REAL LIFE ENGLISH Speak English Like A Native Speaker Episode 1
hey you want to speak english like a
native english speaker right
you want to sound natural you really
want to speak english fluently
well in order to do that you must use
the words and expressions that we
actually use
in real life and that’s exactly why i
created this series
for you real life english now i’m going
to teach you words and expressions that
we really use
are you ready well then i’m teacher
tiffany
let’s jump right in so we’re going to
look at our first
situation a group of young ladies and
we’re going to see
how i as a native english speaker
would describe this situation
now looking at this situation i first
see
these two young ladies in front and i
would say wow
dependable now i want you to watch me
really quickly
after me dependable
excellent one more time after me
dependable
good job now again when i see these two
young women i think of dependable
but what does the word dependable
actually mean
so dependable means trustworthy
reliable and capable of being trusted or
depended on so when i look at those two
young women
i see one is leaning on the other i
think man
she really trusts her she really can
rely on her and maybe in your life
there is someone that you truly rely on
someone that’s always there for you
you can say my friend my mother my
father my sister my brother
wow they’re really dependable
makes sense right now let’s look at an
example sentence right here
repeat after me her boss said
that she was a very dependable
assistant your turn
excellent now we’re seeing in this
sentence how to use
dependable to describe someone
now i do want to remind you really
quickly that this word can be used
all the time not just in a business
environment you can also use it when
speaking to your friends
and in other environments so one more
time after me
dependable excellent all right now let’s
go to our next word
looking at this picture i would next
notice this
young lady right here beautiful smile
and i would say
exuberant exuberant
now after me this was a little tricky
after me
exuberant good last time after me
exuberant good job
now what does the word exuberant mean
this is a word again that popped in my
head when i first saw the situation
exuberant means
joyously unrestrained and enthusiastic
many people tell me a lot teacher
tiffany you’re so enthusiastic
well now you can say teacher you are
such an
exuberant individual makes sense right
now think about someone around you
someone who is
enthusiastic always full of joy someone
that makes
you smile that person is an exuberant
individual now let me show you an
example sentence how to actually use
this word
in real life here we go after me
he has such an exuberant
personality good job
you can use it like this an exuberant
personality now keep paying attention
because we do have a quiz
coming up soon alright so again we
learned
the first one dependable the second one
exuberant
looking at this picture now then my eyes
naturally would go to the top
the top left and i see this young lady
and she
looks reserved
one more time after me reserved
and maybe you’re thinking wow teacher
what does that word mean
why did that word pop up in your head
teacher tiffany
well after me one more time re-served
excellent very good now again if you
need practice and help with your
pronunciation
you can always download my app english
with tiffany the link is right in the
description
there’s a pronunciation course and a
conversation course within the app so
you can download it and get help with
your pronunciation right now
but again this word reserved is very
important
reserved means restrained
in words and actions now i am
not a reserved person i’m very outgoing
i like talking to people but
a reserved person kind of holds back a
little bit
they don’t talk as much to other people
they just kind of are a little quieter
around bigger groups of people just like
in the picture you can tell that the
woman seems
a little bit shy a little bit
reserved maybe someone you know is
reserved one of my closest friends
she is very reserved when we get in big
groups
she kind of gets quiet and just kind of
sits in the background
she is reserved so how would you use
this in a sentence here we go
you can use it like this and repeat
after me my friend is more reserved than
i
am but she loves being around
people makes sense all right repeat
after me again
my friend is more reserved than i am
but she loves being around people
your turn ah
good job excellent job alright so now
you understand
what the word reserved means now i do
want to give you this tip really quickly
this word can be used for people
and for animals maybe you have a pet
maybe you have a dog or a cat and your
dog or cat
loves you but when other people come
around the dog kind of goes in the
background
very shy doesn’t like talking to other
people doesn’t like playing with other
people
you can say ah my dog is a little bit
reserved
makes sense right okay good so now we
have three words we had dependable
exuberant and reserved now when i go
back
and look at this image the next thing i
notice are these other
these other two women right here i
notice these women and i say you know
what
ride or die huh
ride or die why would you say that
teacher don’t you worry i’m going to
explain
now this is actually a slang term so
after me
ride or die good job
now ride or die this actually is
something that you should know
it means to be extreme uh extremely
loyal
so it refers to extreme loyalty to
someone or something
when you are willing to do anything for
someone you love
or someone you really appreciate
in your life you can say
that’s my ride or die you see how i kind
of changed even the way i said it it’s
slang right
so we say my ride or die this person
is so loyal to me they’ll do anything
for me we say
ride or die in english now let me show
you an example sentence that will help
you use this word in real life
here we go my best friend will always
be my ride or die your turn
good job now maybe you have the same
thing you have a best friend that really
is your ride or die my best friend
is my ride or die make sense alright
good job
now when i go back and i look at the
image i see
something else i go back and i look at
these ladies and i notice
within the first two ladies the other
lady on the right
something about her expression she looks
self-assured
again after me self-assured
good last time after me self-assured
great job now self-assured this is when
someone is super confident so this
is an expression this combination of two
words it means
confident in one’s own abilities or
character
and when i looked at that picture and i
saw that woman
she just looked confident
she looked like she could conquer the
world
so the first thing that popped in my
head literally was
self-assured so again now you know the
word
or the expression you can use in this
situation but let’s check
an example sentence here we go after me
the new employees could tell that their
boss was a very
self-assured and confident leader
your turn
good job excellent self-assured
extremely confident so again you can use
this
self-assured in place of confidence if
you’d like
makes sense right now remember i told
you that a quiz is coming
but i want to give you this quick tip
this can be used
self-assured can be used to complement
or insult someone so you must be careful
how you use it okay you can say you’re
too
self-assured that’s kind of an insult
but if you say i love my boss
she’s so self-assured that’s a
compliment so it all depends on the way
that you actually say it makes sense all
right so again
great you’ve learned dependable
exuberant
reserved ride or die and self-assured
so now you know what time it is it’s
time
for your english quiz now
i want to know if you are ready
for this quiz i want to see how much you
remember from our lesson so let’s start
off with question number one
here’s the question i want you to fill
in the blank with
the word or expression we learned today
now remember you only have
right here five seconds all right here’s
the sentence
the interview revealed that he was a
very
blank and mature young man
you have five seconds ready and now i
want you remember
you only have five seconds so here we go
ready go
time all right now what is the answer
the answer is
self-assured i think you got it right
good
good all right so now let’s go to the
next
question let’s go to the next question
and see if you can get
the answer right for question number
two all right question number two
since her mom was always there for her
the woman said she was her
what’s the answer here’s the timer
time what’s the answer come on i know
you know it
exactly she was her ride
or die excellent very good job very good
job
all right now let’s go to question
number three
here we go the question is let’s reset
the timer
is my friend is quiet
and here’s the timer quiet and
what
time all right the answer to the
question is what
my friend is quiet and reserved
very good i think you got it excellent
excellent
now let’s move on to question number
four you’re doing a great job
here we go question number four his
passion revealed that he was a very
dancer this one’s a little harder he was
a very
dancer five seconds here we go oh we
went a little faster
i’ll give you two more seconds
time all right what’s the answer come on
you know it
exuberant excellent an exuberant dancer
very good very good
all right last quiz question here’s the
last quiz question now here’s the
question
i need someone here’s the sentence
i need someone blank
to take care of the children while i’m
at
work i need someone blank to take care
of the children while i’m at work
five seconds
time what’s the answer come on i know
you got it
exactly i need someone dependable
someone i can rely on
to take care of the children while i’m
at work excellent job very
very good so again you learned the words
and you got the quiz questions right
now i do want to quickly give you some
patterns to use
for example dependable you can use this
pattern to make your own sentence
the pattern is the name is the most
dependable person
i know because and then you give the
reason
so let me show you what that would look
like again you can use this pattern if
you want to see this written down just
go to the website
speak englishmativity.com and you’ll see
this post for this youtube video
and you can copy down the notes here’s
what this would look like using the
pattern
mark the name is the most dependable
person
i know because he is always there when
i need him okay makes sense right use
the pattern to actually
make the sentence all right let’s keep
going here we go
next one is exuberant exuberant now with
exuberant
here’s the sentence pattern the
exuberant
person and then a description of the
person
and then an action connected to their
exuberance now i’m going to show you how
to do this all right
it’s the pattern but here’s an example
the exuberant woman that’s the person
with the long hair that’s a description
and what’s the action
enjoys making other people laugh
so using the pattern you’re able to
make a sentence properly in english and
use the word
all right what about reserve we learned
reserved
here’s the pattern person was very
reserved
so person didn’t and then the
action connected to being reserved so
what does this look like
here’s the example sentence using this
pattern
her brother was very reserved
so he person didn’t
speak to anyone at the event so we’re
using the pattern
and making a sentence for the word
reserved
all right now what about ride or die you
know i like that one talking about
someone who’s always be there for you
here’s the pattern
person has been my ride or die since
and then the time period so what about
my best friend
let me show you how i would use this
pattern she
has been my ride or die since we were in
the fourth
grade and that’s true actually she’s
been my ride or die
since we were in the fourth grade person
she her name is wilma
and then time period since we were in
the fourth
grade now last one what about
self-assured
now self-assured here’s the pattern a
self-assured person
usually now change the parentheses
action connected to being self-assured
so here’s what you can say for this one
i said a self-assured person usually
speaks well in front of a crowd of
people so i used the pattern and made a
perfect
english sentence and you can do the same
so again you learned quite a few words
today
real words you learned real life english
that will help you sound
like a native english speaker now i hope
you enjoyed
today’s lesson i hope that you
use the words and expressions
and start sounding like a native english
speaker remember don’t forget to
download the english with tiffany app
the link is right in the description
i hope you have an awesome day and an
awesome week and i’ll catch you
next time
you still there ha ha you know what time
it is
it’s story time
eight i said a story time
all right so today i want to tell you a
story about
my ride or die my best friend
so i have to be very careful with the
names that i use in this story just
in case they watch this video later so
this was when i was in college now i had
dated a guy
all through high school at the beginning
of high school and
we also kind of hooked up a little bit
through throughout college
but we weren’t together at the time of
this story
so my best friend and i we were going to
another friend’s
event and this guy just happened to also
be at the event so myself you know i was
going in my ride or die my best friend
was coming with me
so we were at the event and we were
actually sitting at a table about to eat
lunch and she and i were sitting there
talking and the guy
the one i used to date sat right in
front of us
so it was my friend and i sitting next
to each other and then the guy
sat in front of us now we didn’t have a
bad breakup but it was still a little
bit awkward between us
so he sat down and he started talking
now of course he was looking at me
he he knew my best friend um but he was
talking to me
and my best friend could tell that i
wasn’t necessarily comfortable
i wasn’t nervous it was more of why
why are we talking like we’re not
together and you know you’re with
somebody else i’m not
i’m confused why he’s sitting here that
was going on in my mind
and my best friend picked it up so he’s
sitting there talking to me and the
conversation kind of dwindles and kind
of stops a little bit and he’s just
sitting there looking at me
so my best friend let me tell you
something about her yes she’s my ride or
die but she’s also a very
reserved person like we learned she’s a
little bit shy
and she’s not really the person you’ll
see make the first step or make the
first introduction
she’s kind of shy so i was sitting there
and the guy was looking at me and i was
looking at him and it was getting a
little bit awkward
and my best friend who was reserved said
why are you still sitting here and she
was talking to him it caught me off
guard
and he looked at her she said if you’re
done it’s okay to walk away
now the thing is she’s a very reserved
person she doesn’t normally do things
like that
so i looked at her because it caught me
off guard and then i looked at him
and he looked at her and then he looked
back at me and i just shrugged my
shoulders because
i didn’t know what to say she said it’s
okay for you to walk away it’s okay if
the conversation is done
and he did walk away now don’t get me
wrong we’re all still
friends like this happened a long time
ago but
in that moment i realized my best friend
may be reserved but when she needs to
talk
when she needs to speak up she will
let’s just say he never started an
awkward conversation with me again when
she was around now since that time we’ve
had many conversations we’ve talked a
lot on the phone and everything he and i
but i will never forget that situation
because my friend
the reserved person that i thought would
never speak up in certain situations
actually spoke up to stand up for me in
that situation so
maybe you have a friend like that too
your writer died that
maybe he or she is reserved or seems
like they want to be in the background
but
when it’s time they speak up and stand
up for you so
it was a shorter story today but
something that i will never
ever forget all right guys i hope you
enjoyed today’s lesson
i hope you learned a lot and i hope you
continue to study english
i will see you next week