REAL ENGLISH CONVERSATION Learn Real English From Real English Conversations Episode 2
hey you know that feeling you get when
you’re having a conversation with
someone in english that feeling of oh no
nervousness because you don’t know what
to say next you know when they ask you a
question and you understand it but you
just don’t know how to respond that
awkward silence
today’s lesson is going to help you
eliminate all of those feelings i’m
going to teach you how to master english
conversations are you ready
well then
i’m teacher tiffany let’s jump right in
so what we’re gonna do first is
look at a conversation i had with one of
my good friends we were talking about
art so i’m going to read the
conversation to you very quickly and
you’ll be able to read along then we’re
going to break down each piece of the
conversation so that i can help you do
the same thing like a native english
speaker so this is my friend her name is
ria
and i started the conversation off by
asking ria hey
do you think your environment affects
your creativity
as you can tell rhea thought about the
question she said
that’s a great question
i wholeheartedly believe that a person’s
environment greatly affects the artwork
they produce
for example when i was younger there
were plants all throughout my house my
mom had a green thumb so she loved
taking care of a variety of plants
well her love for plants affected my
environment and now i love taking
pictures of plants now tiff
i think your time in korea affected your
art too right
now i’m going to continue reading the
rest
but notice what my friend did she
answered and then she immediately asked
me a question as well
again this is part of mastering english
conversations and we’re going to break
this down even more so after she asked
me that question i responded yes totally
i i do want to say though
that it is amazing how much your
mother’s passion affected your passion i
honestly totally agree with your
thoughts on the power of an environment
rhea
my time in korea affected my art in so
many ways
before going to korea i mainly focused
on portraits
but after spending 10 years in korea i
now love to paint rocks and mountains
so you see
this is the first part of our
conversation and i asked a question she
responded and then asked me a question
and i responded but some very important
things happened in this first part of
the conversation so let’s break it down
in more detail all right so looking at
let’s go to the first part not the last
part the first part remember i asked her
a question i said hey ria
do you think your environment affects
your creativity you see
a conversation
always starts off with a specific topic
or question
and i asked her about creativity
i’m introducing the topic and i used a
question so remember when you’re trying
to master english conversations you need
to start it off with a certain topic or
a question about a certain topic
that was the start of our conversation
and now it was ria’s turn to respond
and ria’s response was very interesting
now in her response she had a few
expressions and words and i do want to
explain those words to you
but i want to start first with her
initial response
remember she said tiffany that’s a great
question
i wholeheartedly believe that a person’s
environment dot dot dot but wait she
said that’s a great
question
she responded to what i asked right hey
tiff i’m acknowledging your question and
saying you know what
that’s a great question
then she proceeded to give her
personal opinion she said i
wholeheartedly i completely believe that
a person’s environment greatly affects
the artwork they do so when you’re in a
conversation and someone asks you a
question you don’t just answer and stop
instead like ria you can say or give
your thoughts on that question she said
that’s a great question uh-huh that’s
very interesting
then she gave her opinion
in her opinion yes
an environment a person’s environment
greatly affects their artwork
now
sometimes you give an answer like that
and you stop
but you have to keep going watch what
rhea did she said
for example when i was younger
and she started to give an example story
to support her opinion you have to
remember this so
you give your opinion but then you have
to support it by giving something else
and you can give a story this is a great
way to keep a conversation going
when you tell a story like
story time right how much you guys like
story time at the end of this video
don’t miss it
it’s because the person can kind of
connect with what you’re saying they
learn more about you and it also will
lead to more questions which will keep
the conversation going so ria starts
giving a little bit of a personal
experience a personal story example of
her mom and she said her mom had a green
thumb
now let me explain to you really quickly
what a green thumb is here we go so in
english we say green thumb and this is
just
someone who has an unusual ability to
make plants grow many times people will
get plants and unfortunately they die
they don’t know how to take care of the
plants but
when a person is really good at taking
care of plants and helping them grow
even inside the house
we say they have a green thumb
rhea said her mom has a green thumb now
here’s an example sentence using this
expression my mom’s idiom my mom has a
green thumb very simple and easy to use
so ria mentioned that her mom has a
green thumb
now she said that her mom took care of a
variety of plants remember ria is still
in the third part
giving her example story in her response
she said a variety now what does this
word variety mean variety actually means
a number of different types of things
especially ones in the same general
category right so things that are in the
same general category they’re all plants
but they’re different types we have
tulips a flower we have um
other plants large small that are
different but they’re the same kind
category or a category i was surprised
example sentence i was surprised by the
variety of choices that were available
so in english we say variety so again as
ria was talking about her experience
giving her example story she said that
her mom who had a green thumb had a
variety of plants
now
her love for plants she continues
affected my environment
then she says her current situation
due to the story the example story she
told you now she’s explaining how that
story connects to the present day
she said
my mom’s love for plants affected her
environment and now she loves taking
pictures of plants so again ria
responded to my question she gave her
personal opinion then she gave a story
to connect it and then she said how that
story affects her right now in the
present time
and she ended by doing what
now tiff
i think your time in korea affected your
art too right
she ended with a question remember when
you’re trying to master english
conversations you have to remember it’s
like a tennis match back and forth back
and forth and the only natural way for
this to happen is to use questions and
answers back and forth so ria in her
response to my question she gave her
opinion but she supported it with an
interesting story which also will keep
the listeners attention conversation is
not just about the number of words you
can use it’s about your understanding of
the proper way to have a conversation in
english okay give my idea support my
idea
then make sure i connect with my
listener by asking him or her a question
all right so ria sends it back to me she
asks me a question and now it’s my turn
to respond
so i respond i say yes totally
that is
right here
an immediate answer i immediately
respond to the question i was asked
but i continue watch what i did
i do want to say though that it is
amazing how much your mother’s passion
speaking of rhea
affected your passion now what did i do
there
i actually
acknowledged the previous statement
i showed ria hey i was listening i’m not
just answering the question you asked me
i do want to show you that i enjoyed
your story i listened to your story and
i also heard your opinion
i did that by hey i answered yes i
totally totally agree what you’re saying
i totally believe that korea did affect
me but i want you to know that i was
also listening to you again
in a conversation when someone feels
like you are listening to them
they will want to continue the
conversation all right so i let her know
hey i was listening ria i understood
what you said and i also agree and it’s
amazing how much your mom’s passion
really affected you as well
so after letting her know that i was
paying attention i then state the part
that i agreed or disagreed with i said
ria i honestly
totally agree with your thoughts on the
power of an environment so again i’m
still acknowledging what rhea said i’m
letting her know i paid attention to
your story your example story and i also
paid attention to your opinion now i’m
letting you know if i agree or if i
don’t agree with it and i said i totally
agree
then
that’s when i continue now i do want to
explain totally agree really quickly so
in english when we say totally agree
it just means to fully agree
giving full agreement to the maximum
possible without any level or measure or
element of a disagreement hey
we’re on the same page
i totally agree with you but here’s an
example sentence
they totally agree with you so don’t
worry about it in english we say totally
agree now i want to continue with the
conversation breaking it down for you
all but i do want to say this
what we’re doing is we’re breaking down
english conversations right and i want
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we’re continuing with the conversation
now we’re going back to my response i
said i totally agree and you see that
portion of the conversation
then i continue giving more details
about my
personal experience i start talking
about
what happened what i was like before i
went to korea i said before going to
korea i mainly focused on portraits
which is true
but after spending 10 years in korea
i now love to paint rocks and mountains
and i actually want to show you some of
the paintings and how my paintings
changed over time but again the
important part is you’re seeing i
acknowledged what rhea said
then i continued by giving my experience
this is something with english
conversation that you must remember you
have to give your opinion but you also
have to support it with
a story or other information now
i’m scrolling through
this is one of my pieces this is an art
piece hold on one second that i did
before korea
this is one of my pieces from before
korea it’s a pencil drawing it’s
actually huge i just put it on my phone
i saved it to my instagram page
but after going to korea i started
focusing on painting mountains and this
mountains and rocks and nature this is a
small piece i did and it was some
mountain a mountain area in south korea
so you see
my artwork changed because my
environment changed and that’s what ria
and i were discussing but remember
acknowledging what she said
also saying what i agreed or disagreed
with and then giving my personal
experience again this is how a natural
english conversation flows so let’s keep
going now the second part of our
conversation is right here we continued
our conversation ria was talking to me
and i responded and ria responded to me
saying oh tiff
i love your new style
i always look at your paintings on your
instagram feed they are so nice
my response oh thank you so much
i’m looking forward to seeing more of
your artwork too
she responded yeah i’m actually planning
to take some pictures this weekend
i’ll shoot them to you when i finish
editing them or i’ll send them to you i
would love to know your thoughts on them
my response
sounds like a plan definitely i would
love to so you see this is the last part
of our conversation as we’re wrapping up
but we still have this natural flow back
and forth so let’s break this down so
ria said oh tiff i love your new style
she’s connecting to the example with a
personal example remember i said my new
style i changed because of my
environment now my friend ria actually
follows me on instagram so ria also sees
my paintings right there so she said hey
let me connect what you said by actually
showing you i also know that you’ve
changed you want to connect with what
the person said
then i respond thank you so much
i’m looking forward to seeing more of
your artwork too we’re still going back
and forth
back and forth so i responded to the
connection
she made and i also made a comment about
her
so remember when you’re in a
conversation you want to make sure
you’re listening closely so that you can
first respond to what they said to show
the connection and then make another
comment preferably about them
now after i did that what did she say
yeah actually i’m planning to take some
pictures this weekend she answered she
replied to what i said
and then she talked about her future
plans
i would love to know your thoughts on
them after i take the pictures we’re
still going back and forth connecting
letting each other know that we care
about what we think and what the other
person thinks as well
and i end it by saying
sounds like a plan that just means yep
sounds good that’s the final comment
related to the previous statement she
said tiff i’d love to know your thoughts
and i said hey sounds like a plan i’m
acknowledging that yes i will do that
and this is exactly how you have a
fluent english conversation a natural
english conversation like a native
english speaker i really hope you
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alright i will see you next week but as
always remember to speak english
you still there
you know what time it is come on sing it
with me it’s
story time
hey i said it’s story time
all right so today for story time
now i mentioned to you all again that i
enjoy drawing and painting i’ll try to
show some of my artwork here this is
some of my latest artwork hold on one
second let’s see if you all can see it
right here
where i put my artwork online so i like
to paint i like to draw and i just like
to express myself
creatively
but the thing is
i don’t have a lot of friends that are
interested in art they appreciate art
like they’ll see a picture and say wow
tiff we really like that picture but it
usually stops there they’re not as
interested as i am in art i love going
to art museums i can spend a full day at
an art museum staring at paintings
staring at drawings staring at
sculptures trying to understand what the
artist
was trying to convey the message
so i never really had another friend
that appreciated that level of
uh
art appreciation
that was until i went to korea one of my
closest friends i mean closest friends
like she married my student like we’re
very very close
when we were in korea i’ve talked about
her before angel if you’re watching hey
um her name is angel she’s korean um but
we were teachers together at the english
institute i worked at in korea samyuk
ohagwan
samyuk institute that was in korean um
and
we were friends but we hadn’t gotten
close just yet that was until we
realized we both loved art so we used to
go to cafes every sunday and i told you
all about how we used to spend hours
sometimes in silence just drawing and
painting and we loved it
well
one year i was in korea it was around
christmas time it actually was christmas
and i wasn’t able to come home i had to
stay in korea i wasn’t with my family
and she and i spoke and we said hey well
why don’t we spend christmas together
this is before she got married um they
hadn’t even started dating yet so we
said okay well let’s go on a trip so we
went on a trip to
uh kind of a um
like a little hotel area it was kind of
they it was kind of um not a hotel was
like an apartment and they had it right
in front of the beach so it was really
nice and we said hey let’s just go and
draw and paint the whole time so that’s
exactly what we did we cooked we um
talked laughed a lot and then during the
day we just drew and paint all to paint
it all day but on christmas day we came
back to our house um my apartment and
she went to her we were about to go to
her apartment to drop her off and she
said tiff why don’t we hang out actually
for christmas day because we had hung
out prior like the days before christmas
and i said okay
i said well
what do you want to do because she cooks
well and i like to cook as well i can
cook well too so i said okay are we
going to cook all day or what we’re
going to do she said how do you feel
about painting all day we just came from
a trip where we painted all day and i
said
i love the idea and we literally painted
all day now we ate delicious food in the
evening but we painted all day and i can
remember as we were sitting in the floor
in my living room she was painting and i
was painting and we were listening to we
listened to sermons we listened to music
christmas music and i just said man it’s
amazing to have a friend that loves art
just as much as i do now that i’m back
in america
she’s in korea again uh husband baby
he’s so cute
but we both still talk about that like
man we miss being around each other to
go on these trips where we just paint
all day so one day again after uh things
are a little bit more safe a little
safer i’ll be able to travel to korea
and visit and we’ll do another painting
trip all right guys maybe you have
experienced the same thing you have a
friend that has the same interest as you
and you have a wonderful time together
let us know about it in the comment
section alright guys i hope you enjoyed
today’s story time and learned a little
bit more about me i’ll see you next time