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today’s video is on words americans
overuse i haven’t seen these words yet
but
apparently it’s going to be a series of
words that we as americans i’m american
um we overuse we use too often so let’s
start
uh oh the first word is definitely
definitely is definitely a word that
americans overuse we use it to
put emphasis at the end of a phrase to
put emphasis at the end of a sentence
uh as in oh that party last week was so
great
yeah definitely or to agree with
somebody like that
uh oh god literally oh just in the last
few days i’ve seen the word literally
so many times on the internet and used
in just such
stupid ways the word literally
means actually or truly something this
is literally the best hamburger
i’ve ever eaten so literally meaning
truly or actually
would mean that in that person’s entire
life that is the best hamburger they’ve
ever eaten
however it gets misused a lot in
sentences um
like george bush was literally
supporting the war in iraq or something
like that taking a phrase like that
literally would have to mean that you
know the president former president
would be
you know physically supporting a war
with his body
onward onward hilarious
hilarious is the next word i like to use
the word hilarious when something is
actually funny
um hilarious of course means something
that is really funny super funny
it’s a step above funny maybe two steps
three steps i don’t know
however people like to use this word in
place of laughter
so uh for example friends are talking
and instead of just
laughing the friend will say that’s
hilarious
well if it’s so hilarious just laugh oh
this must be the last one
because this is the worst one this word
is like
um i’ve probably said it several times
already today for the for the purposes
of this video
the word like is used as a filler word
so
it’s the same as something such as
um for example
we use like as a filler word when we’re
trying to think of something
you it’s not uncommon to hear the word
repeated
like three four five times in a row when
someone is thinking
they’ll say oh you know that party that
i went to like
like uh like like uh
do you know who was there it just
invades your speech sometimes when
you’re trying to think of something and
no other filler words come out but the
word like does
ah this wasn’t the last word there is
another one
seriously seriously is used
oh it’s good for any time you receive
bad news
um well not from your boss it’s a really
casual word
but if you hear something like your
friend lost their job
and you can sympathize with them or
maybe empathize with them by saying
seriously
oh that’s too bad or oh tell me like
all your problems oh my god i just use
like oh god
oh i hate myself is that the end it’s
the end all right well i hope you
enjoyed learning about a few
um words that americans overuse
i’m sure that there are more words that
americans overuse but
perhaps you’ll find those out on your
own thanks very much for watching and
we’ll see you again next time
bye hi everybody welcome back i’m joined
today again in the studio by
michael hey everybody and today we’re
going to be talking about our favorite
english that we use without even
thinking about it so these are things
that
we just say we say just so often and
they come really really naturally to us
so that might be kind of helpful for you
to hear about some of the things that we
like to say
uh so i guess i’ll start us off for this
one
uh the first one that i’ve picked i
think i think i picked really simple
phrases this time around the first one
that i’ve chosen is the phrase i know
i know i like to use this to agree with
my friends a lot so my friend gives me
some
some kind of interesting information i
go i know
or i know or something something just to
show that i’m listening to them and that
i agree it doesn’t necessarily mean that
i’m i’m already i don’t know like i’ve
learned the information or something
like that
it’s it’s an agreement phrase that i
like to use with my friends
um is this something that yeah yeah yeah
that’s that’s funny you said that
because before you explain like the tone
and gave an example of how you say it
i thought of it on the opposite side to
me it sounded like
like a kid who’s just like i know i know
mom you know giving them like you need
to do this and this and this
i know i know you know i’m trying to
think do men
i mean these these are gender roles you
can say whatever you want but i’m trying
to think
i i know yeah i don’t know if i’ve ever
said it like
sorry oh maybe it is a gender thing
maybe it’s more common among women than
it is among men but i feel like
maybe it’s just in a movie or maybe it’s
because of where i’m from that people
will say like if you watch the last
video for example
dude i know that kind of yeah yeah yeah
but that your point about
kids saying that is so funny like when
when you get in trouble
i know i know saying it like that
it has a different meaning it’s another
exercise in intonation maybe this word i
know
for this phrase okay cool so there’s one
what’s your
what’s your first one so my first word
is
not really a word it’s spelled a couple
different ways ish
so this is something i i didn’t realize
that i i do a lot or
say a lot or whatever but it’s um
it it’s a sound that english speakers
make
that shows disapproval so
i don’t know like okay for example the
kid the kid who’s talking to a parent
and then the parent says you know you
need to do your homework
i know i know but no seriously you need
to get into a good gut
mom whatever yes maybe same as like
whatever
yep is good there are a lot of
variations on whatever whenever you
don’t want to hear what the other person
is saying
you can use or i see another one that i
like to use
um p f f ffft
that one’s harder to say though it’s not
so natural i think she’s good
any any sort of p p kind of sound or meh
just any sort of just nonsensical phrase
said like that means i don’t want to
listen to what you’re saying
yeah that’s a great one that’s a great
one i use that all the time too
oh i wish i wish i didn’t use it as much
as i did but oh i suppose so i see what
you mean
okay all right uh well onward i guess my
next word is anyway
anyway i like to use to transition
between two things to transition between
ideas
i also like to use it when i’m i’ve been
talking for way too long and i need to
make an exit from the conversation
usually i use anyway with kind of a dot
dot dot at the end like
anyway and i don’t finish any i don’t
finish saying anything after that
it’s just sort of it’s my just a little
sidle out of the
out of the conversation yeah anyway um
anyway so i use this word a lot actually
i’m glad you said that um actually some
of my students
asked me they said you know what are
some good um
words that connect two ideas or
something like that like a beginning
you know like first second these kinds
of words and i noticed and i never
noticed this before it actually relates
to this
question um that a lot of the things
that you look up
that are transition words we don’t ever
use in speech
it doesn’t sound natural but you have to
use synonyms you have to switch it up if
you’re writing
yeah speaking i say anyway almost every
other sentence
maybe i do it too much well not that
much but a lot a lot i realize
even typing even business emails i say
it all of the time
like it’s kind of like well yeah anyway
yeah maybe because i go on tangents a
lot so for me i use it not not as much
as the
anyway dot dot dot i usually do the
anyway back to what i was saying blah
blah blah blah yeah yeah yeah so
yeah that’s a good point about it being
used for transition so a lot of my
students are the same way they’ll pick
like a really really formal almost
businessy term to use to transition in
their speech and it doesn’t really sound
so natural but something like any way or
like you said well
or so is much better to use in
conversation i think
cool okay anyway anyway
um seriously
so seriously this is another one always
the the intonation this is this is our
our thing is intonation i guess but um
seriously
can be said in a lot of different ways
um for me maybe the most common
is the same as when you say really just
kind of like seriously
like did that actually happen no way
really yeah anytime you
anytime you go up like that it’s just
it’s a rhetorical question you don’t
actually want an
answer just like wow same thing as wow
um and then there’s also the
when someone does something stupid and
you just look
seriously you know but that’s less
common that’s you know kind of uh
really seriously
no really i mean i i use it the way that
you just described it to
just to like if i see i don’t know
somebody is walking on the street in
front of me and maybe they stop
and they don’t have any consideration
for the people behind them on the street
i might go seriously
oh you’re right you’re right you’re
right like
is this really happening did you just
make this decision i so i
maybe i use it when i’m talking to
myself more not so much i don’t
necessarily
yeah those are fighting words yeah those
are fighting words so no you’re right
i think maybe driving same thing yeah
seriously
or i mean are you are you kidding me
well i don’t want to say the bad version
of it but this is what i’m thinking when
i’m driving like are you kidding me
seriously you’re right you’re right but
it’s usually to yourself because
otherwise
it’s pretty aggressive that’s true yeah
so don’t say it to the other person
but yeah you’re right in terms of when
you’re talking to your friends and you
want to ask
did that really happen to you seriously
yeah it’s super useful
okay is it my turn again okay last one
for me
my last one is one i use all the time in
a number of situations i’ve chosen i
don’t know
um this is great for of course when you
don’t know the answer to something
um but i think when you don’t know the
answer to something like a you know a
math question or whatever it’s better to
say i don’t know
but when you use the the contracted dno
form of don’t know
it just shows kind of that you’re it’s
not a serious issue
it’s not something you need you’re
overly concerned with you’re just i
don’t know i don’t have an
answer i don’t have an idea it’s kind of
like saying you know what do you think
or
just this is all i’ve got you know um
so i don’t know do you use this that’s
how i use it no that’s that’s a really
good one
um the same thing is anyway i type this
a lot i say well i say idk
which is the acronym for it i would
never say idk out loud don’t say idk
that sounds kind of stupid i’m sorry in
my opinion
but you say i don’t know i don’t know i
don’t know i say that all the time
because i think
it’s it’s just a nice way to be humble
really
because maybe you do know or you think
you know but it’s a nice way to be like
i’m not sure you know what do you think
it’s a nice
um it’s it it tones down your your tone
you don’t sound as authoritative as
aggressive you say i don’t know what do
you want to eat chinese food tonight
yeah i mean i don’t know we can we can
eat whatever you want what do you think
yeah it’s like a really nice softener
like that if you want to introduce
you know like an offer if you have an
idea about something but you’re not sure
how the other person feels you can just
say i don’t know what do you want to do
i don’t know what do you want to do but
that’s usually the thing that
i don’t know what do you want to do i
don’t know what do you want to do okay
just make a decision we’re going to go
to youtube and we’re going to watch some
videos in englishclass101.com wow nice
okay so that’s some english that we use
without thinking about it all the time
i think that they’re pretty useful
phrases and they’re a little bit fun
too if you have some english that you
like to use from time to time or that
you just find comes out of your mouth
without thinking about it please leave
us a comment and let us know what it is
and yeah so also
this is this is a tough one because if
you use it without thinking about it
it’s hard for us to realize what those
words are so if there are any words you
hear
english people say and you’re curious
also leave that in a comment any way you
can
and uh anyway i think that’s that’s
about all we have
anything else i think that’s all so give
them a try and we will see you again
next time when we have more fun stuff to
talk about thank you
bye roll and roll and roll in
okay hi welcome back to weekly words i’m
alicia and today we’re going to talk
about
phrases that aren’t cool anymore woohoo
i probably say a whole lot of these
phrases so i’m about to embarrass myself
the first phrase is sweet oh sweet’s not
cool anymore sweet means cool sweet
means something that’s good you might
say oh man
that skateboard trick you just did was
sweet
groovy i still say groovy um groovy
means cool groovy means good
it was used in the 70s when you know
funky groovy music was popular
in a sentence like oh hey um those are
some groovy moves on the dance floor
i don’t know if we can use that going
steady going steady is kind of an
old-fashioned phrase as well
going steady just means you’re dating
someone who is dating someone else like
me and trisha are going steady
well it just means you’re dating you’re
a couple not
oh this is this word is actually what
the entire holiday of april fool’s day
is based around
that’s a lie particularly i would say
for junior high school students this
phrase is
um very popular they might say something
like hey
steve thinks you’re cute not
so in other words it’s often used as an
insult
duh is used when someone says something
really stupid or something
really obvious uh so if you say
something like
uh oh hey it’s raining the other person
who can also maybe look out the window
you’re both sitting in front of
might say duh because you’ve just
indicated something very very obvious
you can also use duh
to make fun of yourself when you do or
say something really stupid
as soon as you realize this you can go
ah duh yeah i’m learning today but i’m
not cool
that’s the end oh okay well those are
some phrases that are no longer cool i
hope you learned something about things
that are no longer cool but you can
still use these words just you know
don’t expect to sound really interesting
or
hip to the lingo if you use these words
okay
thanks for joining us and i will see you
again next time bye bye
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hi everybody welcome back to weekly
words i’m alicia and this week we are
going to talk about
internet lingo internet lingo is a fun
topic
the first word that we’re going to talk
about or the first phrase
or first acronym i suppose is smh
which means shaking my head or it’s some
way to explain that you are
disapproving of whatever you’ve just
seen or whatever you’ve just read
so it’s not really used so much in a
sentence as it is at like the end of a
sentence
for example did you see that recent news
story
smh
the next word is btw uh
this this also notes that uh people will
say bt
dubs where dubs is sort of a casual
short version of w this means by the way
so when you’re speaking to somebody and
you want to change the topic to
something that might be
a little bit related to whatever you’re
talking about at the moment you can use
btw you might say
hey i heard about that new job that you
got btw
how’s the salary that might be a little
bit too direct of an example but you
kind of get the idea any place you would
use
by the way you can use btw
next is really spelled y-o-l-o but it’s
usually red
as an act as a new word it’s it’s
pronounced yolo and it stands for you
only live once people will usually say
it and it tends to be at least from what
i’ve seen
young people they will usually say this
before they do something crazy
you’ve seen a video of somebody’s who’s
had too much to drink and they decide
they’re going to
i don’t know jump off a house and right
before they do it they scream
yellow meaning you only live once so i’d
better do this
now that’s kind of the implied meaning
of it okay the next one is
tbh to be honest oh this is great i can
use this in relation to the last word we
just talked about
tbh i don’t think particularly highly of
people who use the word yolo
btw it’s my irl
day off today he’s
he’s s m oh that was a failure
okay the next word is ttyl it means talk
to you later
you can use this at the end of a
conversation uh whether you’re using
skype or an instant message program
when it’s time for you to leave or maybe
when it’s time for the other person to
leave
they might type ttyl meaning just ah
i’ll see you later i’ll talk to you
later
okay i have to go to class now ttyl talk
to you later
that’s the situation where you might use
something like this anytime you have to
leave a conversation it’s good
and that’s the end of internet lingo
i hope that you learned a few things you
can try out a few of them right away
because you’re watching this on the
internet and you can leave a comment
thanks for watching ttyl
hey everyone i’m alicia in this series
we’re going to learn some easy ways to
ask and answer common questions in
english
it’s really useful and it only takes
three minutes
in the final lesson in this series
you’re going to learn some of the things
that native speakers say to make your
english sound perfectly fluent
so this is the last english in three
minutes lesson for this series i hope
you’ve learned a lot
in this lesson we’re going to look at
some words that are a feature of
spontaneous fluent english speech
they’re known as filler words you
probably have these in your native
language too
words that don’t have any meaning but
that fill a pause in the conversation
while you think about what to say next
you may not even be aware you’re using
them in your native language
however one of the quickest ways to
remind the person you’re speaking to
that you’re not a native speaker of
english is to slip back into using one
of these
filler words in your native language
so now we’re going to introduce a few of
these common filler words in english
you will hear these a lot when you’re
speaking to native english speakers but
this doesn’t mean you should use them
all the time
yourself just sometimes is more than
enough to make your speech sound fluent
and natural using these too much can
sound very irritating
some examples of filler words are sounds
like
um so using these in a sentence would
sound like
i’m going to um florida this weekend but
we also have
actual words and phrases that serve as
filler words
some of the most widely used are you
know
actually basically i guess
of course if you know what i mean and so
on and so on
however the most overused filler word
is without a doubt like hey that’s like
a really nice haircut
she’s like such a cool person this usage
of
like has absolutely no meaning you will
hear it a lot
especially if you’re speaking to younger
people but you should try to avoid
overusing it as it can make your speech
sound sloppy and uneducated
but there’s actually another use of like
which you may not be aware of
it’s used to quote speech in
conversation in your grammar textbook
you probably had some sample sentences
like this
he told me that he was going to see a
movie this weekend or
he said he was going to see a movie this
weekend or
he said i’m going to see a movie this
weekend but i’ll tell you a secret
it is very very common for younger
native english speakers to quote using
the phrase
was like for example he was like
i’m going to see a movie this weekend to
expand this further
you might even overhear something like
this he was like
i’m going to see a movie this weekend do
you want to come
and i was like i don’t know i’m kind of
busy and he was like
okay maybe next time did you follow all
that
now i’m not suggesting you copy this way
of speaking
exactly but just be aware that he was
like
and i was like is a very common if
slightly lazy way of quoting speech in
modern english
and throwing in a he was like and i was
like
every now and then will make you sound
like a totally fluent
young native english speaker now it’s
time for alicia’s advice
i said that these filler words don’t
mean anything and that they can sound
annoying when you use them too much
but actually they have an important
function as well as giving you time to
decide what to say next
they also help you to keep your turn
when speaking as opposed to going quiet
and possibly allowing someone else to
jump in and start talking
they can also weaken or soften what
you’re saying which can work either
positively or negatively
if you’re saying something important
that you want people to take seriously
you should try to avoid using fillers
but if you’re telling someone something
difficult
or if you’re expressing some strong
feeling it might be good to add in a
like or you know for example
i’m worried about you sounds very
serious and heavy
while i’m you know worried about you
sounds much gentler and less heavy
on the other hand adding a you know at
the end of a sentence can actually
underline and strengthen what you’re
saying as in i’m worried about you you
know
and that’s it you’ve learned a lot of
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