try using a different

strategy

by that i mean if you find a word you

don’t know in conversation

explain the word to your conversation

partner

maybe they know the word if you’re

speaking with a native speaker this is a

chance for them to teach you

a word i find that when people take the

time to teach me

a word i remember the word much better

than just looking it up on my dictionary

so try to resist maybe you can bring a

dictionary to your lesson but don’t use

it or try

not to use it in your conversation

practice it’s just

it destroys the flow of a conversation

so instead

practice the skill of describing the

vocabulary word you want to use and

learn how to ask the meaning of a word

or learn how to ask for

a vocabulary word from your partner so

you can use an expression like ah what’s

the word that means blah blah blah

or um you know it’s this thing that does

this and this and this so

this is an opportunity for you to

describe characteristics of something or

find a different way you can use your

body language you can use

whatever you have a lot of tools but try

not to use a dictionary in a

conversation because it’s not realistic

train responses to common questions

number six is a quick one i think number

six hint number six i have

is just to train responses to common

questions

train responses to common questions so

for example

a very common question in english is hey

how are you

you should know how to answer this

question just have a default response

hey how are you

i’m good if it takes you

a long time to answer the question hey

how are you

you need to practice i think that’s a

pretty good uh

a pretty good indicator so for example

sometimes i ask

students a question like that they they

haven’t quite

gotten the idea of how to respond just

yet they they’re not so

quick at responding i say uh hey how are

you and they say yes

and then they think and they go i’m uh

i’m

good and it’s like that’s a very common

question

so think about just a default response

that you can spit out that you can

quickly say

if it’s how was your weekend or hey

what’s up or what do you want to do for

dinner tonight

think about like just a handful meaning

just a few

responses to those questions and train

them quickly just

how are you i’m good how are you i’m

okay how are you

not bad there’s three so it’s just

training responses to those questions

there’s no reason to be surprised by a

question like how are you

like that’s a very common question so

for those common questions

train responses to that we’ve got a

bunch of videos

especially beginner level videos for

some example responses you can do

so don’t get stuck with these little

questions just train a few responses

practice a few responses till they feel

natural to you it’ll save you time

and it’ll help the person asking the

question too to move forward in the

conversation

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study with materials that don’t provide

a translation

the next tip is to study with materials

that don’t

provide a translation so by this i mean

if you’re using worksheets and or some

kind of textbook

or whatever and it has your target

language the language you’re studying

and it has your native language next to

it while this can be useful

i feel that if you can studying your

materials

only in your target language and then

simplified explanations for

more detailed points also in your target

language

can be a little bit better so i don’t

want to say like you should only study

things

in your target language and nothing from

your native language because of course

like it can be helpful sometimes to look

up a word or to understand a grammar

point in your native language

but where possible if you can find

something that provides simplified

explanations in your target language it

can be really really helpful because

again

you’re thinking you’re learning to think

on like a simpler on a more basic level

about the language you’re studying in

the language that you’re studying so

this can be really really good so

finding some materials to use

where there’s no translation maybe you

can practice

of course with with books and with

written materials

but also with like video materials as

well so

there are a variety of different ways

that you can

find materials in your target language

like in video and tv so some things to

think about there

are the level of vocabulary words people

are using in the media content you’re

watching

who the media content is intended for

children young adults adults

uh the speed at which the speaker is

talking so like i have the ability to

change the level of difficulty

of uh videos based on the rate of speech

the vocabulary words that i use and how

many like idioms and things i use

so i could make a video very difficult

we could make a very like a very

difficult video series

by leveling up our vocabulary use or by

speaking very quickly

or as you might see in like our english

and three minutes series

um we can also use very simple

vocabulary and speak at a low rate of

speech so maybe right now this is a very

intermediate level video

so please think about that so not just

for um

written materials but also for your

audio and visual materials think about

um who your audience is the level of the

material and so on

it can be really fun uh and it can be

helpful to think about

your your target language in your target

language all right we’re almost done

study phrases in addition to single

vocabulary

the next tip is study phrases in

addition to single vocabulary words so

yes of course vocabulary is important

but

i find it personally very very useful

to look at how a vocabulary word is used

in a phrase because sometimes using it

in a phrase

helps you understand the nuance of that

vocabulary word really really well

so if i like a word like crazy for

example in english

depending on the situation where the

word crazy

is used it could mean something

different it could mean like

a person who’s mentally confused or

mixed up

it could also mean something really good

it could mean something really bad

so if we look only at the word crazy

it’s quite difficult to understand

really the meaning of the word

but if you look at the way the word is

used in a phrase

you can get a lot more information so

take a look at the way people use words

phrases not just as single vocabulary

words you can learn a lot more that way

i think do your daily activities in

english where possible

the next tip is to do your daily

activities in your target language

so if you’re studying english that means

trying to do some daily activities in

english if possible

so this can be very very boring stuff

but just think about it

when you’re doing the activity so like

right now i’m

filming a video for englishclass101.com

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

in a dictionary in a learner’s

dictionary and it gives you

a simplified a simple explanation in

simple english

of that word so instead of checking it

in your native language you can check it

in your target language so

again this helps you to understand the

word

um that you are that you’re focused on

but you understand it

from the language you’re studying not

from your native language so using a

learner’s dictionary can be really

really useful as well

all right 10 ways to report speech

let’s go say

the first word is say say as a verb

say is a very neutral word you can use

to report

someone’s speech to explain something

someone said in the past so for example

he said the barbecue was cancelled

just a simple neutral report

tell the next verb is tell

tell is used when one person is giving

information to

another to tell someone something they

did not

know before don’t say tell me your phone

number that’s weird

but like uh can you tell me where the

station is can you tell me where

to buy a hamburger can you tell me where

pick up my new car like so giving

someone information they don’t know or

or on the other hand explaining

something one way to another person

so don’t tell me what i can’t do is a

very good lost reference if you’ve ever

watched lost

so tell another example sentence my boss

told me i was doing a good job

speak the next one

is speak speak so we use

speak when we’re talking about uh

language ability like i speak english i

speak japanese

we can use speak in the past tense to

report something but it usually sounds a

little more

formal so like i spoke to my boss about

i spoke to my parents about or i spoke

to my

boyfriend or girlfriend about blah blah

blah

that using speak instead of talked

makes it sound a little bit more formal

so you can use

speak but it’s going to sound polite in

a sentence

my colleagues spoke with me about an

upcoming project

was like okay the next one uh the next

two

actually are very very casual

expressions so when you’re speaking with

friends and you’re

kind of talking about a quick maybe

somewhat emotional conversation

you will hear native speakers especially

americans perhaps

this is unique somewhat to americans use

the phrase

was like i was like he was like

she was like this is a very casual way

to report

speech and you’ll hear it often very

very quickly

together so someone will say i was like

what and then she was like no and then i

was like yeah

that’s the kind of pattern you’ll hear

it in very very quick ways to report

speech

but the subject changes i was like he

was like she was like we were like

this is a way to share what happens

quickly instead of i said he said she

said

which might sound a little too formal we

can use i was like

he was like to do that instead so this

is a really fun one

and if you can use this uh naturally i

think that it’ll really help you sound

more natural too

so in a sentence and then he was like i

love that movie

was all the next one is also similar to

was like

we have the expression was all so was

all don’t worry about all all does not

have the meaning of the whole of

something or a complete something

instead was all this set phrase is used

to report

speech usually this one is used when

there’s some kind of

emotional uh emotional aspect to your

conversation or it’s a little dramatic

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

the nuance is sort of one person is

reporting information

giving information with talked it’s

there’s an exchange happening there

so keep in mind when you use the word

talk

you will say either i i talked to or i

talked

with someone and then you’ll usually

have a topic so i talked to my friend

about

blah blah blah i talked to my friend

about my new apartment i talked to my

boss about a raise i talked to my boss

no i talked to my dog about what dogs do

so there’s some kind of there’s some

kind of exchange

happening there you’ll need to use to or

with

when you’re referring to the person or

entity you’re talking to

and you’ll use about to refer to the

subject

so you can use this one um yeah when

you’re when you want to discuss

exchanges of information so in a

sentence she talked to me about my

family

mention let’s go to the next one the

next one is

mention mention is used when like

something

is just there’s just one small point in

a conversation like

just a little side note or maybe it’s

not the focus of a conversation but just

something someone says

quickly or there’s just a little thing

that you hear

oh you mentioned something about blah

blah blah or

you mentioned that a new project like

it’s it’s maybe not the focus of the

conversation but something that

you heard a little bit about that’s

that’s when we use the verb

mention we can also use it in a

statement like please

uh mention any skills you have on a

resume so

the nuance is sort of like a like just a

little bit of information

is when we use mention so in a sentence

our manager mentioned upcoming changes

at the company

to go on and on okay the next expression

is to go

on and on so to go on and on means just

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

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

news and newspapers and any kind of

official documentation you will see and

hear according to

in these cases ah in a sentence

according to a witness at the scene the

suspect escaped

report great so um the next one is

report so

reports similar to according to we use

report in more official situations so

to officially share information like to

report

to the police to report to your teacher

to report to

your boss sometimes it means to submit

documentation

like to to give someone a written report

sometimes

it’s to share information officially

just just with your voice to report

news or to report an update so when you

want to

give and give official information we’ll

use the verb

report so in a sentence sources in the

area report that the accident

was not serious thank goodness

all right top 10 must-know phrases for

the restaurant

let’s get started a table for three

please

a table for three please you tell them

the number of people that you are

total so that the host can bring you to

an appropriate table

a table for two please a table for

five please could i please see a menu

could i please see a menu usually

menus are given to you as soon as you

sit down at your table

but if that’s not the case and you need

to ask this is a polite way to do it

could i please see a menu i’d like to

try this dish

i’d like to try this dish when looking

at a menu

hopefully you’ll find something you want

to eat i’d like to try this dish

could you leave out the onions could you

leave out the onions

if there’s an ingredient in the dish

that you’re ordering that you don’t want

you can always ask the waiter if it

could be prepared

without that ingredient so for example i

might say

could i get the burger but with no

cheese could you pass the salt could you

pass the salt

when you’re at a restaurant especially

if you’re at a big table with a lot of

people

you might not always be able to reach

things so

you would ask could you pass me the salt

could you pass me the ketchup could you

pass me another napkin

waiter waiter a waiter is someone who

takes your order

and brings you food in america and in

many other western countries

it’s more polite to call a waiter to

your table by simply saying

excuse me or if you see another waiter

walking by but it’s not your waiter

you can always say excuse me if you see

our waiter could you please let them

know to come to our table

is there any dairy in this dish is there

any dairy in this dish

this is something you would say if you

have a dairy allergy

a dairy intolerance or you just don’t

like dairy

you’re asking the waiter about the

ingredients in a particular dish

i do this all the time is there any

cheese in this

no okay and if there is an ingredient

that you don’t want

for example onions you could say are

there any onions in this

and the waiter might say yes and if you

don’t want it you could always request

could you leave out the onions could you

prepare it without the onions please

can we get separate chex can we get

separate chex

this is actually something that’s very

common especially in america

if you might go out with a group of

friends or even if you’re on a date

sometimes you might want to get separate

checks pay for your

own things that way you can all pay

separately

just for what you yourself ordered and

you won’t have to worry

about owing each other money or

calculating off a big huge bill

are there any specials today are there

any specials today

a special at a restaurant is a dish that

isn’t usually

on the menu it’s something that’s

special but it’s a special

that the chef is offering that day or

that week or that month

so sometimes if you don’t see what the

specials are you’d ask your waiter

excuse me are there any specials today

could we have the bill please

could we have the bill please this is

how you request

that the check or the bill comes to your

table

could we get the check please could we

get the bill please

you’re asking this to your waiter who

will then bring you the check

and you can pay 10 words that you can

use at a bar

let’s go to buy a round the first

expression

is to buy a round to buy a round

means to buy a round of drinks

essentially a round of drinks means one

drink for

everyone in your group one drink for

everyone in your party

by the way the word party is used to

mean group at a bar or restaurant

the number of people in your party is

the number of people in your group

so to buy a round means to buy a drink

for

everybody in a sentence our boss began

the party by buying everyone

around in a different sentence you’re

buying the next round

on the rocks the next expression is on

the rocks

on the rocks is a way to order a drink

when you say on the rocks it means your

drink

on ice only so rocks are the ice in your

glass

so you can imagine the ice the pieces of

ice in your glass the ice cubes or an

ice ball these are like

rocks so saying i’d like whiskey

for example on the rocks means just

whiskey uh

served over ice that’s what on the rocks

mean so in a sentence

i’d like a gin on the rocks straight up

the next expression is straight up so a

straight up drink is different

from an on-the-rocks drink a straight-up

drink is chilled

uh with ice but it’s strained so there’s

no ice

in the drink but it is it has been

chilled with ice

so a straight-up drink there’s nothing

else in the glass but it is a chilled

drink

in a sentence i’d like a martini

straight up

some people use the word straight or

straight up but they mean

neat which is the next word we’re going

to talk about so keep in mind straight

or straight up means chilled that’s one

of the key points here

so yeah a martini straight up is a

chilled martini

neat so the next expression is neat

to order a drink neat means the drink is

not chilled and there is no ice

it’s just it’s just the the alcohol it’s

just the liquor there’s nothing

special about it a neat drink is

only the drink that’s it nothing happens

to it so in a sentence

i’d like a whiskey neat pint

half pint the next expression is really

two

expressions these are words you use when

you order beer

they are pint and half pint depending on

the country that you live in

pint can be a different size they vary

by a few milliliters depending on the

country where you live in

a half pint then is roughly half of the

pint

size so a half pint and a pint are two

ways two

sizes we use to order beer in a sentence

can i have a half

pint of this stout chaser the next

expression is

chaser so a chaser is something you use

follow an alcoholic drink chasers are

often used after

shots so shots are small drinks that are

usually kind of strong in alcohol

content

and they have a very strong taste so

some people like to

have something after that and they call

it a chaser so the image

is that the the second drink is chasing

the first drink into your body you can

think of it that way the chaser is a

non-alcoholic drink so it could be water

it could be soda it could be something

like that juice

maybe so chaser in a sentence shots of

tequila are often followed with chasers

to be tipsy the next word is to be tipsy

to be tipsy is a way to describe your

feeling when you’re drinking

so if you can imagine when you’re when

you’re standing

straight up when you’re standing as

regular you’re very like confident and

tall and you don’t move very much

but if you feel tipsy this comes from

the verb

to tip like this so something tips uh to

one side or another

think of your body in this way so we use

the word

tipsy the adjective tipsy to describe

this feeling maybe

you’re not so steady on your feet you

could tip over

at any time that’s called being tipsy

from alcohol

okay so in a sentence uh let’s see i’m a

little tipsy i need some water

to be drunk the next expression is to be

drunk so we talked about the word tipsy

so tipsy is a little bit like a little

unsteady but

drunk is just a mess you’re just you’re

just a disaster maybe you’re being noisy

you’re being loud it’s difficult to

control your body or your friend’s body

whatever so drunk is usually

seen as a negative thing um so yeah so

drunk

uh expresses yeah it’s it’s just not

pretty

sometimes so in a sentence your friend

is drunk let’s take him home

to call it a night the next expression

is to call it

a night to call it a night means to

decide to

finish at the bar to go home uh you’re

ready to be done

so uh here i’m going to call it i’m

going to say

this is tonight tonight is finished

so in a sentence it’s been a long

evening

i’m going to call it a night mean i’m

going to go home

i’m done it’s a casual expression

hangover

and then one more that you can use maybe

the day after you visit a bar

is hangover so a hangover is a noun

hangover is the word we use to describe

the feelings

after drinking too much so maybe you

feel sick to your stomach you have a

headache

your body is sore there are a number of

different feelings

you might have when you feel hung over

to be hungover is another way to say it

but when you have a hangover

it usually doesn’t feel very good in a

sentence

i have a hangover today i’m not going

drinking tonight

at the top 25 english phrases so let’s

get started

the first phrase is hello hello of

course is used as a greeting you can

greet your friends you can greet your

co-workers your family with this phrase

just by saying

hello hey hi what’s up hello sup

yo pretty much any time of day you can

use hello

hello the next phrase is good morning

good morning is used as a greeting

in the morning you can kind of feel when

morning ends for you

good morning is nice and polite or even

just morning

with your close friends or close

co-workers the next phrase is good night

good night is fine we don’t use this to

greet other people we use it when we’re

saying goodbye to other people at night

family members particularly mothers and

fathers to say good night to their

children before they put them to bed

you can say it to your friend in a text

message or in an email if you’ve been

talking for a while good night

so the next word to talk about is

goodbye uh use it when you say goodbye

to your friends when you leave your

friends goodbye

bye of course take care have a nice day

peace out that’s another way to say

goodbye okay the next phrase is

i’m plus your name of course this is a

way to introduce yourself you can use

i’m in my case alicia i’m alicia to

introduce yourself in any situation

new friend i’m alicia okay the next

phrase is what’s your name what’s your

name is used to ask someone else what

their name

is so what is your name sounds a bit

tried to use what’s your name if you

forget someone’s name you can say

sorry what’s your name or sorry what’s

your name again next phrase is nice to

meet you nice to meet you

anytime you meet someone new nice to

meet you is fine

good to meet you is a little more casual

great to meet you sounds very excited

pleasure to meet you sounds like maybe a

formal situation or a business context

okay the next phrase is how are you how

are you

is it’s just a friendly way to check in

with the other person you can use it

with friends your family

your coworkers maybe even your boss to a

certain degree

uh how are you how you doing the next

phrase is i’m fine thanks and you

uh if you saw english in three minutes

we talked a lot about this phrase uh

instead of i’m fine thank you and you

say i’m good thanks how are you just

shorten it make it a little bit more

natural

how are you good how are you great how

are you

not so good how are you okay and so on

so when someone says how are you

offer i usually say i’m good this week i

blah blah give some information about

what you’ve been up to maybe a hobby

something that you did recently an event

something interesting you saw whatever

people want to make that connection with

you and it’s a good chance for you to

continue speaking

the next word is please please is a

polite phrase used when you want

something from someone else

you can use this as a response when

someone offers you something like in a

restaurant for example would you like

more water would you like something to

drink oh please

the next phrase is thank you thank you

is used to express your appreciation you

can use thank you with

everybody the next phrase is you’re

welcome you’re welcome when someone says

thank you you can say you’re welcome no

biggie

i use no biggie as in no biggie is short

for no big problem

the next word is yes yes of course yes

means is any positive expression

someone asks you a question and the

answer is a positive answer you say

yes yep uh-huh yeah we no

next i’m guessing i know it yep the next

word is no

no is a negative response to something

when you have to give a negative answer

so as you can probably guess um the long

form of no is

negative i like to use nope it’s very

very casual

not gonna happen my parents would use

that with me to soften that a little bit

if you want to show a negative response

to something like let’s go for dinner

tonight

what do you want to do like do you want

to go out not

really no i don’t think so

to soften it the next word is okay okay

this word comes from copy editors okay

when they had to check a manuscript um

they had to label the manuscript

all clear a c but because they were copy

editors and they have a very very sick

sense of humor

they thought they would mark it okay for

all clear to make a joke because

o and k do not start all and clear but

it caught on

among everybody in the world anyway

okay uh is used to agree with somebody

else

well it can be used actually to express

a positive or kind of a slight negative

i feel

transitioning in your conversation you

can say okay now we’re going to talk

about

blah blah blah okay the next phrase is

excuse me excuse me it’s used to get

someone’s attention

in english when you don’t know the other

person for example in a store

a supermarket maybe a stranger on the

street you need to ask directions you

can use

excuse me you can use excuse me in the

supermarket excuse me can you tell me

where the hot sauce is

if you’ve done something rude in public

you can use excuse me

i personally do not do rude things in

public ever i’m sorry is the next word

we’re gonna talk about i’m sorry is used

to apologize when you have made a

mistake or someone you know has made a

mistake and you’re connected to it or

you just feel

bad you can use i’m sorry you made a

mistake at work i’m sorry

you forgot to feed your cat i’m sorry

sorry about that you bump someone next

to you oh sorry

what time is it is the next phrase when

you need to check what time it is

what time is it when you ask someone

else what time it is maybe you say this

to yourself too

check your watch check your phone check

a clock pretty straightforward phrase

there aren’t really any

short versions so that’s an easy one

where is the plus a location

so you can use this for um a building or

a store we don’t we’re not going to use

this where is the

for a place a city name or a state name

or a country name

to do that you would need to remove the

but where is the bank where is the post

office you can use this to ask

directions to ask for help

in your house or at work where is the

copy machine

where is the file i need where is the

blah blah blah

where is the bathroom is perhaps a very

important question to know

the next one is may i use the restroom

may i use the restroom is a polite

uh and soft expression that you can use

if you need to use the toilet you need

to use the washroom

when you’re at someone’s house for the

very first time when you’re in a place

that you’re that is new to you you can

ask may i use the restroom

more casually can i go to the bathroom

to be very polite you can say may i go

to the bathroom the next phrase is i

would like to order

something you can use this at a

restaurant probably or in any situation

where you need to place an

order i’d like a pizza i’d like

a beer can i get the check please this

will be used at a restaurant when you’ve

finished your meal and it’s time to go

can i get the check please

in a very very casual situation you can

just say check please

that’s fine the next phrase is see you

soon see you soon is used with friends

and family members perhaps

uh when you expect to see them again

soon after saying goodbye to them this

is used at the end of the conversation

you’re going separate directions

see you soon see ya is also good or just

see you

to make it a little more formal you can

say i’ll see you again soon make a full

sentence out of it that way

the next phrases see you later see you

later it’s very similar to see you soon

but the point is

with see you later is that you’re

probably going to meet that person again

later on in the same day

the last phrase is really really is a

very useful word because you can use it

to show you’re interested in a

conversation with upward intonation

really really tell me more or to show

that you’re not so interested in the

conversation with downward intonation

really so there are many other words

that you can use similar to really

in this way like seriously or oh oh

and so on so it’s a really good practice

for your intonation

ways to say hi this should be fun let’s

get started first is yo

this one is a little bit casual in case

you couldn’t tell

used for close friends maybe family

members if you have kind of a silly

relationship with them

just quick short easy to do in a

sentence

yo how’s it going howdy howdy

uh traditionally associated with cowboy

culture i suppose you should play a

banjo maybe or you’ve just gotten off a

horse i don’t know i use howdy from time

to time howdy

howdy howdy

that’s my banjo yeah in a sentence you

might say

howdy folks welcome to the

barbecue place

next is hey hey is good friendly phrase

you can usually use hey with a wave and

smile look happy

if you don’t people might think that

you’re down in the dumps people might

think you’re not in a very good mood in

a sentence hey

uh i heard you got engaged last week

congratulations

something like that it’s usually kind of

a cheery happy expression

all right next is what’s up uh what’s up

is the long form of

sup this does not literally mean what is

above you right now

if you want to be funny you can say the

ceiling or the sky but that joke gets

old really fast and chances are the

person you’re talking to has already

heard it before

it just means what are you up to what is

going on with you in a sentence what’s

did you have a good weekend typical

response to what’s up is not much

find out some more responses in english

in three minutes we did an episode on

this

nothing much how about you that’s pretty

good pretty good

pretty good pretty good

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

is long time no see you can use this

when you haven’t seen the other person

for a long time

you’re at a party or an event or

whatever anytime it’s been a long break

you can decide how long long is not the

day before or the week before maybe a

few weeks or a month whatever is unusual

for you and this other person

when you see them you can say hey long

time no see how have you been 10 words

for talking about

beauty and skin care so let’s begin

all right the first word is makeup

makeup is

all makeup everything we’re going to

talk about almost everything we’re going

to talk about later is

makeup makeup is usually used by women

but maybe men use makeup

too makeup is usually put on the face to

change the appearance of the face in

some way

so in a sentence i use makeup almost

every day

or i wear makeup almost every day use

and wear are both

okay the next word is eye shadow so

eyeshadow is makeup which goes on top of

the eye so

the eyelid this part is called your

eyelid eyeshadow

goes here on top of the eyelid so in a

sentence

what kind of eyeshadow do you use

the next word is eye liner eyeliner so

eyeliner is used to draw a line to draw

lines

near the eyes that means it’s safe to

use

near eyes it depends on the person and

their style but maybe they use eyeliner

to make

lines in different ways on their on

their face on near they’re near their

eyes

in a sentence eyeliner is really

difficult to put on

okay the next word is lipstick lipstick

uh there’s also lip gloss too uh

lipstick is kind of the traditional just

like a single color you apply it just on

your lips and it gives

i don’t know not sometimes shiny

sometimes a very

neutral i don’t know depends on the

lipstick lip gloss

gives lips like this very glossy almost

like liquidy appearance so lipstick and

lip gloss have different effects

in a sentence you have a lot of lipstick

the next expression is foundation

foundation is the

makeup product it is applied to the skin

usually of the face

so it’s used to make the face seem like

all

one color foundation maybe people apply

it with i don’t know like a spongy thing

or with their hands or a brush there’s

like a

i forgot what it’s called isn’t it like

a sponge i don’t know something

is it a beauty blender is that a thing i

think so i i don’t know i don’t know i’m

the wrong person

i don’t know it’s a beauty it’s a beauty

blender thing i’m not very good at the

beauty stuff either i don’t know

anyway foundation is intended to make

your skin color appear

even foundation so it’s called

foundation because it’s like the base

the foundation

for the rest of your makeup so the

foundation is the

kind of the basis so once your skin

color is all

correct and the same then the other

parts we can fix the other parts that’s

my theory anyway

in a sentence there are a few different

types of foundation

all right the next expression is blush

blush is usually applied on your cheeks

and it’s like a

pink or red color it gives the

appearance of

blushing so when we feel embarrassed or

maybe we feel excited

our cheeks might turn red so blush

is makeup which creates that effect of

blushing this is usually a pink or red

color

to simulate to make it look like you’re

blushing even if you’re not really

in a sentence do you wear blush the next

expression is

bronzer bronzer so we talked about blush

which is supposed to give your skin the

appearance of being pink or blushing

bronzer gives skin the appearance of

being

more bronze or more tan so you can apply

this maybe in summer and it makes your

skin look a little more

tan which you might like other people

also may use bronzer to create

shadows because it makes the skin a

little bit darker

in the places where it’s applied so

there are a few different ways to use

bronzer in a sentence bronzer is nice in

summer

the next word is face wash face wash so

this is a

special soap that’s for your face

specifically for the face

maybe your face is very sensitive or you

have some

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

specific

wash you use for your face only in a

sentence

a good face wash is important for clear

skin

oh the next word oh the dreaded i have a

couple words here that are maybe

problems all of us deal with the first

kind of problem word on this list is

acne acne is an uncountable noun

acne refers to usually this is this

a problem happens for like teenagers or

people around that age but adults can

also

have acne acne is like imperfections in

the skin sometimes they’re itchy or

they’re painful red

bumps on your skin or maybe they’re not

painful but they’re just

blotches or a number of different ways

that acne

can can be an issue which we’ll talk

about in the next word too but acne is

an uncountable noun

is just about that problem skin problem

in general acne bad acne in a sentence i

had

acne when i was a teenager so the next

word for today there are two words here

there’s pimple and zit

these are both words we use to refer to

the

individual parts of acne acne we can say

i have

bad acne or maybe my acne is improving

today

but acne is maybe the whole condition of

your face

like everything your face is situation

each part

each one of those little uh problem

spots we

we call that a pimple or a zit the

difference

pimple sounds a little bit smaller

usually zit

sounds a bit bigger and maybe maybe more

painful

so but either way pimples and zits are

both

words we can use to describe acne so in

a sentence

i hate getting pimples 10 words you can

use to talk about

hygiene or cleanliness so let’s begin

to wash your hands the first expression

is to wash your hands to wash your hands

is with soap and water

in the restroom somewhere so wash your

hands before

cooking or wash your hands after using

the toilet

for example in a sentence wash your

hands after using the bathroom

to shower the next expression is to

shower

to shower or to shower or maybe you

prefer to take a bath

so to shower is usually standing up

though you can do it sitting down

depending on the country you live in i

suppose to shower is that

yeah the water just hits you

continuously

to take a bath is you sit in the bathtub

you sit down and you are surrounded by

water

that is a bath surrounded by one

sitting down surrounded by water in your

home on purpose

is a bath if it’s not on purpose

you should probably call a plumber

because that is not a bath that is an

emergency

all right uh in a sentence i shower

every day or i love taking a bath every

once in a while

to brush your teeth the next expression

is to brush

your teeth to brush your teeth so with a

toothbrush

usually in the morning maybe at night as

well you brush your teeth you clean your

teeth

uh in a sentence make sure to brush your

teeth

in the morning to style your hair uh

the next expression is to style your

hair

to style your hair means to to arrange

or to fix

your hair the way you like it so today i

styled my hair like this you styled your

hair like that eyes

tomorrow maybe i’ll style my hair in a

ponytail

i probably won’t maybe you can

put your you can style your hair in a

mohawk

or in a fauxhawk or in a bouffant

bouffant

that’s that focus oh yeah it’s focusing

yeah

that’s a bouffant all right so to style

your hair

uh in a sentence it takes a long time to

style my hair that’s true

my hair is naturally explosive and so i

have to straighten it before like

everything and then as soon as humidity

gets it

it goes it makes that sound too

to shave the next expression is to

shave to shave is to remove hair like

if you’re a man here usually uh to

remove the hair

here with a razor with another like a a

blade of some kind or maybe you remove

body hair or hair on your legs whatever

you we use the verb to shave to shave

with a razor in a sentence shaving is a

pain

for sure meaning shaving is troublesome

soap or cleanser

the next word is soap or cleanser so

soap is

just used to clean your skin or

yeah to clean your face maybe to clean

your hands we do not use

soap for the stuff you use to clean your

teeth soap is used for

like body cleaner or maybe um

what you use to wash your clothes so

soap or a

body cleanser in a sentence i like nice

smelling soaps and cleansers

that is true who does not deodorant

the next word is deodorant deodorant so

deodorant is

the product you might put on your body

prevent unpleasant smell so usually

it goes in this region so this is called

the armpit this region so arm

and then pit so like yeah kind of this

cavish area in your arm we call the

armpit

but it’s common to apply deodorant here

you might put it

in other areas on your body but the goal

to prevent bad smells or

to in some cases just stop sweating

completely

so this is deodorant well deodorant

actually if i’m going to be strict here

deodorant

is used to stop unpleasant smells

antiperspirant is used to prevent

sweating so

perspirant comes from perspire

so to perspire means to sweat anti means

not

or stop so an anti-perspirant is a

product to make you

stop sweating so deodorant is the smell

one antiperspirant

is the sweat one sometimes you can buy a

deodorant and antiperspirant together

great in a sentence wearing deodorant is

important especially in summer

mouthwash the next word is mouthwash

mouthwash

i hope is easy to understand it’s wash

it’s

something to clean the inside of your

mouth so

uh you can use this like

in the morning maybe after you brush

your teeth or after lunch maybe to keep

your breath

uh smelling fresh but

it usually is in like a blue or a green

or maybe an orange

color and kind of has a minty or citrusy

taste

but you put it in your mouth and kind of

swish like

i don’t know i can’t swish nothing you

swish it around in your mouth

and then spit it out and that’s

mouthwash so you’ve washed your mouth

with this product in a sentence i like

minty mouthwash

toothpaste the next word is toothpaste

so toothpaste we do not say like tooth

soap or tooth cleaner or whatever

we use tooth paste for uh the

product to clean our teeth the product

we use to brush our teeth is called

tooth paste uh so in a sentence

i need to buy more toothpaste shampoo

and conditioner

the next expression is shampoo and

conditioner so

shampoo and conditioner are commonly

used together

in the shower or in the bath maybe

shampoo usually comes first we shampoo

shampoo is soap for your hair really and

then conditioner is a treatment for your

hair conditioner

is used to make your hair feel softer or

moisturized so often times they’re used

for shampoo

and then conditioner together as a set

so in a sentence i like trying new

shampoos and conditioners

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gossip let’s go oh my god

so the first phrase is

oh my god so so oh my god

so is a introductory phrase you can use

start your topic with like a surprise

factor so you say oh my god

and then so is your transition phrase so

for example oh my god so i have to tell

you about this movie i saw or

oh my god so i saw my neighbor in the

shopping mall this morning or

oh my god so did you see my new dog

it’s kind of a weird one usually it’s

about a person not about a dog but who

knows

you won’t believe what happened to me

the other day

the next expression is you won’t believe

what happened to me the other day

you won’t believe what happened to me

the other day

meaning something happened to you

and you think it’s going to be a

surprise

to the person listening to you you won’t

believe what happened to me the other

day

so it’s a very fast phrase because

it sounds like you want to share very

quickly like you won’t believe what

happened to me

you can drop the other day if you want

or you said you can say you won’t

believe what happened to me this morning

you won’t believe what happened to me

last night you won’t believe what

happened to me this weekend you won’t

believe what happened to me over my

winter vacation so that you won’t

believe what happened to me gets very

very quick

and short so examples uh you won’t

believe what happened to me the other

day

i ran into my ex-boss or you won’t

believe what happened to me the other

day

i tripped and fell down a flight of

stairs or

uh you won’t believe what happened to me

the other day i got

a new parrot

sure i don’t know maybe one of you can

use that

guess what the next phrase is very short

the next phrase is like an exclamation

so an excited statement and a question

guess what guess what so

guess what is inviting the listener to

guess what happened to you

guess what the full question would be

guess what happened or guess what

happened to me

but we only say guess what so guess what

and sometimes the listener guesses

and sometimes the listener just says

what usually the listener just says

what uh as so meaning you should

continue the story

so if you say guess what i quit my job

guess what i saw my best friend

with a new guy i haven’t seen before

another example uh guess what i got a

new car

something like that so some kind of

shocking like

um difficult to guess situation

i haven’t told you about this yet the

next expression is

i haven’t told you about this yet i

haven’t

told you about this yet so have not

becomes

haven’t i haven’t told you about this

yet so maybe you’ve told you have told

other people but this specific person

maybe you have not told that person your

news or some information

yet but this yet implies

you are planning to or you want to tell

them this so

it’s it’s kind of creates a little

suspense i haven’t told you about this

yet

so we could use this like i haven’t told

you about this yet i’m going to france

next summer or i haven’t told you about

this yet but i broke up with my

boyfriend last night

or i haven’t told you about this yet but

i’m throwing a big party for my

co-worker this weekend can you come

other examples i haven’t told you about

this yet i saw my boss

out for dinner with someone who’s not

his wife oh my god that’s not true

that’s not true or i haven’t told you

about this yet

i heard that the company is gonna

go bankrupt also not true

okay so those are some pretty juicy

juicy gossip that’s an expression we use

we say

juicy gossip is something that’s like

really really

interesting gossip or really interesting

story about people we say

juicy gossip for that have you heard

about

the next expression is have you heard

about blah blah blah

have you heard about can be followed

with a noun phrase have you heard about

a person you can use a person or have

you heard about

a situation you can use both uh you can

use a

an object too so have you heard about

the new iphone or have you heard about

the new

office policies um you can use that

um for pretty much anything you want to

inform your listener about

so have you heard about is usually said

very quickly

have you heard about so the u becomes

shortened to

yeah have you heard about have you heard

about blah blah blah

so have you heard about the new

secretary have you heard about

our new boss or have you heard about my

co-worker quitting his job

have you heard about the neighbors above

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

maybe this can be for gossip maybe it

can just be

like a story something interesting or

maybe boring

that happened to you the expression is

so the other day

so the other day so the other day

the other day here means not today some

other day

which day it doesn’t really matter it’s

not really important but we say

the other day someday in the past this

expression is used for

so we can say so the other day i was

sitting at my desk in the office when my

manager

came and asked if he could speak to me

or so the other day i was shopping and i

ran into my ex-boyfriend

or so the other day i was renting a car

and the former president

of the united states came into the car

rental shop

what all right so the other day just

some day

in the past so i was talking with

and the next one you can use

um maybe for gossip sometimes but also

you can use for making plans

it’s so i was talking with someone

and blah blah blah so i was talking with

someone means you were having a

conversation

at another time with a person and you

want to

kind of report information or share

something from that conversation

with the person listening now so

i might say so i was talking with risa

and i think that we should plan a party

for this weekend what do you think

so i was talking with my

team about this and i think that we

should make some changes

so that’s a very kind of everyday work

situation

use of this phrase um but you can also

use it for gossip like

so i was talking to my best friend and i

think i’m gonna move

or i was talking to my parents and i

think

it’s best if we break up oh so it can be

for plans it can be for gossip it can be

for just

any conversation plus a report

what’s up with the next expression is

kind of a little like mysterious

then the expression is what’s up with

blah blah blah

usually what’s up with person for gossip

meaning there’s like the nuance here is

there’s some

problem or it seems like something’s

wrong with this person they’re unhappy

they’re sad they’re angry uh

some kind of negative emotion we use

this so it’s like

what’s up with stevens i haven’t heard

from him lately what’s up with your

brother he seems really upset or what’s

up with your

neighbor why is he so noisy or what’s up

with your

boss he’s so strict so it sounds like

there’s some problem we usually use this

intonation what’s up with

what’s up with to introduce somebody who

has a problem we don’t say

what’s up it’s not that it’s not that

sort of hello

um expression it’s a it’s an expression

for a problem

you can also use a noun phrase that is

not a person here like

what’s up with this new office policy or

what’s up with this new rule at work or

what’s up with this new item on the menu

at this restaurant it’s super weird

so what’s up with blah blah blah has

sort of a negative nuance you can use it

for people

to talk about strange behavior what’s up

with

you have you heard from

lately the next expression is have you

heard from blah blah blah

lately have you heard from person lately

have you heard from stevens lately

i haven’t seen him have you heard from

your mom lately have you heard from your

dad lately have you heard from your

brother lately

have you heard from your landlord lately

i don’t know why you hear from your

landlord but

have you heard from someone lately there

is sort of an ex

like a little bit of an expectation that

you

are in contact with the person involved

in this sentence like you have some

relationship maybe it’s a family

relationship romantic relationship

professional relationship

there’s some relationship with this

person and

lately it’s like have you heard from

them recently

lately in the last few days in the last

few weeks

so you can use this if for example you

are

looking for someone or you’re worried

about someone you can use this here

you can also use it just just to check

in about some other person

without asking that person directly so

like if i want to ask about

i’m using risa in my example risa is our

japanese channel host

um if i want to ask about how risa is

but i don’t want to ask risa i know

maybe she’s busy or i don’t know for

some reason i

it’s difficult to talk to her i can ask

like my co-worker i can say

hey have you heard from risa lately it

seems she’s really busy or have you

heard from so and so lately it seems

they’re busy

so if i want to ask about another person

but i don’t want to bother this person

or that something makes it difficult

i can use have you heard from blah blah

blah recently or

lately to ask about them very useful

phrase

i have to tell you about next expression

um ah the next expression is i have to

tell you about

blah blah blah i have to tell you so

have to becomes

have to i have to tell you about has a

nice

sound i have to tell you about blah blah

blah or i have to tell you about

something so i have to tell you about my

weekend i have to tell you about stevens

i have to tell you about my mom i have

to tell you about my boyfriend i should

tell you about my girlfriend

whatever it is some person used at the

end of this sentence

creates a nuance like there’s exciting

news about that person

or i have to tell you about this thing

that happened you can use a situation at

the end of the sentence too

but you’re using i have to at the

beginning of this sentence

so that sounds like it’s really

important like i feel

it’s so important it’s my responsibility

to tell you because

this is so exciting of course you can

use this in more boring situations as

well like i have to tell you about the

new office policy

you can use it in that way with a very

flat intonation

but for gossip purposes use i have to

tell you about

that sounds really good so what do you

have to tell somebody about

i have to tell you about this new idea i

have for a business or

i have to tell you about what happened

to me last night okay

so there are these really exciting ways

that we can introduce

things that happened or that we can talk

about people or whatever

okay ten words for talking about space

planet the first word is planet planet

so planets are those

really really big things that we have in

our solar system now there are

officially eight because pluto is no

longer considered a planet

in my example sentence pluto used to be

considered a planet

star the next word is star

star so stars are those very very bright

objects that you can see

in the sky sometimes at night the

closest star to us

is the sun the sun is a star and we can

see a lot of other stars if we look up

into the night sky

sometimes in a sentence it’s hard to see

stars from big

cities solar system the next expression

is solar system solar system so solar

system in our case here on planet earth

refers to the system of planets and

objects

which are near our star so our solar

system now there are eight planets in

our solar system

used to be nine planets sorry again

pluto eight planets in our solar system

and then we can talk about other objects

which maybe

enter our solar system like like

comets for example or a meteor or

some other events might happen in space

within our solar

system so our solar system is the area

surrounding our sun and our planets that

we know of

in a sentence mercury is part of our

solar system

comet the next expression is comet a

comet is actually an icy body

that is uh slightly melting and then

releasing gases so that’s what produces

that look

a comment okay in a sentence comets are

really cool

meteor oh right so yes the next word is

meteor

meteor or just meteor so essentially

meteors are different from comets

because comets are made of ice

meteors however are made of rock so

these are two different kinds of objects

that can

that move around in space in a sentence

lots of meteors burn up before they pass

through the atmosphere

meteorite the next word is meteorite

meteorite so this is an important

distinction that many

people don’t know about actually this

drives me crazy too so a meteor is the

is the space rock it’s in space or it’s

in the atmosphere

a meteorite however is the rock if

if the meteor makes it if the meteor can

pass through the earth’s atmosphere

and fall to the surface of the earth

that rock then is called a meteorite

so in space in the atmosphere it’s a

meteor

when it falls to earth it is a meteorite

that becomes a meteorite when it hits

the earth

so fun facts okay that’s the difference

between the

two in a sentence have you ever seen a

meteorite

supernova supernova supernova so

the explosion of a star is a huge event

a supernova is the name of it so the

star explodes

and that’s what we call it it’s called a

supernova a star

explosion in a sentence supernovas must

incredible things black hole ah

alright the next expression is black

hole black hole black holes are the

subject of a lot of study

they have intense gravitational pull so

meaning they have

very strong gravity black holes will

pull other objects into them

it is said that like uh time stops in a

black hole or and like if you

get too close to a black hole if you get

too close to the event horizon of a

black hole you yourself will be pulled

into that hole too

it’s pretty crazy so like the event

horizon is the point at which um there’s

there’s no turning back from like you

can’t you can’t escape

essentially the gravitational pull of a

black hole once you’re within the event

horizon

of that space it’s like crazy you’re

done for

all this kind of stuff so interesting so

in a sentence

black holes are mysterious galaxy

okay uh all right so the next word is

galaxy galaxy before we talked about the

expression

solar system uh so solar system is kind

of our

region of space the region we’re

familiar with but

the next step up so if you think of the

solar system as kind of your

neighborhood a little bit

you could think of maybe the galaxy as

like your

city or your country maybe it’s sort of

the next step out

so a galaxy is made up of lots and lots

of stars maybe other planets

other solar systems many other solar

systems in one

galaxy so i think yeah we belong to the

milky way galaxy

i believe in a sentence our galaxy is

made of lots of different stars and

planets

earth the next expression is earth

earth earth is our planet earth is the

planet we live on

earth is yeah habitable meaning humans

can live here

this word i included it in this

vocabulary list because it is a very

good word to practice your pronunciation

it is the word

earth earth that r and the th sound

can be difficult to pronounce together

er f

earth so this is a great word to use to

practice your pronunciation

earth so in a sentence our planet is

called

earth ten words for talking about sleep

let’s go to wake up

the first word is to wake up to wake up

is to open your eyes probably in your

bed or the place where you are sleeping

to wake up

is to uh to become

conscious to become awake every day you

wake

up uh presumably hopefully in a sentence

i woke up three times last night

to get up to get out of bed all right

the next word is to get

up or to get out of bed so that means

to physically move your body from your

bed

out of bed to stand up from your bed to

get

out of your bed we say to get up or to

get out of bed

in a sentence i got up at eight o’clock

this morning

to snooze the next word is to snooze

so we have to snooze and alarm and also

to snooze

so to snooze means to take a short sleep

to have a short

sleeping time or to snooze an alarm

is when your alarm goes off in the

morning

you have a button most alarm clocks have

some button

you can press so the alarm will turn on

again in like you know

five or ten minutes or something so to

snooze an alarm is to

like to ask your alarm to wake you up

again

a few minutes later that’s uh to snooze

so we have to snooze an alarm

and two snooze meaning like a short

light sleep

in a sentence i always snooze my alarm

at least

once that is usually true to oversleep

the next word is to over sleep to

oversleep means to sleep too much or to

sleep

late actually no it doesn’t mean to

sleep late

to sleep late means just to sleep until

a late

time in the day over sleep means

sleeping

beyond the time you wanted to get up so

for example

if my alarm is set for eight o’clock

but i wake up at nine o’clock i

overslept

i slept beyond my wake-up time so we can

use oversleep to talk about

times when you sleep too much you sleep

more than your body needs you to so

maybe your body needs

depending on the person like six to nine

hours or so

but if you sleep like 14 hours we can

say that’s over

sleeping you’re sleeping too much that’s

the nuance here

in a sentence i overslept on my first

day of work

nap the next word is nap nap is a

short sleep so a nap is maybe 30 minutes

one hour just a

short sleep a short rest so a lot of

people

will take a nap in the afternoon for

example or maybe

children actually take naps for example

in preschool or when they’re very very

young they have an afternoon nap a short

sleep like

yeah just like an hour or so i imagine

in a sentence

i love naps actually i do like naps i

don’t like naps because when i take a

nap

it becomes a sleep it’s always like i

wake up four hours later and i’m like

okay well i’ve destroyed my sleep

schedule

dream the next word is dream

dream so dreams are those those visions

those

images you see those maybe experiences

it seems like you have when you

are asleep in a sentence i always have

weird dreams nightmare

so the next word is nightmare nightmare

is a word which means

bad dream or scary dream negative dream

so uh children maybe have nightmares

a lot they wake up crying or they’re

really upset by nightmares monsters

uh terrifying things happening and so on

in a sentence

do you ever have nightmares to go to bed

the next word is to go to bed so before

we talked about to get up or to get out

of bed this is the opposite to go to bed

means to get in your bed

to to try to go to sleep to go to bed

in a sentence i usually go to bed fairly

late

to hit the hay to hit the sack the next

expression

is kind of a s i don’t know a slang

expression uh we have to hit the hay

and to hit the sack these both mean to

go to bed

um they both mean to try to fall asleep

but

we just use them in more casual

situations the image here of hit the hay

is with your body

hitting hay like laying down in hay

i believe historically because uh hay

was used to stuff

um things that people slept on so that’s

why

we have this expression to hit the hay

with your body

same thing for to hit the sack so a sack

full of something

soft to sleep on uh is where this

expression comes from in a sentence i

think i’m gonna hit the hay to fall

asleep

the next expression it is to fall asleep

to fall asleep you’re

in bed and you finally you lose

consciousness you

you stop being aware you are asleep in

that moment we say

you fall asleep in a sentence it takes

me a long time to fall asleep

all right want to speak real english

from your first lesson

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top 10 must know prepositions and

conjunctions for english learners

let’s get started two two

i threw the ball to my dad

two is sort of directional it’s saying

that it’s going towards something

i wrote a letter to my mother

i went to the mall i

went to the park my mom asked me to go

to the store

to buy some bread to a destination

to a person from

from from is the opposite of two

from implies where it’s coming from the

place of

origin so if i’m going to the mall

i’m coming from my house this letter

is from my daughter from

how long does it take you to get from

your house

to your job to and from

they go together with with

with it means together with something

i am at the movies with my friend i went

out to eat

with my friends i go

shopping with my boyfriend with

means you are together with something

i like to have grilled cheese with

tomatoes on it i’m here with my book

at at is a very short word

i always go to bed at 11 o’clock if i’m

lucky i usually go to bed

at around 1 in the morning unfortunately

i get very little sleep

at specifies a time or a place

let’s go to the movies at two in the

afternoon

um i’m at home right now where are you

we decided to meet at the beach

it’s a pinpoint of time or location

in in in

means you are inside of something or

in the middle of something it means

being immersed in something

i am in bed right now the cat is

in the box uh the child is in the tree

the plane is in the sky i

graduated school in 2019

in on on

i left the book on my desk

on means on top of i like

ketchup on my fries so that means my

french fries are here and i like to put

ketchup on them the man

is on the roof the car is on the street

the motorcycle is on my nerves

but but i think i remember her name

but i’m not sure but is a way to add a

negative

to a sentence so for example

i really love eating cake but

i don’t eat it often because it’s not

healthy

i’d love to go to the movies with you

but

i have too much work to do i really

like you but i don’t want to date you

and and and is a very

common word you will hear all the time

it’s a way

of adding on a new subject

or thing to your sentence i love

candy and pizza i’m hungry

and i’m tired my friend moved to spain

and i moved to canada i love playing

outside

and i love being inside and is a way to

add on

a new subject or thing to what you’re

talking about

so so i have a toothache

so i went to the dentist so is a way of

adding an example another way to say

because of this i did this

you say something and then you add so

and then what follows is the effect so

there’s the cause

so the effect so i was feeling very

hungry

so i had some pizza this video is going

to be pizza themed everyone

apparently i was really tired so i took

a nap

i was in the mood for some adventure so

i got on an airplane

and flew to mexico that sounds nice

or or or is a way of presenting a choice

so for example you can either have

pizza or you can have candy

i don’t know if i should go to the

movies

or if i should go to the mall which

color do you like better

red or green it presents

differences of choice today’s video is

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

we overuse we use too often so let’s

start

uh oh the first word is definitely

definitely

is definitely a word that americans

overuse we use it to

put emphasis at the end of a phrase to

put emphasis at the end of a sentence

as in oh that party last week was so

great

yeah definitely or to agree with

somebody like that

uh oh god literally oh

just in the last few days i’ve seen the

word literally

so many times on the internet and used

in just such stupid ways

the word literally uh means

actually or truly something this is

literally the best hamburger i’ve ever

eaten

so literally meaning truly or actually

would mean that in that person’s entire

life that is the best hamburger they’ve

ever eaten

however it gets misused a lot in

sentences

like george bush was literally

supporting the war in iraq or something

like that taking a phrase like that

literally would have to mean that you

know the president former president

would be

you know physically supporting a war

with his body

onward onward hilarious

hilarious is the next word i like to use

the word hilarious when something is

actually funny

hilarious of course means something that

is really funny super funny

it’s a step above funny maybe two steps

three steps i don’t know

however people like to use this word in

place of laughter

so for example friends are talking and

instead of just

laughing the friend will say that’s

hilarious

well if it’s so hilarious just laugh oh

this must be the last one

because this is the worst one this word

is like

um i’ve probably said it several times

already today for the for the purposes

of this video

the word like is used as a filler word

so it’s the same as

something such as um or

uh or hmm for example we use like

as a filler word when we’re trying to

think of something

it’s not uncommon to hear the word

repeated like three

four five times in a row when someone is

thinking

they’ll say oh you know that party that

i went to like

like uh like uh like do you know who was

there

it just invades your speech sometimes

when you’re trying to think of something

and no other filler words come out but

the word like does

ah this wasn’t the last word there is

another one

seriously seriously is used

oh it’s good for any time you receive

bad news

um well not from your boss it’s a really

casual word

um but if you hear something um like

your friend lost their job

and you can sympathize with them or

maybe empathize with them by saying

seriously oh that’s too bad or oh tell

like all your problems oh my god i just

use like oh

god oh i hate myself want to speed up

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