Learn Vocabulary Through Conversation RIGHT Advanced English Lesson
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm and I’m Dan and today we’re
gonna talk about the word right deeply
right right let’s get started today
we’re gonna talk about three and a half
ways to use the word right but if you
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month and let’s talk about the first way
to use the word right right I want to
know what’s on your right what’s on my
it’s you who’s on your right I’m on your
right yes so the in this case we’re
talking about the direction right and
you probably already know your right
hand versus your left hand you can even
say your right handed and that means you
primarily use your right hand yeah
so this is just the directional way to
use right turn right turn left
sometimes when I’m helping Dan navigate
he’s driving and I’m looking at the map
I sometimes say go right and really I
mean go left
oh whoops ago right no yeah yeah left
left left that’s right left sometimes I
mess it up a little bit sometimes I mix
up right and left I don’t know why yeah
I’ve heard that people who are
left-handed often mix up directions but
I’m right-handed so I have no excuse
yeah no but in the end right is a
direction so that’s the first way to use
it and it’s also a location too so you
can say on the right
oh yeah as well yes but physically the
gross the grocery store on the right I’m
talking to somebody yes it’s on the
right well let’s talk about the second
way because the second way is actually
two and a half ways to use this are you
ready ready
okay Dan I want to know do you know
anyone who thinks
that they’re always right always right
these people are so annoying so somebody
who thinks they’re correct about
everything yes we used to have a friend
who always thought he knew what was
right so he had an idea and he’d say it
and you would say are you sure and he’d
be like yes I know he’s always right
always he knew everything yes well
there’s a little joke about this word
too
that a woman says I married mr. right
and that means I married the correct
person the correct person for me but
then she says in the joke
I married mr. right but I didn’t know
that his first name was always always
right that’s a classic yeah those people
are really annoying someone never says
oh I was wrong yeah I see you’re often
wrong I’d say they’re usually men too
you think so yeah people who think
they’re always right right so I want to
know do you know someone who thinks
they’re always right I hope they’re not
a close friend and you can also use this
just to mean okay - right so you just
use this and I just use this this is the
half way the half three point five ways
so what is the way we can use this so if
somebody asks you you went to the store
yesterday right you could just say right
it means correct or okay but it’s just a
tag word that you can add to the end and
like Dan said oh you went to the store
yesterday right hmm is this okay right
this is okay right so you can use it at
the end just to check just to make sure
and it’s very similar to being right he
is always right she was right about the
weather
oh I thought it would be sunny but it’s
really rainy she was right we shouldn’t
have planned to go hiking
she was right right right so make sure
that your voice goes up right right
right yes and I have a third bonus
meeting Oh a bonus me
it’s basically the same as correct but
we mean this in a moral sense so you can
say I don’t like what she did it’s not
right so if you say it’s not right that
means it’s a bad thing to do you’re
wrong morally so if I punch Vanessa in
the face it’s not right that’s not right
right it’s absolutely not acceptable
right it is not right and we mean this
morally so we use it in a moral sense as
well
yeah well this kind of is linked to the
third meaning so let’s go to the third
meaning and talk about some of the
differences the third way to use the
word right is a little bit more of a
legal term and here I have a copy of the
Constitution of the United States of
America this is the document that um 250
years ago 300 years ago almost our
founding fathers the people who started
the United States they wrote this and
they thought that these rules would help
create our country yes nowadays we kind
of follow them not really it’s a little
more they’re up for interpretation yeah
they’re a little more loosely
interpreted now but in this there is a
section called the Bill of Rights and
this word right is a noun the Bill of
Rights it means what are you allowed to
do yeah so in the Bill of Rights it says
things like you can have the freedom to
have any religion you want you can have
the freedom to own a gun you can have
the freedom
yes you can have the freedom to do
things you are allowed to do them you
have the right to do it yeah so this is
typically the situation when we would
use this Oh I’m allowed to do it I have
the right to do it it’s pretty strong
yes what about you what how would you
say that you would use this word um so
this word is used a lot just to say I’m
allowed to do something or it’s a
acceptable pretty strongly yeah I’ll
just tell you what my favorite right is
okay yeah my favorite right is the right
to free speech free speech so what does
that mean yes this means that you can
say or write anything as long as it’s
not directly harming somebody right so
you can’t say fire in a movie theater
that’s not permissible but you can write
something about your politician you can
write about somebody who’s rich you can
talk about them freely and you’re not
gonna go to jail and you won’t go to
jail just because of what you said sure
so that’s one of the fundamental basic
rights in the US and a lot of people
feel really strongly about the rights
that are in the Constitution and as you
saw from our quick conversation about
this it’s typically used in a government
sense kind of a legal sense yep but you
might hear people use it in other ways
so you could use it in a joking way if
if Dan is eating let’s say a really
amazing bowl of ice cream and I want
some I can say a joke I can just say hey
we’re married it’s my right to have one
bite of your ice cream we have to share
it’s my right it’s not really my right
it’s not legal it’s not necessary but
it’s kind of a joke because we’re
married so I should have some of your
ice cream right so this is just kind of
a joking way that you can use it it’s a
deeper meaning and you’re gonna see this
in movies and TV shows people using it
literally people are using it
figuratively people using it
sarcastically so I hope that in this
video you learned a bunch of different
ways to use the word right and I hope it
will expand your vocabulary and also
help you to understand more because
understanding and speaking is really
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a question we want to ask you about the
word rights mm-hmm in the comments below
tell us what do you think is right and
what is something you think is wrong so
we can compare the two and we mean this
in a moral sense so obviously murdering
somebody is wrong but what’s right is
something that’s right well let us know
in the comments and I think it’ll be
interesting to see what each other says
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