Useful English Words & Phrases to Speak Like a Native

wanna speak real English from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at English class 101.com hi everybody welcome back to ask Alisha the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them maybe first question comes from do we sit again hi again Dewey Dewey says what's the meaning of for good I've heard stay for good here for good nothing for good but I didn't clearly understand them yeah great question for good means forever or it means for a very long time so like he's here for good or we're gonna stay for good your last example nothing for good I'm not sure I've never seen that expression before so I'm not quite sure about the meaning of that but for good means forever so I hope that that helps you thanks for the question ok let's move on to your next question next question comes from byron hi Byron Byron says hi Alicia my question is do you recommend using apps to practice speaking I was using this method and I just found people from another country whose accent is different from the American accent Thanks I think that this kind of thing really depends a lot on the app you're using there are many different apps that you can use to study many different things so I don't know that I can suggest like apps are great or apps are bad it really depends on the app that you're using so if you're not happy with the conversation partners that you found on the app you're using now try a different app if you're having trouble finding a partner that you really connect with or that works really well with you another thing you can try doing is just recording yourself speaking and comparing that to a native speaker so you could use just your phone to do this like record yourself saying the same thing as a native speaker set so if you watch our videos for example you could listen to something I said or something like Devi or Michael said and then try to say that again and record yourself saying it and then compare it just to kind of get an idea of where you can improve this is actually a really interesting exercise I think because when you are speaking you think you sound a certain way and then when you hear yourself you sound really really different so this can actually be a really good way to practice another thing I know that on our website we have another voice recording function where you can compare yourself to a native speaker and that's specifically on the English class 101 website so that's another tool you can check out but for apps yeah like I said I think it really depends on your conversation partner and what other services the app might offer you so you could just try out a few different things and see what you like so I hope this answer helps you and I hope maybe you found another technique you can use to work on improving your speaking skills thanks very much for the question okay let's move along to your next question next question comes from Henry K Ferrera hi Henry K Henry K says hey Alicia I love your videos today my question is about chatbot in the beginning I was very shy about chatting with other people in English I'm not anymore but I want to know if chatting with chatbots is a good tool for improving your speaking skills what do you think um I think something like this could be good maybe for improving your basic like sentence building skills I'm not sure what kind of chatbot you're talking about to my knowledge I've seen chat BOTS where you can type things to a chat bot and the computer will return an answer to you maybe you're talking about a speaking kind of chat bot so that could be possible I don't know but I would say that these sorts of things could perhaps be useful for like making basic sentences or making very simple conversations so perhaps in the very beginning something like that could be a nice addition a nice supplement to whatever you're doing but I think you're going to miss out on a lot of other really important stuff if you only use a robot to practice a robot is not going to do the arms and us and use interesting vocabulary words the robot is just programmed to do one thing so if can remember that and maybe use it as like a method of refreshing yourself every once in a while perhaps but I just think that you're missing out on a lot of things if you're only using a robot I think as soon as possible you should be practicing speaking with other real people so that you understand really and truly how people use the language and then you can also be learning from them so I would probably not recommend relying too much on a chat bot for your studies I think the purpose of learning a language is to be able to communicate with someone else in that language so if you only use it to communicate with a robot then it's kind of defeating the purpose of your studies so I would say use it with other people as much as possible and try not to use a chat bot that much so I hope that that helps you thanks for an interesting question okay let's move on to your next question next question comes from Alisha hi Olesya Olesya says hi Alicia what future forms should we use when arranging official appointments or events in the future for example which is correct the interview will be held on August 9th at 10:00 a.m. Moscow time right or the interview is on August 9th at 10:00 a.m. Moscow time right yeah this is a fantastic question so actually both of the example sentences you sent are polite and they are correct however if you want to always be sure to sound professional and polite use the passive form so you use the interview will be held that sounds a lot more professional so the reason that a passive form is preferred when making arrangements in like formal events or like in an interview situation is because we don't always know exactly the person who's going to be doing that event so in the case of an interview for example you may not know exactly who is going to be giving the interview who is going to lead the interview so instead saying the interview will be held is much better it's much softer remember we use passive voice when we don't know the person doing the action or when the person the action is not important so this is really useful in like business situations and other formal events when the activity is the thing that needs the focus not necessarily the person or the people doing the activity so it's better to use the passive form here you can use the active form so like for example you're having the interview at 9:00 a.m. right so there's nothing incorrect about that but using you can sound really direct there and you might run into some problems where maybe the person you're contacting is not the person giving the interview so using the passive voice avoids that so in conclusion for this really if you're ever kind of in a formal situation or a business situation and you have this kind of question try to use the passive voice instead of the active voice that's a pretty good rule of thumb to follow I hope that this helps you thanks very much for an interesting question let's move along to your next question next question comes from Carlos Cordoba hi Carlos Carlos says I always struggle with the use of in and on for example when I'm referring to a quote that I read in a book should I say you can find it on page number or in page number also how do I use it for locations for example when should I use in or on or at yeah prepositions are always a tough point as a quick regular reminder we do have a couple of prepositions videos on the channel these are good introductions to prepositions of place and prepositions of time regarding your question your specific question though when you're talking about books we'll say read it in a book in a book when you're talking about something that's on a page we use on on a page if you want to get even more specific and talk about a line of text we say in a line of text so the reasons that we use these prepositions first the in preposition for a book when you imagine a physical book like a cover two covers and then the contents are inside it the contents of the book are enclosed by the covers so we imagine we have to open a and go inside the book to find things so we use in for the contents of books we use on four pages so you can kind of imagine a book as being like two layers almost there's the paper and then there are the words so the words are on top of the paper kind of like on the surface of the paper so we use on to talk about things that are on the page the things that are above the paper then we use in to talk about lines because we're looking for something like specific inside one line or two lines of text so it's within like line number three or line number four so some examples in the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone there's a mistake on page seven in line five that's not true so I hope that this helps you understand when to use in and on and again I would recommend starting with the videos on the channel for information some more information about other prepositions thanks very much for the question okay let's move on to your next question next question comes from NH I me hello hi nee nee says do wild animal and Wildlife have the same meaning no they have very similar meanings though so first wildlife is one word it's a noun it's an uncountable noun wildlife means all the living things that are not humans so that's like animals and fish and lizards so it's like all the creatures in an area that are not human that's the wildlife in an area examples let's go to the wildlife park we need to protect the wildlife in this area wild animal however is a phrase wild is an adjective animal is a noun so a wild animal is an animal that has not been domesticated domesticated means trained so for example a pet cat or a pet dog is a domesticated animal that's an animal that has been trained so a wild animal is something that does not have training some examples did you see any wild animals on your camping trip The News said a hiker was attacked while wild animal so thanks very much for the question I hope that that helps you alright that's everything that I have for you for this week thank you as always for sending your questions remember you can send them to me at English class 101.com slash ask - Alicia thanks very much for watching this week's episode of ask Alicia and I will see you again next week may my bears wolves antelopes lions tigers Cougars Jaguars rats mice a whale a crab is a wild animal deer rabbits coyotes squirrels and must know autumn vocabulary words autumn let's go sweater the first word is sweater sweater that's that long sleeve often knit garment that you wear maybe your grandma has given you a few over the course of your life a sweater it is a very very it's like the quintessential quintessential means like the regular the expectedly like the of course item for autumn so in a sentence my favorite sweater is wool it's warm in this sentence I got spaghetti sauce on my favorite sweater oh I've done that I've done that everybody has done everybody surely okay windy windy windy so strong winds in autumn I suppose in some cases windy in a sentence if it's windy in autumn you should go fly a kite in this sentence I can handle the cold but I hate when it's windy mmm for sure okay cool cool cool in this case refers to the weather so it's not quite cold but it's not warm either it's cool it's cool we also might use the word brisk so it's not cold it's like that kind of like refreshing there's a little like fluffy lling in brisk I don't know what that means wah-wah that's how I feel on a brisk damn like yeah no but cool cool cool is kind of it's not quite cold the difference cool and brisk cool is kind of a mild feeling mild type of weather brisk has a little bit of like bite there's a little like freshness to it cool is very mild I think in a sentence I love going to the park on cool autumn days in this sentence these cool sunny days are my favorite time of the year this is cool alright autumn the next word of course is autumn autumn also known as fall both are ok to use autumn is that season in your country depending on where you live in the world where trees will change color the weather goes from hot to less hot goes from hot to cool people start wearing sweaters or maybe like I don't know just the temperature starts to drop a little bit after after summer when it's warm so you can use autumn or fall both are fine in a sentence autumn is my favorite season yes true here autumn is my favorite season because of the weather indeed cold the next word is cold cold cold is the uncomfortable feeling you it's just too the temperature is too low you feel uncomfortable it's cold so in a sentence I like cold days because I can drink hot chocolate and this sentence I can't stand the cold I'm moving to Hawaii chestnut the next word is chestnut chestnut is a food that you can eat it is a type of nut it is a thing that you eat in autumn can roast them they smell kind of nice you can put them on desert youth all kinds of things with them so in a sentence you can make lots of desserts with chestnuts but in the sentence Oh chestnuts roasting on an open fire this is a popular this is the opening line the opening lyric to a popular holiday song chestnuts roasting on an open fire ok falling leads the next expression is falling leaves in autumn leaves change color maybe and I start to fall off of the tree so falling leaves is kind of an image of autumn are an image of fall there's kind of that that nice image of those beautiful like gold and red leaves falling so in a sentence let's rate the falling leaves up and jump in them the falling leaves reminded me of bittersweet memories oh gosh onward Thanksgiving weirdo Thanksgiving Thanksgiving we've done a couple of videos about Thanksgiving so if you like I'm sure somebody will put a link like here here here here here Thanksgiving is and let's see I know we have this holiday in the u.s. I believe Canada also has a Thanksgiving though I'm not familiar with the date Thanksgiving in the US is celebrated in November and we eat food together with our families a huge turkey usually and some other autumn foods too in a sentence Thanksgiving is great but I always eat too much that's true this sentence says Thanksgiving is the busiest traveling time of the year I didn't know that that's true Halloween the next one is Halloween Halloween I love Halloween or at least I loved Halloween when I was younger these days it's like no right yeah yeah you have your fun Halloween is a really fun holiday where you can dress up as a character you can dress up as somebody else there's a creature a monster or whatever when you're children you can go out and get candy from the people in your neighborhood as an adult there are lots of fun parties to go to as well Halloween in a sentence I was once in a flash mob for Halloween that is true in this sentence this Halloween I'm going to dress up as a spooky ghost spooky means scary but not like super scary spooky is like cute scary that's spooky leaf okay leaf last word is leaf Alicia leaf is that thing that sonically grows on a tree maybe it looks like this maybe looks like this maybe looks like there are many different kinds of leaves yeah you might find them falling and mass from trees you might find them scattered on your streets during autumn point the plural of leaf is not Leafs but leaves so in a sentence gingko leaves smell really bad when they fall that is true they smell really bad this sentence says she stepped on the leaves on the sidewalk five sentence patterns that you can use as a beginner of English let's go the first expression that you can use as a beginner is personally I think that or I would just use I think that personally makes it sound a little bit more polite I think you can use this to introduce an opinion for example personally I think that pizza is amazing personally I think that dinosaurs would have been delicious personally I think that cars should be made to enjoy with friends personally I think that you shouldn't worry about it yes it's probably much more useful sentence than dinosaurs would be the next expression is what does blah blah blah mean so we're here is the word you don't know so for example what does pasta mean what does Stegosaurus mean so a word like Stegosaurus is a really strange word that you probably don't know Stegosaurus is a type of dinosaur we're gonna marry dinosaurs I don't know Jurassic we're in a Jurassic Adventure at the moment so this is a pattern you use when you don't know when you don't know the meaning of the word and you would like someone to explain it to you so if you say what does Stegosaurus mean then someone can say oh it's a dinosaur it's kind of like it's a sort of short guy and it has a bunch of spikes on its back and it has a long tail and it gets into a fight with a Tyrannosaurus Rex if you saw the movie Fantasia by Disney okay in this sentence what does complication mean it means problem okay the next pattern you can use is can you tell me more about 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 don't have that back home can you tell me more about it mmm this is used to the reverse pattern okay the next expression is if it were up to me if it were up to me I had to teach this in a class couple weeks ago actually if it were up to me means if I could make the decision if this was my if this were my decision 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 woo but it's not right so that's that's always the underlying that's always the kind of basic nuance of this phrase some this decision is not mine okay here the example is if it were up to me I would take my boss to dinner oh my things just got scandalous the next pattern is I feel like 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 it just came out of my head anyway you can use this in two ways but this must be completed with a noun phrase at the end of the sentence when learning a new language it's easy to think I don't think I'm making any progress what if I never reach my goals we all get these thoughts from time to time but are they worth being scared of what are the fears language learners tend to have the most and how can you learn to overcome them here are the top floor language learning fears according to our users number one I'm not good enough to start speaking it this is a pretty common fear or misconception that most learners have here's how you overcome it the best way to get good at speaking is to start speaking from day one you need to open your mouth and just start talking if you think you're not good enough just focus on the lines you want to say number two I'm afraid I'll never be fluent you've got to set small specific goals make daily goals like having just a five minute conversation as these small goals add up we'll be speaking more comfortably number three I'm not making any progress there are two things you can do right now use the dashboard to track your progress our dashboard shows how much you've accomplished or try a harder lesson on our website the lessons come with line by line translations and the hosts explain everything now you can understand something you didn't minutes ago number four I'm afraid of not understanding anything I hear this fear can occur when you hear advanced grammar and vocabulary and it just goes completely over your head to beat this simply read along with our line by line tool it's the best way to instantly understand advanced conversations translations and scripts are right in front of you for real-life situations learn useful phrases such as can you say it more slowly I don't understand there's nothing wrong with saying that you didn't understand something so these are the top floor fears and how to overcome them luckily we also have the perfect tools available to help you conquer your fears sign up for your free lifetime account no credit card required and you'll get the best free online resources don't let your fears stop you start learning now want to speak real English from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at English class 101.com how to curse like an English native speaker piss a slang term for urine for example don't piss your pants you can say this when you're really scared or anxious for example if you're about to go on stage to make a speech or perform someone can say don't piss your pants you can do it pissed off to be really angry when I'm angry I can say hey I'm really pissed off at you right now why did you do that for loser used to describe an uncool person in high school my friends and I would use this a lot and we would say hey loser how's it going idiot used to install people by saying they're not intelligent of all the mean things that you can say this is on the lighter side but people still use it shoot this is used to show disappointment or frustration without using a stronger curse word shoot I spilled my coffee shut up you can use this when you want them to be quiet or there's something surprising that you just heard you can say shut up no way ticked off to be really angry you can say this with pissed off so this is actually an older term not many people use this as much anymore because most people actually just use pissed-off fool this is similar to saying someone is like a clown you can say you're acting like a fool right now jerk this is a light insult used to describe someone who is mean for example if there's someone bullying another person that person is being a jerk whip this means someone who isn't strong there is a movie out right now called Diary of a Wimpy Kid have you seen it have you not I haven't yet top 10 English slang words let's begin creepy this is used to say that someone makes you uncomfortable teacher's pet this is used as an insult to classmates who try too hard to impress the teacher or for someone who is especially liked by teacher scaredy-cat an insult for people who are easily scared tattletale a person who tells authority figures information in order to get someone in trouble nerd a person who is smart but not cool ginger this is an insult for people with red hair bimbo used as an insult for women who aren't smart jock used as an insult for men who are into sports and aren't smart show off someone who takes every opportunity to display their talent clown used to say that someone is silly top 10 language learning strategies let's begin the friending or dating someone who speaks English watching movies or listening to music in English read English newspapers or magazines record your voice and compare your pronunciation with native English speakers download dialog tracks and listen to English conversations repeat the phrases that you hear out loud again and again review all the lessons on English class 101.com to master them completely read lines slowly at first then reread and increase your speed set small and measurable learning goals with your purse deadlines try harder lessons to challenge yourself and improve faster learn eight words Americans overuse let's go definitely I'm definitely going to call her this weekend people use this word to mean that they will 100% do something it can also be used to agree with someone unbelievable did you see the news this morning it's unbelievable you can say unbelievable when something is shocking or strange it can also be used to express disappointment for example jenny is late for dinner again unbelievable literally I literally thought I was going to die usually this word is used to emphasize something in an exaggerated way the word sort of means that something really happened a certain way but Americans usually use this word to exaggerate hilarious everyone thinks my friend is hilarious but he's not that funny hilarious is like saying something is extremely funny it is often used to exaggerate how funny something was nice that guy with a nice hair just made a nice catch totally I totally love your new dress you can use totally with a verb to show how completely you do something for example if you totally hate something it means that you completely hate it it's usually used as an exaggeration like like I try so hard but like I still failed anyway this is a filler word that people insert into their sentences sort of like it doesn't follow the literal meaning of the word seriously I'm seriously going to tell my teacher what I really think of her class seriously is just a way to say you will do something but it usually means you want to do something but you won't really do it today we're going to talk about four techniques to help you stop translating in your head and instead start thinking in your target language this will allow you to have conversations with ease read smoothly and better understand native speak these are four methods to help you think in a new language number one surround yourself with your target language this way you'll be completely immersed in the language without realizing it you'll learn pronunciation sentence structures grammar and new vocabulary play music in the background while you're cooking or have a radio station on while you study just use one of our endless podcasts available to you these are easy to listen to in the background while doing other things number two learn through observation this is how we all learned our native languages as kids words will develop their own meanings that relate better to your target language rather than meanings that are translated directly number three speak out loud to yourself even if you're a little embarrassed it forces you to listen to how you speak it makes it much easier to spot simple grammar mistakes number four practice daily if you practice everything for only one day you won't retain the information you learned the brain can realistically only focus for about 30 minutes so studying a little every day allows you to absorb better follow these steps and have patience you'll soon be able to achieve your language learning goals just make sure to remember these four methods and ways to help improve your pronunciation this is gonna be a good one I think so let's go 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 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 your in english if english is the language you're studying so pick something maybe it's a news article or maybe it's a book you're interested in maybe there's an author you're interested in find something in your target language in English and try reading it out loud so don't just read in your mind but read the words out loud speak them so that you can get comfortable pronouncing those words and you can try reading the same passage or the same sentence multiple times to make it smoother so this can be a really good tip for and I think it also improves your natural ability to pick up grammar too because if you're reading something like in a book for example you can kind of pick up the natural rhythm of grammar and you also slowly get a feeling for the correct ways that words should connect together so this I think is a really good tip in a sentence I sometimes read out loud to practice pronunciation that's true repeat lines you hear in TV shows the next tip is to repeat lines you hear or the words you hear in TV shows or movies things like that so this means not only words don't only repeat single vocabulary words yes maybe you find a vocabulary word that is really interesting or it sounds funny or something like that but by repeating a full sentence or a full line in a TV show or in a movie you're putting the words together so not just one word but making a whole sentence so feeling kind of the flow of your language that you're studying so this can be a better way to actually practice making sentences and repeating sentences instead of just words so you can repeat after characters and TV shows I sometimes do this when I'm like watching Japanese TV oh and then I try and spit it back out it's hard to do sometimes when it's like the first time you've heard a word or the first time you've heard a grammar point but you can still understand that sentence it's interesting so try to say it and it's kind of fun actually in a sentence try repeating lines from TV shows to practice practice speaking in phrases not single vocabulary words the next tip this is very similar to my TV show tip is to practice speaking in phrases not in vocabulary words not just single vocabulary words even if you're not repeating lines from TV shows when you practice speaking don't just speak in noun so sometimes for example I'll hear people just use noun like they'll use a noun and maybe a verb like I tomorrow Beach something like that and yes we can probably guess based on that how like the the meaning the speaker's meaning but you need to practice making a whole sentence so yes you know those words I tomorrow in beach and the listener can probably guess what you mean but you need to practice all those little words in the middle like like I'm going to the beach tomorrow so make a full sentence practice making full sentences don't only practice single vocabulary words make the whole line it's really good sometimes I think my students get irritated like they'll like I forced them to practice full sentences like so I'll say like mmm have you ever been to Germany and they'll say yes I'm like okay for the purposes of practice can you make a full sentence and they'll say I have been to Germany like that's an extreme example but like I try to push that you know making the full sentence it's it's silly sometimes but just trying to do that okay so in a sentence speaking in entire phrases is helpful for practicing the rhythm of a new language speak a lot with your teacher and ask them to be strict with you on words okay so the next tip is to speak a lot with your teacher and ask them to be strict with you so this is kind of two tips in 1 1 speak with your teacher so if you have a teacher make sure you're speaking in their class if you if wherever possible sometimes I'll have students join my class and maybe they feel shy or whatever and they don't speak very much but please speak with your teacher so that your teacher can correct you your teacher can give you at least if they're a native speaker or maybe even if they aren't a native speaker your teacher can give you corrections and if you don't speak your teacher cannot help you in most cases so please speak with your teacher and if you like you can tell them please be strict about my pronunciation so sometimes people will say please help me with my pronunciation specifically and then I can stop them every time they make a mistake and we practice that sound especially 80h sounds like that like using using your mouth a little bit differently can be really uncomfortable for some people but if you're a teacher can point out those things like th sounds the this that these those those th sounds ending ER sound practicing those with your teacher can be a really good way to work on your pronunciation so in a sentence speak a lot with your teacher they can correct you and help you improve try recording yourself speaking and play it back the next tip for practicing your pronunciation is to try recording yourself speaking and listen to it play it back and listen to it so this it might sound a little bit strange but when we're speaking maybe we don't hear certain things that certain maybe our little idiosyncrasies or our the little special things that we do when we speak maybe we don't hear them as we speak but when we listen to ourselves later we notice them so for example when I watch this video when I watch any of these videos I notice little things that I didn't notice at now when I'm filming the video so the same can apply to your pronunciation when you listen to yourself speak you might hear something that you don't notice when you're speaking so this can be a good way to to kind of remove yourself to go outside your body a little bit and listen to yourself from the listeners perspective so this might be a tip to try in a sentence sometimes you hear yourself more clearly on a recording do shadowing exercises alright the next tip for pronunciation is to do shadowing exercises so a shadowing exercise there are textbooks and and I think resources on the web so on the website I'm actually I think you could use the website any English listening or anything in your target language when you listen to that as the speaker is speaking you quickly repeat back what the speaker is saying so as you're listening to it you repeat it almost immediately so you're trying to to match their pronunciation as closely as accurately as possible this is called a shadowing exercise so I've seen some cases where people are textbooks will recommend doing you know 15 minutes of shadowing each day or something like that or maybe you can do a shadowing exercise listening to a podcast or listening to the news or something you might find on the website here so that's a really good way to work on your pronunciation and to get familiar with using those sounds kind of more naturally the way a native speaker would so this can be a good tip to improve your pronunciation in a sentence try shadowing a native speaker to improve your pronunciation chat with native speakers so yeah the next tip is to chat with native speakers so chatting with native speakers of course is a great way to make friends be to pick up new vocabulary see to get familiar with grammar and slang but also it can help your pronunciation not all native speakers speak with exactly the same pronunciation so you might hear slight differences depending on the country depending on the region in the country and native speaker comes from so there are many different kinds of pronunciations or many diff there are many different pronunciations but when you chat with native speakers you can kind of under stand the different pronunciations that are out there and maybe it can help you be more consistent in your presentation in your pronunciation too so this could be a good way to improve your pronunciation but of course it's important in general for learning a language I think in a sentence chatting with native speakers is an important part of learning a language do pronunciation drills the next tip is to do pronunciation drills so if you know that there's a sound if you know that there's something that you always struggle with try drilling it so do a drill to drill something means to repeat a lot so you might hear this word used for like like sports and fitness like you drill a skill you which means to practice something a lot and intensively so if you know that there's like the th sound it's really difficult for you maybe take ten minutes and do a pronunciation drill on those sounds for you know every day for a month or something so if you know that there's a specific sound that's difficult for you consider trying just some very specific pronunciation drills so that can mean just making that sound repeatedly or maybe reading a text out loud that has a lot of that kind of pronunciation I think you can find a few different ways to drill to practice intensively those parts of pronunciation that are difficult for you so in a sentence try doing pronunciation drills for the sounds you have trouble making find words that are particularly interesting to you so I think maybe this is the last tip is to find words that are particularly interesting to you so maybe there's a word that sounds really funny or maybe you found a really long word in English or a really interesting word a word that has an interesting history whatever if you can find words that are interesting to you then maybe you can put some extra emphasis on pronouncing them correctly so if you're actually enjoying the words that you're learning then I think it'll become more important for you to express that accurately in yours each and so focusing on those words maybe and and in pronouncing those words correctly perhaps that can help you apply that same pronunciation in this interesting word maybe the pronunciation of that word or some of the parts of that word you can find that in other words in other places throughout your target language so if you enjoy a particular word and focus on expressing that word pronouncing that word accurately it can help you maybe apply that pronunciation in other parts of the language so give it a try in a sentence take extra care to pronounce words of particular interest correctly hi everyone its Jon from illite and next to me is Alicia from English class 101 visit our second video we are doing with Alicia and English class 101 hi everybody I'm Alicia from English class 101 comm thanks so much for having me on Eli Chang it's great to be a part of your video oh and what is a topic today today we're going to talk about the top 5 mistakes that English learners make oh that's not the position of adjectives so the first mistake to talk about today is the position of adjectives what do you mean like the position of adjectives do your students make mistakes with this me think very often I hurt my students say that this is a house beautiful so have you ever heard that before yeah actually my students are Japanese they often make the same mistake because the word order in Japanese uses the noun first and then the adjective oh yeah the same in Vietnamese because people usually translate from our mother language to English so in Vietnam we have yeah means house ok and that means beautiful then we translate it we have yeah that means house beautiful but naturally is it's incorrect right right so what is the right order the right position as active yeah so we should put the adjectives before the noun so in this example sentence beautiful house is cursed just me this is a beautiful house right can you explain that well I mean there are some phrases that are just we just use the same kind of patterns for them so using just a simple adjective and a noun together whatever the adjective or maybe there are more adjectives we want to use like in this example of a beautiful house or you I think you said like a red house for exist we should put the adjectives together before then now and always like that's a beautiful red house yeah normally sometimes I hear some students say that address red long when you want to describe their dress actually what is either correct one right so in the same and the same as we saw with the first example sentence we should put the adjectives before the noun so in this case I think it was long and red yeah yeah that's a long red dress a long red dress and it should be the correct one right that's correct yeah yeah so everyone makes sure to put the adjective in front of the now the order of personal pronouns you and I or I and you good okay so the next mistake to talk about is the order of personal pronouns so an example of this is like you and I or I and you yeah it's very funny for this because many people just say I and somebody just something yeah hold that a lot a lot in Vietnam so have you heard that in Japan I see yes I have heard that like I and Chun I'm making a video yeah not quite so is it not correct one right right that's right it's not correct so we should say Chun and I are making a video that's the correct sentence yes so in your opinion what could be the reason for this mystic the reason for the mistake oh that's a trip well it depends on the country for your students I would imagine it's perhaps a word order issue for Vietnamese because in Vietnamese we usually say Zoey that is mean I am when you are in a situation where you're doing something with other people it does sound kind of strange to say I and you or I and Chung did something so as you're saying I think it's better to put I at the end okay so when you want to put yourself in a list with the others remember to put yourself at last four is what I would say our lists are and I am making a video it's going to be perfect one exactly sounds good confusion over active and passive voice and the next mistake will be the confusion over active and passive voice mmm this is a really common one I think yeah do you have an example of how this works um yes of course because it's very common mistake for example in Vietnam people sometimes say I worse went out with my friends yesterday that's a perfect example like it's better to use just a simple active voice to explain that I went out with my friends yeah it should be I went out with my friends yesterday because in this case is a active Morrison right exactly passive it's not passive this case exactly exactly yeah I've heard another example of it like something just a simple action like an everyday action like in passive voice the door was opened by my teacher for example it's like a sentence like that we can understand the sentence but it doesn't need to be in passive yeah it's naturally that's right we should say that my teacher opened the door yeah yeah natural and it's easier to communicate I think exactly exactly so if you're thinking like how do I know when should I use active voice when should I use passive voice when you want to express like the person doing the action is not so important or you don't know who did the action like for example if your phone was stolen yeah yeah but we don't know who who stole the phone so you know boys use passive voice men yeah or if that person is not important use passive voice yeah and sometimes if you try to translate from your mother language to into English so don't try to translate what Mike was so another daily life example could be like maybe my mother cooking dinner for example so I could say my mother cooked dinner in the active voice or dinner was cooked by my mother in that sentence in the active sentence it's clear who is the person who cooked dinner it's my mother like she's the important part if I say dinner was cooked by my mother you know he's more important not so nice dinner was could say my mother cooked a dinner that's a much better choice so for daily use we shouldn't you active or inactive voice isn't very nice incorrect use a present continuous so number four will be incorrect use present continuous mmm that's a very common problem I've heard absolutely absolutely so using the continuous with a verb that we probably should not use the continuous form with yeah for example if I want to say that I love my boyfriend a lot people would say that I am loving him I'm noting him normally we just say I love him we don't need to put it in present continuous in this case or when people talk about the sports or their hobbies that they enjoy they might say for example I am liking baseball I am liking football for example but in the same way we should not use the continuous tense there let's just use the simple present tense I like baseball I like football so when you're using these like mental state or emotion or feeling verbs usually we use them in the simple present tense of course sometimes we use a word like thinking mm-hmm yeah sometime I still hear that people say I'm thinking about something exactly exactly why we use thing in kya present continuous mhm and in which K we don't use that in present continuous exactly well in that case that's a perfect example using the word think in the continuous tense that's sort of like an action like at that moment I'm thinking about something that's an action in my mind that's an action yeah exactly so in that case it's okay to use it in the continuous tense so we have to clarify the verbs is an action or the verbs a chi of emotional state - right exactly status your example of like I am loving my boyfriend it sounds a little like that's a little different like but what other another crazy examples can we think Oh sometimes my students say understanding you use it like they say like I am not understanding thank you that's very helpful for me but you should say I don't understand I don't understand in the present tense okay yeah so can you give her some verse usually in simple present not in Brandon materials yeah so we talked about for example like and love know and understand fear mmm meat yes a lot exactly exactly so those very like emotion related words those are definitely good examples of this so just make sure to think about your verb yeah think think think are you thinking about your verbs answering the negative questions and the next mistake and a very common mistake is answering the negative question ah answering negative questions so for example a question that begins with a negative word right yeah yeah okay for example I would take an example okay yeah first of all people wouldn't ask you mhm don't do one to learn English don't you don't you yeah don't you want to learn English people would say yes I don't oh no I don't yes I do no I don't you can fusing right actually the native speakers sometimes get confused with this point - but it's good - it's good to discuss this yeah yeah so the correct answer to someone asking don't you want to learn English you can say yes I do well I hope you do if you want to learn if you want to learn English yeah do you say yes I do but if you hate English just say no I don't mmm I think people especially native speakers use the negative question to make the question a little more polite or maybe to make the question a little softer that's it but just like you said just think of it like a simple yes/no question don't you want to learn English do you want to learn English we use them in the same way they mean the same thing so can you give us another example sure another example maybe a daily life example mm-hmm let's see didn't you go to that party last weekend and then you can answer with yes I did in this case it's a past tense negative didn't you go to that party so you can answer yes I did or no I didn't in the same way that you would answer did you go to that party last weekend if you get confused then just think of it as a simple yes-or-no question replace it with new don't you want to learn English if you say yes so please be there English class one one channel or a larger learning English channel we have a lot of video lesson there for you to study for free as well and you can also check us out at English class 101.com our website where you can find lots of stuff that so then we're talking about these examples of these problems but what do you think are some ways that students can learn these good word choices these more natural word choices yeah my advice would be try to use a lot of authentic materials like TV serie newspaper songs movies a lot a lot to see how native speakers choose a what do you have anything is there like a favorite like TV show or book or something that you really enjoyed that help to you I really enjoy friends you know it I know it many people many people love using friends for study and and it was such a popular show among native speakers yeah yeah yeah it's a great resource and it's funny check it out friends yeah and if you enjoyed the video please let us know by giving this video thumbs up and give some comments so we know do you like it and it's God you wouldn't give it a lot of motivation to make another video I usually like the the teacher's surname so like mr. Johnson or like Ms Smith didn't you go didn't you goat sounds a little suspicious that's all right you know maybe you're checking your friend like didn't you go to that party last weekend don't you want to study with us should I say it one more time a little less silly good one hi everybody welcome back my name is Alisha 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 gonna be talking about some things in English that are difficult to say that might be difficult for you and they're probably gonna 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 so once you tell me it's a question write this this is it ends in a question there's a question mark on your car and the traditional response is it wood chuck all the wood that a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood 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 wood chuck all the wood that a witch I 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 hey 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 peck 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 up Oh Jim I know man Emma do you mean even you mean in Menominee yeah 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 peck of pickled peppers for me it helps if you snap okay Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked a peck oh my god I can't do it maybe it's better if you don't read it those are Peter no no I can't do it Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers that wasn't very good I was one more time one more time Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers what three more times Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked I did I can't do it Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers there we go Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked a peck of pink oh man that's tough the piece man I can't do the piece oh wow please can do you either okay go to your next one what's your next one uh now my brain is frazzled now okay uh 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 with their native languages so the 33 thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday well I've never seen this fun yeah I'm either but I just thought it was good because they remember th so the 33 thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday better want to give it a try yeah I'm gonna try the 33 thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday hmm that's a good one that's a really good one for th sounds I think 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 thing you thought that they throw this smoothly 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 don't have to read it slowly the sixth sick sheiks sixth sheeps sick yeah okay yeah the sixth sick sheiks sixth sheep's sick yeah the sixth 600 like the second word you can't even say it it's really hard one more time write this the sixth sick sheiks six sheep sick sixth oh that was good that's good that's way better yeah we'll just even on that one that's the six six sheiks sixth sheeps sick that's really hard it's really I don't think I can say it any faster than that the sixth sixth sheiks sixth oh okay I'm I'm I'm at a loss of words okay one more time okay the sixth sick sheiks sixth sheeps sick the sixth sick what at once is okay what's your next one my next one is the soldiers 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 the soldiers shoulder surely hurts the soldiers shoulder surely hurts wanna give it a try the soldiers shoulder surely hurts this is the tough part here for me anyway is this the soldiers shoulder making that sound really clearly a step the soldiers shoulder surely hurts yeah yeah you make it sound so easy Wow professional not really okay 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 rich ok Irish by itself is fine wristwatch is fine but together they're really hard to say Irish rich Irish wristwatch really hard Irish wristwatch yeah they're slow ok Irish oh wow it's really hard doesn't it seems easier than it is I risked watch Irish with Irish wristwatch Irish wristwatch Irish wristwatch nice there we go Irish Irish I can't this one's hard this is really hard for me but yeah only two words it's just it's just that combination of the shin the roof it's just I can't I got nothing on that one alright do you have any more no I think that's it oh wow that was a good one no it's really tough it's 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 their 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 wanna speak real English from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at English class 101.com hi everybody my name is Alisha welcome back to top words today we're going to talk about ten job interview questions and a few responses to those job interview questions so let's go tell me a little about yourself statement number one is tell me a little about yourself or tell me a little bit about yourself this is a very common interview introduction question or the first question in an interview tell me about yourself is just an open question please share or basically introduce yourself this usually means you should share what you studied in college your work experience any like personal projects you've tried to do or have successfully done other experience you think relevant so this is an invitation for you to give like a general introduction about yourself in an example sentence well I got my bachelor's degree in biochemistry how did you hear about the position how did you hear about the position how did you hear about the position this question means how did you learn about this job that you are interviewing for how did you find this job opening so how did you hear about the position and this is where you can explain maybe where you found the information about the job so you found it on the internet in the newspaper you heard from a friend you were contacted by a recruiter so there are a few different ways that you can share with your interviewer how you found the position how you heard about the job in a sentence I found an advertisement about the job on the Internet why are you interested in this position next is why are you interested in the position why are you interested in the position this is your chance to explain why you want this job why are you interested in this position so usually you should not say for the money or because this is a really I don't know there are a lot of attractive people with this company I don't know you should say something in response to this question about your career goals or maybe something specific about the company that you like or something very specific about the job that is available there and how you feel your skills are a match for that job so explain why you're interested in that position the reason you decided to apply for that job in a sentence I think I'm a good fit for the company and its goals why should we hire you the next interview question is why should we hire you why should we hire you so this is your opportunity to explain why you feel you are the best candidate for the job so if you have any special qualifications you have certifications you have specific experience you have a specific goal in mind this is the kind of question you can share that information in response to why should we hire you because I can speak six different languages and I know how to create a website in ten minutes I don't know so if you have some kind of special qualifications you can share those qualifications in response to this question in another example sentence I'm a goal-oriented person who likes to work at a fast pace what do you consider your strengths and weaknesses the next question is a common question what do you consider your strengths and weaknesses what do you consider your strengths and weaknesses or what are your strengths and weaknesses so strengths means strong points things you are good at weaknesses is your weak points things you are not very good at so you can you should be honest to a degree but be careful so this should be in a professional setting keep that in mind it's a professional setting if you want to talk about your weaknesses don't say like I eat too much chocolate or don't say like I love sleeping or whatever talk about your professional strengths and your professional weaknesses and also with your weaknesses it would be a good idea to talk about how you improve those weaknesses or how you work with your team members or work in a company to try to reduce the effect of those weaknesses so for example I'm very detail-oriented but I often take on too much at one time so like in my case that's the case like I'm very detail-oriented but I often take on too much so do too many things at one time so I could explain okay so I'm very detail-oriented but if I'm trying to take on too much I truck maybe I say I communicate with my co-workers about what should be prioritized and that helps me organize my time better so when you introduce your weakness talk about the ways you kind of you try to reduce the effect of that weakness that can be one technique so your good points and your bad points in this question tell me about a time when you overcame a challenge at work some interviewer may ask this question tell me about a time when you overcame a challenge at work so it's not really a question they're asking you to tell a story so tell me about a time when you overcame a challenge at work so they want to hear an example from your professional experience about how you solved a problem what did you do to solve a problem at work they want to know what kind of problem it was and how you approach the problem and the results of that problem so you could say for example our company party was scheduled for the day before Christmas but the restaurant exploded and I had to find a new place to have the party I don't know that's a crazy example but giving your employer an idea of how you solve problems and maybe the kind of mental state you have when you solve the problems can be helpful in making a hiring decision so in an example when I was having trouble communicating with a client I reached out to a co-worker for support what are your career goals the next question is what are your career goals your career goals so not necessarily in this company but in your career overall in the interview it's probably a good idea to include the company and where you are currently interviewing in your career goals but keep in mind like you should be explaining a goal or you should be sharing a goal that is in line with the company's work so if your goal is to open a cupcake shop but you're interviewing for like an IT job where you're going to be like I don't know installing Windows 10 on people's computers maybe this doesn't really match so make sure that your career goal and the job you're interviewing for align those two should be kind of aligned it'll help your interviewer and it will help you I think so in an example sentence I want to create a global advertising campaign strategy so maybe you're interviewing for a marketing job for example you could say that's your career goal I would love to design a global marketing campaign strategy for example where do you see yourself in five the next question a very common one where do you see yourself in five years where do you see yourself in five years this question means after five years five years from this point in time what is your vision for you what is your vision of yourself professionally so what do you want to have achieved after five years so a good tip for this question is to explain where you will be having made contributions to the company where you are interviewing so if I'm interviewing an apple and Apple says where do you see yourself in five years Alicia and I say I see myself at Microsoft like that sounds really bad so try to share your your goals for yourself in a five-year period but again try to align them with the company where you're interviewing and explain like how you plan to contribute to the company and develop yourself professionally that can be a really good way to answer this question for example I see myself in a managerial position in this company working on multiple projects for multiple markets why do you want to work here the next question is why do you want to work here why do you want to work here so similar to why are you interested in this position that one's like that question is very much about this job in particular but the question why do you want to work here means why do you want to work in this company like in this place specifically so share something about the company that you like or share something some reason the company is attractive to you as a candidate so maybe it's the location or maybe it's the ability to work overseas or maybe it's an international environment or maybe you can use your English skills some reason why you're interested in working at this company specifically share that after this question so example I think there's a lot to learn and I think there are opportunities for promotion do you have any questions for me last one the last question is very common do you have any questions for me do you have any questions for me interviewers will often ask this question at the end of an interview in fighting the candidate to ask questions about the company it is usually a very good idea to prepare some questions for the interviewer so it's it's also a good idea to research your company or research the University you're interviewing for before the interview so if you have questions about the company company policy that sort of thing it's a great chance to ask your interviewer generally however it's not a good idea to ask specific questions about pay or vacation in the interview as you can be seen as may be to being to money or to vacation focused that might come a little later if you say what's the salary for this job like unless it's a situation unless it's a kind of a closed situation that might be to direct a question but instead ask some things about the company ask your interviewer what it's like to work there what your interviewer thinks is good about working for the company or maybe what your interviewer thinks the company's planning to do over the next few years ask something of your interviewer so it shows that you are interested in that company and that you want to learn more and participate more with that company so make sure to have some questions prepared when your interviewer asks do you have any questions for me so example question what do you think is the most rewarding part about working here so those are 10 job interview questions and a few different ways you can respond to them so I think those are useful for job interviews yes but maybe if you interview for like a university or interview for a scholarship or something you can use similar responses to similar questions so if you have any questions or comments please let us know in the comment section below this video ten ways to report speech let's go say the first word is say say as a verb say is a very neutral word you can use to report someone's speech to explain something someone said in the past so for example he said the barbecue was cancelled which is a simple neutral report tell the next verb is tell tell is used when one person is giving information to another to tell someone something they did not know before don't say tell me your phone number that's weird but like can you tell me where the station is can you tell me where to buy a hamburger can you tell me where to pick up my new car like so giving someone information they don't know or or on the other hand explaining something one way to another person so don't tell me what I can't do is a very good lost reference if you've ever watched lost so tell another example sentence my boss told me I was doing a good job speak the next one is speak speak so we use speak when we're talking about language ability like I speak English I speak Japanese we can use speak in the past tense to report something but it usually sounds a little more formal so like I spoke to my boss about or I spoke to my parents about or I spoke to my boyfriend or girlfriend about bla bla bla that using speak instead of talked makes it sound a little bit more formal so you can use speak but it's going to sound polite in a sentence my colleague spoke with me about an upcoming project was like ok the next one the next two actually are very very casual expressions so when you're speaking with friends and you're kind of talking about a quick maybe somewhat emotional conversation you will hear native speakers especially Americans perhaps this is unique somewhat to Americans use the phrase was like I was like he was like she was like this is a very casual way to report speech and you'll hear an often very very quickly together so someone will say I was like what and then she was like no and then I was like yeah that's the kind of pattern you'll hear it in very very quick ways to report Beach but the subject changes I was like he was like she was like we were like this is a way to share what happens quickly instead of I said he said she said which might sound a little too formal we can use I was like he was like to do that instead so this is a really fun one and if you can use this naturally I think that it'll really help you sound more natural - so in a sentence and then he was like I love that movie was all the next one is also a similar to was like we have the expression was all so it was all don't worry about all all does not have the meaning of the whole of something or a complete something instead was all this set phrase is used to report speech usually this one is used when there's some kind of emotional emotional aspect to your conversation or it's a little dramatic or maybe a little exciting we use it the same way as was like in that very very quick style of speaking and then he was like and I was all and then she was like and I was all we used those together but I was all has a little more emphasis I feel I tend to use it when my when I want to express a stronger emotion and I was all no way or and I was all what so you can use it for those very like surprised emotions or maybe angry emotions was like and was all are both used in very casual situations so in a sentence and I was all oh my god me to talk the next word is talk so talk similar to say is a fairly neutral verb when reporting speech you'll use it in a situation where someone is giving new information to you but maybe it's a two-way conversation so for example we talked about blah blah blah for a topic or my boss talked to me about blah blah blah so maybe new information is being exchanged but the conversation is two-way there multiple participants with tell it's like the nuances sort of one person is reporting information giving information with talked it's there's an exchange happening there so keep in mind when you use the word talk you will say either I talked to or I talked with someone and then you'll usually have a topic so I talked to my friend about blah blah blah I talked to my friend about my new apartment I talked to my boss about a raise I talked to my boss know I talked to my dog about what dogs knew so there's some kind of there's some kind of exchange happening there you'll need to use to or with when you're referring to the person or entity you're talking to and you'll use about to refer to the subject so you can use this one yeah when you're when you want to discuss exchanges of information so in a sentence she talked to me about my family mention let's go to the next one the next one is mention mention is used when like something is just there's just one small point in a conversation like just a little side note or maybe it's not the focus of a conversation but just something someone says quickly or there's just a little thing that you hear oh you mentioned something about blah blah blah or you mentioned that a new project like it's it's maybe not the focus of the conversation but something that you heard a little bit about that's that's when we use the verb mention we can also use it in a statement like please mention any skills you have on a resume so it's the nuance is sort of like a like just a little bit of information is when we use mention so in a sentence our manager mentioned upcoming changes at the company to go on and on okay the next expression is to go on and on so to go on and on means just to talk for a very long time so maybe you have a co-worker or a friend or a fan remember that just talks and does not stop talking we say to go on and on that's the expression we use so in a sentence the speaker at the seminar was going on and on about the topic if you really want to emphasize it you can say was going on and on and on and on and on that really emphasizes that the person continues to speak so if you know somebody who does that a lot you can use this expression to talk about them according to the next expression here is according to according to is used actually in the news or like to officially report something so according to sources or according to the police according to the government official according to my teacher according to my mother these are like direct reports of information and their direct reports of information from a specific source so according to the newspaper my neighborhood has 50,000 amazing ramen shops that's not sure but if I want to instead of just saying my neighborhood has 50,000 amazing ramen shops I'm giving a source for that so according to my newspaper this is this is where I got the information so this is important to use in news and newspapers and any kind of official documentation you will see and hear according to in these cases in a sentence according to a witness at the scene the suspect escaped report great so the next one is report so reports similar to according to we use report in more official situations so to officially share information like to report to the police to report to your teacher to report to your boss sometimes it means to submit documentation like to give someone a written report sometimes it's to share information officially just just with your voice to report news or to report an update so when you want to give and give official information we'll use the verb report so in a sentence sources in the area report that the accident was not serious thank goodness all right [Music]

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