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that means we’re going to the
movie theater right all right uh hi
everybody
my name is alicia welcome back to top
words today we’re going to be talking
about
must-know expressions for agreeing and
disagreeing very useful so let’s
go exactly exactly when you agree
100 with something someone else has said
you can say
exactly for example ramen is one of the
best foods in the world
exactly i don’t agree i don’t agree
you have a different opinion from the
other person they tell you
i think that soccer is the best sport
you can say i don’t agree
but be prepared to provide your own
opinion after this
i think soccer’s the best sport i don’t
agree i think that football is
oh that could cause some problems soccer
football
americans say football when we mean
american football but the rest of the
world says football when they mean
soccer
maybe maybe is when you don’t know when
you can’t make a decision or when you’re
not sure about something
okay so someone tosses you an opinion
someone says their
their idea to you i think it’s gonna
rain tomorrow you can say yeah maybe
you don’t know for sure yes or no but
it’s possible
it’s a good sort of in-between
expression but if you use
maybe all the time it’s going to sound
really strange and it’s going to sound
like you can’t make a decision
so use maybe very sparingly don’t use it
so often
maybe is very commonly used as a soft no
it’s up to you to figure that out among
the people that you’re talking to though
do you want to stay over my house this
weekend
and maybe i couldn’t agree with you more
you are in complete agreement with the
other person and
really want to communicate that to them
you think that what they have just said
is really really correct super correct
yes
you are completely on board with that
idea you can say i
couldn’t agree with you more i couldn’t
the negative form
i could not agree with you more meaning
it’s not
possible that i could agree more with
what you’re saying
next week it’s really important that we
have a barbecue
because summer is ending and then your
friend can say i couldn’t agree more
that’s a fantastic idea
i’ll buy steak
i think we’re going to have to agree to
disagree
agree to disagree this is a kind of it
seems like a simple phrase agree to
disagree
so you’re agreeing with the other person
you agree
that we have a different opinion agree
to
disagree i would use this expression at
the end of a discussion
so person a and person b have different
opinions
and they’ve been discussing those
opinions for a long time
and person a is not changing his or her
opinion person b
is not changing his or her opinion so
you can say at the end of the
conversation
okay we have to agree to disagree
let’s just accept our different opinions
and move on in the conversation
you have a point there this is not
necessarily an
agreement or disagreement phrase it’s a
small agreement
within a larger discussion so maybe
you’ve been discussing a topic for
a long time and you’ve disagreed with
the other person
until this this time this person says
something
and you agree with that ah you have a
point there so there’s one thing
that this person has said that you can
agree with you can say
you have a point there i think that’s
correct or i agree with that point
that’s exactly how i feel that’s exactly
how i feel
meaning my feeling is the same as your
feeling or my opinion is the same as
your opinion
that’s exactly how i feel maybe you can
use this if someone describes your
feeling very accurately
for example you can say i feel like the
company is really heading in a nice new
direction
you can say yeah that’s exactly how i
feel i really like the new boss
i don’t think so i don’t think so it’s
soft it’s not so direct it’s not a hard
i disagree but just i don’t think so of
course you can use it to discuss
opinions but you can also use it when
you’re making plans
are you going to that party this weekend
i don’t think so
it’s not a disagreement but it can be
used as a negation phrase and a negative
response to something when used as an
opinion i think
chinese is the hardest language to learn
you can say i don’t think so i think
that
arabic is the hardest language to learn
yes you’re right
yes you’re right means you’re correct
yes i agree with you
i think that’s the right information i
think that’s the correct opinion
just a very clear agreement phrase
you’re right
it also has the nuance of being correct
so maybe there was
there there was a possibility the other
person could be incorrect
did you know that pepperoni pizza is the
most delicious pizza
in the world yes you’re right you could
change it too that’s right for that
opinion
you can use your to talk specifically
about the person itself but
that’s right yes that’s right that
information is correct
i guess so i guess so it’s so it’s an
agreement but it’s sort of a flaky
agreement
i guess so it’s like you don’t really
want to make a decision
uh but you don’t feel strongly in one
like
in agreement or disagreement you can say
i guess so
it’s usually said with this tone of
voice i guess so
you know we don’t really say i guess so
generally it’s like you can’t quite make
a decision
or you don’t want to make a decision you
can say i guess so
hey we’re gonna go for chinese food for
dinner tonight do you want to come
yeah i guess so you don’t feel strongly
either way
i guess so i’m afraid i disagree it’s a
rather polite expression that you can
use in a business situation for example
i’m afraid here doesn’t mean i’m
actually scared or i’m really frightened
but just it’s a softener that’s used at
the beginning of sentences to introduce
a negative opinion so
i’m afraid i disagree or i’m afraid i
can’t agree with you
for example i think that you need to
adopt a new policy for your company
i’m afraid i disagree it’s a soft
disagreement that sounds a bit more
formal
than some of the other phrases we’ve
talked about so far absolutely
absolutely means 100
yes exactly precisely definitely it’s a
quick
and clear and can be polite as well as
casual
um word that means you agree with the
other person
hey do you want to go to the beach this
weekend yeah absolutely absolutely
oh that’s the end so those are some
phrases that you can use to agree and
disagree with other people there are a
lot of them so and you can kind of mix
and match them
as you see fit so give them a try thanks
very much for watching this episode
of top words and we’ll see you again
soon bye
fly is beach hi everybody my name is
alicia and today we’re going to be
talking about the top 25
english phrases so let’s get started the
first phrase is hello
hello of course is used as a greeting
you can greet your friends you can greet
your co-workers your family with this
phrase
just by saying hello hey hi what’s up
hello
sup yo pretty much any time of day you
can use hello
hello the next phrase is good morning
good morning is used as a greeting in
the morning you can kind of feel when
morning ends for you good morning is
nice and polite
or even just morning with your close
friends or close co-workers
the next phrase is good night good night
is fine we don’t use this
to greet other people we use it when
we’re saying goodbye to other people at
night
family members particularly mothers and
fathers to say good night to their
children before they put them to bed
you can say it to your friend in a text
message or in an email if you’ve been
talking for a while
good night so the next word to talk
about is goodbye
uh use it when you say goodbye to your
friends when you leave your friends
goodbye
bye of course take care have a nice day
peace out that’s another way to say
goodbye okay the next phrase is
i’m plus your name of course this is a
way to introduce yourself you can use
i’m in my case alicia i’m alicia to
introduce yourself in any situation
new friend i’m alicia okay the next
phrase is what’s your name what’s your
name is used to ask someone else what
their name is
so what is your name sounds a bit
tried to use what’s your name if you
forget someone’s name you can say sorry
what’s your name or sorry what’s your
name again
next phrase is nice to meet you nice to
meet you anytime you meet someone
new nice to meet you is fine good to
meet you is a little more casual
great to meet you sounds very excited
pleasure to meet you sounds like
maybe a formal situation or a business
context
okay the next phrase is how are you how
are you
is it’s just a friendly way to check in
with the other person you can use it
with friends your family
your co-workers maybe even your boss to
a certain degree
uh how are you how you doing the next
phrase is i’m fine thanks
and you uh if you saw english in three
minutes we talked a lot about this
phrase uh instead of i’m fine thank you
and you say i’m good thanks how are you
just shorten it make it a little bit
more natural how are you
good how are you great how are you not
so good
how are you okay and so on so when
someone says how are you
offer i usually say i’m good this week i
blah blah blah give some information
about what you’ve been up to
maybe a hobby something that you did
recently an event something interesting
you saw
whatever people want to make that
connection with you and it’s a good
chance for you to continue speaking
the next word is please please is a
polite phrase used when you want
something from someone else
you can use this as a response when
someone offers you something like in a
restaurant for example would you like
more water would you like something to
drink oh please
the next phrase is thank you thank you
is used to express your appreciation you
can use thank you with
everybody the next phrase is you’re
welcome you’re welcome when someone says
thank you you can say you’re welcome no
biggie i use no biggie as in no biggie
is short for no big problem
the next word is yes yes of course yes
means is any
positive expression someone asks you a
question and the answer is a positive
answer you say yes
yep
next i’m guessing i know it yep the next
word is no
no is a negative response to something
when you have to give a negative answer
so as you can probably guess um the long
form of no
is negative i like to use nope it’s very
very casual
not gonna happen my parents would use
that with me to soften that a little bit
if you want to show a negative
response to something like let’s go for
dinner tonight what do you want to do
like do you want to go out
uh not really no
i don’t think so to soften it the next
word is okay
okay this word comes from copy editors
okay when they had to check a manuscript
um they had to label the manuscript
all clear ac but because they were copy
editors and they have a very very sick
sense of humor
they thought they would mark it okay for
all clear to make a joke because o
and k do not start all and clear but it
caught on
among everybody in the world anyway
okay uh is used to agree with somebody
else
well it can be used actually to express
a positive or kind of a slight negative
i feel
transitioning in your conversation you
can say okay now we’re going to talk
about
blah blah blah okay the next phrase is
excuse me excuse me
it’s used to get someone’s attention in
english when you don’t know the other
person for example in a store
a supermarket maybe a stranger on the
street you need to ask directions you
can use
excuse me you can use excuse me in the
supermarket excuse me can you tell me
where the hot sauce is
if you’ve done something rude in public
you can use excuse me
i personally do not do rude things in
public ever i’m sorry is the next word
we’re going to talk about i’m sorry is
used to apologize when you have made a
mistake or someone
you know has made a mistake and you’re
connected to it or you just feel bad you
can use
i’m sorry you made a mistake at work i’m
sorry
you forgot to feed your cat i’m sorry
sorry about that you bump someone next
to you oh sorry
what time is it is the next phrase when
you need to check what time it is
what time is it when you ask someone
else what time it is maybe you say this
to yourself too
check your watch check your phone check
a clock pretty straightforward phrase
there aren’t really any
short versions so that’s an easy one
where is that plus a location so you can
use this
for a building or a store we don’t we’re
not going to use this where is the
for a place a city name or a state name
or a country name
to do that you would need to remove the
but where is the bank where is the post
office you can use this to ask
directions to ask for help
in your house or at work where is the
copy machine
where is the file i need where is the
blah blah blah
where is the bathroom is perhaps a very
important question to know
the next one is may i use the restroom
may i use the restroom is a polite
and soft expression that you can use if
you need to use the toilet you need to
use the washroom
when you’re at someone’s house for the
very first time when you’re in a place
that you’re that is new to you you can
ask may i use the restroom
more casually can i go to the bathroom
to be very polite you can say may i go
to the bathroom
the next phrase is i would like to order
something
you can use this at a restaurant
probably or in any situation where you
need to place an order
i’d like a pizza i’d like
a beer can i get the check please this
will be used at a restaurant when you’ve
finished your meal and it’s time to go
can i get the check please
in a very very casual situation you can
just say check please that’s fine
the next phrase is see you soon see you
soon is used with friends and family
members perhaps
when you expect to see them again soon
after saying goodbye to them this is
used at the end of the conversation
you’re going separate directions see you
soon see ya
is also good or just see you to make it
a little more formal you can say i’ll
see you again
soon make a full sentence out of it that
way the next phrases see you later
see you later it’s very similar to see
you soon but the point is with cu later
is that
you’re probably going to meet that
person again later on in the same day
the last phrase is really really is a
very useful word because you can use it
to show you’re interested in a
conversation with upward intonation
really really tell me more or to show
that you’re not so interested in the
conversation with downward intonation
really so there are many other words
that you can use similar to really in
this way
like seriously or oh oh and so on
so it’s a really good practice for your
intonation uh so those are
25 very common words uh and phrases in
english
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oh interesting uh-huh okay i see great
fantastic
unbelievable gratitude subjects what are
we having for dinner tonight pizza
affirmative
a riff on that i am chris hardwick hi
everyone i’m bridget and welcome to
today’s lesson
today’s topic is 10 ways to say hello
in english good morning
good morning is the first thing you say
to someone when you see them
in the morning good morning sir would
you like a cup of coffee
good morning could i please get some
orange juice
good morning i’m still tired from the
night before
hello hello is the most common greeting
you’ll hear
that and hi hello is a polite
nice way to greet someone when you see
them hello
everyone says it you cannot go wrong
saying hello
hello can be used at any time of the day
no matter whether it’s
morning or at night or at 4 00 am
when you see someone you can say hello
and it will still be appropriate long
time no see long time
no see it’s not necessarily
grammatically correct
but it’s a saying that we have hey long
time no
see what it means is that you haven’t
seen that person
in a long time so it literally means
long time no see long time
no see is something you say to someone
when you haven’t seen them
in a while hey john
long time no see how are the wife and
kids
how have you been hey how have you been
i haven’t seen you in a long time how
have you been
is asking someone how they’re doing and
how they’ve been
for the past however long if you haven’t
seen them in a while you might say hey
long time no see how have you been
how have you been that’s past tense it
implies that you haven’t seen them in a
while
and you want to hear about how they are
and how they’ve been for all of that
time that you haven’t
seen them hey long time no see
how have you been how are you
how are you means how are you doing how
are you feeling how is everything
it’s a standard thing that you might say
to anyone
even if you’ve seen them the day before
you might see them today and say
hey how are you how’s it going
hey how’s it going how is it going
is a more informal way to say how
are you so how are you and how’s it
going
they mean the same thing it’s asking
how you are doing how you are feeling is
everything okay with you
what’s up what’s up is another way of
saying
hey how’s it going but this one is even
more
informal so you might say this to
friends hey what’s up
and they’ll say nothing just living my
life you know
day in and day out hey what’s up
hey what’s up good afternoon
good afternoon how are you would you
like some
lunch good afternoon is a polite way to
greet someone
in the afternoon so if you run into
your boss you might say good afternoon
it’s very nice it’s polite not a lot of
people say it to their friends
but it’s it’s a polite way to greet
someone
good evening good evening is a nice way
to greet someone in the evening time you
can only use this phrase
in the evening because it’s wishing
someone a good evening
it’s saying hello at a certain time of
day
good evening would you like some dinner
good evening have you eaten yet all of
my examples involve food it seems
it’s nice to meet you it’s nice to meet
you
this is something that’s very common to
say
the first time that you meet someone you
might shake their hand and say
hi it’s nice to meet you my name is
bridget
my name is it’s telling that person
that you are happy to be meeting them
it’s a pleasure
to meet them hi it’s nice to meet you
that brings us to the end of this lesson
10 ways to say
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for more english okay everybody shift
information has been posted for the
month
it looks like we’ll visit 25 cities in
30 days
do we normally visit 25 different cities
in one month
yes sometimes we visit even more
where’s our first stop charlotte
hey i have friends in charlotte it would
be nice to see them
good evening in room dining this is alex
how may i be of service
hello i would like to order some food
of course ma’am just to confirm this is
mrs rossen in room 417
yes it is excellent may i take your
order
yes i would like a turkey sandwich on a
parmesan bagel
and what to drink a diet coke
will there be anything else yes i would
also like a wake-up call for seven
my major is education how about you
i’m an english major cool
i like english oh and what’s oksana’s
major
she’s also an english major that’s nice
you can help each other study yep in
fact i need to meet her now so we can
study together
okay it was nice talking with you
you too see you later see ya
good evening ma’am may i have your first
and last names
melissa west thank you ma’am
i have found your reservation here’s the
registration information
does everything look correct to you
yes it seems to be correct excellent
now i will just need a photo id for
legal purposes
will my passport do that would be just
fine ma’am
checkout is between noon and two o’clock
you may request an extension of up to
five hours for your charge
what if i need more time then a late
charge of five percent will be added to
your bill
hey vicky did you forget our study date
at 10 this morning
i’m sorry naomi at 10 i was talking with
my professor and couldn’t get away
i’m sorry i should have called
that’s okay so how did the meeting go
with the professor
it went fine he gave me an extension on
my paper and i can still take the
midterm
how was your study group yesterday well
we were studying together during lunch
when i noticed an old friend of mine
from high school in the same cafe
my concentration quickly switched from
class to catching up with my friend
so i didn’t get much done you’ve taken
that class before right
yeah last semester i was always asking
questions in that class because it was
so difficult
well i was hoping that you could rent me
a hand with my paper
i can’t think of anything else to write
sure no problem that is if you can help
me study for our history test
sounds like a deal hi everybody welcome
back to top words my name is alicia and
today we’re going to be talking about 10
different phrases that you can use to
respond to the question
how are you so let’s go i’m great
the first phrase is i’m great if someone
says how are you
you can say i’m great try to say i’m
great with a kind of
an upbeat voice um so something like
how are you i’m great i’m feeling bad
i’m feeling bad if you say i’m feeling
bad the other person is probably if
they’re a friend of yours or a co-worker
going to ask you why what happened so if
you want to use i’m feeling bad
make sure you have an explanation ready
anyway somebody says how are you and you
go i’m feeling bad
maybe i went out for drinks last night
with my co-workers oops
i’m okay i’m okay i feel like this is
one of those intonation practice ones
i’m okay
with that ah i’m okay it’s like sort of
upward intonation you’re like
cool but if if someone says how are you
and you’re like i’m okay
they’re like oh no what happened
so you can use your intonation with i’m
okay to make it
a good thing or another good thing but
either way it’s not like a very super
serious response
thank you for asking yeah i imagine this
would be in a more
formal situation like if my friend said
to me how are you
and i was like thank you for asking
they’d be like
what i would say i’m fine or i’m doing
well
i’m doing great plus thank you for
asking so
how are you i’m doing very well thank
you
oh that’s how i would use it and you the
next one is
and you like the least natural response
to
how are you is i’m fine thank you and
you like just
get out of put it just take it out of
your head nobody says that
i always say how about you that’s a much
more natural thing
how are you how are you how are you can
be a response
again after you have given your answer
to the question
how are you i’m great how are you how
are you i’m good how are you
i’m great how are you i’m okay how are
you how have you been recently
how have you been recently this is only
useful if you haven’t
seen the other person for a while i’m
not bad
i’m not bad i’m not bad how are you i’m
not bad
i’m not bad things could be worse i
would probably do this
i’m sleepy the next expression is i’m
sleepy
it’s like so specific if someone said
how are you i would probably say
i’m okay but i’m a little sleepy
i don’t know that i would just say i’m
sleepy unless it’s a really good friend
of mine
it’s a person close to you you can say
i’m so tired i’m
i would say i’m super tired or i’m
really tired uh and i feel like that’s a
little bit more natural than just
i’m sleepy i’m good one that i use a lot
if someone says how are you
i say i’m good uh that’s just probably
my go-to response yeah i’m good i’m good
maybe i’ll repeat it while smiling i’m
good i’m good yeah thanks for asking
great
how are you that is the end those are 10
phrases that you can use to respond to
the question
how are you if there’s one takeaway from
this and from other things that we’ve
done
over the last few years in this channel
just get rid of that i’m fine thank you
and you
and pick one of these that we’ve talked
about today
of course if there’s another expression
that you use
for a response to how are you
i’d be very interested to learn about
that but
uh in general you’re pretty safe if you
stick with these i think so
thanks very much for watching this
episode of top words and we will see you
again
soon bye hi everybody welcome back to
top words my name is alicia and today
we’re going to be talking about the top
10
must-know vocabulary for restaurants so
let’s eat waiter the first word is
waiter
waiter or waitress or wait staff these
are the people who bring you your food
and take your orders
in a sentence your waiter will be with
you in a moment
menu the next word is menu menu is the
piece of paper or the document the thing
that’s on your table
or near your table that has a
description of all the food you can eat
at that restaurant
in a sentence can i have the menu please
order the next word is order order you
can use this as a noun or as a verb
you can say to order something or where
is my
order in a sentence i would like to
order two sticks
three hamburgers four beers a large
pizza
and a piece of chocolate cake to go to
my home
water the next word is waters in
american restaurants you usually get
water for free
i noticed when i traveled in europe you
had to pay for water at restaurants that
was interesting
in a sentence american restaurants
usually give you a glass of water
without having to ask
dessert the next word is dessert dessert
is
the sweet stuff the sweet course
all the sweet foods that come after the
main part of the meal
in a sentence can we see the dessert
menu chef
chef chef is the leader of the kitchen
the person that is cooking the food
in fancy restaurants the chef is like
the the one who is running
the operation the manager of everything
there are different levels of chef
in the kitchen in a sentence you can say
please give my compliments to the chef
fast food the next word is fast food
fast food is anything that’s quick
popular examples in america or
mcdonald’s burger king
subway taco bell kentucky fried chicken
jack-in-the-box
so those are all fast food restaurants
you get in and you get out very very
quickly
they don’t have a reputation for being
very healthy in a sentence
i try to eat fast food as rarely as
possible
bill the next word is bill you might
also hear
check bill and check mean the total of
your
meal how much your dining experience
cost you is the bill or the check a bill
comes before you have paid
a receipt is the piece of paper you get
after you have paid the receipt shows
confirms you have paid money the bill is
the request for money that’s the
difference between bill or check
and receipt in a sentence usually you
say can i have the bill please or can i
have the check
please delicious delicious delicious
means something that tastes good we have
many variations on delicious we say
delicious good
yum yummy fantastic great and so on
it’s kind of strange to me to say this
is delicious i usually just say this is
good or this is really good
something like that is a bit more
natural than delicious
in a sentence my dinner today was
delicious
main course main course it’s often like
a meat dish
actually like like roast something or i
don’t know
it’s also called the entree maybe it’s a
really fancy pasta dish in some cases i
don’t know in a sentence
for the main course our specials are
chicken and zucchini
and curry uh that’s the end so those are
10 words that you can use in a
restaurant i think they’re very useful
when traveling
actually so try to keep them in mind the
next time you go out to eat
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back to top words
today we’re going to talk about 10 ways
to stop
translating in your head let’s get
started identify objects around you in
english
the first way to stop translating in
your head is to identify the objects
around you
in your target language so if you’re
studying english that means
you look at the objects around the room
look at the things
in your life don’t think of them in your
native language first think of them in
your target language first
so if i look around the room i see a
computer i shouldn’t think
my native language word i should think
my target language word so
start with the items and the situations
in your everyday life
if i say computer in english maybe i
should say computa
in japanese i should say not i don’t
know
water in english i should say omizu in
japanese so
start associating the words in your
target
language with your everyday life now so
if you’re studying
english that means start getting
familiar with the things
in your everyday life in english
repeat phrases you hear native speakers
use tip number two is to repeat the
phrases that you hear
native speakers use so if you’re
watching this channel for example
or you’re watching a tv show or a movie
listen for the way that native speakers
make those phrases
if you hear a phrase you have never
heard before or you hear an interesting
combination of words
try to repeat them yourself don’t just
listen
try to say them yourself if you’re in a
public space and it’s difficult for you
to do that
fine practice in a place where you feel
more comfortable
maybe if you have some private space to
practice just repeat them get your mouth
used to saying the words the way that
the speakers
the native speakers do so if you never
actually say
words if you’re only taking in if you’re
only listening
and you’re not actually producing the
language it’s it’s kind of hard to
to practice and to to really hone your
pronunciation to improve your
pronunciation
so when you listen to native speakers
try to repeat
after them so for example if you’re
studying english
you can try to repeat after this video
you can repeat after the things
i’m saying because maybe i’m using an
expression or i’m using a certain
uh series of vocabulary words together
the way a native speaker would and it’s
maybe a good idea to try to practice the
ways that native speakers put their
words together so try to repeat
after native speakers especially when
you’re looking at media
and you can do this when you’re reading
books too you can try to read out
read out loud interesting lines of books
that you find or something that maybe is
difficult for you
very nice practice tip make a situation
where you can’t escape into your native
language
make a situation where you can’t escape
into your native language
essentially means immerse yourself of
course
going to that country or going to a
place where you
can speak only that language is very
difficult for some of you
totally understand but if in your life
you can create a situation in your
library in your room
in your house somewhere for just an hour
or i don’t know maybe a day i don’t know
what your schedule is like but
if you can create a situation or create
an environment where you have
no choice but to use that language
and you cannot escape meaning you cannot
go back to using your native language as
a crutch you can’t use the native
language at
all it forces you to use the language
that you’re studying
so of course if you are lucky enough to
live in the country or to
live in a place where people speak the
language you’re studying
great but you have to go out and
interact with people you have to put
yourself in a place
where you have no choice but to speak
it’s very hard and it’s very scary and
it’s very embarrassing at first
but if you take time to find places and
to make environments that are
comfortable for you
where you feel comfortable making
mistakes and asking questions it’s very
valuable for your learning process this
is actually something that i did totally
i totally did this
my japanese wasn’t very good for a long
time
but then i started making friends who
could not speak
english actually i just did this through
finding hobbies there was a hobby that i
had
i joined a group i joined actually a
school to where i could learn how to do
that hobby
and everything was taught only in
japanese
and the people in my class only spoke
japanese mostly
and then maybe we would go out for
drinks and food late at night or on the
weekends and everybody spoke only
japanese
and if i couldn’t communicate even
simply in japanese i had no hope of
keeping that friendship together
so it forced me to study it forced me to
think about the words they were using
and to try to learn those words those
patterns
as well as how to produce them naturally
myself so i was learning the vocabulary
words
the people around me were using and
learning how to apply them
on my own that was only possible because
i had no escape
in those situations so try to do that
even if you can do it yourself in your
house it’s super helpful i think
watch tv and movies in your target
language without subtitles
tip number four is to watch tv and
movies in your target language
without subtitles without subtitles so
i think that watching with subtitles can
be very beneficial
so if i’m watching something or if you
want to watch something
with subtitles on great but i sometimes
find that
i can in my case i i think too much
about
reading the subtitles and i forget to
listen
so maybe if you’ve seen a movie in your
target language a few
times with the subtitles on
try turning the subtitles off and think
about
the like characters body language the
words they’re using
um you can always look that up later
look up the you know the words you don’t
know in a dictionary
but try to do it um where you’re
focusing completely
on the way that people are using their
words try
not to use the subtitles so um kind of
play around with it a little bit if
there’s a word that’s difficult for you
to hear
you can actually turn on the subtitles
in like the
in the native uh language of the movie
as well
that’s something that i’ve done like if
uh like if i wanted to study japanese
it’s very useful when the actual words
spoken
in japanese appear on the screen
sometimes it’s easier for me to catch
a word if i see it visually and i hear
it at the same time
so another way to kind of explore
how you can use tv and movies is to
actually turn on the closed captions
like the
the the words on the screen in the
native language of the movie
so uh so this is sort of two points in
one so one
watch movies without subtitles meaning
subtitles in your native language and
hint two is to watch movies
um with closed captioning on but the
closed captioning is in your target
language not in your native language so
you can try those two
things with tv and with movies
don’t bring a dictionary to your lesson
tip number five is don’t bring a
dictionary to your lesson
okay so give me a second here so i
understand the dictionaries
especially electronic dictionaries we
have them on our phones now
are very very convenient um of course
it’s important to use them and it’s a
they’re a great resource to have
however one thing that really bothers me
and that i think is detrimental it’s not
helpful for students is when uh
students are in a lesson and they’re
practicing conversation
and they reach a point in the
conversation where they don’t know the
word they want to use they know it in
their native language
and they don’t know how to say it in
their target language
they pull out their dictionary they say
to this the person
listening to them their practice partner
in their lesson where they have a
limited period of time
just a moment and then they look it up
on their phone it takes
a few seconds the flow of the
conversation stops
and then they say a word and it’s like
whoa
no that’s not you don’t have that
ability you don’t have
the ability to do that in a conversation
with a native speaker
most people like if you go to a bank and
try to open a bank account are you
really going to pull out your dictionary
and
sit there and try to communicate you
know just a moment just a moment
as you look up each word you don’t know
no or if you do that’s not a real
conversation
so instead try using a different
strategy
by that i mean if you find a word you
don’t know in conversation
explain the word to your conversation
partner
maybe they know the word if you’re
speaking with a native speaker this is a
chance for them to
teach you a word i find that when people
take the time
to teach me a word i remember the word
much
better than just looking it up on my
dictionary so
try to resist maybe you can bring a
dictionary to your lesson but
don’t use it or try not to use it in
your conversation practice it’s just
it destroys the flow of a conversation
so instead
practice the skill of describing the
vocabulary word you want to use
and learn how to ask the meaning of a
word or learn how to
ask for a vocabulary word from your
partner so
you can use an expression like ah what’s
the word that means blah blah blah
or um you know it’s this thing that does
this and this and this so
this is an opportunity for you to
describe characteristics of something or
find a different way you can use your
body language you can use
whatever you have a lot of tools but try
not to use a dictionary in a
conversation because it’s not realistic
responses to common questions number six
is a quick one i think number six hint
number six i have is just to train
responses to common questions train
responses to common questions
so for example a very common question in
english is hey how are you
you should know how to answer this
question just have a default response
hey how are you
i’m good if it takes you
a long time to answer the question hey
how are you
you need to practice i think that’s a
pretty good uh
a pretty good indicator so for example
sometimes i ask
students a question like that they
haven’t quite
gotten the idea of how to respond just
yet
they they’re not so quick at responding
i say
uh hey how are you and they say yes and
then they think
and they go i’m uh i’m good
and it’s like that’s a very common
question so think about
just a default response that you can
spit out that you can quickly say
if it’s how was your weekend or hey
what’s up or what do you want to do for
dinner tonight
think about like just a handful meaning
just a few
responses to those questions and train
them quickly just
how are you i’m good how are you i’m
okay how are you not bad
there’s three so it’s just training
responses to those questions there’s no
reason to be surprised by a question
like how are you
like that’s a very common question so
for those common questions
train responses to that we’ve got a
bunch of videos
especially beginner level videos for
some example responses you can do
so don’t get stuck with these little
questions just train a few responses
practice a few responses till they feel
natural to you it’ll save you time
and it’ll help the person asking the
question too to move forward in the
conversation
yay study with materials that don’t
provide a translation
the next tip is to study with materials
that don’t
provide a translation so by this i mean
if you’re using worksheets and or some
kind of textbook
or whatever and it has your target
language the language you’re studying
and it has your native language next to
it while this can be useful
i feel that if you can studying your
materials
only in your target language and then
simplified explanations for
more detailed points also in your target
language
can be a little bit better so i don’t
want to say like you should only study
things
in your target language and nothing from
your native language because of course
like it can be helpful sometimes to look
up a word or to understand a grammar
point in your native language
but where possible if you can find
something that provides
simplified explanations in your target
language it can be really really helpful
because again you’re thinking you’re
learning to think on like a simpler on a
more basic
level about the language you’re studying
in the language that you’re studying so
this can be really really good so
finding some materials to use
where there’s no translation maybe you
can practice
of course with with books and with
written materials
but also with like video materials as
well so
there are a variety of different ways
that you can
um find materials in your target
language
um like in video and tv so some things
to think about there are the
level of vocabulary words people are
using in the media content you’re
watching
um who the media content is intended for
children young adults adults
uh the speed at which the speaker is
talking so like i have the ability to
change the level of difficulty
of uh videos based on the rate of speech
the vocabulary words that i use and
how many like idioms and things i use so
i could make a video very difficult we
could make a very like a very difficult
video series
by leveling up our vocabulary use or by
speaking very quickly
or as you might see in like our english
and three minutes series
we can also use very simple vocabulary
and speak at a low rate of speech so
maybe right now this is a very
intermediate level video
so please think about that so not just
for
written materials but also for your
audio and visual materials think about
who your audience is the level of the
material and so on
it can be really fun and it can be
helpful to think about
your your target language in your target
language all right we’re almost done
study phrases in addition to single
vocabulary
the next tip is study phrases in
addition to single vocabulary words so
yes of course vocabulary is important
but
i find it personally very very useful
to look at how a vocabulary word is
used in a phrase because sometimes
using it in a phrase helps you
understand the nuance of that vocabulary
word
really really well so if i like a word
like crazy for example in english
depending on the situation where the
word crazy is used
it could mean something different it
could mean like a person who is mentally
confused or mixed up it could also mean
something really good it could mean
something really bad
so if we look only at the word crazy
it’s quite difficult to understand
really the meaning of the word
but if you look at the way the word is
used in a phrase you can get a lot more
information
so take a look at the way people use
words in phrases
not just as single vocabulary words you
can learn a lot more that way
i think do your daily activities in
english where possible
the next tip is to do your daily
activities in your target language
so if you’re studying english that means
try to do some daily activities
in english if possible so this can be
very very boring stuff but just think
about it
when you’re doing the activity so like
right now i’m
filming a video for englishclass101.com
or
i’m going to work i’m cooking breakfast
i’m doing the laundry
what do i have to do tomorrow so try
thinking about your everyday
life in english if you’re studying
english try thinking about your everyday
activities the people that you meet
what are you doing so this is a way to
help you practice your verbs so if you
don’t know if you’re
i don’t know you’re doing something at
work and you’re like oh my gosh how do i
explain the what’s the verb for
you know a picture like i want to blah
blah a picture what’s the word
you can check a dictionary at that point
and go ah it’s draw
i i need to use the verb draw for draw a
picture
so you can find these little gaps in
your everyday life these little gaps in
your knowledge
if you think about your everyday
activities in your target language if
you don’t think about it in your target
language
you might not realize you have
vocabulary gaps or phrase gaps here and
there so this is a really good and kind
of funny
actually way to study use a learner’s
dictionary for new words
the last tip is to use a learner’s
dictionary for new words so in english
there are learners dictionaries
available in english so
my favorite my personal favorite is
merriam webster merriam-webster
is a fantastic dictionary resource
they’re so interesting and they have
tons of like historical information i
really do
just sit and like read things on the
dictionary page
lately it’s true but um
of course there’s a definition there’s a
meaning for words there are example
sentences for words but merriam-webster
also has what’s called a
learner’s dictionary if you find a word
that you don’t recognize you can check
it
in a dictionary in a learner’s
dictionary and it gives you a simplified
a simple explanation
in simple english of that word so
instead of checking it in your native
language you can check it in your target
language so again
this helps you to understand the word
that you are that you’re focused on but
you understand it
from um the language you’re studying not
from your native language so using a
learner’s dictionary can be really
really useful as well
all right so those are 10 tips those are
10
tips to help you stop translating in
your head i know it’s very difficult but
it’s it takes time and it takes practice
and i hope that these are
a few strategies that can help you as
you study
any language of course this is an
english language channel an english
language learning channel but i think
these tips are pretty good for learning
just about any language really so
i hope those are useful for you if you
have tried these strategies or if you
have any other comments or other tips
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