45 Useful Expressions to Sound Friendly in English

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come on the first word first phrase is

come on come on is a phrase that’s used

to encourage other people like let’s go

to the party come on or you could also

use it with downward intonation as in

come on when you feel upset about

something someone has stopped in front

of you in the middle of the street and

you’re trying to walk but they they just

don’t move you can say come on though

don’t say that out loud maybe because

they might get upset with you come on

over that’s a good one yeah come on over

to my house or come on over to the

barbecue this weekend it’s gonna be a

good time so you can use it as part of

its separate phrase as well not just by

itself believe the next word is belief

belief is used a verb it’s a verb when

you trust in something or that you feel

that you know that something exists or

something is possible or something is

capable many people use it as in like I

believe in you to show that they think

that the other person or the other group

of people is capable of doing something

or people use it for their faith as well

like I believe in God or I don’t believe

in God for something that youth you have

your faith in and another person or in

religion whatever that might be

consistency consistency is a noun the

consistency of a liquid can be really

thick or kind of thin or you can also

use consistency to talk about something

that’s important that you need when

you’re studying a language for example

consistency so consistency refers to

doing the same thing the same way over

and over and over again studying

everyday or making a habit out of

studying creating consistency in your

study patterns will really help you in

learning another language or watch our

videos every week we’re consistent

friend-friend that’s good I’m glad that

that was a word that was chosen from the

Facebook thing friend yeah so someone

that you feel close to or someone that

you get along really well with is your

friend mmm in a sentence I went out

drinking with my friends yesterday and

that was a bad idea

friend also can be used for the people

who follow you or the people who you’re

connected to on social media so your

Facebook friends maybe Twitter you can

have Twitter

friends maybe Instagram friends people

that you haven’t actually met but that

you somehow have a connection with

online people are now calling them your

friends but whether or not they’re true

friends remains to be seen what is a

true friend a true friend is someone who

you can tell all your things - and they

won’t judge you for it

gatecrash this this gatecrash means to

go to an event without having been

invited to the event I’ve also heard

just crash I haven’t heard it with gate

but I just heard crash isn’t to crash a

party so in a sentence

I once crashed a house party hmm I

wasn’t invited but someone somehow we

had a connection and we just showed up

and had a good time but usually gate

crashes are perceived as they’re very

unwelcome like you shouldn’t be there

great great is just a positive word how

are you I’m great

oh how was that movie it was great any

time that you want to express some sort

of positivity you could use the word

great right you’re great Eileen pizza is

pretty great

I haven’t eaten beads in a while pizza I

don’t know I love the phrase I don’t

know I talked about this phrase in one

of the English topics videos that we did

with Michael we’ll check that out if you

haven’t already I don’t know of course

is used when you do not know information

you don’t know the answer your teacher

asks you a question in math class or

something and you can say I don’t know

for I have no ideas so you can use it in

this way but I like to use I don’t know

a lot to transition in my speech when I

don’t have a good idea or when I’m out

of things to say and I want to kind of

pass the conversation to the next person

I go I don’t know I don’t know you can

use this when you’re trying to make a

decision for example and you kind of

want to encourage the other person to

like help make the decision so one

person might say what do you want to do

and you can say I don’t know what do you

want to do I don’t know what do you want

to do and eventually somebody has to

make the decision but you can kind of

pass back and forth with I don’t know I

don’t know in this sort of soft way

never mind

yeah never mind means don’t worry about

it or maybe like stop thinking about

that I don’t need to think about that

anymore never mind like you want to move

on in the conversation you can say never

mind are you making embarrassing comment

never mind

what is happening there was there’s like

a creaky cracky thing happening

nevermind oh I just used it nevermind no

it wasn’t on purpose so I just use

nevermind that was pretty good passion

passion passion refers to something that

you feel very strongly about positively

usually so you can feel passion for your

studies you can feel passion for your

hobby you can feel passion for your

family or your friend I think we use

passion more so to talk about like a

love relationship of a romantic

relationship so you could say I have

passion for my wife I have passion for

my husband or like I have passion for

this hobby that I do it’s a really

positive word so in a sentence let’s see

I think a relationship should be full of

passion I have passion for music I do I

have passion for music I’m constantly

listening to music from the moment I

wake up in the morning I literally have

headphones in in my bed and I’m

listening to my latest the latest new

things on my soundcloud stream that’s

true sparkler why did you guys pick

spark sparkler a sparkler is a small

firework like a handheld firework that

you can use like a fourth of July you

light one end of it and it kind of makes

that sound to it cuz it kind of burns

and you can write stuff and if you take

a picture with a like a long time err on

the camera or whatever you can spell out

boobs one of my favorite things to do on

the 4th of July in America is to light

sparklers with my family and friends you

win the first phrase is you win you win

if you hear the phrase you win it means

you have won something you are probably

going to receive something for free whoo

that’s a very happy thing right you want

to give free things congratulations you

win a car

yay here are the keys to your new car

great thank you and I brought you

something special this is exciting to

hear because it means this little

something special is I call I thought

only of you so I brought you this I

brought you something special

really thank you I miss you I miss you I

miss you is nice you can use this with

your friends your family members your

partner whoever I miss you shows that

you want to meet the other person

probably you

haven’t you haven’t seen them as much as

you would like to so you can say I miss

you I miss you call your husband or wife

or boyfriend girlfriend whoever on the

phone maybe you haven’t seen them for a

long time you can say I miss you I miss

you too

take a break I’ll do the cleaning today

take a break I’ll do the cleaning today

this means someone else is going to

clean up your house for you or clean up

something for you I would be very happy

to hear this phrase right now because my

apartment is a disaster because I am

only there to sleep so maybe you’ve had

a long day at work or a long day doing

something you come home and somebody

else has offered to do this for you so

take a break I’ll do the cleaning today

and you can reply really thank you so

much I’m gonna relax the budget is

unlimited the next phrase that you

always want to hear is the budget is

unlimited the budget is unlimited this

could be at work this could be a budget

a personal budget maybe but it just

means there’s no limit to the budget you

can spend as much money as you want very

exciting so let’s see in a business

context perhaps you have this new client

who’s going to give you a lot of money

to build a new house or something maybe

you’re building houses that’s your

project your boss comes to you the

budget for this project is unlimited

really let’s go crazy there’ll be a

bonus at the end of the month yeah this

is a phrase that you probably are very

excited to hear it means you are going

to receive extra money from your job at

the end of the month woohoo very

exciting extra money maybe you’ll hear

this from your boss or your manager or

maybe your coworker at work maybe you

see it in an email there’ll be a bonus

at the end of the month really I’m gonna

use mine to buy a new car really I’m

gonna use mine to go out on a date

really I’m gonna use mine to get a new

fish you did a great job you did a great

job you did a great job it’s something

you’ll probably hear from well I don’t

know you could hear this from pretty

much anybody any time you’ve done a good

job someone will congratulate you or

tell you their opinion with this phrase

you did a great job you finished a

project at work and your boss says you

did a great job nice thank you so much

it was really fun or thank you just just

say thank you you look great today you

look great

today the other person thinks that your

physical appearance is nice today don’t

think about that today part you know

just just just take the compliment

oh really thank you so much you look

great today oh thank you so much I got a

new haircut thank you so much i i got

enough sleep yeah you were right you

were right

this means that something that you said

in the past was correct and it everybody

likes to be correct I think I saw that

movie that you recommended you were

right it was really good

oh good I’m glad you enjoyed it don’t be

like I know or yeah I knew I was right

don’t do that just say oh good I’m glad

you’re an excellent cook

you’re an excellent cook this is a nice

compliment especially for someone who

enjoys cooking if you say you’re an

excellent cook it means you enjoyed

their food so let’s see at a dinner

party for example you’re an excellent

cook this food is delicious oh thank you

so much I’m really glad you enjoyed it

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I love your cooking this is my personal

favorite compliment oh my god I love

cooking like I’m always posting like

pictures of things that I cooked on

Twitter I’m just like crazy about food

so this would be a compliment that I

would love to get like the ultimate

compliment for me that would be will you

make my birthday cake that would be such

a compliment like it’s a question but

it’s it there’s so much behind that will

you make my birthday cake you would give

that to me so maybe after you can use

this after a meal for example I love

your cooking and the other person will

be like

next is great job great job this is a

compliment that you can use anytime you

can use it to your with your friend with

your not with your boss your boss might

use it with you an employee a co-worker

or colleague pet even whatever it’s it’s

just a very small scale very easy to use

compliment it means you think whatever

has just happened is good I use great

job all the time I use great job and I

use good job sometimes when I make a

mistake or something funny happens and

I’m alone at my house and I want to make

fun of myself I’ll be like yeah great

job Alicia but if I’m if I’m trying to

be positive about a failure or laugh at

myself a bit but in general it’s just a

good easy compliment to give someone

great job you have a way with words you

have a way with words this can be

speaking this can be writing it means

you think that the other person is a

good communicator or maybe even more so

than just a good communicator you think

that the way they speak or the way that

they write is particularly good so that

could mean funny it could mean romantic

it could mean dramatic something about

the way they speak or the way that they

write you really enjoy that you can say

you have a way with words it’s quite a

nice compliment I think it’s kind of

like a you know it’s smart it’s a bit of

a smart thing you have a way with words

or you can say you’re good with words

you’re really good with words

yeah all right next one you look

gorgeous

you look gorgeous very nice compliment

to give just be very careful with the

way that you say this for an everyday

compliment I tend not to say you look

nice

or you look gorgeous today or something

like that because the underlying comment

there is on the other days that person

doesn’t look nice like so if I want to

compliment someone’s appearance I try to

pick a specific thing I’m like oh I’ve

never seen you wear that sweater before

it looks nice on you something like that

like yesterday my friend had a new dress

on and like is that a new dress and

because I thought she looked nice I was

but I didn’t I didn’t want to make it

sound like I don’t think she looks nice

day so I said is that a new dress and

she goes yeah and I said I think that

color is really really nice on you it

looks really good and she was so happy

about that so yes there there are these

compliments like you look nice you look

great you look gorgeous and so on but I

personally kind of prefer to level them

up a little bit and just say pick a

specific thing like did you get a new

haircut did you dye your hair or you did

you get something

did something happen like what whatever

it is try to pick up on a specific thing

because then that shows you’re paying

attention to the other person and you

think that whatever they have chosen to

do whatever like clothing or whatever

haircut whatever it is you think that

they have good sense there too or good

style so it’s kind of like a double it’s

a very subtle double compliment yeah the

next word is you have good tastes you

have good taste this can be for food

fashion style for decorating sense music

in movies whatever if you think that

that person’s artistic selection is in

whatever capacity if you think that that

person makes good choices with their

their appearance or their hobbies or

whatever you can say you have good taste

this is a fairly sophisticated

compliment I think we use you have good

taste for something like it’s it sounds

a bit more sophisticated maybe if you

both choose the same bottle of wine

perhaps like it has kind of a more

formal adult dish sophisticated feeling

about it this compliment so yeah maybe

maybe wine is a good example of that

yeah oh nice bottle choice like I really

like that you have good taste you can

follow this by the way you have good

taste

in blah blah blah you have good taste in

movies you have good taste in music if

you want to be specific about something

that you think that person is really

good at choosing you have good taste in

now okay okay um next one is you have a

great sense of humor you have a great

sense of humor this is the this is the

underlying compliment in the phrase you

are so funny

this is the underlying compliment you

have a great sense of humor means the

other person thinks you are funny that

you are good at telling jokes or

make them laugh this is actually one of

my favorite compliments to get you have

a great sense of humor yeah because I

think that like you know people like to

laugh so it’s an it’s an if someone

makes you laugh you can say this you

have a great sense of humor or you’re

very funny yeah it’s a good one it’s a

really good one

so you could say after a joke for

example or after maybe you’ve you’re you

finished laughing it’s something the

other person has said you can say ah you

have a great sense of humor good next

one is your resume is impressive

this is a weird compliment to say to

your friends unless you’re like

reviewing your friends resume it’s a bit

weird this is something that perhaps

someone interviewing another person for

a job would say the candidate comes in

for the interview the interviewer says

why your resume is very impressive I’d

like to ask you a few questions about it

so this is good to hear in a work

situation yeah you really probably won’t

need to use this with your friends if

you do it’s kind of weird

oh wow this next one is quite a

compliment nobody’s ever said this yeah

to be fair if somebody said this next

one to me I would feel a little bit of

like pressure the compliment here is you

make me want to be a better person this

is something that I think you see in

movies from time to time pers yeah I’ve

had I had one person say like like oh

that something you did inspired me and

that was like really like wow that was

really exciting like somebody was

inspired by something like wow that’s

great I want to be like you that’s a

really cool compliment but if someone

says you want to make me be a better

person it’s like oh wow like that means

I’m really important to that person

which is really flattering but at the

same time if someone said that I would

also be like if it’s like my friend I

would be like but I want you to be you

like I think you’re a cool person

already yeah it’s like oh you make me

want to be a better person like in that

person’s viewpoint you’re like somehow

above them and that’s uncomfortable

yeah just I would rather say you inspire

me I think that that or like this thing

that you

really inspired me like if somebody said

like I saw that picture that she posted

on Twitter of that pizza today Alicia

and it really inspired me and I made my

own pizza I’d be like yay Oh next one is

nice actually I say this to my friends

quite a bit you are an awesome friend

this is really really good to use after

your friend has helped you with

something maybe you’re moving to a new

apartment or new house or maybe you’ve

had some trouble and your friend gave

you some good advice or your friend just

listened to you when you really needed

to talk to someone after that experience

you could say thanks so much you were an

awesome friend or maybe your friend did

something really really cool and you

just want to like tell them like I think

you’re really awesome just say you are

an awesome friend they’ll be happy to

hear that or just you can abbreviate it

• you are awesome not just you’re an

awesome friend just you are awesome

you’re a cool person you are awesome

you’re fantastic you are an awesome ring

you’re an awesome friend compliments

that I want to hear quite honestly I

feel that the any physical appearance

compliment is sort of boring to me

honestly when people yeah really I’m

just like okay great that I didn’t do

anything to be have this body or face or

whatever it’s just it’s like okay that

doesn’t mean anything like what are we

gonna do with that it’s like if you’re

one if you want to compliment somebody I

feel like you should compliment them on

their skills something that they have

done or something that they have created

or something about their personality

that is valuable to you I think that

that’s a much better compliment so for

me I like this is delicious because I

love cooking so when somebody tells me

this is so good like when they say it in

just that right way and you can tell

that it’s real if you can tell that it’s

true I’m just like yes when people go oh

my god this is so good like I’ve cooked

something really really well they say oh

my god amazing or I want to eat your

food that sort of thing when people say

that I’m just like yes like that makes

me so so happy because it’s something

like that’s one of my favorite things to

do it’s a skill and it’s something like

I’ve worked hard to try to do well so

when someone compliments me on that I

get really excited

would you like to go out to dinner with

me okay the first phrase is would you

like to go out to dinner with me this is

a pretty typical invitation I think you

can use would you go out for lunch with

me is okay - or would you like to get a

coffee with me as well if you invite

someone out for breakfast it’s a little

weird I feel like I don’t think I would

say to someone like I’m making a bomb

would you like to go out for breakfast

sometime it’s just not really something

you would say you know would you like to

go out to dinner with me sure sounds

great

are you free this weekend are you free

this weekend

are you free free means are your is your

schedule free do you have an open

schedule this weekend

very nice very casual as well so are you

free this weekend yeah I’ve got some

time what’s up would you like to hang

out with me the next phrase is would you

like to hang out with me that sounds a

little too formal to me if it were me I

would just say do you want to hang out

do you want to get together that’s a

little bit more natural so do you want

to hang out this weekend yeah sure let’s

catch a movie you’re so cute I’m gonna

preface this by saying I don’t say this

okay the next phrase is you’re so cute I

never say this maybe I’m just cold it’s

typically said with downward intonation

people say you’re so cute you’re so cute

kind of going down like that you can

also use this as a compliment

people like parents will say this or

grandparents will say those two children

in the family so you’re so cute thank

you I suppose is what you say you look

great

ah next one is a much better compliment

I think much more sincere it is you look

great you look great maybe you’re going

out for dinner or something nice your

partner looks really nice you can say

you look great oh thank you I had a

great time the next one is I had a great

time I had a great time so this isn’t

what this is an expression you use after

your date you go out for dinner you

spend some time together

and you have fun you can say I had a

great time so the interaction might be

thanks so much for tonight I had a

great time me too let’s get together

again soon I’ll call you next expression

is I’ll call you I’ll call you so again

probably used after the date to show how

you want to keep in touch later so one

person might say I’ll call you

sounds good I’ll Drive you home the next

one again used at the end of the date

after the date has finished I’ll Drive

you home

so maybe you live someplace where cars

are their normal or you drive for your

date’s

so you can say I’ll Drive you home

meaning I’ll take you home in my car so

in the situation maybe I’ll Drive you

home

okay thanks very much I don’t know why I

keep looking I have my date my date is

very tall like super tall like eight

feet okay can I see you again

okay the next expression again after the

date or maybe even like the day or two

after the day you could say can I see

you again or I want to see you again or

let’s get together again

meaning you had a nice time you want to

see that person again so you can say can

I see you again sure that would be great

shall we go somewhere else the next one

okay so maybe you’ve gone for dinner for

example with something with someone and

you want to suggest a different location

like let’s go for a drink after dinner

you can say should we go somewhere else

this says shall we go somewhere else I

would say do you want to go somewhere

else in this situation I say shall we go

somewhere else and I don’t think so I’m

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