How To Change Your Mind Now That I Think About It Advanced English Vocabulary
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm it is really cold here well
now that I think about it maybe it’s not
so cold let’s talk about it here in the
u.s. it’s fall time and it’s starting to
get cold at least I think it’s kind of
cold but the other day I had a
conversation with my friend Casey who
used to live in Minnesota which is one
of the coldest places in the u.s. I was
interviewing her for the course The
Fearless fluency Club where I interview
one of my friends each month about
another topic and we were talking about
winter in Minnesota
I used to think that where I lived was
cold but I changed my mind
and that is how we can use today’s
expression today’s expression is now
that I think about it can you imagine
what that means from my story and from
my tone of voice this means that you
have changed your mind about something
so as I was talking with my friend about
her experience in the north in Minnesota
they have snow for nine months it’s just
so cold I might say ah it is so cold
here and then she tells me about the
north and I say ah now that I think
about it it’s not so cold here after all
now that I think about it it’s not so
cold let’s talk about a couple other
examples maybe your friend says to you
learning English is so hard it’s so
complicated and difficult well you could
say well you can use the Internet you
can learn with Vanessa’s lessons you can
use all of this material online to learn
English it’s so much more than what was
available 10 or 20 years ago your friend
might say hmm now that I think about it
I agree it’s much easier to learn
English nowadays he’s
obvious idea was English is difficult
it’s challenging it’s confusing but then
because of your examples he changed his
mind he said oh now that I think about
it it’s not that hard there’s a lot of
good materials available now that I
think about it so I have a question for
you I want to know when was a time that
you changed your mind when you’re
telling me about this in the comments
below I recommend using this expression
now that I think about it I think this
instead now that I think about it I hope
that this expression is useful to you I
think these are the things that you
don’t really learn in a textbook you
don’t really learn in school because
it’s things that native speakers use but
it doesn’t fit carefully into a grammar
box a lot of schools try to fit things
into a specific grammar category but
expressions like this just don’t fit but
we use them all the time so I hope it’s
useful for you and that you can actually
hear this in TV shows and movies now
that you know about it thanks so much
for learning with me and I’ll see you
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