Real English Conversations Episode 14

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welcome to speak English with Tiffany I

am teacher Tiffany let’s jump right in

hey Mel how you doing I’m doing good -

how about you how you doing all right

this expression is used when you are

greeting someone or asking them about

their condition now what you’ll notice

is it’s actually the same thing as how

are you doing how are you today and how

are you but the main difference is

instead of the G that normally goes at

the end of this word we’ve erased it and

replaced it with this short apostrophe

so instead of how are you doing again

right here it would have been a our e

we’ve also taken that out and instead of

how are you doing it’s how you doing

it’s kind of a slang way or a more

comfortable way of saying how are you

when you are speaking to friends or

someone you are familiar with I’m doing

good just kind of relaxing a little bit

taking it easy huh how about you taking

it easy now this means to be relaxed and

not doing very much at all okay so again

relaxed and not doing very much at all

to refrain or to stop from hard work and

simply rest we say taking it easy

so for this one examples are you say

this after taking a major exam normally

when you have an exam in school you have

to study for a long time for many hours

so when you’re finished taking the test

and you really want to relax you can say

I’m taking it easy okay

or you can use it when you are finished

working so you’ve worked all day and you

actually are tired you can say I want to

take it easy and another example is

after finishing a project it can be

project at work or project at school or

even a personal project you really want

to take a rest so you say taking it easy

work is good

I am currently doing a temporary work as

a caregiver seeking care of our grandpa

Ted and Delaware oh yeah not too far

from Maryland that’s pretty good yeah

yeah that’s good he’s very easy to get

along with very nice guy okay

now you heard me say that’s nice

Delaware’s not too far from Maryland

that’s pretty good what I did was I gave

my opinion of what my friend said when I

said that’s nice then I gave my reason

for thinking that what he said was nice

because Delaware is not too far from

Maryland and then I went back and I

restated my opinion again when I said

that’s pretty good so this is another

thing that we use in conversation in

English conversation opinion plus reason

plus opinion again so you can use this

formula sometimes when you speak in

English and the next thing was easy to

get along with now this expression just

means someone who is approachable

friendly or pleasant in manner it means

that person really talks to people well

and people feel comfortable around them

so you can say I am easy to get along

with or he or she is easy to get along

with

that’s good so you said you’re doing

working as a caretaker I thought you

were coming back from Korea you were

gonna continue with your business like

you’re I think you were doing a video

business what are you doing that

oh yeah media production is whether

that’s the business I had before I went

to Korea all right what you’ll notice

throughout our conversation is a lot of

these type of words these are called

English filler words English filler

words now you’ve probably heard lots of

filler words being used in conversations

or in movies and TV shows now while it

is important not to use them during a

speech and in other important situations

they are actually a pretty important or

useful part of English conversation if

you use them correctly okay so as you’re

listening to our conversation listen to

the points in time where we say like or

um or you know yeah my original plan was

actually I was doing that before I went

to Korea I was doing it full-time after

I just graduated from University and my

original plan was go to Korea one year

and then come back and do my business

but uh one year became eleven and a half

years and so now I’m back in the mentor

and trying to get my business back up

and running back up and running this is

something that you heard him say when he

was explaining his business and its

plans to me now the meaning of this

expression it means functioning properly

either after a malfunction where

something breaks or for the first time

and it can also mean newly launched as

of a business or a product so here are

some examples I need to get the machine

back up and running okay functioning

properly second example the printer is

up and running now it means the printer

is worth

and the third example after years of

preparation our design company is

officially up and running okay that’s

talking about business okay this is how

you use the expression back up and

running I understand I was there for

almost 10 years it just creates a great

country to live in it is so what made

you like you know we say entrepreneur

life

what made you even before going to

create what made you decide to live the

entrepreneurial life and you know start

your own media business absolutely

wasn’t my original plan entrepreneurial

life now the meaning is the life of an

individual who organizes and operates a

personal business or businesses we say

entrepreneurial life here are some

examples of people who have lived or are

living the entrepreneurial life so we

have right here Oprah Winfrey she’s an

American media executive talk show host

and more then we have Walt Disney now

Walt Disney is dead but his company his

business is still flourishing and doing

well he was a pioneer of the American

animation industry and finally we have

Steve Jobs he was the co-founder of

Apple incorporated so these three

individuals led an entrepreneurial life

they started their own business okay

before I graduated from university my

plan was to get a job working in media

production at some company and as I’ve

been there getting experience saving

money and then starting my own business

eventually what kind of the opposite

happened I ended up starting my business

before I graduated

so then after I graduated I was kind of

working for myself doing weddings and

special event videos here and there here

and there this means in various places

or in one place and another so

also you can say from time to time or

occasionally so here are some examples

using this expression you can say she

spoke so softly that I only caught a

word here and there meaning I only

caught a word occasionally okay

next our second example there were small

bushes scattered here and there okay so

that means in various places okay and

our third example there were houses

scattered here and there across the

hillside so just like point number two

various places okay here and there it’s

kind of in doing that did that full-time

for a year before what once a career so

like were you getting clients because a

word-of-mouth or were you actually

soliciting and doing marketing to get

clients I was mostly word-of-mouth

because I had a lot of um

classmates um we’re getting married and

so a word-of-mouth

the oldest guy does videos word-of-mouth

okay this is an expression we use very

often in English okay it means given or

done by people talking about something

or telling people about something an

example of how you can use this is

students discovered the class by word of

mouth it means there were some students

who knew about the class and they told

other students which means word of mouth

okay and the other word was soliciting

this means to ask for or try to obtain

something from someone or in other words

to ask someone for something and an

example of this is he called a meeting

to solicit their views on the situation

he wanted to obtain or get their views

so we say soliciting okay

okay and then that’s all I have some

work and it’s led one thing to another

and yeah that was keeping me busy for a

year full-time that’s really nice that’s

really nice

were there any pros and cons like what

were the pros and cons of doing that

work before I would have to say one of

the pros is what you get to be your own

boss and so you can say your own hours

and things like that which can be nice

but then also I you do want to keep

working and try to you know set yourself

have a goal and so yeah if you don’t

reach that goal it can be kind of

stressful because um and if you’re

working at a company then you know you

have to study Perry so when you’re

working for yourself you have to keep it

you know keep it going all right cause

or coz now this is just a shortened form

of the word because so many native

speakers say cuz when they are speaking

to each other during a conversation

basically it is a quick way to say the

word because so you can also use cuz

instead of because when you’re having a

natural conversation okay and the second

one was steady pay now this refers to

income from a job that lasts or

continues for a period of time so a

regular amount of money that comes in on

a regular basis okay so an example of

this is when I was in university I

earned my first steady paycheck as a

waitress it means I was getting income

from being a waitress and it continued

for a period of time a steady paycheck

okay yeah I got you I understand I also

was doing my own thing before I went to

Korea I started doing art full-time and

the pros well do your own thing okay

this means to live act or behave in the

way you want to you don’t pay attention

to convention or the norms or depend on

other people’s opinions it’s what you

want to do okay so here are some

examples of how to use this expression

I’m doing my own thing and that’s

alright okay I’m okay with being

different from other people okay then

Samantha decided to do her own thing

instead of just following the crowd so

the crowd is doing one thing but

Samantha decided to do her own thing and

then finally the third example is he is

doing his own thing overseas okay he’s

doing what he wants to do overseas yeah

it was good I was paintings and artwork

and again the pros were one for myself

but the cons were you weren’t sure when

the paycheck was coming in so but yeah

it was a good experience it was an

experience and now work for myself now -

so is that why when you got back from

Korea decided even though you’re doing

the caretaker right now you decided that

you wanted to go back to it as opposed

to going to nine-to-five uh yeah I just

I miss doing it full-time and whenever I

had a chance I would try to do it even

though I was in Korea I was able to do

some video projects here and there okay

as opposed to this means rather than

instead of or distinguished from or in

contrast with okay so an example of how

to use this is they use fresh fish as

opposed to fish that has been frozen so

I’m comparing two types of fish so we

have the frozen fish that comes maybe in

a box from the store versus fresh fish

that I get from the ocean okay fresh

fish that I’ve got from the ocean

directly and I’m using it in my meals

okay so fresh fish versus frozen fish we

would use as opposed to and the second

one was nine to five see this is used in

reference to typical hours of work in an

office so in America we say 9:00 a.m. to

5:00 p.m. are normal

work hours often to express an idea of

routine or predictability so an example

of this is he decided to quit his

nine-to-five job and become an

entrepreneur this is how you can use

nine-to-five but you know it wasn’t

enough and I enjoyed teaching I still do

I enjoy teaching who miss it a little

bit I do also enjoy doing the video as I

was in Korea over the years I have

always had media in the back of my mind

so whenever I had some extra money I was

always you know investing in equipment

equipment back of my mind okay this

means to be in one’s thoughts but with

little or no conscious or active

consideration or reflection so you’re

still thinking about it but not

consciously okay so here’s an example

even though I am successful there’s

always this worry in the back of my mind

that I’m doing something wrong so this

person is very successful but they still

have a small thought in the back of

their mind that maybe they’re doing

something wrong we say back of my mind

and so you know that I think that’s one

one good thing that I did is able to

invest so that I knew when I came back

eventually I was be starting you know

from Ground Zero you know I didn’t have

equipment before going to Korea and I

even brought some of it with me but you

know everything in media production

technology is always changing so you

have to kind of keep up know what’s

going on well honestly I think your

business is gonna flourish because I

know your work ethic is really good so I

do hope everything works out really well

for you too

being back home oh thank you pretty odd

about that and praying about that yeah

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欢迎和蒂芙尼说英语

我是蒂芙尼老师 让我们跳起来

嘿梅尔 你好吗 我做得很好 -

你好吗

你做得很好 当你

向某人打招呼或询问

他们的情况时使用 现在条件你会

注意到它实际上与

你现在的情况和你的情况

是一样的,但主要的区别是

我们删除了通常在这个词末尾的 G 而不是它和

用这个短撇号代替它,

所以这里不是你怎么做,

而是我们的e,

我们也把它拿出来了,而

不是你怎么做,而是你怎么做,

这是一种俚语或更多

当你和朋友或你熟悉的人说话时,

用一种舒服的

方式说你好吗

非常好

放松,根本不做太多事情

来克制或停止努力工作,

只是休息我们说放松一下,

所以对于这个例子,你是不是

在参加主要考试后通常会这样说,

当你在学校有考试时,你

必须学习 很长一段时间很多小时,

所以当你完成考试

并且你真的想放松时,你可以说

我很轻松,

或者你可以在你完成工作时使用它,

这样你已经工作了一整天并且 你

真的很累 你可以说我想

放松一下 另一个例子是

在完成一个项目后,它可以是

工作项目或学校项目,

甚至是个人项目 你真的

想休息所以你说轻松

工作 很好

我目前正在做临时工作

作为照顾我们的祖父

泰德和特拉华州 哦是的

离马里兰州不远 那很好

这是很好的

特拉华州' 离马里兰州不太远,

这很好

我回去了,

当我说这很好时,我再次重申了我的观点

,所以这

是我们在

英语对话

中使用

的另一件事 很容易

相处,现在这个表达只

意味着一个平易近人的人,

友好或令人愉快的人,这意味着

这个人真的和人交谈得很好

,人们在他们周围感到很舒服,

所以你可以说我很容易相处

,或者他或她 很容易相处

那很好 所以你说你在

做看守工作 我以为你

会从韩国回来 你

会像你一样继续你的生意

我想你 在做视频

业务 你在做什么

哦是的 媒体制作是

不是我去韩国之前的业务 好吧

在我们的谈话中你会注意到很多

这样的词 这些被称为

英语填充词 英语填充

词现在你可能已经听说过很多

填充词在对话

或电影和电视节目中使用,

但重要的是不要在

演讲和其他重要情况下使用

它们,它们实际上是非常重要或

有用的一部分 英语对话,如果

你正确使用的话,好的,所以当你在

听我们的对话时,

听听我们说喜欢或

嗯,或者你知道的时间点,我最初的计划

实际上是在我

去韩国之前我正在这样做 刚大学毕业就全职了

本来打算去韩国一年

然后回来做生意,

但是呃一年变成了十一年

半,所以现在 我回到了导师

那里,试图让我的业务

恢复正常运行,这是

你听到他在向我

解释他的业务及其

计划时所说的话,这个表达的含义

它意味着正常运作

无论是在出现故障后或第一次发生故障后

,这也可能意味着新

推出的企业或产品,所以这里有

一些示例,我需要让机器

恢复正常运行并

正常运行第二个示例打印机已

启动 现在运行,这意味着打印机

是值得的

,经过多年准备,第三个例子

我们的设计公司

正式启动并运行好了,

这是在谈论业务,好吧,这就是

你如何使用表达备份和

运行我知道我在那里待了

将近 10 年 多年来,它只是创造了一个伟大的

国家来生活,所以是什么让

你喜欢你知道我们说企业家

生活

是什么让你甚至在去

创造之前就让你做出了决定 e 过

创业生活,你知道开始

自己的媒体业务

绝对不是我最初的计划

现在的创业生活的意思是

组织和经营

个人企业或企业的个人的生活,我们说

创业生活这里有一些

例子 曾经或正在

过着创业生活的人,所以我们

在这里有奥普拉·温弗瑞,她是

美国媒体执行脱口秀节目主持人

,还有沃尔特·迪斯尼,现在

沃尔特·迪斯尼已经死了,但他的公司他的

业务仍在蓬勃发展,而且做得

很好 美国

动画行业的先驱,最后我们有了

史蒂夫乔布斯,他是苹果公司的联合创始人,

所以这三

个人过着创业生活,

他们在大学毕业之前就开始了自己的事业

,我的

计划是找一份工作

在某家公司从事媒体制作,因为我

在那里获得了

省钱的经验,然后开始了自己的事业

最终发生了什么样的相反

情况我最终在毕业前开始了我的事业

所以毕业后我有点

为自己工作,在

这里和那里到处做婚礼和特殊活动视频

这意味着在不同的地方

或在一个地方 另一个所以

你也可以不时或偶尔说,

所以这里有一些

使用这个表达的例子,你可以说她

说话很轻柔,我只

在这里和那里听到一个词,意思是我

偶尔只听到一个词,好吧

接下来我们的第二个例子有 小

灌木散落

在各处还可以,这意味着在各个地方都可以

一年前的时间,以前的职业

是因为

口耳相传而获得客户,或者你实际上是在

招揽和做营销来获得

客户 nts 我主要是口口相传,

因为我有很多

同学,嗯,我们要结婚了,

所以口口相传

最年长的人做视频 口口相传

好吧,这是我们经常使用的表达方式

在英语中,好吧,它的意思

是由人们谈论某

事或告诉人们某事给出或完成。一个

如何使用这个例子的例子是

学生通过口耳相传发现了这门课,

这意味着有些

学生知道这门课,他们告诉

其他人 学生,意思是口口

相传,另一个词是征求

这意味着向某人索取或试图

从某人那里获得某物,或者换句话说

,向某人索取某物,

例如他召开

会议征求他们对 情况

他想获得或得到他们的意见,

所以我们说征求好的

好的,然后这就是我有一些

工作,它导致了另一件事

,是的,这让我全职忙碌了

一年,这真的很好,真的很好

在我不得不说其中

一个优点是您可以成为自己的

老板之前,是否有任何优点和缺点,例如做这项工作的优点和缺点,因此您可以说出自己的时间

和诸如此类的事情 可以很好,

但我也确实想继续

工作并尝试让自己知道为自己设定

一个目标,所以是的,如果您没有

达到那个目标,那可能会有些

压力,因为嗯,如果您正在

工作 公司,那么你知道你

必须学习佩里,所以当你

为自己工作时,你必须保持它

你知道保持它一切正常,

因为现在这只是

这个词的缩写形式,因为很多母语

人士说因为什么时候 他们在交谈

中互相交谈

基本上这是一种快速的表达方式,

因为这样您也可以使用 cuz

而不是因为当您进行

自然对话时,还可以,第二

个是稳定的工资,现在这是指

收入 从持续或

持续一段时间的工作 时间,

所以定期有固定数额的钱

可以,所以一个

例子是,当我在大学时,我

作为女服务员获得了第一份稳定的薪水,

这意味着我从女服务员那里获得收入

,并且持续

了 一段时间 稳定的薪水

好吧 是的 我明白了

我在去韩国之前也在做我自己的事

我开始全职做艺术

专业人士做你自己的事

你想要的方式你

不注意惯例或规范或依赖于

其他人的意见这是你

想要做的好所以这里有

一些如何使用这个表达的例子

我在做我自己的事情,

没关系 好吧,我同意

与其他人不同,好吧,然后

萨曼莎决定做自己的事情,

而不是仅仅跟随人群,

所以人群在做一件事,但

萨曼莎决定做她自己的事情,

最后第三个例子是他是

做他的 自己在海外的事情好吧,他正在

做他想做的海外事情,是的,

这很好

很好的经历 这是一次

经历,现在为我自己工作 -

这就是为什么当你从韩国回来时

决定即使你现在正在

做看守你决定

你想回到它而不是

去九 - 到五岁,嗯,是的,我只是

想念全职工作,只要

有机会,我就会尝试去做,

即使我在韩国,我也能在

这里和那里做一些视频项目,这

与这意味着 而不是

代替或区别于或

与之形成对比,所以

如何使用这个的一个例子是他们使用新鲜的

鱼而不是已经冷冻的鱼,所以

我正在比较两种类型的鱼,所以我们

有冷冻鱼来 也许

在商店的盒子里,而不是新鲜的

鱼 我从海洋中得到好的新鲜

鱼,我直接从海洋中获取

,我在我的饭菜中使用它,

所以新鲜鱼与冷冻鱼相比,我们

将使用而不是第二

个是朝九晚五看这是 用于

参考办公室的典型工作时间,

所以在美国我们说上午 9:00 到

下午 5:00 是正常的

工作时间,通常是为了表达

例行公事或可预测性的想法,所以一个

例子是他决定辞去朝

九晚五的工作,成为一名

企业家,这就是你可以使用

朝九晚五的方式,但你知道这是 ‘还

不够,我喜欢教书 我仍然

喜欢教那些有点想念它的

人 额外的钱 我

一直都是你知道的 投资设备

设备 在我的脑海里 好的 这

意味着在一个人的想法中,但

很少或没有有意识或积极的

考虑或反思,所以你

仍在考虑它,但不是

有意识的,所以这里有一个例子

即使我成功

了,我的脑海里总是会

担心我做错了什么,所以这个

人非常成功,但他们仍然

有一个小小的

想法,也许他们做错了

什么我们 说回来 我的想法

,所以你知道我认为这

是我做的一件好事,我能够

投资,所以我知道当我最终回来时,

我是从零地开始你知道

你知道我以前没有

设备 去韩国,

我什至带了一些,但你

知道媒体制作

技术的一切都在变化,所以你

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