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movie theater right all right uh hi

everybody

my name is alicia welcome back to top

words today we’re going to be talking

about

must-know expressions for agreeing and

disagreeing very useful so let’s

go exactly exactly when you agree

100 with something someone else has said

you can say

exactly for example ramen is one of the

best foods in the world

exactly i don’t agree i don’t agree

you have a different opinion from the

other person they tell you

i think that soccer is the best sport

you can say i don’t agree

but be prepared to provide your own

opinion after this

i think soccer’s the best sport i don’t

agree i think that football is

oh that could cause some problems soccer

football

americans say football when we mean

american football but the rest of the

world says football when they mean

soccer

maybe maybe is when you don’t know when

you can’t make a decision or when you’re

not sure about something

okay so someone tosses you an opinion

someone says their

their idea to you i think it’s gonna

rain tomorrow you can say yeah maybe

you don’t know for sure yes or no but

it’s possible

it’s a good sort of in-between

expression but if you use

maybe all the time it’s going to sound

really strange and it’s going to sound

like you can’t make a decision

so use maybe very sparingly don’t use it

so often

maybe is very commonly used as a soft no

it’s up to you to figure that out among

the people that you’re talking to though

do you want to stay over my house this

weekend

and maybe i couldn’t agree with you more

you are in complete agreement with the

other person and

really want to communicate that to them

you think that what they have just said

is really really correct super correct

yes

you are completely on board with that

idea you can say i

couldn’t agree with you more i couldn’t

the negative form

i could not agree with you more meaning

it’s not

possible that i could agree more with

what you’re saying

next week it’s really important that we

have a barbecue

because summer is ending and then your

friend can say i couldn’t agree more

that’s a fantastic idea

i’ll buy steak

i think we’re going to have to agree to

disagree

agree to disagree this is a kind of it

seems like a simple phrase agree to

disagree

so you’re agreeing with the other person

you agree

that we have a different opinion agree

to

disagree i would use this expression at

the end of a discussion

so person a and person b have different

opinions

and they’ve been discussing those

opinions for a long time

and person a is not changing his or her

opinion person b

is not changing his or her opinion so

you can say at the end of the

conversation

okay we have to agree to disagree

let’s just accept our different opinions

and move on in the conversation

you have a point there this is not

necessarily an

agreement or disagreement phrase it’s a

small agreement

within a larger discussion so maybe

you’ve been discussing a topic for

a long time and you’ve disagreed with

the other person

until this this time this person says

something

and you agree with that ah you have a

point there so there’s one thing

that this person has said that you can

agree with you can say

you have a point there i think that’s

correct or i agree with that point

that’s exactly how i feel that’s exactly

how i feel

meaning my feeling is the same as your

feeling or my opinion is the same as

your opinion

that’s exactly how i feel maybe you can

use this if someone describes your

feeling very accurately

for example you can say i feel like the

company is really heading in a nice new

direction

you can say yeah that’s exactly how i

feel i really like the new boss

i don’t think so i don’t think so it’s

soft it’s not so direct it’s not a hard

i disagree but just i don’t think so of

course you can use it to discuss

opinions but you can also use it when

you’re making plans

are you going to that party this weekend

i don’t think so

it’s not a disagreement but it can be

used as a negation phrase and a negative

response to something when used as an

opinion i think

chinese is the hardest language to learn

you can say i don’t think so i think

that

arabic is the hardest language to learn

yes you’re right

yes you’re right means you’re correct

yes i agree with you

i think that’s the right information i

think that’s the correct opinion

just a very clear agreement phrase

you’re right

it also has the nuance of being correct

so maybe there was

there there was a possibility the other

person could be incorrect

did you know that pepperoni pizza is the

most delicious pizza

in the world yes you’re right you could

change it too that’s right for that

opinion

you can use your to talk specifically

about the person itself but

that’s right yes that’s right that

information is correct

i guess so i guess so it’s so it’s an

agreement but it’s sort of a flaky

agreement

i guess so it’s like you don’t really

want to make a decision

uh but you don’t feel strongly in one

like

in agreement or disagreement you can say

i guess so

it’s usually said with this tone of

voice i guess so

you know we don’t really say i guess so

generally it’s like you can’t quite make

a decision

or you don’t want to make a decision you

can say i guess so

hey we’re gonna go for chinese food for

dinner tonight do you want to come

yeah i guess so you don’t feel strongly

either way

i guess so i’m afraid i disagree it’s a

rather polite expression that you can

use in a business situation for example

i’m afraid here doesn’t mean i’m

actually scared or i’m really frightened

but just it’s a softener that’s used at

the beginning of sentences to introduce

a negative opinion so

i’m afraid i disagree or i’m afraid i

can’t agree with you

for example i think that you need to

adopt a new policy for your company

i’m afraid i disagree it’s a soft

disagreement that sounds a bit more

formal

than some of the other phrases we’ve

talked about so far absolutely

absolutely means 100

yes exactly precisely definitely it’s a

quick

and clear and can be polite as well as

casual

um word that means you agree with the

other person

hey do you want to go to the beach this

weekend yeah absolutely absolutely

oh that’s the end so those are some

phrases that you can use to agree and

disagree with other people there are a

lot of them so and you can kind of mix

and match them

as you see fit so give them a try thanks

very much for watching this episode

of top words and we’ll see you again

soon bye

fly is beach hi everybody my name is

alicia and today we’re going to be

talking about the top 25

english phrases so let’s get started the

first phrase is hello

hello of course is used as a greeting

you can greet your friends you can greet

your co-workers your family with this

phrase

just by saying hello hey hi what’s up

hello

sup yo pretty much any time of day you

can use hello

hello the next phrase is good morning

good morning is used as a greeting in

the morning you can kind of feel when

morning ends for you good morning is

nice and polite

or even just morning with your close

friends or close co-workers

the next phrase is good night good night

is fine we don’t use this

to greet other people we use it when

we’re saying goodbye to other people at

night

family members particularly mothers and

fathers to say good night to their

children before they put them to bed

you can say it to your friend in a text

message or in an email if you’ve been

talking for a while

good night so the next word to talk

about is goodbye

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 co-workers maybe even your boss to

a certain degree

uh how are you how you doing the next

phrase is i’m fine thanks

and you uh if you saw english in three

minutes we talked a lot about this

phrase uh instead of i’m fine thank you

and you say i’m good thanks how are you

just shorten it make it a little bit

more natural how are you

good how are you great how are you not

so good

how are you okay and so on so when

someone says how are you

offer i usually say i’m good this week i

blah blah 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

next i’m guessing i know it yep the next

word is no

no is a negative response to something

when you have to give a negative answer

so as you can probably guess um the long

form of no

is negative i like to use nope it’s very

very casual

not gonna happen my parents would use

that with me to soften that a little bit

if you want to show a negative

response to something like let’s go for

dinner tonight what do you want to do

like do you want to go out

uh not really no

i don’t think so to soften it the next

word is okay

okay this word comes from copy editors

okay when they had to check a manuscript

um they had to label the manuscript

all clear ac but because they were copy

editors and they have a very very sick

sense of humor

they thought they would mark it okay for

all clear to make a joke because o

and k do not start all and clear but it

caught on

among everybody in the world anyway

okay 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 going to 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 that plus a location so you can

use this

for a building or a store we don’t we’re

not going to use this where is the

for a place a city name or a state name

or a country name

to do that you would need to remove the

but where is the bank where is the post

office you can use this to ask

directions to ask for help

in your house or at work where is the

copy machine

where is the file i need where is the

blah blah blah

where is the bathroom is perhaps a very

important question to know

the next one is may i use the restroom

may i use the restroom is a polite

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

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 cu 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 uh so those are

25 very common words uh and phrases in

english

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oh interesting uh-huh okay i see great

fantastic

unbelievable gratitude subjects what are

we having for dinner tonight pizza

affirmative

a riff on that i am chris hardwick hi

everyone i’m bridget and welcome to

today’s lesson

today’s topic is 10 ways to say hello

in english good morning

good morning is the first thing you say

to someone when you see them

in the morning good morning sir would

you like a cup of coffee

good morning could i please get some

orange juice

good morning i’m still tired from the

night before

hello hello is the most common greeting

you’ll hear

that and hi hello is a polite

nice way to greet someone when you see

them hello

everyone says it you cannot go wrong

saying hello

hello can be used at any time of the day

no matter whether it’s

morning or at night or at 4 00 am

when you see someone you can say hello

and it will still be appropriate long

time no see long time

no see it’s not necessarily

grammatically correct

but it’s a saying that we have hey long

time no

see what it means is that you haven’t

seen that person

in a long time so it literally means

long time no see long time

no see is something you say to someone

when you haven’t seen them

in a while hey john

long time no see how are the wife and

kids

how have you been hey how have you been

i haven’t seen you in a long time how

have you been

is asking someone how they’re doing and

how they’ve been

for the past however long if you haven’t

seen them in a while you might say hey

long time no see how have you been

how have you been that’s past tense it

implies that you haven’t seen them in a

while

and you want to hear about how they are

and how they’ve been for all of that

time that you haven’t

seen them hey long time no see

how have you been how are you

how are you means how are you doing how

are you feeling how is everything

it’s a standard thing that you might say

to anyone

even if you’ve seen them the day before

you might see them today and say

hey how are you how’s it going

hey how’s it going how is it going

is a more informal way to say how

are you so how are you and how’s it

going

they mean the same thing it’s asking

how you are doing how you are feeling is

everything okay with you

what’s up what’s up is another way of

saying

hey how’s it going but this one is even

more

informal so you might say this to

friends hey what’s up

and they’ll say nothing just living my

life you know

day in and day out hey what’s up

hey what’s up good afternoon

good afternoon how are you would you

like some

lunch good afternoon is a polite way to

greet someone

in the afternoon so if you run into

your boss you might say good afternoon

it’s very nice it’s polite not a lot of

people say it to their friends

but it’s it’s a polite way to greet

someone

good evening good evening is a nice way

to greet someone in the evening time you

can only use this phrase

in the evening because it’s wishing

someone a good evening

it’s saying hello at a certain time of

day

good evening would you like some dinner

good evening have you eaten yet all of

my examples involve food it seems

it’s nice to meet you it’s nice to meet

you

this is something that’s very common to

say

the first time that you meet someone you

might shake their hand and say

hi it’s nice to meet you my name is

bridget

my name is it’s telling that person

that you are happy to be meeting them

it’s a pleasure

to meet them hi it’s nice to meet you

that brings us to the end of this lesson

10 ways to say

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for more english okay everybody shift

information has been posted for the

month

it looks like we’ll visit 25 cities in

30 days

do we normally visit 25 different cities

in one month

yes sometimes we visit even more

where’s our first stop charlotte

hey i have friends in charlotte it would

be nice to see them

good evening in room dining this is alex

how may i be of service

hello i would like to order some food

of course ma’am just to confirm this is

mrs rossen in room 417

yes it is excellent may i take your

order

yes i would like a turkey sandwich on a

parmesan bagel

and what to drink a diet coke

will there be anything else yes i would

also like a wake-up call for seven

my major is education how about you

i’m an english major cool

i like english oh and what’s oksana’s

major

she’s also an english major that’s nice

you can help each other study yep in

fact i need to meet her now so we can

study together

okay it was nice talking with you

you too see you later see ya

good evening ma’am may i have your first

and last names

melissa west thank you ma’am

i have found your reservation here’s the

registration information

does everything look correct to you

yes it seems to be correct excellent

now i will just need a photo id for

legal purposes

will my passport do that would be just

fine ma’am

checkout is between noon and two o’clock

you may request an extension of up to

five hours for your charge

what if i need more time then a late

charge of five percent will be added to

your bill

hey vicky did you forget our study date

at 10 this morning

i’m sorry naomi at 10 i was talking with

my professor and couldn’t get away

i’m sorry i should have called

that’s okay so how did the meeting go

with the professor

it went fine he gave me an extension on

my paper and i can still take the

midterm

how was your study group yesterday well

we were studying together during lunch

when i noticed an old friend of mine

from high school in the same cafe

my concentration quickly switched from

class to catching up with my friend

so i didn’t get much done you’ve taken

that class before right

yeah last semester i was always asking

questions in that class because it was

so difficult

well i was hoping that you could rent me

a hand with my paper

i can’t think of anything else to write

sure no problem that is if you can help

me study for our history test

sounds like a deal hi everybody welcome

back to top words my name is alicia and

today we’re going to be talking about 10

different phrases that you can use to

respond to the question

how are you so let’s go i’m great

the first phrase is i’m great if someone

says how are you

you can say i’m great try to say i’m

great with a kind of

an upbeat voice um so something like

how are you i’m great i’m feeling bad

i’m feeling bad if you say i’m feeling

bad the other person is probably if

they’re a friend of yours or a co-worker

going to ask you why what happened so if

you want to use i’m feeling bad

make sure you have an explanation ready

anyway somebody says how are you and you

go i’m feeling bad

maybe i went out for drinks last night

with my co-workers oops

i’m okay i’m okay i feel like this is

one of those intonation practice ones

i’m okay

with that ah i’m okay it’s like sort of

upward intonation you’re like

cool but if if someone says how are you

and you’re like i’m okay

they’re like oh no what happened

so you can use your intonation with i’m

okay to make it

a good thing or another good thing but

either way it’s not like a very super

serious response

thank you for asking yeah i imagine this

would be in a more

formal situation like if my friend said

to me how are you

and i was like thank you for asking

they’d be like

what i would say i’m fine or i’m doing

well

i’m doing great plus thank you for

asking so

how are you i’m doing very well thank

you

oh that’s how i would use it and you the

next one is

and you like the least natural response

to

how are you is i’m fine thank you and

you like just

get out of put it just take it out of

your head nobody says that

i always say how about you that’s a much

more natural thing

how are you how are you how are you can

be a response

again after you have given your answer

to the question

how are you i’m great how are you how

are you i’m good how are you

i’m great how are you i’m okay how are

you how have you been recently

how have you been recently this is only

useful if you haven’t

seen the other person for a while i’m

not bad

i’m not bad i’m not bad how are you i’m

not bad

i’m not bad things could be worse i

would probably do this

i’m sleepy the next expression is i’m

sleepy

it’s like so specific if someone said

how are you i would probably say

i’m okay but i’m a little sleepy

i don’t know that i would just say i’m

sleepy unless it’s a really good friend

of mine

it’s a person close to you you can say

i’m so tired i’m

i would say i’m super tired or i’m

really tired uh and i feel like that’s a

little bit more natural than just

i’m sleepy i’m good one that i use a lot

if someone says how are you

i say i’m good uh that’s just probably

my go-to response yeah i’m good i’m good

maybe i’ll repeat it while smiling i’m

good i’m good yeah thanks for asking

great

how are you that is the end those are 10

phrases that you can use to respond to

the question

how are you if there’s one takeaway from

this and from other things that we’ve

done

over the last few years in this channel

just get rid of that i’m fine thank you

and you

and pick one of these that we’ve talked

about today

of course if there’s another expression

that you use

for a response to how are you

i’d be very interested to learn about

that but

uh in general you’re pretty safe if you

stick with these i think so

thanks very much for watching this

episode of top words and we will see you

again

soon bye hi everybody welcome back to

top words my name is alicia and today

we’re going to be talking about the top

10

must-know vocabulary for restaurants so

let’s eat waiter the first word is

waiter

waiter or waitress or wait staff these

are the people who bring you your food

and take your orders

in a sentence your waiter will be with

you in a moment

menu the next word is menu menu is the

piece of paper or the document the thing

that’s on your table

or near your table that has a

description of all the food you can eat

at that restaurant

in a sentence can i have the menu please

order the next word is order order you

can use this as a noun or as a verb

you can say to order something or where

is my

order in a sentence i would like to

order two sticks

three hamburgers four beers a large

pizza

and a piece of chocolate cake to go to

my home

water the next word is waters in

american restaurants you usually get

water for free

i noticed when i traveled in europe you

had to pay for water at restaurants that

was interesting

in a sentence american restaurants

usually give you a glass of water

without having to ask

dessert the next word is dessert dessert

is

the sweet stuff the sweet course

all the sweet foods that come after the

main part of the meal

in a sentence can we see the dessert

menu chef

chef chef is the leader of the kitchen

the person that is cooking the food

in fancy restaurants the chef is like

the the one who is running

the operation the manager of everything

there are different levels of chef

in the kitchen in a sentence you can say

please give my compliments to the chef

fast food the next word is fast food

fast food is anything that’s quick

popular examples in america or

mcdonald’s burger king

subway taco bell kentucky fried chicken

jack-in-the-box

so those are all fast food restaurants

you get in and you get out very very

quickly

they don’t have a reputation for being

very healthy in a sentence

i try to eat fast food as rarely as

possible

bill the next word is bill you might

also hear

check bill and check mean the total of

your

meal how much your dining experience

cost you is the bill or the check a bill

comes before you have paid

a receipt is the piece of paper you get

after you have paid the receipt shows

confirms you have paid money the bill is

the request for money that’s the

difference between bill or check

and receipt in a sentence usually you

say can i have the bill please or can i

have the check

please delicious delicious delicious

means something that tastes good we have

many variations on delicious we say

delicious good

yum yummy fantastic great and so on

it’s kind of strange to me to say this

is delicious i usually just say this is

good or this is really good

something like that is a bit more

natural than delicious

in a sentence my dinner today was

delicious

main course main course it’s often like

a meat dish

actually like like roast something or i

don’t know

it’s also called the entree maybe it’s a

really fancy pasta dish in some cases i

don’t know in a sentence

for the main course our specials are

chicken and zucchini

and curry uh that’s the end so those are

10 words that you can use in a

restaurant i think they’re very useful

when traveling

actually so try to keep them in mind the

next time you go out to eat

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back to top words

today we’re going to talk about 10 ways

to stop

translating in your head let’s get

started identify objects around you in

english

the first way to stop translating in

your head is to identify the objects

around you

in your target language so if you’re

studying english that means

you look at the objects around the room

look at the things

in your life don’t think of them in your

native language first think of them in

your target language first

so if i look around the room i see a

computer i shouldn’t think

my native language word i should think

my target language word so

start with the items and the situations

in your everyday life

if i say computer in english maybe i

should say computa

in japanese i should say not i don’t

know

water in english i should say omizu in

japanese so

start associating the words in your

target

language with your everyday life now so

if you’re studying

english that means start getting

familiar with the things

in your everyday life in english

repeat phrases you hear native speakers

use tip number two is to repeat the

phrases that you hear

native speakers use so if you’re

watching this channel for example

or you’re watching a tv show or a movie

listen for the way that native speakers

make those phrases

if you hear a phrase you have never

heard before or you hear an interesting

combination of words

try to repeat them yourself don’t just

listen

try to say them yourself if you’re in a

public space and it’s difficult for you

to do that

fine practice in a place where you feel

more comfortable

maybe if you have some private space to

practice just repeat them get your mouth

used to saying the words the way that

the speakers

the native speakers do so if you never

actually say

words if you’re only taking in if you’re

only listening

and you’re not actually producing the

language it’s it’s kind of hard to

to practice and to to really hone your

pronunciation to improve your

pronunciation

so when you listen to native speakers

try to repeat

after them so for example if you’re

studying english

you can try to repeat after this video

you can repeat after the things

i’m saying because maybe i’m using an

expression or i’m using a certain

uh series of vocabulary words together

the way a native speaker would and it’s

maybe a good idea to try to practice the

ways that native speakers put their

words together so try to repeat

after native speakers especially when

you’re looking at media

and you can do this when you’re reading

books too you can try to read out

read out loud interesting lines of books

that you find or something that maybe is

difficult for you

very nice practice tip make a situation

where you can’t escape into your native

language

make a situation where you can’t escape

into your native language

essentially means immerse yourself of

course

going to that country or going to a

place where you

can speak only that language is very

difficult for some of you

totally understand but if in your life

you can create a situation in your

library in your room

in your house somewhere for just an hour

or i don’t know maybe a day i don’t know

what your schedule is like but

if you can create a situation or create

an environment where you have

no choice but to use that language

and you cannot escape meaning you cannot

go back to using your native language as

a crutch you can’t use the native

language at

all it forces you to use the language

that you’re studying

so of course if you are lucky enough to

live in the country or to

live in a place where people speak the

language you’re studying

great but you have to go out and

interact with people you have to put

yourself in a place

where you have no choice but to speak

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

it’s very embarrassing at first

but if you take time to find places and

to make environments that are

comfortable for you

where you feel comfortable making

mistakes and asking questions it’s very

valuable for your learning process this

is actually something that i did totally

i totally did this

my japanese wasn’t very good for a long

time

but then i started making friends who

could not speak

english actually i just did this through

finding hobbies there was a hobby that i

had

i joined a group i joined actually a

school to where i could learn how to do

that hobby

and everything was taught only in

japanese

and the people in my class only spoke

japanese mostly

and then maybe we would go 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 on great but i sometimes

find that

i can in my case i i think too much

about

reading the subtitles and i forget to

listen

so maybe if you’ve seen a movie in your

target language a few

times with the subtitles on

try turning the subtitles off and think

about

the like characters 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 um 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 uh 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 but the

closed captioning is in your target

language not in your native language so

you can try those two

things with tv and with movies

don’t bring a dictionary to your lesson

tip number five is don’t bring a

dictionary to your lesson

okay so give me a second here so i

understand the dictionaries

especially electronic dictionaries we

have them on our phones now

are very very convenient um of course

it’s important to use them and it’s a

they’re a great resource to have

however one thing that really bothers me

and that i think is detrimental it’s not

helpful for students is when 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 going to pull out your dictionary

and

sit there and try to communicate you

know just a moment just a moment

as you look up each word you don’t know

no or if you do that’s not a real

conversation

so instead try using a different

strategy

by that i mean if you find a word you

don’t know in conversation

explain the word to your conversation

partner

maybe they know the word if you’re

speaking with a native speaker this is a

chance for them to

teach you a word i find that when people

take the time

to teach me a word i remember the word

much

better than just looking it up on my

dictionary so

try to resist maybe you can bring a

dictionary to your lesson but

don’t use it or try not to use it in

your conversation practice it’s just

it destroys the flow of a conversation

so instead

practice the skill of describing the

vocabulary word you want to use

and learn how to ask the meaning of a

word or learn how to

ask for a vocabulary word from your

partner so

you can use an expression like ah what’s

the word that means blah blah blah

or um you know it’s this thing that does

this and this and this so

this is an opportunity for you to

describe characteristics of something or

find a different way you can use your

body language you can use

whatever you have a lot of tools but try

not to use a dictionary in a

conversation because it’s not realistic

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

haven’t quite

gotten the idea of how to respond just

yet

they they’re not so quick at responding

i say

uh hey how are you and they say yes and

then they think

and they go i’m uh i’m good

and it’s like that’s a very common

question so think about

just a default response that you can

spit out that you can quickly say

if it’s how was your weekend or hey

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

dinner tonight

think about like just a handful meaning

just a few

responses to those questions and train

them quickly just

how are you i’m good how are you i’m

okay how are you not bad

there’s three so it’s just training

responses to those questions there’s no

reason to be surprised by a question

like how are you

like that’s a very common question so

for those common questions

train responses to that we’ve got a

bunch of videos

especially beginner level videos for

some example responses you can do

so don’t get stuck with these little

questions just train a few responses

practice a few responses till they feel

natural to you it’ll save you time

and it’ll help the person asking the

question too to move forward in the

conversation

yay study with materials that don’t

provide a translation

the next tip is to study with materials

that don’t

provide a translation so by this i mean

if you’re using worksheets and or some

kind of textbook

or whatever and it has your target

language the language you’re studying

and it has your native language next to

it while this can be useful

i feel that if you can studying your

materials

only in your target language and then

simplified explanations for

more detailed points also in your target

language

can be a little bit better so i don’t

want to say like you should only study

things

in your target language and nothing from

your native language because of course

like it can be helpful sometimes to look

up a word or to understand a grammar

point in your native language

but where possible if you can find

something that provides

simplified explanations in your target

language it can be really really helpful

because again you’re thinking you’re

learning to think on like a simpler on a

more basic

level about the language you’re studying

in the language that you’re studying so

this can be really really good so

finding some materials to use

where there’s no translation maybe you

can practice

of course with with books and with

written materials

but also with like video materials as

well so

there are a variety of different ways

that you can

um find materials in your target

language

um 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

um 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

we can also use very simple vocabulary

and speak at a low rate of speech so

maybe right now this is a very

intermediate level video

so please think about that so not just

for

written materials but also for your

audio and visual materials think about

who your audience is the level of the

material and so on

it can be really fun 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 is mentally

confused or mixed up it could also mean

something really good it could mean

something really bad

so if we look only at the word crazy

it’s quite difficult to understand

really the meaning of the word

but if you look at the way the word is

used in a phrase you can get a lot more

information

so take a look at the way people use

words in phrases

not just 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

try to do some daily activities

in english if possible so this can be

very very boring stuff but just think

about it

when you’re doing the activity so like

right now i’m

filming a video for englishclass101.com

or

i’m going to work i’m cooking breakfast

i’m doing the laundry

what do i have to do tomorrow so try

thinking about your everyday

life in english if you’re studying

english try thinking about your everyday

activities the people that you meet

what are you doing so this is a way to

help you practice your verbs so if you

don’t know if you’re

i don’t know you’re doing something at

work and you’re like oh my gosh how do i

explain the what’s the verb for

you know a picture like i want to blah

blah a picture what’s the word

you can check a dictionary at that point

and go ah it’s draw

i i need to use the verb draw for draw a

picture

so you can find these little gaps in

your everyday life these little gaps in

your knowledge

if you think about your everyday

activities in your target language if

you don’t think about it in your target

language

you might not realize you have

vocabulary gaps or phrase gaps here and

there so this is a really good and kind

of funny

actually way to study use a learner’s

dictionary for new words

the last tip is to use a learner’s

dictionary for new words so in english

there are learners dictionaries

available in english so

my favorite my personal favorite is

merriam webster merriam-webster

is a fantastic dictionary resource

they’re so interesting and they have

tons of like historical information i

really do

just sit and like read things on the

dictionary page

lately it’s true but um

of course there’s a definition there’s a

meaning for words there are example

sentences for words but merriam-webster

also has what’s called a

learner’s dictionary if you find a word

that you don’t recognize you can check

it

in a dictionary in a learner’s

dictionary and it gives you a simplified

a simple explanation

in simple english of that word so

instead of checking it in your native

language you can check it in your target

language so again

this helps you to understand the word

that you are that you’re focused on but

you understand it

from um 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 so those are 10 tips those are

10

tips to help you stop translating in

your head i know it’s very difficult but

it’s it takes time and it takes practice

and i hope that these are

a few strategies that can help you as

you study

any language of course this is an

english language channel an english

language learning channel but i think

these tips are pretty good for learning

just about any language really so

i hope those are useful for you if you

have tried these strategies or if you

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