90 English Words You'll Hear in Conversations!

wanna speak real English from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at English class 101.com to cook to cook I'm going to cook dinner tonight to cook is to prepare a meal using heat tonight I'm going to cook chicken marsala I'm going to cook beef stew to fry two fry I don't want to fry the chicken because it's too unhealthy to fry something is to cook something in hot fat or oil french fries are fried and fried things are unhealthy so when you eat fried foods you want to eat in moderation I don't because fried stuff is delicious but you should to add to add before you eat you should taste the food and add salt if necessary to add in this context means to add something else onto a dish to put more of something onto a dish so you might add salt to a dish or add some paprika to the chicken to cut to cut could you please cut up that beef to cut is to use a knife to cut food to make it into smaller pieces usually so you can bite it or so you can mix it more easily I cut my steak so I can eat it you make food smaller into more bite-sized pieces by cutting to mix to mix mix all of the spices in a bowl before putting them in your dish to mix is to combine so you might combine or mix all of your ingredients together before cooking or doing something else with them you might mix ingredients together to create a dish breast feed alright the first word is breastfeed breastfeed means feeding a baby using the milk from the mother so there's like baby formula which you can give to babies or there's just natural milk the mother's milk which is breast milk or what the verb that we use is to breastfeed a baby so in a sentence many mothers choose to breastfeed their children in this sentence you're not supposed to drink alcohol while breastfeeding change a diaper the next expression is change a diaper change a diaper so diapers are the pieces of cloth or like the disposable things that babies wear because babies of course don't have the ability to use the bathroom like a grown human or like even like children can so babies need diapers so to change a diaper means to take off a used diaper and put a new clean diaper on a baby in a sentence I had hoped that I'd never have to change a diaper in my life put on a bib the next expression is to put on a bib so a bib is any is like a protective cloth that goes right here so and actually it's some restaurants even for adults like where there's a like a lot of oil or even like rib restaurants I think sometimes they'll give you like customers a bib but for babies who are very messy eaters you can put a bib on the baby to protect the baby's clothes while they eat so in a sentence put on his bib and give him some mashed carrots change clothes the next expression is change clothes again of course you can use this for yourself or for adults this is not an a baby only phrase this is not a baby only phrase so to change clothes if the baby's clothes are dirty or it's just time to I don't know you just need to change the baby's clothes you can say let's see like let's change the baby's clothes so in a sentence after her accident she had to change her clothes that's a weird out of context sentence sing a lullaby the next expression is singing a lullaby sing a lullaby lullaby is a song that is especially to help a child go to sleep so they're usually really like quiet soft songs they have like a nice like soothing sound to them so singing a lullaby is like a classic way to calm an upset child down so for example let's see when I was little my mother used to sing me a lullaby before going to sleep that's true she's saying the Edelweiss from The Sound of Music my mom used to sing me lullabies that she'd made up on the spot that's that if I ever become a mom that's gonna be me like I'm just making up a little bio maybe like go to sleep I'm really tired I hope you go to sleep now I think you should the first expression is I think you should bla bla bla I think you should is a very neutral not so strong not so weak way to give advice I think you should get a different haircut I think you should find a new job I think you should give me all your money can't hurt I think you should is a very typical way to give advice or just I think it's okay or you should is okay too in this sentence I think you should find a new apartment why don't you the second expression is why don't you bla bla bla so it uses the negative why don't you so that means it's a bit softer it's a bit more of a weak way to give advice so why don't you take a day off or why don't you help me with my homework that's sort of a sneaky way to give advice and ask for help at the same time why don't you I don't know find a new hobby for example so these are kind of weak ways to give advice in this sentence why don't you get a bit have you thought about have you thought about blah blah blah so have you thought about it sounds it's you're giving your advice but this is a question for the listener so have you thought about blah blah blah it's at your you're sharing your opinion but you're kind of making it sound like maybe it was the listeners idea or maybe the listener has thought of this thing before so this is also a fairly soft way to give advice so like have you thought about going to a different city have you thought about moving in with your friends something like that so these these are probably going to be questions that are a little bit more serious like I don't feel like we would use this for really casual or really light questions but maybe for something a little more serious and a softer way to give advice in the sentence have you thought about looking for a new job I don't know if is a good idea so this is kind of a negative way to give advice or to share your opinion it's I don't know if while blah blah is a good idea so you're you're giving someone advice not to do something so for example I don't know if getting a pet is a good idea or I don't know if starting a new project is a good idea these are different ways that you can say you don't think or you think that the other person should not do something but this is a soft way to express it in this sentence I don't know if taking a year off work is a good idea maybe you should try the next one is a suggestion to try something so this is a soft but kind of encouraging expression maybe you should try blah blah blah maybe you should try Bova so you are encouraging someone to attempt something to try something maybe not forever but just for a short period of time so maybe you should try volleyball maybe you should try playing sports maybe you should try spicy food maybe you should try something so it's encouragement to do something new this is kind of positive but it's a fairly soft way to give your advice here maybe you should try studying a new skill a table for three please a table for three please you tell them the number of people that you are total so that the host can bring you to an appropriate table a table for two please a table for five please could I please see a menu could I please see a menu usually menus are given to you as soon as you sit down at your table but if that's not the case and you need to ask this is a polite way to do it did I please see a menu I'd like to try this dish I'd like to try this dish when looking at a menu hopefully you'll find something you want to eat I'd like to try this dish could you leave out the onions could you leave out the onions if there's an ingredient in the dish that you're ordering that you don't want you can always ask the waiter if it could be prepared without that ingredient so for example I might say can I get the burger but with no cheese could you pass the salt could you pass the salt when you're at a restaurant especially if you're at a big table with a lot of people you might not always be able to reach things so you would ask could you pass me the salt could you pass me the ketchup cuz you pass me another napkin sing along to a favorite song alright so the first tip for improving your pronunciation is to sing along to a favorite song so if you I should add though this favourite song should be in your target language so if you're studying English pick a favorite English song and sing along to that song or try to sing to the song just from memory too so singing along to your favorite song can help you with pronunciation can help you with the rhythm sometimes of the language you're trying to learn so it can be really fun and it can be a good way to practice your pronunciation in a sentence I like singing along to my favorite songs read out loud the next tip for your pronunciation is to read out loud so reading out loud you can choose something that's interesting for you and your in English if english is the language you're studying so pick something maybe it's a news article or maybe it's a book you're interested in maybe there's an author you're interested in find something in your target language in English and try reading it out loud so don't just read in your mind but read the words out loud speak them so that you can get comfortable pronouncing those words and you can try reading the same passage or the same sentence multiple times to make it smoother so this can be a really good tip for and I think it also improves your natural ability to pick up grammar too because if you're reading something like in a book for example you can kind of pick up the natural rhythm of grammar and you also slowly get a feeling for the correct ways that words should connect together so this I think is a really good tip in a sentence I sometimes read out loud to practice pronunciation that's true repeat lines you hear in TV shows the next tip is to repeat lines you hear or the words you hear in TV shows or movies things like that so this means not only words don't only repeat single vocabulary words yes maybe you find a vocabulary word that is really interesting or it sounds funny or something like that but by repeating a full sentence or a full line in a TV show or in a movie you're putting the words together so not just one word but making a whole sentence so feeling kind of the flow of your language that you're studying so this can be a better way to actually practice making sentences and repeating sentences instead of just words so you can repeat after characters and TV shows I sometimes do this when I'm like watching Japanese TV oh and then I try and spit it back out it's hard to do sometimes when it's like the first time you've heard a word or the first time you've heard a grammar point but you can still understand that it's interesting so try to say it and it's kind of fun actually in a sentence try repeating lines from TV shows to practice practice speaking in phrases not single vocabulary words the next tip this is very similar to my TV show tip is to practice speaking in phrases not in vocabulary words not just single vocabulary words even if you're not repeating lines from TV shows when you practice speaking don't just speak in noun so sometimes for example I'll hear people just use noun like they'll use a noun and maybe a verb like I tomorrow Beach something like that and yes we can probably guess based on that how like the the meaning the speaker's meaning but you need to practice making a whole sentence so yes you know those words I tomorrow in beach and the listener can probably guess what you mean but you need to practice all those little words in the middle like like I'm going to the beach tomorrow so make a full sentence practice making full sentences don't only practice single vocabulary words make the whole line it's really good sometimes I think my students get irritated like they'll like I force them to practice full sentences like so I'll say like hmm have you ever been to Germany and they'll say yes I'm like okay for the purposes of practice can you make a full sentence and they'll say I have been to Germany like that's an extreme example but like I try to push that you know making the full sentence it's it's silly sometimes but just trying to do that okay so in a sentence speaking in entire phrases is helpful for practicing the rhythm of a new language speak a lot with your teacher and ask them to be strict with you on words okay so the next tip is to speak a lot with your teacher and ask them to be strict with you so this is kind of two tips in 1 1 speak with your teacher so if you have a teacher make sure you're speaking in their class if you if wherever possible sometimes I'll have students join my class and maybe they feel shy or whatever and they don't speak very much but please speak with your teacher so that your teacher can correct you your teacher can give you at least if they're a native speaker or maybe even if they aren't a native speaker your teacher can give you corrections and if you don't speak your teacher cannot help you in most cases so please speak with your teacher and if you like you can tell them please be strict about my pronunciation so sometimes people will say please help me with my pronunciation specifically and then I can stop them every time they make a mistake and we practice that sound especially 80h sounds like that like using using your mouth a little bit differently can be really uncomfortable for some people but if you're a teacher can point out those things like th sounds the this that these those those th sounds ending ER sound practicing those with your teacher can be a really good way to work on your pronunciation hmm so in a sentence speak a lot with your teacher they can correct you and help you improve concert the first word for talking about music is concert concert is a live show concert is yeah the performance is happening in front of your eyes so concerts are really popular worldwide I think depending on where you live you might hear them called live shows but usually in American English we just say concert a concert so in a sentence I'm going to a concert this weekend to see in concert the next expression is the verb we use for a live show so the next expression is to see in a concert or to see in concert so we use the artists name along with this phrase so for example I'm going to see Coldplay in concert I'm going to see Adele in concert so you use I'm going to see artist name in concert or in a concert where's the in concert or in a concert both are okay so in a different sentence I'm going to see my favorite band in concert meaning live who do I want to see in concert I want to see Michael Jackson in concert yeah I would have loved to see him in concert he's my favorite to listen to music to listen to artists the next word or the next phrase is to listen to Plus music or to listen to an artist so you can use this verb with the type of music or with a specific artist or band or group that you like so I like to listen to rock music I like to listen to pop music whatever another sentence is I like listening to Beyonce I like yes so you can use to listen to or listening to both are fine here I like listening to funk it's fine I like listening to funky artists is fine I like listening to Queens of the Stone Age it's fine all of these are great who do you listen to I listen to to write a song to write music the next expression is to write a song or to write music so if you want to make music yourself you can say write a song which just means one song maybe three or four minutes usually in popular music or to write music in general so you can use both of these expressions song is more specific music is more general so in a sentence my friends started writing songs recently or in a different sentence writing music is really fun track the next expression is track track so we can use song yes but for example when you look at an album like on iTunes or maybe like a CD for example each each song is assigned a number that's the track number so we can say I like track number 3 or track 3 we use track to talk about a song so you can say this is a good song or this is a good track both are okay to use song and track are both fine so in a sentence I really like that track from his album happy the first word is happy as you might have guessed happy happy is a happy word when you feel good when you feel positive when you are excited you can say I'm happy I was so happy to see my friend the other day what makes me happy food I'm happy right now energetic energetic when you feel happy perhaps you also feel energetic you have that sort of like uplifting feeling this chair is squeaking every time I don't really describe my friends or people as energetic I might say a dog or a cat is energetic like wow your dog is so energetic what is she doing she's running everywhere is she okay maybe I would say about myself I'm very energetic today if I've had a lot of coffee lonely the next word is lonely lonely I don't want to talk about this word it's maybe you've been spending a lot of time alone or there's someone that you really want to see or you want to see your family members or maybe you're working too much I don't know whatever it is maybe your you just you feel like you want to talk to people or you want to see people be around people but you can't you can use the word lonely to describe that feeling I I've only been working for the last few months I haven't had a chance to spend much time with my friends I'm feeling kind of lonely nervous the next word is nervous nervous is used for any tension any anxiety excited but in a bad way about something when I was a child before my piano performances I would get so nervous I would be so nervous my hands would start to shake and then I couldn't play the piece I'd been practicing for months that's why this is great because you're not here upset upset is a really really useful word any time you feel sad angry depressed disappointed unhappy in general you can say I'm upset or he or she is upset it's just a general happy word but it doesn't mean unhappy it just means something is wrong there's a way a person usually behaves but I'm upset means something's not right in his sentence I might say I'm really upset about my performance last year I was too nervous and my parents are disappointed in me I'm sad now Wow yeah okay equation the next math word is equation equation so up until now we've been talking about a part of an equation but the whole math problem everything there is called the equation so the process that you need to do in order to solve an equation an equation is something that you do to solve a problem this this part is the equation this part is the solution the the ending the result is the is the solution the problem is called the equation the process the math process you do to find a solution percent percent this is very a very useful word you can use of course when doing math or math problems but you can also use this when shopping for example so a sale is five percent off ten percent off it represents a discount you can also use percent to describe effort levels for for example a sports team a coach might tell his team I need you to work at a hundred percent today so it it's used to express the level of something but it can also be used in sales and in math related terms NPC NPC means non playable character there are other characters within the game that moved the story forward but that you cannot play as you cannot become that character but you interact with them I have to talk to an NPC in order to move this quest forward next is camper a camper is someone who is waiting for a creature to spawn so a person who's waiting for the monster to appear is called a camper you can use camping as a verb to to talk about that like I'm camping this monster really people camp other players I suppose so depending on the kind of game you're playing MMO is massively multiplayer online game means you can play online with a lot of different people essentially the next word is sister a female sibling is your sister you can also use sister for a female person that you feel very very close with so I might call my female friend who's I'm very close to my sister my brother likes to shorten it to sis you might also hear sista as well if you are silly sister Whoopi Goldberg was in a famous movie called sister act the next word is brother brother is a male sibling you can also use brother to refer to a close male friend common variations of brother are brother bro bra Rosie broski depending on what kind of person you are you can choose to use any number of those like I might sarcastically say to my friend cool story bro look if he's told me a story that's not very exciting in mario for example the name of the mario game is actually super mario brothers but brothers is abbreviated as BRS super mario bros yeah just be careful about your use of bro because it sounds a little bit like a college-age boy that's kind of the kind of the feeling of the word bro oh brother where art thou sandcastle the next word is sand castles sand castles are usually kids make them they use like buckets so kids will like put sand in a bucket or like they move sand into piles and design castles or these really complicated mazes or something they make things make buildings out of sand we call those sand castles so in a sentence my brother and I used to make sand castles on the beach when we were kids that's true in this sentence get the buckets and we'll make a sand castle cooler so cooler is a noun in this case cooler is the place you keep your drinks and your food it's a it looks like a suitcase but it has a special lining inside that keeps cold things cold so you can put ice inside and it will keep your food and drinks cold while you are at the beach in the hot weather so in a sentence did you put a bunch of beers in the cooler I forgot ice for the cooler the next word is small small small our smallest small and little are extremely similar I would pretty much use them in the same way however we don't say when I was a small kid we say when I was a little kid or you could say when I was small the next word is large large and big are very much the same I will say though that large is used on clothing sizes big is not when we talked about big we talked about how big can be used to refer to something that's very popular large is not used to refer to something that's that's popular large is used on for for sizing I feel only so like a house can be large but it's used to Richard like the physical size of something large and in charge large larger largest this is the largest bottom is in the zoo daughter daughter a daughter is a female child I wonder if I will ever have a daughter brother-in-law brother-in-law so we use in law to mean our married partners family members not my brother but my partner's brother-in-law is used after any family members position or family members title to show they belong to my partner's family originally but now they're part of my extended family as well I'm going out for drinks with my brother-in-law tomorrow night father-in-law father-in-law so we have in law here meaning my partner's father so my father-in-law is very kind the next word is work be careful about using work as a noun and work as a verb your work refers to your job your responsibilities your tasks at your office or your workplace you can use it in a phrase like I have a lot of work to do or please help me with my work I like to go to work it can be used to just refer to anything artistic in general so it can mean it can be a painting it can be a building it can be a sculpture it can be I don't know whatever anything artsy can be referred to as work as in I really like that new work by that artist or did you see so-and-so's new work twerk the next word is weak weak refers to the seven-day period that we have decided is one week here in the modern world calm we used in expressions relating to your activities as in I go to the gym once a week or I see my friends twice a week or I have to work every day of the week Monday through Friday is referred to as weekdays Saturday and Sunday weekend next word is month month is there are 12 months in a year my favorite month depending on which country I'm in I generally like autumn months like October I think I usually like the month of October September October is good because it's not too hot not too cold halloween is coming and that's my favorite holiday Hannah Montana try oh my gosh try is the next word oh I'm trying my best I try every day to work very hard have you ever tried ramen I tried ramen yesterday and it was really good do you try to exercise every day I'm trying to sleep go away the next verb is leave leave leave me alone leaves your doors and locks don't leave your doors unlocked I have never left a hot air balloon without first taking a picture the next verb is called call it the next friend give me a call please call me later call me maybe call your mom on her birthday every year she'll be happy Cole Cole you're a seagull have you ever called the wrong number have you ever called a dog by another dog's name clothing clothing cloud cloud beard beard beautiful beautiful bed bed wanna speak real English from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at English class 101.com cut it out the next phrase is cut it out now this is usually what a parent would say to a child when they want them to stop doing something stop it in other words cut it out really it's any situation that you want to have stopped now let's say my friend likes to click her pen all the time and I'm getting really annoyed I would turn to her and say cut it out Michelle I'm upset the next phrase is I'm upset upset here means not happy angry frustrated I'm upset you can say this in many different ways the intonation is important if you're trying to remain calm what's wrong Becky I'm upset I mean I'm really upset but I'm not going to show you or you can really just yell this like I'm upset with you I'm upset who do you think you are who do you think you are so you say this to someone when you feel that they're being way too proud maybe way too selfish they think they're number one they've done something and you can't believe they were so bold as to do that like who do you think you are Superman you can't run that marathon tomorrow with no training who do you think you are who do you think you are the President of the Universe watch your mouth watch your mouth we say this when someone is using bad language or language we think is too strong for the situation a lot of parents will say this to their kids or a lot of you know people fighting in a relationship might say that to each other so I'm not going to use the language here but if I said something very strong very rude my mom or my friend might say hey hey watch your mouth be careful about what you say you're not listening to me the next phrase is you're not listening to me pretty clear right yeah you're not listening to me let me say it again I don't want to go or something like that you're not listening to me is used when we're getting angry because we really don't think that person is listening to us so we say hey you're not listening to me I've been saying it many times but you're not listening to me let me say it again I want a raise let's stay together loving you whether times are good or bad happy or sad Al Green from let's stay together our first amazing love quote is from Al Green from his song let's stay together now first I'm going to say it for you then I'm gonna sing it okay let's stay together loving you weather times are good or bad happy or sad now for Al Green it's very important that you get very what we call groovy you gotta get me feel feel the groove and this chorus this it comes from the chorus let's let's stay together loving you weather times are good or bad happy you're sad Thank You Al Green that was beautiful Al Green love it every time nice slow song playing on a Friday night with your girlfriend or boyfriend so this quote I love it because it means that Al Green or whoever is singing it to you is going to love you no matter if it's good times or bad times if you're happy or if you're sad and it kind of reminds me of the classic American wedding vows that we say we say I will love you this is AG not exact but we say I will love you in sickness or in health till death do we part I like this song a lot we should love each other in good times and bad right it's not your love if you're just loving in good times right I want you there in the bad times to Bette Midler from wind beneath my wings our second amazing love quote is you are the wind beneath my wings we first heard this from Bette Midler in her song wind beneath my wings now this is a very beautiful song about it comes from a movie called beaches that was about to basically best friends so she's singing this to her best girlfriend and she's saying you are the wind beneath my wings in fact you are the person who gives me this feeling that I can fly and you support me so that I feel like I can fly so you're the wind kind of beneath my wings and it's this line is in the chorus repeated many times in the song and it goes like this do you ever know that you're my hero you're everything I would like to be I can fly higher than an eagle for you a little wind beneath my wings something like that I love that maybe will make you cry by the way girls get the tissues ready oh and then the spell was cast and here we are in heaven for you are mine at last Eddie James from at last okay our third amazing love quote is Etta James this is from her song at last oh and then the spell was cast and here we are in heaven for you are mine at last now let me talk for a minute about the phrase the spell was cast it's kind of like a witch that can cast a spell on you and so if you have a spell cast on you it's like you are under this like this command from someone else and you are acting different because they made you do something but it's like you're so in love with this person that it's like you'll do anything for them you're under a spell you know we might say and so it's like we're in heaven together it feels like we're in heaven I've been waiting so long to be with you here we are you are mine at last now this may not surprise you but this is a popular wedding song Etta James sang this I want to say back in the 1960s I might have that wrong but it also became popular from the Beyonce movie a few years ago where she played Etta James and Beyonce sang this song as well this quote is right in the middle of the song so don't be don't be surprised when I start very strong here here we go oh and then the spell was cast and here we are in heaven for you there's a lot of quaver in the voice in that song actually it does come at the end of the song sorry not the not the middle but beautiful song recommend that song at last check it out by Etta James I keep the ends out for the tie that binds because you're mine I walk the line Johnny Cash from I walk the line our next amazing love quote is from Johnny Cash one of my favorites the quote is a little difficult I think so listen closely I keep the ends out for the tie that binds because you're mine I walk the line the tie that binds means a like a tie or a connection to someone you're bound to that person and Johnny actually wrote this song for his first wife Vivian as kind of a promise to her that he would cheat on her on the road so buy this lyric he's saying I keep my eye out in case anyone I keep the ends out here he says there's like his eye I keep the eye my ends out for any potential connection I don't want to be connected to anyone else because you're mine I walk the line now walking the line means like to follow a strict line or path and not go out or away from that line to follow the rules basically because you're mine I'm following the rules I am keeping my eye out in case I make any connections that I'm not hoping or wanting to make I keep the ends out for the time that binds because you're mine I walk the line sorry Johnny had to go high on that one Johnny did not follow those rules in fact when he met his second wife June Carter Cash who turned out to be the love of his life and on the day he met her he said you're the woman I'm gonna marry someday my baby don't care for shows my baby don't care for clothes my baby just cares for me Nina Simone from my baby just cares for me oh my god I love this song oh my god oh my god I love this song the next amazing love quote is I'm gonna say it's my favorite I just love this song that's by one of my favorite singers of all time Nina Simone absolute legend wonderful pianist okay here's the quote my baby don't care for shows my baby don't care for clothes my baby just cares for me now maybe by the end there you realize my baby is not her actual baby like baby no no this is her lover her love interest so she's saying my baby don't care for shows my baby doesn't care about going to plays or maybe movies my baby don't care for clothes my baby doesn't my lover doesn't care about buying the latest fashion trends my baby just cares for me my lover just cares about me so we don't need anything fancy we don't have to do anything special we just need to care and be with each other and so it's a it's a great it's a great quote also notice here the grammar is completely wrong my baby don't you should say my baby doesn't but this is for a stylistic flair if you will so here is part of this amazing song here we go my baby don't care for shoes my baby don't care for clothes my baby just cares for me oh where is my piano backup that song is gorgeous please check out the whole song phrase number one I get to check this off my bucket list in English we have this phrase to kick the bucket which means to die so to make a bucket list is to make a list of things to do before you die now for me one of mine was to go in a hot air balloon I had tried to do it for the first time in 2009 but the morning I went the trip was canceled so here I am again more than 6 years later and I'm trying again and this time it was successful so I get to check it off my bucket list I get to do this thing before I die and I did it English class 101 listeners it was so exciting so you should make a list of things to do before you die your own bucket list phrase number two will you marry me so today is actually Valentine's Day and it's very popular on Valentine's Day and anytime you're planning to propose to your special someone to go to a special place and I can't think of a more special place than in a hot-air balloon there's enough space trust me in the basket to kneel down at least from my country the USA it's customary to get down on one knee it doesn't really matter which knee at least I've never thought so and you get down you kneel on one knee and you say will you marry me now unfortunately listeners I did not see any marriage proposals on my balloon yesterday but I bet you today there are over 30 balloons that go off here in begum am I bet you someone proposed oh it would have been such a beautiful moment will you marry me that is phrase number two phrase number three this is a first for me so going in a hot-air balloon as I said I had never done it before so it is a first for me a first being the first time I have done something I'm sure there are many firsts that you can think of in your life that you've had and maybe many more first that you'd like to have so this was a first for me or this is a first for me phrase number three may be a first for you could be the first time that you've ever had sushi or the first time that you've ever climbed a mountain I mean there are so many firsts that you can have this is a first for me getting at a hot air balloon phrase number four the view is incredible from up here now this is something that we use in English to say whatever we've gone to the top of an observation tower the top of a mountain the top of a temple like I went to this morning or really any high place that you go to to take a great photo or to get an incredible view we say the view is incredible from up here phrase number five what a ride champagne time so at the end of my balloon ride yesterday as soon as we dropped into the field below we had a beautiful picnic basket unfurled on the field in front of us and we got to enjoy a glass of champagne to celebrate and when we finished something some incredible rides some maybe could be in a car on a bus it could be from a bad experience or a good but we say what a ride what a ride and when we're about to drink champagne we say champagne time this expression from after riding in a hot-air balloon originally came from the pilots of these balloons wanting to make sure the farmers in the fields where they landed didn't get too upset so they would offer the farmers some champagne along with any guests they may have in their balloons and that's where the tradition first came from so what a ride paying time phrase number five how much is it - how much is it - how much is it - the airport you might ask this question to find out how much it costs to take a train or a bus or a taxi to where you need to go if you get into a taxi for example and you ask how much is it to the airport the taxi driver will tell you 30 dollars he'll tell you the price you need to pay to get to the airport if you're taking a train you might ask the ticket seller how much is it to the airport and the ticket seller will tell you the train to the airport costs 10 dollars for example that way you know how much it costs to go to where you need to be does this bus go - does this bus go - does this bus go to the suburbs does this bus go to is a way of asking whether or not the bus that you're looking at has the destination that you need so you might get on the bus and ask the bus driver does this bus go to the suburbs whatever destination and the bus driver will answer and tell you yes get on or no you want a different bus what time is the next bus what time is the next bus what time will the next bus arrive by asking what time is the next bus you're asking when the bus is going to come to the bus stop or whatever station the bus will stop at this way you know what time you need to be at that bus stop the train is running late the train is running late the train is running late again this is something I say all the time in New York City the train is running late if the train is running late that means you will probably be running late when you get off the train where are the ticket machines where are the ticket machines where are the ticket machines in this station a ticket machine is a machine that you go to to purchase your tickets you might see this in any station whether it's a subway station or a regular train station or sometimes even a bus station there will be kiosks that you can go to to enter the information and purchase your ticket by watching English movies and TV shows and enjoying the feeling when you can understand a word or a sentence yeah I do this too when you enjoy something when you find entertainment value in something like music movies TV and you there's that moment when you pick up or when you understand what your favorite character said or you understand like a key point in the story it's a really really good feeling it makes you want to continue watching I think so that's a really really nice feeling I think and you can do that by enjoying media so it's a fun way to learn and it's a fun feeling to experience okay the next way to motivate yourself is by reading English news articles blogs and magazines to get a feel for formal and casual language so the style that we use here like an English class 101 and this on the videos on this channel is quite casual most of the time or at least in these videos it's very casual but the way that I speak in the way a newspaper is written the way a magazine is written the way a a newscaster presents the information these are all different ways of communicating we're using the same language yes but there are different styles so it's important to try to understand those differences and to become familiar with them so try to find a few different things that you can enjoy the next way to motivate yourself is after dinner you write about your day in a journal in English okay this is an interesting idea so just take a few minutes after dinner or before you go to bed to write something in English about what you did that day or maybe so you have a chance to talk about future tense or to use the future tense you can use you can talk about your upcoming plans or the things you're going to do the next day so you can talk about past 10:00 what you did that day maybe present-tense how you're feeling as you're writing your journal for the day and future tense to talk about your upcoming plan so journaling can be a really effective exercise for motivating you okay the next way to motivate yourself is by practicing with flashcards of useful words and phrases for 15 minutes every day on the train I actually do do this I use but I use an application to study in Japanese to study kanji and 15 minutes every day adds up over the course of a week you can learn a lot of information in a short period of time and if you live in the country where your target language is spoken then you might even find the word you studied on the train you see it like after you leave the train you might see that word later on in your day so you can immediately feel like an extra sense of motivation by knowing that this thing you're studying is applicable it's something you can use right away it's a really cool feeling so this is a tip I honestly I use this last I make sure to thank anyone and everyone who corrects my English yeah I think this is really important because people are really nice they don't want to correct you when you make a mistake but sometimes people do they're really polite about it and they tell you the more tell you a more natural way or they give you a suggestion for how to improve your English make sure you say thank you like repeat after them and then say thank you so that you know it's motivation for them to tell you again in the future to help you again in the future so make sure to say thank you to anyone who helps you with your English personally I think that or I would just use I think that personally makes it sound a little bit more polite I think you can use this to introduce an opinion for example personally I think that pizza is amazing personally I think that dinosaurs would have been delicious personally I think that cars should be made to enjoy with friends personally I think that you shouldn't worry about it yes it's probably much more useful sentence than dinosaurs would be the next expression is what does blah blah blah mean so we're here is the word you don't know so for example what does pasta mean what does Stegosaurus mean so a word like Stegosaurus is a really strange word that you probably don't know Stegosaurus is a type of dinosaur we're gonna marry dinosaurs I don't know Jurassic we're on a Jurassic adventure at the moment so this is a pattern you use when you don't know when you don't know the meaning of the word and you would like someone to explain it to you so if you say what does Stegosaurus mean then someone can say oh it's a dinosaur it's kind of like it's a sort of short guy it has a bunch of spikes on its back and it has a long tail and it gets into a fight with a Tyrannosaurus Rex if you saw the movie Fantasia by Disney okay in this sentence what does complication mean it means problem okay the next pattern you can use is can you tell me more about bla bla bla so on a topic that you would like more information about you can say can you tell me more about the soccer game last week can you tell me more about the plan for the party next week so something you would like more information about you can say can you tell me more about this thing okay so in a sentence can you tell me more about your sandwich options that is a useful sentence that is a useful sentence okay in this sentence here we don't have that back home can you tell me more about it mmm this is used to the reverse pattern okay the next expression is if it were up to me if it were up to me I had two teachers in a class couple weeks ago actually if it were up to me means if I could make the decision if this was my if this were my decision bla bla bla so meaning if I could make the choice this is what I would do but one point here is the nuance is it is not my decision this is not my decision but if it were my decision I would do blah blah blah so for example if it were up to me every day would be Saturday whoo but it's not right so that's that's always the underlying that's always the kind of basic nuance of this phrase some this decision is not mine okay here the example is if it were up to me I would take my boss to dinner oh my things just got scandalous the next pattern is I feel like bla bla bla you can use I feel like when you introduce a suggestion or something that you would like to do especially for food drinks or activities so for example I feel like coffee I feel like Italian food I feel like an action movie there's some activity or something you would like to do at the end of this pattern I feel like bowling this afternoon something needs to go here some sort of activity of course you can use this expression to talk about your feelings I feel like something but this something must be a noun it must be a noun like if you feel really great I feel like a million bucks for example if you feel really bad I feel like garbage that's a nice expression that somehow it just came out of my head anyway you can use this in two ways but this must be completed with a noun phrase at the end of the sentence want to speed up your language learning take your very first lesson with 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Length: 56min 42sec (3402 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 27 2019