HOW TO USE ENGLISH SLANG PROPERLY

let me ask you a quick question have you

ever been in a situation where someone

starts speaking in English and then you

have no idea what they’re saying I can

probably guarantee that they use some

English slang well that’s why I created

today’s lesson I’m gonna teach you how

to properly use English slang are you

ready

well I’m teacher Tiffany let’s jump

right in alright so for today’s lesson

we are going to look at two groups of

slang alright so the first group is

right here now you’ll notice that I

included some images that’s because I

like to offer you some triggers that you

can remember you can use these triggers

to remember the slang so here we go

let’s start with the first slang term

ear full now real quick for the

pronunciation after me ear full that’s

right front teeth bottom lip ear full

you got it

alright now what does this actually mean

this is a prolonged amount of talking

typically an angry reprimand lots of

news or gossip so real quick let me

explain this to you right now I am

explaining this lesson to you and you’re

listening intently right hopefully

you’re enjoying it so far but I want you

to imagine when you were a child maybe

your mom or your dad they like to talk

and maybe you got in trouble and you

came home and your mom said what

happened you said sorry mom my friends

and I got in trouble and then for the

next 20 minutes your mom proceeded to I

told you not to do that you better not

ever do that when I’m not around you and

on and on and on so again she spoke for

a long period of time

you got an earful kind of makes sense

all right so let’s look at the example

sentence here we go the teacher gave her

student an earful makes sense right that

means the teacher went on and on when

she

talking to the student alright okay now

let’s look at the second one the second

slang term is elbow grease elbow grease

trust me I got you now let me explain

what elbow grease actually is it refers

to hard physical work especially

vigorous work applied physical a

vigorous applied physical labor or

effort alright so let’s think about it

like this let’s say you have a huge

project that you’re working on let’s say

you know what you want to build

something that’s gonna go in your room

or your office so you have to use nails

and hammers and wood and it takes a lot

of effort to build this that’s a

bookcase that you want to build so

you’re putting a lot of hard physical

work so building the bookcase requires a

lot of elbow grease that’s how we use it

all right

so let’s look at another example another

example this project needs some elbow

grease so now whenever you hear an

American or another native English

speaker use this slang term you will

understand that they’re not referring to

their elbow and grease they’re actually

referring to physical work and putting

in lots of effort

have you ever had to use physical hard

work or physical labor to accomplish a

goal again remember in the comments

section I always want you guys to

comment so you can participate in the

lesson so again have you ever had to use

elbow grease to finish a project let me

know in the comments section all right

okay let’s move on to the next one all

right now our next legging term is fab

real easy right fab all right now fab is

a really easy one

it just means fabulous wonderful or an

expression of approval or enthusiasm so

again it’s the shortened form of

fabulous so you are fabulous or you are

fab make sense so it’s a slang term but

it really is a shortened form of that

word so whenever something is

wonderful or awesome or amazing you can

say that’s fab all right now let’s see

the example sentence here we go

that dress looks fab so let’s say for

example somebody comes up to you and

they have a beautiful dress on or a

beautiful outfit you say whoo that looks

fab yes make sense all right now let’s

keep going here we go the next one is

flick now I want to pause really quickly

because the pronunciation may be a

little bit tricky here we go

flick there you go front teeth bottom

lip and then immediately your tongue for

the L sound needs to touch the roof of

your mouth here we go flick flick

excellent job very good now what is a

flick I’m going to tell you all right so

the word flick this slang literally

means a movie that’s right very simple

so we can say there was a popular flick

playing at the cinema this weekend or in

other words there was a popular movie

playing at the cinema or the movie

theater this weekend makes sense all

right so let’s go get another one you’re

learning a lot in this lesson here we go

here’s next one fluke

again another FL combination so after me

fluke come on now you’re doing a great

job

after we again fluke excellent job now

what does this term mean fluke what is

this a good outcome stemming more from

luck than skill or an unexpected stroke

of good luck

so like the lady in the picture look at

the picture really quickly she has her

hands up like I don’t know what happened

so let’s say for example you suddenly

win the lottery but you never did

anything you never play the numbers

somebody actually just gave you a ticket

and said hey I don’t need this ticket

anymore you can have it if you like you

take the ticket and suddenly when you’re

watching the television your number gets

call

and you win lots of money I didn’t do

anything that was a fluke

make sense all right good so let’s see

the example right here it says it was a

fluke to find that money on the ground

think about whenever you’ve been walking

maybe in the parking lot or walking

around somewhere in a park and you

suddenly oh oh I see some money and you

pick it up you don’t know where it came

from it was a fluke kind of makes sense

all right now we’ve learned five very

useful slang terms so far but there’s

something that happens when you learn

slang now we’re not done because we have

a second group we’re gonna look at but

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all right so here we go now the next

group is right here and you see we have

a different group of images so here’s

the first image and the word is flunk so

again we have another F L so again flunk

there you go one more time one more time

here we go

flunk excellent now what does flunk

actually mean what does this slang term

mean so here we go

it means to fail a course courses or an

exam alright so I want you to think

about when you were in school or you may

still be in school and you studied

really hard but unfortunately you didn’t

get a good grade on a test or you didn’t

study and you were a rebel and you

failed your exams and then you failed

the course instead of saying fail you

can say I flunked and that’s slang make

sense alright so let’s see another

example sentence here we go the student

did not study so he flunked his math

exam now you’re catching on right all

right let’s move on to our next slang

here we go

freebie we have a lot of F practice here

yo freebie one more time

freebie excellent so what word do you

see within this slang term freebie yeah

alright so this actually means something

for free something you get without

paying for it kind of like this video

this is a freebie I’m teaching you via

YouTube and you’re not paying anything

and I’m

happy to help you but if you want to

take your English to the next level

remember you can join my Academy all

right

but again freebie is something for free

now let’s see a sentence here we go one

successful marketing technique is to

offer a freebie if you try out the

service or buy the product make sense so

for example Cayley offered you a freebie

it kind of makes sense right alright

great so we have freebie now what’s the

next slang we have here we go the next

one is garbage garbage but you know that

way right garbage like trash but what

does the slang term garbage actually

mean let me tell you all right so this

actually means of poor quality so when

something does not have good quality so

for example I’ve shown you guys many

times I got a new phone and it has

really good features it’s really good

quality but my old phone was ah had kind

of not the best quality so I could say

uh it was garbage but this new one we

it’s awesome so let’s say a sentence

that uses this slang term garbage here

we go the items in the discount computer

store looked like garbage makes sense

right alright let’s see some more here

we go we’re really helping you improve

your slang so we have glitch now for

pronunciation after me glitch there you

go one more time

glitch excellent now glitch let me show

you what this word means a fault or

defect especially in computer software

all right now in the background you’re

gonna hear some things going on outside

but it’s okay you know this quarantine

has everyone working from home so

there’s a lot going on outside but we’re

just gonna enjoy the sound of someone

cutting their grass it’s reality okay

alright so we’re talking about glitz all

right so a fault or defect imagine that

you see what just happened now I was

acting but if there’s a glitch in

technology sometimes the person on the

screen can jump or their words don’t

sound right that’s a glitch make sense

all right so let’s see an example

sentence here we go the computer

technician fixed the glitch in the

program and now it works perfectly okay

kind of makes sense all right so let’s

keep going now we have this one right

here goof off or goof around so after me

goof off

lots of f-words goof off excellent goof

around there you go

goof around yeah you got it

now what does this mean to goof off or

goof around so this refers to wasting

time or playing around imagine there are

students in a classroom again I told you

I I’ve taught many kids as well and

sometimes kids like to play instead of

focusing so I remember teaching some

students in Korea and they were middle

school students and you know it’s it’s

in the afternoon and you kind of are

tired so the students wanted to play and

I said hey guys stop goofing around and

let’s study make sense all right so

let’s look at this sentence right here

the little boy always goofed around even

when it was time to work makes sense

right all right so we had goof off or

goof around now we learned so many

different slang terms today but remember

I mentioned you can’t just learn it you

need to learn it and also practice it so

we looked at two different groups today

now I do have a third group which comes

in part two but again part two of my

lesson is always offered in my Academy

for my Academy students so if you’d like

to watch part two and learn even more

slang terms and how to use them you need

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that will lead you to my Academy and you

can become one of my students don’t

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I really hope you enjoyed this les

and I hope you realized how important it

is to understand slang and how to use it

properly thank you so much guys for

joining me for today’s lesson I truly

enjoyed teaching you and I look forward

to seeing you next week

but as always remember to speak English

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it’s story time

hey I said a storytime alright y’all so

for today’s story I’m actually gonna

tell you something related to slang so

this happened when I was working in

South Korea so I had a class and my

students were advanced English speakers

that means their English was at a high

level and they could understand when I

spoke to them in class so we’d have a

great time in class and many times the

students would say teacher it’s so easy

to understand you and I said yeah and

I’m glad I speak clear enough for you

now they had never heard me mmm I guess

switch the way I spoke so anyways one

day after class you know we had a great

class good time I said okay guys I’ll

see you tomorrow have a good evening and

we all walked out of the class together

now when I got to the hallway

one of my friends walked up the steps

now he is he’s Canadian but he’s after

African American Canadian American but

he’s a black guy so we saw each other

and without even realizing my students

were near me I switched the way I spoke

because again I was not in teacher mode

so I saw him I was like do was good

homeboy how you do it and we continued

to speak using slang we did not realize

that all of my students had stopped and

they were looking at me in amazement

back and forth from me to him so he and

I were just talking laughing joking and

we both stopped and look at them we said

whoa what’s wrong the student said

teacher we have no idea what you just

said so I started laughing and I

realized ah even though they spoke

English very well the moment I started

using slang and changed the way I was

speaking they couldn’t understand me and

at that moment I realized even more how

important is for you students just like

you to learn slang you don’t have to

necessarily use it but you need to know

what certain slang terms mean and how

they’re used in certain situations

because my students felt like they were

improving but as soon as they heard me

they were shocked like teacher how can

we not understand you does that mean our

English is not good no it doesn’t mean

that it just means that you have to

learn some slang so we had a great laugh

and I think after that I started

teaching them a little bit of slang so

that they could understand when I did

switch and speak to my other friends so

we had a good laugh it was really fun so

I wonder if you ever had that situation

have you ever experienced a time where

someone who is a native English speaker

suddenly switched and started using

slang and you had no idea what they were

saying if so let me know in the comment

section again remember guys if you want

to continue learning English slang all

you have to do is follow me on Instagram

I teach slang every day but if you want

to watch part two of this lesson don’t

forget to go to the Academy and you can

watch part two guys I hope you enjoyed

and I will see you next week bye bye