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hi everybody my name is alicia welcome
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 uh with subtitles
can be very beneficial
um 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
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 um 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
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 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
train 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 they
haven’t quite
gotten the idea of how to respond just
yet
they they’re not so quick at responding
i say
hey how are you and they say yes and
then they think
and they go i’m i’m good
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
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 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
uh 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’s 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 um
that you are that you’re focused on but
you understand it from
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
have any other comments or other tips
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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 4am
when you see someone you can say hello
and it will still be appropriate long
time
no c long time no
c 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 free of 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 lend 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
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in this video we’ll be talking about how
to curse like an english native
speaker piss a slang term for urine for
example
don’t piss your pants you can say this
when
you’re really scared or anxious for
example if you’re about to go
on stage to make a speech or perform
someone can say don’t piss your pants
you can do it
pissed off to be really angry
when i’m angry i can say hey i’m really
pissed off at you right now
why did you do that for loser used to
describe an uncool person
in high school my friends and i would
use this a lot
and we would say hey loser how’s it
going
idiot used to insult people by saying
they’re not intelligent
of all the mean things that you can say
this is on the lighter side
but people still use it shoot
this is used to show disappointment or
frustration without using a stronger
curse word
shoot i spilled my coffee shut up
you can use this when you want them to
be quiet
or there’s something surprising that you
just heard
you can say shut up no way
ticked off to be really angry you can
say this
with pissed off so this is actually an
older term
not many people use this as much anymore
because
most people actually just use pissed off
fool
this is similar to saying someone is
like a clown you can say
you’re acting like a fool right now jerk
this is a light insult used to describe
someone who is mean
for example if there’s someone bullying
another person
that person is being a jerk wimp
this means someone who isn’t strong
there is a movie out right now
called diary of a wimpy kid have you
seen it have you not
i haven’t yet so how was it if you have
any more questions please leave a
comment below
see you next time hey everyone i’m paris
from
englishclass101.com in this video we’re
talking about how to ask
and give directions let’s start to the
left to the left
the first phrase is where is the
where is the for example you can ask
where is the bank this can be used to
ask for a general location
or detailed directions don’t be
surprised
if you only receive basic information
for example
next to the grocery store the next
phrase is
i need to go to the i need to go
to the for example you can say
i need to go to the police station the
word need is used
but this is used for non-emergencies as
well how do i get to the
how do i get to the for example
you can say how do i get to the museum
this question can be used to ask for
step by step directions
instead of a general location is the
near here is the near here for example
you can say is the library near here if
you’re unfamiliar with an area
you can ask to get this information
about a specific place
where you want to go is the bathroom
near here
excuse me do you know where the is
excuse me do you know where the
is for example you can say excuse me
do you know where the park is only youth
excuse me
when you’re starting a conversation with
a stranger another common phrase is
is the far from here is the
far from here for example you can say
is the post office far from here this is
an indirect way to ask for directions
people will tell you how far the place
is and probably tell you the best way to
get there
walking taking a bus driving uber
now let’s take a look at expressions to
give directions
turn left turn left for example
you can say turn left after two blocks
this gives you information about how far
you should go
before you make any changes in this case
you should
go left to the left to the left
turn right turn right
for example you can say turn right at
the third traffic light
this also gives you information about
how far you should go
before taking another action in this
case
you should go right go straight
go straight this simply tells you to go
in one direction
it also implies that if you keep going
straight that you will eventually find
what you’re looking for
go past go past for example
you can say go past the church a
landmark is just an easily noticeable
place
for example a movie theater restaurant
at the corner of at the corner of
for example you can say it’s at the
corner of
this means that a place is located at
the corner where two streets meet
in front of in front of
for example you can say the bus station
is in front of the supermarket
we use front to refer to the main
entrance of a building
it can also mean visible from the front
and doesn’t necessarily mean
it’s directly in front of something
behind
behind for example you can say the
parking lot is behind the movie theater
we use behind to say that something is
at the rear of a building
the front of a building is its main
entrance so which side it’s facing the
street is really not important
next two next two for example
you can say the restaurant is next to
the park
this is an example of using a
non-specific location to give
general directions next two can be
anywhere beside in front of or around a
place
mcdonald’s is next to my house between
between for example you can say
the store is between the coffee shop and
the pet store
between is used with two other places
when using between
the main place will always be in the
middle of the two other places
okay that’s all for this lesson which
phrase do you like the most
leave us a comment and let us know and
i’ll see you next time guys
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in this video we’ll be talking about
making complaints in english
so let’s get started the first complaint
is
i’m starving i’m starving
this is an exaggeration you can use when
you’re hungry i am
always starving even right now the next
complaint is
it’s noisy it’s noisy
this kind of complaint is one that you
would make to a friend telling the staff
of a restaurant won’t help since they
can’t tell people to be
quiet i hate when it’s noisy in
restaurants
save that for another time then we have
it’s hot it’s hot this can be used to
talk about the weather
or the temperature of a room you can add
a request like
can you turn on the air conditioner i am
never
hot so i like that the next complaint is
it’s cold it’s cold
this can be used to talk about the
weather or the temperature of a room
you can add a request like can you turn
on the heater
i always make this request because it’s
always too cold
everywhere everywhere it’s too expensive
it’s too expensive even if you have
enough money to buy something
it may be more money than you want to
spend it would probably be considered
rude to say this to someone who works at
a store
but i always think okay i’m in gucci
it’s way too expensive
another common complaint is i’m tired
i’m tired use this complaint to imply
that you want to sit down
relax go home take a break when i
babysit my five-year-old cousin
i leave thinking i’m tired
the next complaint is i gained weight
i gained weight this is a self-criticism
that implies that you want to lose
weight
many people say i got so fat
i’m always broke i’m always
broke use this to complain about never
having enough money
i am always broke because i always want
more money
the next complaint is my job is boring
my job is boring this is a really common
complaint
used by people who don’t think their
jobs are very exciting
usually it means that you want to find a
different more fun job
it’s all right teachers your job isn’t
boring that person
stinks that person stinks
you can use stings to talk about a
literal physical smell
or a general insult meaning that you
don’t like how someone smells
i hate when people smell on the bus
not good not okay the next complaint is
there’s too much traffic there’s too
much traffic this is a common complaint
among people who commute to work by car
certain roads are especially bad during
rush hour which is the time in the
morning
or night most people are going home or
to work
if i left at it was 7 p.m i would be
here in 10 minutes
but because it’s daytime in la it took
me 30 minutes to get here
and i drive really really fast and it
still took me 30 minutes
the next complaint is the wi-fi here is
too slow
the wi-fi here is too slow
this is just a general complaint you may
have about the internet speed
if you’re at a cafe or somewhere with
wi-fi you can request that they reset
their wi-fi to improve the speed
if you’re having a party and you’re
having friends over and your wi-fi is
too
slow you might as well end that party
now
no wi-fi no party my boss is annoying
my boss is annoying annoying can be used
to mean that someone does things that
you don’t like
or they ask you to do things that you
don’t like
either way an annoying boss is a bad
experience
i am very familiar with this hey paris
grab me coffee
hey paris check my emails my boss is
annoying
but tell him i said that the pay is too
low
the pay is too low you can use this to
complain about how much you make
or to reject a job offer because it
doesn’t pay enough
i’m a surgeon the pay is too low
i don’t like it i don’t like it
this is a very general complaint that
can be used for almost
anything what do i like
[Laughter]
posting a thousand selfies on instagram
i
don’t like it um okay
that’s it for this lesson which
complaint do you like more
leave us a comment and let me know and
we’ll see you next time
bye you just got a text message from
your hotel’s pickup service
what does the first number refer to
what does the first number refer to
the number in the text message refers to
the customer code
you are at a train station where you’ve
just bought an express ticket
which train car row and seat number are
you in
so
which train car row and seat number are
you in
the ticket says that you’re in train car
number one in the eighth row
in seat c
you are at a train station where you’re
attempting to buy an express ticket from
a ticket machine
which option should you choose to buy an
express ticket
which option should you choose to buy an
express ticket
the option on the bottom left is for an
express ticket
you are on a platform at a train station
where you’re waiting for your train
suddenly a message appears on the
display
what does the message on the display
mean
what does the message on the display
mean
the display reads the next train will
not stop
you are at a train station where you’re
reading the train schedule for an
express ticket that you’ve just bought
on which days are there no express
trains running
on which days are there no express
trains running
there are no express trains running on
public holidays and the third sunday of
every month
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you are on a platform at a train station
where you’re waiting for your train
suddenly a message appears on the
display
what does the message on the display
mean
what does the message on the display
mean
the display reads the next train will
not stop
you are at a train station where you’re
looking for the best exit to catch a
taxi
which exit should you take to get to the
taxi stop
which exit should you take to get to the
taxi stop
you should take the east exit in order
to get to the taxi stop
hi everybody my name is alicia and today
i am joined again in the studio by
michael hello and today we’re going to
be talking about things that
were cool in the 90s so things that were
interesting or things that maybe we were
interested in in the 90s i’m guessing
that we’re going to have some very
different opinions
based on our experiences at the 90s so
let’s get right into it
michael your first item please um
okay boy bands so i remember boy bands
were very very popular
when i was a kid in the 90s i had three
older brothers who would punch me and
tell me boy bands are for girls don’t
like boy bands
so that was my experience with them and
they became kind of uncool
i feel like after the 90s and then they
never were uncool in like
korea and like a lot of asian countries
they still had like a strong boy band
kind of uh
scene or whatever bands now is that
really what they’re called no i don’t
know i just mean i think i feel like boy
there are boy bands
that are now becoming boys to men maybe
this
so i mean now they came now it came back
like
what is the uh what’s the british one
now it’s kind of cool again oh one
direction one direction yeah so i think
it’s come back it’s full circle
didn’t they just break up i’m gonna go
with something that i loved in the 90s
this is probably way too specific uh
probably but it’s this show called doug
that was on nickelodeon and there
weren’t a whole lot of episodes of doug
it was i don’t know like 20 or 30 i feel
like not even that many did you ever see
this show
yeah that’s very nostalgic for me i
don’t 20 30 episodes i feel i feel like
i had i’d seen them all so i i
i know that i saw them all because it
would come back it would come on one day
after school and i’d be like i’ve seen
this episode
but the whole the whole idea with doug
is doug was like this just this
plain kid and he had an older sister he
went to school he had a dog get a best
friend
and he would just encounter these
everyday life scenarios
that would be kind of troubling or he
wouldn’t know how to deal with them but
like he was kind of a role model i feel
like he was kind of
being like a good kid or sometimes he
would get into trouble but then you know
eventually he would solve the problem or
he’d find a way out of it so but i
really loved that show i really loved
nickelodeon in general um during the 90s
and
yeah did you watch that channel yeah of
course i loved nickelodeon um
i think it was more like fox stuff like
that but i guess i’ll segue into
another one of mine you’re talking about
wholesome so
something that’s my childhood i was
raised on tv it was sitcoms
yeah so i think this has kind of died
down again like the boy bands where
it people think it’s cheesy now it’s all
reality tv shows that kind of stuff
but that’s that is my childhood right
there is you know full house and these
kinds of shows step by step
where there’s a moral at the end of the
story and so everyone there’s always
kind of like
the the protagonist is always like maybe
he’s unsure but by the end
they know the right thing to do and they
play like the violin kind of sad
not quite sad but like heartwarming
music
and then they’re like well and then they
give a speech and as a kid you know you
don’t really like think about it but
that gets into your
like man deep because of full house
if you lie i’ve learned this it’s deep
in my subconscious
if you lie and then you keep lying
it snowballs and it gets worse and worse
and worse so it’s best to just right
away
tell the truth that was a really common
theme in most sitcoms i think
like they’re just trying to teach kids
don’t lie it’s bad you’re right you’re
right sitcoms are huge and by the way
sitcoms um is
um is a portmanteau portmanteau meaning
two words put together
of situation and comedy so situation and
comedy equals sitcom in this case
okay nice nice um i’m gonna go to my
next one
um let’s see i think probably every
little girl
in the 90s in america anyway knew what
this was i don’t know if you knew
um it’s this brand called lisa frank um
lisa frank are you aware of lisa frank
are you aware of lisa frank
no okay she knows she knows lisa frank
is
so lisa frank is um just
bright it was always like brightly
colored school supplies
uh like pinks and purples and blues and
it would always have unicorns and
dolphins
and mystical creatures it was just
bright and
everybody all the girls loved it i loved
it i had lisa frank
just whatever i could get my hands on
it’d be pencils or erasers or
just pinks and rainbows and hearts and
stuff like that so i think every
every girl who grew up in the 90s knows
what lisa frank is
ah okay so talking about style and
whatnot
grunge grunge is something that i that
hits close to home for me and i think
that came out of the 90s
is i mean everybody knows around the
world i think most people know nirvana
yeah kurt cobain yeah and this is
something that i guess was
brought to the world from seattle and it
was a music genre
and it was kind of it’s like rock but
sometimes slower
almost emo kind of like sad usually
undertones but anyways the style that
came with it
was the opposite of like the 80s and
early 90s of really bright colors you
know it was the opposite you just wear
holy jeans you don’t really shower that
much you don’t shave
and like plaid and just really like
dreary colors
so that was really popular i at least i
remember in like the early 90s
like mid-90s yeah and it’s as soon as i
saw that card grunge i was like oh
nirvana that was that’s the first thing
that comes to mind when i hear about
when i hear grunge
i didn’t get into the grunge scene
though i was i was busy with boy bands
but
like grunge for me was never really
i was aware i was aware of nirvana but i
did not
i was not of the nirvana mod
okay i’m gonna go to a style point then
too because you’ve read up a style point
i’ll put up
bring up maybe um a female style point
scrunchies
uh still popular perhaps among some
people
what is a scrunchie a scrunchie let’s
see i don’t have um
so there’s regular rubber bands that you
can use to tie back long hair
he’s making an ocean with his hands yes
it’s a very descriptive very descriptive
michael thank you so no
i’m the prop and then you go like this
there’s like the
but i bet i bet there’s an awesome video
team somewhere in the
somewhere that can put like a scrunchie
like right here
anyway um yeah scrunchy it’s just it’s
just a
a piece of elastic with some kind of
colorful cloth wrapped around it and it
but when not in use you would go and it
would
scrunch i think i think this is why we
call it a scrunchie
but then when you pulled on it you could
expand it a bit and wrap your hair up in
it and then when you were finished doing
that it would kind of
close around it i had a couple
nintendo anything any game related stuff
i remember game boys
anything handheld um except when i was a
kid it wasn’t like this fancy
3d high you know
highly like vibrant colors it was like
black and white and like you’d play it
in the car and you had to squint and it
hurts your head you know if you’re
playing too much you’re getting like
carsick and you’re like you can barely
see mario
are you talking about game boy game boy
are any like there was handheld too
there was like atari and stuff like that
and like sega
sega was pretty good that would light up
i was thinking about nes when you said
nintendo i imagined my nes the one that
like when it wasn’t working correctly
you could just pull the cassette out and
put it back in so you put the cartridge
in here right
and sometimes if it was really stubborn
and it didn’t work
you would blow into this part and you
try and it really doesn’t make a
difference
but you would take turns like me and my
brothers would be like no you want to be
the one to get it to work
so you take turns no no let me let me
let me and just by luck it would work
and you’re like cc
no this is super nostalgic i love
nintendo i have a game too
pogs did you have pogs yeah okay
pogs are either are simultaneously the
most brilliant game and the stupidest
game ever invented they’re just
discs of cardboard about this size uh
and on one side there’s a picture
and on the other side there’s just
nothing and then you had a thing called
a slammer which was essentially just a
heavy pog
that you would use and you had to flip
you had to use the slammer to flip
those plain cardboard ones what i don’t
even know it was that
stupid and forgettable of a game but it
was like crazy when i was about
i don’t know like second or third grade
or something everybody had pogs like we
had pog
gym days at my school i remember that
america we’re really obese let’s go into
the gym and sit there and smash
cardboard
and like i was telling i was telling her
before we started this like
one day like my mom wanted me to get a
haircut and i was just being stubborn
and i wasn’t having it i was in the mall
i was like i want to get a haircut she’s
like i’ll buy you
pogs and she did
it was like this giant tube of pogs and
i was just so thrilled and
i agreed to get my hair cut well
that was a lot of things that was that
were
exciting and or popular and or we were
into
in the 90s what were you into in the 90s
what was popular in your country i
really have no idea what was popular
around the world
at that time maybe some of these things
are similar please let us know
in the comments i’m very interested to
find out we read these by the way
um any thoughts any other any closing
thoughts about the 90s
you’re not going to sing a song for us
oh that’s copyright we can’t do that
just like blur that all out no that was
that was very accurate so i’m sure we
can use that
very accurate i mean totally wrong
clearly we’re very good at talking about
the 90s
okay but uh we hope that you are too we
hope that you learned something exciting
about the 90s
um that’s all for us today thanks very
much for watching and we will see you
again soon bye
hi everybody my name is alicia and i’m
joined again in the studio by
michael hello and today we’re going to
be talking about
english conversation strategies so let’s
get right into it
let’s start with michael what is your
first strategy for keeping an english
conversation going
this is very important don’t say
i’m fine thank you and you you hear this
all the time from second language
english learners or non-native speakers
you learn this it’s one of the first
things you learn
in an english class it’s easy it’s good
it’s basic it’s foundation
okay that’s fine but as soon as you can
switch it up
because to me when i meet a foreigner
and they come up and if they say
hey how are you say oh i’m fine you know
i’m good whatever
how about you and they say i’m fine
thank you and you and it’s just
it’s almost robotic because i’ve said it
so many times and when i hear that i
think ah
their english isn’t that good and inside
i’m just gonna be really polite
and say hello and talk slowly and try to
get out of there as quick as i can
so really impress the foreigner in my
opinion i think the best way to do it is
say something
you know use a big word or just like a
slang word something like that
when i hear that i go wow man i want to
know what this person thinks i want to
get their point of view and i’m really
excited and then
i’ve had great conversations because of
that um yeah
that’s a really really good one and
actually i think on this youtube channel
actually
from a couple years ago there’s a video
all about
better answers to the question how are
you then
i’m fine thank you and you or if someone
says hey how are you i’m good
you are fine you never i’m fine thank
you and you
never but try to actually use you know a
phrase that a native speaker would use
and then that’s a clue to the native
speaker that oh maybe this person is
ready for a conversation beyond you know
basic english
so that’s a really good point i like
that i didn’t think of things not to do
i only thought of things
to do so okay cool um let’s see let’s go
to
my first one um
so um this strategy in general is just
ask the other person a question
i think and i’m guilty of this too when
i’m learning another language
i tend to only get input like somebody
else is always asking me the questions
and then i forget myself to ask the
other person a question
so one question that i like to ask or
you know a variation
any kind of wh question is good like a
who question what
where um something like this if you’ve
been paying attention you can use any
way to transition in your conversation
this was in a previous video
you can ask something like anyway up to
anything fun this weekend this is a
pretty casual conversational question
that you can ask just about anybody
whether you’ve just met them or whether
you’ve known them for a while but just
just
get in the habit of asking other people
the question don’t wait for someone else
to ask you the question
um so that that’s one strategy that i
try to use to keep things going
yeah me too i agree and i’m gonna say
same zs because
actually two of my questions were
exactly what you said agree 100
this is kind of cheating these should be
one but so always ask questions
so you know again you forget it’s really
easy i’m really guilty of this
english non-english whatever i’m i’m
guilty of this um and the other thing is
ask
deep open-ended questions so if you ask
a yes or no question so again like
alicia was saying it just dead ends you
can’t just say you know
do you like cheese yes or no right so
you want to say what do you think about
cheese what is your favorite kind and
kind of open it up to something else
and let it let it just kind of snowball
right right yeah i think i think that
that’s that’s really a key like i have
another variation on which i guess i’ll
just continue on to because it kind of
relates to what you’re talking about
like he’s saying always ask questions
always ask deep open-ended questions so
like you may you just said don’t ask a
yes or no question because
yes or no ends with the yes or the no so
one of the things that i’ll do is
use a pattern similar to this like hey
did you see or hey did you hear about
blah blah blah
so you can use this little blah blah
blah as your
you can ask about the news you can ask
about something funny you saw on the
internet you can ask about
um you know some something that you
heard from another friend of yours
whatever
it’s just a way to check in with the
other person and say oh did you also
experience this thing that i experienced
let’s talk about that so that might be
another question that you can use with
people
i like that one i really like that one
because you’ve got to stay within
people’s comfort zone so maybe you ask
and maybe they don’t want to right so a
good thing is did you hear about it
that’s up to them maybe they don’t want
to talk about it they can say oh yeah i
heard about that
and you can kind of feel uh the the
atmosphere and
and realize maybe i shouldn’t talk about
this change the subject or
they get passionate and they start
talking about it and there you go and
just let it go
um yeah absolutely one thing again i’m
guilty of is is you do gotta keep
keep returning it right don’t let it
don’t just say oh yeah and what i think
about that
bring it back ask them what about you um
that’s a common thing i forget about
yeah
yeah yeah okay um good i have one
more this one um use when you see
fits don’t i guess just
okay i’ll just introduce it compliment
the other person or compliment the other
person
this can be a nice strategy just to show
that you’re enjoying the other person’s
company
um it can be as simple as oh i like your
shirt today or oh that’s a nice dress
you’re wearing today or oh did you get a
new haircut that looks good on you
something like that
so this is a nice a nice way to make the
other person maybe want to spend more
time with you
i think yeah i agree 100 um two things
one i think it’s a good conversation
starter sometimes um
if you’ve got to be careful with a
stranger it can be creepy it can be
a little uncomfortable what you’re
complimenting right but if it’s
something like if they have a t-shirt
and it’s a band that you both like
that’s a great conversation starter and
you feel wow we’re connected you know um
number two the second thing i was
thinking about is that
keep it honest i love i love a sincere
compliment it really means a lot more
and
it really does butter them up kind of
get them open to
having more conversations deeper that
kind of thing
um but one of the things people do which
which i don’t like is
let’s say they say hey nice shirt and
then the person out of habit will say oh
you too i like your shirt too just my
opinion i don’t think this feels
really natural doesn’t really feel
sincere so i would i would
save it make a mental note and go hmm i
need to return the favor i need to give
them a compliment but
wait until you notice something you
really do like and say hey actually
i love blah blah yeah i think that’s a
great point like
when you you can sense whether someone
is being sincere or not
what is your next strategy for
continuing an english conversation
well don’t be afraid to open up
i like this one i think this is good a
lot of people will be kind of shy
they won’t open up too much again within
within your comfort zone
but i like this one because people
return the favor
because if you’re just having small talk
and you say you know the weather’s nice
today blah blah you can only go so far
so don’t be afraid to say something
personal
again trust your judgment don’t be a
creeper don’t go
we don’t want to hear certain things
about your life don’t don’t be a creep
don’t be a creep don’t be weird don’t be
strange and like what you’re saying
about opening up
open up is just a phrase that means
share something about yourself
um so it can be as simple as what you
did last weekend or what you’re going to
do this weekend or
a project that you have coming up it
doesn’t mean that you have to
spill all of your life’s secrets to the
other person but just showing that
you’re willing to share something more
personal about yourself can help
ingratiate yourself or can help you know
make the other person help the other
person understand you a little bit
better
that’s a good tip i like that tip that’s
hard to do though it’s hard it’s a
little bit scary i think to share parts
of yourself but it’s good it’s a good
way to meet people and make friends
all right i think that’s all is that all
that you have yeah that’s all i got
okay all right well those are some
interesting uh
strategies to keep an english
conversation going so give them a try if
you’re ever at a loss for words and
don’t know what to say you can try one
of these strategies
and hopefully it will help you out
please let us know if you have any other
strategies or anything else that you
would like to use or you tried to use
when you are having trouble keeping a
conversation going uh leave us a comment
and let us know what it is
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hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is alicia and today we’re going
to talk about
10 ways to express fear and surprise
let’s get started yeah you scared me
the first expression is you scared me
you scared me
so too scare is the verb here and we’re
using the past tense
you scared me so you caused me
to be frightened you scared me we use
this when we feel surprised or
scared so your friend suddenly jumps out
from but
you scared me i thought i thought you
tipped over a liquid onto the camera so
you scared me it’s like yeah
oh my gosh you frightened me in other
words you caused me to be afraid
in a sentence ah you scared me
you scared the out of me the next
expression is you scared the
something out of me you scared the blah
blah blah out of me
in the blah blah blah here in the space
we can use a lot of different words some
of them are really really rude words you
might have heard a few of these on like
tv
shows or in english speaking movies um
so in this lesson i’m going to introduce
like some kind of
not so rude words um you can use you
scared like the bejesus out of me you
scared the heck out of me you scared the
hell out of me so it’s a more extreme
version of you scared me so you scared
that something
out of me it like the image is i was
so frightened that something came out of
my body
and it’s usually like a negative or like
a rude word we use
to emphasize how frightened we were you
scared the hell out of you oh my gosh
so that’s kind of a common expression so
in a sentence
jeez you scared the hell out of me that
really freaks me out
the next expression is that really
freaks me out
that really freaks me out so to freak
someone out or like to freak out is like
to cause a
strong emotion that’s kind of a negative
nervous emotion or that’s just if you
feel like you’re kind of
overflowing with either like a
nervousness or like excitement
to freak out has a couple of different
meanings but when you say
that really freaks me out it’s kind of a
negative like sort of
scared emotion so in a sentence ugh
cockroaches really freak me out so you
feel
like uncomfortable it’s kind of like
this gross
like creepy crawly feeling about it it’s
like ah that freaks me out
so that’s one use ah that really freaks
me out
i’m freaking out right now the next
expression is i’m freaking out or i’m
freaking out right now
so in the last expression we saw that
really freaks
me out in this expression we say i’m
freaking out
in the progressive tense i’m freaking
out which means like i’m super super
super excited or i’m like super
like i have so much energy about
something so
freaking out sounds kind of like um a
nervous activity but we can use it for
like exciting things as well
i can say like oh my gosh i forgot my
car keys i’m freaking out right now how
am i going to get home
we can use it to express like
nervousness or anxiety
but we can also say something exciting
like you got tickets to beyonce i’m
freaking out right now
like we use it in a very positive way
sometimes as well so you can kind of
choose depending on your emotion
are you afraid or are you excited
surprised
both are okay that really creeped me out
the next expression is that really
creeped me out
that really creeped me out so creepy is
a word we’ve talked about in a previous
episode of top words on the
horror movie episode of top words uh so
something that is creepy causes nervous
feelings or like
we can’t relax it’s kind of unsettling
or strange
so something that causes those feelings
in us
we can describe with a phrase that
creeped me out that
caused creepy feelings in me that thing
creeped me out so like bugs creep me out
for example more than creep me out i
just
hate bugs so in another sentence yeah i
saw the ring it really creeped me out
so something that causes uneasy feelings
in you
i was so sketched out the next
expression is
i was so sketched out i was so sketched
out
so here we are using the word sketch or
sketched which doesn’t actually mean
rough drawing here
this is sort of a slang phrase that has
become commonly used throughout
different types of english to be
sketched out
by something means to have like
nervous feelings that something is kind
of
dangerous so creepy is just sort of
unsettling like difficult to relax
sketchy is like is about a person
usually
or like a situation that seems it could
be
dangerous there could be something
dangerous actually it’s not just that
it’s kind of scary but there’s maybe
some danger there
so sketchy sketchy like we don’t know
what’s going to happen next
in a sentence then i think a car was
following me today
i was so sketched out holy
the next expression is holy something
holy something so we can say holy cow
or holy other rude words you can check
some tv and movies for other words you
can finish this sentence with holy
something so we use this as just an
exclamation so when we’re surprised or
when we’re afraid or when we’re excited
we can say holy cow or like holy
i’m not going to say other words that
people use cause this is a family
channel but
uh holy something can mean anything
depending on the situation
and the sort of tone of voice that you
use with this word
uh holy cow is a pretty common
expression but
for surprise usually i would say the
kind of
rude expressions are more commonly used
for fear
oh my god the next expression is oh my
god oh my god so depending on your
intonation you can kind of change the
meaning of this word you can
express your surprise with oh my god or
you can express like fear like oh my god
so depending on the way you say this
word you can kind of change the meaning
but you can use this in a lot of
different expressions i’m sure you’ve
heard this expression before oh my god
also oh my gosh
dude if you don’t like to use the word
god in an example sentence
oh my god there’s a bee in the car
what okay the next expression looks kind
of funny on screen it’s just
what what so we can use this as a very
casual form of surprise what
so when someone surprises you usually a
friend a good friend
and you’re just stunned like you’re so
surprised and shocked
but you don’t feel like excited you’re
just like whoa
it’s difficult for you to kind of say
anything or do anything
some people react with what
like that kind of long a sound so it’s
usually used for surprise actually or
something new that you just
oh my gosh i can’t react to this it’s
just what that’s all
just that’s a simple reaction so you
might hear this as well for
surprise generally in an example
a surprise party what
you got me good the last expression is
you got me good
you got me good this is an expression
you can use
when your friend or someone else you
know plays a joke
on you so your friend tries to trick you
or your friend tries to scare you or
whatever tries to get a reaction from
you
usually by scaring you or surprising you
if the trick or the joke was effective
you can say ah
you got me good you got me good this is
kind of like a ah
okay i admit like you got me you
defeated me in other words you made me
afraid or you surprised me
so you can say you got me good you got
me good
so that’s the meaning of this expression
ah nice job in other words you got me
good
in a sentence ha you got me good
those are 10 ways to express fear and
surprise if there’s another expression
you like to use please be sure to let us
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words my name is alicia
and in this episode we’re going to talk
about 10 words and expressions for
talking about
thoughts and ideas so let’s get started
i have an idea the first expression
is i have an idea i have an idea this is
a really
general expression you can use to
introduce
a new idea this is pretty
casual but you can use it in slightly
more formal situations as well
i have an idea let’s get thai food for
lunch
or i have an idea let’s go to the beach
this weekend
i have an idea let’s take a nap
in this example sentence i have an idea
let’s start a company
i’ve been thinking the next expression
is
i’ve been thinking i’ve been thinking
you can use this to say i’ve been
thinking
and then begin an idea or you can say
i’ve been thinking about
topic i’ve been thinking about topics so
i’ve been thinking about finding a new
job or
i’ve been thinking what do you want to
do for summer vacation
so you can use it in a couple of
different ways i’ve been thinking about
or i’ve been thinking
both are okay so in this sentence i’ve
been thinking about baking a cake
all day here’s a thought
the next word is here’s a thought here’s
a thought so again this is a word you
can use to
introduce an idea here is a
thought in other words here is an idea a
thought
from my mind here you are here’s a
thought so you can use this to
introduce an idea you have had here’s a
thought
why don’t you get a haircut in this
example sentence
here’s a thought why don’t you take
tomorrow off
what do you think the next expression is
what do you think what do you think very
common way to
ask for someone’s opinion what do you
think
we connect the words do and you quite
closely in this expression what do you
think
what do you think sounds much more
natural than what do
you think so try to use what do you
think
so this is uh this is just a general way
to ask for someone else’s
opinion about anything really in a
sentence
i kind of want to eat something spicy
for lunch
what do you think you want to know what
i think
the next expression is you want to know
what i think
so this is sort of a like a challenge
almost
like it’s asking the other person
do you want to know my opinion do you
want to know what i think
because i’ll tell you only if you want
to know
so you want to know what i think or you
can drop
wanna and say you know what i think so
that you
becomes ya you know what i think you
know becomes
you know so you know what i think or you
want to know what i think
so it’s a little bit of a challenge a
little bit of an introduction
before you actually share your opinion
in a sentence
you want to know what i think it’s a
terrible idea
i’ve thought about this a lot the next
expression is
i’ve thought about this a lot i’ve
thought about this a lot
in this expression we’re actually using
the present perfect
tense i’ve thought i’ve thought so
that’s
i have thought about this meaning
i started thinking about this in the
past
and my thinking has continued to the
present
i’ve thought about this a lot so this
implies
this tells the listener it’s something
that has been
on your mind for a while i’ve thought
about this a lot
so your opinion is based on
all of this past thinking so something
you have been thinking about
for a long time in a sentence i’ve
thought about this a lot
and i really think you should quit the
company
i have no idea i have no
idea i have no idea means i don’t know
but i have no idea means zero i have
no information no ideas i can’t think of
anything absolutely nothing no idea
i have no idea so this is typically used
in response to a question for
information like
where’s your brother i have no idea
i’m like what did you do with the keys i
have no idea
so some things like you just you have no
information
absolutely no information you can say i
have no idea
i don’t know please note though that the
idea part of the sentence is in the
singular form
i have no idea we’ll talk about why in
just a moment but i have no idea to
refer to having
no information about something in
another sentence
the best hotel in the city i have no
idea
i have no ideas the next expression is
i have no ideas i have no ideas so
here different from i have no idea
we’re using the plural form ideas
ideas meaning someone is asking you for
a proposal
someone is asking you like to create
something to
make something perhaps so they’re asking
for a suggestion
and if you don’t have any suggestions
nothing to
propose you can say i have no ideas i
have no idea
so what do you want to do this weekend i
have no ideas
or what do you want to eat for lunch i
have no ideas really
so if you don’t have any ideas nothing
to propose you can use this with an s
at the end of ideas in another sentence
something to do this weekend i have no
ideas
i don’t know the next expression is i
don’t know
i don’t know so michael and i talked
about this in an episode of
english topics many years ago but i
don’t know
is i don’t know the casual contracted
version of i don’t know
i don’t know i don’t know i don’t know
so we use this when we
don’t know the answer to something i
don’t know or when we just want to kind
of like relieve
pressure or when we’re when when we’re
out of things to say
as well i don’t know so when we’re like
not feeling
sure or not feeling confident as well we
can use this phrase
in a sentence why are you asking me i
don’t know
i knew it the last expression is
i knew it i knew it so here we’re using
the past
tense of no the verb to know something
meaning to understand or to comprehend
we’re using the past tense new i knew it
so we used this expression when we
guessed correctly about something or
when
something we thought was true
is proven to be correct so i knew it
i knew it so this is typically said with
a positive
positive voice you hear this a lot in
movies as well i think
all right in a sentence you had my keys
i knew it so those are ten
words and expressions that you can use
for talking about your thoughts
and ideas so i hope that’s helpful if
you like you can try to make an
expression with one of these
in the comments section below the video
let us know if you have any other ideas
as well
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bye-bye hi everybody my name is alicia
and today i’m going to talk about the
correct use of the word
only let’s take a look at a few examples
and see how moving
the word only around in a sentence can
change the meaning of the sentence
all right let’s begin first i want to
define the word only and how i’m going
to use it for this lesson
the word only for this lesson we’re
going to look at it as an adverb so
an adverb which means a single case or a
single
instance of something so there’s nothing
uh different
nothing more nothing less there’s just
this one thing this one
case of something but i want to focus
for this lesson on the importance of the
position
of only in a sentence so
one key to keep in mind when you use the
word only and this is a point for native
speakers and for
non-native speakers we need to place the
word only as close as possible to the
word
or to the phrase that it modifies and by
modifies i mean
only is connected to that phrase only is
changing that phrase in some way
and when i say places at place it as
close as possible to that word i mean
before that word it needs to come before
the word it’s changing before the word
it’s modifying
so i want to show um a few examples of
how to do this
but i’m going to move the word only
around in the same sentence so
let’s take a look i’ll show you what i
mean let’s take a look at this
this sentence uh the base sentence here
is sarah saw michael at the park
a simple sentence so there are two
people involved one action
in this case the past tense saw and then
a location
at the park but i’m going to use the
word only here in a few
different positions to show how much it
can change the meaning of the sentence
depending on where we place it so the
first example here i have is
only sarah saw michael at the park here
the word only
comes before sarah so that means that
these two words are connected
only is modifying sarah in this case
this sentence therefore means that sarah
perhaps in a group of people or with
somebody else
sarah was the only person the single
person
who saw michael at the park maybe there
were other people in the group
she was with but she was the single
person the only person
who saw michael so only sarah saw
michael at the park that’s the meaning
with the placement of only before sarah
here
let’s look at the next sentence sarah
only saw michael at the park
so here only is coming before the word
saw so in this case it’s modifying this
verb
saw this sentence therefore means that
sarah the only thing sarah did her only
action
was to see she only saw michael at the
park
meaning no other actions happened sarah
did not wave to michael sarah did not
greet michael sarah did not throw
something at michael
uh whatever there was no other action
the only action the single action the
sole action
was that she saw michael sarah only saw
michael at the part so the placement
before the verb gives us
this meaning let’s look at one more
example
sarah saw only michael at the park here
only comes before michael in this case
so the connection the modification is
happening here
sarah saw only michael at the park means
she did not see any other people at the
park
so this could mean that there were no
other people
at the park or that maybe
she just she just didn’t see anybody at
the park so
this sentence is a little bit tricky
it’s a little hard to understand
exactly what the writer wants to say but
it could mean
that there were perhaps no people at the
park no
other people at the park that sarah saw
so she went to the park
she saw only michael there was only one
person a single person it was
michael that sarah saw so placing only
before
in this case michael gives us this
meaning
all right one more sentence sarah saw
michael
only at the park so here the word only
is coming before this phrase at the park
this location
in this case meaning that there was a
single place
where sarah saw michael so sarah did not
see michael at the supermarket she did
not see him at the store she did not see
him at school
she saw him only at the park so there’s
a single location where she saw michael
so these four sentences show us how much
the meaning of a sentence can change
depending on our placement of the
of the word only so it’s important to
keep in mind
another thing that i’ve done throughout
this lesson a little bit
is i’ve emphasized with my voice the
word that only is modifying
but i want to make one more point here
in speech
when actually speaking we can stress
words for emphasis and for clarity to
make it very clear
which word in the sentence we want to
emphasize which word we want only
to modify so for example i can say only
sarah
saw michael at the park or sarah only
saw michael at the park
so with your voice you have the ability
to emphasize certain words and certain
phrases
in the sentences however in in
writing it’s not possible to do this so
correct placement of the word only is
quite important
so i wanted to give you a few examples
and it’s just something to think about
the next time you use the word only so
make sure
that you’re placing the word only as
close as possible
to the word that it modifies so just
something to keep in mind all right so
that’s it for this lesson
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please feel free to let us know in the
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hi everybody my name is alicia today i’m
going to talk about how to use the word
almost i’m going to show a few different
example sentences
and give you a couple pointers some
things to watch out for when you’re
using this word
so first let’s look at the meaning of
the word
almost so almost is an adverb
it’s a word that means nearly or not
quite or
not completely it can also mean similar
to something
but not exactly like something so i’ve
got a lot of example sentences here that
i hope to
uh talk about to kind of explain the use
of almost
before i do that though i want to
mention this point over here
almost comes before the word it modifies
so modifies means like almost is
attached you can think of it as being
attached to another word
and almost changes the meaning of that
word so
um using almost before another word or
before another phrase
adds this meaning of nearly or not quite
or not completely
to that word or to that phrase so let’s
begin with that
and look at a few examples i almost
forgot my homework so here almost comes
before the verb
forgot in this case meaning i nearly
forgot my homework
so the word almost like i said almost
should come
before the word it modifies so here it’s
modifying the word forgot so i nearly
forgot my homework i was very close to
forgetting my homework
another example he almost always calls
on his way
home so here it comes before the work
it comes before the word always in this
case
almost always meaning maybe like 95
percent of the time or 90 percent of the
time
so not always but nearly very
nearly always calls on his way home is
the meaning of this sentence
okay let’s look at another one maybe an
opposite meaning here
they almost never leave the house so
here we
we’ve got never as the word that almost
is modifying
so almost never means you can think of
it in terms of a percentage for example
like five percent of the time they leave
the house
very very close to zero but not
quite zero so almost never not quite
never but very near to never
the next one you’re almost finished
you’re almost finished so here almost is
modifying the word
finished so in other words you’re nearly
finished in this case maybe you’re
nearly finished with your job for the
day or you’re nearly finished with
your homework for example you’re almost
finished is the meaning here
let’s look at the next sentence then so
the next sentence is we’re almost
home we’re almost home in this case
almost is modifying the word home
home in this case means uh at your
place of residence so to be in a status
and a status of being
at your at your place yet you’re
dwelling at your residence
so to be almost home means nearly at
your house
in other words so we can modify in this
way
similar to this negative i used up here
with never
we’ve got there’s almost nothing left in
the refrigerator
so again almost nothing in this case so
very nearly no things very nearly maybe
nothing to eat or no
food in the refrigerator so this
sentence means
there’s something in the refrigerator a
few things maybe
but almost nothing so very little of
something
okay the next sentence shows another
point that i want to make about the
placement of the word almost
i mentioned in these initial example
sentences
that the word almost comes before the
word it modifies
as we’ve seen so far however when you’re
using the verb
to be and the variations of it like was
and were for example
almost comes after that verb so let’s
look at an example of that
here we have here here i have uh he was
almost fired from his job so here is my
2b verb in this case using
was he was almost fired from his job so
here
almost follows the verb to be this is a
slight change
i’ll show you one more example sentence
later so again let’s go back to this
first pattern
almost no one came to her party so here
almost
begins the sentence it’s modifying the
word no one
almost no one came to her party so
meaning very few people
came to her party lastly let’s look at
one more
to be example here i was almost
late for the movie so again here’s our
to be verb
i was and almost follows that to be verb
i was almost
late for the movie okay so these are
quite a few
examples of how we can use almost
i want to talk a little bit about some
other ways to use
almost we use almost with time and
quantity expressions
so in these cases we use the word almost
before the time or before the quantity
let’s look at some examples
for example we’ve been waiting almost
two hours so here
two hours is a length of time we use
almost before that so
nearly two hours not quite two hours but
nearly two hours
the next example i’ve lived here for
almost five years so that doesn’t mean
five years exactly but very nearly five
years
same thing here he said they were almost
i’m sorry he said there were
almost 5 000 people so almost 5 000
not quite maybe like 4 900 for example
very nearly 5 000. again the recipe made
almost 200 cookies so again not quite
is the meaning here so all of these kind
of um
we use this when it maybe it’s easier to
round up
to use like the next easily recognizable
number
like it might sound strange in the last
example to say the recipe made 498
cookies
it sounds very very specific and it also
sounds like maybe the speaker
counted each individual cookie so
sometimes that’s really
not reasonable or it might just sound a
little bit strange
so um or also it’s just sometimes not
possible to count
exactly how many people or how many of
something we’re in a situation
but using almost we can make a guess
sometimes
so this is quite a useful thing for time
and quantity expressions
okay so as we’ve seen so far in this
lesson
we can use always with words like always
and never i used it over here for
example heat almost
always and they almost never so just
keep in mind that these have very very
different meanings kind of opposite
meanings so
i almost always means very nearly always
and almost never means very nearly never
but not quite
same thing with um all or nothing or no
so i used an example here there’s almost
nothing for example
so here it means very close to zero if i
used almost
all like almost all the people were
happy it means very nearly
everybody as well so you can kind of see
a pattern here and the same one
is we can see here at the end everyone
and no one
it’s like extreme so um like 100
versus zero percent of something so all
or nothing
everyone or no one we can use almost to
show
that we are very near to these levels
but not
quite at these levels the last thing i
want to mention in this lesson
is a word of caution just be careful
about where you place
almost in a sentence because it can
really affect the meaning of the
sentence
so here let’s look at two very similar
sentences
one he almost told his boss all the
secrets
and two he told his boss almost all the
secrets
these are very different sentences but
they seem very similar
here i’ve used almost before the verb
told
so almost is modifying the word told
here
he almost told his boss all the secrets
meaning he
very nearly told his boss all the
secrets
but he did not he did not so
here almost modifies this verb told
meaning the action itself he almost did
this action
but he did not do the action in this
sentence however
he told his boss almost all the secrets
almost because of its positioning is
modifying the word
all he told his boss almost all the
secrets
meaning he told his boss very nearly
everything all of the secrets so maybe
like 95
90 to 95 percent of the secrets he told
his boss
so the action happened he did tell his
boss
but he didn’t tell everything in this
case
so please keep this in mind your
placement the place in the sentence
where you use the word
almost can create very very different
meanings
so remember this point here almost
should come before the word it modifies
so when you’re writing and when you’re
speaking you should think carefully
about this
also remember when you’re using the verb
to be almost should come
after that verb finally when you’re
speaking as i am right now we
do have the ability to use our voices we
can emphasize
key words we can stress them with our
voices to make it clear which word we
want to emphasize
however we can’t really do that in
writing so it’s really important
to consider to think about where we
place the word
almost when we’re writing so i hope that
this lesson was useful for you
if you have any questions or any
comments please feel free to let us know
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hi everybody my name is alicia today i’m
going to talk about the difference
between
which and that which and that are both
relative
pronouns but a lot of people confuse the
two
so let’s talk about how to use them okay
first a quick overview which
first we use which in what are called
non-restrictive relative clauses
we use that on the other hand in
restrictive
relative clauses so before we continue
let’s talk about the difference between
non-restrictive clauses and restrictive
clauses
the difference here a non-restrictive
clause first of all where we use
which is a clause that does not have
information
essential to understanding the noun it
is connected to i’ll show you some
examples in just a minute
a restrictive clause however is a clause
that has information
essential to our understanding of that
noun
so we need the information in the
restrictive clause
to completely understand the noun or the
noun phrase it is attached to
a non-restrictive clause is sort of
extra information
we don’t need the information to
understand the noun or the noun phrase
it just provides some more information
so let’s take a look at a few examples
of this the first example i have is
rather extreme
but it’s just to show the differences
between these two
first the school that i parked my car
next to
is dangerous so here my noun is school
here i’ve got the relative pronoun that
i have the school that i parked my car
next to
is dangerous i’ve used that here because
my clause is a restrictive clause i need
this information the school that i
parked my car
next to is dangerous if i remove this
the school is dangerous the sentence is
correct
however the meaning changes uh
the key here is that i parked my car
there so i want to
explain that specifically the school
that i parked my car
next to this school in particular is
dangerous
so that shows us that it’s a restrictive
clause we have to use that in this
sentence because the information
is essential to our understanding
in this sentence however the school
which has a tennis court
is dangerous i’ve used which so which
is a non-restrictive is used in
non-restrictive clauses
this shows us it is extra information
the school
has a tennis court do i need to know
this information
no it’s just extra information if i
remove this clause
the school is dangerous the root
sentence the basic
sentence stays the same this is just
extra information
it doesn’t necessarily tell us uh
essential information
about the situation so we use which to
show that it’s a
non-restrictive relative clause as i
said this is a rather extreme
example so let’s take a look at
something that’s a little bit more
uh complex okay let’s look at the next
two sentences
first the car which i bought last year
is already having trouble and
the car that i bought last year is
already having trouble
these are very similar sounding
sentences however
our choice of which or that as well as
the commas which i’ll talk about later
have changed the meaning so there are a
couple key differences here
one by seeing that in the first sentence
that we’re using a non-restrictive
clause here with which
we see the car which i bought last year
this shows us that this is
extra information about the car here
however
we see that this is essential
information the car that i bought last
year is already having trouble
so the speaker could be saying here with
this sentence the second sentence
the card that i bought last year
specifically a car that the speaker
purchased the previous year
this sentence means therefore the
speaker might have
other cars the speaker is specifically
meaning this
specific car that they he or she bought
last year
in this sentence with the
non-restrictive clause we don’t have the
same nuance
the car which i bought last year is just
extra information in this sentence
so here the car that i bought last year
this is indicating a specific car
this one with the non-restrictive claws
it’s just giving us extra information
so the speaker may or may not have
another car
we don’t know so that’s all i want to
say about that okay
but a question that many people have is
how do you know whether it’s a
restrictive or a non-restrictive clause
so this is a quick tip
a quick hint uh for native speakers and
non-native speakers actually is it
restrictive non-restrictive how do i
know
to do that remove the clause just take
the clause out of the sentence
is the meaning of the sentence the same
is the sentence still grammatically
correct is it okay
if yes if the sentence is okay the
meaning is the same
it’s a non-restrictive clause if no if
the meaning
changes if you lose some key information
it is a restrictive clause
so this is a quick hint if you’re not
sure whether to use which
or whether to use that try this test
this quick test just take it out and see
if the meaning changes
the last thing i want to talk about here
is the use of commas
so you’ll notice i used commas
throughout this lesson
and also when i was reading they kind of
create a natural pause around this extra
information
but when do you use them we should use
commas
around non-restrictive clauses so you
can see
i used them here
and here in the example sentences we use
commas around non-restrictive clauses
only
again this lesson comma which is being
recorded
comma is about which and that so
when you’re reading it creates a natural
pause so the reader knows there’s going
to be like
extra information there the reader can
understand through use of these commas
however do not use commas around
restrictive clauses for example
the lesson that i just taught was about
how to use which
and that this is a restrictive clause so
i
mean specifically this lesson that i
just taught
was about how to use which and that i
should not include commas here
because i’m not including any extra
information all of the information
is essential it’s the same with all of
the other example sentences i used in
this lesson there are no commas included
because all of the information is
essential the reader needs to understand
everything in one piece you can think of
it that way
okay so that’s an overview of the
differences between
which and that restrictive clauses as
well and
a couple of comma tips too so i hope
that this was a useful lesson for you
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ten ways to report speech let’s
go say the first word
is say say as a verb say
is a very neutral word you can use to
report
someone’s speech to explain something
someone said in the past so for example
he said the barbecue was cancelled
just a simple neutral report
tell the next verb is tell
tell is used when one person is giving
information to
another to tell someone something they
did not know before
don’t say tell me your phone number
that’s weird but like
can you tell me where the station is can
you tell me where to buy
a hamburger can you tell me where to
pick up my new car like so giving
someone information they don’t know or
or on the other hand explaining
something one way to another person
so don’t tell me what i can’t do is a
very good lost reference if you’ve ever
watched lost
so tell another example sentence my boss
told me i was doing a good job
speak the next one
is speak speak so we use
speak when we’re talking about uh
language ability like i speak english i
speak japanese
we can use speak in the past tense to
report something but it usually sounds a
little more
formal so like i spoke to my boss about
or
i spoke to my parents about or i spoke
to my
boyfriend or girlfriend about blah blah
blah
that using speak instead of talked
makes it sound a little bit more formal
so you can use
speak but it’s going to sound polite in
a sentence
my colleague spoke with me about an
upcoming project
was like okay the next one
the next two actually are very very
casual expressions
so when you’re speaking with friends and
you’re kind of talking about a quick
maybe somewhat emotional conversation
you will hear
native speakers especially americans
perhaps
this is unique somewhat to americans use
the phrase
was like i was like he was like
she was like this is a very casual way
to report
speech and you’ll hear it often very
very quickly
together so someone will say i was like
what and then she was like no and then i
was like yeah
that’s the kind of pattern you’ll hear
it in very very quick ways to report
speech
but the subject changes i was like he
was like she was like we were like
this is a way to share what happens
quickly instead of i said he said she
said
which might sound a little too formal we
can use i was like
he was like to do that instead so this
is a really fun one and if you can use
this
uh naturally i think that it’ll really
help you sound more natural too
so in a sentence and then he was like i
love that movie
was all the next one is also a similar
to was like
we have the expression was all so was
all don’t worry about all all does not
have the meaning of the whole of
something or a complete something
instead was all this set phrase is used
to report speech
usually this one is used when there’s
some kind of emotional
uh emotional aspect to your conversation
or it’s a little dramatic or
maybe a little exciting we use it the
same way as
was like in that very very quick style
of speaking
and then he was like and i was all and
she was like and i was all
we use those together but i was all has
a little more emphasis
i feel i tend to use it when my when i
want to express a stronger emotion
and i was all no way or and i was all
what
so you can use it for those very like
surprised emotions or maybe angry
emotions
was like and was all are both used in
very casual situations
so in a sentence and i was all oh my god
me too
talk the next word is talk
so talk similar to uh say
is a fairly neutral verb when reporting
speech
you’ll use it in a situation where
someone
is giving new information to you
but maybe it’s a two-way conversation so
for example
we talked about blah blah blah
for a topic or my boss talked
to me about blah blah blah so maybe
new information is being exchanged but
the conversation
is two way there are multiple
participants with tell it’s like
the nuance is sort of one person is
reporting information
giving information with talked it’s
there’s an exchange happening there
so keep in mind when you use the word
talk
you will say either i i talked to or i
talked
with someone and then you’ll usually
have a topic so i talked to my friend
about blah blah blah i talked to my
friend about my new apartment i talked
to my boss about a raise i talked to my
boss
no i talked to my dog about what dogs do
so there’s some kind of there’s some
kind of exchange
happening there you’ll need to use to or
with
when you’re referring to the person or
entity you’re talking to
and you’ll use about to refer to the
subject
so you can use this one um yeah when
you’re when you want to discuss
exchanges of information so in a
sentence she talked to me about my
family
mention let’s go to the next one the
next one is
mention mention is used when like
something
is just there’s just one small point in
a conversation like
just a little side note or maybe it’s
not the focus of a conversation but just
something someone says
quickly or there’s just a little thing
that you hear
oh you mentioned something about blah
blah blah or
you mentioned that a new project like
it’s it’s maybe not the focus of the
conversation but something that
you heard a little bit about that’s
that’s when we use the verb
mention we can also use it in a
statement like please
uh mention any skills you have on a
resume so
the nuance is sort of like a like just a
little bit of information
is when we use mention so in a sentence
our manager mentioned upcoming changes
at the company
to go on and on okay the next expression
is to go
on and on so to go on and on means just
to
talk for a very long time so maybe you
have a co-worker or a friend or a family
member
that just talks and does not stop
talking
we say to go on and on that’s the
expression we use so in a sentence
the speaker at the seminar was going on
and on about the topic if you really
want to emphasize it you can say what’s
going on and on and on and on and on and
that really emphasizes that the person
continues to speak
so if you know somebody um who does that
a lot you can use this
expression to talk about them according
to
the next expression here is according to
according to
is used actually in the news or like to
officially report something
so according to sources or according to
the police according to the government
official according to
my teacher according to my mother these
are like direct reports
of information and they’re direct
reports of information
from a specific source so according to
the newspaper
my f neighborhood has 50
000 amazing ramen shops
that’s not true but if
i want to instead of just saying my
neighborhood has 50 000
amazing ramen shops i’m giving a source
for that so according to my newspaper
this is this is where i got the
information so this is important to use
in
news and newspapers and any kind of
official documentation you will see and
hear according to
in these cases ah in a sentence
according to a witness at the scene the
suspect escaped
report great so um the next one is
report so reports
similar to according to we use report in
more official situations so
to officially share information like to
report to the police to report to your
teacher to report to
your boss sometimes it means to submit
documentation
like to to give someone a written report
sometimes
it’s to share information officially
just just with your voice to report
news or to report an update so when you
want to
give and give official information we’ll
use the verb report
so in a sentence sources in the area
report that the accident was not serious
thank goodness all right top 10
must-know phrases for the restaurant
let’s get started
a table for three please a table for
three please you tell them the number of
people that you are
total so that the host can bring you to
an appropriate table
a table for two please a table for
five please could i please see a menu
could i please see a menu usually
menus are given to you as soon as you
sit down at your table
but if that’s not the case and you need
to ask this is a polite way to do it
could i please see a menu i’d like to
try this dish
i’d like to try this dish when looking
at a menu
hopefully you’ll find something you want
to eat i’d like to try this dish
could you leave out the onions could you
leave out the
onions if there’s an ingredient in the
dish that you’re ordering that you don’t
want
you can always ask the waiter if it
could be prepared
without that ingredient so for example i
might say
could i get the burger but with no
cheese could you pass the salt
could you pass the salt when you’re at a
restaurant especially if you’re at a big
table with a lot of people
you might not always be able to reach
things
so you would ask could you pass me the
salt
could you pass me the ketchup could you
pass me another napkin
waiter waiter a waiter is someone who
takes your order
and brings you food in america and in
many other western countries
it’s more polite to call a waiter to
your table by simply saying
excuse me or if you see another waiter
walking by but it’s not your waiter
you can always say excuse me if you see
our waiter could you please let them
know to come to our table
is there any dairy in this dish is there
any dairy in this dish
this is something you would say if you
have a dairy allergy
a dairy intolerance or you just don’t
like dairy
you’re asking the waiter about the
ingredients in a particular dish
i do this all the time is there any
cheese in this
no okay and if there is an ingredient
that you don’t want
for example onions you could say are
there any onions in this
and the waiter might say yes and if you
don’t want it you could always request
could you leave out the onions could you
prepare it without the onions please
can we get separate chex can we get
separate chex
this is actually something that’s very
common especially in america
if you might go out with a group of
friends or even if you’re on a date
sometimes you might want to get separate
checks pay for your own things
that way you can all pay separately just
for what you yourself ordered
and you won’t have to worry about owing
each other money or
calculating off a big huge bill are
there any specials today
are there any specials today a special
at a restaurant
is a dish that isn’t usually on the menu
it’s something that’s
special but it’s a special that the chef
is offering
that day or that week or that month
so sometimes if you don’t see what the
specials are you’d ask your waiter
excuse me are there any specials today
could we have the bill please
could we have the bill please this is
how you request
that the check or the bill comes to your
table can we get the check
please could we get the bill please
you’re asking this to your waiter who
will then
bring you the check and you can pay want
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