50 English Phrases to Use in a Conversation

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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

I brought you something special this is

exciting to hear because it means this

little something special as 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 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

whew 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 whoo-hoo

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 is 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 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 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 in 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

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 but I didn’t I

didn’t want to make it sound like I

don’t think she looks nice every 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 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 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

you make them laugh this is actually one

of my favorite compliments to get you

have a great sense of humor

um 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 um 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 you make me want

to be a better person this is something

that I think you see in movies from time

to time 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’d 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 did really inspired me like if

somebody said like I saw that picture

that she posted on Twitter of that pizza

today Alisha and it really inspired me

and I made my own pizza I’d be like yeah

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 friend 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 hi everybody and welcome back to

top words my name is Alisha and today

we’re going to be talking about 10 ways

to ask for help help me help me ask for

help let’s go

can you can you bah bah blah so can you

give me that pen can you turn off the

fan can you give me a sandwich for lunch

I forgot mine in this sentence can you

send me your email address so very

simple requests you can use can you blah

blah blah

with them could you give me a hand with

the next expression is could you give me

a hand with blah blah blah meaning I

need you like I need physically I need

your hands to help me maybe or I need

something I need you to help me with

something could you give me a hand with

this computer could you give me a hand

with this furniture it’s you can use it

to talk about like moving something

heavy or

you can also use it for like a task like

could you give me a hand with this

report I don’t know this information so

you can use it for ya physical tasks or

for mental tasks too could you give me a

hand with something in the sentence

could you give me a hand moving this

sofa can you show me how to the next

expression is can you show me how to can

you show me how to bla bla bla this

means please teach me something so can

you please show me how to use this

computer can you show me how to use this

software can you show me how to book a

ticket so these are all ways to ask for

help with how to do something this is a

very useful expression I think can you

help me out with the next expression is

can you help me out with can you help me

out with something

so before we talked about can you give

me a hand with this is very similar can

you help me out with some tasks you can

use it for physical activities or mental

activities here so can you help me out

with this project can you help me out

with cleaning this house I don’t know in

this sentence can you help me out with

my homework

I need help the next expression is I

need help

bla bla bla so you can use the

expression I need help that’s fine but

if you want to be specific which I

recommend I need help

bla bla bla I need help with my homework

I need help doing the dishes I need help

cleaning the yard I need help something

something something very clear very

direct it’s a little bit casual I

suppose but yeah you can use this in

most situation where you need help the

sentence I need help making dinner

tonight

could you the next expression is could

you so the first expression we saw in

this lesson was can you you can also use

could you Timmy could you sounds a

little bit more formal than can you so

can you love wha is it’s a good kind of

neutral

every day way to ask for help could you

sounds just a little bit more polite a

little bit more formal so could you

please send me that file could you

please stop smoking here in this

expression could you send me the project

files will you so the next expression is

will you so this is used kind of for

light maybe you just thought of

something you just thought of something

you need help with so it’s probably a

small task or a small favor that you

need so for example will you get some

milk at the store on your way home it’s

like something you just thought of for

the future so will you help me with my

homework will you give me a moment of

your time it’s something very small very

quick so in this sentence will you let

me know when you’re free want to speak

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

nice to meet you you can only use this

the first time that you meet someone if

you say this to somebody after you have

met them already you’re going to see him

either a like you’ve completely

forgotten meeting them or be like you

are a very strange person for saying

it’s nice to meet you again so when you

use this the first time you can shake

hands with someone and say hello it’s

nice to meet you I love travelling you

are the kind of person who wants to go

to many different countries and you want

to be able to speak to the people in

those countries presumably

english-speaking countries you can say I

love travelling maybe 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 gonna sound really strange and

it’s gonna sound like you can’t make a

decision so use maybe very sparingly

don’t use it so often maybe is very

commonly used it’s a soft no it’s up to

you to figure that out among the people

that you’re talking to though can I try

this on is useful when you’re shopping

for clothes so you find something that

you’d like to try just ask the staff can

I try this on you can just say I want to

try this on if you like the neck

pattern is I feel like blah blah blah

you can use I feel like when you

introduce a suggestion or something that

you would like to do especially for food

drinks or activities so for example I

feel like coffee

I feel like Italian food I feel like an

action-movie there’s some activity or

something you would like to do at the

end of this pattern

I feel like bowling this afternoon

something needs to go here some sort of

activity of course you can use this

expression to talk about your feelings I

feel like something but this something

must be a noun it must be a noun like if

you feel really great I feel like a

million bucks for example if you feel

really bad I feel like garbage that’s a

nice expression that somehow it just

came out of my head anyway you can use

this in two ways but this must be

completed with a noun phrase at the end

of the sentence what did you say what

did you say if you couldn’t quite hear

something that someone else said you can

use this question to confirm sorry what

did you say it’s a little nicer than

just saying what what did you say or

what did you just say sorry what did you

say

I couldn’t hear you I enjoy many of my

students say what is your hobby but

that’s not something that native

speakers will say no native speakers say

what is your hobby instead we ask what

do you like to do or what do you do in

your free time this is a much more

natural question than what’s your hobby

the answer to this then is I enjoy or I

like plus a noun phrase so for example

what do you like to do I like listening

to music or I enjoy listening to music

what do you do in your free time I like

watching movies what are you do in your

free time I like baking cakes what do

you do in your free time I enjoy tap

dancing what do you do in your free time

I enjoy making new friends aaaghh I want

to speak to my partner’s family in their

language I want to speak to my partner’s

family in their language so maybe

you and your partner share a common

language and you can communicate

together but maybe your partner’s family

does not have that same common language

you maybe decide oh I want to learn some

of the language so that I can

communicate with my partner’s family

that might be a good reason to study 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 were 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

could we have the menu please if for

some reason you don’t receive a menu

when you come to the table you can again

just wave it a member of the staff and

say could we have the menu please where

are you from

the next word the next question is where

are you from this can refer to your

country or your city mmm but I feel like

problem or stuff and it refers to your

country so where are you from your

answer should be I’m from place I’m from

China I’m from Japan I’m from Vietnam

I’m from America whatever

I’m from absolutely absolutely means

100% yes exactly precisely definitely

it’s a quick and clear and can be polite

as well as casual word that means you

agree with the other person hey do you

want to go to the beach this weekend

yeah absolutely absolutely 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 uh-huh yeah we

know next word is want want what do you

want I want food how many coffees have

you ever wanted I wanted to go to the

dry cleaners this morning but I ran at a

time

that’s true where is the bathroom where

is the bathroom very important question

where is the bathroom

in American English where is the

bathroom or where is the restroom is

more common than where is the toilet

using the word toilet is a little bit

too direct in American English so I

recommend bathroom or restroom I’d like

to have a non-smoking seat please so

when you go to a restaurant you have an

option between smoking and non-smoking

sections the staff will say smoking or

non-smoking you can say I’d like to have

a non-smoking seat please quite honestly

though the most natural response is just

to say non-smoking I’m sorry is the next

word we’re gonna talk about I’m sorry is

used to apologize when you have made a

mistake or someone you know it’s 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

tell is the next verb tell me a story

tell me lies tell me sweet little life

tell me the truth the whole truth and

nothing but the truth I’m told that you

are an extremely good opera singer I’m

telling you to leave no lies every day

don’t tell lies the next word is place

place can be used to refer generally to

a location commonly to refer to friends

homes or apartments let’s go to your

place or can we have the party at your

place is a little bit more natural then

I want to go to your house is this the

train for blah blah blah or is this the

train that goes to blah blah blah to

confirm with someone that I’m indeed on

the correct train line if I say is this

the train bound for San Francisco you

can use that to check if you’re correct

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 like 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 you see you soon

seeya 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 is

very similar to see you soon but the

point is would see you 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 were 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

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