Learn Vocabulary Through Conversation EXPERIENCE Advanced English Lesson

hi i’m vanessa from speak english with

vanessa calm and I’m Dan and today we’re

gonna talk about the word experience

deeply hmm are you ready to get started

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learn three ways to use the word

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description the first way to use the

word experience well I don’t want to

tell you how to use it I’m gonna ask Dan

a question and we’re gonna see how he

uses it

alright so my first question is what is

something in your life that you want to

experience but you haven’t experienced

yet something I’d like to experience

yeah well someday I’d really like to

experience eating sushi in Japan oh I

would love that yeah I think that would

be a really awesome thing to experience

because when you eat sushi in America

it’s always frozen it’s sometimes it’s

pretty good but I just imagine that

eating sushi in Japan would be much more

authentic and delicious that would be a

great experience a wonderful experience

yes so in this example Dan used the word

experience as a verb he said I want to

experience eating sushi

so he used eating afterwards and

actually eating it looks like a verb but

it’s actually a verb changed into a noun

so we need to have a noun after

experience I want to experience eating

sushi I want to experience the movie and

that means you just want to enjoy the

movie see what it’s like I want to

experience something some noun directly

afterwards I think it’s probably most

common to use a verb changed into a noun

with ing I want to

experience driving a Ferrari yeah I want

to experience watching a movie watching

that movie hiking in the in Yosemite

National Park that would be amazing

yes so here is the first way using it as

a verb now for the second way we’re

gonna use it a little differently

so recently Dan joined a roller hockey

team and I want to know what’s it like

for you how has it been well it’s been a

really good experience so far yeah I’ve

got to join with teammates and have the

experience of playing together and

getting a lot of exercise at first I was

really really really tired so it was a

very tiring experience for the first

game and I thought to myself oh my gosh

will I be able to play a whole game but

after three or four games now I can

skate the whole time so yeah overall

I’ve had a very great experience and Dan

is using this as a verb phrase but

experience by itself is a noun and

experience but the whole phrase is have

an experience so Dan had a good

experience he had a tiring experience

yeah he had a bad experience

yeah and that just means the general

feeling of the activity yeah yeah so for

you it’s been pretty positive and maybe

you’ve gotten healthier more fit and

you’re having a good time meeting cool

people that sounds like a great

experience to be let’s talk about the

third way the final way to use the word

experience is gonna take it to the next

level and in this way we’re gonna be

talking about how to use it

sarcastically sarcastically sarcasm

sarcastic this word is a way to show

something that you’re trying to tell

someone without changing your words so

it’s your tone of voice your voice is

changing and it means that the thing

you’re saying is not really what you’re

saying

you actually mean usually the opposite

so if you’re eating a piece of cake and

someone says how is it you could say

it’s great and you can tell by my face

my tone of voice very good it means it’s

not good it means it’s awful so this is

a little exaggeration but you know in

the in general that’s what sarcasm is

you’re saying one thing but you mean the

opposite so we can use the word

experience to be sarcastic and it’s

pretty common it could be so I want to

know for you tell me about your high

school well what’s your high school like

Dan oh yeah high school high school was

quite the experience

yeah some may even say a good experience

really well why was it such an

experience well actually in reality it

was a very small school and not the it

didn’t have the best teachers let’s put

it that way

but you know if I wanted to be sarcastic

to somebody I could just say oh yeah

high school it was quite an experience

and the other people who he’s talking to

can understand that he means it wasn’t

that great so you can use this with your

tone of voice quite an experience I

think especially this full expression

quite an experience it was quite an

experience it’s kind of a little more

like a wave experience you can use your

face as well to show it’s not exactly

what you mean you’re trying to say the

opposite oh it’s quite an experience

yeah

so for me I could also say for another

example that on my birthday our car

broke down and that means our cars

stopped working we couldn’t go anywhere

and we had to stay exactly where we were

so someone could ask me oh how was your

birthday and I could say well it was

quite an experience and that kind of

means it was an adventure it wasn’t what

I planned

maybe it wasn’t perfect but it was

something that I learned from and I had

an experience but it’s sarcastic now

it’s your turn to use the word

experience yes let us know in the

comments what is something you want to

experience before you die

let’s read each other’s answers and

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