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most people who learn a foreign language
learn it so that they can one day have
real-life conversations with native
speakers
when you start out learning and crack
open your first textbook or listen to
your first podcast
having a real conversation can feel like
a fantasy
when everything about a language feels
new it can be overwhelming
but this couldn’t be further from the
truth while it does take a significant
amount of time and effort to become
fluent
having a conversation might not be as
far off as you think
in this video we’ll look at three ways
you can boost your conversational skills
and start talking to native speakers
number one find native speakers and
practice with them
it’s unlikely you live near a big group
of native speakers to practice with
if you happen to be in a major or
international city your chances may be
better
check and see if your city has a general
language exchange chances are there
could be a native speaker there who is
also trying to learn another language
practicing in person with a native
speaker is probably the most interesting
option for honing your speaking skills
but if you can’t find anyone where you
live the next best option is to look
online
luckily for language learners the past
10 years or so have seen an explosion in
online language exchange sites
on these websites you can search for
someone who is a native speaker of your
target language and is also learning
your native language
the idea behind a language exchange is
that you communicate with them via video
or text chat
and half of the time they help you
practice your target language
and for the other half you help them
practice theirs
practicing via an online language
exchange is a highly effective way to
practice your conversational skills
number two work on pronunciation
pronunciation is often an overlooked
skill when it comes to learning a
foreign language
most people think of a good foreign
accent as a luxury rather than a
necessity
but what most people don’t talk about is
how having a good accent boosts your
listening
and comprehension skills if you can hear
a sound from a foreign language and know
how to make it yourself
then you’re more likely to understand
native speakers when they talk at normal
speed
and you’re also more likely to remember
any new words or phrases you come across
having a good accent means that the
language no longer sounds foreign
instead it sounds familiar maybe even
natural
so how do you go about perfecting your
accent
the best way is to break down the
language into its individual sounds
make note of any sounds that are the
same or similar to your native language
and of those that are different of the
sounds that are different
spend your time practicing the ones that
you find the hardest to say correctly
after you’re comfortable with the
individual sounds you can start linking
together words and phrases
this is where accent practice starts to
get really fun and interesting get your
hands on some native speaker audio from
a tv show
song or podcast play the audio back and
listen closely a few times
take note of how words blend together in
speech then
do your best to imitate what you hear
trying to match the speaker’s emphasis
and intonation
our language learning program’s playback
feature is perfect for this
record yourself and compare it to the
original recording
rinse and repeat until you’re
comfortable with the audio selection
and then move on to something more
difficult this is how you can break
through the accent barrier
and really start to make the language
your own number three
learn phrases not just individual words
learning grammar and individual words is
great but it’s not the only approach you
should take if you want to speak
fluently
in addition to your regular grammar and
vocabulary try learning whole phrases
even if you aren’t totally sure how they
work grammatically
learn phrases that are specific to your
needs it’s a good idea to learn phrases
that are grouped around a certain
setting or subject
such as simple greetings or
introductions questions for getting to
know someone or traveling comfortably
you can even learn filler phrases which
you can use so that you have something
to say when
well you don’t know what to say learning
phrases like this will help you become
conversational faster
you may not understand what you’re
saying literally but as long as you know
the general meaning behind the phrase
and know when to use it you’ll be able
to talk like a native
eventually your knowledge of grammar and
vocabulary should catch up with the
phrases you know
learning a new language should feel like
an adventure there will be plateaus and
periods in your learning where it feels
like you’re hitting a wall
but being able to speak with native
speakers and have real conversations
will help you combat language fatigue
after all talking to someone face to
face in a foreign language is one of the
main reasons we start learning in the
first place
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whenever i’m ready all right
hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is alicia and today we’re going
to be talking about
10 words for connecting thoughts these
are going to be 10 words that you can
use
to transition between ideas very useful
in both speech
and in writing let’s go
also also also is a word that you can
use to
add information i went to the store
this morning also i went and got
coffee that’s true however
however however is used to contrast or
to contrast depending on your
pronunciation
to differentiate to show a difference
between
two pieces of information a good pattern
would be
a however be so
for example i love tonkotsu ramen
however
it is very high in calories so i don’t
eat it often
also true on the other hand on the other
hand
on the other hand is i feel used more
commonly in
speech than it is in writing again it’s
used to present
like two sides to a story or two sides
to some information
so for example i’m thinking about
visiting taiwan
sometime this year but on the other hand
i’m also thinking about visiting
thailand still so
it might be common to use still with the
word like but or a word like even though
so you’re saying
even though there’s some other factor
like um like i’m really really
tired this week or even though i have a
lot of homework to do
i still want to go out with my friends
or i still want to
see a movie this weekend so there’s this
other there’s this thing that’s maybe
makes
this other action difficult to do or
tough to do or whatever
but even though there’s this you still
have this over here so maybe the two are
kind of used as a pair
i still want to go out later even though
i’m tired
then then yes a very useful word
we use then when telling stories a lot
um
so for example if i could tell a story
about my morning today
when i got up i brushed my teeth
and then i cooked breakfast
then i did a little bit of work then
i took a shower then i did some cooking
blah blah blah
you’ll often hear and then as well and
then i
and then we and then you and so on so
then is
is really really useful for sequencing
so a useful word i think
besides besides so it’s commonly used in
a pattern like
besides that meaning other than
something else i went out with my
friends this weekend but besides that
i didn’t really do much so another way
to say that sentence is
i went out with my friends this weekend
but other than that
other than that activity i didn’t do
very much
okay meanwhile meanwhile or you might
hear
the similar expression in the mean time
it means
while you’re doing action a at the same
times maybe somewhere else
action b is happening this is used while
telling stories a lot so for example
i was working at my office all week last
week meanwhile
my co-workers across town were having a
party without me
so these two things are happening at the
same time
but maybe separate from one another
meanwhile
likewise okay likewise
i don’t really use this word personally
myself at all
it’s often used after an introduction um
similar to the pleasure is all mine in a
formal situation
so maybe somebody says you know hey
it was really great to see you last
weekend thanks very much for coming to
my barbecue
you can say yeah likewise it was really
good to see you in your family
so likewise means i have the same
feeling or i have the same
idea it’s kind of a friendly phrase but
personally i don’t really use that to
transition between
thoughts um i would just use and i
suppose but
no that’s how i would use it instead
instead so so instead it’s used like
instead of i want to
a instead of be can be used to express
your plans or what you want to do
i want to have chinese food instead of
italian food tonight so
you’re presenting two alternatives
essentially
so instead of means in place of or as a
substitute for
so i should have drank a lot of water
this morning but instead i drank a lot
of coffee
that’s true uh i wanted to
have dinner with my friends this weekend
instead
i had dinner at home
in addition in addition this is a really
good word
for more formal situations i like to use
in addition
in writing i don’t really use in
addition in speaking
unless i’m trying to be very formal for
some reason
similar to additionally as well so you
make point a
and point b and then when you want to
make one more point that’s related to
point a and point b
you can say in addition point c so
you’re like
building an argument and in addition can
be used to kind of finish that argument
off a little bit
our new marketing plan worked really
well last month
we noticed increased sales in product a
in addition we’ve gained a lot of new
customers
something like that so just you’re
you’re quickly presenting a series of
ideas that are related to one another
you can use in addition to finish it off
all right
so that’s the end of 10 words for
connecting thoughts i hope you
get to use a lot of these try to mix it
up it’s good to use a variety of
different words
thanks very much for watching this
episode and we will see you again next
time for more fun stuff
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whenever i’m ready all right welcome
back to weekly words
i’m alicia and this week
we’re going to talk about commonly
mispronounced mispronounced wow
this week we’re going to talk about
commonly mispronounced words words that
are often
pronounced incorrectly this is funny
i enjoy mispronouncing this first word
the first word is
hyperbole hyperbole um it’s not
hyperbole
though it does sound very funny to say
that hyperbole just means to exaggerate
something
or to make to blow something up make it
really extreme
my friend uses a lot of hyperbole when
she talks about her life stories i
really don’t think some of those things
happen to her
hyperbole not hyperbole next
antarctic not ah
oh i see antarctic is the correct
pronunciation of this word
some people say and and tar antarctic
really oh i guess when you’re saying
this word quickly you might leave
out that first c in the antarctic
so don’t say that don’t do that say
antarctic
the the very very cold region the arctic
is the north cold region on the planet
earth the south is the antarctic
they’re sort of like almost a hiccup in
the word they’re antarctic
oh uh in a sentence i’m thinking about
taking a cruise to the antarctic
what do you think i need a penguin suit
etc not etc oh yeah okay i’ve heard i
hear this
ek x thing a lot etc is just used at the
end of a list
to imply that you mean other things
so the list is not exclusive to the
things that you’ve listed
other things can also be included in it
so in a sample sentence
types of fruits are apples oranges
peaches etc
there are others as well so don’t say
etc that’s not correct etc
it’s good the next word is jewelry
what not mones the next word is
jewelry jewelry i think i’m probably
guilty of this mispronunciation
i can’t say that word mispronunciation
where the word kind of gets a little bit
smushed together
and we say jewelry instead we miss that
that
second e sound in there it should be jew
ellery
uh in a sample sentence maybe you would
say i’m shopping for some jewelry for my
mother for her birthday
jewelry we’re too lazy prescription
not prescription okay a prescription is
something that
a doctor gives you when you’re sick and
you require medicine the doctor will
write you a prescription
some people might say prescription
wow okay i didn’t even notice and i was
doing it while i was telling you guys
not to do it
that’s embarrassing prescription a
doctor writes you a prescription not a
prescription
uh when you go to the doctor’s office
the doctor might say here is your
prescription
end all right well we’ve learned that i
apparently can’t pronounce some words
the way that they’re meant to be
pronounced
so please work on your pronunciation i
will work on my pronunciation too
thank you for joining us on weekly words
this week i will see you next
time bye bye welcome back to weekly
words my name is alicia and this week
we’re going to talk about
commonly quoted movie lines ooh
i hope i know these i’ll be back a lot
of people like to try and do an arnold
schwarzenegger impression this comes
from the movie terminator
where arnold schwarzenegger plays a
robot from the future and it’s really
awesome
you can use this with your friends you
can use this in in common
everyday situations where you have to
leave some place but you want to tell
people in a kind of a funny way that you
plan on coming back
you can say i’ll be back inconceivable
say this with a lisp
inconceivable if you have seen the movie
the princess bride
inconceivable so to conceive of
something something you can think
about putting that in at the beginning
of the word
means can’t con or not able to conceive
of something you can’t even think about
it you can’t believe it in other words
this is one word that means i can’t
believe it or
this is just ridiculous so you can use
this anytime you’re just shocked by
something you just can’t believe that
something is happening you can say
inconceivable this is a very good one a
recent one from the movie anchorman will
ferrell
says this uh he says i immediately
regret this decision
i immediately regret this decision it’s
a very long phrase
but it means you’ve just made a choice
and you
very quickly immediately realized this
was a bad decision
i should not have done this you can say
i immediately regret this decision
but with kind of like a flat tone to it
it’s a little bit funny
okay next is a very famous quote from
the movie forest gump tom hanks was in
this movie
his character famously says mama always
said life was like a box of chocolates
the next line is you never know what
you’re gonna get
so this refers to picking a piece of
chocolate out of a box of chocolates
maybe you’ve seen kind of the fancy ones
that have a number of different styles
of chocolate in them when you bite into
it oftentimes you don’t know what’s on
the inside
so the character is saying that life is
like that too you might try to do a few
different things
but you never know what’s going to
happen until you actually try to do it
so this is an interesting phrase to use
maybe if your friend is having trouble
in their life in some way
you can maybe try to console them or
cheer them up by saying mama always said
life was like a box of chocolates
the next quote comes from the movie
apollo 13 a very famous space movie
the quote is houston we have a problem
houston refers to the control center
nasa’s control center
and the astronaut is famously quoted as
saying we have a problem
anytime you run across a problem at work
or with your friends
with your family whatever you can say
houston we have a problem meaning you’re
just trying to alert
the other people around you that
something is wrong you need help with
something perhaps
so it’s usually not a very serious
problem though i should say that so
don’t use it for like a medical
emergency use it for something you know
like oh i’m out of eggs houston we have
a problem you know if you’re cooking
something
very very light-hearted is good and
that’s the end of some famous
movie quotes so try to use a few of
these if you like
they’re kind of fun and if you use them
with the right timing they can be very
very funny
and people will generally appreciate
that you use such
interesting references in your
conversation uh thanks very much for
joining us this week and we’ll see you
again next time bye
here’s looking at you kid what does that
even mean though
a classic goodbye line kind of
welcome back to weekly words i’m alicia
and this week we are going to
do words with strange plural forms this
is good practice i bet let’s start
yeah antenna the plural form of antenna
is antennae
i think i would say antennae antennae
i think i probably actually just say
antennas an
antenna on an old tv set for example
would be
it would kind of look like this we’d
call it bunny ears where you had to
adjust the bunny ears you had to
just adjust the antennae to make the
signal on your tv come in more clearly
bugs they have antennae from their heads
the next word is millennium the plural
is millennia
a millennium is a period of a thousand
years a thousand years is a millennium
a series of thousands of years would be
called millennia
you might say many millennia have passed
since the earth was formed
cactus is the next word a cactus is a
plant
these are the arms of the cactus i
couldn’t make the trunk of the cactus
wow you can put a picture on the screen
instead of my amazing
cactus the plural of cactus is cacti or
cactuses i think i’m more inclined to
say cacti so when you go to the desert
you might say keep an eye out for cacti
if you step on one it could really hurt
you
the next one is an interesting one i
don’t think i’ve ever used this word in
the singular
like if you have a swimming pool or if
you’ve seen a pond or whatever it’s that
green sort of scummy stuff that
accumulates on top of it or on the sides
of your pool if you haven’t cleaned it
in a while algae
bacterias and things that like to live
in the water there’s a singular form
and i’m just i’m looking at it for the
first time i don’t know how
alga to use the plural then you would
say i need to clean my pool there’s a
lot of algae in it
yeah next is ox ox
uh the plural of ox is oxen these
animals
used to be used for farming i don’t know
that they are very much anymore i don’t
have much personal experience with
farming
um but they’re they look like really
really big cows with huge horns
huge horns yeah okay next is
the end uh plural
words that have weird plural forms so
please keep them in mind when you are
trying to use them in conversation and
use the correct form of the plural
thank you for joining us again this week
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oh no all right welcome back to weekly
words my name is alicia and this week we
are going to talk about
commonly used onomatopoeia this is going
to be a fun one we talked
briefly about an onomatopoeia zoom in a
previous episode of weekly words we’re
going to talk some more about some more
talk some more about some more we’re
going to talk about more today the first
word is
beep oh beep beep is any kind of
electronic sound or a car
sound and was also in a popular american
cartoon
wiley coyote and the roadrunner the
roadrunner would commonly say meat meat
car sound will usually make a beep or a
honk sound for electronics however the
beep becomes a little bit more robotic
we’ll often see like beep
beep beep beep so in a sentence let’s
say you have a computer problem
you tell your friend the computer won’t
stop beeping at me what do i do
next is the sound jingle jingle is
any kind of light ringing sound this
word gets used a lot
uh in holiday seasons particularly
christmas thanksgiving
new year’s any jingling sound is very
commonly assigned to
bells like the song jingle bells for
example is a perfect example of this
jingle is just the sound that a bell
makes in a sentence
let’s see you might say she has a
small bell attached to her phone so she
jingles everywhere
she walks it’s really irritating okay
the next word is thump a thump is for
something to hit heavily
to give an example the people who live
in the apartment above me
often thump on the floor it sounds like
maybe they’re dropping something heavy
or they’re stepping very heavily all
right
next is splash anything that falls into
liquid
lands in liquid makes a splash it’s that
sort of sound that comes from water or
any other liquid really we refer to that
as a splash
sound there is also a popular tom hanks
mermaid movie called splash
this has nothing to do with that about
him falling in love with a mermaid
i made a big splash when i jumped into
the swimming pool this summer
that has kind of a double meaning oh
mysterious
next is blurt it means to say something
quickly
i blurted out the news as soon as i
heard it like i blurted out the secret i
couldn’t hold it any longer
it means you just say something without
thinking to blurt the first part of the
word what
that blur sound it sounds like something
it just kind of
sort of slips out on accident and then
the harsh
blurt the t at the end is like a
kind of a final like oh my gosh i’ve
just said something
i’ve slipped and then i’ve said
something oh no i didn’t think about
that
all right that’s the end of that one so
i hope you learned a few new onomatopias
that you can try out
next time thanks for joining us for
weekly words and i will see you again
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hi
hey and welcome back to weekly words my
name is alicia and this week we’re going
to talk about
interjections this is going to be fun
let’s start the first word is
ba b-a-h maybe you’re upset about
something or you’re tired of dealing
with something
people will often throw up their hands
like this when they say they’ll go back
and walk away
bo humbug is a very very well-known uh
use of this interjection this from the
story a christmas carol one of the
characters says ba
humbug at all these things that upset
him
all right the next interjection is aha
is used whenever you feel surprised
about something or when you have a good
idea about something
for example sitting at work actually
maybe you shouldn’t do this at work
because your co-workers will think
you’re crazy
if you’re feeling really excited about
your idea you can go like this with your
finger and go aha
i have an idea for my presentation next
week okay
the next one is meh this one i think is
only become popular in the last
i don’t know it started being used i
think it started more on the internet
and now it has come to be used in
everyday life
men is just when you’re you’re not very
excited about something
um maybe you went to a party your friend
asks you how it was
and you’re like yeah i went it was
pretty meh we use it like an adjective
actually
or you can just use it as a one word
interjection meh
meh meh okay the next word is o
o is a very very useful one you can use
oh
in a number of situations when you’re
surprised when you’re thinking of
something when you want to have kind of
a soft introduction to whatever you’re
saying
i think i tend to use it as a question
or when i’m feeling surprised
so when my friend tells me something
like oh hey i have this great news i’ll
say
oh just by itself as a question to get
somebody’s attention
i might say oh did you see that new
movie last week a sentence starter for
me anyway okay the next word is hmm
we use when we’re thinking about
something when we need a minute to
consider our thoughts
it can be used at the beginning of a
sentence or just while you’re thinking
on its own
hmm what might be a good example
sentence for
hmm and end
those are all interjections those are
all interjections try to use them if you
use these correctly in your speech
throughout your speech
it’ll help you to sound a lot more
natural and a lot more smooth
uh in your speaking ability so give them
a try thanks again for joining us this
week and i will see you next time for
more weekly words bye
begin hi everybody welcome back to
weekly words my name is alicia and this
week we’re going to look at some common
english idioms let’s begin
the first word or phrase rather is about
to about to means
you’re going to start something you’re
going to begin doing something for
example i’m about to start
explaining this idiom to you hey okay
the next word or phrase idiom the next
idiom is
by the way the word here they’ve used is
incidentally it’s a way to transition to
another topic
that’s related to what you’re talking
about for example
this week i’m going to a party by the
way did you hear about the party
happening
next week so they’re somewhat related
okay
the next idiom is in a way in a way
this is kind of in a way it was a good
thing that the burrito shop was closed
because otherwise i would have eaten way
too much
you can use this to show that there are
maybe two sides to a situation
maybe some things are negative maybe
some things are positive next is on the
other hand i hear this a lot on the
other hand is a way of
just saying however or to share two
different sides to a story
for example i think my co-worker is
really irritating
on the other hand at parties he’s really
funny so you can show
two maybe different sides to a point
with this phrase
next is a matter of fact as a matter of
fact as an idiom
this is a long way to just say actually
or really
it’s a little bit more formal sounding
so you might use it in a business
meeting for example
everybody at the business meeting might
feel a little bit unsure about the
previous month sales
and you can begin your presentation by
saying something like i know everybody
was a little bit
unsure about last week’s or last month’s
sales performance but as a matter of
fact
things improved and that’s the end those
are some common idioms
that you might hear in english give them
a try they’re pretty useful and you
might hear a lot of them
in conversation thanks very much for
joining us this week and we’ll see you
again next time for more information
bye hi welcome back to weekly words my
name is alicia and this week we’re going
to talk about ways to say hi
this should be fun let’s get started
first is yo
this one is a little bit casual in case
you couldn’t tell
used for close friends maybe family
members if you have kind of a silly
relationship with them
just quick short easy to do in a
sentence
yo how’s it going howdy howdy uh
traditionally associated with cowboy
culture i suppose you should play a
banjo maybe or you’ve just gotten off a
horse i don’t know i use howdy from time
to time
howdy howdy howdy howdy
that’s my banjo yeah in a sentence you
might say
howdy folks welcome to the
barbecue place
next is hey hey is good friendly phrase
you can usually use hay with a wave and
smile look happy
if you don’t people might think that
you’re down in the dumps people might
think you’re not in a very good mood
in a sentence hey uh i heard you got
engaged last week congratulations
something like that it’s usually kind of
a cheery
happy expression all right next is
what’s up
uh what’s up is the long form of sup
this does not literally mean what is
above you right now
if you want to be funny you can say the
ceiling or the sky but that joke gets
old really fast and chances are the
person you’re talking to has already
heard it before
it just means what are you up to what is
going on with you in a sentence what’s
up
did you have a good weekend typical
response to what’s up is not much
find out some more responses in english
in three minutes we did an episode on
this
nothing much how about you that’s pretty
good pretty good
pretty good pretty good
i don’t know what i’m doing the next one
is long time no see you can use this
when you haven’t seen the other person
for a long time you’re at a party or an
event or whatever any
time it’s been a long break you can
decide how long
long is not the day before or the week
before maybe a few weeks or a month
whatever is unusual for you and this
other person
when you see them you can say hey long
time no see how have you been uh that’s
the end so those are a few
different ways to say hi in a few
different situations i hope that you
have a chance to try them out
the next time you meet someone or you
greet someone thanks very much for
joining us this week and we’ll see you
again soon
bye instead of saying stop i like to say
soup
soup hi everybody welcome back to top
words my name is alicia and today we’re
going to be talking about
10 different phrases that you can use to
respond to the question
how are you so let’s go i’m great
the first phrase is i’m great if someone
says how are you
you can say i’m great try to say i’m
great with a kind of an
upbeat voice um so something like how
are you
i’m great i’m feeling bad i’m
feeling bad if you say i’m feeling bad
the other person is probably
if they’re a friend of yours or a
co-worker going to ask you why
what happened so if you want to use i’m
feeling bad
make sure you have an explanation ready
anyway somebody says how are you and you
go i’m feeling bad
maybe i went out for drinks last night
with my co-workers oops
i’m okay i’m okay i feel like this is
one of those
intonation practice ones i’m okay with
that
ah i’m okay it’s like sort of upward
intonation you’re like
cool but if if someone says how are you
and you’re like i’m okay
they’re like oh no what happened
so you can use your intonation with i’m
okay to make it
a good thing or not it’s a good thing
but either way it’s not like a very
super serious response
thank you for asking yeah i imagine this
would be in a more
formal situation like if my friend said
to me
how are you and i was like thank you for
asking they’d be like
what i would say i’m fine or i’m doing
well
i’m doing great plus thank you for
asking so
how are you i’m doing very well thank
you
oh that’s how i would use it and you the
next one is
and you like the least natural response
to how are you
is i’m fine thank you and you like just
get
out of put it just take it out of your
head nobody says that i always say how
about you that’s a much more natural
thing
how are you how are you how are you can
be a response
again after you have given your answer
to the question
how are you i’m great how are you how
are you i’m good how are you
i’m great how are you i’m okay how are
you how have you been recently
how have you been recently this is only
useful if you haven’t seen the other
person for a while i’m not bad
i’m not bad i’m not bad how are you i’m
not bad i’m not bad
things could be worse i would probably
do this
i’m sleepy the next expression is i’m
sleepy
it’s like so specific if someone said
how are you i would probably say
i’m okay but i’m a little sleepy
i don’t know that i would just say i’m
sleepy unless it’s a really good friend
of mine
it’s a person close to you you can say
i’m so tired i’m i would say i’m super
tired or i’m really tired
and i feel like that’s a little bit more
natural than just i’m sleepy
i’m good one that i use a lot if someone
says how are you i say i’m
good uh that’s just probably my go-to
response yeah i’m good i’m good
maybe i’ll repeat it while smiling i’m
good i’m good yeah thanks for asking
great
how are you that is the end those are 10
phrases that you can use to respond to
the question
how are you if there’s one takeaway from
this and from other things that we’ve
done
over the last few years on this channel
just get rid of that i’m fine thank you
and you
and pick one of these that we’ve talked
about today
of course if there’s another expression
that you use for
a response to how are you
i’d be very interested to learn about
that but
uh in general you’re pretty safe if you
stick with these i think so
thanks very much for watching this
episode of top words and we will see you
again soon bye
that means we’re going to the
movie theater right all right uh hi
everybody my name is alicia welcome back
to top words today we’re going to be
talking about
must-know expressions for agreeing and
disagreeing very useful so let’s
go exactly exactly when you agree
100 with something someone else has said
you can say
exactly for example ramen is one of the
best foods in the world
exactly i don’t agree i don’t agree
you have a different opinion from the
other person they tell you
i think that soccer is the best sport
you can say i don’t agree
but be prepared to provide your own
opinion after this
i think soccer’s the best sport i don’t
agree i think that football is
oh that could cause some problems soccer
football americans say football
when we mean american football but the
rest of the world says football when
they mean soccer
maybe maybe is when you don’t know when
you can’t make a decision or when you’re
not sure about something
okay so someone tosses you an opinion
someone says their their idea to you i
think it’s gonna rain tomorrow you can
say yeah maybe
you don’t know for sure yes or no but
it’s possible
it’s a good sort of in-between
expression but if you use
maybe all the time it’s gonna sound
really strange and it’s going to sound
like you can’t make a decision
so use maybe very sparingly don’t use it
so often
maybe is very commonly used as a soft
nose it’s up to you to figure that out
among the people that you’re talking to
though
do you want to stay over at my house
this weekend and maybe
i couldn’t agree with you more you
are in complete agreement with the other
person and really want to communicate
that to them
you think that what they have just said
is really really correct super correct
yes you are completely on board with
that idea
you can say i couldn’t agree with you
more i couldn’t the negative form
i could not agree with you more meaning
it’s not
possible that i could agree more with
what you’re saying next week it’s really
important that we have a barbecue
because summer is ending and then your
friend can say i couldn’t agree more
that’s a fantastic idea
i’ll buy stake
i think we’re going to have to agree to
disagree
agree to disagree this is a kind of it
seems like a simple phrase agree to
disagree
so you’re agreeing with the other person
you agree
that we have a different opinion agree
to
disagree i would use this expression at
the end of a discussion
so person a and person b have different
opinions
and they’ve been discussing those
opinions for a long time
and person a is not changing his or her
opinion person b is not changing his or
her opinion
so you can say at the end of the
conversation okay we have to agree to
disagree
let’s just accept our different opinions
and move on in the conversation
you have a point there this is not
necessarily an
agreement or disagreement phrase it’s a
small agreement
within a larger discussion so maybe
you’ve been discussing a topic for
a long time and you’ve disagreed with
the other person
until this this time this person says
something
and you agree with that ah you have a
point there so there’s one thing
that this person has said that you can
agree with you can say
you have a point there i think that’s
correct or i agree with that point
that’s exactly how i feel that’s exactly
how i feel
meaning my feeling is the same as your
feeling
or my opinion is the same as your
opinion that’s exactly how i feel
maybe you can use this if someone
describes your feeling very accurately
for example you can say i feel like the
company is really heading in a nice new
direction
you can say yeah that’s exactly how i
feel i really like the new boss
i don’t think so i don’t think so it’s
soft it’s not so direct it’s not a hard
i disagree but just i don’t think so of
course you can use it to discuss
opinions but you can also use it when
you’re making plans
are you going to that party this weekend
uh i don’t think so
it’s not a disagreement but it can be
used as a negation phrase and a negative
response to something when used as an
opinion i think chinese is the hardest
language to learn you can say i don’t
think so i think that
arabic is the hardest language to learn
yes you’re right
yes you’re right means you’re correct
yes i agree with you
i think that’s the right information i
think that’s the correct opinion just a
very clear
agreement phrase you’re right it also
has the nuance of being correct
so maybe there was there was a
possibility the other person
could be incorrect did you know that
pepperoni pizza
is the most delicious pizza in the world
yes you’re right you could change it too
that’s right for that opinion you can
use your
to talk specifically about the person
itself but that’s right yes that’s right
that information is correct i guess so i
guess so
it’s so it’s an agreement but it’s sort
of a flaky agreement
i guess so it’s like you don’t really
want to make a decision
uh but you don’t feel strongly in one
like
in agreement or disagreement you can say
i guess so
it’s usually said with this tone of
voice i guess so
you know we don’t really say i guess so
generally it’s like you can’t quite make
a decision or you don’t want to make a
decision
you can say i guess so hey we’re going
to go for chinese food for dinner
tonight do you want to come
yeah i guess so you don’t feel strongly
either way
i guess so i’m afraid i disagree it’s a
rather polite expression that you can
use in a business situation for example
i’m afraid here doesn’t mean i’m
actually scared
or i’m really frightened but just it’s a
softener that’s used at the beginning of
sentences to introduce a negative
opinion so i’m afraid i disagree or i’m
afraid i can’t agree with you for
example
i think that you need to adopt a new
policy for your company i’m afraid i
disagree
it’s a soft disagreement that sounds a
bit more formal
than some of the other phrases we’ve
talked about so far absolutely
absolutely means 100 percent
yes exactly precisely definitely it’s a
quick
and clear and can be polite as well as
casual
um word that means you agree with the
other person hey do you want to go to
the beach this weekend yeah absolutely
absolutely oh that’s the end uh so
those are some phrases that you can use
to agree and disagree with other people
there are a lot of them so and you can
kind of mix and match them
as you see fit so give them a try thanks
very much for watching this episode of
top words and we’ll see you again
soon bye flyers beach okay
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