Learn English in 3 hours - ALL the English Basics You Need in 2020

want to speak real english from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at englishclass101.com immersion is often hailed as the most efficient and effective way to learn a foreign language in many ways it's true with all the language learning methods out there nothing else comes close to having to think and interact with your environment in the language you're learning unfortunately though most language learners wrongly assume that the only way to experience language immersion is to pack up and move to a foreign country but not everyone can afford to spend a summer abroad just to learn a foreign language luckily there are other ways to immerse yourself these methods are less obvious but they are effective in this video we'll take a look at five steps you can take for the ultimate language immersion experience at home number one transform your digital world into your target language technology is an indispensable part of modern life we interact with phones computers tablets and other electronic devices throughout the day why not take these interactions and use them to practice your target language most devices give you the option of switching the language of the operating system switching your phone or laptop interface to your target language won't make you fluent but it will help you engage with the language in a very practical way multiple times every day another way to transform your digital life is to check which sites you use on a daily basis and use them in your target language also a great example of this is switching your version of google using google in your target language will allow you to search for things in that language and you're more likely to get results in that language as well so if you're looking for a popular band a show or food something that's usually written in your target language it will actually be easier to find information about it if you switch your version of google of course you can also change popular social networks like facebook or twitter you can even go to news sites for your fill of global news do you like podcasts try listening to a couple popular podcasts in your target language number two write out a speech or conversation in your target language a surefire way to increase your ability in a foreign language is to write out a mock conversation or speech in that language pretend you have to give a speech on one of your favorite topics it could be anything from sports hobbies or even your favorite movie genre now take some time to write out your fictitious speech inevitably you will hit some roadblocks but when you get stuck research the words or grammar points you don't know this is a highly effective and practical way to increase your vocabulary and it'll help you practice thinking in a different language writing a long connected train of thoughts exposes the gaps and weaknesses in your language studying once you know what these are you're free to practice them and use them to continue on with your speech this is also a great way to learn new words in the context of your entire speech context is king when you're learning a language learning words in the context of other words and sentences helps you surmise what new words mean it also helps you get comfortable with how these words are practically used not to mention context helps you to remember and recall new information more easily number three practice with native speakers there are a lot of great learning resources out there for anyone learning a new language however nothing quite comes close to practicing the language with a real person if you live in or around a large metropolitan area there's a chance that there are some native speakers nearby check and see if your area has any local language exchanges or language speaking groups you're likely to find a native speaker there if you can't make a connection locally you can search online just as there are language exchanges in the real world there are also online ones most of which are free number four connect with other language learners native speakers aren't the only people who can age you on your language learning journey practicing with other learners is also helpful don't worry if you practice with someone who has a higher or lower level in the language than you if you're the more advanced learner you can learn a lot by teaching someone else as you help someone else understand difficult words or grammatical concepts you'll find that you start to better understand them yourself if your learning partner has a higher level they can be the one to help you overcome the hurdles you encounter as a beginner after all what better way to learn than from someone who as a language learner has been in your shoes number five reward yourself in your target language at the end of a busy day we all love a little relaxation and me time one of the most enjoyable and effective ways to develop your language skills is to kick back and enjoy the language while doing leisure activities whether it's listening to music watching a movie or tv show reading a book or even enjoying a good online video binge even spending just an extra 30 minutes a day doing something you love in your target language can yield some serious long-term results if you're a beginner start with more basic content you might have to start out listening to simple songs or even watching children's shows after a while though you'll be able to dive into the meatier stuff and more engaging stuff as your proficiency increases learning a foreign language doesn't mean you have to spend your days straining over grammar rules or textbooks any way that you can take your learning off the page and make it more enjoyable will help you learn faster immersion is a powerful way to learn a foreign language and now more than ever the immersion experience isn't limited to just world travelers with a little creativity and the right resources you can experience the language without ever having to leave your hometown many of these resources can be found with our complete language learning program sign up for your free lifetime account by clicking on the link in the description get tons of resources to immerse yourself in your target language and if you enjoyed these tips hit the like button share the video with anyone who's trying to learn a new language and subscribe to our channel we release new videos every week i'll see you next time bye want to speak real english from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at to englishclass101.com 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 to 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 all right the first word is breast feed breastfeed means uh feeding a baby using the milk from the mother so there's like baby formula which you can give to babies um or there's just natural milk the mother's milk which is breast milk uh or what the verb that we use is to breast feed 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 uh 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 actually at some restaurants even for adults like um where there's a like a lot of oil or even like ribbed 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 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 uh let's see like let's change the baby's clothes that's all so in a sentence after her accident she had to change her clothes that's a weird out of context sentence sing a lullaby ah the next expression is sing 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 sang me 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 going to be me like i'm just making up the lullaby i'm gonna be 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 blah blah blah 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 is 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 blah blah blah 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 uh take a day off or why don't you help me with my homework uh that's sort of a sneaky way to give advice and ask for help at the same time why don't you um 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 pet 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 sat you're you're sharing your opinion but you're kind of making it sound like uh maybe it was the listener's 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 um 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 soft way to give advice in this sentence have you thought about looking for a new job i don't know if is a good idea so this is um kind of a negative way to give advice or to share your opinion it's i don't know if blah blah blah is a good idea so 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 uh 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 blah blah so uh 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 uh 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 could 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 could 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 could 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 uh i should add though this favorite 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 you're 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 um for and it i think it also improves uh 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 in 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 ah 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 sentence it's interesting so try to say it and it's kind of fun actually i think 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 nouns so sometimes for example uh 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 and 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 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 uh 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 onwards 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 one one speak with your teacher so if you have a teacher um 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 th sounds like the like using um using your mouth a little bit differently can be really uncomfortable for some people but if your teacher can point out those things like th sounds the this that these those those th sounds ending er sounds um practicing those with your teacher can be a really good way to work on your pronunciation 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 uh 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 uh the artist's 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 um in a concert what are you say 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 sing 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 uh 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 yeah 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 is fine all of these are great who do you listen to i listen to lots of things 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 um 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 a an album like on itunes or maybe like a cd for example each uh each song is assigned a number that's the track number so we can say uh i like track number three or track three 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 move up 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 like now lonely the next word is lonely lonely i don't want to talk about this word 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 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 um 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 forgive me don't be disappointed in me upset upset is a really really useful word anytime 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 unhappy 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 a sentence i might say i'm really upset about my performance last year i was too nervous and my parents were disappointed in me i'm sad now whoa yeah okay equation the next math word is equation equation so uh up until now we've been talking about a part of an equation but the whole math problem uh 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 uh 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 10 percent off it represents a discount you can also use percent to describe effort levels for example a sports team a coach might tell his team i need you to work at 100 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 move 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 the camper you can use camping as a verb too 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 a 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 like if he's told me a story that's not very exciting in mario for example the name of the mario games is actually super mario brothers but brothers is abbreviated as b-r-o-s super mario bros yeah just be careful about your use of bro because it sounds a little bit like a college age boy uh that's kind of kind of the feeling of the word bro oh brother where are though sand castle the next word is sandcastle 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 um 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 uh did you put a bunch of beers in the cooler i forgot ice for the cooler the next word is small small smaller 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 popular large is used on for for sizing i feel only so like a house can be large but it's used to refer to like the physical size of something uh large and in charge large larger largest this is the largest the bottom is in the zoo i have to go 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 member's position or family member's title to show they belong to my partner's family originally but now they're part of my 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 uh 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 week uh week refers to the seven day period that we have decided is one week here in the modern world commonly 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 uh weekdays saturday and sunday weekend next word is month month is um there are 12 months in a year my favorite month depending on which country i'm in i generally like autumn months like uh october i think i usually like the month of october september october is good because it's not too hot not too cold and halloween is coming and that's my favorite holiday hannah montana try oh my gosh try is the next word ah 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 leave your doors unlocked don't leave your doors unlocked i have never left a hot air balloon without first taking a picture the next verb is call call is 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 call call 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 want to speak real english from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at englishclass101.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 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 going to sing it okay let's stay together loving you whether 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 you feel the groove and this chorus this comes from the chorus let's let's stay together loving you whether times are good or bad happy or 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 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 true love if you're just loving in good times right i want you there in the bad times too 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 two 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 did you ever know that you're my hero you're everything i would like to be i can fly higher than a knee goal for you are the wind beneath my wings something like that i love that that movie 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 edda james from at last okay our third amazing love quote is edda 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 um 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 eddie 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 a man at last 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 not cheat on her on the road so by this lyric uh he's saying i keep my eye out in case anyone i keep the ends out here he says which is like his eye i keep the i 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 tie 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 it'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 shows my baby don't care for clothes my baby just cares for me oh where is my piano back up 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 uh more than six 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 bagan myanmar 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 firsts that you'd like to have so this was a first for me or this is a first for me phrase number three maybe 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 in 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 whenever 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 ride some maybe could be in the 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 champagne time phrase number five how much is it to how much is it to how much is it to 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 thirty 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 ten dollars for example that way you know how much it costs to go to where you need to be does this bus go to does this bus go to 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 in 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 they 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 tense 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 flash cards 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 uh yeah i 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 okay i'm friends end it there personally i think that you shouldn't worry about it yes that's probably a much more useful sentence than dinosaurs would be delicious the next expression is what does blah blah blah mean so where 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 on a very dinosaur 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 uh 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 the tyrannosaurus rex if you saw the movie fantasia by disney okay so in this sentence what does complication mean it means problem okay the next pattern you can use is can you tell me more about blah blah blah 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 this is use the reverse pattern okay uh the next expression is if it were up to me if it were up to me i had to teach this in a class a 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 uh blah blah blah 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 but it's not right so um 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 blah blah blah 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 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 hi everybody my name is alicia today i'm going to talk about how to pronounce the ending ed sound in past tense regular verbs so i'm going to talk about how to make the three different sounds that we use when we're using the past tense forms of these verbs so let's get started okay so as i said this is for uh regular past tense verbs so verbs which take an e-d ending um verbs which don't take an e-d ending in the past tense i'm not going to talk about those in this lesson just e-d ending verbs so past tense conjugations okay so there are three different pronunciations that we use for this ed sound i'm going to talk about each one and kind of a rule that can help you as you try to decide the best or the most correct pronunciation okay let's first look at a t ending sound so by this t i mean a t sound at the end of the verb so a few examples uh first is walked second talked and typed so walked talked typed you can hear the e d sound at the end of each verb it's spelled e d but the pronunciation is a t sound so walked talked typed we make a t sound so the rule for this why do we use the t sound here when we're looking at the infinitive form of the verb so remember the infinitive form is like the basic form of the verb i have it underlined in black here if the infinitive ends in an unvoiced sound we use this t pronunciation so i'll talk about unvoiced in just a moment here but in this case the infinitive forms are walk talk and type walk talk and type so the ending sounds are k and here so these are called unvoiced sounds so for this point and for some points in the rest of this lesson it's useful to know the difference between a voiced sound and an unvoiced sound so a voiced sound is a sound that we make using our vocal cords so the if you put your hand on your throat and you can feel your vocal cords moving like activated that's a voiced sound an unvoiced sound however is a sound we make without using our vocal cords something that doesn't require us to activate our vocal cords so i said in this case for the t sound we use this sound for infinitives which end in an unvoiced sound meaning our vocal chords are not activated so here as i said walk ends in a sound talk ends in a sound and type ends in a sound so for k sounds and sounds our vocal chords are not activated we're not using our vocal chords to make this sound so we apply a t sound for the end of the verb uh when we're conjugating into past tense so this is the first type of pronunciation for today okay let's look at the second type for today the second type is this d ending sound and by d i mean it like a soft d sound so a few examples i have smelled breathed whispered lied booed and kneed so in each of these you can hear there's this soft d sound for the ending not an e d sound ed but a d sound a soft d sound so in this case how do we know that we should use a d sound at the end of these in this case we should use this sound for infinitives which end in a voiced sound so as we learned up here voiced sounds are sounds that require us to activate our vocal chords so in this case uh the end of the infinitive form here smell is the infinitive so the ending sound requires vocal chord activation so i'm using my vocal cords to make a uh sound here same thing with breathe this th sound at the end the i have to use my vocal cords to make this sound next one whisper the er sound here uses my vocal cords so i'm using the d whispered we see the same thing the last three examples i have here use vowel sounds at the end so lied booed need these are voiced sounds so we need to use a d sound to end uh to end the word so this is when we use the ending okay let's look at the last type over here the last type is this id ending it's like an id sound let's look at some examples so here i have wanted pleated and started these are all examples of infinitives that end in a t or a d sound so here the infinitive form of my first example want ends in a t sound my second example plead ends in a d sound and my third example uh start ends in a t sound as well so for infinitives which end in a t or a d sound a t or a d sound we use this id ending so wanted pleaded started so these are the three types of ending ed sound uh pronunciations so if you're having trouble uh trying to decide how to pronounce an ed sound you can kind of think of these rules to help you i hope um but if you want to know like which sounds are unvoiced or which sounds are voiced if it's hard for you to determine like when you are using your vocal cords or when you're not using your vocal cords here's a quick tip so here are some or here are the unvoiced consonant sounds so the unvoiced consonant sounds meaning the consonants that we make without using our vocal cords are ch and the th sound in think think so all of these sounds are unvoiced if we make these sounds we're not using our vocal chords to make them so sh for example and and these are common ones but we're not actually using like our voice to make them so that means that voiced sounds are the other sounds so if it's not in this list it's a voiced sound one thing to be careful of here though is that the th sound in the word like they uh is actually a voiced sound so we have a voiced they th sound they they and we have an unvoiced th sound like in think think so in the word think i'm not using my vocal chords in the word they or the for example i am so th has a voiced and an unvoiced pronunciation so this is something to keep in mind and maybe to help you as you practice but these are the three pronunciation types for ending ed sounds i hope that that was helpful for you if you have any questions please let us know in the comment section below this video of course if you like the video please make sure to give it a thumbs up subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and check us out at englishclass101.com for some other good resources thanks very much for watching this episode and i will see you again soon bye-bye hi everybody welcome back to know your verbs my name is alicia and in this episode we're going to talk about the verb follow let's go so the basic definition of this verb is to move behind someone or something and to go to the same place that that person or thing is going to examples i'll follow you to the park follow me i know where we're going the conjugations of this verb now present follow follows past followed past participle followed progressive following now let's talk about some additional meanings of this verb okay the first additional meaning is to understand to understand examples i don't follow you do you follow so we can really just replace the word follow with understand here in the first example sentence i don't follow you we can say i don't understand you it means i don't understand what you're saying or i don't understand what you're thinking i don't follow you it sounds more casual like i don't follow your train of thought train of thought means like the path you took to arrive at your destination thinking wise follow you just sounds more casual it's like i can't understand i can't follow the path of your logic in other words so i don't follow you in the second sentence it's a question do you follow meaning do you understand do you understand what i'm saying so follow can mean understand quite simply okay let's go to the second meaning for this verb so the second one is to happen after something else to come after something else examples of this a delicious dessert followed the roast chicken a luxurious hot spring experience follows a massage on this one day tour in these example sentences we see follow is used to describe something that happens after something else in the first example sentence i mentioned a dessert that followed a roast chicken so yes dessert is being presented first in the sentence so i said a delicious dessert followed a roast chicken so that means a delicious dessert came after a roast chicken so followed yes followed shows the thing that came after the other thing so we see the same thing in the second example sentence a luxurious hot spring experience follows a relaxing massage so yes luxurious hot spring experience is first in the sentence however we're using the verb follows so that means it comes after a massage in this case so yes it's presented first in the sentence but this use of follow means come after so that means we're presenting a sequence in this way let's go to the third meaning which is to obey to obey so to obey something okay examples of this to obey did you follow the instructions on the instant ramen she decided to follow her manager's advice so in both of these sentences we're meaning obey with the verb follow so we could say did you obey the instructions on the instant ramen but obey sounds quite strong we use obey for like people who are in positions of power above us so in this case uh with ramen it's packaging so we usually say follow the instructions on the packaging so meaning obey the instructions on the packaging but obey is quite a strong word we use follow instead in the second sentence she followed her manager's advice it's like she obeyed her manager's advice so yes a manager is in a position of power above you sure obey is typically used when we are given like strict orders for something like like military or like something from the president something from very high up and like very strong orders like like obey your commanding officer or something like that in this case it's advice meaning that it's probably not so serious it's like a suggestion and it's a manager so she has probably like a workplace relationship so we would probably use follow someone's advice in this case so follow means obey but it's not quite as strong not nearly as strong much softer so the fourth meaning is to be very interested in something and to watch that thing closely examples of this i don't really follow sports she's been following the news very closely so the first example sentence is a negative i don't really follow sports meaning i don't really have much interest in and therefore i don't really watch much sports in the second example sentence she's been following the news very closely it means she's been very interested in and watching a lot of news lately so this use of follow is quite convenient it it includes meanings of being interested in something and watching something carefully or closely so to follow a topic or to follow an activity so this means being interested in that activity and doing or seeing or reading about a lot of it variations let's look at some variations of this firm the first variation is to follow suit to follow suit this means to do the same thing as the person previously mentioned in the sentence or in the situation examples my manager just quit the company i think i'm gonna follow suit her boyfriend decided to leave the party so she followed suit so in both of these examples we see one person makes a decision or takes an action and the other person does the same thing we show that with the expression follow suit so in the first example my manager quit the company i think i'm gonna follow suit so i think i'm going to do the same thing as the person i just mentioned so my manager quit the company i think i'm going to do that as well i think i'm going to follow suit in the second example sentence her boyfriend decided to leave the party so she followed suit so he left the party she decided to do the same thing he did she followed suit past tense she did the same thing he did so follow suit means to do the same thing as the person previously mentioned the next variation is to follow through to follow through we often use to follow through on or to follow through with something this means to keep a promise or to do something you said you were going to do examples i hate it when people don't follow through with their plans that's true that's called flaking okay example sentence number two i'm going to follow through on my resolution to find a new job okay so here we see a couple examples so the first one is sort of a negative statement i hate it when people don't follow through with their plans meaning i hate it when people don't do the things they say they're going to do so i hate it when people make a plan and break the plan or make a suggestion and don't do that thing so they don't follow through with their plans in the second example the speaker previously made a resolution a resolution is a kind of goal so the speaker previously made a resolution the speaker has decided to follow through meaning to uh to try to achieve that resolution to try to do that action so that means that the speaker is going to find a new job so the speaker is going to do the thing he or she promised to do the last variation for follow today is to follow in someone's footsteps to follow in someone's footsteps this is kind of an easy one to imagine so to follow in the same footsteps as someone who walked before you however that person who walked before you is typically a parent or maybe a grandparent or someone senior to you that you admire example sentences he's following in his father's footsteps and becoming a lawyer she decided not to follow in her mother's footsteps after all so to follow in someone's footsteps typically refers to a career choice so in the first example sentence we saw lawyer so he decided to follow in his father's footsteps meaning he decided to do the same thing his father did as a career become a lawyer so meaning chose the same thing as his parent in the second we see a different situation she decided not to follow in her mother's footsteps meaning she chose a different career path from her mother or she chose a different life path from her mother so to follow in someone's footsteps means to do the same thing usually the same career as their parent or their grandparent so those are a few new ways to use the verb follow i hope if you have any questions if you want to try to make a sentence or if you know some other ways to use follow please feel free to try it out in the comments great so if you liked the video please make sure to give it a thumbs up subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and check us out at englishclass101.com for some other good study tools thanks very much for watching this episode of know your verbs and we'll see you again next time bye-bye good for some uh i really have to sneeze hi everyone my name is bridget and welcome to today's lesson the topic for this lesson is top 10 must-know verbs when cooking let's get started 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 to 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 to season to season to season is to add spices to a food to make it taste better usually you season every dish with salt and pepper to mash to mash for great mashed potatoes you should add garlic to the potatoes to mash is to crush food so that it becomes almost paste like so mashed potatoes is a very common example of this also in the uk you might find mushy peas which are sort of mashed to saute to saute i sometimes like to saute asparagus instead of boiling it to saute is to quickly fry something in hot fat to put to put put cold water into the mixture or you'll get lumps in the stew to put in this context means to add to something or to move into place i put salt in the stew and i put the dish in the oven to slice to slice if you want them to cook evenly you should slice the carrots to be the same size to slice means to cut i sliced the apple i sliced the pizza i sliced the cake and that brings us to the end of today's lesson if you guys enjoyed this lesson please don't forget to give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel if you have any questions or comments at all leave them below and don't forget to go to englishclass101.com to learn more english hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia the weekly series where you ask me questions and i answer them maybe first question this week comes from puallam hi pualam pualam says hi alicia i would like to know the differences between the verb to be and to become for example which one is correct i want to be a teacher or i want to become a teacher thanks um both of these are correct actually so in this case to be and become have the same meaning but become tends to sound more formal like if you say i want to become a teacher it sounds a bit more formal than saying i want to be a teacher it's also easier to say i want to be a teacher so you can use them in the same way when you're talking about becoming something else or when you're talking about something turning into something else i want to be can be used uh in more casual expressions another example would be like i want to be rich someday or i want to become rich someday so i want to be rich sounds more casual it's more commonly used than i want to become rich but they communicate the same idea so i hope that this helps you thanks very much for the question okay let's go on to your next question next question comes from israel diaz hi israel israel says what's the difference between used to or used to and used for okay well it kind of depends on your sentence so used to or used to like i said that when i read the question so depending on the sentence this word or this phrase rather can take different meanings so used to can mean something that you did in the past like i used to play golf or i used to eat pancakes for breakfast every morning or i used to go to the forest to go hiking with my family every summer i used to do something that refers to a past activity that's no longer true used to however talks about the purpose of something so like this phone is used to make calls or like this camera is used to record video so we use used to before a verb so this thing is used to do that so that's talking about the purpose of something then used for is similar it's also talking about purpose but we're following the expression with a noun instead of a verb so like this phone is used for phone calls this camera is used for videos so we're following the expression with a noun instead of a verb so depending on the sentence used to or used to they're spelled the same will be read differently and it will have different grammatical functions used to and used for have the same purpose but we have to make slight changes to our grammar after that expression so i hope that this helps you understand the differences thanks very much for the question okay let's move on to your next question next question comes from dongfang again hi dongfang dongfong says hi alicia i'm an english learner from china what does it mean when someone says i'm not practicing the law anymore i heard this sentence in one of my favorite dramas called better call saul i understand the sentence but i'm a little confused about the word practice here is this a common use yeah this is a really nice question great catch so practice is a very special verb that we use in certain jobs certain professions so commonly this is doctors and lawyers that use this word so they use the word practice before their field of expertise and it just means do or to be active in their practice so in this case and better call saul it's practicing law or i'm not practicing law that means i'm not actively doing like legal work right now i'm not active as a lawyer right now a doctor could say like i've been practicing medicine for six years that means i've been active as a doctor for six years so practice here does not mean like practicing doing something it means actively participating in that job so again this is very specific for a couple of different jobs like lawyers and doctors so very specific word nice catch and thank you so much for this question hope that helps you okay let's move on to your next question next question comes from silverway hi again silverway silverway says hi alicia what does i'm blown away mean oh yeah okay i'm blown away can mean i'm surprised or like i'm shocked so it's kind of it tends to be more of like a positive expression like i'm blown away by all the questions you guys send or like i was blown away by how good that dinner was or like i was blown away when i saw that my best friend had decided to get a mohawk so it's like something is surprising or shocking or both maybe and you can actually use it for negative situations as well you can also use this in past tense like whoa that blew me away that movie blew me away so it just means shock surprise um if something bad happens like someone is really rude you could say like wow that person just blew me away or like i was so surprised at how rude that person was so i hope that that helps you understand the phrase to be blown away thanks very much for the question all right let's move on to your next question next question comes from proof fee johnny hi pruthvi pruthfi says hi alicia what is the difference between lot of and plethora of um plethora is kind of a formal and rarely used word so a plethora of something means lots and lots of something yes but we tend to use it for like extravagant situations so like for example the researchers discovered a plethora of treasures in the egyptian king's tomb we really don't use this so much in everyday speech it sounds too formal in most cases but again if you're talking about something that's like really kind of big and extravagant you might use the word plethora to describe that a plethora of something so i hope that this helps you understand the word plethora thanks very much for the question so that's everything that i have for this week thanks as always for sending your questions remember you can send them to me at englishclass101.com ask hyphen alicia of course if you like the video please don't forget to give it a thumbs up subscribe to our channel if you have not already and check us out at englishclass101.com for some other things that can help you with your english studies thanks very much for watching this week's episode of ask alicia and i will see you again next week bye bye have you seen the movie the three amigos steve martin yeah do you remember a plethora of pinatas there's a whole scene there where they talk about they're talking about a party that's coming up and they're like did you get the pinatas for the party and they're like see see and then and then they're like how many pinatas did you get would you say that you got a plethora of pinatas and you're like oh it's a plethora hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia the weekly series where you ask me questions and i answer them maybe first question comes from habib azadani hi habib habib says what does let alone mean oh yeah nice question okay let's start by introducing two examples he can't drive a car let alone teach someone how to drive she doesn't have time to cook let alone bake okay so in these two examples we see in the first part of the sentence there's an impossible situation introduced so he can't drive a car and she doesn't have time to bake so these are like impossible or really difficult situations then we introduce another impossible situation in the second part of the sentence and we emphasize that that too is impossible by using let alone so in this case the even more impossible thing is teaching someone else to drive in the first sentence and baking in the second sentence so we often see these kinds of patterns when we're like asking for help with something or like we're making a request for something for example can davy teach me how to drive he can't drive a car let alone teach someone else how to drive can you ask alicia to bake me a cake alicia she doesn't have time to cook let alone bake so you see that there's like this other impossible situation emphasized and introduced with let alone so that's what it means it doesn't mean like leaving someone alone but we use let alone in front of verbs this way to show totally impossible situations so i hope that this helps you thanks very much for the question okay let's move on to your next question next question is from nayef hinayev nayef says hi alicia what's the difference between possibly and probably okay here um possibly means that something can be done it is possible something we are able to do you can think of possibly as meaning like maybe so some examples sorry for the last minute request but can my friend join us at the restaurant possibly let me call the restaurant will you have time for a meeting later possibly i have to do some paperwork so probably on the other hand indicates a high level of potential of something so possibly is very neutral possible is also very neutral it's just something that we are able to do it can be done probably however refers to like an actual chance of something and a very good chance of something so like there's a 70 chance something is going to happen so if we take the same example sentences as in can my friend join for dinner probably let me call the restaurant and will you have time for a meeting later probably i just need to finish some paperwork we can see that the level of certainty in the situation changes with possibly it's like maybe i don't know there's a chance could be i don't know with probably it's like there's a very good chance that that thing is okay so i hope that this helps you understand the difference between possibly and probably thanks for the question all right let's move on to your next question next question comes from antonio lopez hi antonio antonio says what's a tag question cool okay tag questions are like tiny tiny questions that come at the end of a statement examples you weren't serious were you he's coming to the party isn't he we forgot our passports didn't we i'm late aren't i so at the end of each one of these sentences is this tiny little question so it's like something that we finish our sentence with in order to confirm the first thing we said in the sentence so you'll notice in each of these sentences if the beginning statement is in the negative the tag question will be in the positive and vice versa if the beginning statement is in the positive the tag question will be negative so we use tag questions just to confirm what we said in the beginning part of the sentence i hope that this helps you thanks very much for the question okay let's move on to your next question next question comes from felipe yakomosi hi felipe felipe says what's the usage difference between two also and as well okay um for the purposes of this answer i'll talk about just one use of the word to which means in addition so we see two a lot at the end of a phrase or at the end of a sentence like in me too or you too or he wants to come to or i like that too we see that there at the end of the phrase let's move on then to talking about also we use also before verbs usually in the simple present tense or in the simple past tense you can see also at the beginning of a sentence as well and we use it in this position when it affects the whole sentence so some examples we should get some snacks we should also get drinks today i'd like to talk about sales i'd also like to talk about growth going forward and then when you see also positioned at the beginning of the sentence it affects the whole sentence so for example hey can you pick up dinner on your way home also put some gas in the car will you please finish this report by today also stop stealing pens from my desk so in these ways we see also used to mean and and it tends to come before verbs or it can come before a full request finally as well as well tends to function in the same way as two we use it a lot at the end of a phrase or like at the end of a list of items but it sounds more formal than two okay so thanks very much for the question i hope that that helps you all right let's move on to your next question next question comes from benny hi benny benny says what does it mean when someone says cut it out and when can i use this phrase oh cut it out means stop we use this when someone is doing something that's like annoying or repetitive so it's like if someone's poking you or maybe if like someone keeps throwing things across the room at you it's something small and annoying and you want them to stop doing that you can say cut it out cut it out it's usually in that way if you just say cut it out it doesn't sound so like strong so usually we make it sound like cut it out so it sounds like you're irritated another way that we express the same thing is by saying don't don't so especially young kids will use don't or maybe cut it out to mean stop doing that thing don't means like don't do that thing like don't throw things at me or don't poke me whatever it is but we'll say don't so cut it out is just a casual way to say stop i hope that that helps you thanks for the question all right that is everything that i have for this week thanks as always for sending your questions and remember you can send them to me at englishclass101.com ask hyphen alicia also if you like the video please please please don't forget to give it a thumbs up subscribe to our channel if you haven't already and check us out at englishclass101.com for some other things that can help you with your english studies thanks very much for watching this week's episode of ask alicia and i will see you again next week bye hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia the weekly series where you ask me questions and i answer them maybe first question comes from silverway again hi again silverway silverway says hi alicia could you please tell me the meaning of the word you use so much in your lessons nuance does it mean difference or something else oh yeah sure so nuance means small difference or for like vocabulary for language learning it means like suggested meaning so another way to think about nuance is like like it's a color so if we imagine the color red we can understand what red means but inside red there are many different types of red right so we can imagine a nuance is like one of those types of red it's like one way of understanding something so a sentence like i'm not interested in him or i'm not interested in her this means like interest yes we see interest in that word but the nuance of this phrase the feeling of this phrase is like romantic interest i'm not romantically interested in him i'm not romantically interested in her so that's an example of nuance so we understand like the category interest but the nuance the small difference in meaning is about like romantic like relationships in this case so yes nuance means small difference in meaning uh for this channel um it can also mean small difference in flavor in food for example or like small differences in facial expressions so another example sentence might be we can communicate nuances through our body language and facial expressions so nuance means small difference in meaning i hope that that helps you and yes that word gets used a lot on this channel thanks very much for the question let's move on to your next question next question comes from agains elland hi again again said hi alicia can you explain the difference between seams and looks like yeah sure um let's start with looks like there are actually two patterns for looks like i want to talk about this a looks like b pattern first we use this when we want to talk about something that has a similar or the same appearance as something else a looks like b so like that cloud looks like a rabbit your brother looks like a mouse so these patterns mean that thing a or person a has a similar appearance to thing b or person b so that's the first meaning of looks like the first way we use it the second way that we use looks like is to talk about guesses that we make based on visual information so information we get with our eyes so when we can see something and make a guess about it we can use looks like for example it looks like it's going to rain or it looks like your dog is pretty hungry so we can see something that gives us information about what might happen next or we can make a guess about the situation using something we can see okay so with that in mind let's continue to seams we use seams yes to make guesses sure just like with looks like the second meaning of looks like but we use seams for things that we cannot quickly check we cannot quickly confirm his new girlfriend seems nice are you okay you seem really tired today so you can use seams for guesses that you make based on things you can see yes but i think it sounds more natural to use looks like in those cases so seams is used for stuff that we can't quickly check but maybe we don't get that information based just on stuff we can see so i hope that this helps you thanks very much for the question all right let's move on to your next question next question comes from felipe yakomozi again hi felipe felipe says could you explain the pronunciation differences between the following words one then and than and two sure and sure okay sure so let's start with the first pair of words then and then then then so maybe it's a little easier to hear when speaking slowly the differences than than but actually another good way that you can kind of discover which word is being used is to consider the way the word is used in the sentence so it's not that native speakers are listening to each word separately we're listening to the whole sentence so we're not just paying attention to one sound but we're thinking of the way the sentence is made so you'll see than used a lot in comparative sentence structures examples i like dark colors more than light colors we should buy more drinks than snacks she said your dessert was better than all the others so you can see here that all of these sentences use a comparison we're saying something is better than something else so we know that than is being used there but even though we're saying it really quickly and it sounds like then we understand the correct spelling because of the grammatical structure of the sentence let's compare this to how then is used i have to go to the office this morning then i'm going to the airport we saw a movie then ate dinner he broke up with his girlfriend last week he seemed pretty sad since then okay so you can see that these are not comparative sentences the first two examples are like sequence examples so one thing happened another thing happened after that so we use then to show that in the last example sentence we're using then to refer to a period of time so you'll notice then that like the positioning of the words the grammatical function of the words these are different so again you can listen rather to the whole structure like the way the sentence is made instead of focusing just on those sounds than and then regarding your second question about shore and sure these have different sounds in american english though they could have very similar sounds in british english again just listen for the ways these words are used shore is a word that would probably be used when talking about the beach or someplace near a body of water sure is used to express agreement or to ask a question like are you sure sure so think about the ways these words are used not just their individual pronunciations i hope that this helps you thanks for the question okay let's move on to your next question next question comes from diana hi diana diana says hi alicia could you explain the subjunctive mood oh yeah subjunctive mood is a pretty big topic actually to speak about it quite generally we use subjunctive mood to talk about like unreal situations so like wishes possibilities suggestions like making demands also an important point to note is that the subjunctive mood is not a tense it's not a tense it's rather like kind of a a way of communicating unreal information it's uh sort of uh like it follows its own grammatical rules so let's look at a few examples in the subjunctive mood i wish i were there to celebrate your birthday with you if i were you i would look for a new job we demand he give us a refund so in each of these example sentences the subjunctive mood is used to communicate something that's not real so we see a wish in the first example sentence an unreal situation in the second one we're seeing like a piece of advice for an unreal situation and the third one is a request or a demand this is considered unreal because the demand like the thing being requested or demanded has not happened yet or it may not happen so subjunctive mood is not so commonly used actually because it is kind of difficult to use for many people it has like its own grammatical rules which you can see a good example of in the third example sentence here like we demand he give us a refund like there in most sentences we would be required to conjugate the verb to gives like he gives something but when we're using the subjunctive mood it takes on this kind of grammar he give us a refund so it is kind of tricky it is a bit complex the subjunctive i would suggest if you're interested in learning more about the subjunctive and how to make statements like this start by learning a few of the common patterns so by that i mean like the if i were or i wish i were so those are the first two example sentences here those are some great patterns that you can use to start making subjunctive mood sentences um other things can get a little bit uh trickier uh getting into like some future perfect tense statements in the subjunctive mood uh but maybe i can make a whiteboard video or two about that in the future so i hope that this gives you kind of an introduction to the subjunctive mood thanks very much for the question all right let's move on to the next question next question comes from wajahat khan hi wajahat says hi alicia what is the meaning of the word g-whiz and how can we use it in our everyday life situations sure so uh g-whiz is an old-fashioned word that means wow cool amazing but it's very old-fashioned it sounds like something people said in like the 1950s in the u.s we really don't use this word now it's something we would only use if we want to sound sarcastic or if we want to make a joke so if you use this now you're probably going to sound sarcastic like a raise gee whiz thanks free tickets to disneyland gee whiz like it just sounds really silly it sounds silly even giving these example sentences so i wouldn't really recommend using this in everyday life these days just because it does sound old-fashioned and it sounds more like a joke but it really means wow or amazing or cool so i hope that that helps you thanks for the question okay that's everything that i have for you for this week thanks as always for watching of course if you want to send your questions to me send them to englishclass101.com ask hyphen alicia also if you like the video please don't forget to like it and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already thanks very much for watching this week's episode of ask alicia and i will see you again next week bye-bye hi everybody my name is alicia in this lesson i'm going to talk about the difference between who and whom two commonly confused words so let's find out how to use them and a few hints for how you can decide which is the correct word to use in a sentence okay let's begin with the word who so we use the word who when we refer to the subject of a sentence so let's look at a couple of examples here in red i have who is he who stole my drink and who is using my computer so i have a few questions here in this uh set of examples who is used to refer to the subject of the sentence so each one serves as the subject here all right and we can answer these questions with a simple reply so who is he we could say he is my friend who stole my drink we could say she stole your drink who is using my computer he is using your computer so here again we have he she and he as the answers for these questions i'll come back to this point in just a moment for now though let's contrast this point with whom when we use whom so we use whom to refer to the object of a verb or a preposition so let's look at a couple examples here whom should i speak to regarding this inquiry whom does this book belong to to whom do i submit my report so in each of these sentences whom serves not as the subject of the sentence but as the object of a verb or a preposition here so again i have a couple of example answers for this point here i have uh for this first example whom should i speak to regarding this inquiry the answer could be something like you should speak to him for the second one whom does this book belong to this book belongs to her to whom do i submit my report we can answer with submit your report to him okay so the reason that i've included these example answers is because these can give you a really good hint for how to decide whether you should use who or whom so i have up here this hint the first hint really is to try substituting he or she and her or him in your original sentence so for example in this sentence who is he or who stole my drink or who is using my computer if i substitute he or she in one of these sentences for example here he is using my computer or she is using my computer the sentence is correct grammatically so that means i can use who and that's the correct choice again who stole my drink uh she stole my drink or he stole my drink the sentence is grammatically correct so i should use who however down here if i say he should i speak to regarding this inquiry or to he for example like these these don't make grammatically correct statements so we can't use he or she here though these questions get a little bit more complicated these sentences it might be a little bit difficult to decide then am i am i using he or she should i use him or her it's not so clear in those cases where you're not clear again using the original sentence we can take a look at the answer for the sentence so try to make a sample answer for the question if you can answer the question using he or she as i've done here he she and he you should use the word who if you can answer it with her or him use whom use whom so down here you should speak to him this book belongs to her submit your report to him if you look at the answer for the question or a sample answer for the question and you use him or her in the answer you should use whom if you look at a sample answer and you use he or she in the answer you should use who so this can be a really helpful tip to decide whether you should use who or whom if it's difficult to remember you can kind of think about focusing in on the word him because him ends in an m sound just like whom ends in an m sound so if you kind of remember in your brain whom matches with him sort of so those m sounds uh her and him therefore make a pair so if you have trouble remembering between he and she and her and him you can use that m rule to remember that the m sound in him fits with whom just one other point about use of who and whom um typically at least in american english we tend to use who more often in everyday speech not as many native speakers are so like strict about their use of whom in everyday conversation of course some people are for sure but if you focus too much on using who and whom correctly in your speech you might come off you might sound a little bit like pretentious to some people again it depends on the kind of people you're speaking with but in general casual conversations most people or i should say many people just use who in almost every sentence even if whom is probably grammatically correct we tend to rely more on who in casual speech so you will find the native speakers technically do make mistakes with this i'm sure i do as well so i would say don't be too concerned about always getting the difference between these two correct especially in speech if however you're writing something formal or if you're making a formal presentation it might be a good idea to consider this so just for your reference this is a couple of or these are rather a couple of examples and a couple of ways that you can try to decide which of these words to use so i hope that this was helpful for you of course if you have any questions please let us know in the comment section below this video if you like the video also please make sure to like it with the thumbs up button subscribe to the channel if you have not already and check us out at english englishclass101.com for some other good resources thanks very much for watching this episode and i will see you again soon bye-bye hi everybody my name is alicia welcome back to top words today we're going to talk about 10 phrases for gossip let's go oh my god so the first phrase is oh my god so so oh my god so is a introductory phrase you can use to start your topic with like a surprise factor so you say oh my god and then so is your transition phrase so for example oh my god so i have to tell you about this movie i saw or oh my god so i saw my neighbor in the shopping mall this morning or oh my god so did you see my new dog it's kind of a weird one usually it's about a person not about a dog but who knows you won't believe what happened to me the other day the next expression is you won't believe what happened to me the other day you won't believe what happened to me the other day meaning something happened to you and you think it's going to be a surprise to the person listening to you you won't believe what happened to me the other day so it's a very fast phrase because it sounds like you want to share very quickly like you won't believe what happened to me you can drop the other day if you want or you said you can say you won't believe what happened to me this morning you won't believe what happened to me last night you won't believe what happened to me this weekend you won't believe what happened to me over my winter vacation so that you won't believe what happened to me gets very very quick and short so examples uh you won't believe what happened to me the other day i ran into my ex-boss or you won't believe what happened to me the other day i tripped and fell down a flight of stairs or uh you won't believe what happened to me the other day i got a new parrot sure i don't know maybe one of you can use that guess what the next phrase is very short the next phrase is like an exclamation so an excited statement and a question guess what guess what so guess what is inviting the listener to guess what happened to you guess what the full question would be guess what happened or guess what happened to me but we only say guess what so guess what and sometimes the listener guesses and sometimes the listener just says what usually the listener just says what uh as so meaning you should continue the story so if you say guess what i quit my job or guess what i saw my best friend with a new guy i haven't seen before another example uh guess what i got a new car something like that so some kind of shocking like um difficult to guess situation i haven't told you about this yet the next expression is i haven't told you about this yet i haven't told you about this yet so have not becomes haven't i haven't told you about this yet so maybe you've told you have told other people but this specific person maybe you have not told that person your news or some information yet but this yet implies you are planning to or you want to tell them this so uh it's it's kind of creates a little suspense i haven't told you about this yet so we could use this like i haven't told you about this yet i'm going to france next summer or i haven't told you about this yet but i broke up with my boyfriend last night or i haven't told you about this yet but i'm throwing a big party for my co-worker this weekend can you come other examples i haven't told you about this yet i saw my boss out for dinner with someone who's not his wife oh oh my god that's not true that's not true or i haven't told you about this yet i heard that the company is gonna go bankrupt also not true okay so those are some pretty juicy juicy gossip that's an expression we use we say juicy gossip is something that's like really really interesting gossip or really interesting story about people we say juicy gossip for that have you heard about the next expression is have you heard about blah blah blah have you heard about can be followed with a noun phrase have you heard about a person you can use a person or have you heard about a situation you can use both you can use a an object too so have you heard about the new iphone or have you heard about the new office policies um you can use that um for pretty much anything um you want to inform your listener about so have you heard about is usually said very quickly have you heard about so the you becomes shortened to yeah have you heard about have you heard about blah blah blah so have you heard about the new secretary have you heard about our new boss or have you heard about my co-worker quitting his job have you heard about the neighbors above us they're moving so you can use people here for gossip expressions or you can use objects um in this expression just to introduce something new very useful phrase have you heard about my mom sorry mom i don't know why you came into that one okay so the other day the next expression is kind of like the beginning to a story so maybe this can be for gossip maybe it can just be like a story something interesting or maybe boring that happened to you the expression is so the other day so the other day so the other day the other day here means not today some other day which day it doesn't really matter it's not really important but we say the other day someday in the past this expression is used for it so we can say so the other day i was sitting at my desk in the office when my manager came and asked if he could speak to me or so the other day i was shopping and i ran into my ex-boyfriend or so the other day i was renting a car and the former president of the united states came into the car rental shop what all right so the other day just some day in the past so i was talking with and the next one you can use um maybe for gossip sometimes but also you can use for making plans it's so i was talking with someone and blah blah so i was talking with someone means you were having a conversation uh at another time with a person and you want to kind of report information or share something from that conversation with the person listening now so i might say so i was talking with risa and i think that we should plan a party for this weekend what do you think so i was talking with my team about this and i think that we should make some changes so that's a very kind of everyday work situation use of this phrase um but you can also use it for gossip like so i was talking to my best friend and i think i'm gonna move or i was talking to my parents and i think it's best if we break up oh so it can be for plans it can be for gossip it can be for just any conversation plus a report what's up with the next expression is kind of a little like mysterious then the expression is what's up with blah blah blah usually what's up with person for gossip meaning there's like the nuance here is there's some problem where it seems like something's wrong with this person they're unhappy they're sad they're angry some kind of negative emotion we use this so it's like what's up with stevens i haven't heard from him lately what's up with your brother he seems really upset or what's up with your neighbor why is he so noisy or what's up with your boss he's so strict so it sounds like there's some problem we usually use this intonation what's up with what's up with to introduce somebody who has a problem we don't say what's up it's not that it's not that sort of hello um expression it's a it's an expression for a problem you can also use a noun phrase that is not a person here like what's up with this new office policy or what's up with this new rule at work or what's up with this new item on the menu at this restaurant it's super weird so what's up with blah blah blah has sort of a negative nuance you can use it for people to talk about strange behavior what's up with you have you heard from lately the next expression is have you heard from blah blah blah lately have you heard from person lately have you heard from stevens lately i haven't seen him have you heard from your mom lately have you heard from your dad lately have you heard from your brother lately have you heard from your landlord lately i don't know why you hear from your landlord but have you heard from someone lately there is sort of an ex like a little bit of an expectation that you are in contact with the person involved in this sentence like you have some relationship maybe it's a family relationship romantic relationship professional relationship there's some relationship with this person and lately it's like have you heard from them recently lately in the last few days in the last few weeks so you can use this if for example you are looking for someone or you're worried about someone you can use this here you can also use it just just to check in about some other person without asking that person directly so like if i want to ask about i'm using risa in my example risa is our japanese channel host um if i want to ask about how risa is but i don't want to ask risa i know maybe she's busy or i don't know for some reason i it's difficult to talk to her i can ask like my co-worker i can say hey have you heard from risa lately it seems she's really busy or have you heard from so and so lately it seems they're busy so if i want to ask about another person but i don't want to bother this person or that something makes it difficult i can use have you heard from blah blah blah recently or lately to ask about them very useful phrase i have to tell you about next expression um the next expression is i have to tell you about blah blah blah i have to tell you so have to becomes hafta i have to tell you about it has a nice sound i have to tell you about blah blah or i have to tell you about something so i have to tell you about my weekend i have to tell you about stevens i have to tell you about my mom i have to tell you about my boyfriend i should tell you about my girlfriend whatever it is some person used at the end of this sentence creates a nuance like there's exciting news about that person or i have to tell you about this thing that happened you can use a situation at the end of the sentence too but you're using i have to at the beginning of this sentence so that sounds like it's really important like i feel it's so important it's my responsibility to tell you because this is so exciting of course you can use this in more boring situations as well like i have to tell you about the new office policy you can use it in that way with a very flat intonation but for gossip purposes use i have to tell you about blah blah blah that sounds really good so what do you have to tell somebody about i have to tell you about this new idea i have for a business or i have to tell you about what happened to me last night okay so there are these really exciting ways that we can introduce things that happened or that we can talk about people or whatever okay so those are 10 phrases that you can use for gossip i hope that those are useful i hope you don't gossip too much i don't really like to gossip that much but sometimes it's a little bit useful so give them a try if you want to try them out a little bit you can do so in the comments section below the video for sure if you liked this video please make sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel too check us out at englishclass101.com for more good stuff as well thank you very much for watching this episode of top words and i will see you again soon bye hi everybody welcome back to know your verbs my name is alicia and in this lesson we're going to look at the verb watch let's get started so the basic definition of the verb watch is to focus the eyes on something that is moving usually we expect it to move so like now you're watching this video in a sentence let's watch a movie later can i call you back i'm watching a baseball game so let's look at the conjugations for this verb present watch watches past watched past participle watched progressive watching now let's talk about some additional meanings of this verb the first additional meaning is to stay with someone or to stay with something to ensure safety like to kind of guard that thing or to protect that thing examples i have to watch my neighbor's kids for a couple hours can you watch my plants for a while next month okay so in both of these sentences we see the verb watch is used to mean ensure the safety of something in the first example sentence it's i have to watch my neighbor's kids so we're ensuring the safety of the kids in the second sentence we use plants can you watch my plants it doesn't mean like forever like watch the plants grow it means just make sure my plants are okay while i'm out of town for something similar it doesn't mean watch my plants forever it just means to make sure my plants are safe like to take care of my plants while i'm out of town for example so also the nuance here the feeling here is that this is just a temporary situation so when we're watching someone's kids or like watching someone's pet while they're away it's just a temporary situation okay let's go to the second extra meaning for today uh the second one the second meaning of watch is to be careful of something to be careful of something examples watch your language he needs to watch his weight so in both of these we could replace be careful with watch so in the first one we could say be careful of your language in the second one be careful of your weight so in other words there's some kind of danger or you need to be careful because something about your behavior or something you've said something you've done is maybe not a good idea so be careful of that thing but we say watch instead watch that thing instead of be careful of that thing in addition so we can also just use watch out as a set phrase which means be careful in general so if we're in a situation where we quickly want to warn someone of something like danger something bad might happen we can say watch out really quickly so watch out doesn't mean like look or watch something it means be careful we always say watch out if you have time and if you want to be specific you can say watch out for something like watch out for that car or watch out for that child watch out for those bees watch out for your computer it's going to fall something like that we always say watch out for or just in quick situations watch out just means be careful as well all right let's go on to the first variation so the first variation is watch it watch it so watch it also means be careful like watch out or just the regular watch your something but watch it is very casual and actually kind of aggressive so watch it implies like if you don't take care i might do something bad to you like it's so it's quite an aggressive phrase examples watch it i'm walking you better watch it kid you better watch it or else i'm gonna do something bad to you i don't know so it's aggressive it's an aggressive phrase and you should not use it with people who are above you you should not use it in polite situations i would not really recommend using this but you might see this in tv shows in other media watch it it means be careful but it's aggressive okay let's go to the next variation the next variation is to keep watch to keep watch this means like to stand guard to guard against like to protect something this expression means like to guard against danger and it often means alone like often you're doing it by yourself while someone else like sleeps so examples i'm going to keep first watch tonight you keep watch i'm going to get some sleep so to keep watch means like to stay awake or to stay alert looking for something that might be dangerous so you can see this in movies where like people are traveling somewhere and they're camping out on the side of the road like maybe in lord of the rings or something where everybody's sleeping but one person is awake near the fire watching to see if anything dangerous happens and then they wake up other people if something dangerous is coming so they're sort of the guard in that case so to keep watch in that case okay let's go to the last variation ah the last variation okay the last variation is to watch one's back to watch one's back so to watch your back let's use that to watch your back means to be cautious about your safety to be cautious about your safety so to be careful about yourself not because of some like physical object like a bus is gonna come and get you i don't know no it means like someone uh an enemy might try to do something bad to you so watch your back examples of this you'd better watch your back stevens uh one more example hey watch your back you're making enemies so in these cases watch your back is said rather seriously and with the meaning that you need to be careful someone might try to hurt you in the future it could be physically it could be financially it could be like your reputation whatever watch your back mean be careful like someone might try to hurt you in some way however be careful um this expression watch your back is totally different from got your back so watch your back and got your back totally different got your back is a support phrase like i've got your back means i'm supporting you no problem i will try to help you or i'll try to support you i'll try to keep you safe i've got your back no problems watch your back means be careful you might be in danger you should be careful you have enemies so quite different watch your back got your back alright so i hope that you got a few new meanings for the verb watch that you can use there if you have any questions comments or if you want to try to use the verb watch please feel free to do so in the comments section of this video of course if you liked the video please give us a thumbs up subscribe to the channel and check us out at englishclass101.com for other good study resources thanks very much for watching this episode of know your verbs and we'll see you again next time bye hi everybody welcome back to know your verbs my name is alicia and in this episode we're going to talk about the verb follow let's go so the basic definition of this verb is to move behind someone or something and to go to the same place that that person or thing is going to examples i'll follow you to the park follow me i know where we're going the conjugations of this verb now present follow follows past followed past participle followed progressive following now let's talk about some additional meanings of this verb okay the first additional meaning is to understand to understand examples i don't follow you do you follow so we can really just replace the word follow with understand here in the first example sentence i don't follow you we can say i don't understand you it means i don't understand what you're saying or i don't understand what you're thinking i don't follow you it sounds more casual like i don't follow your train of thought train of thought means like the path you took to arrive at your destination thinking wise follow you just sounds more casual it's like i can't understand i can't follow the path of your logic in other words so i don't follow you in the second sentence it's a question do you follow meaning do you understand do you understand what i'm saying so follow can mean understand quite simply okay let's go to the second meaning for this verb so the second one is to happen after something else to come after something else examples of this a delicious dessert followed the roast chicken a luxurious hot spring experience follows a massage on this one day tour in these example sentences we see follow is used to describe something that happens after something else in the first example sentence i mentioned a dessert that followed a roast chicken so yes dessert is being presented first in the sentence so i said a delicious dessert followed a roast chicken so that means a delicious dessert came after a roast chicken so followed yes followed shows the thing that came after the other thing so we see the same thing in the second example sentence a luxurious hot spring experience follows a relaxing massage so yes luxurious hot spring experience is first in the sentence however we're using the verb follows so that means it comes after a massage in this case so yes it's presented first in the sentence but uh this use of follow means come after so that means we're presenting a sequence in this way let's go to the third meaning which is to obey to obey so to obey something okay examples of this to obey did you follow the instructions on the instant ramen she decided to follow her manager's advice so in both of these sentences we're meaning obey with the verb follow so we could say did you obey the instructions on the instant ramen but obey sounds quite strong we use obey for like people who are in positions of power above us so in this case with ramen it's packaging so we usually say follow the instructions on the packaging so meaning obey the instructions on the packaging but obey is quite a strong word we use follow instead in the second sentence she followed her manager's advice it's like she obeyed her manager's advice so yes a manager is in a position of power above you sure obey is typically used when we are given like strict orders for something like like military or like something from the president something from very high up and like very strong orders like like obey your commanding officer or something like that in this case it's advice meaning that it's probably not so serious it's like a suggestion and it's a manager so she has probably like a workplace relationship so we would probably use follow someone's advice in this case so follow means obey but it's not quite as strong not nearly as strong much softer so the fourth meaning is to be very interested in something and to watch that thing closely examples of this i don't really follow sports she's been following the news very closely so the first example sentence is a negative i don't really follow sports meaning i don't really have much interest in and therefore i don't really watch much sports in the second example sentence she's been following the news very closely it means she's been very interested in and watching a lot of news lately so this use of follow is quite convenient it it includes meanings of being interested in something and watching something carefully or closely so to follow a topic or to follow an activity so this means being interested in that activity and doing or seeing or reading about a lot of it variations let's look at some variations of this verb the first variation is to follow suit to follow suit this means to do the same thing as the person previously mentioned in the sentence or in the situation examples my manager just quit the company i think i'm gonna follow suit her boyfriend decided to leave the party so she followed suit so in both of these examples we see one person makes a decision or takes an action and the other person does the same thing we show that with the expression follow suit so in the first example my manager quit the company i think i'm gonna follow suit so i think i'm going to do the same thing as the person i just mentioned so my manager quit the company i think i'm going to do that as well i think i'm going to follow suit in the second example sentence her boyfriend decided to leave the party so she followed suit so he left the party she decided to do the same thing he did she followed suit past tense she did the same thing he did so follow suit means to do the same thing as the person previously mentioned the next variation is to follow through to follow through we often use to follow through on or to follow through with something this means to keep a promise or to do something you said you were going to do examples i hate it when people don't follow through with their plans that's true that's called flaking okay example sentence number two i'm going to follow through on my resolution to find a new job okay so here we see a couple examples so the first one is sort of a negative statement i hate it when people don't follow through with their plans meaning i hate it when people don't do the things they say they're going to do so i hate it when people make a plan and break the plan or make a suggestion and don't do that thing so they don't follow through with their plans in the second example the speaker previously made a resolution a resolution is a kind of goal so the speaker previously made a resolution the speaker has decided to follow through meaning to to try to achieve that resolution to try to do that action so that means that the speaker is going to find a new job so the speaker is going to do the thing he or she promised to do the last variation for follow today is to follow in someone's footsteps to follow in someone's footsteps this is kind of an easy one to imagine so to follow in the same footsteps as someone who walked before you however that person who walked before you is typically a parent or maybe a grandparent or someone senior to you that you admire example sentences he's following in his father's footsteps and becoming a lawyer she decided not to follow in her mother's footsteps after all so to follow in someone's footsteps typically refers to a career choice so in the first example sentence we saw lawyer so he decided to follow in his father's footsteps meaning he decided to do the same thing his father did as a career become a lawyer so meaning chose the same thing as his parent in the second we see a different situation she decided not to follow in her mother's footsteps meaning she chose a different career path from her mother or she chose a different life path from her mother so to follow in someone's footsteps means to do the same thing usually the same career as their parent or their grandparent so those are a few new ways to use the verb follow i hope if you have any questions if you want to try to make a sentence or if you know some other ways to use follow please feel free to try it out in the comments great so if you liked the video please make sure to give it a thumbs up subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and check us out at englishclass101.com for some other good study tools thanks very much for watching this episode of know your verbs and we'll see you again next time bye-bye [Music] good for some uh i really have to sneeze hi everybody welcome back to know your verbs my name is alicia and in this lesson we're going to talk about the verb stop let's go so the basic definition is to finish doing something to stop example sentences stop hitting me i need to stop laughing so much now let's look at the conjugations of this verb present stop stops passed stopped past participle stopped progressive stopping now let's talk about some additional meanings of this verb the first meaning here is to pause during an activity examples let's stop for lunch they're stopping at the supermarket on their way to the party so each of these example sentences shows some pause in an activity the first example sentence let's stop for lunch could mean like maybe people are working let's stop meaning let's take a break eat lunch and come back to the activity so let's pause do this thing come back later let's pause let's stop for lunch the second example sentence they're stopping at the supermarket on their way here means they the people here are coming to some location coming to a party maybe and on the way in the act of coming they're going to stop at the supermarket so pause the activity of coming and go to the supermarket to get something and then continue coming to the party or continue coming to the event so there's some pause we can use stop to mean pause in some other activity the next meaning is to block something to block something we often use this for like a hole or a leak or we need to keep something out of something else like rushing liquid like water for example examples we stopped the leaky pipe with special glue we stopped up the hole with old fabric so you'll see in the second sentence there i used the preposition up to stop up something when you're using stop to refer to fixing a hole so meaning putting things into a hole to fix a hole we typically use the preposition up step up a hole step up a leak stop up a crack i suppose mostly for whole though so when you want to talk about blocking something else out we can say to stop something like to stop the water as well means you block the water but if you're talking about um like filling a hole like to stop something from coming in um you can use stop up the hole so it means you block something so we could say uh stop the water from coming into the river or like stop the bugs from coming into the house by putting a screen on the door for example you're blocking them from coming in the third meaning for this lesson is to cause not to move to cause not to move examples can you stop the car i feel sick stop moving i'm trying to take your picture so to cause not to move means to maybe seize the operation c's means stop but seize means to make something come to an end so like in the first example sentence stop the car it means i want the car not to move i feel sick so to cause something not to move is to stop that thing the fourth meaning of this verb for this lesson is to not operate to not operate this is especially used for like machines examples uh oh my computer has stopped working they're stopping work at the factory early today so this means some operation is not happening so some something is not operating it's not continuing so in the first example my computer has stopped working i used the past tense stopped stopped my computer has stopped working means like oh it's not working so it was working now it's not it's stopped it is no longer operational in the second sentence it's about a factory uh in the second sentence i'm using the progressive form they're stopping work at the factory early today so this sentence means there's a plan at the factory to stop work early today so we use the progressive form they're stopping work early to refer to a determined plan a plan that's been determined prior to the conversation they're stopping work today so that means operations will cease they're not going to continue let's continue on to some variations now the first variation of the verb stop is to stop by to stop by it means to visit for a short time so to stop by the house to stop by the store to stop by the supermarket other examples stop by the house sometime and say hello we're going to stop by the bar later it just means to make a short visit we'll stop by a place or you can just say we'll stop by later it means if the if the place is understood by the listener you can drop the place we'll stop by later it's fine the next variation is stop at nothing stop at nothing interesting phrase this expression means someone is willing to do anything in order to achieve something willing to do anything so we'll stop we'll we'll cease for no reason we'll stop at nothing in order to achieve something examples i'll stop at nothing to get a date with that movie star he'll stop at nothing to get that boat he wants so meaning these people will do anything to achieve their goal they will stop at nothing to achieve their goal right so those are a few maybe new ways to use the verb stop for you i hope you got something new out of this lesson if you have any questions comments or if you'd like to try to make a sentence using the verb stop please feel free to do so in the comments section of course if you liked the video please make sure to give us a thumbs up subscribe to the channel and check us out at englishclass101.com for other good study resources thank you very much for watching this episode of know your verbs and we'll see you again next time bye bye don't stop believe and there we go we got one we got one we have a total of three out of twelve whoa three out of 13 now i think we're right want to speak real english from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at englishclass101.com hi everybody my name is alicia and today we're going to be talking about 10 of the hardest words to pronounce according to you guys so we collected some information from you on facebook thanks very much for sending in your ideas and these were the top 10 uh most difficult words for you to pronounce so let's get started absolutely absolutely absolutely might be tough to pronounce absolutely means 100 absolutely is uh an agreement phrase are you going to that music event next week absolutely yes 100 definitely absolutely loot like a loot l-u-t-e b grime the grime apparently means dirty i've never heard nor used this word before but perhaps it's difficult to pronounce begrime the door to my apartment was begrimed in the storm last week breakfast the next word is breakfast breakfast is hard to pronounce but that is the meaning of breakfast you're breaking the fast so a fast is a period of time without eating and to break means to just well in this case breaking something it doesn't refer to like crushing a thing but um stopping something to break the fast of the night in other words so you're fasting during the night you're not eating so you wake up in the morning you break the fast but we don't say breakfast we say breakfast in a sentence this morning for breakfast i ate a bowl of cereal with grapes and i had a coffee too colleague colleague yes colleague many of my students struggle with this they say colleague or they say call you or something because the spelling of this word is really really strange there's that g-u-e at the end or more commonly i feel it's just co-worker colleague sounds slightly more formal to me than co-worker somebody who you work with or somebody who you have a business relationship with in some sense could be a person from another company could be somebody from your own company anyone who you do business dealings with is your colleague can be your colleague in a sentence i'm going to a networking event with my colleagues next week miscellaneous that misc miscellaneous it's just the spelling i think maybe is confusing for this word miscellaneous miscellaneous just means other stuff or just other uncategorized stuff i keep a lot of miscellaneous items in a drawer in my house maybe they don't they don't really fit into one category like it's not kitchen things it's not clothing it's just sort of a mixture of of things miscellaneous things negotiation the next word is negotiation negotiation yeah there are two t's in this but neither t is a hard t they're both very soft that sh sound because they're followed by the i and another vowel that she a negotiation negotiation refers to a compromise between two people you're trying to make a decision and you negotiate in this case it's a noun form negotiation business negotiations continued for more than a month with this important deal realm realm i see why this one's hard it's that rome part little realm it's a weird word isn't it it's used to talk about just like the kind of a fantasy world is sort of the nuance of this phrase the realm uh in a sentence let us go to the realm where the elves live and eat their bread unfortunately the next word is unfortunately unfortunately unfortunately just means too bad uh you can use this to to start bad news for example like unfortunately i can't come to work today because i'm sick or unfortunately i broke my arm at the basketball game last week or unfortunately my haircut is bad vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary vocab vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary just refers to the uh words in a language my vocabulary in my second language is really really low i need a bigger vocabulary so that i can express myself more clearly world world ah i see why this one's hard world world hard to pronounce that rld i think uh together is tough plus that w at the beginning as well it's such a short word but you have to say so many weird things at the same time world your tongue is going like this in a sentence i have traveled all over the world and the best food is in my stomach that's the end so those were 10 hard to pronounce words give them a try slowly at first and just kind of try to work up to saying it at a more natural speed if you like thank you so much for sharing your opinions with us on facebook and please make sure to subscribe to our channel so that you don't miss out on any of this fun information so thanks again for watching today and we'll see you again next time bye you don't need new shoes you need new feet hi everybody welcome back my name is alicia and today we're going to be talking about some english tongue twisters i'm joined again by michael hey everybody so today we're going to be talking about some things in english that are difficult to say that might be difficult for you and they're probably going to be difficult for us to explain so let's get right into it michael what is your first tongue twister my first tongue twister is how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood one more time a little bit faster how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood excellent and there is a traditional response to this one you're familiar with the response once you tell me it's a question right this this is it ends in a question there's a question mark on your car and the traditional response is it would chuck all the wood that a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood ah yeah i have it on one of my cards actually i think too this was totally unplanned i would like to point out yeah here it is it would chuck all the wood that a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood so you can you can use this with your friends if you want all right let's do it real quick ready okay how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood it would chuck all the wood that a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood all right there's one down okay uh let's see we've talked about that one already so i guess i'll go with another classic one that i've known since i was little this one uses the p sound a lot peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers lots of p sounds in this one can you speed it up for us well i don't know if i can say it in the first place peter piper picked the have you not heard this one before i have it okay peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers hold on one more time peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers for me it helps if you snap okay peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers peter piper picked a pack oh my god i can't do it maybe it's better if you don't read it those are peter no no you i can't do it peter piper picked a fact of pickled peppers that wasn't very good i wasn't perfect one more time one more time peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers one more three more times peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers peter piper picked oh dude i i can't do it peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers there we go peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers peter piper picked a pack of pick oh man that's tough the piece man i can't do the piece oh wow these can't do you either okay go to your next one what's your next one uh no my brain is frazzled now okay uh oh i just like this one i've actually never heard this before but i like it because there's a lot of th's in it and a lot of foreign people who are learning english let me say that a lot of non-native english speakers have trouble with th that's been true for a lot of my students regardless of where they're from what their native language is so the 33 thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout thursday well i've never seen this one yeah me either but i just thought it was good because i remember th so the 33 thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout thursday want to give it a try yeah i'm gonna try the 33 thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout thursday that's a good one that's a really good one for th sounds i think it's not it's i think the consonant sounds like the hard consonant sounds like the p sound or the well maybe even the w sound a little bit like it's easy to say that quickly but this one's really tough to say quickly i think and clearly the 33 thieves thought that they throw this it just doesn't come out as smoothly maybe spitting a lot maybe maybe so okay i guess i'll go to my next one i really have no faith that i'm gonna be able to say this at all this is like the hardest thing that i think i was able to find i'm gonna have to read it slowly the six sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick yeah what okay yeah the sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick yeah the sixth six oh like the second word you can't even say it it's really hard one more time all right this the sixth sick chic sixth cheap sick the sixth oh that was good that was good that was way better yeah we'll just leave it on that one that's six i did it once the sixth sixth chic sixth sheep sick that's really hard it's really i don't think i can say it any faster than that the sixth sixth sheik's sixth oh oh i can't i'm i'm the loss of words okay one more time okay the sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick the sixth sick oh one and one says two two got it out the one time i was solid i'm sorry i gave it up i give up okay what's your next one my next one is the soldier's shoulder surely hurts another one i've actually never heard but i liked it because everyone knows sally sells seashells down by the seashore the s and the sh is confusing and many times in english like surely there's no sh but it makes that that sh sound so it's a fun one yeah the soldier's shoulder surely hurts the soldier's shoulder surely hurts wanna give it a try the soldier's shoulder surely hurts this is the tough part here for me anyway is this the soldier's shoulder making that sound really clearly is that the soldier's shoulder surely hurts yeah yeah you make it sound so easy wow professional not really okay uh on to the last one this one is really short actually it's only two words but it's tricky it's really tricky i can't say this fast irish wrish wrist watch okay irish by itself is fine wristwatch is fine but together they're really hard to say irish i can't say it irish wrist watch really hard irish wrist watch yeah very slow okay irish oh wow it's really hard it doesn't it seems easier than it is yeah i was saying i thought come on okay i irish wristwatch irish [Laughter] irish wristwatch irish wristwatch irish wristwatch nice there we go okay irish wrist can't sing this one irish wrist i can't try it this one's hard this one's really hard for me but yeah only two words it's just it's just that combination of the sh and the r that's just i can't i got nothing on that one all right do you have any more no i think that's it oh wow that was a good one that was really tough that was really tough okay we'll give them a try please give them a try and if you have any tongue twisters preferably in english please share them with us in the comments there are great ways to practice your pronunciation and you can impress your friends if you can do them quickly thank you again for joining us and we'll see you again soon bye top essay oh hi sorry i forgot to say hi again hi everybody and welcome back to weekly words this week the topic is going to be s-a-t words words that students who are studying for the s.a.t the s.a.t is a kind of college preparatory test or a test that students take usually to apply for colleges the words are typically fairly challenging for high school students and these are some of the words that might cause trouble for some people so let's begin the first word is assiduous assiduous is a word that means somebody who is a persistent or who is always trying to do their best to work really really hard you might have a co-worker who is deciduous i suppose you could also use it if you're just describing anything that's hard working like ants for example you might say ants are very assiduous creatures they work hard they can lift more than their own body weight okay that's pretty good next intuitive intuitive someone who is intuitive is someone who has a good instinct or they're able to sense what the right thing is to do without you know having to be taught what the right thing is so uh let's say maybe you're going surfing for the first time and it comes to you really really easily uh after just your first couple tries your friends might say like wow you're really intuitive you know how to do this without you know having to take a lesson or anything great job a good trait to be intuitive precocious precocious is another usually a positive word precocious is usually used for children children who are kind of strangely talented at something even when they're very very little so maybe you've seen on youtube a kid who can play the piano extremely well even though he or she is five years old we might say he's precocious or she's a precocious child she can do so much but she's so young it's usually a very impressive thing that the kids are able to do all right the next one is evanescent evanescent evanescence evanescent is another adjective which means something that fades away rather quickly or something that's very short-lived oh to be very romantic about it you might say the scent of her perfume was very evanescent you could smell it for a brief moment and then it faded away yeah that was kind of nice the next word is anecdote an anecdote is usually some kind of a short funny story that's a retelling of an event that happened to you it might be a written story or a spoken story oh want to hear an anecdote about my last trip to bali it was hilarious i don't know that i'd ever say that though it's not something you'd use so much in casual conversation i feel like a critic might write this word about someone else's writing the anecdotes she chooses to include in her writing are very humorous for example okay well we've learned a few sat words that students might have trouble with when they're studying for the test in their high school years i hope that you find some of these words useful and can use them in your daily life as well thanks for joining us this week and i will see you again next time bye bye okay welcome back to weekly words weekly words uh i'm alicia and today we're going to talk about words that make you sound smart oh i'm all over this one first word is esoteric when something is esoteric it's all right so the word esoteric refers to um something that requires specialized knowledge so in a conversation somebody might use this word to say sorry to be esoteric and then they'll continue talking about some subject or some concept that requires a certain level of knowledge in the given field next word superfluous superfluous just means extra really so can a person be superfluous so superfluous yeah just just refers to stuff that's um maybe not necessary or the x the extra just stuff or extra extra things uh in a given context so maybe you know oh i have so much superfluous stuff in my kitchen of course using superfluous in such a casual way like that is very unnatural but you could do it if you really wanted to sound smart acquiesce acquiesce means to um like you might have oh like can i say a line from pirates of the caribbean something like he will not acquiesce to your request or she will not acquiesce to your request just means she won't obey or listen or do as told um but that's it's the same exact meaning to acquiesce to accept something uh yeah to go along with angst angst refers to just kind of this like that that unhappy feeling this sort of angry or maybe melancholy or just feeling like you know you're misunderstood so a teenager or i suppose a teenager themselves might not use this word but the parents of the teenager might say oh my teenager is so filled with angst kitsch kitsch kitsch refers to in my mind anyway just um junk honestly it's the little things that you know might crowd your house like a snow globe or special little ornaments or just um you know decorative knickknacks you might say oh my aunt's apartment is really kitschy it means she has maybe like a lot of knickknacks or the style is just kind of all right that is the end so those were a few words to make you sound smart i hope that you learned something i certainly did and i'll see you again next time thank you bye 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 um or to make to blow something up make it uh 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 an antar 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 ant arctic 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 want to speak real english from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at englishclass101.com welcome back to weekly words my name is alicia and today we're going to talk about words with weird silent letters i like the title of this one let's get started the first word is pterodactyl a pterodactyl is a dinosaur this was a flying dinosaur from the late jurassic period i totally knew that on my own pterodactyl begins with a p but we don't say the ps just starts with a t sound in a sentence you might say the pterodactyl is my favorite dinosaur the next word is mortgage ah my students messed up this word mortgage like last week in class mortgage has a t in it but we don't say the t it sounds like mortgage like there's no t at all a mortgage is um the payment that you make on your house every month if if you've had to take a loan from a bank in a sentence my mortgage payments are very reasonable i hope the next word is isle isle is a weird word so yes there's an s in the word isle but it is not pronounced i slay it's pronounced i'll isle with an a in front is the space between uh rows of seats on an airplane for example or the space between shelves and a supermarket any sort of pathway is an aisle in a sentence please keep your feet out of the aisle on the airplane because the cart might bump you the next word is fo faux has an x at the end when it's spelled on paper but we do not say folks we don't say that we say fo fo means fake faux means something that's not real uh very commonly you'll hear this in terms of faux fur as in i prefer to wear faux fur because i don't believe that we should kill animals all right the next word is asthma we were just talking about how i have asthma asthma is uh spelled very weirdly there's a th in there but we do not say the th it's it sounds like asma asthma asthma is a respiratory condition you might have asthma it's very common where it might be difficult for you to breathe sometimes you need to take medicine in a sentence i carry my inhaler everywhere because i have asthma and that's the end of words that have weird silent letters so be careful when you come across these in writing because they sound a little bit different than the way they're spelled thanks again for watching weekly words this week we will be back with more fun stuff next time take care bye i don't know how to end this hi and welcome back to weekly words i'm alicia and i don't know what i'm going to talk to you about yet but let's start today's topic is words that vary by region creek i say creek you might hear the word crick qrik the word creek means uh a small river essentially uh there's a creek in my backyard for example um sure the next word is coyote i say coyote how do other people say this word coyote oh yeah coyote i don't say that a coyote is kind of a dog-like animal it's a wild animal about the size of a dog with a howl at night we had them in oregon where i'm from uh i definitely heard them at my house last night i heard the coyotes out in my pasture okay the next word is root r-o-u-t-e root it's how i say it you might also hear the word pronounced route root r-o-u-t-e means the way through um a city or a town or some kind of path in other words um r-o-o-t which this word sounds like is the system that's at the bottom of a plant that plant uses to get nutrients you know with little hairy fibers i'm so good at explaining plant biology oh i know a good route to get from school to the park later let's take that on our bicycles that was oddly specific the next word is apricot or you might hear apricot as well it's a fruit um so you might say hey did you bring any apricots to the picket pick it to the bacon apricots no it's not picket on the other hand is a word that means protest there's a freebie in there uh for example you might say hey i really like those apricots you brought me the other day they were delicious okay the next oh the next word is caramel i say i think i say caramel oh this is making me doubt myself there's caramel and there's caramel they both refer to a sugary sweet substance that's often a type of candy or often inside a type of candy it's really really delicious so you might say oh my favorite kind of candy is caramel or my favorite kind of candy is caramel uh just depends on where you're from apparently in the east the east coast they say caramel on the west coast it seems we say carmel that sounds about right to me you can choose end hooray what was this one called ah this has been words that vary by region you can choose which region you're from perhaps but it's probably best for you to be consistent when you're speaking so that you don't confuse the person listening to you hope you enjoyed and i will see you again next time bye [Music] hi everybody my name is alicia and today we're going to be talking about the top 25 english verbs by frequency so let's get into it b is the first english verb b refers to existence i want to be an astronaut i think you would be a great person for this job be yourself let's be friends i could have been a writer if i wanted to be the next verb is have i have a dog i have an idea what do you have how many do you have how much money do you have do you have any friends how have you been have you seen my mom i can't find her have yourself a merry little christmas the next verb is do do you want some pizza do you have a dog to do dooby dooby do if you're frank sinatra i do the things that you do better say say say say what you want same names say you love me do you know what i'm saying know what i'm saying the next verb is get get a life get a job get a haircut get a better suit stevens what you got i could have gotten a pony but i went with a lizard instead i'm getting tired that's not true the next verb is make make a cake make your mother proud someone outside is making a strange face at me through the window at the moment that is a true story make a living through legitimate means the next verb is go go big or go home i'm going to the beach you should go to the beach you should go to the forest go to a baseball game with me past tense of goes went i went spelunking on my holiday the next word is no this is an interesting word because no is actually not commonly used in the progressive tense no is commonly used in present tense to refer to your mental state or your emotional state so we don't really say i am knowing really but we can say i know i know the answer what do you know about this issue he couldn't have possibly known the location of the treasure how many people do you know i knew it the next verb is take take a cake take a break take your self to bed you should take a vacation have you ever taken a bath the next word is see we'll see i'll see you later the next verb is come come as an expert please come to my house come to a party i'm gonna come over to your place later the next word is think think i think you're great he thinks pizza is the best food i'm thinking about lunch i'm thinking about coffee what are you thinking about i've been thinking about something that's a hanson song uh have you ever thought about the meaning of life look look is the next verb please look at the camera look over there look over here look a dog look at your mom oh my gosh would you look at that look at the time look it's a bird it's a plane it's actually a bird look at that is it me you're looking for hello next word is want want what do you want i want food how many coffees have you ever wanted i wanted to go to the dry cleaners this morning but i ran out of time that's true the next verb is give give me a break i'm going to give you a raise stevens i'm giving you the axe fired give me a break give me break break my health please like kick her i have given you everything i have go onto mordor frollo i could have given you the world and instead i gave you a carpet uses the next word use don't use a pen i like using chocolate when i make food are you using me for my brain next is find we could have found buried treasure last weekend i'm finding nemo find things on the internet with google find english words and phrases at englishclass101.com yeah tell is the next verb tell me a story tell me lies tell me sweet little life tell me the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth i'm told that you are an extremely good opera singer i'm telling you to leave tell lies every day don't tell lies the next word is ask ask please pronounce this correctly it is not ax many native speakers make this pronunciation mistake and it really bothers me ask ask me about my collection of rare donut recipes ask your mom about her life why don't you ask your boss to the party how about you ask your coworker for some advice about this issue i should have asked for help but i didn't the next verb is work work is work i'm working now seem to seem the weather seems nice today he seemed a little angry this morning feel is the next word feel i feel happy feelings how does it feel feel feel clap along if you feel like that's what you want to do try oh my gosh try is the next word ah 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 leave your doors unlocked don't leave your doors unlocked i have never left a hot air balloon without first taking a picture the next verb is call call is the next verb give me a call please call me later call me maybe call your mom on her birthday every year she'll be happy call call you're a seagull have you ever called the wrong number have you ever called a dog by another dog's name and that's the end that was the most fun episode i've ever done anything so those are 25 english verbs some very very common english verbs give them a try we've talked about a lot of different grammar forms and a lot of different ways you can use these verbs so please practice them and if you like this video please be sure to comment please please please be sure to subscribe too we'll have a button around here somewhere maybe many buttons so please subscribe to us and check out more content as it becomes available thanks very much and we'll see you again soon bye s surfed look at that do you want to build the snow leave your babies outside of the movie leave your attitude at the door there are a lot of verbs in english okay hi everybody my name is alicia and today we're going to be talking about the top 25 english phrases so let's get started the first phrase is hello hello of course is used as a greeting you can greet your friends you can greet your co-workers your family with this phrase just by saying hello hey hi what's up hello sup yo pretty much any time of day you can use hello hello the next phrase is good morning good morning is used as a greeting in the morning you can kind of feel when morning ends for you good morning is nice and polite or even just morning with your close friends or close co-workers the next phrase is good night good night is fine we don't use this to greet other people we use it when we're saying goodbye to other people at night family members particularly mothers and fathers to say good night to their children before they put them to bed you can say it to your friend in a text message or in an email if you've been talking for a while good night so the next word to talk about is goodbye uh use it when you say goodbye to your friends when you leave your friends goodbye bye of course take care have a nice day peace out that's another way to say goodbye okay the next phrase is i'm plus your name of course this is a way to introduce yourself you can use i'm in my case alicia i'm alicia to introduce yourself in any situation new friend i'm alicia okay the next phrase is what's your name what's your name is used to ask someone else what their name is so what is your name sounds a bit tried to use what's your name if you forget someone's name you can say sorry what's your name or sorry what's your name again next phrase is nice to meet you nice to meet you anytime you meet someone new nice to meet you is fine good to meet you is a little more casual great to meet you sounds very excited pleasure to meet you sounds like uh maybe a formal situation or a business context okay the next phrase is how are you how are you is it's just a friendly way to check in with the other person you can use it with friends your family your co-workers maybe even your boss to a certain degree uh how are you how you doing the next phrase is i'm fine thanks and you uh if you saw english in three minutes we talked a lot about this phrase uh instead of i'm fine thank you and you say i'm good thanks how are you just shorten it make it a little bit more natural how are you good how are you great how are you not so good how are you okay and so on so when someone says how are you offer i usually say i'm good this week i blah blah blah give some information about what you've been up to maybe a hobby something that you did recently an event something interesting you saw whatever people want to make that connection with you and it's a good chance for you to continue speaking the next word is please please is a polite phrase used when you want something from someone else you can use this as a response when someone offers you something like in a restaurant for example would you like more water would you like something to drink oh please the next phrase is thank you thank you is used to express your appreciation you can use thank you with everybody the next phrase is you're welcome you're welcome when someone says thank you you can say you're welcome ah no biggie i use no biggie as in no biggie is short for no big problem the next word is yes yes of course yes means is any positive expression someone asks you a question and the answer is a positive answer you say yes yep uh-huh yeah we no next i'm guessing i know it yep the next word is no no is a negative response to something when you have to give a negative answer so as you can probably guess um the long form of no is negative i like to use nope it's very very casual not gonna happen my parents would use that with me to soften that a little bit if you want to show a negative response to something like let's go for dinner tonight what do you want to do like do you want to go out uh not really no i don't think so to soften it the next word is okay okay this word comes from copy editors okay when they had to check a manuscript um they had to label the manuscript all clear ac but because they were copy editors and they have a very very sick sense of humor they thought they would market ok for all clear to make a joke because o and k do not start all and clear but it caught on among everybody in the world anyway okay is used to agree with somebody else well it can be used actually to express a positive or kind of a slight negative i feel transitioning in your conversation you can say okay now we're going to talk about blah blah blah okay the next phrase is excuse me excuse me it's used to get someone's attention in english when you don't know the other person for example in a store a supermarket maybe a stranger on the street you need to ask directions you can use excuse me you can use excuse me in the supermarket excuse me can you tell me where the hot sauce is if you've done something rude in public you can use excuse me i personally do not do rude things in public ever i'm sorry is the next word we're going to talk about i'm sorry is used to apologize when you have made a mistake or someone you know has made a mistake and you're connected to it or you just feel bad you can use i'm sorry you made a mistake at work i'm sorry you forgot to feed your cat i'm sorry sorry about that you bump someone next to you oh sorry what time is it is the next phrase when you need to check what time it is what time is it when you ask someone else what time it is maybe you say this to yourself too check your watch check your phone check a clock pretty straightforward phrase there aren't really any short versions so that's an easy one where is the plus a location so you can use this for a building or a store we don't we're not going to use this where is the for a place a city name or a state name or a country name to do that you would need to remove the but where is the bank where is the post office you can use this to ask directions to ask for help in your house or at work where is the copy machine where is the file i need where is the blah blah blah where is the bathroom is perhaps a very important question to know the next one is may i use the restroom may i use the restroom as a polite uh and soft expression that you can use if you need to use the toilet you need to use the washroom when you're at someone's house for the very first time when you're in a place that you're that is new to you you can ask may i use the restroom more casually can i go to the bathroom to be very polite you can say may i go to the bathroom the next phrase is i would like to order something you can use this at a restaurant probably or in any situation where you need to place an order i'd like a pizza i'd like a beer can i get the check please this will be used at a restaurant when you've finished your meal and it's time to go can i get the check please in a very very casual situation you can just say check please that's fine the next phrase is see you soon see you soon is used with friends and family members perhaps uh when you expect to see them again soon after saying goodbye to them this is used at the end of the conversation you're going separate directions see you soon see ya is also good or just see you to make it a little more formal you can say i'll see you again soon make a full sentence out of it that way the next phrases see you later see you later it's very similar to see you soon but the point is with cu later is that you're probably going to meet that person again later on in the same day the last phrase is really really is a very useful word because you can use it to show you're interested in a conversation with upward intonation really really tell me more or to show that you're not so interested in the conversation with downward intonation really so there are many other words that you can use similar to really in this way like seriously or oh oh and so on so it's a really good practice for your intonation uh so those are 25 very common words uh and phrases in english if you liked this video if you like this topic um please subscribe um i'm sure there'll be a button here somewhere or a button here or wherever but please be sure to subscribe to our channel because we're going to be doing more videos like this and we already have more videos like this so please be sure to check them out thanks very much for watching and we'll see you again soon want to speed up your language learning take your very first lesson with us you'll start speaking in minutes and master real conversations sign up for 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