Understand NATIVE English Conversations
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in this video we’ll be talking about how
to curse like an english native
speaker piss a slang term for urine
for example don’t piss your pants
you can say this when you’re really
scared or anxious
for example if you’re about to go on
stage to
make a speech or perform someone can say
don’t piss your pants you can do it
pissed off
to be really angry when i’m angry
i can say hey i’m really pissed off at
you right now
why did you do that for loser used to
describe
an uncool person in high school my
friends and i would use this
a lot and we would say
hey loser how’s it going idiot
used to insult people by saying they’re
not intelligent
of all the mean things that you can say
this is on the lighter side
but people still use it shoot
this is used to show disappointment or
frustration without using a stronger
curse word
shoot i spilled my coffee shut up
you can use this when you want them to
be quiet
or there’s something surprising that you
just heard
you can say shut up no way
ticked off to be really angry you can
say this
with pissed off so this is actually an
older term
not many people use this as much anymore
because
most people actually just use pissed off
fool
this is similar to saying someone is
like a clown you can say
you’re acting like a fool right now jerk
this is a light insult used to describe
someone who is mean
for example if there’s someone bullying
another person
that person is being a jerk wimp
this means someone who isn’t strong
there is a movie out right now
called diary of a wimpy kid have you
seen it have you not
i haven’t yet so how was it if you have
any more questions please leave a
comment below
see you next time hey everyone i’m paris
from
englishclass101.com in this video we’re
talking about how to ask
and give directions let’s start to the
left to the
left the first phrase is
where is the where is the
for example you can ask where is the
bank
this can be used to ask for a general
location or detailed directions
don’t be surprised if you only receive
basic information
for example next to the grocery store
the next phrase is
i need to go to the i need to go
to the for example you can say
i need to go to the police station the
word need is used
but this is used for non-emergencies as
well how do i get to the how do i get
to the for example you can say
how do i get to the museum this question
can be used to ask for step-by-step
directions
instead of a general location is the
near here is the near here for example
you can say is the library near here if
you’re unfamiliar with an area
you can ask to get this information
about a specific place
where you want to go is the bathroom
near here
excuse me do you know where the is
excuse me do you know where the
is for example you can say excuse me
do you know where the park is only youth
excuse me
when you’re starting a conversation with
a stranger another common phrase is
is the far from here is the
far from here for example you can say
is the post office far from here this is
an indirect way to ask for directions
people will tell you how far the place
is and probably tell you the best way to
get there
walking taking a bus driving uber
now let’s take a look at expressions to
give directions
turn left turn left for example
you can say turn left after two blocks
this gives you information about how far
you should go
before you make any changes in this case
you should
go left to the left to the left
turn right turn right
for example you can say turn right at
the third traffic light
this also gives you information about
how far you should go
before taking another action in this
case
you should go right go straight
go straight this simply tells you to go
in one direction
it also implies that if you keep going
straight that you will eventually find
what you’re looking for
go past go past for example
you can say go past the church a
landmark is just an easily noticeable
place
for example a movie theater restaurant
at the corner of at the corner of
for example you can say it’s at the
corner of
this means that a place is located at
the corner where two streets meet
in front of in front of
for example you can say the bus station
is in front of the supermarket
we use front to refer to the main
entrance of a building
it can also mean visible from the front
and doesn’t necessarily mean it’s
directly in front of something
behind behind for example
you can say the parking lot is behind
the movie theater
we use behind to say that something is
at the rear of a building
the front of a building is its main
entrance so which side it’s facing the
street is really not important
next two next two for example
you can say the restaurant is next to
the park
this is an example of using a
non-specific location to give
general directions next two can be
anywhere beside
in front of or around a place mcdonald’s
is
next to my house between
between for example you can say
the store is between the coffee shop and
the pet store
between is used with two other places
when using between
the main place will always be in the
middle of the two other places
okay that’s all for this lesson which
phrase do you like the most
leave us a comment and let us know and
i’ll see you next time guys
bye hey guys i’m paris from
englishclass101.com
in this video we’ll be talking about
making complaints in english
so let’s get started the first complaint
is
i’m starving i’m starving
this is an exaggeration you can use when
you’re hungry i am
always starving even right now the next
complaint is
it’s noisy it’s noisy
this kind of complaint is one that you
would make to a friend telling the staff
of a restaurant won’t help since i can’t
tell people to be
quiet i hate when it’s noisy in
restaurants
save that for another time then we have
it’s hot it’s hot this can be used to
talk about the weather
or the temperature of a room you can add
a request like
can you turn on the air conditioner i am
never
hot so i like that the next complaint is
it’s cold it’s cold
this can be used to talk about the
weather or the temperature of a room
you can add a request like can you turn
on the heater
i always make this request because it’s
always too cold
everywhere everywhere it’s too expensive
it’s too expensive even if you have
enough money to buy something
it may be more money than you want to
spend it would probably be considered
rude to say this to someone who works at
a store
but i always think okay i’m in gucci
it’s way too expensive another common
complaint is
i’m tired i’m tired
use this complaint to imply that you
want to sit down relax
go home take a break when i babysit my
five-year-old cousin
i leave thinking i’m tired
the next complaint is i gained weight
i gained weight this is a self-criticism
that implies that you want to lose
weight
many people say i got so fat
i’m always broke i’m always
broke use this to complain about never
having enough money
i am always broke because i always want
more money
the next complaint is my job is boring
my job is boring this is a really common
complaint used by people who don’t think
their jobs are very exciting
usually it means that you want to find a
different more fun job
it’s all right teachers your job isn’t
boring that person stinks
that person stinks you can use stings to
talk about a literal
physical smell or a general insult
meaning that you don’t like how someone
smells
i hate when people smell on the bus
not good not okay the next complaint is
there’s too much traffic there’s
too much traffic this is a common
complaint among people who commute to
work by car
certain roads are especially bad during
rush hour
which is the time in the morning or
night most people are going home
or to work if i left at it was 7 pm
i would be here in 10 minutes but
because it’s daytime in la
it took me 30 minutes to get here and i
drive really really fast
and it still took me 30 minutes the next
complaint is
the wi-fi here is too slow the wi-fi
here
is too slow this is just a general
complaint you may have about the
internet speed
if you’re at a cafe or somewhere with
wi-fi you can request that they reset
their wi-fi to improve the speed
if you’re having a party and you’re
having friends over and your wi-fi
is too slow you might as well end that
party
now no wi-fi no party
my boss is annoying my boss is
annoying annoying can be used to mean
that someone does things that you don’t
like
or they ask you to do things that you
don’t like
either way an annoying boss is a bad
experience
i am very familiar with this hey paris
grab me coffee
hey paris check my emails my boss is
annoying but don’t tell him i said that
the pay is too low the pay is too
low you can use this to complain about
how much you make
or to reject the job offer because it
doesn’t pay enough
i’m a surgeon the pay is too low
i don’t like it i don’t like it
this is a very general complaint that
can be used for almost
anything what do i like
[Laughter]
posting a thousand selfies on instagram
i
don’t like it okay
that’s it for this lesson which
complaint do you like more
leave us a comment and let me know and
we’ll see you next time
bye you just got a text message from
your hotel’s pickup service
what does the first number refer to
um
what does the first number refer to
the number in the text message refers to
the customer code
you are at a train station where you’ve
just bought an express ticket
which train car row and seat number are
you in
which train car row and seat number are
you in
the ticket says that you’re in train car
number one in the eighth row
in seat c
you are at a train station where you’re
attempting to buy an express ticket from
a ticket machine
which option should you choose to buy an
express ticket
which option should you choose to buy an
express ticket
the option on the bottom left is for an
express ticket
you are on a platform at a train station
where you’re waiting for your train
suddenly a message appears on the
display
what does the message on the display
mean
what does the message on the display
mean
the display reads the next train will
not stop
you are at a train station where you’re
reading the train schedule for an
express ticket that you’ve just bought
on which days are there no express
trains running
so
on which days are there no express
trains running
there are no express trains running on
public holidays and the third sunday of
every month
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you are on a platform at a train station
where you’re waiting for your train
suddenly a message appears on the
display
what does the message on the display
mean
you
what does the message on the display
mean
the display reads the next train will
not stop
you are at a train station where you’re
looking for the best exit to catch a
taxi
which exit should you take to get to the
taxi stop
which exit should you take to get to the
taxi stop
you should take the east exit in order
to get to the taxi stop
hi everybody my name is alicia and today
i am joined again in the studio by
michael hello and today we’re going to
be talking about things that
were cool in the 90s so things that were
interesting or things that maybe we were
interested in in the 90s i’m guessing
that we’re going to have some very
different opinions
based on our experiences at the 90s so
let’s get right into it
michael your first item please um
okay boy bands so i remember boy bands
were very very popular
when i was a kid in the 90s i had three
older brothers who would punch me and
tell me boy bands are for girls don’t
like boy bands
so that was my experience with them and
they became kind of uncool
i feel like after the 90s and then they
never were uncool in like
korea and like a lot of asian countries
they still had like a strong boy band
kind of uh
scene or whatever bands now is that
really what they’re called no i don’t
know i just mean i think i feel like boy
there are boy bands
that are now becoming boys to men maybe
this
so i mean now they came now it came back
like
what is that what’s the british one now
it’s kind of cool again oh one direction
one direction yeah so i think it’s come
back it’s full circle
didn’t they just break up i’m gonna go
with something that i
loved in the 90s this is probably way
too specific
uh probably but it’s this show called
doug that was on nickelodeon and there
weren’t a whole lot of episodes of doug
it was i don’t know like 20 or 30 i feel
like not even that many did you ever see
this show
yeah that’s very nostalgic for me i
don’t 20 30 episodes i feel i feel like
i had i’d seen them all
so i i i know that i saw them all
because it would come back it would come
on one day after school and i’d be like
i’ve seen this episode
but the whole the whole idea with doug
is doug was like this just this
plain kid and he had an older sister he
went to school he had a dog get a best
friend
and he would just encounter these
everyday life scenarios
that would be kind of troubling or he
wouldn’t know how to deal with them but
like he was kind of a role model i feel
like he was kind of
being like a good kid um or sometimes he
would get into trouble but then you know
eventually he would solve the problem or
he’d find a way out of it so but i
really loved that show i really loved
nickelodeon in general um during the 90s
and
yeah did you watch that channel yeah of
course i loved nickelodeon um
i think it was more like fox stuff like
that but i guess i’ll segue into another
one of mine
you’re talking about wholesome so
something that’s
my childhood i was raised on tv was
sitcoms yeah
so i think this has kind of died down
again like the boy bands where it people
think it’s cheesy now it’s all reality
tv shows that kind of stuff
but that’s that is my childhood right
there is you know full house and these
kinds of shows step by step
where there’s a moral at the end of the
story and so everyone there’s always
kind of like
the the protagonist is always like maybe
he’s unsure but by the end
they know the right thing to do and they
play like the violin kind of sad
not quite sad but like heartwarming
music
and then they’re like well and then they
give a speech and as a kid you know you
don’t really like think about it but
that gets into your
like man deep because of full house
if you lie i’ve learned this it’s deep
in my subconscious
if you lie and then you keep lying
it snowballs and it gets worse and worse
and worse so it’s best to just right
away
tell the truth that was a really common
theme in most sitcoms i think that like
they’re just trying to teach kids don’t
lie it’s bad
you’re right you’re right sitcoms are
huge and by the way sitcoms um is
um is a portmanteau portmanteau meaning
two words put together
of situation and comedy so situation and
comedy equals sitcom in this case
okay nice nice um i’m gonna go to my
next one
um let’s see i think probably every
little girl
in the 90s in america anyway knew what
this was i don’t know if you knew
um it’s this brand called lisa frank um
lisa frank are you aware of lisa frank
are you aware lisa frank
no okay she knows she knows lisa frank
is
so lisa frank is um just
bright it was always like brightly
colored school supplies
uh like pinks and purples and blues and
it would always have unicorns and
dolphins and mystical creatures it was
just
bright and everybody all the girls loved
it i loved it i had lisa frank
just whatever i could get my hands on
it’d be pencils or erasers or
just pinks and rainbows and hearts and
stuff like that so i think every
every girl who grew up in the 90s knows
what lisa frank is
ah okay so talking about style and
whatnot
grunge grunge is something that i that
hits close to home for me and i think
that came out of the 90s
is um i mean everybody knows around the
world i think most people know nirvana
yeah kurt cobain yeah and this is
something that i guess was
brought to the world from seattle and it
was a music genre
and it was kind of it’s like rock but
sometimes slower
almost emo kind of like sad usually
undertones but anyways the style that
came with it
was the opposite of like the 80s and
early 90s of really bright colors you
know it was the opposite you just wear
holy jeans you don’t really shower that
much you don’t shave
and like plaid and just really like
dreary colors
so that was really popular i at least i
remember in like the early 90s
like mid 90s yeah and it’s as soon as i
saw that card grunge i was like oh
nirvana that was
that’s the first thing that comes to
mind when i hear about when i hear
grunge
i didn’t get into the grunge scene
though i was i was busy with boy bands
but
like grunge for me was never really i
was aware i was aware of nirvana but i
did not
i was not of the nirvana mod
okay i’m gonna go to a style point then
too because you’ve read up a style point
i’ll put up
bring up maybe um a female style point
scrunchies
uh still popular perhaps among some
people
what is a scrunchie a scrunchie let’s
see i don’t have
so there’s regular rubber bands that you
can use to tie back long hair
he’s making an oh with his hands
yes he’s a very descriptive very
descriptive michael thank you
for that i’m the prop and then you go
like this there’s like the
i bet there’s an awesome video team
somewhere in the somewhere
that can put like a scrunchie like right
here
anyway um yeah a scrunchie it’s just
it’s just a
a piece of elastic with some kind of
colorful cloth wrapped around it and it
but when not in use it would go and it
would
scrunch i think i think this is why we
called it a scrunchie
but then when you pulled on it you could
expand it a bit and wrap your hair up in
it and then when you’re finished doing
that it would kind of
close around it um i had a couple
nintendo um anything any game related
stuff i remember game boys
anything handheld um except when i was a
kid it wasn’t like this fancy
3d high you know
highly like vibrant colors it was like
black and white and like you’d play it
in the car and you had to squint and it
hurts your head you know if you’re
playing too much you’re getting like
carsick and you’re like you can barely
see mario
are you talking about game boy game boy
are any like there was handheld too
there was like atari and stuff like that
and like sega
sega was pretty good that would light up
i was thinking about nes when you said
nintendo i imagined my nes the one that
like when it wasn’t working correctly
you could just pull the cassette out and
put it back in so you put the cartridge
in here right
and sometimes if it was really stubborn
and it didn’t work
you would blow into this part and you
try and it really doesn’t make a
difference
but you would take turns like me and my
brothers would be like no you want to be
the one to get it to work
so you take turns you know let me let me
and just by luck it would work and
you’re like cc
no this is super nostalgic i love
nintendo i have a game too
pogs do you have pogs okay
pogs are either are simultaneously the
most brilliant
game and the stupidest game ever
invented they’re just
discs of cardboard about this size uh
and on one side there’s a picture
and on the other side there’s just
nothing and then you had a thing called
a slammer which was essentially just a
heavy pog
uh that you would use and you had to
flip
you had to use the slammer to flip those
i guess plain cardboard ones what i
don’t even know it was that
stupid and forgettable of a game but it
was like crazy when i was about
i don’t know like second or third grade
or something everybody had pogs like we
had pog
gym days at my school i remember that
america we’re really obese let’s go into
the gym and sit there and smash
cardboard
and like i was telling i was telling her
before we started this like
one day like my mom wanted me to get a
haircut and i was just being stubborn
and i wasn’t having it i was in the mall
i was like i want to get a haircut she’s
like i’ll buy you
pogs and she did
it was like this giant tube of pogs and
i was just so thrilled and
i agreed to get my hair cut well
that was a lot of things that was that
were
exciting and or popular and or we were
into
in the 90s what were you into in the 90s
what was popular
in your country i really have no idea
what was popular around the world
at that time maybe some of these things
are similar please let us know
in the comments i’m very interested to
find out we read these by the way
um any thoughts any other any closing
thoughts about the 90s
you’re not going to sing a song for us
oh that’s copyright we can’t do that
just like blur that all out no that was
that was very accurate so i’m sure we
can use that
very accurate i mean totally wrong
clearly we’re very good at talking about
the 90s
okay but uh we hope that you are too we
hope that you learned something exciting
about the 90s
um that’s all for us today thanks very
much for watching and we will see you
again soon bye
hi everybody my name is alicia and i’m
joined again in the studio by
michael hello and today we’re going to
be talking about
english conversation strategies so let’s
get right into it
let’s start with michael what is your
first strategy for keeping an english
conversation going
this is very important don’t say
i’m fine thank you and you you hear this
all the time from second language
english learners or non-native speakers
you learn this it’s one of the first
things you learn
in an english class it’s easy it’s good
it’s basic it’s foundation
okay that’s fine but as soon as you can
switch it up
because to me when i meet a foreigner
and they come up and if they say hey how
are you
say oh i’m fine you know i’m good
whatever how about you and they say i’m
fine thank you and you and it’s just
it’s almost robotic because i’ve said it
so many times and when i hear that i
think ah
their english isn’t that good and inside
i’m just gonna be really polite
and say hello and talk slowly and try to
get out of there as quick as i can
so really impress the foreigner in my
opinion i think the best way to do it is
say something
you know use a big word or just like a
slang word something like that
when i hear that i go wow man i want to
know what this person thinks i want to
get their point of view and i’m really
excited and then
i’ve had great conversations because of
that um yeah
that’s a really really good one and
actually i think on this youtube channel
actually
from a couple years ago there’s a video
all about better answers to the question
how are you
then i’m fine thank you and you or if
someone says hey how are you
i’m good you are fine you
never i’m fine thank you and you never
but try to actually use you know
a phrase that a native speaker would use
and then that’s a clue to the native
speaker that oh maybe this person is
ready for a conversation beyond
you know basic english so that’s a
really good point i like that i didn’t
think of things
not to do i only thought of things to do
so okay
cool um let’s see let’s go to my first
one
um so this strategy in general is just
ask the other person a question
i think and i’m guilty of this too when
i’m learning another language
i tend to only get input like somebody
else is always asking me the questions
and then i forget myself to ask the
other person a question
so one question that i like to ask or
you know a variation
any kind of wh question is good like a
who question what where
um something like this if you’ve been
paying attention you can use any way to
transition in your conversation this was
in a previous video
you can ask something like anyway up to
anything fun this weekend this is a
pretty casual
conversational question that you can ask
just about anybody
whether you’ve just met them or whether
you’ve known them for a while but just
just
get in the habit of asking other people
the question don’t wait for someone else
to ask you the question
um so that that’s one strategy that i
try to use to keep things going
yeah me too i agree and i’m gonna say
same zs because
actually two of my questions were
exactly what you said agree 100
this is kind of cheating these should be
one but so always ask questions
so you know again you forget it’s really
easy i’m really guilty of this
english non-english whatever i’m i’m
guilty of this
and the other thing is ask deep
open-ended questions so if you ask a yes
or no question so again like
alicia was saying it just dead ends you
can’t just say you know
do you like cheese yes or no right so
you want to say what do you think about
cheese what is your favorite kind and
kind of open it up to something else
and let it let it just kind of snowball
right right yeah i think i think that
that’s that’s really a key like i have
another variation on which i guess i’ll
just continue on to because it kind of
relates to what you’re talking about
like he’s saying always ask questions
always ask deep open-ended questions so
like you may you just said don’t ask a
yes or no question because
yes or no ends with the yes or the no so
one of the things that i’ll do is um use
a pattern similar to this like hey did
you see or hey did you hear about blah
blah blah
so you can use this little blah blah
blah as your uh you can ask about
the news you can ask about something
funny you saw on the internet you can
ask about
um you know some something that you
heard from another friend of yours
whatever
it’s just a way to check in with the
other person and say oh did you also
experience this thing that i experienced
let’s talk about that so that might be
another question that you can use with
people
i like that one i really like that one
because you got to stay within people’s
comfort zone so maybe you ask and maybe
they don’t want to right so a good thing
is did you hear about it that’s up to
them maybe they don’t want to talk about
it they can say oh yeah i heard about
that
and you can kind of feel uh the the
atmosphere and
and realize maybe i shouldn’t talk about
this change the subject or
they get passionate and they start
talking about it and there you go and
just let it go
um yeah absolutely one thing again i’m
guilty of is is you do gotta keep
keep returning it right don’t let it
don’t just say oh yeah and what i think
about that
bring it back ask them what about you um
that’s a common thing i forget about
yeah
yeah yeah okay um good i have one
more this one um use when you see
fits don’t i guess just
okay i’ll just introduce it complement
the other person or compliment the other
person this can be a nice strategy just
to show that you’re enjoying
the other person’s company um it can be
as simple as oh i like your shirt today
or oh that’s a nice dress you’re wearing
today or oh did you get a new haircut
that looks good on you something like
that
so this is a nice a nice way to make the
other person maybe want to spend more
time with you
i think yeah i agree 100 um two things
one i think it’s a good conversation
starter sometimes um
if you’ve got to be careful with a
stranger it can be creepy it can be
a little uncomfortable what you’re
complimenting right but if it’s
something like if they have a t-shirt
and it’s a band that you both like
that’s a great conversation starter and
you feel wow we’re connected you know um
number two the second thing i was
thinking about is that
keep it honest i love i love a sincere
compliment it really means a lot more
and and it really does butter them up
kind of
get them open to to having more
conversations deeper
that kind of thing um but one of the
things people do which which i don’t
like is
let’s say they say hey nice shirt and
then the person out of habit will say oh
you too i like your shirt too just my
opinion i don’t think this feels
really natural doesn’t really feel
sincere so i would i would
save it make a mental note and go hmm i
need to return the favor i need to give
them a compliment but
wait until you notice something you
really do like and say hey actually
i love blah blah yeah i think that’s a
great point like
when you you can sense whether someone
is being sincere or not
what is your next strategy for
continuing english conversation
well don’t be afraid to open up
i like this one i think this is good um
a lot of people will be kind of shy
they won’t open up too much again within
within your comfort zone
but i like this one because people
return the favor
because if you’re just having small talk
and you say you know the weather’s nice
today blah blah
you can only go so far so don’t be
afraid to say something personal
again trust your judgment don’t be a
creeper don’t go
we don’t want to hear certain things
about your life don’t don’t be a creep
don’t be a creep don’t be weird don’t be
strange and like what you’re saying
about opening up
open up is just a phrase that means
share something about yourself
um so it can be as simple as what you
did last weekend or what you’re going to
do this weekend or a project that you
have coming up
it doesn’t mean that you have to spill
all of your life secrets to the other
person
but just showing that you’re willing to
share something more personal about
yourself can help
ingratiate yourself or can help you know
make the other person help the other
person understand you a little bit
better
that’s a good tip i like that tip that’s
hard to do though it’s hard it’s a
little bit scary i think to share parts
of yourself but it’s good it’s a good
way to meet people and make friends
all right i think that’s all is that all
that you have yeah that’s all i got
okay all right well those are some
interesting uh
strategies to keep an english
conversation going so give them a try if
you’re ever at a loss for words and
don’t know what to say you can try one
of these strategies
and hopefully it will help you out um
please let us know if you have any other
strategies or anything else that you
would like to use or you tried to use
when you are having trouble keeping a
conversation going leave us a comment
and let us know what it is
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