REAL ENGLISH CONVERSATION Learn Real English From Real English Conversations Episode 2

hey you know that feeling you get when

you’re having a conversation with

someone in english that feeling of oh no

nervousness because you don’t know what

to say next you know when they ask you a

question and you understand it but you

just don’t know how to respond that

awkward silence

today’s lesson is going to help you

eliminate all of those feelings i’m

going to teach you how to master english

conversations are you ready

well then

i’m teacher tiffany let’s jump right in

so what we’re gonna do first is

look at a conversation i had with one of

my good friends we were talking about

art so i’m going to read the

conversation to you very quickly and

you’ll be able to read along then we’re

going to break down each piece of the

conversation so that i can help you do

the same thing like a native english

speaker so this is my friend her name is

ria

and i started the conversation off by

asking ria hey

do you think your environment affects

your creativity

as you can tell rhea thought about the

question she said

that’s a great question

i wholeheartedly believe that a person’s

environment greatly affects the artwork

they produce

for example when i was younger there

were plants all throughout my house my

mom had a green thumb so she loved

taking care of a variety of plants

well her love for plants affected my

environment and now i love taking

pictures of plants now tiff

i think your time in korea affected your

art too right

now i’m going to continue reading the

rest

but notice what my friend did she

answered and then she immediately asked

me a question as well

again this is part of mastering english

conversations and we’re going to break

this down even more so after she asked

me that question i responded yes totally

i i do want to say though

that it is amazing how much your

mother’s passion affected your passion i

honestly totally agree with your

thoughts on the power of an environment

rhea

my time in korea affected my art in so

many ways

before going to korea i mainly focused

on portraits

but after spending 10 years in korea i

now love to paint rocks and mountains

so you see

this is the first part of our

conversation and i asked a question she

responded and then asked me a question

and i responded but some very important

things happened in this first part of

the conversation so let’s break it down

in more detail all right so looking at

let’s go to the first part not the last

part the first part remember i asked her

a question i said hey ria

do you think your environment affects

your creativity you see

a conversation

always starts off with a specific topic

or question

and i asked her about creativity

i’m introducing the topic and i used a

question so remember when you’re trying

to master english conversations you need

to start it off with a certain topic or

a question about a certain topic

that was the start of our conversation

and now it was ria’s turn to respond

and ria’s response was very interesting

now in her response she had a few

expressions and words and i do want to

explain those words to you

but i want to start first with her

initial response

remember she said tiffany that’s a great

question

i wholeheartedly believe that a person’s

environment dot dot dot but wait she

said that’s a great

question

she responded to what i asked right hey

tiff i’m acknowledging your question and

saying you know what

that’s a great question

then she proceeded to give her

personal opinion she said i

wholeheartedly i completely believe that

a person’s environment greatly affects

the artwork they do so when you’re in a

conversation and someone asks you a

question you don’t just answer and stop

instead like ria you can say or give

your thoughts on that question she said

that’s a great question uh-huh that’s

very interesting

then she gave her opinion

in her opinion yes

an environment a person’s environment

greatly affects their artwork

now

sometimes you give an answer like that

and you stop

but you have to keep going watch what

rhea did she said

for example when i was younger

and she started to give an example story

to support her opinion you have to

remember this so

you give your opinion but then you have

to support it by giving something else

and you can give a story this is a great

way to keep a conversation going

when you tell a story like

story time right how much you guys like

story time at the end of this video

don’t miss it

it’s because the person can kind of

connect with what you’re saying they

learn more about you and it also will

lead to more questions which will keep

the conversation going so ria starts

giving a little bit of a personal

experience a personal story example of

her mom and she said her mom had a green

thumb

now let me explain to you really quickly

what a green thumb is here we go so in

english we say green thumb and this is

just

someone who has an unusual ability to

make plants grow many times people will

get plants and unfortunately they die

they don’t know how to take care of the

plants but

when a person is really good at taking

care of plants and helping them grow

even inside the house

we say they have a green thumb

rhea said her mom has a green thumb now

here’s an example sentence using this

expression my mom’s idiom my mom has a

green thumb very simple and easy to use

so ria mentioned that her mom has a

green thumb

now she said that her mom took care of a

variety of plants remember ria is still

in the third part

giving her example story in her response

she said a variety now what does this

word variety mean variety actually means

a number of different types of things

especially ones in the same general

category right so things that are in the

same general category they’re all plants

but they’re different types we have

tulips a flower we have um

other plants large small that are

different but they’re the same kind

category or a category i was surprised

example sentence i was surprised by the

variety of choices that were available

so in english we say variety so again as

ria was talking about her experience

giving her example story she said that

her mom who had a green thumb had a

variety of plants

now

her love for plants she continues

affected my environment

then she says her current situation

due to the story the example story she

told you now she’s explaining how that

story connects to the present day

she said

my mom’s love for plants affected her

environment and now she loves taking

pictures of plants so again ria

responded to my question she gave her

personal opinion then she gave a story

to connect it and then she said how that

story affects her right now in the

present time

and she ended by doing what

now tiff

i think your time in korea affected your

art too right

she ended with a question remember when

you’re trying to master english

conversations you have to remember it’s

like a tennis match back and forth back

and forth and the only natural way for

this to happen is to use questions and

answers back and forth so ria in her

response to my question she gave her

opinion but she supported it with an

interesting story which also will keep

the listeners attention conversation is

not just about the number of words you

can use it’s about your understanding of

the proper way to have a conversation in

english okay give my idea support my

idea

then make sure i connect with my

listener by asking him or her a question

all right so ria sends it back to me she

asks me a question and now it’s my turn

to respond

so i respond i say yes totally

that is

right here

an immediate answer i immediately

respond to the question i was asked

but i continue watch what i did

i do want to say though that it is

amazing how much your mother’s passion

speaking of rhea

affected your passion now what did i do

there

i actually

acknowledged the previous statement

i showed ria hey i was listening i’m not

just answering the question you asked me

i do want to show you that i enjoyed

your story i listened to your story and

i also heard your opinion

i did that by hey i answered yes i

totally totally agree what you’re saying

i totally believe that korea did affect

me but i want you to know that i was

also listening to you again

in a conversation when someone feels

like you are listening to them

they will want to continue the

conversation all right so i let her know

hey i was listening ria i understood

what you said and i also agree and it’s

amazing how much your mom’s passion

really affected you as well

so after letting her know that i was

paying attention i then state the part

that i agreed or disagreed with i said

ria i honestly

totally agree with your thoughts on the

power of an environment so again i’m

still acknowledging what rhea said i’m

letting her know i paid attention to

your story your example story and i also

paid attention to your opinion now i’m

letting you know if i agree or if i

don’t agree with it and i said i totally

agree

then

that’s when i continue now i do want to

explain totally agree really quickly so

in english when we say totally agree

it just means to fully agree

giving full agreement to the maximum

possible without any level or measure or

element of a disagreement hey

we’re on the same page

i totally agree with you but here’s an

example sentence

they totally agree with you so don’t

worry about it in english we say totally

agree now i want to continue with the

conversation breaking it down for you

all but i do want to say this

what we’re doing is we’re breaking down

english conversations right and i want

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we’re continuing with the conversation

now we’re going back to my response i

said i totally agree and you see that

portion of the conversation

then i continue giving more details

about my

personal experience i start talking

about

what happened what i was like before i

went to korea i said before going to

korea i mainly focused on portraits

which is true

but after spending 10 years in korea

i now love to paint rocks and mountains

and i actually want to show you some of

the paintings and how my paintings

changed over time but again the

important part is you’re seeing i

acknowledged what rhea said

then i continued by giving my experience

this is something with english

conversation that you must remember you

have to give your opinion but you also

have to support it with

a story or other information now

i’m scrolling through

this is one of my pieces this is an art

piece hold on one second that i did

before korea

this is one of my pieces from before

korea it’s a pencil drawing it’s

actually huge i just put it on my phone

i saved it to my instagram page

but after going to korea i started

focusing on painting mountains and this

mountains and rocks and nature this is a

small piece i did and it was some

mountain a mountain area in south korea

so you see

my artwork changed because my

environment changed and that’s what ria

and i were discussing but remember

acknowledging what she said

also saying what i agreed or disagreed

with and then giving my personal

experience again this is how a natural

english conversation flows so let’s keep

going now the second part of our

conversation is right here we continued

our conversation ria was talking to me

and i responded and ria responded to me

saying oh tiff

i love your new style

i always look at your paintings on your

instagram feed they are so nice

my response oh thank you so much

i’m looking forward to seeing more of

your artwork too

she responded yeah i’m actually planning

to take some pictures this weekend

i’ll shoot them to you when i finish

editing them or i’ll send them to you i

would love to know your thoughts on them

my response

sounds like a plan definitely i would

love to so you see this is the last part

of our conversation as we’re wrapping up

but we still have this natural flow back

and forth so let’s break this down so

ria said oh tiff i love your new style

she’s connecting to the example with a

personal example remember i said my new

style i changed because of my

environment now my friend ria actually

follows me on instagram so ria also sees

my paintings right there so she said hey

let me connect what you said by actually

showing you i also know that you’ve

changed you want to connect with what

the person said

then i respond thank you so much

i’m looking forward to seeing more of

your artwork too we’re still going back

and forth

back and forth so i responded to the

connection

she made and i also made a comment about

her

so remember when you’re in a

conversation you want to make sure

you’re listening closely so that you can

first respond to what they said to show

the connection and then make another

comment preferably about them

now after i did that what did she say

yeah actually i’m planning to take some

pictures this weekend she answered she

replied to what i said

and then she talked about her future

plans

i would love to know your thoughts on

them after i take the pictures we’re

still going back and forth connecting

letting each other know that we care

about what we think and what the other

person thinks as well

and i end it by saying

sounds like a plan that just means yep

sounds good that’s the final comment

related to the previous statement she

said tiff i’d love to know your thoughts

and i said hey sounds like a plan i’m

acknowledging that yes i will do that

and this is exactly how you have a

fluent english conversation a natural

english conversation like a native

english speaker i really hope you

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alright i will see you next week but as

always remember to speak english

you still there

you know what time it is come on sing it

with me it’s

story time

hey i said it’s story time

all right so today for story time

now i mentioned to you all again that i

enjoy drawing and painting i’ll try to

show some of my artwork here this is

some of my latest artwork hold on one

second let’s see if you all can see it

right here

where i put my artwork online so i like

to paint i like to draw and i just like

to express myself

creatively

but the thing is

i don’t have a lot of friends that are

interested in art they appreciate art

like they’ll see a picture and say wow

tiff we really like that picture but it

usually stops there they’re not as

interested as i am in art i love going

to art museums i can spend a full day at

an art museum staring at paintings

staring at drawings staring at

sculptures trying to understand what the

artist

was trying to convey the message

so i never really had another friend

that appreciated that level of

uh

art appreciation

that was until i went to korea one of my

closest friends i mean closest friends

like she married my student like we’re

very very close

when we were in korea i’ve talked about

her before angel if you’re watching hey

um her name is angel she’s korean um but

we were teachers together at the english

institute i worked at in korea samyuk

ohagwan

samyuk institute that was in korean um

and

we were friends but we hadn’t gotten

close just yet that was until we

realized we both loved art so we used to

go to cafes every sunday and i told you

all about how we used to spend hours

sometimes in silence just drawing and

painting and we loved it

well

one year i was in korea it was around

christmas time it actually was christmas

and i wasn’t able to come home i had to

stay in korea i wasn’t with my family

and she and i spoke and we said hey well

why don’t we spend christmas together

this is before she got married um they

hadn’t even started dating yet so we

said okay well let’s go on a trip so we

went on a trip to

uh kind of a um

like a little hotel area it was kind of

they it was kind of um not a hotel was

like an apartment and they had it right

in front of the beach so it was really

nice and we said hey let’s just go and

draw and paint the whole time so that’s

exactly what we did we cooked we um

talked laughed a lot and then during the

day we just drew and paint all to paint

it all day but on christmas day we came

back to our house um my apartment and

she went to her we were about to go to

her apartment to drop her off and she

said tiff why don’t we hang out actually

for christmas day because we had hung

out prior like the days before christmas

and i said okay

i said well

what do you want to do because she cooks

well and i like to cook as well i can

cook well too so i said okay are we

going to cook all day or what we’re

going to do she said how do you feel

about painting all day we just came from

a trip where we painted all day and i

said

i love the idea and we literally painted

all day now we ate delicious food in the

evening but we painted all day and i can

remember as we were sitting in the floor

in my living room she was painting and i

was painting and we were listening to we

listened to sermons we listened to music

christmas music and i just said man it’s

amazing to have a friend that loves art

just as much as i do now that i’m back

in america

she’s in korea again uh husband baby

he’s so cute

but we both still talk about that like

man we miss being around each other to

go on these trips where we just paint

all day so one day again after uh things

are a little bit more safe a little

safer i’ll be able to travel to korea

and visit and we’ll do another painting

trip all right guys maybe you have

experienced the same thing you have a

friend that has the same interest as you

and you have a wonderful time together

let us know about it in the comment

section alright guys i hope you enjoyed

today’s story time and learned a little

bit more about me i’ll see you next time