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immersion is often hailed as the most

efficient and effective way to learn a

foreign language

in many ways it’s true with all the

language learning methods out there

nothing else comes close to having to

think and interact with your environment

in the language you’re learning

unfortunately though

most language learners wrongly assume

that the only way to experience language

immersion

is to pack up and move to a foreign

country but not everyone can afford to

spend a summer abroad just to learn a

foreign language

luckily there are other ways to immerse

yourself

these methods are less obvious but they

are effective in this video we’ll take a

look at five steps you can take

for the ultimate language immersion

experience at home

number one transform your digital world

into your target language

technology is an indispensable part of

modern life

we interact with phones computers

tablets and other electronic devices

throughout the day

why not take these interactions and use

them to practice your target language

most devices give you the option of

switching the language of the operating

system

switching your phone or laptop interface

to your target language

won’t make you fluent but it will help

you engage with the language in a very

practical way

multiple times every day another way to

transform your digital life

is to check which sites you use on a

daily basis and use them in your target

language also

a great example of this is switching

your version of google

using google in your target language

will allow you to search for things in

that language

and you’re more likely to get results in

that language as well

so if you’re looking for a popular band

a show or

food something that’s usually written in

your target language

it will actually be easier to find

information about it if you switch your

version of google

of course you can also change popular

social networks like facebook or twitter

you can even go to news sites for your

fill of global news

do you like podcasts try listening to a

couple popular podcasts in your target

language

number two write out a speech or

conversation in your target language

a surefire way to increase your ability

in a foreign language

is to write out a mock conversation or

speech in that language

pretend you have to give a speech on one

of your favorite topics

it could be anything from sports hobbies

or even your favorite movie genre

now take some time to write out your

fictitious speech

inevitably you will hit some roadblocks

but when you get stuck

research the words or grammar points you

don’t know

this is a highly effective and practical

way to increase your vocabulary

and it’ll help you practice thinking in

a different language

writing a long connected train of

thoughts exposes the gaps and weaknesses

in your

language studying once you know what

these are you’re free to practice them

and use them to continue on with your

speech this is also a great way to learn

new words in the context of your entire

speech

context is king when you’re learning a

language learning words in the context

of other words and sentences

helps you surmise what new words mean it

also helps you get comfortable with how

these words are practically used

not to mention context helps you to

remember and recall new information more

easily

number three practice with native

speakers

there are a lot of great learning

resources out there for anyone learning

a new language

however nothing quite comes close to

practicing the language with a real

person if you live in or around a large

metropolitan area

there’s a chance that there are some

native speakers nearby

check and see if your area has any local

language exchanges or language speaking

groups

you’re likely to find a native speaker

there if you can’t make a connection

locally you can search online

just as there are language exchanges in

the real world there are also

online ones most of which are free

number four

connect with other language learners

native speakers aren’t the only people

who can age you on your language

learning journey

practicing with other learners is also

helpful don’t worry if you practice with

someone who has a higher

or lower level in the language than you

if you’re the more advanced learner you

can learn a lot

by teaching someone else as you help

someone else understand difficult words

or grammatical concepts

you’ll find that you start to better

understand them yourself

if your learning partner has a higher

level they can be the one to help

you overcome the hurdles you encounter

as a beginner after all

what better way to learn than from

someone who as a language learner has

been in your shoes

number five reward yourself in your

target language

at the end of a busy day we all love a

little relaxation

and me time one of the most enjoyable

and effective ways to develop your

language skills

is to kick back and enjoy the language

while doing leisure activities

whether it’s listening to music watching

a movie or tv show

reading a book or even enjoying a good

online video binge

even spending just an extra 30 minutes a

day doing something you love in your

target language

can yield some serious long-term results

if you’re a beginner start with more

basic content

you might have to start out listening to

simple songs or even watching children’s

shows

after a while though you’ll be able to

dive into the meatier stuff

and more engaging stuff as your

proficiency increases

learning a foreign language doesn’t mean

you have to spend your days straining

over grammar rules or textbooks

any way that you can take your learning

off the page and make it more enjoyable

will help you learn faster immersion is

a powerful way to learn a foreign

language

and now more than ever the immersion

experience isn’t limited to just world

travelers

with a little creativity and the right

resources you can experience the

language without

ever having to leave your hometown many

of these resources can be found with our

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bye want to speak real english from your

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i’m going to cook dinner tonight to cook

is to prepare a meal using heat

tonight i’m going to cook chicken

marsala

i’m going to cook beef stew

to fry to fry

i don’t want to fry the chicken because

it’s too

unhealthy to fry something is to cook

something in hot

fat or oil french fries are fried

and fried things are unhealthy so when

you eat fried foods you want to eat in

moderation

i don’t because fried stuff is delicious

but

you should to add to

add before you eat you should taste the

food

and add salt if necessary

to add in this context means to add

something else onto a dish

to put more of something onto a dish so

you might add salt to a dish

or add some paprika to the chicken

to cut to cut could you please cut

up that beef to cut is to use a knife

to cut food to make it into smaller

pieces

usually so you can bite it or so you

can mix it more easily i cut my steak

so i can eat it you make food smaller

into more bite-sized pieces

by cutting to mix

to mix mix all of the spices in a bowl

before putting them in your dish to mix

is to combine so you might combine or

mix

all of your ingredients together before

cooking or

doing something else with them you might

mix ingredients together to create a

dish

breast feed all right the first word is

breast feed breastfeed

means uh feeding a baby

using the milk from the mother so

there’s like baby formula

which you can give to babies um or

there’s just natural milk the mother’s

milk which is breast milk

uh or what the verb that we use is to

breast

feed a baby so in a sentence many

mothers choose to breastfeed their

children

in this sentence you’re not supposed to

drink alcohol while breastfeeding

change a diaper the next expression is

change a diaper change a diaper so

diapers are the

pieces of cloth or like the disposable

things that babies wear because

babies of course don’t have the ability

to use the bathroom like a grown

uh human or like even like children can

babies need diapers so to change a

diaper means

uh to take off a used diaper and put a

new

clean diaper on a baby in a sentence i

had hoped that i’d never have to change

a diaper in my life

put on a bib the next expression is to

put on a bib

so a bib is any is like a protective

cloth that goes right here so actually

at some restaurants even for adults like

um where there’s

like a lot of oil or even like ribbed

restaurants i think sometimes

they’ll give you like customers a bib

but for babies who are very messy eaters

you can put a bib on the baby to protect

the baby’s clothes while they eat

so in a sentence put on his bib and give

him some mashed carrots

change clothes the next expression is

change clothes again of course you can

use this for yourself or or for adults

this is not an

a baby only phrase this is not a baby

only phrase

so to change clothes if the baby’s

clothes are dirty or it’s just time to

i don’t know you just need to change the

baby’s clothes you can say

uh let’s see like let’s change the

baby’s clothes

that’s all uh so in a sentence after her

accident she had to change her clothes

that’s a weird out of context sentence

sing a lullaby

ah the next expression is sing a lullaby

sing a lullaby

lullaby is a song that is especially to

help

a child go to sleep so they’re usually

really like quiet

soft songs they have like a nice

like soothing sound to them so singing a

lullaby

is like a classic way to calm

an upset child down so for example let’s

see when i was little my mother used to

sing me a lullaby before going to sleep

that’s true she sang me edelweiss from

the sound of music

my mom used to sing me lullabies that

she’d made up on the spot

that’s that if i ever become a mom

that’s gonna be me like i’m just making

up the lullaby i’m gonna be like

go to sleep i’m really tired i hope you

to sleep now i think you should

the first expression is i think you

should

blah blah blah i think you should is a

very

neutral not so strong not so weak way to

give advice

i think you should get a different

haircut i think you should

find a new job i think you should give

all your money can’t hurt i think you

should is a very typical

uh way to give advice or just i think is

okay or

you should is okay too in this sentence

i think you should find a new apartment

why don’t you the second expression

is why don’t you blah blah blah so

it uses the negative why don’t you

so that means it’s a bit softer it’s a

bit more of a weak way to give advice

so why don’t you uh take a day off

or why don’t you help me with my

homework

uh that’s sort of a sneaky way to give

advice and ask for help at the same time

why don’t you um i don’t know find a new

hobby for example

so these are kind of weak ways to give

advice

in this sentence why don’t you get a pet

have you thought about have you thought

about

blah blah blah so have you thought about

sounds it’s you’re giving your advice

but this is a question for the

listener so have you thought about blah

blah blah it’s

you’re you’re sharing your opinion but

you’re kind of making it

sound like uh maybe it was the

listener’s idea or maybe the listener

has thought of this thing before

so this is also a fairly soft way to

give advice

so like have you thought about

going to a different city have you

thought about moving in with your

friends something like that so these

these are probably going to be

um questions that are a little bit more

serious like i don’t feel like we would

use this for

really casual or really light questions

but maybe for something a little more

serious and a soft way to give advice in

this sentence

have you thought about looking for a new

job i don’t know if

is a good idea so this is um kind of

a negative way to give

advice or to share your opinion it’s i

don’t know if blah blah blah

is a good idea so

you’re giving someone advice not to do

something

so for example i don’t know if getting a

pet is a good idea

or i don’t know if starting a new

project is a good idea

these are different ways that you can

say uh you don’t think

or you think that the other person

should not do something but this is a

soft way to express it

in this sentence i don’t know if taking

a year off work

is a good idea maybe you should try

the next one is a suggestion to try

something so this is a soft but

kind of encouraging expression maybe you

should try

blah blah blah maybe you should try blah

blah so

uh you are encouraging someone to

attempt something to try something maybe

not forever but just for a short period

of time

so maybe you should try volleyball maybe

you should try

playing sports maybe you should try uh

spicy food maybe you should try

something so it’s encouragement to do

something new this is kind of positive

but it’s a fairly

soft way to give your advice here

maybe you should try studying a new

skill 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

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

sing along to a favorite song alright so

the first

tip for improving your pronunciation is

to sing along to a favorite song

so if you uh i should add though this

favorite song should be in your target

language so if you’re studying

english pick a favorite english song and

sing along to that song

or try to sing to the song just from

memory too so

singing along to your favorite song can

help you with pronunciation can help you

with the rhythm

sometimes of the language you’re trying

to learn

so it can be really fun and it can be a

good way to practice your pronunciation

in a sentence i like singing along to my

favorite

songs read out loud the next tip for

your pronunciation is to read

out loud so uh reading out loud you can

choose something that’s interesting

for you in your in english if english is

the language you’re studying

so pick something maybe it’s a news

article or maybe it’s a book

you’re interested in maybe there’s an

author you’re interested in

find something in your target language

in english

and try reading it out loud so don’t

just read in your mind

but read the words out loud speak them

so that you can get comfortable

pronouncing those words

and you can try reading the same passage

or the same sentence multiple times to

make it smoother

so this can be a really good tip for and

i think it also improves your natural

ability to pick up grammar too because

if you’re reading something like in a

book for example you can kind of pick up

the natural rhythm of grammar and you

also

slowly get a feeling for the correct

ways

that words should connect together so

this i think is a really good tip

in a sentence i sometimes read out loud

to practice

pronunciation that’s true repeat lines

you hear in tv shows

the next tip is to repeat lines you hear

or the words you hear in tv shows or

movies things like that

so um this means not only words

don’t only repeat single vocabulary

words yes maybe you find a vocabulary

word that is really interesting

or it sounds funny or something like

that but

by repeating a full sentence or a full

line in a tv show or in a movie you’re

putting the words together so not just

one word but making a whole sentence so

feeling kind of the flow

of your language that you’re studying so

this can be a better way to

actually practice making sentences in

repeating sentences

instead of just words so you can repeat

after characters and tv shows i

sometimes do this when i’m like watching

japanese tv

ah and then i try and spit it back out

it’s hard to do sometimes when it’s like

the first time you’ve heard a word or

the first time you’ve heard a grammar

point

but you can still understand that

sentence it’s interesting so try to say

and it’s kind of fun actually i think in

a sentence

try repeating lines from tv shows to

practice

practice speaking in phrases not single

vocabulary words

the next tip this is very similar to my

tv show tip is to practice speaking

in phrases not in vocabulary words not

just single vocabulary words

even if you’re not repeating lines from

tv shows

when you practice speaking don’t just

speak

in nouns so sometimes for example uh

i’ll hear people just use

noun like they’ll use a noun and maybe a

verb

like i tomorrow beach

something like that and yes we can

probably guess

based on that how like the the meaning

the speaker’s meaning

but you need to practice making a whole

sentence so yes you know those words i

tomorrow and beach and the listener can

probably guess what you mean

but you need to practice all those

little words in the middle like

like i’m going to the beach tomorrow so

make a full sentence practice making

full sentences

don’t only practice single vocabulary

words make the whole line

it’s really good sometimes i think my

students get irritated like they’ll

like i force them to practice full

sentences like so

i’ll say like have you ever been to

germany and they’ll say yes i’m like

okay for the purposes of practice

can you make a full sentence and they’ll

say i have been to germany like that’s

an extreme

example but like i try to push that

you know making the full sentence it’s

it’s silly sometimes but

just trying to do that okay uh so in a

sentence

speaking in entire phrases is helpful

for practicing the rhythm

of a new language speak a lot with your

teacher

and ask them to be strict with you

onwards

okay so the next tip is to speak a lot

with your teacher

and ask them to be strict with you so

this is kind of two tips in one

one speak with your teacher so if you

have a teacher

um make sure you’re speaking in their

class if you

if if wherever possible sometimes i’ll

have students join my class and maybe

they feel shy or whatever

and they don’t speak very much but

please speak with your teacher so that

your teacher

can correct you your teacher can give

you at least if they’re a native speaker

or maybe even if they aren’t a native

speaker

your teacher can give you corrections

and if you don’t speak your teacher

cannot help you

in most cases so please speak with your

teacher and

if you like you can tell them please be

strict about my pronunciation

so sometimes people will say please help

me with my pronunciation

specifically and then i can stop them

every time they make a mistake and we

practice that sound

especially th sounds like the like

using using your mouth a little bit

differently

can be really uncomfortable for some

people but if

you’re a teacher can point out those

things like th sounds

the this that these those those th

sounds ending er

sounds um practicing those with your

teacher can be a really good way

to work on your pronunciation so in a

sentence

speak a lot with your teacher they can

correct you and help you improve

concert the first word for talking about

music

is concert concert is a live show

concert is yeah the performance is

happening

in front of your eyes so uh concerts are

really popular worldwide i think

depending on where you live you might

hear them called live

shows but usually in american english we

just say concert

a concert so in a sentence i’m going to

a concert this weekend

to see in concert the next expression is

the verb we use

for a live show so the next expression

is to see

in a concert or to see in concert so we

use

uh the artist’s name along with this

phrase so for example i’m going to see

coldplay in concert i’m going to see

adele

in concert so you use i’m going to

see artist name in concert or

um in a concert what are you saying in

concert or in a concert both

are okay so in a different sentence i’m

going to see my favorite band in concert

meaning live who do i want to sing in

concert i want to see michael jackson in

concert

yeah i would have loved to see him in

concert he’s my favorite

to listen to music to listen to artists

the next word or the next phrase is to

listen to

plus music or to listen to an artist so

you can use uh this verb with

the type of music or with the specific

artist or band or group that you like so

i like to listen to rock music i like to

listen to

pop music whatever another sentence is i

like listening to beyonce

i like yeah so you can use to listen to

listening to both are fine here i like

listening to

funk it’s fine i like listening to funky

artists is fine i like listening to

queens of the stone age is fine all of

these are great

who do you listen to i listen to lots of

things

to write a song to write music the next

expression is to write a song

or to write music so if you want to

make music yourself you can say write a

song which just means one

song maybe three or four minutes usually

uh in popular music or to write music in

general so

um you can use both of these expressions

song is more specific

music is more general so in a sentence

my friends started writing songs

recently

or in a different sentence writing music

is really fun

track the next expression is track

track so we can use song yes but

for example when you look at a an album

like on itunes or maybe like a cd for

example

each uh each song is assigned a number

that’s the track

number so we can say uh i like track

number three

or track three we use track to talk

about

a song so you can say this is a good

song

or this is a good track both are okay to

use

song and track are both fine um so in a

sentence i

really like that track from his album

happy the first word is happy

as you might have guessed happy happy is

a happy word when you feel good when you

feel positive when you are

excited you can say i’m happy i was so

happy to see my friend the other day

what makes me happy food i’m happy right

now

energetic energetic when you feel happy

perhaps you also

feel energetic you have that sort of

like uplifting feeling this chair is

squeaking every time i move

up i don’t really describe my friends or

people as energetic i might say a dog or

a cat

is energetic like wow your dog is so

energetic

what is she doing she’s running

everywhere is she okay

maybe i would say about myself i’m very

energetic today

if i’ve had a lot of coffee like now

lonely

the next word is lonely lonely i don’t

want to talk about this word it’s sad

maybe you’ve been spending a lot of time

alone or there’s someone that you really

want to see

or you want to see your family members

or maybe you’re working too much i don’t

know whatever it is maybe

you’re just you feel like you want to

talk to people or you want to see people

be around people

but you can’t you can use the word

lonely to describe that feeling

i i’ve only been working for the last

few months i haven’t had a chance to

spend much time with my friends i’m

feeling kind of

lonely nervous the next word is

nervous nervous is used for any um

tension

any anxiety excited but in a bad way

about something when i was a child

before my piano performances i would get

nervous i would be so nervous my hands

would start to shake and then i couldn’t

play the piece i’d been practicing for

months that’s why this is great because

you’re not here

forgive me don’t be disappointed in me

upset

upset is a really really useful word

anytime you feel

sad angry depressed disappointed

unhappy in general you can say i’m upset

or he or she is upset

it’s just a general unhappy word but it

doesn’t mean

unhappy it just means something is wrong

there’s a way a person usually behaves

but i’m upset means something’s not

right in a sentence i might say i’m

really upset about my performance last

year

i was too nervous and my parents were

disappointed in me i’m sad now

whoa yeah okay equation

the next math word is equation equation

uh up until now we’ve been talking about

a part of an equation but the whole

math problem uh everything there

is called the equation so the process

that you need to do

in order to solve an equation

an equation is something that you do to

solve a problem this this part is the

equation this part is the solution

the the ending the result is the is the

solution the problem is called the

equation the process the math process

you do

to find a solution percent percent this

is very

a very useful word you can use uh of

course when doing math

or math problems but you can also use

this

when shopping for example so a sale is

five percent

off 10 percent off it represents a

discount you can also use percent to

describe

effort levels for example a sports team

a coach might tell his team

i need you to work at a hundred percent

today so it

it’s used to express the level of

something but it can also be used

in sales and in math related terms npc

npc means non-playable character there

are other characters within the game

that move the story forward

but that you cannot play as you cannot

become

that character but you interact with

them i have to

talk to an npc in order to move this

quest

forward next is camper a camper is

someone who is waiting

for a creature to spawn

so a person who’s waiting for the

monster to appear is called the camper

you can use camping as a verb too to

talk about that like i’m camping

this monster really people camp other

players

i suppose so depending on the kind of

game you’re playing mmo is a massively

multiplayer online game

means you can play online with a lot of

different people essentially

the next word is sister a female sibling

is your sister you can also use sister

for a female person that you feel very

very

close with so i might call my female

friend who’s i’m very close to my sister

my brother likes to shorten it to sis

you might also hear sista

as well if you are silly

sister whoopi goldberg was in a famous

movie called sister act

the next word is brother brother is a

male sibling

you can also use brother to refer to a

close male friend

common variations of brother are brother

bro

bra rosie broski depending on what kind

of person you are you can choose to use

any number of those

like i might sarcastically say to my

friend cool story bro

like if he’s told me a story that’s not

very exciting in mario for example the

name of the mario games is actually

super mario

brothers but brothers is abbreviated as

b-r-o-s super mario bros

yeah just be careful about your use of

bro because it sounds a little bit

like a college age boy uh that’s kind of

kind of the feeling of the word bro

oh brother where are though sand castle

the next word is sand castles sand

castles are

usually kids make them they use like

buckets so kids will like put sand in a

bucket or like they

move sand into piles and design

castles or these really complicated

mazes or something they make things make

buildings out of sand we call those sand

castles so in a sentence my brother and

i used to make sand castles on the beach

when we were kids that’s true

in this sentence get the buckets and

we’ll make a sand castle

cooler so cooler is a noun in this case

cooler is the place you keep your drinks

and your food

it’s a it looks like a suitcase but it

has a special

lining inside that keeps cold

things cold so you can put ice inside

and it will keep your food and drinks

cold while you are at the beach

in the hot weather so in a sentence uh

did you put a bunch of beers in the

cooler i forgot ice for the cooler

the next word is small small smaller

smallest small

and little are extremely similar i would

pretty much use them in the same way

however we don’t say when i was a small

kid

we say when i was a little kid or you

could say when i was small

the next word is large large and big are

very much the same i will say though

that large is used on clothing sizes big

is not

when we talked about big we talked about

how big can be used to refer to

something that’s very popular

large is not used to refer to something

that’s popular large is used

on for for sizing i feel only so like a

house can be large

but it’s used to refrigerate like the

physical size of something

uh large and in charge large larger

largest

this is the largest the

bottom is in the zoo i have to go

daughter daughter a daughter is a female

child

i wonder if i will ever have a daughter

brother-in-law

brother-in-law so we use in-law to mean

our married partners family members

not my brother but my partner’s brother

in-law

is used after any family member’s

position or family member’s

title to show they they belong to my

partner’s

family originally but now they’re part

of my my extended family

as well i’m going out for drinks with my

brother-in-law tomorrow night

father-in-law father-in-law so we have

in-law here meaning

uh my partner’s father so my

father-in-law is very kind

the next word is work be careful about

using work as a noun and work as a verb

your work refers to your job your

responsibilities your tasks at your

office or your workplace

you can use it in a phrase like i have a

lot of work to do or please help me with

my work

i like to go to work it can be used to

just refer to anything artistic in

general so it can mean

it can be a painting it can be a

building it can be a sculpture it can be

i don’t know whatever anything artsy can

be referred to as

work as in i really like that new work

by that

artist or did you see so-and-so’s new

work twerk

the next word is week uh week refers to

the seven day period that we have

decided

is one week here in the modern world

commonly used in expressions relating to

your

activities as in i go to the gym once a

week or i see my friends twice a week or

i have to work every day of the week

monday through friday is referred to as

weekdays saturday and sunday weekend

next word is month month is um there are

months in a year my favorite month

depending on which country i’m in i

generally like

autumn months like october i think i

usually like the month of october

september october is good because it’s

not too hot not too cold and halloween

is coming and that’s my favorite holiday

hannah montana try oh my gosh try

is the next word ah i’m trying my best i

try every day to

work very hard have you ever tried ramen

i tried ramen yesterday and it was

really good

do you try to exercise every day i’m

trying to sleep

go away the next verb is leave leave

leave me alone leave

your doors unlocked don’t leave your

doors unlocked

i have never left

a hot air balloon without

first taking a picture the next

verb is call call with the next verb

give me a call please call me later

call me maybe call your mom on her

birthday every year she’ll be happy

call call if you’re a seagull

have you ever called the wrong number

have you ever called

a dog by

another dog’s name

clothing clothing

cloud cloud

beard beard

beautiful beautiful

bed bed

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cut it out the next phrase is

cut it out now

this is usually what a parent would say

to a child

when they want them to stop doing

something

stop it in other words cut it out

really it’s any situation that you want

to have stopped

now let’s say my friend likes to

click her pen all the time

and i’m getting really annoyed i would

turn to her and say

cut it out michelle i’m upset

the next phrase is i’m upset

upset here means not happy

angry frustrated

i’m upset you can say this in many

different ways the intonation is

important if you’re trying to remain

calm

what’s wrong becky i’m upset

i mean i’m really upset but i’m not

going to show you or you can really just

yell this like i’m upset with you

i’m upset who do you think you are who

do you think you

are so you say this to someone

when you feel that they’re being way too

proud

maybe way too selfish they think they’re

number one

they’ve done something and you can’t

believe they

were so bold as to do that like who do

you think you are

superman you can’t run that marathon

tomorrow with no training

who do you think you are who do you

think you are the president of the

universe

watch your mouth watch your mouth

we say this when someone is using bad

language or language we think is too

strong

for the situation a lot of parents will

say this to their kids

or a lot of you know people fighting in

a relationship might

say that to each other so i’m not going

to use the language here but if i said

something

very strong very rude my mom or

my friend might say hey watch your mouth

be careful about what you say

you’re not listening to me the next

phrase is

you’re not listening to me pretty clear

right yeah you’re not listening to me

let me say it again i don’t

want to go or something like that you’re

not listening to me is used when we’re

getting angry

because we really don’t think that

person is listening to us

so we say hey you’re not listening to me

i’ve been saying it

many times but you’re you’re not

listening to me let me say it again

i want a raise let’s stay together

loving you whether times are good or bad

happy or sad al green from

let’s stay together our first amazing

love quote is

from al green from his song let’s stay

together now first i’m going to

say it for you then i’m going to sing it

okay

let’s stay together loving you

whether times are good or bad

happy or sad now for al green it’s very

important that you get very what we call

groovy you gotta get you feel the groove

and this chorus this comes from the

chorus

let’s let’s stay together

loving you whether times are

good or bad happy or sad

thank you al green that was beautiful al

green love it every time

nice slow song playing on a friday night

with your girlfriend or boyfriend

so this quote i love it because it means

that

al green or whoever is singing it to you

is going to love you

no matter if it’s good times or bad

times

if you’re happy or if you’re sad and it

kind of reminds me of the classic

american wedding vows that we say

we say i will love you this is not exact

but we say i will love you in sickness

or in health till death do we part

i like this song a lot we should love

each other

in good times and bad right it’s not

true love if you’re just loving in good

times right

i want you there in the bad times too

bette midler

from wind beneath my wings our second

amazing love quote

is you are the wind beneath my wings

we first heard this from bette midler in

her song

wind beneath my wings now this is a very

beautiful song

about it comes from a movie called

beaches

that was about two basically best

friends

so she’s singing this to her best

girlfriend and she’s saying you are the

wind beneath my wings in fact you are

the person who gives me this feeling

that i can fly

and you support me so that i feel like i

can fly so you’re the wind kind of

beneath my wings and it’s this

line is in the chorus repeated many

times in the song

and uh it goes like this did you

ever know that you’re my hero

you’re everything i would like to

be i can fly

higher than a knee

goal for you are the wind

beneath my wings

something like that i love that that

movie will make you cry by the way

girls get the tissues ready oh and then

the spell was cast and here we are

in heaven for you are mine

at last etta james from

at last okay our third amazing love

quote is

edda james this is from her song at last

oh and then the spell was

cast and here we are

in heaven for you are mine

at last now let me talk for a minute

about the phrase

the spell was cast it’s kind of like a

witch

that can cast a spell on you and so

if you have a spell cast on you

it’s like you are under this like

this um command from someone else

and you are acting different because

they

made you do something but it’s like

you’re

so in love with this person that it’s

like you’ll do anything for them

you’re under a spell you know we might

say

and so it’s like we’re in heaven

together it feels like we’re in

heaven i’ve been waiting so long to be

with you

here we are you are mine at last

now this may not surprise you but this

is a popular wedding song

eddie james sang this i want to say back

in the 1960s i might have that wrong

but it also became popular from the

beyonce movie

a few years ago where she played etta

james and

beyonce sang this song as well this

quote is right in the middle of the song

so don’t be

don’t be surprised when i start very

strong here here we go

oh and then the spell

was cast and here we are

in heaven

for you a man

at last there’s a lot of quaver

in the voice in that song actually

it does come at the end of the song

sorry not the not the middle but

beautiful song recommend that song at

last

check it out by etta james i keep the

ends out

for the tie that binds because you’re

mine

i walk the line johnny cash

from i walk the line our next amazing

love quote is

from johnny cash one of my favorites the

quote is a little

difficult i think so listen closely i

keep the ends out

for the tie that binds because you’re

mine

i walk the line the tie that binds

means a like a tie or a connection to

someone

you’re bound to that person and johnny

actually wrote this song

for his first wife vivian as kind of a

promise to her that he would not

cheat on her on the road so by this

lyric uh he’s saying i keep my eye out

in case anyone i keep the ends out here

he says which is like his eye

i keep the i my ends out for any

potential connection i don’t want to be

connected to anyone else

because you’re mine i walk the line now

walking the line means like to follow a

strict

line or path and not go out or away from

that line to follow the rules

basically because you’re mine i’m

following the rules

i am keeping my eye out in case i make

any

connections that i’m not hoping or

wanting to make

i keep the ends out for the tie that

binds because you’re mine

i walk the line sorry johnny had to go

high on that one

johnny did not follow those rules in

fact when he met his second wife june

carter cash

who turned out to be the love of his

life and on the day he met her he said

you’re the woman i’m gonna marry someday

my baby don’t care for shows

my baby don’t care for clothes my baby

just cares for me nina simone

from my baby just cares for me

oh my god i love this song oh my god oh

my god i love this song

the next amazing love quote is i’m gonna

say it’s my favorite i

just love this song it’s by one of my

favorite singers of all time nina simone

absolute legend wonderful pianist

okay here’s the quote my baby don’t care

for shows my baby don’t care for clothes

my baby just cares for me now

maybe by the end there you realize my

baby is not

her actual baby like baby no no this is

her

lover her love interest so she’s saying

my baby don’t care for shows my baby

doesn’t care about going to plays

or maybe movies my baby don’t care for

clothes

my baby doesn’t my lover doesn’t care

about buying the latest fashion

trends my baby just cares for me my

lover just cares about me so we don’t

need anything fancy we don’t have to do

anything special

we just need to care and be with each

other and so

it’s a it’s a great it’s a great quote

also notice here the grammar is

completely wrong

my baby don’t you should say my baby

doesn’t

but this is for a stylistic flair if you

will

so here is part of this amazing song

here we go

my baby don’t care for shows

my baby don’t care for clothes

my baby just cares for me

oh where is my piano back up that song

is gorgeous please check out the whole

song

phrase number one i get to check this

off my bucket list

in english we have this phrase to kick

the bucket

which means to die so to make a bucket

list

is to make a list of things to do before

you die

now for me one of mine was to go in a

hot air balloon

i had tried to do it for the first time

in 2009

but the morning i went the trip was

cancelled

so here i am again uh more than

six years later and i’m trying again and

this time it was successful

so i get to check it off my bucket list

i get to do this thing

before i die and i did it english class

101 listeners it was so exciting

so you should make a list of things to

do before you die your own bucket list

phrase number two will you marry me

so today is actually valentine’s day and

it’s

very popular on valentine’s day and

anytime you’re planning to

propose to your special someone to

go to a special place and i can’t think

of a more special place than in a hot

air balloon

there’s enough space trust me in the

basket to kneel down

at least from my country the usa it’s

customary to

get down on one knee it doesn’t really

matter which knee at least i’ve never

thought so

and you get down you kneel on one knee

and you say will you marry me

now unfortunately listeners i did not

see any marriage proposals on my balloon

yesterday

but i bet you today there are over 30

balloons that go off here in bagan

myanmar

i bet you someone proposed oh it would

have been such a beautiful moment

will you marry me that is phrase number

two phrase number three

this is a first for me so going in a hot

air balloon as i said i had never done

it before

so it is a first for me a first being

the first time i have done something

i’m sure there are many firsts that you

can think of in your life that you’ve

had

and maybe many more firsts that you’d

like to have so

this was a first for me or this is a

first for me

phrase number three maybe a first for

you could be the first time that you’ve

ever

had sushi or the first time that you’ve

ever

climbed a mountain i mean there are so

many firsts that you can have

this is a first for me getting in a hot

air balloon

phrase number four the view is

incredible from up here

now this is something that we use in

english to say whenever we’ve gone to

the top of an observation tower

the top of a mountain the top of a

temple like i went to this morning

or really any high place that you go to

to take a great photo or to get an

incredible view

we say the view is incredible from up

here

phrase number five what a ride champagne

time

so at the end of my balloon ride

yesterday as soon as we dropped into the

field below

we had a beautiful picnic basket

unfurled on the field in front of us

and we got to enjoy a glass of champagne

to celebrate

and when we finished something some

incredible ride

some maybe could be in the car on a bus

it could be from a bad experience or a

good but we say

what a ride what a ride and

when we’re about to drink champagne we

say champagne time

this expression from after riding in a

hot air balloon

originally came from the pilots of these

balloons

wanting to make sure the farmers in the

fields where they

landed didn’t get too upset so they

would offer

the farmers some champagne along with

any guests they may have in their

balloons and that’s where the tradition

first came

from so what a ride champagne time

phrase

number five how much is it to

how much is it to how much is it to the

airport

you might ask this question to find out

how much it costs

to take a train or a bus or a taxi

to where you need to go if you get into

a taxi for example

and you ask how much is it to the

airport

the taxi driver will tell you thirty

dollars

he’ll tell you the price you need to pay

to get to the airport

if you’re taking a train you might ask

the ticket seller

how much is it to the airport and the

ticket seller will tell you

the train to the airport costs ten

dollars for example

that way you know how much it costs to

go to where you need to be

does this bus go to does this bus

go to does this bus go to the suburbs

does this bus go to is a way of asking

whether or not the bus that you’re

looking at

has the destination that you need so you

might get on the bus and ask the bus

driver

does this bus go to

the suburbs whatever destination and the

bus driver will answer and tell you yes

get on or no you want a different bus

what time is the next bus what time is

the next bus

what time will the next bus arrive by

asking what time is the next bus

you’re asking when the bus is going to

come to the bus stop

or whatever station the bus will stop at

this way you know what time you need to

be at that bus stop

the train is running late the train is

running late

the train is running late again

this is something i say all the time in

new york city

the train is running late if the train

is running late

that means you will probably be running

late when you get off the train

where are the ticket machines where are

the ticket machines

where are the ticket machines in this

station

a ticket machine is a machine that you

go to to purchase your tickets

you might see this in any station

whether it’s a

subway station or a regular train

station or sometimes even

a bus station there will be kiosks that

you can go to

to enter the information and purchase

your ticket

by watching english movies and tv shows

and enjoying the feeling when you can

understand

a word or a sentence yeah i do this too

when you enjoy something when you find

entertainment value in something like

music

movies tv and you there’s that moment

when you pick up

or when you understand what your

favorite character said or you

understand

like a key point in the story it’s a

really really good feeling

it makes you want to continue watching i

think

so that’s a really really nice feeling i

think

and you can do that by enjoying media so

it’s a fun way to learn and it’s a fun

feeling to experience

okay the next way to motivate yourself

by reading english news articles blogs

and magazines to get a feel for formal

and

casual language so the style that we use

here like in english class

101 and this on the videos on this

channel is quite

casual most of the time or at least in

these videos it’s very casual

but the way that i speak in the way a

newspaper is written the way a magazine

is written the way

a a newscaster presents the information

these are all different ways of

communicating

we’re using the same language yes but

they’re different styles so it’s

important to try to understand those

differences

and to become familiar with them so try

to find a few different things that you

can enjoy

the next way to motivate yourself is

after dinner

you write about your day in a journal

in english okay this is an interesting

idea so just take a few minutes after

dinner

or before you go to bed to write

something in english about what you did

that day or maybe

so you have a chance to talk about

future tense or

to use the future tense you can use you

can talk about

your upcoming plans or the things you’re

going to do the next day

so you can talk about past tense what

you did that day

maybe present tense how you’re feeling

as you’re writing your journal for the

day and

future tense to talk about your upcoming

plan so journaling can be a really

effective exercise for motivating you

okay the next way to motivate yourself

is by practicing with flash cards of

useful words and phrases for 15 minutes

every day on the train i actually do do

this i use but i use an application to

study in japanese

to study kanji and 15 minutes every day

adds up over the course of a week you

can learn a lot of information in a

short period of time

and if you live in the country where

your target language is spoken then you

might even find the word you studied on

the train

you see it like after you leave the

train you might see that word later on

in your day so you can immediately

feel like an extra sense of motivation

by knowing that

this thing you’re studying is applicable

it’s something you can use

right away it’s a really cool feeling so

this is a tip i

honestly i use this last i make sure to

thank

anyone and everyone who corrects my

english uh

yeah i i think this is really important

because people are really nice they

don’t want to correct you when you make

a mistake

but sometimes people do they’re really

polite about it and they tell you the

more tell you a more natural way or they

give you a suggestion for how to improve

your english

make sure you say thank you like repeat

after them and then say

thank you so that you know it’s

motivation for them

to tell you again in the future to help

you again in the future so make sure to

say thank you

to anyone who helps you with your

english personally

i think that or i would just use i think

that

personally makes it sound a little bit

more polite i think

you can use this to introduce an opinion

for example

personally i think that pizza is amazing

personally i think that dinosaurs

would have been delicious personally

i think that cars should

be made

to enjoy

with okay i’m friends

edit there personally i think that you

shouldn’t worry about it yes that’s

probably a much more useful sentence

than dinosaurs would be delicious

the next expression is what does blah

blah blah mean

so where here is the word you don’t know

so for example

what does pasta mean what does

stegosaurus mean so a word like

stegosaurus is a really strange word

that you probably don’t know stegosaurus

is a type of dinosaur we’re on a very

dinosaur

i don’t know jurassic we’re on a

jurassic adventure at the moment so

this is a pattern you use when you don’t

know uh

when you don’t know the meaning of the

word and you would like someone to

explain it to you so if you say

what does stegosaurus mean then someone

can say oh it’s a dinosaur it’s kind of

like it’s a sort of short guy it has a

bunch of spikes on its back and it has a

long tail and it gets into a fight with

the tyrannosaurus rex if you saw the

movie fantasia

by disney okay

so in this sentence what does

complication

mean it means problem okay the next

pattern you can use is

can you tell me more about blah blah

blah

so on a topic that you would like more

information about you can say

can you tell me more about the soccer

game last week can you tell me more

about

the plan for the party next week so

something you would like more

information about you can say

can you tell me more about this thing

okay so in a sentence can you tell me

more about your

sandwich options that is a useful

sentence

that is a useful sentence okay in this

sentence here uh

we don’t have that back home can you

tell me more about it

this is use the reverse pattern okay uh

the next

expression is if it were up to me

if it were up to me i had to teach this

in a class a couple weeks ago actually

if it were up to me means if i could

make the decision

if this was my if this were my decision

uh blah blah blah so meaning if i could

make the

choice this is what i would do but one

point here

is the nuance is it is not my decision

this is not my decision but if it were

my decision i would do blah blah blah

so for example if it were up to me every

day would be saturday

but it’s not right so um

that’s that’s always the underlying

that’s always the kind of basic

nuance of this phrase some this decision

is not mine

okay here the example is if it were up

to me

i would take my boss to dinner

oh my things just got scandalous

the next pattern is i feel like blah

blah blah

you can use i feel like when you

introduce

a suggestion or something that you would

like to do especially for food

drinks or activities so for example i

feel like

coffee i feel like italian food i feel

like an

action movie there’s some activity or

something you would like to do at the

end of this pattern

i feel like bowling this afternoon

something needs to go here some sort of

activity

um of course you can use this expression

to talk about your feelings

i feel like something but this something

must be a noun it must be a noun like if

you feel really great

i feel like a million bucks for example

if you feel really bad i feel like

garbage that’s a nice expression that

somehow just came out of my head anyway

you can use this in two ways but

this must be completed with a noun

phrase at the end of the sentence

hi everybody my name is alicia today i’m

going to talk about how to pronounce the

ending

e sound in past tense regular verbs

so i’m going to talk about how to make

the three different

sounds that we use when we’re using the

past tense forms of these verbs so

let’s get started okay so

as i said this is for uh regular past

tense verbs so verbs which take an

e-d ending um verbs which don’t take an

e-d

ending in the past tense i’m not going

to talk about those in this lesson

just e-d ending verbs so past tense

conjugations

okay so there are three different

pronunciations that we use

for this ed sound i’m going to talk

about each one and kind of a rule

that can help you as you try to decide

the best or the most

correct pronunciation okay let’s first

look at a

t ending sound so by this t i mean a t

sound at the end of the verb so a few

examples

uh first is walked second talked and

typed so walked talked typed you can

hear the e d

sound at the end of each verb it’s

spelled

e d but the pronunciation is a t sound

so walked talked typed

we make a t sound so the rule for this

why do we use the t

sound here when we’re looking at the

infinitive form of the verb so remember

the infinitive form is like the basic

form of the verb

i have it underlined in black here if

the infinitive

ends in an unvoiced sound we use this

t pronunciation so i’ll talk about

unvoiced in just a moment here

but in this case the infinitive forms

are walk talk

and type walk talk and type so the

ending sounds are k

and p here so these are called unvoiced

sounds so for this point and for some

points in the rest of this lesson

it’s useful to know the difference

between a voiced sound and an

unvoiced sound so a voiced sound

is a sound that we make using our vocal

cords so

the if you put your hand on your throat

and you can feel your vocal cords

moving like activated that’s a voiced

sound

an unvoiced sound however is a sound we

make

without using our vocal cords something

that doesn’t require us to activate

our vocal cords so i said in this case

for the t

sound we use this sound for infinitives

which end in an

unvoiced sound meaning our vocal chords

are not activated

so here as i said walk ends in a

sound talk and then a sound and type

ends in a sound so for sounds

and sounds our vocal chords are not

activated we’re not using our vocal

chords to make this sound

so we apply a t sound for the end of the

verb

uh when we’re conjugating into past

tense so this is the first type of

pronunciation

for today okay let’s look at the second

type for today

the second type is this d ending sound

and by d i mean it like a soft

d sound so a few examples i have

smelled breathed whispered

lied booed and kneed

so in each of these you can hear there’s

this soft d sound for the ending not an

e d sound ed but a d sound a soft d

sound so in this case how do we know

that we should use a

d sound at the end of these

in this case we should use this sound

for infinitives which

end in a voiced sound so as we learned

up here

voiced sounds are sounds that require us

to activate our vocal chords

so in this case uh the end of the

infinitive form

here smell is the infinitive so the

ending sound

requires vocal chord activation so i’m

using my vocal cords to make a

uh sound here same thing with breathe

this th sound at the end the i have to

use my vocal cords to make this sound

next one whisper the er sound here

uses my vocal cords so i’m using the d

whispered

we see the same thing the last three

examples i have here

use vowel sounds at the end so lied

booed

need these are voiced sounds so we need

to use a

d sound to end uh to end the word

so this is when we use the ending okay

let’s look at the last type over here

the last type is this

id ending it’s like an id sound

let’s look at some examples so here i

have wanted

pleated and started

these are all examples of infinitives

that end

in a t or a d sound so here the

infinitive form

of my first example want ends in a t

sound

my second example plead ends in a d

sound

and my third example uh start ends in a

sound as well so for infinitives which

end in a t

or a d sound a t or a d sound we use

this

id ending so wanted pleaded

started so these are the three types

of ending ed sound uh pronunciations

so if you’re having trouble uh trying to

decide how to pronounce

an ed sound you can kind of think of

these rules

to help you i hope um but if you want to

know like which sounds are unvoiced or

which sounds are voiced if it’s hard for

you to determine like when

you are using your vocal cords or when

you’re not using your vocal cords

here’s a quick tip so here are some

or here are the unvoiced consonant

sounds

so the unvoiced consonant sounds meaning

the consonants that we make

without using our vocal cords are ch

and the th sound in think think

so all of these sounds are unvoiced if

we make these sounds

we’re not using our vocal chords to make

them so sh

for example and and these are common

ones

but we’re not actually using like our

voice to make them

so that means that voiced sounds are the

other sounds

so if it’s not in this list it’s a

voiced sound

one thing to be careful of here though

is that the th sound

in the word like they uh is actually a

voiced sound so we have a voiced

they th sound they they and we have an

unvoiced th sound like in

think think so in the word think i’m not

using my vocal chords

in the word they or the for example

i am so th has a voiced and an unvoiced

pronunciation so this is something to

keep in mind and maybe to help you

as you practice but these are the three

pronunciation

types for ending ed sounds i hope that

that was helpful for you

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bye-bye hi everybody welcome back to

know your verbs my name is alicia and in

this episode we’re going to talk about

the verb

follow let’s go

so the basic definition of this verb is

to move behind someone or something

and to go to the same place that that

person

or thing is going to examples i’ll

follow you to the park

follow me i know where we’re going

the conjugations of this verb now

present

follow follows past

followed past participle followed

progressive following

now let’s talk about some additional

meanings of this verb

okay the first additional meaning is to

understand

to understand examples i don’t follow

you

do you follow so we can really just

replace the word

follow with understand here in the first

example sentence

i don’t follow you we can say i don’t

understand you

it means i don’t understand what you’re

saying or i don’t understand what you’re

thinking

i don’t follow you it sounds more casual

like i don’t follow your

train of thought train of thought means

like the path you took to arrive at your

destination thinking wise

follow you just sounds more casual it’s

like i can’t understand i can’t follow

the path of your logic in other words so

i don’t follow you

in the second sentence it’s a question

do you follow meaning do you understand

do you understand what i’m saying so

follow can mean understand

quite simply okay let’s go to the second

meaning for this verb so the second one

is to happen

after something else to come after

something else

examples of this a delicious dessert

followed the roast chicken

a luxurious hot spring experience

follows a massage on this one day tour

in these example sentences we see follow

is used to describe

something that happens after something

else in the first example sentence i

mentioned a dessert

that followed a roast chicken so yes

dessert is being presented first in the

sentence

so i said a delicious dessert followed a

roast chicken

so that means a delicious dessert came

after

a roast chicken so followed yes followed

shows the thing that came

after the other thing so we see the same

thing in the second example sentence a

luxurious hot spring experience

follows a relaxing massage so

yes luxurious hot spring experience is

first in the sentence

however we’re using the verb follows so

that means it comes after

a massage in this case so yes it’s

presented first in the sentence but

uh this use of follow means come after

so that means we’re presenting a

sequence in this way let’s go to the

third meaning

which is to obey to obey

so to obey something okay examples of

this to obey

did you follow the instructions on the

instant ramen she decided to follow her

manager’s advice

so in both of these sentences we’re

meaning obey with the verb

follow so we could say did you obey the

instructions on the instant ramen

but obey sounds quite strong we use obey

for like people who are in positions of

power above

us so in this case with ramen it’s

packaging

so we usually say follow the

instructions on the packaging so

meaning obey the instructions on the

packaging but obey is quite a strong

word

we use follow instead in the second

sentence she followed her manager’s

advice

it’s like she obeyed her manager’s

advice so

yes a manager is in a position of power

above you

sure obey is typically used when we

are given like strict orders for

something like

like military or like something from the

president something from very high up

and like very strong orders like

like obey your commanding officer or

something like that

in this case it’s advice meaning that

it’s probably not so serious

it’s like a suggestion and it’s a

manager so she has probably like a

workplace relationship

so we would probably use follow

someone’s advice

in this case so follow means obey but

it’s not

quite as strong not nearly as strong

much softer so the fourth meaning

is to be very interested in something

and to watch that thing

closely examples of this i don’t really

follow sports

she’s been following the news very

closely so the first example sentence is

a negative

i don’t really follow sports meaning i

don’t really have much interest in

and therefore i don’t really watch much

sports

in the second example sentence she’s

been following the news

very closely it means she’s been very

interested in

and watching a lot of news lately so

this use of follow is quite convenient

it it

includes meanings of being interested in

something and watching something

carefully or closely so to follow a

topic or to follow an activity so this

means being interested

in that activity and doing or seeing or

reading about

a lot of it

variations let’s look at some variations

of this verb the first variation

is to follow suit to follow suit

this means to do the same thing as the

person

previously mentioned in the sentence or

in the situation

examples my manager just quit the

company i think i’m gonna follow suit

her boyfriend decided to leave the party

so she followed suit

so in both of these examples we see one

person

makes a decision or takes an action and

the other person does the same thing

we show that with the expression follow

suit so in the first example my manager

quit the company

i think i’m gonna follow suit so i think

i’m going to do the same thing as the

person i just mentioned

so my manager quit the company i think

i’m going to do that as well i think i’m

going to follow

suit in the second example sentence her

boyfriend decided to leave the party

so she followed suit so he left the

party

she decided to do the same thing he did

she

followed suit past tense she did the

same thing he did

so follow suit means to do the same

thing as the

person previously mentioned the next

variation is to

follow through to follow through we

often use to follow through

on or to follow through with something

this means to keep a promise or to do

something

you said you were going to do examples i

hate it when people don’t follow through

with their plans

that’s true that’s called flaking okay

example sentence number two

i’m going to follow through on my

resolution to find a new job

okay so here we see a couple examples so

the first one is sort of a negative

statement i hate it when people

don’t follow through with their plans

meaning

i hate it when people don’t do the

things they say they’re going to do

so i hate it when people make a plan and

break the plan

or make a suggestion and don’t do that

thing so

they don’t follow through with their

plans in the second example the speaker

previously made a resolution a

resolution is a kind of goal

so the speaker previously made a

resolution the speaker has decided to

follow through

meaning to uh to try to achieve that

resolution

to try to do that action

so that means that the speaker is going

to find a new

job so the speaker is going to do the

thing he or she

promised to do the last variation for

follow today is to follow in someone’s

footsteps to follow in someone’s

footsteps this is kind of an easy one to

imagine

so to follow in the same footsteps as

someone who walked

before you however that person who

walked before you

is typically a parent or maybe a

grandparent or someone

senior to you that you admire example

sentences

he’s following in his father’s footsteps

and becoming a lawyer

she decided not to follow in her

mother’s footsteps after all

so to follow in someone’s footsteps

typically refers to a career choice

so in the first example sentence we saw

lawyer so he decided to follow

in his father’s footsteps meaning he

decided to do the same thing

his father did as a career

become a lawyer so meaning chose the

same thing as his

parent in the second we see a different

situation

she decided not to follow in her

mother’s footsteps meaning she chose a

different career path

from her mother or she chose a different

life path from her mother

so to follow in someone’s footsteps

means to do the same thing

usually the same career as their parent

or their grandparent

so those are a few new ways to use the

verb follow i hope if you have any

questions if you want to try to make a

sentence or if you know some other ways

to use follow

please feel free to try it out in the

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good for some uh

i really have to sneeze hi everyone my

name is bridget and welcome to today’s

lesson

the topic for this lesson is top 10

must-know verbs when cooking

let’s get started to cook

to cook i’m going to cook dinner tonight

to cook is to prepare a meal

using heat tonight i’m going to

cook chicken marsala i’m going to cook

beef stew to fry

to fry i don’t want to fry the chicken

because it’s too unhealthy to fry

something

is to cook something in hot fat or oil

french fries are fried and fried things

are unhealthy

so when you eat fried foods you want to

eat in moderation

i don’t because fried stuff is delicious

but

you should to add to

add before you eat you should taste the

food

and add salt if necessary

to add in this context means to add

something else

onto a dish to put more of something

onto a dish

so you might add salt to a dish or add

some

paprika to the chicken to cut

to cut could you please cut up that beef

to cut is to use a knife to cut food

to make it into smaller pieces usually

so you can

bite it or so you can mix it more easily

i cut my steak so i can eat it you make

food

smaller into more bite-sized pieces by

cutting

to mix to mix

mix all of the spices in a bowl before

putting them in your dish

to mix is to combine so you might

combine or

mix all of your ingredients together

before

cooking or doing something else with

them you might mix

ingredients together to create a dish

to season to season

to season is to add spices to a food

to make it taste better usually you

season

every dish with salt and pepper to mash

to mash for great mashed potatoes

you should add garlic to the potatoes

to mash is to crush food so that it

becomes almost

paste-like so mashed potatoes is a very

common example of this

also in the uk you might find mushy peas

which are

sort of mashed to saute

to saute i sometimes like to saute

asparagus instead of boiling it to saute

is to quickly fry something in hot fat

to put to put put cold water

into the mixture or you’ll get lumps in

the stew

to put in this context means to add

to something or to move into place

i put salt in the stew and i put the

dish

in the oven to slice to

slice if you want them to cook evenly

you should slice the carrots to be the

same size

to slice means to cut i sliced the apple

i sliced the pizza i sliced the cake

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to learn more english hi everybody

welcome back to ask alicia the weekly

series where you ask me questions and i

answer them

maybe first question this week comes

from

pualam hi pualam pualam says hi alicia i

would like to know the differences

between the verb

to be and to become for example which

one is correct

i want to be a teacher or i want to

become a teacher

thanks um both of these are correct

actually

so in this case to be and become

have the same meaning but become tends

to sound

more formal like if you say i want to

become a teacher

it sounds a bit more formal than saying

i want to be a teacher

it’s also easier to say i want to be a

teacher

so you can use them in the same way when

you’re talking about

becoming something else or when you’re

talking about something

turning into something else i want to be

can be used uh

in more casual expressions another

example would be like

i want to be rich someday or i want to

become rich

someday so i want to be rich sounds more

casual it’s more commonly used than i

want to become rich but they communicate

the same idea

so i hope that this helps you thanks

very much for the question

okay let’s go on to your next question

next question comes from israel diaz hi

israel

israel says what’s the difference

between used

to or used to and used for

okay well it kind of depends on your

sentence

so used to or used to like i said that

when i read the question

so depending on the sentence this word

or this phrase rather can take

different meanings so used to

can mean something that you did in the

past

like i used to play golf or i used to

eat pancakes for breakfast every morning

i used to go to the forest to go hiking

with my family every summer

i used to do something that refers to a

past activity that’s no longer true

used to however talks about the purpose

of something

so like this phone is used to make calls

or like this camera is used to record

video

so we use used to before a

verb so this thing is used to do

that so that’s talking about the purpose

something then used for is similar it’s

also talking about purpose but we’re

following the expression with

a noun instead of a verb so like

this phone is used for phone calls this

camera is used for

videos so we’re following the expression

with a noun instead of a verb

so depending on the sentence used to or

used to they’re spelled the same

will be read differently and it will

have different grammatical functions

used to and used for have the same

purpose but we have to make slight

changes to our grammar

after that expression so i hope that

this helps you understand the

differences

thanks very much for the question okay

let’s move on to your next

question next question comes from

dongfang again hi dongfang uh dongfang

says hi alicia i’m an english learner

from china

what does it mean when someone says i’m

not practicing the law anymore

i heard this sentence in one of my

favorite dramas called

better call saul i understand the

sentence

but i’m a little confused about the word

practice here is this a common use

yeah this is a really nice question

great catch

so practice is a very special verb

that we use in certain jobs certain

professions

so commonly this is doctors and

lawyers that use this word so they use

the word

practice before their field of expertise

and it just means do or to be active

in their practice so in this case and

better call saul

it’s practicing law or i’m not

practicing law

that means i’m not actively doing like

legal work right now i’m not

active as a lawyer right now a doctor

could say like

i’ve been practicing medicine for six

years that means i’ve been

active as a doctor for six years so

practice here does not mean like

practicing doing something it means

actively participating in that job

so again this is very specific for a

couple of different jobs like lawyers

and doctors so

very specific word nice catch and thank

you so much for this question

hope that helps you okay let’s move on

to your next

question next question comes from

silverway hi again silverway silverway

says hi alicia

what does i’m blown away mean oh yeah

okay i’m blown away can mean i’m

surprised or like i’m

shocked so it’s kind of it tends to be

more of like a positive expression like

i’m blown away by all the questions you

guys send or like i was

blown away by how good that dinner was

or like

i was blown away when i saw that

my best friend had decided to get a

mohawk

so it’s like something is surprising or

shocking or both

maybe and you can actually use it for

negative situations as well

you can also use this in past tense like

whoa that blew me away that movie

blew me away so it just means shock

surprise

um if something bad happens like someone

is really rude

you could say like wow that person just

blew me away or like i was so

surprised at how rude that person was so

i hope that that helps you understand

the phrase to be blown away thanks very

much for the question

all right let’s move on to your next

question next question

comes from pruthfi johnny hi pruthvi

pruthfi says hi alicia what is the

difference between

lot of and plethora of um

plethora is kind of a formal and rarely

used word

so a plethora of something means lots

and lots of something yes

but we tend to use it for like

extravagant

situations so like for example the

researchers discovered a plethora of

treasures in the egyptian king’s tomb

we really don’t use this so much in

everyday speech

it sounds too formal in most cases but

again if you’re talking about something

that’s

like really kind of big and extravagant

you might use the word

plethora to describe that a plethora of

something

so i hope that this helps you understand

the word plethora thanks very much for

the question

so that’s everything that i have for

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next week bye bye have you seen the

movie the three amigos

steve martin yeah do you remember a

plethora of pinatas

there’s a whole scene there where they

talk about

they talk about a party that’s coming up

and they’re like did you get the pinatas

for the party

and they’re like see see and then

and then they’re like how many pinatas

did you get would you say that you got a

plethora of pinatas and you’re like oh

it’s a plethora hi everybody welcome

back to ask alicia the weekly series

where you ask me questions and i answer

them

maybe first question comes from habib

azadani hi habib

habib says what does let alone

mean oh yeah nice question okay let’s

start

by introducing two examples he can’t

drive a car let alone teach someone how

to drive

she doesn’t have time to cook let alone

bake

okay so in these two examples we see

in the first part of the sentence

there’s an impossible situation

introduced so he can’t drive a car

and she doesn’t have time to bake so

these are like impossible or really

difficult situations

then we introduce another impossible

situation in the second part of the

sentence

and we emphasize that that too is

impossible

by using let alone so in this case

the even more impossible thing is

teaching someone else to drive

in the first sentence and baking in the

second sentence

so we often see these kinds of patterns

when we’re like

asking for help with something or like

we’re making a request

for something for example can davy teach

me how to drive

he can’t drive a car let alone teach

someone else how to drive

can you ask alicia to bake me a cake

alicia

she doesn’t have time to cook let alone

bake

so you see that there’s like this other

impossible situation

emphasized and introduced with let alone

so that’s what it means it doesn’t mean

like leaving someone alone

but we use let alone in front of verbs

this way to show

totally impossible situations so i hope

that this helps you thanks very much for

the question

okay let’s move on to your next question

next question is from

nayef hinayev nayef says hi alicia

what’s the difference between

possibly and probably okay here

um possibly means that something can be

done it

is possible something we are able to do

you can think of possibly as meaning

maybe so some examples sorry for the

last minute request but can my friend

join us at the restaurant

possibly let me call the restaurant will

you have time for a meeting later

possibly i have to do some paperwork so

probably on the other hand indicates a

high level

of potential of something so possibly is

very

neutral possible is also very neutral

it’s just something that we are able to

do it can be done probably

however refers to like an actual chance

of something and a very

good chance of something so like there’s

a 70

chance something is going to happen so

if we take the same example sentences as

in can my friend join for dinner

probably let me call the restaurant

and will you have time for a meeting

later

probably i just need to finish some

paperwork we can see that the level of

certainty in the situation

changes with possibly it’s like maybe

i don’t know there’s a chance could be i

don’t know

with probably it’s like there’s a very

good chance that that thing is okay

so i hope that this helps you understand

the difference between

possibly and probably thanks for the

question all right

let’s move on to your next question next

question comes from antonio lopez hi

antonio antonio says what’s a tag

question

cool okay tagged questions are like tiny

tiny questions that come

at the end of a statement examples you

weren’t serious were you

he’s coming to the party isn’t he we

forgot our passports didn’t we

i’m late aren’t i so at the end of each

one of these sentences

is this tiny little question so it’s

something that we finish our sentence

with in order to confirm

the first thing we said in the sentence

so you’ll notice in each of these

sentences

if the beginning statement is in the

negative

the tag question will be in the positive

and vice versa

if the beginning statement is in the

positive the tag

question will be negative so we use tag

questions just to confirm

what we said in the beginning part of

the sentence i hope that this helps you

thanks very much for the question okay

let’s move on to your next

question next question comes from

felipe yakomozi hi felipe

felipe says what’s the usage difference

between

two also and as well

okay um for the purposes of this answer

i’ll talk about just

one use of the word to which means in

addition

so we see two a lot at the end of a

phrase

or at the end of a sentence like in me

too or

you too or he wants to come too or i

like that

too we see that there at the end of the

phrase

let’s move on then to talking about also

we use

also before verbs usually in the simple

present tense or in the simple

past tense you can see also at the

beginning of a sentence as well

and we use it in this position when it

affects the whole

sentence so some examples we should get

some snacks

we should also get drinks today i’d like

to talk about sales

i’d also like to talk about growth going

forward

and then when you see also positioned at

the beginning of the sentence it affects

the whole sentence so for example hey

can you pick up dinner on your way home

also put some gas in the car will you

please finish this report by today

also stop stealing pens from my desk

so in these ways we see also used to

mean and

and it tends to come before verbs or it

can come before a full

request finally as well as well tends to

function in the same way as

two we use it a lot at the end of a

phrase or like at the end

of a list of items but it sounds more

formal than

two okay so thanks very much for the

question i hope that that helps you

all right let’s move on to your next

question next question

comes from benny hi benny benny says

what does it mean when someone says

cut it out and when can i use this

phrase oh

cut it out means stop we use this when

someone is doing something that’s like

annoying or repetitive

so it’s like if someone’s poking you or

maybe if like someone keeps throwing

things across the room at you

it’s something small and annoying and

you want them to

stop doing that you can say cut it out

cut it out

it’s usually in that way if you just say

cut it out it doesn’t sound

so like strong so usually we make it

sound like

cut it out so it sounds like you’re

irritated

another way that we express the same

thing is by saying

don’t don’t so especially young kids

will use

don’t or maybe cut it out to mean stop

doing that thing

don’t means like don’t do that thing

don’t throw things at me or don’t poke

whatever it is but we’ll say don’t so

cut it out is just a casual way to say

stop i hope that that helps you thanks

for the question all right

that is everything that i have for this

week thanks as always for sending your

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next week bye hi everybody welcome back

to ask alicia the weekly series where

you ask me questions and i

answer them maybe first question comes

from silverway again hi again silverway

silverway says hi alicia could you

please tell me the meaning of the word

you use so much in your lessons

nuance does it mean difference or

something else

oh yeah sure so nuance means

small difference or for like vocabulary

for language learning it means like

suggested meaning so another way to

think about nuance is like like it’s a

color so if we imagine the color

red we can understand what red means but

inside red there are many different

types of red

right so we can imagine a nuance is like

one of those types of red it’s like one

way of understanding something so a

sentence like

i’m not interested in him or i’m not

interested in her

this means like interest yes we see

interest in that word

but the nuance of this phrase the

feeling of this phrase is like

romantic interest i’m not romantically

interested in him i’m not romantically

interested in her

so that’s an example of nuance so we

understand like the category

interest but the nuance the small

difference in meaning

is about like romantic like

relationships in this case

so yes nuance means small difference in

meaning uh for this channel

it can also mean small difference in

flavor in food for example or like small

differences

in facial expressions so another example

sentence might be

we can communicate nuances through our

body language

and facial expressions so nuance means

small difference in meaning i hope that

that helps you and yes that word gets

used a lot on this channel

thanks very much for the question let’s

move on to your next question

next question comes from agains elland

hi again

again said hi alicia can you explain the

difference between

seams and looks like yeah sure let’s

start with

looks like there are actually two

patterns for looks like

i want to talk about this a looks like

b pattern first we use this when we want

to talk about something that has a

similar

or the same appearance as something else

a looks like b so like

that cloud looks like a rabbit your

brother looks like a mouse

so these patterns mean that thing a or

person a

has a similar appearance to thing b

or person b so that’s the first meaning

looks like the first way we use it the

second way that we use

looks like is to talk about guesses that

we make

based on visual information so

information we get with our eyes

so when we can see something and make a

guess about it

we can use looks like for example it

looks like it’s going to rain

or it looks like your dog is pretty

hungry

so we can see something that gives us

information about what might happen next

or we can make a guess about the

situation

using something we can see okay so with

that in mind let’s continue

to seams we use seams yes to make

guesses sure just like with looks like

the second meaning of looks like

but we use seams for things that we

cannot quickly

check we cannot quickly confirm his new

girlfriend seems nice

are you okay you seem really tired today

so you can use seams for guesses that

you make

based on things you can see yes but i

think it sounds more natural to use

looks like in those cases so seams is

used for stuff that we

can’t quickly check um but maybe we

don’t get that information

based just on stuff we can see so i hope

that this helps you thanks very much for

the question

all right let’s move on to your next

question next

question comes from felipe yakomosi

again hi felipe

felipe says could you explain the

pronunciation differences between the

following words

one then and than

and two sure and sure

okay sure so let’s start with the first

pair of words

then and then then

then so maybe it’s a little easier to

hear

when speaking slowly the differences

than

than but actually another good way that

you can

kind of discover which word is being

used is to consider the way the word is

used in the sentence

so it’s not that native speakers are

listening to each word

separately we’re listening to the whole

sentence so we’re not just paying

attention to one sound

but we’re thinking of the way the

sentence is made so

you’ll see than used a lot in

comparative sentence structures

examples i like dark colors more than

light colors

we should buy more drinks than snacks

she said your dessert was better than

all the others so you can see here that

all of these sentences use a comparison

we’re saying something is better than

something else so we know that than

is being used there but even though

we’re saying it really quickly and it

sounds like

then we understand the correct spelling

because of the grammatical structure of

the sentence

let’s compare this to how then is used i

have to go to the office this morning

then i’m going to the airport we saw a

movie then ate dinner

he broke up with his girlfriend last

week he seemed pretty sad since then

okay so you can see that these are not

comparative sentences

the first two examples are like sequence

examples so one thing happened

another thing happened after that so we

use then

to show that in the last example

sentence we’re using then to refer to

a period of time so you’ll notice then

that like the positioning of the words

the grammatical function of the words

these are different

so again you can listen rather to the

whole

structure like the way the sentence is

made instead of focusing just on those

sounds

than and then regarding your second

question about

shore and sure these have different

sounds in american english

though they could have very similar

sounds in british english

again just listen for the ways these

words are used

shore is a word that would probably be

used when talking about the beach or

someplace

near a body of water sure is used to

express

agreement or to ask a question like are

you sure sure

so think about the ways these words are

used not just

their individual pronunciations i hope

that this helps you

thanks for the question okay let’s move

on to your next question

next question comes from diana hi diana

diana says hi alicia could you explain

the subjunctive mood

oh yeah subjunctive mood is a pretty

big topic actually to speak about it

quite generally we

use subjunctive mood to talk about like

unreal situations so like wishes

possibilities

suggestions like making demands also an

important point to note is that the

subjunctive mood is not a

tense it’s not a tense it’s rather like

kind of

a a way of communicating unreal

information it’s sort of uh like it

follows its own grammatical rules

so let’s look at a few examples in the

subjunctive mood

i wish i were there to celebrate your

birthday with you

if i were you i would look for a new job

we demand he give us a refund

so in each of these example sentences

the subjunctive mood is used to

communicate something that’s

not real so we see a wish in the first

example sentence

an unreal situation in the second one

we’re seeing like a piece of advice

for an unreal situation and the third

one

is a request or a demand this is

considered unreal because

the demand like the thing being

requested or demanded

has not happened yet or it may not

happen

so subjunctive mood is not so

commonly used actually because it is

kind of difficult to use for many people

it has like its own grammatical rules

which you can see a good example of in

the third example sentence here

like we demand he give us a refund

like there in most sentences we would be

required to conjugate the verb to

gives like he gives something but when

we’re using the subjunctive mood

it takes on this kind of grammar he give

us a refund

so it is kind of tricky it is a bit

complex the subjunctive

i would suggest if you’re interested in

learning more about the subjunctive and

how to make statements like this

start by learning a few of the common

patterns so by that i mean like the

if i were or i wish i were

so those are the first two example

sentences here those are some great

patterns that you can use

to start making subjunctive mood

sentences

um other things can get a little bit uh

trickier

uh getting into like some future perfect

tense statements in the subjunctive mood

uh but maybe i can make a whiteboard

video or two about that in the future

so i hope that this gives you kind of an

introduction to the subjunctive mood

thanks very much for the question all

right let’s move on to the next

question next question comes from

wajahat khan hi wajahat

says hi alicia what is the meaning of

the word

g-whiz and how can we use it in our

everyday life

situations sure so uh g-whiz is an

old-fashioned word that means wow cool

amazing but it’s very old-fashioned

it sounds like something people said in

like the 1950s in the u.s

we really don’t use this word now it’s

something we would only use if we want

to sound

sarcastic or if we want to make a joke

so if you use this now you’re probably

going to sound sarcastic

like a raise gee whiz thanks

free tickets to disneyland gee whiz like

it just sounds

really silly it sounds silly even giving

these example sentences

so i wouldn’t really recommend using

this in everyday life these days just

because it does sound old-fashioned and

it sounds more like a joke

but it really means wow or amazing or

cool

so i hope that that helps you thanks for

the question okay that’s everything that

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next week bye-bye hi everybody my name

is alicia

in this lesson i’m going to talk about

the difference between who

and whom two commonly confused words so

let’s find out

how to use them and a few hints for how

you can decide which

is the correct word to use in a sentence

okay

let’s begin with the word who so we use

the word

who when we refer to the subject of a

sentence

so let’s look at a couple of examples

here

in red i have who is he who stole my

drink

and who is using my computer so i have a

few questions here

in this uh set of examples who is used

to refer to the subject

of the sentence so each one

serves as the subject here all right and

we can answer these questions

with a simple reply so who is he we

could say

he is my friend who stole my drink we

could say

she stole your drink who is using my

computer

he is using your computer so here again

we have he she and he as the answers for

these questions i’ll come back to this

point in just a moment

for now though let’s contrast this point

with whom

when we use whom so we use whom to refer

to the

object of a verb or a preposition

so let’s look at a couple examples here

whom

should i speak to regarding this inquiry

whom does this book belong to

to whom do i submit my report

so in each of these sentences

whom serves not as the subject of the

sentence

but as the object of a verb or a

preposition

here so again i have a couple of example

answers for this point here i have

uh for this first example whom should i

speak to regarding this

inquiry the answer could be something

like you should speak to

him for the second one whom does this

book belong to

this book belongs to her

to whom do i submit my report we can

answer with

submit your report to him okay

so the reason that i’ve included these

example answers

is because these can give you a really

good hint for how to decide whether you

should use who

or whom so i have up here this hint

the first hint really is to try

substituting he

or she and her or him in your original

sentence

so for example in this sentence who is

or who stole my drink or who is using my

computer

if i substitute he or she in one of

these sentences

for example here he is using my computer

she is using my computer the sentence is

correct

grammatically so that means i can use

who

and that’s the correct choice again who

stole my drink

uh she stole my drink or he stole my

drink the sentence is grammatically

correct

so i should use who however down here

if i say he should i speak to regarding

this inquiry

or to he for example like these these

don’t make grammatically correct

statements so we can’t use he or she

here

though these questions get a little bit

more complicated

these sentences it might be a little bit

difficult to decide then

am i am i using he or she should i use

him or her

it’s not so clear in those cases where

you’re not clear again

using the original sentence we can take

a look at the answer for the sentence

so try to make a sample answer for the

question

if you can answer the question using he

or she

as i’ve done here he she and he you

should use the word

who if you can answer it with her or him

use whom use whom so down here you

should speak to

him this book belongs to her submit your

report to

him if you look at the answer for the

question or a sample answer for the

question

and you use him or her in the answer you

should use whom

if you look at a sample answer and you

use he or she in the answer you should

use

who so this can be a really helpful tip

to decide

whether you should use who or whom if

it’s difficult to remember

you can kind of think about focusing in

on the word him

because him ends in an m sound

just like whom ends in an m sound so if

you kind of remember in your brain

whom matches with him sort of so those m

sounds uh her and him therefore make a

pair

um so if you have trouble remembering

between he and she and her and him

um you can use that m rule to remember

that the m

sound in him fits with whom

just one other point about use of who

and whom

um typically at least in american

english we tend to

use who more often in everyday speech

not as many native speakers are so

like strict about their use of whom in

everyday conversation

of course some people are for sure but

if you focus

too much on using who and whom correctly

in your speech

you might come off you might sound a

little bit like pretentious to some

people

again it depends on the kind of people

you’re speaking with but in general

casual conversations

most people or i should say many people

just use who

in almost every sentence even if whom is

probably grammatically correct

we tend to rely more on who in casual

speech

so you will find the native speakers

technically do make mistakes with this

i’m sure i do as well so i would say

don’t be

too concerned about always getting the

difference between these two correct

especially in speech if however you’re

writing something formal or if you’re

making a formal presentation

it might be a good idea to consider this

so just for your reference

this is a couple of or these are rather

a couple of examples

and a couple of ways that you can try to

decide which of these words to use so i

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soon bye-bye hi everybody my name is

alicia

welcome back to top words today we’re

going to talk about 10

phrases for gossip let’s go

oh my god so the first

phrase is oh my god so so

oh my god so is a introductory phrase

you can use to start your topic with

like a surprise factor so you say oh my

god

and then so is your transition phrase so

for example oh my god so i have to tell

you about this movie i saw or

oh my god so i saw my neighbor in the

shopping mall this morning or

oh my god so did you see my new dog

it’s kind of a weird one usually it’s

about a person not about a dog but who

knows

you won’t believe what happened to me

the other day

the next expression is you won’t believe

what happened to me the other day

you won’t believe what happened to me

the other day

meaning something happened to you

and you think it’s going to be a

surprise to the person listening to you

you won’t believe what happened to me

the other day so it’s a very

fast phrase because it sounds like you

want to share

very quickly like you won’t believe what

happened to me you can drop the other

day

if you want or you said you can say you

won’t believe what happened to me this

morning you won’t believe what happened

to me last night

you won’t believe what happened to me

this weekend you won’t believe what

happened to me over my winter vacation

so that you won’t believe what happened

to me gets very very quick and short

so examples uh you won’t believe what

happened to me the other day

i ran into my ex-boss or you won’t

believe what happened to me the other

day

i tripped and fell down a flight of

stairs or

you won’t believe what happened to me

the other day i got a

new parrot sure

i don’t know maybe one of you can use

that

guess what the next phrase is very short

the next phrase is like an

exclamation so an excited statement and

a question

guess what guess what so

guess what is inviting the listener to

guess what happened to you

guess what the full question would be

guess what happened or guess what

happened to me

but we only say guess what so guess what

and sometimes the listener guesses

and sometimes the listener just says

what usually the listener just says

what uh ask so meaning you should

continue the story

so if you say guess what i quit my job

guess what i saw my best friend

with a new guy

i haven’t seen before another example

uh guess what i got a new car something

like that so some kind of shocking

like um difficult to guess situation

i haven’t told you about this yet the

next expression is

i haven’t told you about this yet i

haven’t

told you about this yet so have not

becomes

haven’t i haven’t told you about this

yet so maybe you’ve

told you have told other people but

this specific person maybe you have

not told that person your news or some

information

yet but this yet implies

you are planning to or you want to tell

them this so

uh it’s it’s kind of creates a little

suspense i haven’t told you about this

yet

so we could use this like i haven’t told

you about this yet i’m going to france

next summer

or i haven’t told you about this yet but

i broke up with my boyfriend last night

or i haven’t told you about this yet but

i’m throwing a big party for my

co-worker this weekend can you come

other examples i haven’t told you about

this yet i saw my boss

out for dinner with someone who’s not

his wife oh my god that’s not true

that’s not true or i haven’t told you

about this yet

i heard that the company is gonna

go bankrupt also not true

okay so those are some pretty juicy

juicy gossip that’s an expression we use

we say

juicy gossip is something that’s like

really really interesting

gossip or really interesting story about

people we say

juicy gossip for that have you heard

about

the next expression is have you heard

about blah blah blah

have you heard about can be followed

with a noun phrase have you heard about

a a person you can use a person or have

you heard about

a situation you can use both you can use

an object too so have you heard about

the new iphone or have you heard about

the new

office policies um you can use that

um for pretty much anything um you want

to inform your listener about so

have you heard about is usually said

very quickly

have you heard about so the you becomes

shortened to yeah

have you heard about have you heard

about blah blah blah so

have you heard about the new secretary

have you heard about our new boss or

have you heard about

my co-worker quitting his job have you

heard about

the neighbors above us they’re moving so

you can use people here for gossip

expressions or you can use objects

um in this expression just to introduce

something new

very useful phrase have you heard about

my mom

sorry mom i don’t know why you came into

that one okay

so the other day the next expression

is kind of like the beginning to a story

so maybe this can be for gossip maybe it

can just be like a story something

interesting or maybe boring that

happened to you the expression is

so the other day so the other day so the

other day

the other day here means not today some

other day

which day it doesn’t really matter it’s

not really important but we say

the other day someday in the past this

expression is used for it

so we can say so the other day i was

sitting at my desk in the office when

my manager came and asked if he could

speak to me

or so the other day i was shopping and i

ran into my ex-boyfriend

or so the other day i was renting a car

and the former president

of the united states came into the car

rental shop

what all right so the other day just

some day in the past

so i was talking with and

the next one you can use um maybe for

gossip

sometimes but also you can use for

making plans

it’s so i was talking with someone

and blah blah so i was talking with

someone means you were having a

conversation

uh at another time with a person

and you want to kind of report

information or

share something from that conversation

with the person listening now

so i might say so i was talking with

risa and i think that we should plan a

party for this weekend what do you think

so i was talking with my

team about this and i think that we

should make some changes

so that’s a very kind of everyday work

situation use of this phrase

um but you can also use it for gossip

like so i was talking to my best friend

and i think i’m gonna move

or i was talking to my parents and i

think

it’s best if we break up oh so it can be

for plans it can be for gossip it can be

for just

any conversation plus a report

what’s up with the next expression is

kind of a little like mysterious

then the expression is what’s up with

blah blah blah

usually what’s up with person for gossip

meaning there’s like the nuance here is

there’s some

problem or it seems like something’s

wrong with this person they’re unhappy

they’re sad they’re angry uh

some kind of negative emotion we use

this so it’s like

what’s up with stevens i haven’t heard

from him lately what’s up with your

brother he seems really upset or what’s

up with your

neighbor why is he so noisy or what’s up

with your boss

he’s so strict so it sounds like

there’s some problem we usually use this

intonation what’s up with what’s up with

to introduce somebody who has a problem

we don’t say

what’s up it’s not that it’s not that

sort of hello

um expression it’s a it’s an expression

for a problem you can also use a noun

phrase that is not a person here like

what’s up with this new office policy or

what’s up with this new rule at work or

what’s up with this new item on the menu

at this restaurant it’s super weird

so what’s up with blah blah blah has

sort of a negative nuance you can use it

for people

to talk about strange behavior what’s up

with

you have you heard from

lately the next expression is have you

heard from blah blah blah lately

have you heard from person lately have

you heard from stevens lately i haven’t

seen him

have you heard from your mom lately have

you heard from your dad lately have you

heard from your brother lately have you

heard from your landlord lately

i don’t know why you hear from your

landlord but have you heard from

someone lately there is sort of an ex

a little bit of an expectation that you

are in contact with the person involved

in this sentence like you have some

relationship maybe it’s a family

relationship romantic relationship

professional relationship there’s some

relationship with this person

and lately it’s like have you heard from

them recently

lately in the last few days in the last

few weeks

so you can use this if for example you

are

looking for someone or you’re worried

about someone you can use this here

you can also use it just just to check

in about some other person

without asking that person directly so

like if i want to ask about

i’m using risa in my example risa is our

japanese channel host

um if i want to ask about how risa is

but i don’t want to ask risa i know

maybe she’s busy

or i don’t know for some reason i it’s

difficult to talk to her

i can ask like my co-worker i can say

hey have you heard from risa lately

it seems she’s really busy or have you

heard from so and so lately it seems

they’re busy

so if i want to ask about another person

but i don’t want to bother this person

or that something makes it difficult

i can use have you heard from blah blah

blah recently or

lately to ask about them very useful

phrase i have to tell you about

next expression um the next expression

is i have to tell you about

blah blah blah i have to tell you so

have to becomes

hafta i have to tell you about it has a

nice

sound i have to tell you about blah blah

blah or i have to tell you about

something so i have to tell you about my

weekend i have to tell you about stevens

i have to tell you about my mom i have

to tell you about my boyfriend i should

tell you about my girlfriend

whatever it is some person used at the

end of this sentence

creates a nuance like there’s exciting

news about that person

or i have to tell you about this thing

that happened you can use a situation at

the end of the sentence

too but you’re using i have to at the

beginning of this sentence

so that sounds like it’s really

important like i feel

it’s so important it’s my responsibility

to tell you because

this is so exciting of course you can

use this in more boring situations as

well like i have to tell you about the

new office policy

you can use it in that way with a very

flat intonation

but for gossip purposes use i have to

tell you about

that sounds really good so what do you

have to tell somebody about

i have to tell you about this new idea i

have for a business or

i have to tell you about what happened

to me last night okay

so there are these really exciting ways

that we can introduce

things that happened or that we can talk

about people or whatever

okay so those are 10 phrases that you

can use for

gossip i hope that those are useful i

hope you don’t gossip too much i don’t

really like to gossip

that much but sometimes it’s a little

bit useful so

give them a try if you want to try them

out a little bit you can do so in the

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bye hi everybody welcome back to know

your verbs my name is alicia and in this

lesson we’re going to look at the verb

watch let’s get started

so the basic definition of the verb

watch

is to focus the eyes on something that

moving usually we expect it to move so

like now you’re watching

this video in a sentence

let’s watch a movie later can i call you

back i’m watching a baseball game

so let’s look at the conjugations for

this verb

present watch watches

past watched past participle

watched progressive watching

now let’s talk about some additional

meanings of this verb

the first additional meaning is to stay

with someone or to stay with something

to ensure safety like to kind of guard

that thing or to protect

that thing examples i have to watch my

neighbor’s kids for a couple hours

can you watch my plants for a while next

month

okay so in both of these sentences we

see the verb watch is used to mean

ensure the safety of something in the

first example sentence it’s

i have to watch my neighbors kids so

we’re ensuring the safety of the kids

in the second sentence we use plants can

you watch my plants it

doesn’t mean like forever like watch the

plants

grow it means just make sure my plants

are okay

while i’m out of town for something

similar it doesn’t mean

watch my plants forever it just means to

make sure my plants are safe like to

take care of my plants

while i’m out of town for example so

also the

nuance here the feeling here is that

this is just a temporary situation

so when we’re watching someone’s kids or

like watching someone’s pet

while they’re away it’s just a temporary

situation

okay let’s go to the second extra

meaning for today

uh the second one the second meaning of

watch

is to be careful of something to be

careful of something

examples watch your language

he needs to watch his weight so in both

of these we could replace

be careful with watch so in the first

one we could say be careful of your

language

in the second one be careful of your

weight so in other words

there’s some kind of danger or you need

to be careful

because something about your behavior or

something you’ve said something you’ve

done is maybe

not a good idea so be careful of that

thing

but we say watch instead watch that

thing

instead of be careful of that thing in

addition so we can also just use

watch out as a set phrase which means be

careful

in general so if we’re in a situation

where we quickly want to warn someone of

something like danger

something bad might happen we can say

watch out

really quickly so watch out doesn’t mean

look or watch something it means be

careful

we always say watch out if you have time

and if you want to be specific you can

say

watch out for something like watch out

for that car

or watch out for that child watch out

for those

bees watch out for your computer it’s

going to fall

something like that we always say watch

out for or

just in quick situations watch out just

means be careful

as well

all right let’s go on to the first

variation so the first variation is

watch it watch it so watch it also means

be careful like watch out or just the

regular watch

your something but watch it is very

casual and actually kind of

aggressive so watch it implies like if

you

don’t take care i might do something bad

to you

like it’s so it’s quite an aggressive

phrase examples

watch it i’m walking you better watch it

kid

you better watch it or else

i’m gonna do something bad to you i

don’t know so it’s aggressive it’s an

aggressive phrase

and you should not use it with people

who

are above you you should not use it in

polite situations

i would not really recommend using this

but you might see this

in tv shows in other media watch it

it means be careful but it’s aggressive

okay

let’s go to the next variation the next

variation is

to keep watch to keep watch this means

like to

stand guard to guard against like to

protect something

this expression means like to guard

against danger and it often means

alone like often you’re doing it by

yourself while someone else like sleeps

so examples i’m going to keep first

watch tonight

you keep watch i’m going to get some

sleep

so to keep watch means like to stay

awake or to stay

alert looking for something that might

be dangerous

so you can see this in movies where like

people are traveling somewhere they’re

camping out on the side of the road

like maybe in lord of the rings or

something where everybody’s sleeping but

one person is awake

near the fire watching to see if

anything dangerous happens and then they

wake up other people

if something dangerous is coming so

they’re sort of the guard

in that case so to keep watch in that

case

okay let’s go to the last variation ah

the last variation okay the last

variation is to watch

one’s back to watch one’s back

so to watch your back let’s use that to

watch your back means

to be cautious about your safety

to be cautious about your safety so to

be careful about yourself

not because of some like physical object

like a bus is going to come and get you

i don’t know

no it means like someone uh an enemy

might try to do something bad to you so

watch your back

examples of this you’d better watch your

back stevens

uh one more example hey watch your back

you’re making enemies

so in these cases watch your back is

said rather seriously and

with the meaning that you need to be

careful someone might try to hurt you in

the future

it could be physically it could be

financially it could be like your

reputation

whatever watch your back mean be careful

like someone might try to hurt you

in some way however be careful

um this expression watch your back is

totally different from

got your back so watch your back and got

your back totally different

got your back is a support phrase like

i’ve got your back

means i’m supporting you no problem i

will try to help you or

i’ll try to support you i’ll try to keep

you safe i’ve got your back

no problems watch your back means be

careful

you might be in danger you should be

careful you have enemies so

quite different watch your back got your

back alright so i hope that you got a

few new meanings for the verb

watch that you can use there if you have

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try to use the verb watch please feel

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to know your verbs my name is alicia and

in this episode we’re going to talk

about the verb

follow let’s go

so the basic definition of this verb is

to move behind

someone or something and to go to the

same place

that that person or thing is going to

examples

i’ll follow you to the park follow me i

know where we’re going

the conjugations of this verb now

present

follow follows past followed

past participle followed progressive

following now let’s talk about some

additional meanings of this verb

okay the first additional meaning is to

understand

to understand examples i don’t follow

you

do you follow so we can really just

replace the word

follow with understand here in the first

example sentence

i don’t follow you we can say i don’t

understand you

it means i don’t understand what you’re

saying or i don’t understand what you’re

thinking i don’t follow you

it sounds more casual like i don’t

follow your train of thought train of

thought means like the

path you took to arrive at your

destination thinking wise

follow you just sounds more casual it’s

like i can’t understand

i can’t follow uh the path of your logic

in other words so i don’t follow you in

the second sentence it’s a question

do you follow meaning do you understand

do you understand what i’m saying so

follow can mean understand quite simply

okay let’s go

to the second meaning for this verb so

the second one

is to happen after something else to

come

after something else examples of this a

delicious

dessert followed the roast chicken a

luxurious hot spring experience

follows a massage on this one-day tour

in these example sentences we see

follow is used to describe something

that happens

after something else in the first

example sentence i mentioned

a dessert that followed a roast chicken

so yes dessert is being presented

first in the sentence so i said a

delicious dessert

followed a roast chicken so that means a

delicious dessert

came after a roast chicken so followed

yes

followed shows the thing that came after

the other thing so we see the same thing

in the second example sentence a

luxurious hot spring experience

follows a relaxing massage so

yes luxurious hot spring experience is

first in the sentence

however we’re using the verb follows so

that means it comes after

a massage in this case so yes it’s

presented first in the sentence but

uh this use of follow means come after

so that means we’re presenting a

sequence in this way let’s go to the

third meaning

which is to obey to obey

so to obey something okay examples of

this to obey

did you follow the instructions on the

instant ramen she decided to follow her

manager’s advice

so in both of these sentences we’re

meaning obey with the verb

follow so we could say did you obey the

instructions on the instant ramen

but obey sounds quite strong we use obey

for

like people who are in positions of

power above us

so in this case with ramen it’s

packaging

so we usually say follow the

instructions on the packaging so meaning

obey the instructions on the packaging

but obey is quite a strong word

we use follow instead in the second

sentence she

followed her manager’s advice it’s like

she obeyed her manager’s advice so

yes a manager is in a position of power

above you

sure obey is typically used when we

are given like strict orders for

something like

like military or like something from the

president something from very high up

and like very strong orders like

like obey your commanding officer or

something like that

in this case it’s advice meaning that

it’s probably not so

serious it’s like a suggestion and it’s

a manager

so she has probably like a workplace

relationship so

we would probably use follow someone’s

advice

in this case so follow means obey but

it’s not

quite as strong not nearly as strong

much softer so the fourth meaning

is to be very interested in something

and to watch

that thing closely examples of this i

don’t really follow sports

she’s been following the news very

closely so the first example sentence is

a negative i don’t really

follow sports meaning i don’t really

have much interest in

and therefore i don’t really watch much

sports

in the second example sentence she’s

been following the news very closely

it means she’s been very interested in

and watching a lot of

news lately so this use of follow

is quite convenient it it includes

meanings of being interested in

something and

watching something uh carefully or

closely so

to follow a topic or to follow an

activity

so this means being interested in that

activity and doing or seeing or reading

about a lot of it

variations let’s look at some variations

of this verb the first variation is

to follow suit to follow suit this means

do the same thing as the person

previously

mentioned in the sentence or in the

situation

examples my manager just quit the

company i think i’m gonna follow suit

her boyfriend decided to leave the party

so she followed suit

so in both of these examples we see one

person

makes a decision or takes an action and

the other person does the same thing

we show that with the expression follow

suit so in the first example my manager

quit the company

i think i’m gonna follow suit so i think

i’m going to do the same thing as the

person i just mentioned

so my manager quit the company i think

i’m going to do that as well

i think i’m going to follow suit in the

second example sentence

her boyfriend decided to leave the party

so she

followed suit so he left the party she

decided to do the same thing he did

she followed suit past tense she did the

same thing he did

so follow suit means to do the same

thing as the

person previously mentioned the next

variation

is to follow through to follow through

we often use to follow through

on or to follow through with something

uh this means to keep a promise

or to do something you said you were

going to do

examples i hate it when people don’t

follow through with their plans

that’s true that’s called flaking okay

example sentence number two

i’m going to follow through on my

resolution to find a new job

okay so here we see a couple examples so

the first one is sort of a negative

statement i hate it when people don’t

follow through with their plans meaning

i hate it when people

don’t do the things they say they’re

going to do

so i hate it when people make a plan and

break the plan

or make a suggestion and don’t do that

thing so

they don’t follow through with their

plans in the second example the speaker

previously made a resolution a

resolution is a kind of goal

so the speaker previously made a

resolution the speaker has decided to

follow through meaning to to try to

achieve that resolution to try to

do that action so that means that the

speaker is going to find

a new job so the speaker is going to do

the thing

he or she promised to do the last

variation for follow today

is to follow in someone’s footsteps to

follow in someone’s footsteps this is

kind of an easy one to imagine so

to follow in the same footsteps as

someone who walked

before you however that person who

walked before you

is typically a parent or maybe a

grandparent or someone senior

to you that you admire example sentences

he’s following in his father’s footsteps

and becoming a lawyer

she decided not to follow in her

mother’s footsteps after all

so to follow in someone’s footsteps

typically refers to a career choice

so in the first example sentence we saw

lawyer so he decided to follow in his

father’s footsteps meaning he decided to

do the same thing his father did as a

career

become a lawyer so meaning chose the

same thing as his

parent in the second we see a different

situation

she decided not to follow in her

mother’s footsteps meaning she chose a

different career path

from her mother or she chose a different

life path from her mother

so to follow in someone’s footsteps

means to do the same thing

usually the same career as their parent

or their grandparent

so those are a few new ways to use the

verb follow i hope

if you have any questions if you want to

try to make a sentence or if you know

some other ways to use follow

please feel free to try it out in the

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good for some uh

i really have to sneeze hi everybody

welcome back to know your verbs my name

is alicia and in this lesson we’re going

to talk about the verb

stop let’s go

so the basic definition is to finish

doing something to stop

example sentences stop hitting me

i need to stop laughing so much

now let’s look at the conjugations of

this verb present

stop stops passed

stopped past participle stopped

progressive stopping

now let’s talk about some additional

meanings of this verb

the first meaning here is to pause

during an

activity examples let’s stop for lunch

they’re stopping at the supermarket on

their way to the party

so each of these example sentences shows

some pause

in an activity the first example

sentence let’s stop for lunch

could mean like maybe people are working

let’s stop meaning let’s take a break

eat lunch and come back to the activity

so let’s pause

do this thing come back later let’s

pause let’s stop for lunch

the second example sentence they’re

stopping at the supermarket

on their way here means they the people

here

are coming to some location coming to a

party maybe

and on the way in the act of coming

they’re going to stop at the supermarket

pause the activity of coming and go to

the supermarket

to get something and then continue

coming to the party or continue coming

to the event

so there’s some pause we can use stop to

mean

pause in some other activity the next

meaning

is to block something to block something

we often use this for like a hole

or a leak or we need to keep something

out of something else like

rushing liquid like water for example

examples

we stopped the leaky pipe with special

glue

we stopped up the hole with old fabric

so you’ll see in the second sentence

there i used the preposition

up to stop up something when you’re

using

stop to refer to fixing a hole so

meaning

putting things into a hole to fix a hole

we typically use the preposition up stop

up a hole stop up a leak

stop up a crack i suppose mostly for

whole though

so when you want to talk about blocking

something else out we can say to stop

something like to stop the water as well

means you block

the water but if you’re talking about um

like filling a hole

like to stop something from coming in um

you can use stop

up the hole so it means you block

something so we could say

uh stop the water from coming into the

river or like

uh stop the bugs from coming into the

house by putting a screen

on the door for example you’re blocking

them from coming in

the third meaning for this lesson is to

cause

not to move to cause not to move

examples

can you stop the car i feel sick stop

moving i’m trying to take your picture

to cause not to move means to maybe

seize the operation c’s means stop but

seize means to make something come to

an end so like in the first example

sentence stop the car

it means i want the car not to move i

feel sick

so to cause something not to move is to

stop

that thing the fourth meaning of this

verb for this lesson is to

not operate to not operate this is

especially used for like machines

examples uh oh my computer has stopped

working

they’re stopping work at the factory

early today

so this means some operation is not

happening

so some something is not operating it’s

not

continuing so in the first example my

computer has stopped working i used the

past tense stopped

stopped my computer has stopped working

means like oh

it’s not working so it was working now

it’s not

it’s stopped uh it is no longer

operational

in the second sentence it’s about a

factory uh in the second sentence i’m

using the progressive form

they’re stopping work at the factory

early today

so this sentence means there’s a plan at

the factory

to stop work early today so we use the

progressive form they’re stopping work

early

to refer to a determined plan a plan

that’s been determined

prior to the conversation they’re

stopping work today

so that means operations will cease

they’re not going to continue

let’s continue on to some variations now

the first variation of the verb

stop is to stop by to stop by it means

to visit

for a short time so to stop by the house

to stop by the store to stop by the

supermarket

other examples stop by the house

sometime and say hello

we’re going to stop by the bar later it

just means to make a short visit

we’ll stop by a place or you can just

say we’ll stop by later

it means if the if the place is

understood by the listener you can drop

the place

we’ll stop by later it’s fine the next

variation is

stop at nothing stop at nothing

interesting phrase

this expression means someone is willing

do anything in order to achieve

something willing to do anything so

we’ll stop we’ll we’ll cease

for no reason we’ll stop at nothing in

order to achieve

something examples i’ll stop at nothing

to get a date with that movie star

he’ll stop at nothing to get that boat

he wants so meaning

these people will do anything to achieve

their goal they will stop at nothing to

achieve their goal

right so those are a few maybe new ways

to use the verb

stop for you i hope you got something

new out of this lesson

if you have any questions comments or if

you’d like to try to make a sentence

using the verb

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talking about 10

of the hardest words to pronounce

according to you guys so we collected

some information from you on

facebook thanks very much for sending in

your ideas and these were the top 10

uh most difficult words for you to

pronounce so let’s get started

absolutely absolutely absolutely might

be tough to pronounce

absolutely means 100 absolutely is uh

an agreement phrase are you going to

that music event next week

absolutely yes 100 definitely absolutely

loot like a loot l-u-t-e

big rime the grime apparently means

dirty i have never heard

nor used this word before but perhaps

it’s

difficult to pronounce big grime the

door to my apartment was begrimed in the

storm

last week breakfast the next word is

breakfast

breakfast is hard to pronounce but that

is the meaning of breakfast you’re

breaking the fast so a fast is a period

of time without eating

and to break means to just well in this

case breaking something it doesn’t refer

to like

crushing a thing but stopping something

to break the fast

of the night in other words so you’re

fasting during the night you’re not

eating so you wake up in the morning you

break the fast but we don’t say

breakfast we say breakfast

in a sentence this morning for breakfast

i ate

a bowl of cereal with grapes and i had a

coffee too

colleague colleague yes colleague many

of my students struggle with this they

say

colleague or they say call egyu or

something because the spelling of this

word is really really strange there’s

that g-u-e

at the end or more commonly i feel it’s

just co-worker

colleague sounds slightly more formal to

me than co-worker somebody who you work

with or somebody who

you have a business relationship with in

some sense could be a person from

another company could be somebody from

your own company

anyone who you do business dealings with

is your colleague can be your colleague

in a sentence i’m going to a networking

event

with my colleagues next week

miscellaneous

that misc miscellaneous it’s just

the spelling i think maybe is confusing

for this word miscellaneous

miscellaneous just means other stuff or

just other

uncategorized stuff i keep a lot of

miscellaneous items in a drawer in my

house

maybe they don’t they don’t really fit

into one category like it’s not kitchen

things it’s not

clothing it’s just sort of a mixture of

of things miscellaneous things

negotiation the next word is negotiation

negotiation yeah there are two

t’s in this but neither t is a hard t

they’re both very soft that sh

sound because they’re followed by the i

and another vowel that she

a negotiation negotiation refers to

a compromise between two people you’re

trying to make a decision and

you negotiate in this case it’s a noun

form negotiation

business negotiations continued for more

than a month with this

important deal realm realm i see why

this one’s hard it’s that

rome part little realm it’s a weird word

isn’t it it’s used to talk about just

the kind of a fantasy world as sort of

the nuance of this phrase the realm uh

in a sentence

let us go to the realm where the elves

live

and eat their bread unfortunately

the next word is unfortunately

unfortunately

unfortunately it just means too bad you

can use this to

to start bad news for example like

unfortunately i can’t come to work today

because i’m sick

or unfortunately i broke my arm at the

basketball game last week

or unfortunately my haircut

is bad vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary

vocab vocabulary vocabulary

vocabulary vocabulary just refers to

the uh words in a language my vocabulary

in my second language is really really

low

i need a bigger vocabulary so that i can

express myself more clearly

world world ah i see why this one’s hard

world world hard to pronounce that rld

i think uh together is tough plus that w

at the beginning as well it’s such a

short word but you have to say

so many weird things at the same time

world

your tongue is going like this in a

sentence

i have traveled all over the world and

the best food

is in

my stomach that’s the end so those were

10 hard to pronounce words

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you don’t need new

shoes you need new feet hi everybody

welcome back my name is alicia and today

we’re going to be talking about some

english tongue twisters i’m joined again

michael hey everybody so today we’re

going to be talking about some things in

english that are difficult to say that

might be difficult for you and they’re

probably going to be difficult for us to

explain so let’s get right into it

michael what is your first tongue

twister my first tongue twister

is how much wood would a woodchuck chuck

if a woodchuck could chuck wood

one more time a little bit faster how

much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a

woodchuck could chuck wood

excellent and there was a traditional

response to this one

you’re familiar with the response once

you tell me it’s a question

right this this is it ends in a question

there’s a question mark on your car and

the traditional response is

it would chuck all the wood that a

woodchuck could if a woodchuck could

chuck wood

ah yeah i have it on one of my cards

actually i think too

this was totally unplanned i would like

to point out yeah here it is

it would chuck all the wood that a

woodchuck could if a woodchuck could

chuck wood

so you can you can use this with your

friends if you want all right let’s do

it real quick ready okay

how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if

a woodchuck could chuck wood

it would chuck all the wood that a

woodchuck could if a woodchuck could

chuck wood

all right there’s one down okay uh

let’s see we’ve talked about that one

already so i guess i’ll go with another

classic one

that i’ve known since i was little this

one uses the p sound a lot peter piper

picked a pack of pickled peppers

lots of p sounds in this one can you

speed it up for us

well i don’t know if i can say it in the

first place peter piper picked the

have you not heard this one before i

have it okay peter piper

picked a pack of pickled peppers hold on

one more time peter piper picked a pack

of pickled peppers for me it helps if

you snap okay

peter piper picked a pack of pickled

peppers peter piper picked a pap

oh my god i can’t do it maybe it’s

better if you don’t read it

peter no no you i can’t do it peter

piper picked a factory pickled peppers

that wasn’t very good i wasn’t perfect

one more time one more time peter piper

picked a pack of pickled peppers

one more three more times peter piper

picked a pack of pickled peppers

peter piper picked oh dude i i can’t do

peter piper picked a pack of pickled

peppers there we go peter piper picked a

pack of pickled peppers peter piper

picked a pack of pick

oh man that’s tough the piece man i

can’t do the piece

oh wow these can’t do you either okay

go to your next one what’s your next one

uh no my

brain is frazzled now okay uh oh i just

like this one i’ve actually never heard

this before

but i like it because there’s a lot of

th’s in it and a lot of

foreign people who are learning english

let me say that

a lot of non-native english speakers

have trouble with th that’s been true

for a lot of my students regardless of

where they’re from what their native

language is so

the 33 thieves thought that they

thrilled the throne throughout thursday

well i’ve never seen this one yeah me

either but i just thought it was good

because i

remember th so the 33 thieves thought

that they thrilled the throne throughout

thursday

want to give it a try yeah i’m going to

try the 33 thieves thought that they

thrilled the throne throughout thursday

that’s the good one that’s a really good

one for th sounds i think

it’s not it’s i think the consonant

sounds like the hard consonant sounds

like the p

sound or the well maybe even the w sound

a little bit like it’s easy to say that

quickly but this one’s really tough to

say quickly i think and clearly

the 33 thieves thought that they throw

this

it just doesn’t come out as smoothly

maybe spitting a lot maybe

maybe so okay i guess i’ll go to my next

one i really have no faith that i’m

gonna be able to say this at all

this is like the hardest thing that i

think i was able to find i’m gonna have

to read it slowly

the six sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s

sick yeah

what okay yeah the sixth sick sheik’s

sixth sheep’s sick yeah the sixth six

oh like the second word you can’t even

say it

it’s really hard one more time all right

this the sixth sick

chic sixth cheap sick the sixth oh

that was good that was good that was way

better yeah we’ll just leave it on that

one that’s six i did it once the sixth

sixth chic sixth sheep’s sick that’s

really hard it’s really i don’t think i

can say it any faster than that

the sixth sixth sheik’s sixth

i can’t i’m i’m the loss of words

okay one more time okay

the sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s

sick the sixth

sick oh one and one says two two i got

it out the one time

i was solid that was sorry i gave it up

i give up okay what’s your next one

my next one is the soldier’s

shoulder surely hurts another one i’ve

actually never heard

but i liked it because everyone knows

sally sells seashells down by the

seashore

the s and the sh is confusing and many

times in english

like surely there’s no sh but it makes

that that sh sound so it’s a fun one

yeah the soldier’s shoulder surely hurts

the soldier’s shoulder surely hurts

wanna give it a try

the soldier’s shoulder surely hurts this

is the tough part here for me anyway is

this the soldier’s

shoulder making that sound really

clearly a stuff the soldier’s shoulder

surely hurts

yeah yeah you make it sound so easy wow

professional not really

okay uh on to the last one this one

is really short actually it’s only two

words

but it’s tricky it’s really tricky i

can’t say this fast

irish rish wrist watch

okay irish by itself is fine wristwatch

is fine but together they’re really hard

to say

irish

i can’t say it irish wrist watch

really hard irish wrist watch yeah

very slow okay irish oh wow it’s really

hard

it doesn’t it seems easier than it is

yeah you were saying i thought come on

okay i irish wristwatch irish

[Laughter]

irish wristwatch irish wristwatch irish

wristwatch

nice there we go okay irish wrist

i can’t say this one irish wrist

i can’t try it this one’s hard this

one’s really hard for me but yeah only

two words it’s just it’s just that

combination of the sh

and the r that’s just i can’t i got

nothing on that one

all right do you have any more no i

think that’s it oh wow

that was a good one that was really

tough that was really tough okay we’ll

give them a try

please give them a try and if you have

any tongue twisters preferably in

english

please share them with us in the

comments they’re great ways to practice

your pronunciation

and you can impress your friends if you

can do them quickly thank you again for

joining us and we’ll see you again soon

bye top essay oh hi sorry i forgot to

say hi again

hi everybody and welcome back to weekly

words this week the topic is going to be

s.a.t words words that students who are

studying for the s.a.t

the s.a.t is a kind of college

preparatory test or a test that students

take usually to

apply for colleges the words are

typically fairly challenging

for high school students and these are

some of the words that

might cause trouble for some people so

let’s begin

the first word is assiduous assiduous is

a word that means somebody

who is a persistent or who is always

trying to do their best to work really

really hard you might have a co-worker

who

is deciduous i suppose you could also

use it if you’re

just describing anything that’s hard

working like ants for example you might

say

ants are very assiduous creatures they

work hard they can lift more than their

own body weight

okay that’s pretty good next intuitive

intuitive someone who is intuitive is

someone who has a good

instinct or they’re able to sense what

the right thing is to do without you

know having to

be taught what the right thing is so

uh let’s say maybe you’re going surfing

for the first time and it comes to you

really really easily

uh after just your first couple tries

your friends might say like wow you’re

really intuitive you know how to do this

without

you know having to take a lesson or

anything great job

a good trait to be intuitive precocious

precocious is another usually a positive

word precocious is usually used for

children children who are kind of

strangely talented

at something even when they’re very very

little so maybe you’ve seen on youtube

a kid who can play the piano extremely

well even though he or she is five years

old

we might say he’s precocious or she’s a

precocious child

she can do so much but she’s so young

it’s usually a very

impressive thing that the kids are able

to do all right the next one is

evanescent evanescent evanescence

evanescent is another adjective which

means something that fades away rather

quickly or something that’s very

short-lived

oh to be very romantic about it you

might say

the scent of her perfume was very

evanescent you could smell it

for a brief moment and then it faded

away yeah ooh that was kind of nice

the next word is anecdote an anecdote is

usually some kind of a short funny story

that’s a retelling of an event that

happened to you

it might be a written story or a spoken

story oh

want to hear an anecdote about my last

trip to bali it was hilarious

i don’t know that i’d ever say that

though it’s not something you’d use so

much in casual conversation i feel like

a critic

might write this word about someone

else’s writing the anecdotes she chooses

to include in her writing are very

humorous

for example okay well we’ve learned a

few s.a.t words that

students might have trouble with when

they’re studying for the test

in their high school years i hope that

you find some of these words useful and

can use them in your daily life as well

thanks for joining us this week and i

will see you again next time bye bye

okay welcome back to weekly words

weekly words uh i’m alicia and today

we’re going to talk about

words that make you sound smart oh i’m

all over this one first word is

esoteric when something is esoteric

it’s all right so the word esoteric

refers to

something that requires specialized

knowledge so

in a conversation somebody might use

this word to say sorry to be esoteric

and then they’ll continue talking about

some subject or some concept that

requires a certain level of knowledge in

the given field

next word superfluous superfluous just

means

extra really can a person be superfluous

so superfluous yeah just

just refers to stuff that’s um maybe not

necessary or the x the extra just

stuff or extra extra things uh in a

given context so maybe you know like oh

i have so much superfluous stuff in my

kitchen of course

using superfluous in such a casual way

like that is very unnatural but you

could do it

if you really wanted to sound smart

acquiesce acquiesce

means to um like you might have oh like

can i say a line from pirates of the

caribbean

something like he will not acquiesce to

your request or she will not acquiesce

to your request it just means she won’t

obey

or listen or do as told um

but that’s it’s the same exact meaning

to acquiesce to accept

something uh yeah to go along with angst

angst refers to just kind of this like

that

that unhappy feeling this sort of angry

or maybe melancholy

or just feeling like you know you’re

misunderstood so a teenager

or i suppose a teenager themselves might

not use this word but the parents of the

teenager might say

oh my teenager is so filled with angst

kitsch kitsch kitsch refers to in my

mind anyway

just um junk honestly it’s the little

things that you know

might crowd your house like a snow globe

or special little ornaments or just

um you know decorative knickknacks you

might say oh my aunt’s

apartment is really kitschy it means she

has maybe like a lot of knickknacks or

the style is just kind of

all right that is the end so those were

a few words to make you sound smart

i hope that you learned something i

certainly did and i’ll see you again

next time

thank you bye alright welcome back to

weekly words

i’m alicia and this week

we’re going to talk about commonly

mispronounced mispronounced wow

this week we’re going to talk about

commonly mispronounced words words that

are often

pronounced incorrectly this is funny

i enjoy mispronouncing this first word

the first word is

hyperbole hyperbole um it’s not

hyperbole

though it does sound very funny to say

that hyperbole just means

to exaggerate something um or to make to

blow something up make it uh really

extreme

my friend uses a lot of hyperbole when

she talks about her life stories i

really don’t think some of those things

happen to her

hyperbole not hyperbole next

antarctic not ah

oh i see antarctic is the correct

pronunciation of this word

some people say an antar

really oh i guess when you’re saying

this word quickly you might leave

out that first c in the antarctic

so don’t say that don’t do that say

antarctic

the the very very cold region the arctic

is the north cold region

on the planet earth the south is the

antarctic

they’re sort of like almost a hiccup in

the word they’re antarctic

oh uh in a sentence i’m thinking about

taking a cruise to the antarctic what do

you think i need

a penguin suit etc not

etc oh yeah okay i’ve heard i hear this

ek x thing a lot etc is just used at the

end of a list

to imply that you mean other things

so the list is not exclusive to the

things that you’ve listed

other things can also be included in it

so in a sample sentence

types of fruits are apples oranges

peaches etc

there are others as well so don’t say

etc that’s not correct etc

it’s good the next word is jewelry

what not mones the next word is jewelry

jewelry i think i’m probably guilty of

this mispronunciation

i can’t say that word mispronunciation

where the word kind of gets a little bit

smushed together

and we say jewelry instead we miss that

that

second e sound in there it should be jew

ellery

uh in a sample sentence maybe you would

say i’m shopping for some jewelry for my

mother for her birthday

jewelry we’re too lazy prescription

not prescription okay a prescription is

something that

a doctor gives you when you’re sick and

you require medicine the doctor will

write you a prescription

some people might say prescription

wow okay i didn’t even notice and i was

doing it while i was telling you guys

not to do it

that’s embarrassing prescription a

doctor writes you a prescription not a

prescription

when you go to the doctor’s office the

doctor might say here is your

prescription

end all right well we’ve learned that i

apparently can’t pronounce some words

the way that they’re meant to be

pronounced

so please work on your pronunciation i

will work on my pronunciation too

thank you for joining us on weekly words

this week i will see you next time

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welcome back to weekly words my name is

alicia and today we’re going to talk

about

words with weird silent letters i like

the title of this one let’s

get started the first word is

pterodactyl a pterodactyl

is a dinosaur this was a flying dinosaur

from the late jurassic period i totally

knew that on my own

pterodactyl begins with a p but we don’t

say the ps just starts with a t

sound in a sentence you might say the

pterodactyl is my favorite dinosaur

the next word is mortgage ah my students

messed up this word mortgage like last

week in class

mortgage has a t in it but we don’t say

the t it sounds like mortgage like

there’s no t at all a mortgage

is um the payment that you make on your

house every month if

if you’ve had to take a loan from a bank

in a sentence my mortgage payments are

very reasonable

i hope the next word is isle isle is a

weird word

so yes there’s an s in the word isle but

it is not pronounced i slay it’s

pronounced isle

isle with an a in front is the space

between

uh rows of seats on an airplane for

example or the space between shelves and

a supermarket any sort of pathway

is an aisle in a sentence please keep

your feet out of the aisle on the

airplane

because the cart might bump you

the next word is faux fo has an x at the

end when it’s spelled on paper but we do

not say

folks we don’t say that we say

fo fo means fake faux means something

that’s not real

uh very commonly you’ll hear this in

terms of faux fur

as in i prefer to wear faux fur because

i don’t believe

that we should kill animals all right

the next word is asthma

we were just talking about how i have

asthma asthma is

spelled very weirdly there’s a th in

there but we do not say the th it’s

it sounds like asma asthma asthma is a

respiratory condition you might have

asthma it’s very common

where it might be difficult for you to

breathe sometimes you need to take

medicine

in a sentence i carry my inhaler

everywhere because i have asthma

and that’s the end of words that have

weird silent letters so be careful when

you come across these

in writing because they sound a little

bit different than the way they’re

spelled thanks again for watching weekly

words this week we will be back with

more fun stuff next time take care bye

i don’t know how to end this hi and

welcome back to weekly words i’m alicia

and i don’t know what i’m going to talk

to you about yet

but let’s start today’s topic is words

that vary by region

creek i say creek you might hear the

word

crick qrik and the word creek means

uh a small river essentially uh there’s

a creek in my backyard

for example um sure the next word is

coyote i say

coyote how do other people say this word

coyote oh yeah coyote

i don’t say that a coyote is kind of a

dog-like

animal it’s a wild animal about the size

of a dog with a howl at night we had

them in oregon where i’m from

uh i definitely heard them at my house

last night i heard the coyotes

out in my

pasture okay the next word is

root r-o-u-t-e root

it’s how i say it you might also hear

the word pronounced

route root r-o-u-t-e means the way

through um a city or a town or some kind

of path

in other words um r-o-o-t

which this word sounds like is the

system that’s at the bottom of a plant

that plant uses to get nutrients you

know with

little hairy fibers i’m so good at

explaining plant biology

oh i know a good route to get from

school to the park later let’s take that

on our bicycles

that was oddly specific the next word is

apricot

or you might hear apricot as well it’s a

fruit

um so you might say hey did you bring

any apricots to the picket

pick it to the picket apricots no

it’s not picket on the other hand is a

word that means protest

there’s a freebie in there uh for

example you might say hey i really like

those apricots you brought me the other

day they were delicious

okay the next oh the next word is

caramel

i say i think i say caramel oh this is

making me doubt myself

there’s caramel and there’s caramel they

both refer to

a sugary sweet substance that’s often a

type of candy or often inside a type of

candy

it’s really really delicious so you

might say

oh my favorite kind of candy is caramel

or my favorite kind of candy is caramel

uh just depends on where you’re from

apparently in the east the east coast

they say caramel

on the west coast it seems we say

caramel that sounds about right to me

you can choose end hooray

what was this one called ah this has

been words that vary by region

you can choose which region you’re from

perhaps but it’s probably best for you

to be consistent when you’re speaking so

that you don’t confuse the person

listening to you

hope you enjoyed and i will see you

again next time bye

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hi everybody my name is alicia and today

we’re going to be talking about the top

25 english verbs by frequency so let’s

get into it

b is the first english verb b refers to

existence

i want to be an astronaut i think you

would be

a great person for this job be yourself

let’s be friends

i could have been a writer if i wanted

to be

the next verb is have i have a dog i

have an idea

what do you have how many do you have

how much money do you have

do you have any friends how have you

been

have you seen my mom i can’t find her

have

yourself a merry little christmas the

next verb is do

do you want some pizza do you have a dog

dip to do dooby dooby doo

if you’re frank sinatra i do

the things that you do better

say say say say say

what you want same names

say you love me do you know what i’m

saying know what i’m saying

the next verb is get get a life get a

job get a haircut

get a better suit stevens what you got

i could have gotten a pony but i went

with a lizard instead

i’m getting tired that’s not true the

next verb is

make make a cake make your mother proud

someone outside is making a strange face

at me through the window at the moment

that is a true story

make a living

through legitimate means

the next verb is go go bigger go home

i’m going to the beach you should go to

the beach you should go to the forest

go to a baseball game with me

past tense of goes went i went

splunking on my holiday

the next word is no this is an

interesting word because no

is actually not commonly used in the

progressive tense no is commonly used in

present tense uh to refer to your mental

state or your emotional state so we

don’t really say i am knowing really

but we can say i know i know the answer

what do you know about this issue he

couldn’t have possibly known the

location of the treasure

how many people do you know i knew it

the next verb is take take a cake

take a break take your

self to bed you should take a

vacation have you ever taken a bath the

next word

is see we’ll see i’ll see you later

uh the next verb is come come as an

expert please come to my house come to a

party

i’m gonna come over to your place later

the next word is think

think i think you’re great

he thinks pizza is the best food i’m

thinking about lunch

i’m thinking about coffee what are you

thinking about i’ve been thinking about

something that’s a hanson song

uh have you ever thought about the

meaning of life look

look is the next verb please look at the

camera look over there

look over here look a dog look at your

mom

oh my gosh would you look at that look

at the time

look it’s a bird it’s a plane it’s

actually a bird look at that

is it me you’re looking for hello next

word is

want want what do you want i want food

how many coffees have you ever wanted i

wanted to go to the dry cleaners this

morning but i ran out of time

that’s true the next verb is give give

me a break

i’m going to give you a raise stevens

i’m giving you the axe fired give

me a break give me break break my health

please like it

i have given you everything i have go

onto mordor frodo

i could have given you the world and

instead i gave you a carpet

uses the next word use don’t use a pen

i like using chocolate when i make food

are you using me for my brain

next is find we could have found buried

treasure last weekend

i’m finding nemo

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yeah tell is the next verb tell me a

story

tell me lies tell me sweet little life

tell

me the truth the whole truth and nothing

but the truth

i’m told that you are an extremely

good opera singer i’m telling you

to leave tell

lies every day don’t tell lies the next

word is ask

ask please pronounce this correctly it

is not ax many native speakers make this

pronunciation mistake and it really

bothers me

ask ask me about

my collection of

rare donut recipes

ask your mom about her life

why don’t you ask your boss to the party

how about you ask your coworker for some

advice about this issue

i should have asked for help but i

didn’t

the next verb is work work is work i’m

working now

seem to seem the weather seems nice

today

he seemed a little angry this morning

feel is the next word feel

i feel happy feelings

how does it feel feel

feel clap along if you feel like that’s

what you want to do

try oh my gosh try is the next word ah

i’m trying my best

i try every day to work very hard have

you ever tried ramen

i tried ramen yesterday and it was

really good do you try to exercise every

day

i’m trying to sleep go away the next

verb is

leave leave leave me alone

leave your doors unlocked

don’t leave your doors unlocked i

have never left a

hot air balloon without first

taking a picture the next verb is

call call is the next verb give me a

call please call me later

call me maybe call your mom on her

birthday every year she’ll be happy

call call you’re a single

have you ever called the wrong number

have you ever called

a dog by

another dog’s name and

that’s the end that was the most fun

episode i’ve ever done anything

so those are 25 english verbs some very

very common english verbs give them a

try we’ve talked about a lot of

different grammar forms and a lot of

different ways you can use these verbs

so please practice them

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