10 REAL ENGLISH EXPRESSIONS YOU SHOULD USE EVERY DAY

hey you want to sound like a native english speaker right you want to speak english fluently well i want to help you so today i'm going to teach you 10 english expressions that will help you and you can use them every single day are you ready all right now before i teach you these expressions i want to remind you to download my app english with tiffany and start improving your english i'll tell you more about it later alright well i'm teacher tiffany let's jump right in all right so let's get into the very first english expression the first expression is bend the rules and it means to not be strict or exact about following a rule now this expression bend the rules is very common and when you use it you will sound like a native english speaker let me tell you about one of my friends who likes to bend the rules i won't say her name now this friend is great everyone loves her but she always likes to have her way so one time we went to another friend's house and he had a pool he had an apartment actually but there was a pool connected to his apartment now the pool closed at a certain hour but my friend decided she still wanted to go swimming she said i know the rule says that we can't go swimming at this time but if somebody opens the pool or we happen to get in the pool area i mean is it really that bad it was at that moment i realized ah she really loves to bend the rules makes sense right maybe you have a friend just like that alright so let's move on to number two the second english expression you can use today is word of mouth now this means given or done by people talking about something or telling people about something in english we say word of mouth now this is again an expression you can use every day i'll tell you something yesterday july 10th was my birthday and my favorite food is indian food i really love it so i wanted to figure out what the best indian restaurant was restaurant was in maryland where i live so i posted something on facebook i said hey fam hey friends can you tell me what's the best indian restaurant in the maryland area and so many comments came under that post and people said many different locations but one location amber spice if you're ever in maryland came up multiple times so i said hmm amber spice the indian restaurant must be good so i tried it and he was the food good so because of word of mouth i decided to try the indian food so word of mouth is very powerful again word of mouth being other people saying hey hey hey and you hear it and it influences you we say oh word of mouth like word of mouth marketing makes sense all right let's move on to number three here we go so number three expression number three is to doze off now this means to fall asleep especially for a short period of time so let's say you're in class and you're learning something and all of a sudden you doze off like honestly many times you don't even realize that you fell asleep this used to happen to me when i was in college you see i am a very um hard-working individual uh and when i was in school i studied very hard and i loved learning however the classes that i had after lunch they were pretty difficult for me to focus in because i would eat and have a really good lunch and then i'd get drowsy after lunch so i'd go to class sit up front be be ready i was ready to listen to the teacher and then before i knew it i had dozed off makes sense right maybe you've dozed off before too all right so number three is doze off here we go number four number four is make a first impression now this means to have or create a strong impact on someone whether good or bad so in english we say first impression how does someone make you feel when you first meet them or what is your opinion of someone after meeting them for the first time we naturally as human beings look at people okay what is he doing what is she doing okay i like the outfit we assess a person their first impression how they look or how they speak the first time we meet them so i remember when i was i was in college there was this guy and i think i told you all this story before he was pretty handsome but i didn't know him well he had come to my church one sabbath and i still remember him to this day because he had such or made such a great impression he spoke very well he was really well dressed and he really was attractive he made a good first impression on all the ladies makes sense alright so number four is make a first impression here we go number five number five is get a feel for something it means to develop a good knowledge or understanding of something you know when you first start something you're a little bit uncomfortable you're not really used to it it's not really easy but over time it gets easier we say ah get a feel for something so for example when i went to south korea i had to learn the curriculum that i was going to teach in class prior to going to korea i had never taught english before so when i arrived at the institute they gave us training and they gave us books to study so in the beginning it was a little bit difficult even though i enjoyed teaching i had to learn the curriculum and follow their system but after about two or three weeks i started to get a feel for the curriculum makes sense right i started to develop a good knowledge of the curriculum i got more comfortable in class and it was more enjoyable so in english we say to get a feel for something all right here we go number six we have something speaks for itself now this means something is clearly so good or effective that no additional argument about it is necessary again you don't need to prove anything it is evidence enough so for example i said yesterday was my birthday and one of our close family friends she likes to make desserts and there's this 7-up pound cake that she said she makes and we had never tried it before she said no it's really delicious people always tell me how much they like it so we said hey you should make it for tiff's birthday and she said okay so yesterday she came over to our house and she brought the cake now remember she had told us it was amazing but we had never tried it so she sliced the cake and she gave us a piece and i tasted it the cake speaks for itself oh that cake is good so after i tried it my dad tried it and then we went out on the deck area and people were out there and they were like what's going on we were like you have to try the cake it speaks for itself and everyone realized oh that cake is good so they went inside to get a piece makes sense right so when something speaks for itself you don't have to say anything else it's clear how effective or how good something is you got it all right here we go let's move on to number seven expression number seven is wing it and this means to do or try to do something without much practice or preparation no preparation just start no practice so think about it like this so i teach you english and i love it normally i have to prepare a lot before i teach you something i have to prepare the slides the designs make sure the colors match there's a lot of preparation before i come on camera to teach you something but let's say one week i didn't have any time to prepare a powerpoint or a keynote presentation and i said it doesn't matter i'm just gonna turn the camera on turn the mic on i'm just gonna wing it you got it right again no preparation don't worry i always prepare because i want to make sure you understand i don't wing it when i teach you something all right makes sense so wing it just means you're doing something without preparation and just i'm just gonna do it i didn't need to prepare all right all right here we go number eight expression number eight is moral of the story moral of the story and this just means the main message of the story or what the story is really about so whenever i tell you a story you know during story time hey i said it's story time writing that song you know what's gonna happen so i tell you lots of stories about my life and different things that have happened right well at the end i normally wrap up the story by telling you something i learned or telling you something that i hope you will learn i can say hey the moral of the story is you must treat people well or the moral of the story is always do things and give 110 so again moral of the story just means the main message the main idea and what the story is really about makes sense right okay good now we have number nine and number 10 coming up but i did want to tell you once again about the app english with tiffany i have spent so much time with the team building this app and i'm so excited so many of you have already downloaded the app so i want to encourage you download the app right now now the free version has a lot of lessons in it but we're having a special promotion right now half off of the premium membership that's right now as a premium member you will get more than double more than triple the lessons that you see in the free version that's right and every other course that i add as a premium member you're automatically have access and when i say i have some plans in store for this app you don't want to miss out just recently my team and i added a conversation course that's right last week when this app launched there was only the pronunciation course now this week we've added the conversation course with this course you will be able to practice that's right you'll have a conversation the app will tell you what to say you can record your voice and go back and forth with the app great practice so that when you get in a real conversation you can speak with confidence so again check out the app i don't want you to miss out on your opportunity to get the premium membership for half off don't miss out click the link in the description i know you will love it alright so now let's jump into number nine here we go number nine is right here rubbing off on someone now this means to have one's characteristics mannerisms or behavior be adopted by someone with whom one has spent a lot of time we say rubbing off on someone now i have some good friends one of my friends we rub off on each other a lot meaning we influence each other our characteristics and mannerisms mimic each other so for example i can get on the phone with this friend and we can laugh we can talk about everything and normally we bounce off of each other meaning that i'll do something and then she'll do the same thing back and we'll start laughing so we are rubbing off on each other think about this when you go somewhere and something gets on your hand and you're like oh man what is that when you rub it it gets on your arm so when someone that you're around a lot someone you enjoy spending time with after a while you start to act like that person and they start to act like you rubbing off on each other it happens a lot too between close friends couples and family members all right all right let's keep going we got number 10. here we go number 10 is right here number 10 is drop everything for someone or for something now this means to stop one's current activity to tend to someone or something else again in english we say drop everything for someone or something now i'll tell you this quick story um one of my friends unfortunately she lost her child now i was overseas in south korea i was an english missionary i had a really busy schedule but when my family called me and said tiff the person's name her son passed away i dropped everything i stopped all of my classes i got on the plane i think in two days i was able to find an airline ticket and i flew to america here in order to be there for my friend for the funeral i dropped everything because i cared about my friend her husband her other children and i wanted to be there for them so again dropping everything is stopping your activity in order to help someone with something or to do something else makes sense right all right now i hope you enjoyed today's lesson i hope you start using these 10 english expressions starting today because you will start sounding more like a native english speaker all right i will see you next week as always remember to speak english and don't you forget to get the app right now and get 50 off the premium membership before that deal goes away all right i'll see you next week you still there ha you know what time it is it's come on and join me story time hey i said a story time [Laughter] all right guys so today's story is actually about how i became your english teacher now this happened toward the end of my time in south korea so let me tell you what happened this story really touches my heart because i realized what my purpose in life was so i had been in korea for almost 10 years i had taught english i had taught the bible for a long time and i even had finished my grad program i had a master's degree in oriental painting god had blessed me and i had done a lot but i was about to come back to america and i said i have two choices either i can become an art professor because i have learned so much about oriental art and i wanted to teach other individuals in america the beauty of asian art or i could continue teaching english online i had started my youtube channel it wasn't really a business at the time it was just more of me helping students like you and i enjoyed it i had two choices but i knew that whichever one i chose i was going to give 110 i couldn't do both at that time because i wanted to make sure i was focused on one thing so i called my uncle um he used to be a provost basically kind of like a president of a college in this area and i was asking for you know some advice and you know recommendation i was going to apply to different schools to see if i could become an art professor in the maryland area so i was going through that process and i decided you know what for one week i am going to pray and ask god to show me what he wants me to do i wanted to know how i could best help people around the world again because even if i was going to become an art professor i was going to be affecting young people lives were going to be changed because they were going to be exposed to asian culture and learning about other people and i was excited about that too so for a full week excuse me for a full week i got up early in the morning and i would have worship and i would pray and search the bible looking for some signs that would help me know what to do excuse me guys so throughout the week you know i said okay god you know how can my life help more people how can me working affect other people tell me what's the best thing to do so i went sunday monday tuesday wednesday still had no clarity no answer from god on thursday had worship studied and i prayed god do you want me to be an art professor or do you want me to go head forward like move forward head on with the youtube english business on that thursday i received an email and the email was from a korean television station now i had been receiving lots of emails and some of them were spam so i honestly thought it was spam but when i opened the email and i read through it i realized that it was not spam basically the television station said hi we found you on youtube and we love your content and we'd like to put it on our television station please contact us so we can work out a contract i said wait a minute remember this was thursday i had two more days before my full week was done of praying and asking god to show me what to do so i responded and we started this conversation back and forth and i'll fast forward and let you know that yes that contract went through yes my videos i think they're actually still being shown on a korean television station right now and i took that as a sign that god wanted me to move forward with this english teaching business and here we are today i'm more passionate than i was then to teach you english i'm more excited than i was then to help you speak english with confidence and i am happier than i was then to get up every morning and know that what i'm doing is touching someone else's life around the world so you never have to doubt my passion for helping you learn english it really makes me happy and i know that i'm doing what god had placed me on this earth what god placed me on this earth to do so thank you again for giving me the honor to be your teacher and thank you again for studying with me i hope you enjoyed thank you again so much guys hope you enjoyed this story and if you have any stories about asking god to help you with something put it in the comment section i'd love to know have a wonderful week don't forget to get the app and i will see you all next week

Channel: Speak English With Tiffani

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Length: 21min 13sec (1273 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 11 2021