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most people who learn a foreign language

learn it so that they can one day have

real-life conversations with native

speakers

when you start out learning and crack

open your first textbook or listen to

your first podcast

having a real conversation can feel like

a fantasy

when everything about a language feels

new it can be overwhelming

but this couldn’t be further from the

truth while it does take a significant

amount of time and effort to become

fluent

having a conversation might not be as

far off as you think

in this video we’ll look at three ways

you can boost your conversational skills

and start talking to native speakers

number one find native speakers and

practice with them

it’s unlikely you live near a big group

of native speakers to practice with

if you happen to be in a major or

international city your chances may be

better

check and see if your city has a general

language exchange chances are there

could be a native speaker there who is

also trying to learn another language

practicing in person with a native

speaker is probably the most interesting

option for honing your speaking skills

but if you can’t find anyone where you

live the next best option is to look

online

luckily for language learners the past

10 years or so have seen an explosion in

online language exchange sites

on these websites you can search for

someone who is a native speaker of your

target language and is also learning

your native language

the idea behind a language exchange is

that you communicate with them via video

or text chat

and half of the time they help you

practice your target language

and for the other half you help them

practice theirs

practicing via an online language

exchange is a highly effective way to

practice your conversational skills

number two work on pronunciation

pronunciation is often an overlooked

skill when it comes to learning a

foreign language

most people think of a good foreign

accent as a luxury rather than a

necessity

but what most people don’t talk about is

how having a good accent boosts your

listening

and comprehension skills if you can hear

a sound from a foreign language and know

how to make it yourself

then you’re more likely to understand

native speakers when they talk at normal

speed

and you’re also more likely to remember

any new words or phrases you come across

having a good accent means that the

language no longer sounds foreign

instead it sounds familiar maybe even

natural

so how do you go about perfecting your

accent

the best way is to break down the

language into its individual sounds

make note of any sounds that are the

same or similar to your native language

and of those that are different of the

sounds that are different

spend your time practicing the ones that

you find the hardest to say correctly

after you’re comfortable with the

individual sounds you can start linking

together words and phrases

this is where accent practice starts to

get really fun and interesting get your

hands on some native speaker audio from

a tv show

song or podcast play the audio back and

listen closely a few times

take note of how words blend together in

speech then

do your best to imitate what you hear

trying to match the speaker’s emphasis

and intonation

our language learning program’s playback

feature is perfect for this

record yourself and compare it to the

original recording

rinse and repeat until you’re

comfortable with the audio selection

and then move on to something more

difficult this is how you can break

through the accent barrier

and really start to make the language

your own number three

learn phrases not just individual words

learning grammar and individual words is

great but it’s not the only approach you

should take if you want to speak

fluently

in addition to your regular grammar and

vocabulary try learning whole phrases

even if you aren’t totally sure how they

work grammatically

learn phrases that are specific to your

needs it’s a good idea to learn phrases

that are grouped around a certain

setting or subject

such as simple greetings or

introductions questions for getting to

know someone or traveling comfortably

you can even learn filler phrases which

you can use so that you have something

to say when

well you don’t know what to say learning

phrases like this will help you become

conversational faster

you may not understand what you’re

saying literally but as long as you know

the general meaning behind the phrase

and know when to use it you’ll be able

to talk like a native

eventually your knowledge of grammar and

vocabulary should catch up with the

phrases you know

learning a new language should feel like

an adventure there will be plateaus and

periods in your learning where it feels

like you’re hitting a wall

but being able to speak with native

speakers and have real conversations

will help you combat language fatigue

after all talking to someone face to

face in a foreign language is one of the

main reasons we start learning in the

first place

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whenever i’m ready all right

hi everybody welcome back to top words

my name is alicia and today we’re going

to be talking about

10 words for connecting thoughts these

are going to be 10 words that you can

use

to transition between ideas very useful

in both speech

and in writing let’s go

also also also is a word that you can

use to

add information i went to the store

this morning also i went and got

coffee that’s true however

however however is used to contrast or

to contrast depending on your

pronunciation

to differentiate to show a difference

between

two pieces of information a good pattern

would be

a however be so

for example i love tonkotsu ramen

however

it is very high in calories so i don’t

eat it often

also true on the other hand on the other

hand

on the other hand is i feel used more

commonly in

speech than it is in writing again it’s

used to present

like two sides to a story or two sides

to some information

so for example i’m thinking about

visiting taiwan

sometime this year but on the other hand

i’m also thinking about visiting

thailand still so

it might be common to use still with the

word like but or a word like even though

so you’re saying

even though there’s some other factor

like um like i’m really really

tired this week or even though i have a

lot of homework to do

i still want to go out with my friends

or i still want to

see a movie this weekend so there’s this

other there’s this thing that’s maybe

makes

this other action difficult to do or

tough to do or whatever

but even though there’s this you still

have this over here so maybe the two are

kind of used as a pair

i still want to go out later even though

i’m tired

then then yes a very useful word

we use then when telling stories a lot

so for example if i could tell a story

about my morning today

when i got up i brushed my teeth

and then i cooked breakfast

then i did a little bit of work then

i took a shower then i did some cooking

blah blah blah

you’ll often hear and then as well and

then i

and then we and then you and so on so

then is

is really really useful for sequencing

so a useful word i think

besides besides so it’s commonly used in

a pattern like

besides that meaning other than

something else i went out with my

friends this weekend but besides that

i didn’t really do much so another way

to say that sentence is

i went out with my friends this weekend

but other than that

other than that activity i didn’t do

very much

okay meanwhile meanwhile or you might

hear

the similar expression in the mean time

it means

while you’re doing action a at the same

times maybe somewhere else

action b is happening this is used while

telling stories a lot so for example

i was working at my office all week last

week meanwhile

my co-workers across town were having a

party without me

so these two things are happening at the

same time

but maybe separate from one another

meanwhile

likewise okay likewise

i don’t really use this word personally

myself at all

it’s often used after an introduction um

similar to the pleasure is all mine in a

formal situation

so maybe somebody says you know hey

it was really great to see you last

weekend thanks very much for coming to

my barbecue

you can say yeah likewise it was really

good to see you in your family

so likewise means i have the same

feeling or i have the same

idea it’s kind of a friendly phrase but

personally i don’t really use that to

transition between

thoughts um i would just use and i

suppose but

no that’s how i would use it instead

instead so so instead it’s used like

instead of i want to

a instead of be can be used to express

your plans or what you want to do

i want to have chinese food instead of

italian food tonight so

you’re presenting two alternatives

essentially

so instead of means in place of or as a

substitute for

so i should have drank a lot of water

this morning but instead i drank a lot

of coffee

that’s true uh i wanted to

have dinner with my friends this weekend

instead

i had dinner at home

in addition in addition this is a really

good word

for more formal situations i like to use

in addition

in writing i don’t really use in

addition in speaking

unless i’m trying to be very formal for

some reason

similar to additionally as well so you

make point a

and point b and then when you want to

make one more point that’s related to

point a and point b

you can say in addition point c so

you’re like

building an argument and in addition can

be used to kind of finish that argument

off a little bit

our new marketing plan worked really

well last month

we noticed increased sales in product a

in addition we’ve gained a lot of new

customers

something like that so just you’re

you’re quickly presenting a series of

ideas that are related to one another

you can use in addition to finish it off

all right

so that’s the end of 10 words for

connecting thoughts i hope you

get to use a lot of these try to mix it

up it’s good to use a variety of

different words

thanks very much for watching this

episode and we will see you again next

time for more fun stuff

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whenever i’m ready all right welcome

back to weekly words

i’m alicia and this week

we’re going to talk about commonly

mispronounced mispronounced wow

this week we’re going to talk about

commonly mispronounced words words that

are often

pronounced incorrectly this is funny

i enjoy mispronouncing this first word

the first word is

hyperbole hyperbole um it’s not

hyperbole

though it does sound very funny to say

that hyperbole just means to exaggerate

something

or to make to blow something up make it

really extreme

my friend uses a lot of hyperbole when

she talks about her life stories i

really don’t think some of those things

happen to her

hyperbole not hyperbole next

antarctic not ah

oh i see antarctic is the correct

pronunciation of this word

some people say and and tar antarctic

really oh i guess when you’re saying

this word quickly you might leave

out that first c in the antarctic

so don’t say that don’t do that say

antarctic

the the very very cold region the arctic

is the north cold region on the planet

earth the south is the antarctic

they’re sort of like almost a hiccup in

the word they’re antarctic

oh uh in a sentence i’m thinking about

taking a cruise to the antarctic

what do you think i need a penguin suit

etc not etc oh yeah okay i’ve heard i

hear this

ek x thing a lot etc is just used at the

end of a list

to imply that you mean other things

so the list is not exclusive to the

things that you’ve listed

other things can also be included in it

so in a sample sentence

types of fruits are apples oranges

peaches etc

there are others as well so don’t say

etc that’s not correct etc

it’s good the next word is jewelry

what not mones the next word is

jewelry jewelry i think i’m probably

guilty of this mispronunciation

i can’t say that word mispronunciation

where the word kind of gets a little bit

smushed together

and we say jewelry instead we miss that

that

second e sound in there it should be jew

ellery

uh in a sample sentence maybe you would

say i’m shopping for some jewelry for my

mother for her birthday

jewelry we’re too lazy prescription

not prescription okay a prescription is

something that

a doctor gives you when you’re sick and

you require medicine the doctor will

write you a prescription

some people might say prescription

wow okay i didn’t even notice and i was

doing it while i was telling you guys

not to do it

that’s embarrassing prescription a

doctor writes you a prescription not a

prescription

uh when you go to the doctor’s office

the doctor might say here is your

prescription

end all right well we’ve learned that i

apparently can’t pronounce some words

the way that they’re meant to be

pronounced

so please work on your pronunciation i

will work on my pronunciation too

thank you for joining us on weekly words

this week i will see you next

time bye bye welcome back to weekly

words my name is alicia and this week

we’re going to talk about

commonly quoted movie lines ooh

i hope i know these i’ll be back a lot

of people like to try and do an arnold

schwarzenegger impression this comes

from the movie terminator

where arnold schwarzenegger plays a

robot from the future and it’s really

awesome

you can use this with your friends you

can use this in in common

everyday situations where you have to

leave some place but you want to tell

people in a kind of a funny way that you

plan on coming back

you can say i’ll be back inconceivable

say this with a lisp

inconceivable if you have seen the movie

the princess bride

inconceivable so to conceive of

something something you can think

about putting that in at the beginning

of the word

means can’t con or not able to conceive

of something you can’t even think about

it you can’t believe it in other words

this is one word that means i can’t

believe it or

this is just ridiculous so you can use

this anytime you’re just shocked by

something you just can’t believe that

something is happening you can say

inconceivable this is a very good one a

recent one from the movie anchorman will

ferrell

says this uh he says i immediately

regret this decision

i immediately regret this decision it’s

a very long phrase

but it means you’ve just made a choice

and you

very quickly immediately realized this

was a bad decision

i should not have done this you can say

i immediately regret this decision

but with kind of like a flat tone to it

it’s a little bit funny

okay next is a very famous quote from

the movie forest gump tom hanks was in

this movie

his character famously says mama always

said life was like a box of chocolates

the next line is you never know what

you’re gonna get

so this refers to picking a piece of

chocolate out of a box of chocolates

maybe you’ve seen kind of the fancy ones

that have a number of different styles

of chocolate in them when you bite into

it oftentimes you don’t know what’s on

the inside

so the character is saying that life is

like that too you might try to do a few

different things

but you never know what’s going to

happen until you actually try to do it

so this is an interesting phrase to use

maybe if your friend is having trouble

in their life in some way

you can maybe try to console them or

cheer them up by saying mama always said

life was like a box of chocolates

the next quote comes from the movie

apollo 13 a very famous space movie

the quote is houston we have a problem

houston refers to the control center

nasa’s control center

and the astronaut is famously quoted as

saying we have a problem

anytime you run across a problem at work

or with your friends

with your family whatever you can say

houston we have a problem meaning you’re

just trying to alert

the other people around you that

something is wrong you need help with

something perhaps

so it’s usually not a very serious

problem though i should say that so

don’t use it for like a medical

emergency use it for something you know

like oh i’m out of eggs houston we have

a problem you know if you’re cooking

something

very very light-hearted is good and

that’s the end of some famous

movie quotes so try to use a few of

these if you like

they’re kind of fun and if you use them

with the right timing they can be very

very funny

and people will generally appreciate

that you use such

interesting references in your

conversation uh thanks very much for

joining us this week and we’ll see you

again next time bye

here’s looking at you kid what does that

even mean though

a classic goodbye line kind of

welcome back to weekly words i’m alicia

and this week we are going to

do words with strange plural forms this

is good practice i bet let’s start

yeah antenna the plural form of antenna

is antennae

i think i would say antennae antennae

i think i probably actually just say

antennas an

antenna on an old tv set for example

would be

it would kind of look like this we’d

call it bunny ears where you had to

adjust the bunny ears you had to

just adjust the antennae to make the

signal on your tv come in more clearly

bugs they have antennae from their heads

the next word is millennium the plural

is millennia

a millennium is a period of a thousand

years a thousand years is a millennium

a series of thousands of years would be

called millennia

you might say many millennia have passed

since the earth was formed

cactus is the next word a cactus is a

plant

these are the arms of the cactus i

couldn’t make the trunk of the cactus

wow you can put a picture on the screen

instead of my amazing

cactus the plural of cactus is cacti or

cactuses i think i’m more inclined to

say cacti so when you go to the desert

you might say keep an eye out for cacti

if you step on one it could really hurt

you

the next one is an interesting one i

don’t think i’ve ever used this word in

the singular

like if you have a swimming pool or if

you’ve seen a pond or whatever it’s that

green sort of scummy stuff that

accumulates on top of it or on the sides

of your pool if you haven’t cleaned it

in a while algae

bacterias and things that like to live

in the water there’s a singular form

and i’m just i’m looking at it for the

first time i don’t know how

alga to use the plural then you would

say i need to clean my pool there’s a

lot of algae in it

yeah next is ox ox

uh the plural of ox is oxen these

animals

used to be used for farming i don’t know

that they are very much anymore i don’t

have much personal experience with

farming

um but they’re they look like really

really big cows with huge horns

huge horns yeah okay next is

the end uh plural

words that have weird plural forms so

please keep them in mind when you are

trying to use them in conversation and

use the correct form of the plural

thank you for joining us again this week

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oh no all right welcome back to weekly

words my name is alicia and this week we

are going to talk about

commonly used onomatopoeia this is going

to be a fun one we talked

briefly about an onomatopoeia zoom in a

previous episode of weekly words we’re

going to talk some more about some more

talk some more about some more we’re

going to talk about more today the first

word is

beep oh beep beep is any kind of

electronic sound or a car

sound and was also in a popular american

cartoon

wiley coyote and the roadrunner the

roadrunner would commonly say meat meat

car sound will usually make a beep or a

honk sound for electronics however the

beep becomes a little bit more robotic

we’ll often see like beep

beep beep beep so in a sentence let’s

say you have a computer problem

you tell your friend the computer won’t

stop beeping at me what do i do

next is the sound jingle jingle is

any kind of light ringing sound this

word gets used a lot

uh in holiday seasons particularly

christmas thanksgiving

new year’s any jingling sound is very

commonly assigned to

bells like the song jingle bells for

example is a perfect example of this

jingle is just the sound that a bell

makes in a sentence

let’s see you might say she has a

small bell attached to her phone so she

jingles everywhere

she walks it’s really irritating okay

the next word is thump a thump is for

something to hit heavily

to give an example the people who live

in the apartment above me

often thump on the floor it sounds like

maybe they’re dropping something heavy

or they’re stepping very heavily all

right

next is splash anything that falls into

liquid

lands in liquid makes a splash it’s that

sort of sound that comes from water or

any other liquid really we refer to that

as a splash

sound there is also a popular tom hanks

mermaid movie called splash

this has nothing to do with that about

him falling in love with a mermaid

i made a big splash when i jumped into

the swimming pool this summer

that has kind of a double meaning oh

mysterious

next is blurt it means to say something

quickly

i blurted out the news as soon as i

heard it like i blurted out the secret i

couldn’t hold it any longer

it means you just say something without

thinking to blurt the first part of the

word what

that blur sound it sounds like something

it just kind of

sort of slips out on accident and then

the harsh

blurt the t at the end is like a

kind of a final like oh my gosh i’ve

just said something

i’ve slipped and then i’ve said

something oh no i didn’t think about

that

all right that’s the end of that one so

i hope you learned a few new onomatopias

that you can try out

next time thanks for joining us for

weekly words and i will see you again

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hey and welcome back to weekly words my

name is alicia and this week we’re going

to talk about

interjections this is going to be fun

let’s start the first word is

ba b-a-h maybe you’re upset about

something or you’re tired of dealing

with something

people will often throw up their hands

like this when they say they’ll go back

and walk away

bo humbug is a very very well-known uh

use of this interjection this from the

story a christmas carol one of the

characters says ba

humbug at all these things that upset

him

all right the next interjection is aha

is used whenever you feel surprised

about something or when you have a good

idea about something

for example sitting at work actually

maybe you shouldn’t do this at work

because your co-workers will think

you’re crazy

if you’re feeling really excited about

your idea you can go like this with your

finger and go aha

i have an idea for my presentation next

week okay

the next one is meh this one i think is

only become popular in the last

i don’t know it started being used i

think it started more on the internet

and now it has come to be used in

everyday life

men is just when you’re you’re not very

excited about something

um maybe you went to a party your friend

asks you how it was

and you’re like yeah i went it was

pretty meh we use it like an adjective

actually

or you can just use it as a one word

interjection meh

meh meh okay the next word is o

o is a very very useful one you can use

in a number of situations when you’re

surprised when you’re thinking of

something when you want to have kind of

a soft introduction to whatever you’re

saying

i think i tend to use it as a question

or when i’m feeling surprised

so when my friend tells me something

like oh hey i have this great news i’ll

say

oh just by itself as a question to get

somebody’s attention

i might say oh did you see that new

movie last week a sentence starter for

me anyway okay the next word is hmm

we use when we’re thinking about

something when we need a minute to

consider our thoughts

it can be used at the beginning of a

sentence or just while you’re thinking

on its own

hmm what might be a good example

sentence for

hmm and end

those are all interjections those are

all interjections try to use them if you

use these correctly in your speech

throughout your speech

it’ll help you to sound a lot more

natural and a lot more smooth

uh in your speaking ability so give them

a try thanks again for joining us this

week and i will see you next time for

more weekly words bye

begin hi everybody welcome back to

weekly words my name is alicia and this

week we’re going to look at some common

english idioms let’s begin

the first word or phrase rather is about

to about to means

you’re going to start something you’re

going to begin doing something for

example i’m about to start

explaining this idiom to you hey okay

the next word or phrase idiom the next

idiom is

by the way the word here they’ve used is

incidentally it’s a way to transition to

another topic

that’s related to what you’re talking

about for example

this week i’m going to a party by the

way did you hear about the party

happening

next week so they’re somewhat related

okay

the next idiom is in a way in a way

this is kind of in a way it was a good

thing that the burrito shop was closed

because otherwise i would have eaten way

too much

you can use this to show that there are

maybe two sides to a situation

maybe some things are negative maybe

some things are positive next is on the

other hand i hear this a lot on the

other hand is a way of

just saying however or to share two

different sides to a story

for example i think my co-worker is

really irritating

on the other hand at parties he’s really

funny so you can show

two maybe different sides to a point

with this phrase

next is a matter of fact as a matter of

fact as an idiom

this is a long way to just say actually

or really

it’s a little bit more formal sounding

so you might use it in a business

meeting for example

everybody at the business meeting might

feel a little bit unsure about the

previous month sales

and you can begin your presentation by

saying something like i know everybody

was a little bit

unsure about last week’s or last month’s

sales performance but as a matter of

fact

things improved and that’s the end those

are some common idioms

that you might hear in english give them

a try they’re pretty useful and you

might hear a lot of them

in conversation thanks very much for

joining us this week and we’ll see you

again next time for more information

bye hi welcome back to weekly words my

name is alicia and this week we’re going

to talk about ways to say hi

this should be fun let’s get started

first is yo

this one is a little bit casual in case

you couldn’t tell

used for close friends maybe family

members if you have kind of a silly

relationship with them

just quick short easy to do in a

sentence

yo how’s it going howdy howdy uh

traditionally associated with cowboy

culture i suppose you should play a

banjo maybe or you’ve just gotten off a

horse i don’t know i use howdy from time

to time

howdy howdy howdy howdy

that’s my banjo yeah in a sentence you

might say

howdy folks welcome to the

barbecue place

next is hey hey is good friendly phrase

you can usually use hay with a wave and

smile look happy

if you don’t people might think that

you’re down in the dumps people might

think you’re not in a very good mood

in a sentence hey uh i heard you got

engaged last week congratulations

something like that it’s usually kind of

a cheery

happy expression all right next is

what’s up

uh what’s up is the long form of sup

this does not literally mean what is

above you right now

if you want to be funny you can say the

ceiling or the sky but that joke gets

old really fast and chances are the

person you’re talking to has already

heard it before

it just means what are you up to what is

going on with you in a sentence what’s

did you have a good weekend typical

response to what’s up is not much

find out some more responses in english

in three minutes we did an episode on

this

nothing much how about you that’s pretty

good pretty good

pretty good pretty good

i don’t know what i’m doing the next one

is long time no see you can use this

when you haven’t seen the other person

for a long time you’re at a party or an

event or whatever any

time it’s been a long break you can

decide how long

long is not the day before or the week

before maybe a few weeks or a month

whatever is unusual for you and this

other person

when you see them you can say hey long

time no see how have you been uh that’s

the end so those are a few

different ways to say hi in a few

different situations i hope that you

have a chance to try them out

the next time you meet someone or you

greet someone thanks very much for

joining us this week and we’ll see you

again soon

bye instead of saying stop i like to say

soup

soup 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 not it’s a 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

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 on 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

that means we’re going to the

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 gonna 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

nose it’s up to you to figure that out

among the people that you’re talking to

though

do you want to stay over at 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 stake

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

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

uh 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 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

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 going

to 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 percent

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 uh 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 flyers beach okay

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