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hi everybody my name is alicia in this
lesson i’m going to talk about some
differences between the present perfect
and the past perfect these are two
commonly confused grammar points so in
this lesson i’m going to compare the
uses of these two
and i’m going to give some example
sentences that i hope show the different
ways that they are applied so let’s get
started
i want to begin this lesson by talking
about present perfect tense
i made a diagram here this diagram shows
the two primarily two uses i want to
talk about in this lesson of present
perfect
first though let’s read the explanation
here
we use the present perfect tense to
express actions that started in the past
and continue to the present so present
means now
or the effects of the action continue to
the present
so this explanation
shown visually might look something like
this these two lines that continue from
the past to the present so here is a
timeline this star represents now this
direction is the future
back here is the past
so we use present perfect tense to
describe actions that start if this is
my starting point
let’s start in the past and continue
to the present
we can also use it to describe actions
that start in the past and the effects
of that action continue to the present
this is the first point
we can also use this grammar point with
the progressive form or the continuous
form of a verb remember this is the ing
the ing form of a verb
for emphasis on the continuing action so
if you really want to show that
something has been continuing
and will continue perhaps after your
conversation so this helps show the
action will continue into the future
you can use that in form of a verb
we also use the present perfect tense
for life experience at an unspecified
point in the past
so unspecified means it’s not clear
when the action happened or it’s not
important when the action happened we
just want to express
life experience
on a timeline this might look something
like this
the dotted lines represent some sometime
in the past we don’t know exactly when
but there was life experience something
happened we use this for like travel job
experience and so on
we can also make a negative here to show
no life experience in the past at some
point or at any point in the past so
with these points in mind let’s look at
some example sentences that show us how
present perfect tense is used
first example sentence
i have been to france i have been to
france this is a very basic present
perfect tense sentence
this
is actually a simple life experience
statement so i mentioned we use the
present perfect tense for life
experience i have been to france
shows us that at some point in the past
the speaker had the experience of
visiting france so as i said this is a
very basic sentence that uses present
perfect to refresh when we make present
perfect sentences we use have or has
depending on the subject like i have or
she has he has
plus the past participle verb form
here we’re using i as our subject
have
my verb is be so the past participle
form is bin
i have been in this case to france so
this refers to a simple life experience
let’s take a look at another example
she has been studying english for three
years she has been studying english for
three years
here we see
a verb is used in the progressive form
so this shows it’s an action that is
continuing in this case we have some
more information so this action has
continued for three years
this means
at the point in time at which this
conversation happened here
she in the situation this other person
she has been studying continuously
for three years so let’s imagine this
point in time in the past is her start
point her study start point she has been
studying for three years so this time
period is three years that’s what this
sentence tells us she has been studying
here you’ll also notice
that this pattern follows
this pattern i mentioned earlier
has been and then the continuing action
or the progressive verb here
follows
this past participle verb form so this
shows us the continuing action
we can use for or we can use since in
patterns like these
okay
let’s move on to another one
here
he has been sick
for a week
he has been sick for a week
so here we’re talking about a condition
so
we can’t use sick as a verb we can’t say
sicking that doesn’t work he has been
sick so sick is describing a person’s
condition the status of their body it’s
not talking about an action he’s not
doing something it’s his condition
we want to express that this condition
started in the past in this case for a
week so this point in the past is a week
ago he has been sick
so
maybe we could say like he was very sick
here and then he got a little bit better
but we wouldn’t really be so specific in
everyday conversation about that we
would probably use something like this
he has been sick for a week so this
shows us maybe there were some effects
of his sickness perhaps that continued
we can guess based on our own
experiences
what this means so he has been sick for
a week shows us someone began
the sick condition here and it continued
for this period of time it may continue
but we just talk about this point in
time here and because it’s not an action
just using this simple phrase is
perfectly natural
okay
let’s move on to one more example
sentence that uses present perfect this
one it’s a negative
i’ve never written a book i’ve never
written a book
this ive is i have i have i’ll come back
to this in a moment
i mentioned that we use the present
perfect tense to talk about life
experience and no life experience
this is a situation
that describes no life experience i have
never
written a book
so when we include never before a past
participle verb in this pattern it means
no life experience at any time in the
past i’ve never
written a book
this sentence
i’ve written a book means at some point
in the past i had the experience of
writing a book
this however means no experience
i mentioned this point right here this
i’ve i’ve
one pronunciation point for present
perfect tense is about this reduction
this shortening of sounds
when we’re using have as in i have or we
have
we make a v sound in fast speech i have
becomes ive we have becomes weave
when the subject however is he or she or
it
for example he has or she has is reduced
to he’s
she’s so there’s this z sound that
happens here
in this case i’ve used i’ve so please
keep this point in mind we’ll see
something different with the past
perfect tense so this is a refresher on
present perfect tense if you’d like to
know more about present perfect tense
there are some other videos on the
english class 101 channel that you can
check
for some more example sentences and some
more detailed explanations
so let’s compare this to
past perfect tense
again i have a diagram here of the
present now
the future and the past one key
difference that you can maybe see
quickly
is that here
all of the situations involved
everything in the situation is in the
past
so
we’re not talking about the present here
everything happened in the past
here we’re talking about the
relationship between the past
and
now
so keep this in mind
these sentences can be used to talk
about things that happened in the past
continued and then stopped uh at a
certain point in time so let’s look at
the explanation
we use past perfect tense to express
actions that started in the past
and continued to a specific point in the
past so this is an action yes or it can
be a condition so for example we talked
about a person being sick that’s a
condition that’s a good example of a
condition or a state
so started in the past continued to a
specific point in the past
maybe something happened something
changed it or we just want to note that
this is an important point in the past
i’ll show some examples in a moment
we can use past perfect with the
progressive again the ing form of a verb
we use this we tend to use this with
when
plus a past tense verb like a clause
that uses a past tense verb and we do
this to show an interrupted action
so the image here is an action is
continuing continuing continuing and we
use past perfect to describe that action
something happens
we use when to mark that point and then
we add a past tense verb clause to show
the thing that happened so again i’ll
show an example of this in a moment
finally we can use this for life
experience that was true in the past so
maybe something has changed but we want
to talk about something that was true in
the past or that happened in the past or
a condition in the past that maybe is
different or kind of is important um to
talk about in relationship to experience
now it’s a complex point so let’s look
at some examples that use this
first
i had been
to 10 countries by my 25th birthday so
let’s break down this sentence
here i begin the sentence with my past
perfect phrase
i had been
so here we see a similar pattern with
the present perfect tense we’re using
the verb have yes but because it’s past
tense past perfect tense
we need to conjugate we need to change
this verb to past tense so to make past
perfect tense we use had plus the past
participle verb form in this case i had
been
okay so i had been to
10
countries this is reflecting a past
condition past life experience
by
my 25th birthday
so by can mark a point in time it’s like
up until this point in time
so here let’s look at this in terms of
our timeline
we know
by my 25th birthday is the key point in
time in this sentence and we see past
perfect tenses used to explain this
condition
i had been to 10 countries so this is my
life experience so we can imagine
this is the speaker’s 25th birthday here
before this time or rather by this point
in time in this person’s life experience
he or she visited had been to
10 countries
so we use past perfect to show that so
this is useful if you want to tell a
story or you’re talking about gradually
gaining life experience so the speaker
is talking about their 25th birthday
this
suggests this is a past point in time
so this is how we might explain
these kinds of life experiences and
gradually learning and growing and doing
other things
let’s look at another example here
an interrupted action
we had been working on the project for
three weeks
when it was suddenly
cancelled
we had been working on the project for
three weeks when it was suddenly
canceled so here we see one of the big
hint words i mentioned this when as i
talked about here
when comes before a simple past tense
statement in this case passive it was
suddenly cancelled so here is my
past tense portion
here i’m using we had been working
here’s my past perfect portion again
with progressive
so this shows an action that was
continuing we had been working
on the project for three weeks
when
it was suddenly cancelled so when marks
the point of change in a continuing
action so this is something maybe our
team was working continuously on
here the project was suddenly cancelled
we use when to mark that interruption or
that stop point
so we use this uh with the progressive
tense because there’s an actual action
happening we wouldn’t use this like i
had been traveling to 10 countries that
sounds like a person was continuously
moving from country to country and it
doesn’t sound natural at all we just
want to talk about life experience here
this sentence however shows us that the
action was continuing like non-stop we
had been working this was a continuing
theme but it was interrupted our
interruption is marked with when and a
past tense clause
okay
let’s go to one more kind of complex one
again this uses a negative i talked
about this negative over here i’ve never
written a book
let’s look at how we might use a
negative with past perfect
i’d never eaten sushi
before i visited japan
so here another pronunciation point i
mentioned we use
and
when we reduce the i have he has
patterns in present perfect tense
when we use past perfect tense we have a
similar reduction but because we only
use had we just make a d sound i had
becomes i’d we had becomes weed there’s
a small d sound so
i’d never eaten sushi before i visited
japan i’d never eaten sushi before i
visited japan so here we have right here
a good hint
past tense situation a past tense clause
so before i visited japan so here’s a
key point in time so the speaker
has had the experience of visiting japan
so here visited japan
before that
the speaker did not have the experience
of eating sushi
so we expressed that with i’d never
eaten sushi
before i visited japan you might hear
some people say i’d never eaten sushi
before visiting japan that’s also okay
but the key point here we’re
communicating
lack of experience in the past
before
this more recent experience so we use
past perfect to do this to show these
relationships between past situations
between past actions past conditions and
so on so when we want to be very
specific about our timeline
we can use past perfect and simple past
tense to do that so a really good rule
is if you’re telling a story a past
tense story something that happened in
the past
and you want to show the sequence of
events
use simple past for the most recent
action
use past perfect for the action further
in the past and try not to put too much
information in one sentence
two items is great so if you want to do
it like this it’s very clear but if you
have too many actions in one sentence it
can get very confusing so
again that hint is used past perfect for
actions farther in the past like the
furthest action in the past past perfect
the more recent action use simple past
tense to talk about that
so
this is a quick introduction to the
differences between past perfect and
present perfect tense i hope that you
found something you can use and i hope
that it helps you in telling your
stories more clearly of course if you
have any questions or comments or if you
want to practice making some sentences
or stories
feel free to do so in the comments
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hi everybody my name is alicia in this
lesson i’m going to talk about but and
yet
and i’m going to focus on two parts of
speech we can use but and yet for both
of these parts of speech but we need to
keep in mind the different meanings that
result so let’s get started
the first part of speech i want to talk
about is using but and yet as a
conjunction so a reminder when i say
part of speech i mean the function of
the word in the sentence so that means
grammatically what is the word’s purpose
what is that word’s job in the sentence
so
a conjunction is a word that is used to
make two ideas come together we connect
our ideas with conjunctions so for
example like and and but or for so those
kinds of things
so conjunctions
there are quite a few of them and some
kind of like phrases we can use as well
but we can use but and yet as
conjunctions when using these as
conjunctions they mean the same thing so
we can connect our ideas and they have
the meaning of however however so they
have the same meaning same function as
conjunctions
yet sounds more formal than but so we
tend to use it in more formal situation
in most everyday situations we use but
to connect our ideas it would sound too
formal too polite to use yet in most
everyday conversations let’s look at
some examples first
we wanted to go shopping but we were out
of time
here but connects
this idea with this idea we wanted to go
shopping and
we were out of time so out of time means
we used all our time we had no time
remaining so we connect these ideas with
the conjunction but
another example
you said dinner would be twenty dollars
but it’s actually fifty dollars here
again two ideas being connected in this
case you said dinner would be twenty
dollars this past tense statement but
it’s actually 50 so here is a present
tense statement we connect these ideas
with but
now let’s see some examples where we
might use yet as a conjunction
they gave their best effort at the
championship match
yet we’re defeated
so here we’re showing probably a team
working hard at a championship match
that’s point a
yet be they were defeated so yes we
could use the word but here they gave
their best but we’re defeated that’s
also okay
using yet here shows it’s kind of a more
formal situation maybe this championship
match was very important to this team or
it was like a very important match in
the sporting world overall so yet kind
of elevates it brings the level up of
formality
one more example
she said she wasn’t interested in the
job
yet
she sent an application so here
point a she said she wasn’t interested
yet she sent an application so here
again this is probably like a work
related situation so using yet shows
it’s a bit more formal it’s perhaps a
bit more polite so using yet is going to
make your sentence sound more formal
connecting your ideas with yet will
increase your politeness level a bit so
this is how we use but and yet as
conjunctions let’s compare this then
to using these words as adverbs as
adverbs these two words are very
different in meaning when we use yet as
an adverb it means up to this point in
time so for example many students
probably know a sentence like
i haven’t finished my homework yet
or i haven’t done the laundry yet so
there’s that feeling of expectation with
yet meaning up until this point in time
this thing has not in many cases been
finished
but there’s some expectation there
we can kind of see this in this like the
same way when we’re using yet in these
example sentences i’ll show you
compare this to but when we use but as
an adverb as you’ll see in some examples
it means just or only
i also want to note with these speech
patterns that i’m going to introduce
these are formal speech patterns we
don’t use these so often in everyday
speech
the yet patterns you might hear in
business english
in more formal situations work
situations
these sound a little formal and in some
cases maybe a little old-fashioned
but from time to time you may hear
patterns similar to these so i would
like to explain them first let’s look at
using yet as i said yet as an adverb
means up to this point in time
here
they have yet to reply to our offer
they have yet to reply to our offer so
another way to say this would be
they haven’t replied to our offer yet
that’s another way to say it that’s
probably the more common way to say it
they haven’t replied to our offer yet it
sounds a little more casual that sounds
like an everyday speech pattern
this sounds more formal they have yet to
reply to our offer so if you want your
speech to sound a little more formal or
if you’re writing something you can use
this pattern
they have yet to reply to our offer or
they haven’t replied to our offer yet
means the same thing either way
there’s some expectation you’re
expecting that there’s going to be a
reply it just means up until this point
there hasn’t been one so we use yet to
communicate that
another example
i have not yet finished my proposal i
have not yet finished my proposal so
here yet is being used to talk about
someone’s expectations for themselves so
i have not yet finished my proposal
shows up until now
my proposal has not been completed but i
expect to complete it
so another way to say this that would be
more like casual everyday speech would
be i haven’t finished my proposal yet so
using yet sounds quite natural and much
more casual when we use it at the end of
the sentence
but when we use it in this position it
makes the sentence sound more formal
okay
also you’ll notice maybe one other
grammatical point in case you have a
question about this in this sentence i
have i have not yet finished and here
was they have yet to reply so you’ll
notice that here i’ve used i have not
yet finished so
this these two sentences are both
expressing lack of something so not
finishing and not receiving a reply but
there are these two patterns that we can
use so yes they have yet
to reply means they haven’t replied yet
that’s okay to use
so you could say for example
they have not yet replied to our offer
that’s also okay to use it’s up to you
to me
this one sounds a little more formal
using this infinitive form but you can
use both of these patterns to express
that lack of something
okay
let’s go on then to talking about butt
as i said these are fairly
kind of formal maybe a little
old-fashioned so you might not hear them
as much
let’s look at this example
don’t quit
we’re at but the first stage of our
project
so this but i know it seems probably a
little weird but this is how we would
use this
as an adverb so as i said but means like
just or only
so think of it as that so if we use only
here for example only would be modifying
the first stage so the first stage or
like the first step of a project we’re
at just the first stage we’re only the
first stage but has that meaning we’re
at but the first stage but using but
instead of just or only sounds more
formal we’re but the first stage of our
project so don’t quit it’s only the
first stage let’s look at one more
example
this is but a small error don’t worry
so here again if we replace but with
just or only we can see maybe more
naturally the meaning this is just a
small error don’t worry or this is only
a small error don’t worry
but makes it sound more formal so again
we don’t use this speech pattern so much
in everyday speech but you may hear it
from time to time
especially in kind of more old-fashioned
media that uses this style of english so
this is what it means but it means just
or only when used as an adverb
okay
so this is a quick intro to how to use
but and yet as adverbs and to use them
as conjunctions there are other uses of
these words but i wanted to compare
these two
especially conjunctions because there
are many questions about the differences
between these two words so i hope that
this was helpful for you if you have any
questions or comments or if you want to
practice making a sentence with these
words please feel free to do so in the
comment section of course if you liked
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see you again soon bye-bye
hi everybody my name is alicia in this
lesson i’m going to talk about some ways
to politely excuse yourself i’m going to
talk about expressions you can use when
you make a mistake and expressions that
you can use to ask permission to leave
somewhere so let’s get started okay the
first expression i want to talk about is
excuse me excuse me
excuse me can be used when you need to
ask for something and you have to
interrupt someone else
it can also be used when you need to
apologize for something small and we
usually use excuse me for apologies with
strangers so for example if you’re
walking down the street and you
bump someone’s shoulder
you might say
excuse me oh excuse me
you might hear some native speakers drop
this e sound it might sound more like
excuse me excuse me so this x might
sound like an s sound excuse me instead
of excuse me so you can use this as an
apology to say i’m sorry with strangers
or two strangers or you can use it when
you need to ask for something as in this
example sentence
excuse me
i’m looking for the restroom excuse me
i’m looking for the restroom
again excuse me is used more commonly
with strangers people that we’re not
close to
this is a sentence you might use in like
a department store or a shopping mall
for example so you don’t know the other
person excuse me
this is a nice introduction
to your question so excuse me or excuse
me
okay let’s compare this with i’m sorry
i’m sorry i’m sorry it’s better than i
am sorry i am sorry sounds very stiff
and unnatural i’m sorry or just
sorry
so i’m sorry sounds a little bit more
formal a little bit more polite than
just sorry so we use sorry when we make
a mistake and we use it when we’re close
to the other person
or we use it maybe
with strangers sometimes for a very
small problem so
again in like a shopping situation maybe
you touch the person next to you or you
do some small motion that’s maybe uh
like a mistake or it’s some small motion
that might bother the other person some
people might say sorry sorry is more
casual than excuse me in this situation
oh sorry so that sounds a little bit
more friendly there
excuse me sounds a little bit more um
polite so i’m sorry or sorry
in this example sentence i’ve used i’m
so sorry i’m so sorry so we tend to use
so sorry a lot as an emphasis word you
could say i’m very sorry i’m very sorry
to me sounds a little bit more formal
than i’m so sorry so sounds a little
more casual so for example
i’m so sorry
i forgot to send you the file
so here this is a mistake and we use i’m
sorry here instead of excuse me because
in this case i forgot to send you the
file it’s like the speaker has some
relationship with the listener it’s not
a stranger in this case here this is
probably a stranger in this case the
speaker has some relationship so this
i’m sorry and i’m so sorry is quite
natural
okay
so let’s compare this then to this sorry
a key here
is my question mark this question mark
punctuation point because
i’m sorry and sorry
have different meanings so you can hear
the intonation is different when i want
to apologize i made a mistake i say i’m
sorry or just sorry
when i have a question though i say
sorry my intonation goes up
so we use this sorry when we didn’t hear
something another person said or when we
don’t understand that thing that they
just said so in a situation like this
sorry
i couldn’t hear you
so sorry is similar to what
but we use sorry to mean like maybe oh
sorry i was being noisy i couldn’t hear
you or maybe sorry i i couldn’t
understand and that might be a problem
for you so sorry to me feels a little
bit softer than just what if someone
like says something and you can’t hear
them so sorry
so please note i’m sorry
and sorry have different intonations so
we don’t use i’m sorry
with uh an apology we use this if we
didn’t hear something another person
said
okay now let’s go on to a couple of
permission related questions i have for
both of these
two options in the sentence or two
options in the question and they are
can i
and
may i so these are both used in
situations where we need to ask someone
else in these cases i was thinking a
teacher or perhaps a colleague
were asking permission to leave a
location
this is one that’s very common for
students
so we can say can i use the restroom can
i use the restroom or can i go to the
restroom it’s also okay can i go to the
restroom
also may i use the restroom may i use
the restroom or may i go to the restroom
so
in every day at least american english
speech both can i and may i are
acceptable some teachers however are
very very strict about the words that
they use and they prefer students use
may i the reason for this is
historically may i has been used to ask
for permission
can i is used to talk about abilities so
this is the historical difference
between these words but today in today’s
english we use both of them to ask for
permission so can i go to the restroom
or can i use the restroom are both okay
so we can change that to may i go to the
restroom may i use the restroom both of
those are fine
but just every once in a while i
remember this from my school days my
teacher
would sometimes say
in response to a student that said can i
use the restroom the student said can i
use the restroom the teacher responded i
don’t know can you so it’s kind of a
joke like is it possible for you to rest
to use the restroom can you use the
restroom so this sort of joke this kind
of strict english grammar joke it’s not
very funny but it’s referring to cannes
historical use uh as like a an ability
related word
so in most cases it’s not a problem most
teachers and most people in your life
are not going to use this sort of joke
but if you’re worried or if you want to
avoid this you can use may i
so the same thing goes for this sentence
the same thing is true here
can i or may i leave early so this is
something you can use at work if you
like um like can i leave or class as
well can i leave early today or can i
leave early tomorrow and you should
share a reason for this a reason for
excusing yourself for leaving the
situation
so again may i is more historically
accurate in terms of asking for
permission can i is related more to
abilities but they are both used today
so for example
i would say if i have an appointment may
i leave early tomorrow i have a
dentist’s appointment
so you can include some time point here
may i leave early today may i leave
early tomorrow i’m not feeling well
if you use that one may i leave early
today
make sure it’s like and you’re using um
a feeling like you’re feeling sick make
sure it’s the same day like may i leave
early tomorrow i’m not feeling well that
sounds very strange like you’re planning
on being sick the next day that doesn’t
work
so please use this i recommend using
this with your upcoming appointments and
on the same day if you’re not feeling
well you could you could use this
expression may i leave early today i’m
not feeling well
okay
let’s continue then to the next pair the
next pair actually all of these are a
little more formal and not as commonly
used in everyday speech
the first one is pardon me pardon me so
pardon me is like excuse me but pardon
me is not used at least in american
english very often in everyday speech we
don’t use pardon it sounds very formal
in american english so we don’t use it
unless we want to sound very polite for
some reason even in business we don’t
really use this so much we use excuse me
more often in american english
so pardon me can be used again
if you meet us like a stranger and
there’s a small problem like
you
brush against them or you maybe
accidentally push your body into a
person on the elevator you could say oh
pardon me
you can also use this
to interrupt someone as i talked about
here like you’re looking for information
pardon me i’m looking for the restroom
so again it does sound quite formal we
don’t use this so much in american
english but this is how it is sometimes
used
the same point then applies here for
this pardon
pardon as a question so as a question it
means this as a question sorry what what
did you say so pardon i didn’t catch
that what was that i couldn’t hear you
so again your intonation should go up
when you say this pardon it’s different
from pardon me pardon me so pardon it’s
a question
an example of how we use this is pardon
i don’t understand
so again let’s compare this to the
pronunciation of pardon me which we use
to interrupt someone pardon me do you
know where the nearest supermarket is so
again we’re asking for information here
probably from a stranger so we use
pardon me or excuse me to do that all
right let’s go on to the last pair
these use the word forgive forgive so to
forgive someone means to like accept
their apology so they did something
wrong
and you know they did something wrong
they say they’re sorry and you say okay
i understand it’s okay no problem that’s
to forgive someone
so
forgive me forgive me we use this
expression after usually a big mistake
and we use it usually with people
we are very close to so this could be
like your mother father grandmother
grandfather your close
family members you could use it with
your partner your spouse husband wife
whatever
you can use this for yeah big mistakes
that maybe have some strong effect on
your relationship
you might use this in some cases for a
serious work related problem
so just keep in mind this is a fairly
formal expression we use more in serious
mistake situations for example
please forgive me i won’t do it again
please forgive me i won’t do it again so
maybe you spent a lot of money on like a
new boat or something and your partner
didn’t know about it and it was a huge
problem
so you might say please forgive me i
won’t do it again i’ll sell the boat so
you’ll you’ll show you want you need to
show you’re going to take some action to
fix the problem
if you use this expression please
forgive me so i’m so sorry
and then express usually some way some
plan that you have to fix the problem
you caused so forgive me again
usually used in serious kind of heavy
situations okay let’s move on to the
last one this last one i included here
because you might hear it if you attend
for example a dinner party or other type
of event where someone is hosting a
group of people like at their home or at
an event space so it is forgive my
rudeness forgive my rudeness so rudeness
this means like bad behavior
it doesn’t really mean like actually bad
behavior
it means like
they’re not being a very good host in
the situation
so this is actually kind of a mild
phrase this is used for example when you
arrive at a party when you arrive at
someone’s home and the host greets you
and you’re talking for a long time maybe
in front of the door and the host might
realize this and say oh forgive my
rudeness
would you like something to drink like
please come inside like it was rude of
me uh or it was bad behavior bad host
behavior to talk to you just here at the
door for a long time so please forgive
my rudeness so this is it sounds quite
formal this is somewhat of a formal
phrase but it’s something that like a
party host would use um for a nice
dinner for example
so you might hear this you might hear
this in media as well too forgive my
rudeness so it’s it’s actually kind of a
friendly phrase it shows you care about
the other person and you usually do
something like offer them a drink or
offer them to come inside offer to take
their coat you usually do something to
show that you care about the other
person and you want them to enjoy their
time so forgive my rudeness okay so this
is just i think the most basic
set of expressions that we use to excuse
ourselves or to apologize you might hear
some variations but i think that these
are um pretty good for most situations
just to recap them
in summary these are the phrases and the
words that we use uh if we make a
mistake so they are sorry or i’m sorry
with that downward intonation i’m sorry
we can use pardon me
pardon me or just pardon as well as okay
we can use excuse me and we can use
forgive me again in more serious
situations in most cases i use i’m sorry
i’m sorry or just sorry so that one is
most common i feel in everyday life
followed by excuse me i think so these
are mistake expressions and we also
talked about these two patterns you can
use to leave a room like to leave a
classroom or perhaps to leave part of
your workplace so i hope that this is
helpful for you if you have any
questions or comments please feel free
to let us know in the comments section
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hi everybody my name is alicia in this
lesson i’m going to talk about how to
express humility in english let’s get
started okay first i want to define what
is humility
humility humility is a noun humility is
a state of not thinking
you are better than other people
so humility is it’s considered a good
state so we don’t think like i’m better
than that person or that person is below
me or something like that humility is
considered a positive state to be in so
there are a couple of different
situations where it’s common to express
humility
first i’m going to talk about some
expressions you can use if you receive a
special award of some kind or if you
receive kind of like an honorable
recognition
these two are some cases
at work or maybe in your studies where
it’s important to express humility so
first let’s take a look at these
expressions we would use these when we
receive awards so the first expression
is
i am honored to accept this award
so a key word here is honored so honor
is the root so that means it’s like
respectable so it’s something that’s
very special and i feel
appreciative i want to say thank you and
show that i respect this situation i am
honored to accept so to accept means
like it’s okay i will take it i’m
honored to accept this award so this is
how maybe lots of award speeches begin
if you have watched um english speaking
awards shows you might hear something
similar to this and this similarly
it’s a great honor
to receive this award so these two they
really mean the same thing just slightly
different ways of saying it here we’re
using honor as a noun so it’s a great
honor or i am honored they really mean
the same thing
here i’m using the verb to receive
instead of to accept
in this case they do mean the same thing
they mean like to take
except in some cases can have the idea
or have the feeling of something being
like okay where receive just means like
i’m going to take this like paperwork
i’ve received your paperwork i’m putting
it over here whereas like to accept
something means like to confirm
something so for example like you accept
a student to a university so
receiving is like just taking them but
accepting a student to a university is
like saying okay great like you’re part
of the university now to accept an award
is similar like we had to approve the
acceptance of the award so there’s a
very very small difference there in
general in this case
these two really mean the same thing
they’re just different ways to say a
similar expression
let’s take a look though at the third
one here i greatly appreciate your
consideration i greatly appreciate your
consideration this would be okay to use
if you receive an award maybe this could
be sentence to like i’m honored to
accept this award i greatly appreciate
your consideration
here your you could change this if you
like your means the group of people who
decided to give you the award or the
group of people who gave you like
special recognition or gave you an honor
i greatly appreciate your consideration
if this is like a board of directors at
a company you could replace your with
the board’s consideration i greatly
appreciate the board’s consideration
um so this is a good very general
expression it doesn’t have to be for an
award just for special recognition is
okay like you get a special bonus for
example wow i greatly appreciate your
consideration
all right so let’s continue to two more
samples
these are for more like an honorable
recognition or like you have received an
honorable invitation to something like
to join a very respected project or
project like an organization
or you’re going to participate in
something an exciting project that is
very respected so first sentence is i am
grateful
to have been able to participate in this
project
so this is actually a sentence we would
use if uh the speaker in this case me
if i have finished my role in the
project i am grateful to have been able
so this means i had the life experience
of participating in this project i had
this experience i was able to
so that sounds again it’s like you’re
lowering yourself you’re making yourself
sound a little bit lower that’s that
humility point here
i’m grateful to have been able to
participate
this sounds much more
polite this expresses humility much more
than i’m happy i could join like i’m
happy i could join doesn’t express the
same level of appreciation so grateful
shows your respect
for this situation and this i’m grateful
to have been able to so that means it
sounds like
maybe in another situation this would
not have been possible so i’m grateful
to have been able to participate in this
project really shows your respect for
that project
similarly here i am thrilled to have the
opportunity to participate so thrilled
thrilled this means like excited very
excited
but it
sounds a little more formal in this case
so it’s a stronger word that means
excited i am thrilled to have the
opportunity to participate so this is
probably for an upcoming project here i
used to have been able to
suggesting that the project has
concluded it’s finished here i’m
thrilled to have the opportunity to
participate a sentence like this is
something used when we’re going to start
something new again here i’m using some
words that show
my respect for the situation i am
thrilled to have the opportunity so
opportunity means chance but opportunity
sounds more formal than chance so i’m
thrilled that like there’s this great
chance and i want to express it more
formally to show that i respect the
situation so these are two good ones you
can use for like an honorable a project
you can join or you receive like
recognition for participating in a
project so again this is for something
that’s probably finished
or is going to finish very soon and this
is probably for something that’s coming
up in the future
okay before i get to this point i want
to go to the second group uh the second
group of expressions here is expressing
gratitude
so that means ways to say thank you
expressing gratitude for your teammates
for your community for your family and
so on for the people around you so a key
to expressing humility is that you don’t
focus on yourself only it’s not just me
me me i did all this stuff on my own but
who are the people i worked with so um
how do i express my appreciation for
those people on my team or in my
community so some expressions you can
use this one is very general
thank you so much for your support thank
you so much for your support so a
company can use this with their
customers like in an email to their
customers who have helped them in some
way
we could use this on youtube for example
like if i want to say say to the viewers
who like the video or leave comments i
could say thank you so much for your
support so this is a polite expression
that shows your appreciation for a group
of people or for just one person even
and it also sounds a little bit friendly
so thank you so much for your support
you can remove this
this so much and make the sentence thank
you for your support
i like to say thank you so much for your
support so i think it shows a little bit
more strongly the appreciation
another one we can use
is this uh i or we
couldn’t do it without you i couldn’t do
it without you we couldn’t do it without
you a variation on this is i couldn’t
have done it without you i couldn’t have
done it without you is what it sounds
like at native speed couldn’t have done
it without you
so couldn’t have done it without you
means again something like this grateful
to have been we used that couldn’t have
done it without you means that something
happened in the past and without that
person or without that group
the project or the action
would not have been possible so we say
in the present i could not
pass i could not have done it without
you so we’re using perfect tense to
describe that relationship there so here
i’m not using that i’m just using simple
uh we couldn’t do it without you i
couldn’t do it without you so for
example
like our channel so we couldn’t do it
without you where you
is our viewers so in this case it in
this sentence refers to the activities
of the speaker so in our case we
couldn’t do it without you means we
could not make the channel without our
viewers like the viewers are important
for us so that we can get your feedback
and so that we can try to make uh in
informative and for informative videos
that help people so in this case that’s
our it it
uh so you means the people around
the person speaking
so it just refers to the activities
there so other companies might say like
we couldn’t do it without you like we
couldn’t make our products without our
customers that’s a very common one or
maybe an athlete could say it i couldn’t
do it without the fans maybe an
entertainer or an athlete would say
something like that so it’s to express
their appreciation and to say like my
job would not be possible without you
that’s what this really means
and that’s a breakdown of the sentence
okay let’s move on to the next
expression which is thank you to
everyone on our team thank you to
everyone on our team this is very
general
some other variations are like thank you
to our wonderful team members um thank
you to our amazing team and so on so
this can be used for your work you can
use this in sports you can use this at
school if you’re working in a group
project you could change team to group
thank you to everyone in our group
though we changed the preposition on our
team
or in our group we do not use on a group
we use in a group
so this is really great for talking
about your colleagues and your coworkers
so for example if i want to use this
expression to talk about our team here i
could say thank you to everyone on our
team for their hard work something like
that is a good way to express
appreciation for your teammates okay
onward to the next set of expressions
this one i made this one about family
this i thought was a nice follow-up to
the award-related expressions we talked
about earlier so you receive an award
for example i am honored to accept this
reward i greatly appreciate your
consideration
uh thank you to everyone on our team for
their hard work i would also like to
thank my family for their support so
this is something you might hear at an
awards speech i have here i would like
this is one situation where it’s natural
not to reduce to i’d i’d like to thank
i would like to thank my family this
sounds more formal and in this situation
accepting an award it sounds more
natural to be more formal so it’s okay
here i would like to thank my family for
their support of course you can change
this i would like to thank my wife i
would like to thank my husband i would
like to thank my partner for his or her
or their support
so you can change this as well too but
generally support is a nice word to use
that’s kind of open
okay onward this one is good for like a
community related event like a volunteer
event or something organized in your
town or city
thank you to all the community members
who volunteered their time and effort
their time and effort this is i think a
good expression to include here you
could say thank you to all the community
members who volunteered that’s great but
showing
that you recognize the other people
gave you their time and their effort so
effort means like their energy they took
action to do something so they
participated and they gave time and
effort for something that you put
together is a really important thing to
notice i think it’s an important thing
to recognize
so this is a good one for a community
event
of course you could use just people
thank you to all the people who
volunteered their time and effort too
but if this is like a city or a town
event it might be good um to consider
your local community by using a word
such as this
okay
so i want to finish this lesson with
just a couple very small points
we commonly use as few expressions when
responding to compliments so a reminder
a compliment is when someone gives you
nice feedback gives you a nice comment
about something and you want to express
humility like oh it’s not so great or no
no no that feeling
so these are a few very common ways we
do that
let’s imagine we get a compliment
someone says i like your shirt
you can respond by saying ah you’re too
kind you’re too kind you could also say
ah it’s nothing
we’ll often say something like that’s
nothing like this is old or this was so
cheap so we kind of put ourselves down
sometimes in this way sometimes it
depends a little bit on the person
you could say oh that’s so nice of you
to say that’s so nice of you to say
or you could just say oh thanks as well
too ah so aww here means ah ah thanks
um so it depends on the person if you
compliment someone and they say like
it’s nothing
it’s a fairly natural response some
people when you compliment will just say
thank you i bought it at such and such
store that’s also very natural but if
you would like to express humility you
can use one of these expressions i tend
to say i tend to use something like this
i uh not it’s nothing but i will use a
specific adjective in the moment like if
someone complements my shirt i’ll say oh
this this is so old like it was so cheap
i usually choose a specific adjective
related to the compliment or if someone
says like i like your new haircut i
would say oh me too but you know i can’t
style it perfectly like i tend to choose
like a specific point that i can kind of
um make myself sound a little bit lower
um in that moment so that’s kind of up
to you you can kind of listen to the
compliment and choose how you want to
respond if you’re not sure you don’t
know how to use this you can just say
thank you i appreciate it
so these are just a couple ways
that we respond to compliments everyday
small points
in daily life so i hope that this lesson
was helpful i hope you learned some good
ways to express humility and i hope that
you have many reasons to use these
expressions it’s very positive i think
so if you have any questions or comments
please feel free to let us know in the
comments section of this video also you
can feel free to practice making a
speech if you want like an award
acceptance speech that might be
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coco
coco co go
coco is a very popular drink it is
chocolatey and we often mix it with milk
to create hot cocoa
a warm cup of cocoa is comforting on a
cold winter night
a warm cup of cocoa is comforting on a
cold winter night
a warm cup of cocoa is comforting on a
cold winter night
soft drink
soft drink
soft drink
a soft drink is any kind of drink that
does not have alcohol in it this could
be soda it could be juice it could be
tea these are all soft drinks
soft drinks don’t contain alcohol and
are usually carbonated and served cold
soft drinks don’t contain alcohol and
are usually carbonated and served cold
soft drinks don’t contain alcohol and
are usually carbonated and served cold
juice
juice
juice
juice is a drink that comes from a fruit
or a vegetable juice is generally quite
healthy and it tastes pretty good
fresh fruit juice is a great way to
start any day
fresh fruit juice is a great way to
start any day
fresh fruit juice is a great way to
start any day
bookshelf
bookshelf
book
shelf
a bookshelf is a piece of furniture
typically we use it to keep our books it
is a shelf for our books but many people
use it for other storage too
the bookshelf is full of books
the bookshelf is full of books
the book shelf is full of books
bed
bed
bed
a bed is a piece of furniture a bed is
the place where we sleep there are many
different sizes
i bought a new bed
i bought a new bed
i bought a new
bed
mirror
mirror
mirror
a mirror is an object that is reflective
that means that we can see our faces
when we look into it we typically have
mirrors in our bathroom and we can refer
to small mirrors as hand mirrors
the mirror is hanging on the wall
the mirror is hanging on the wall
the mirror is hanging on the wall
dresser
dresser
dresser
a dresser is something that we have in
our house to store our clothes this
might be inside the closet it might be
inside a room it can be very big very
small there are many different styles of
dresser
in my house i don’t have a dresser
in my house i don’t have a
dresser in my house i don’t have a
dresser
sweep
sweep
sweep
sweep is a verb we use the word sweep
when we talk about cleaning house with a
broom so this motion
is called sweeping so when we want to
clean things off the floor we sweep the
floor
it’s so dusty sweep the floor
it’s so dusty sweep the floor
it’s so dusty sweep the floor
put away
put away
put away
to put something away or to put away
something means to replace something so
after we use an item in our kitchen
somewhere else in our house after we use
it and we’re finished using it we need
to put it away to replace that item in
its correct position
i put away the dishes
i put away the dishes
i put away the dishes
mop is interesting a mop as a noun
refers to the tool we use to clean our
floors it’s something that we use with
water and soap we also use this word as
a verb to mean to clean the floors with
soap and with this scrubbing motion
i spilled the juice so i’ll mop the
floor
i spilled the juice so i’ll mop the
floor
i spilled the juice so i’ll mop the
floor
waitress
waitress
waitress a waitress is staff at a
restaurant a waitress is a female staff
member who takes orders and delivers
them to the kitchen and also brings food
to the table
the waitress is holding a tray with
glasses
the waitress is holding a tray with
glasses
the waitress is holding a tray with
glasses
fahrenheit
fahrenheit
fair ren height
so fahrenheit refers to the scale that
is used in the usa to measure
temperature
water freezes at 32 degrees fahrenheit
water freezes at 32 degrees fahrenheit
water freezes at 32 degrees fahrenheit
temperature
temperature
temperature
temperature refers to how hot or how
cold something is
temperature is increasing
temperature is increasing
temperature
is increasing
humid
humid
humid
humid refers to a weather condition or
to an air condition where there is a lot
of water in the air the air feels kind
of sticky or heavy
in this country the climate is humid
in this country the climate is humid
in this country the climate is humid
windy
windy
windy
windy is an adjective that refers to a
weather condition where there’s a lot of
wind
it’s windy outside
it’s windy outside
it’s windy outside
playground
playground
playground
a playground is a special feature in a
park they’re often brightly colored the
goal of a playground is to give children
a place to play
is there also a slide on the playground
is there also a slide on the playground
is there also a slide on the playground
pool
pool
pool
you can think of a pool kind of like a
really really big bathtub they’re places
where we can swim in our cities
the lifeguard is watching the pool
the lifeguard is watching the pool
the lifeguard is watching the pool
tennis
tennis
tennis
tennis is a very popular sport it’s
played with two people sometimes with
four people as well and the players pass
a ball or rather hit a ball back and
forth across a net shall we play tennis
shall we play tennis
shall we play tennis
basketball
basketball
basketball
basketball is a very popular sport where
two teams compete against each other to
score the most points by throwing a ball
through a basket
most basketball players are
tall most basketball players are tall
most basketball players are tall
leader
leader
lee liter
a liter is a unit of measurement but
this unit of measurement is used for
liquid
how many liters of milk did you buy
how many liters of milk did you buy
how many liters of milk did you buy
rice
rice
rice
rice is a very common food we eat rice
with meals usually as a side dish but
you might also see it used as a main
dish
today i should buy a lot of rice
today i should buy a lot of rice
today
i should buy a lot of rice
bread
bread
bread
bread is another very popular
carbohydrate we often eat bread in the
mornings especially warmed up as toast
i buy my bread at the bakery
i buy my bread at the bakery
i buy my bread at the bakery
egg
egg
egg
so an egg refers to the raw form of an
egg usually as it comes from a chicken
we can also use the same word to refer
to an egg after we cook it
i boil an egg
i boil an egg
i boil an egg
noodle
noodle
noodle
so noodle is a countable noun the plural
form is noodles we typically have
noodles in soup or in pasta dishes
instant noodles are a popular like meal
instant noodles are a popular light meal
instant noodles are a popular light meal
alarm clock
alarm clock
a alarm clock
so an alarm clock is a clock that has an
alarm function many of us use our phones
as alarm clocks these days
the alarm clock is set for 5 am
the alarm clock is set for 5 am
the alarm clock is set for 5 am
door
door
door
so a door is the thing that we use to
enter or exit a room you can open or
close a door or in some cases you can
slide open or slide a door closed
can you close the door
can you close the door
can you close the door
remote control
remote control
remote control
a remote control is something we can
hold in our hands so we can remotely
control something else that means from a
distance we are able to control
something like a tv or air conditioner
or something like that
please pass me the remote control
please pass me the remote control please
pass me the remote control
wipe
wipe
wipe
so to wipe as a verb refers to this
motion we use the verb wipe often when
we talk about cleaning something like
wiping windows or maybe wiping a table
wiping some kind of surface usually to
clean it
don’t forget to wipe the floor
don’t forget to wipe the floor
don’t forget to wipe the floor
menu
menu
men
you
a menu is like a list of choices we
usually think of menus when we visit
restaurants but you can have menus in
other situations too for example maybe
you have menus on your computer or menus
on your tv it’s a list of things you can
choose from
the customer is looking at the menu
the customer is looking at the menu
the customer is looking at the menu
magazine
magazine
a magazine is a group of articles
generally though you might also see
groups of photographs put together
magazines are generally provided to
people once a month or maybe
four times a year something like that so
you can usually find magazines about
specific topics
would you like to read some magazines
would you like to read some
magazines would you like to read some
magazines
audiobook
audiobook
ah d
book
so an audio book is a book that you can
listen to this is different from a
regular book because we read regular
books with an audio book you can listen
and read at the same time if you like
i listen to audiobooks during my commute
to work
i listen to audio books during my
commute to work
i listen to audio books during my
commute to work
video game
video game
video game
so a video game refers to a game that
you can play on your tv or these days
also on your computer or your smartphone
we say video game but it’s kind of any
game that has a video component to it
something that we can see as we play the
game
i’m going to buy a new video game this
weekend
i’m going to buy a new video game this
weekend
i’m going to buy a new video game this
weekend
cheap
cheap
cheap
cheap is the opposite of expensive when
something is cheap that means it’s
available for us to buy at a low price
especially at a price lower than we
expect
i’m looking for a cheap pair of shoes
i’m looking for a cheap pair of shoes
i’m looking for a cheap pair of
shoes expensive
expensive
expensive
so expensive is the opposite of cheap
which we just talked about expensive
refers to something that has a high
price especially for things that maybe
are higher priced than usual
it’s too expensive
it’s too expensive
it is too expensive
kind
kind
kind
so the word kind when used as an
adjective refers to someone who is nice
they are good to other people
she is a kind person with a big smile
she is a kind person with a big smile
she is a kind person with a big smile
scary
scary
scary
so the adjective scary refers to
something that causes us to feel fear
so something outside us is scary please
keep in mind that when you want to talk
about your own emotions you should
describe that as scared
dark streets are scary
streets are scary
dark streets are scary
relaxing
relaxing
relax in
something that is relaxing is something
that causes us to feel relaxed so again
this is something outside of us we might
hear a relaxing sound like water we
might listen to relaxing music or we
might smell something relaxing it’s
something outside of us we describe our
feeling with relaxed
massages are very relaxing
massages are very relaxing
massages are very relaxing
pound
pound
pound
so in american english we use the word
pound typically to refer to a unit of
measurement
in the u.s we use pounds to measure
weight
one pound is 16
ounces one pound is 16 ounces
one
pound is 16 ounces
mile
mile
mile
so mile is another word that we use in
american english to talk about the
distances between things we typically
use mile to describe the distances
between two cities so you might hear
kilometer used in other countries and in
other types of english in american
english because of the measurement
system we use we use miles
one mile is roughly 1.6 kilometers
one mile is roughly 1.6 kilometers
one mile is roughly 1.6 kilometers
foot
foot
foot
so this use of foot refers to another
measurement system that is used in the
usa
foot yes does refer to the part of your
body but when you see foot used to talk
about measurement it’s referring to a
size about this big
there are 12 inches in a foot
there are 12 inches in a foot
there are 12 inches in a foot
illness
illness
illness
so illness refers to a type of disease
or like a type of sickness we don’t
really say i have an illness it sounds a
little bit too formal but we use illness
to describe the level of seriousness of
something for example he has a cold it’s
only a minor illness
he has a cold it’s only a minor illness
he has a cold
it’s only a minor illness
cold
cold
cold
so this use of cold looks at the use
that we have to describe a very very
minor sickness so yes we can use cold as
an adjective to describe low
temperatures but when you see cold used
to talk about sickness it refers to
usually something like a runny nose or a
sore throat or feeling tired
i think i caught a cold
i think i caught a cold
i think i caught a cold
injury
injury
injury
injury is a noun and it’s different from
illness or from cold because an injury
is something that happens to the body
for example you have an accident playing
sports that is an injury an illness
refers to some small germs that get into
the body and that cause us to be sick so
an injury is something that happens
outside you
he suffered a knee injury
he suffered a knee injury
he suffered a knee injury
medicine
medicine
medicine is what we take to improve our
condition we can use medicine to kill
bad germs or to help our body fight bad
germs we can also use medicine to reduce
pain in the body
he was given a lot of medicine
he was given a lot of medicine
he was given
a lot of medicine
pain
pain
pain
so pain is a noun pain refers to the
uncomfortable the unpleasant feeling in
the body we have after an injury please
keep in mind pain and hurt are very very
different pain is a noun hurt is a verb
so when you want to talk about your body
feeling uncomfortable you can say i have
pain or it hurts
this pain is
unbearable this pain is unbearable
this pain is unbearable
fever
fever
fee
ver
fever is a noun and it refers to the
body temperature being higher than
normal so most people have a body
temperature that’s around 98.6 degrees
if we use fahrenheit or maybe about 37
degrees or so in celsius a fever refers
to body temperature that’s higher than
that and this is used to
indicate whether we are sick or not
she’s in bed with a fever
she’s in bed with a fever
she’s in bed with a fever
window
window
window
so a window is a fixture a feature in a
building it’s usually made of glass
though sometimes it’s just open and it
allows us to look out beyond the
building
open the window please
open the window please
open the window please
alcohol
alcohol
alcohol
alcohol in everyday conversation usually
refers to something that we drink for
fun or maybe because we feel sad in some
cases so it’s usually in many countries
and adults only drink we can also use
alcohol to talk about an ingredient in
cleaning products though like we might
use an alcohol sanitizing solution to
clean our hands
whiskey is an alcohol
whiskey is an alcohol
whiskey is an alcohol
meal
meal
meal
so meal refers to the type of food that
we eat at the beginning middle and end
of the day we call those
times when we eat meals
breakfast is the most important meal of
the day
breakfast is the most important meal of
the day
breakfast is the most important meal of
the day
fog
fog
fog
fog is a noun though you may also hear
the word foggy adjective used to talk
about this weather condition you can
imagine fog as like a lot of clouds very
very low to the ground
the city is covered in fog
the city is covered in fog
the city is covered in fog
hail
hail
hail
so hail when used to talk about weather
conditions refers to tiny or sometimes
large
balls of ice that fall from the sky it
can be quite dangerous
hail is dangerous
hail is dangerous
hail is dangerous
thunderstorm
thunderstorm
thunderstorm
a thunderstorm refers to a type of storm
that’s not just rain and clouds it’s
those things plus the sound of thunder
please keep in mind when we talk about
thunder and lightning in a storm thunder
is the sound and lightning is the cracks
of light
a thunderstorm is approaching
a thunderstorm is approaching
a
thunderstorm is approaching
aquarium
aquarium
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query yum
an aquarium keeps fish and other things
that like to live in water so you can
have a small aquarium in your house or
you can visit a larger aquarium that
keeps big fish and other exotic
creatures you might have an aquarium in
your city
when are we going to the aquarium
when are we going to the aquarium
when are we going to the aquarium
soccer
soccer
soccer
soccer is the word that we use in
american english to talk about the sport
that many other countries call football
it’s fun to play soccer
it’s fun to play soccer
it’s fun to play soccer
zoo
zoo
zoo
a zoo is a park for exotic animals so
many big cities have zoos you can go
there look at the animals learn
something about them and in some places
you can actually touch some of the
animals
tomorrow we’re going to the zoo
tomorrow we’re going to the zoo
tomorrow
we’re going to the zoo
fair
fair
fair
so fair when used to talk about
transportation refers to how much it
costs to take a mode of transportation
or how much it costs to go from one
place to another how much is the bus
fare
how much is the bus fare
how much is the bus fare
bus stop
bus stop
bus
stop
a bus stop is a place along the route of
a bus so there are typically many bus
stops on a bus route it’s a location
where you can get on the bus or get off
the bus
let’s meet at the bus stop
let’s meet at the bus stop
let’s meet at
the bus stop
gram
gram
gram
a gram is a unit of measurement you may
not hear this word used so much to talk
about weights in american english you
might hear this more commonly used in
british english where the metric system
is used
when he was born he weighed 3 kilos and
200 grams
when he was born he weighed three kilos
and 200 grams
when he was born he weighed three kilos
and 200 grams
meter
neater
neither
so like the previous vocabulary word
meter tends to be used more often in
countries that use the metric system for
measurement a meter is often used to
talk about distances between locations
usually within walking distance
there are 100 centimeters in a meter
there are 100 centimeters in a meter
there are 100 centimeters in a meter
kilometer
kilometer
a kilometer is another unit of distance
again like the previous two vocabulary
words this is more commonly used in
countries that have the metric system or
they use the metric system we used
kilometers to measure usually distances
between cities
he walked 10 kilometers
he walked 10 kilometers
he walked 10 kilometers
headache
headache
head ache
a headache is a pain in your head so
when we say i have a headache it refers
to a pain that’s specifically maybe
around this area or for many people
perhaps in the back of the head
my headache is getting worse
my headache is getting worse
my headache is getting worse
diarrhea
diarrhea
diarrhea
diarrhea is a very very unpleasant
condition where your body has trouble
processing food and drinks correctly
maybe you have a germ or maybe you ate
something that was not good for your
stomach and so you have to use the
bathroom a lot or the way that your body
produces waste changes a bit
this medicine will stop the diarrhea
this medicine will stop the diarrhea
this medicine will stop the
diarrhea symptom
symptom
so a symptom is something that you
notice that gives you a clue about your
sickness so common symptoms are like
fever or a runny nose or a sore throat
these are like the parts of an illness
what are your symptoms
what are your symptoms
what are your symptoms
stomachache
stomachache
sta mech ache
so a stomachache refers to again an
unpleasant feeling in the body maybe
because you ate something bad or maybe
because of an illness but a stomach ache
refers to the pain in your body the
earlier word that we talked about that
also refers to a pain or an unpleasant
feeling in the stomach refers to the
waste the body produces this one is very
very common especially among kids
stomachaches
yesterday i had a bad stomach ache
yesterday i had a bad stomachache
yesterday i had a bad stomachache
clean
clean
clean
so clean can be used as both an
adjective and as a verb when we use it
as a verb it means to make something
tidy or to organize something or to
sanitize something as in did you clean
your room did you clean your room
did you clean your room
dry
dry
dry
so dry can be used as a verb and as an
adjective when we use it as a verb it
can mean to remove the moisture from
something like when you dry your hair it
can also mean to leave something alone
and allow the moisture to leave that
thing for example i’m waiting for the
paint to dry
i’m waiting for the paint to dry
i’m waiting for the paint to dry
dust
dust
dust
dust can be used as both a noun and a
verb when we use dust as a noun it
refers to the very very small pieces of
dirt that we find usually in the corners
of our homes or maybe we find it on tops
of shelves and so on
i am allergic to dust
i am allergic to dust
i am allergic to dust
vacuum
vacuum
vacuum is both a noun and a verb when we
use vacuum as a verb it means to use
a vacuum cleaner so a machinery
specifically for picking up dust to
clean our house
i have to vacuum the hallway before the
guests come
i have to vacuum the hallway before the
guests come
i have to vacuum the hallway before the
guests come
intersection
intersection
intersection
so an intersection refers to a place
where two roads meet the two roads cross
we talk about the middle point of those
roads as the
intersection there is traffic in the
intersection
there is traffic in the intersection
there is traffic in the intersection
highway
highway
highway
a highway is a road that sometimes is
actually higher than other roads though
not always sometimes it’s at a regular
level but a highway is generally a place
where cars can travel very quickly
highways are generally outside of cities
or they’re above cities
traffic conditions on the highway are
normal this morning
traffic conditions on the highway are
normal this morning
traffic conditions on the highway are
normal this morning
road
road
road
so road is a very general word that we
can apply to many different situations a
highway is a type of road you can
imagine a path in the park is kind of
like a small road
your everyday city streets we can call
roads as well so basically anything that
you use to travel
usually with a car or maybe with a
bicycle is something we can call a road
there is ice on the road
there is ice on the road
there is ice on the road
street
street
street
so we use streets as a way to organize
our cities so we often use street and
road interchangeably so we tend to use
street when we’re talking maybe about
cities or in neighborhood situations
let’s cross the street
let’s cross the street
let’s cross the street
interesting
interesting
interesting
interesting is an adjective we use
interesting to describe something that
we find cool or something that sparks
our curiosity something that is exciting
to us
the title of the book seemed interesting
the title of the book seemed interesting
the title of the book seemed interesting
mean
mean
mean
we use the word mean to describe someone
who is unkind someone who is mean is not
nice to other people
some people are just mean and don’t want
others to be happy
some people are just mean and don’t want
others to be happy
some people are just
mean and don’t want others to be happy
bored
bored
bored
so bored is used to talk about your own
feelings when there’s nothing to do or
you don’t feel excited or you don’t feel
interested in something you can describe
that feeling with board remember when
you want to talk about something outside
you that doesn’t cause you to feel
interested you describe that thing as
boring your emotions bored
i’m bored
i’m bored
i’m
bored
seven hundred
seven hundred
se then hundred
when you’re counting numbers by hundreds
just put the base number before hundred
in this case seven plus hundred makes
seven hundred
this statue is seven hundred years old
this statue is seven hundred years old
this statue is seven hundred years old
800
800
800
so just like the last example 800 refers
to 8 hundredths of something
the field is 800 hectares
the field is 800 hectares
the field is 800 hectares
two hundred
two hundred
two hundred
so again when you’re counting by
hundreds simply put the number before
the word hundred so 200 refers to two
100s of something
we have over 200 books here
we have over 200 books here
we have over two hundred books here
three hundred
three hundred
three hundred
again the latest example three plus
hundred refers to three one hundredths
of something you can see that in english
we don’t make a change to the number
that comes before hundred in some
languages your number that you use to
count hundreds may change according to
the sound or according to the spelling
of the word in english we do not need to
change this base number
this school has 300 students
this school has 300 students
this school has 300 students
600
600
600
our final example of hundreds today is
six hundred so again six comes before
the word hundred to refer to six one
hundredths of something
six times one hundred equals six hundred
times one hundred equals six hundred
six times one hundred equals six hundred
take out
take out
take out so the verb take out means to
remove something from a location we
often use take out when we’re talking
about removing something from our house
or removing something from a closet we
can also use it to talk about removing
food from a restaurant when we take out
our order
can you take out the trash please
can you take out the trash please
can you take out the trash please
waiter
waiter
waiter
a waiter is a person at a restaurant or
perhaps a cafe that takes your order we
typically use the word waiter to talk
about staff who are male
i’ll call the waiter
i’ll call the waiter
i’ll call the waiter
weather report
weather report
where the report
a weather report is the part of the news
or maybe the part of the newspaper that
gives you information
about the weather it usually tells you
about a week in advance about what the
weather is going to be like
check the weather report before going
sailing
check the weather report before going
sailing
check the weather report before going
sailing
celsius
celsius
sell see
us celsius is the system that is used to
measure temperature typically in
countries that use the metric system you
might see it shortened as
c when you’re seeing measurements in
degrees
water freezes at 0 degrees celsius
water freezes at 0 degrees celsius
water freezes at 0 degrees celsius
tv show
tv show
tv show
a tv show is some kind of program on
your tv you can see on your tv or these
days we can watch on our computers as
well it’s usually a series there are
several episodes in a show so we don’t
use tv show to talk about movies we use
tv show to talk about things that have
episodes many different episodes
i always watch this tv show
i always watch this tv show
i always watch this tv show
jogging
jogging
ja gang
jogging is the name of a very popular
form of exercise as a verb it’s to jog
but jogging the noun form expresses the
name of the activity which is just light
running
jogging is fun
jogging is fun
jogging is fun
fast food
fast food
fast food
fast food is food that you can receive
quickly
generally we imagine very very big
companies like mcdonald’s or burger king
or maybe taco bell or whatever your
country has some kind of place where you
can go to get food very quickly
generally fast food is not so healthy
but there may be some healthy options
out there
i crave fast food every once in a while
i crave fast food every once in a while
i crave fast food every once in a while
park
park
park
a park is a place in your city or in
your community that’s usually big and
open and green there might be places to
sit or places for kids to play it’s a
public space that the community can use
to enjoy some fresh air and get some
exercise
let’s go to the park
let’s go to the park
let’s go to the park
traffic light
traffic light
traffic light
a traffic light is the light that you
see above a street when you’re using a
car or when you’re walking around your
city in many u.s cities and most u.s
cities the lights are green yellow and
red you may also hear these called
traffic signals
for your safety check the traffic lights
for your safety check the traffic lights
for your safety check the traffic lights
sign
sign
sign
a sign is something you see on the side
of the road or next to the road that
gives you some information about
something coming up or it gives you an
action to do a command for example stop
when you see the stop sign
stop when you see the stop sign
stop when you see the stop sign
subway
subway
sub way
a subway is an underground
transportation system so this is
different from a train a train is above
the ground a subway is usually below the
ground maybe in some cases the subway
comes up out of the ground or comes
outside for a short period of time but
usually subways are all underground
transportation systems
i take the subway to the office
i take the subway to the
office i take the subway to the office
train station
train station
train station
train station is a transportation hub
it’s a place where a train stops you can
get on and get off the train there
i can’t find the train station
i can’t find the train station
i can’t find the train station
500
500
- you count by hundreds use a base
number plus the word hundred this one
means five one hundreds of something
my house is 500 meters from here
my house is 500 meters from here
my house is
500 meters from here
999
999
900
so this number is special because it is
the last number that we use with the
hundred counting pattern after this
number we typically use the thousand
word to count numbers
we bought 999 chairs for the event
we bought 999 shares for the event
we bought 999
chairs for the event
101
101
101
when you’re counting three digit numbers
typically it will follow a pattern like
this number hundred and another number
it’s also extremely common to see one
hundred and one so an and before the
final number
my score was one hundred one
my score was one hundred
one my score was 101
400
400
400
so again when you’re using the hundred
counting pattern simply use the base
number plus the word hundred there is no
change to the base number when you’re
using it with hundred
one lap in the stadium is four hundred
meters long
one lap in the stadium is 400 meters
long
one lap in the stadium is 400 meters
long
900
900
nine hundred
so another example in the hundred
counting pattern we use nine plus
hundred to mean nine one hundreds of
something
the antique spoon was nine hundred years
old
the antique spoon was 900 years old
the antique spoon was 900 years old
inch
inch
inch
so an inch is a small unit of
measurement we use this in the usa it’s
not used so much in countries that use
the metric system we use it to measure
everyday objects the dimensions of
everyday objects and also on like
construction sites and in places where
we are building things
i just bought a 40 inch flat screen
television
i just bought a 40 inch flat screen
television
i just bought a 40 inch flat screen
television
kilogram
kilogram
kill the gram
a kilogram is a unit of measurement we
use kilograms to measure weight
you will typically see this used in
countries that use the metric system
kilogram is not so commonly used in the
u.s one kilogram is one thousand grams
one kilogram is one thousand grams
one kilogram is one thousand grams
centimeter
centimeter
sente meter
a centimeter is a small unit of
measurement that we use to measure the
dimensions of everyday objects and to
use when we’re planning construction
projects and so on
i need a 10 centimeter thick mattress
i need a 10 centimeter thick mattress
i need a 10 centimeter thick mattress
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in this episode you’ll discover one why
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how to get a return on your language
learning investment
part 1 one of the biggest reasons why
people fail
the first big reason people fail with
language learning is because they set
big vague goals like i want to be fluent
the problem with these goals is you
don’t know how you’ll ever go from where
you are now to achieving fluency it’s
too vague of a goal
but the second big reason is lack of
time people fail with language learning
because they don’t put in the time and
language learning is a function of time
the more you put in the better you get
you can also think of learning a
language like a gym you get out which
you put in if you buy a dumbbell and do
nothing nothing happens it can do great
things for you but it won’t work for you
until you pick it up and curl it a few
times if you put in one hour a day you
get results if you put in 10 minutes a
day you get results but if you put in
xero you get zero results and you can’t
learn a language that way
so here’s a question for you
how much time do you put into your
language learning on a daily basis leave
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if you start putting in consistent time
you can also start expecting a return on
your time and this brings us to the
second part
part two why you need to track your
language learning sessions
in the first part we talked about just
putting in enough time that’s the first
important step to take but where should
you put in your time for example you can
put in 10 minutes and use an app to do
translation exercises you can put in 10
minutes and read a textbook or review a
word list for 10 minutes
in all these examples you can put in an
equal amount of time but the results you
get will be different
and that’s because different methods
give you different results and benefits
using an app may help you remember a few
words reading a textbook can boost your
vocabulary grammar and reading skills
and reviewing a word list will just help
you with the words
so the second lesson is you need to know
what kind of results you get you need to
measure the return on your time so that
you can be confident that you’re making
progress
in the case of our audio and video
lessons three or four lessons will help
you understand and speak roughly one
minute of conversation as well as learn
all words and grammar rules inside this
is the return on our lessons how is this
possible the dialogue tracks are about
20 seconds and so three lessons that’s
three conversations at 20 seconds a
piece which is 60 seconds or one minute
of conversation so if you know the three
lessons get you to one minute of
conversation
you can know what results to expect if
you do 20 lessons you’re in about five
minutes of conversation 40 lessons
that’s around 10 minutes or so of
conversation that’s the power of
measuring the results if you track your
results you know what to expect in the
future and you can hit your language
learning goals
so how can you start measuring your
return let’s jump into the third part
part 3 how to track your results and hit
goals
if you’re able to consistently put in
time towards learning and maintaining
your routine then it’s time to start
tracking your time and effort
why at the basic level language learning
is simply putting in the time you don’t
need a high iq you don’t need to be
talented at languages you don’t need the
best possible app you just need time the
more time you put in the more results
you get out and aside from setting
unrealistic goals the other reason why
people fail at languages is they just
don’t put in the time so how can you
track your results
let’s look at two ways an easy way and
an advanced way of tracking your time
and results
let’s start with the easy way first
simply track the time you put in so if
you do a 10 minute audio lesson today
and then spend five minutes with flash
cards note this as 15 minutes for the
day and write down what you did then do
the same thing tomorrow that’s it the
goal here is to track the time and your
effort you’ll want to track it and
actually have measurable proof of your
work and also so you can review what
you’ve been doing and see your progress
so if one day you realize you don’t know
enough words or maybe you don’t speak as
much as you’d like you can look at your
notes and review your work if you see
that you’ve been just watching video
lessons you can spot the problem which
is you’ve done no actual vocab study or
speaking practice and now you can start
doing it problem solved you’re on your
way to fluency
another way you can track your time and
effort is with the dashboard on our site
so if you visit the dashboard you can
see the lessons you’ve completed the
number of flashcards reviewed and hours
studied this is the second tactic and
it’s an advanced one because not only do
you need to track your time you also
need to track your results which is a
bit trickier
so how can you do that with our
conversational audio lessons check the
length of the dialog track if the dialog
track is about 20 seconds then that’s
the amount of conversation you can
expect to master by the way these tracks
are anywhere from 10 to 40 seconds long
now if you’re studying words with
flashcards take note of how many words
you already know so if you studied for 5
minutes and can easily remember 7 out of
10 words then that’s your return if you
know this you know what to expect when
you learn new words you can expect to
remember about 7 out of 10 with a 5
minute drill
another thing you can do is boost that
number to 10 out of 10.
next if you’re practicing your listening
skills try to gauge how much you
understand if you understood about 20 of
a 3-minute conversational lesson then
that’s your return for now
again by knowing this you can now start
asking questions like what can i do to
understand 50 of this conversation will
doubling my time double my results as
well will i understand 40
will reviewing this lesson for a few
minutes a day every day work better than
trying to memorize it all now
so then you put these questions to the
test and try them out and because you
know your return you can see if it
really works
so thank you for watching this episode
of monthly review next time we’ll talk
about how to boost your motivation and
learn more by adding others to the mix
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want to perfect your pronunciation and
speak like a native
the best way to do this is one listen to
a native speaker
two repeat what they say and three the
most important part compare yourself
against their pronunciation in fact
mimicking a native speaker like this
which is called shadowing is a powerful
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and you can do this all with the voice
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first you can instantly spot the
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how
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just record and listen
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second you get to practice speaking the
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in other words you won’t be learning to
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our lessons teach you practical everyday
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so
how do you use the voice recorder
you’ll find the voice recorder in our
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just look for the microphone icon with
our lessons scroll down to the dialog
section the dialog section is a
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next to each line click on the
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first listen to the native speaker’s
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then click on the round record icon to
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successful learners practice one line
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pronunciation
now if you’re using our free vocabulary
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click on the icon to record and compare
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