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and as i do i want to make a special note about this first point here i have here despite means even though we'll see in this lesson actually all of these mean even though so they all have this even though meaning so that means even though a b this is kind of like a common pattern we'll see in the example sentences today so even though there's this condition there's another condition so we'll see this a lot today when we use despite we need to position it before a noun phrase it needs to come before a noun phrase we'll see this with in spite as well so this is commonly used with these two patterns so uh first is the fact that this means the expression despite the fact that and then you describe your condition this is one very common way to use despite we can drop that here so despite the fact or despite the fact that those are both very common ways to use despite we can also use despite before a verb in the ing form so here we're making it into a noun so despite having or despite studying or despite walking despite sleeping so we're using that ing form we can use both of those patterns with despite it's very common so let's take a look at how this appears in sentences then first despite the fact he had no money he took an expensive vacation despite the fact so here i have the fact he had no money he took an expensive vacation so we have to use some kind of noun expression here when we're talking about or rather when we're using it despite so this despite he had no money this is incorrect this is an incorrect sentence we need to use a noun here so in this case the fact so here the fact means this part he had no money this is the fact we're talking about here so the fact fact means true information 100 true information so despite the fact this 100 percent true information he took an expensive vacation so again even though a b so we could change the sentence around we could say he took an expensive vacation despite the fact he had no money that's also okay it's up to you to choose that part so let's look at another example using a different pattern with despite here she took the day off work despite having a lot to do so here i've used this verb in the ing form so despite having a lot to do not despite have but despite having a lot to do again if i remove this it's not correct despite a lot to do it's not correct we need to use a noun there so she took the day off work despite having a lot to do again we could change the order of the sentence despite having a lot to do she took the day off work that's also okay all right one more example here we were pickpocketed at the airport despite that we had a great trip this is another common way that we use despite here my noun is that in this case that refers to the point in the previous sentence or in the previous clause in this case despite the fact we were pickpocketed at the airport so despite this situation despite this condition we had a great trip so you'll commonly hear despite that used to refer to the previous statement okay so this is how we use despite now let's compare that with in spite so in spite again means even though just as all of these do in this lesson and just like in sorry just like despite rather it needs to be positioned before a noun phrase so that means we can use the same patterns here as we used with despite so for example the fact that can be used with spite and there's one more point here that's key we have to use of when we use in spite so not just in spite but in spite of something so in spite of the fact that or another verb in the ing form pattern here this is also okay with in spite of so in spite of having or in spite of losing these kinds of patterns are okay as well so this is a key point within spite you must use of in spite of some noun phrase so let's take a look at a few examples of this first in spite of the fact we lost the game the coach took the team out for pizza so here is my noun phrase here i've used of in spite of the fact we lost the game so that's my a here even though a the coach took the team out for pizza b so even though a b in spite of a b so there was this condition we lost the game even though that was the situation the coach took the team out for pizza so we could use in spite of here another example he didn't get the job he wanted in spite of that he was cheerful and optimistic so again here i've used that as my noun phrase where that refers to the previous sentence so he didn't get the job he wanted maybe a disappointing thing despite that or in spite of that here we can use um to refer to that to mean like even though this was the case he was cheerful and optimistic so you heard me just now use despite instead that's a pretty good clue then a pretty good hint that actually we can use in spite of and despite to mean exactly the same thing they have exactly the same meaning the only difference is this of here we need to use of within spite and we do not use of with despite so they are totally interchangeable you can choose which you prefer i think i tend to use despite more which is why i used it just now if you want to you can use in spite of two to me in spite of feels a little bit more formal but it could be just personal preference there so we can use these two in exactly the same way we just need to consider this of point before the noun phrase okay finally let's look at although although so yes although again means even though as the others do a key difference here though is although does not need to be positioned in front of a noun phrase so we talked about using the fact or using a verb in the ing form we do not do that with all though so let's look at some examples of how we do use it here although good weather was expected it rained on the day of the event so here you'll notice there's no the fact there's no that or anything here we just continue right from although into the condition so we describe the condition good weather was expected this was the condition it rained on the day of the event so even though a b we follow the same pattern we followed here but the structure of the sentence at this point is just a little bit different there's no noun phrase there if we said although the fact that it would not be correct we do not use it this way we do not say although that we do not use that either we don't use this verb form too although having is not something we use either okay let's look at another one so again we just begin describing the condition right after all though so although we spent a lot of time planning we didn't finish the project on time so here although even though we spent a lot of time planning so here's my condition a we didn't finish the project on time so again there's no like noun phrase we need to insert here we just begin the situation talking about the situation okay one final example with although in the middle of the sentence she was happy about her test score although she looked disappointed so here i've reversed it this is like b although a or b even though a she was happy about her test score although she looked disappointed so we can use this in this way too you'll also notice i haven't used although like with this i used that with in spite of and despite we don't use it in this way we don't say like although that we don't use it in that way if you want to refer back to the previous sentence it might sound nicer to use despite or in spite of so that's a case where maybe one of these would be better to use than although so you can see that although as a conjunction does a nice job of connecting these ideas and then we can use despite and in spite kind of like to refer back to go back to another point that's how i like to use these anyway so maybe it's helpful for you so these all follow kind of one pattern that i've mentioned many times in this lesson which is this even though a b so lots of these example sentences followed this pattern so even though a b and here i mentioned an opposite pattern b even though a so these are both correct you can just choose whichever you prefer like if you want to emphasize one point more than another point you could start the sentence with that so both patterns are fine and you can use all of these to communicate very similar ideas you just need to think about how you build the sentence so i hope that this introduction to these three expressions helps you of course if you have questions or comments or if you want to practice making a sentence with one of these please feel free to do so in the comments section of this video 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 lesson and i will see you again soon bye-bye hi everybody my name is alicia in this lesson i'm going to talk about expressions for talking to kids i've prepared this lesson with parents in mind but if you have kids in your life and you want to practice english with them these are a few expressions that you can use to do that let's get started i want to begin this lesson by talking about requests so i've made a simple list of a few regular things you might need to ask children to do these are kind of requests for maybe elementary school or maybe junior high school level students but i think that the pattern that i'm using here is quite simple so you can create your own request of course depending on how you're feeling you might use please before the request but these are some very common examples like i took from my childhood for example so please clean your room or please help me with dinner or please help me make dinner so this is one you would use if you're a parent or if you are just another person connected to the child and you want to ask for help of course you could change this person like please help your dad make dinner or please help your mom make dinner please help your grandpa make dinner others please brush your teeth brush your teeth another common one please take off your shoes and please take out the trash so as you can see these are all common household chores this is a common theme for a lot of these points today chores so chores is the word that we use to mean small household tasks everyday household tasks like washing dishes or doing laundry so these are tasks that at least in the u.s uh young children are expected to be able to do themselves these are like kids responsibilities to take out the trash or to wash the dishes or to clean their rooms so these are all examples of chores maybe brushing your teeth is a hygiene point but these are some common chores then i want to move on to requests to stop a behavior so these are requests to do something but if you want to tell a child to stop something we'll use a pattern like stop plus the verb in the ing form so we do this because it's something that the child is doing now it's something that's happening now so we use the progressive or the continuous form so common examples stop kicking progressive stop kicking your sister stop kicking your brother or stop hitting your sister stop hitting your brother stop fighting is another one if you have a couple children involved stop shouting stop shouting stop screaming stop yelling you can use all of those again in the progressive form or stop running around stop running around so this is one that um my parents would use if maybe we were going to like a polite event we were going to something a little more formal usually they would make this request before we got to the event so my brother and i were pretty well behaved i think they would usually say like try to be quiet and calm like let's be polite that kind of expression so i've used that here this let's be polite as kind of the follow-up to this so we'll often use these expressions when we're in a place where it's rude to be noisy or it's just a problem for a kid to make a lot of noise or to cause a scene or something so this is a good expression to use to follow up like stop running around let's be polite let's be polite so this here this let's point this leads into a larger topic i want to discuss so i introduced these points for making requests and i said these are kind of for like elementary or junior high school level students perhaps but when talking with very young children like they're just learning to speak so maybe preschool or kindergarten of like very early elementary school they're still learning their maybe native language and you want to practice in english with them you can use patterns that parents use and other adults use for very young children and that's to use let's with our or let's with a third person so by this i mean we're using let's to mean uh let's do something together or i want you to participate with me so for example let's clean our room so up here i made a request please clean your room so this would be from a parent to a child who can understand the request when we're talking to very young children though and we're trying to do something together we'll use a pattern like this let's clean our room so maybe it's not your room it's the child's room but you want to do it together or you want to show like this is a responsibility let's begin this together we'll use this let's clean our room let's clean our room or let's help grandpa with dinner so this is how we would change this sentence so i mentioned help me with dinner we can change this person here to another person and by adding let's it sounds like together we're going to help grandpa with dinner so this is what i mean by this third person here let's help grandpa with dinner or let's take off our shoes so for example if you arrive someplace and together you want to take off your shoes you can save this let's take off our shoes so this sounds more gentle and like we're doing something together then please take off your shoes so final example let's brush our teeth so maybe if you brush your teeth with your child you can use an expression like this so as i said we tend to use these for very young children and when the child gets older we use more formal request patterns to ask about chores and things okay let's continue on then to some information questions so you'll notice i've used this have you have you have you pattern for a lot of these so these are questions that you can use to follow up on your requests here so relating to chores or to homework for example have you done or have you finished your homework have you done your homework have you finished your homework you could say to did you finish your homework that's okay that's fine as well have you done your homework is also okay to use parents use both of these another one have you done your chores have you done your chores this is a great example of a common question we use you'll notice i've used chores here so chores means not just one task but all the tasks that are the child's responsibility so for example when my brother and i were growing up we had to wash the dishes and like vacuum the house and like take out the trash i think something like that those were our chores so those three things those were our responsibilities so when my parents asked us have you done your chores we had to answer about all of those responsibilities chores so if you want to be specific you could say have you washed the dishes or have you vacuumed the house or to ask about everything you can ask have you done your chores again you could change this to finished have you finished your chores or did you do your chores is also okay you can use a simple past tense there too another example have you cleaned your room have you cleaned your room or again did you clean your room that's also fine to use if you want to ask an information question about something maybe the child doesn't have a responsibility for you can use something like this like what did you learn in school today or who did you hang out with last weekend so you can use these wh patterns to ask very simple past tense questions or where are you going this weekend so these are probably for older children i think finally i want to end this by introducing some encouragement expressions that we use these four are great and clear and i was always very happy to hear these expressions so they are good job and great job awesome and that's cool that's cool so if i made something i drew a picture or i created some things with i don't know i i like to do kind of creative things then when my parents or when my relatives said like wow that's cool i felt so happy they would say that's cool or awesome or if i finished my homework my parents would say good job or great job so these four phrases just they always made me feel so so happy so i would recommend these words if you want to give encouragement to kids also if you do need to express disappointment uh in something of course you can use this uh pattern like to stop doing something if you want to express disappointment so giving encouragement or expressing disappointment you can use a couple of different expressions yes but the one that always made me feel the most i guess sad about my behavior was i'm disappointed i'm disappointed so i would suggest if you want to use english to with your child or with a child in your family i would suggest using this expression sparingly that means just a little bit maybe only in serious times so if my mother or father said i'm disappointed or i'm disappointed in you it was because i did something seriously wrong i made a really bad mistake so maybe like i broke something valuable or i didn't take care of a very important responsibility or like i just i did something and i did not tell them or i told a lie or something they would say i'm disappointed in you so uh of course that made me feel very sad and like i didn't want to do it again in other situations just using this stop pattern was enough really stop doing that or stop touching me so this was a pretty good one i don't i didn't like hearing that very much so again try to use it just in the serious times i'm disappointed or i'm disappointed in you of course you could change that to we're disappointed meaning your mother and i or your father and i are disappointed in you that one's also okay all right so i hope that this helps you uh get some expressions that you can use for talking to kids of course if you have any questions or comments or want to practice making some sentences please feel free to do so in the comment section below this video also if you like this lesson 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 lesson and i will see you again soon bye-bye hi everybody my name is alicia in this lesson i'm going to talk about using a little and little and a few and few i'm going to talk about the little differences in using an article and not using an article with these words so let's get started okay first i want to look at a little versus little so before we talk about using this article uh i want to mention we use little or a little with uncountable nouns so nouns that we cannot count if you're not sure about countable or uncountable nouns please take a look at the videos on our channel there are a few example videos a few other videos you can check to learn more about countable and uncountable nouns so we use little with uncountable nouns nouns that we cannot count we use a little to mean simply a small amount of the noun so using a little has a very neutral feel so neutral means it's not like positive it's not negative it's very neutral very flat depending on the speaker's intonation it could be a little bit positive it could have a positive feel about it so that you'll just have to listen to the person speaking or to think about the situation you need to do that but in most cases it's just very neutral there's nothing positive nothing negative then little so no article here you'll notice no article little means only a small amount of the noun only a small amount so here we have a negative feel often times we have a very negative feel like there's only a small amount of something and that's bad or and that makes a problem so we use no article to communicate this only feeling like this only and that's too bad sort of idea so let's look at an example of this first we have a little time we have a little time and we have little time so first time is an uncountable noun so we're using little there but we see we have a little time like we have a little time to finish this project for example so showing uh with a little here or rather by using a little here we're communicating a very neutral point just a simple fact we have a little time or maybe if i'm excited about something i could say we have a little time we can do something extra for the project then it feels a little bit more positive however in the second sentence we have little time that's usually the intonation we use we have little time so that sounds like there's very little time there's only a little time so that's another way to say that but we have little time sounds like perhaps there's not enough time or the deadline is quickly approaching so there's not much time would be another way to say that it has a negative feel about it i'm going to save this example sentence this pair for a little bit later because there's another point i'd like to make but let's keep in mind that this use of the article communicates a simple fact and no article communicates a negative okay so let's look at this same idea with a few and few so we talked about using little and a little with uncountable nouns few and a few are used with countable nouns nouns that we can count with one two three and so on so just as with a little and little a few communicates a small number of the noun and it's just a general like neutral kind of fact statement there's no positive no negative unless the speaker chooses to create some feeling like they use their voice to make the situation or to make the statement sound more positive we can use a few to do that using no article creates this negative feeling so using few means only a small number of the nouns so there's that negative feel again there so only a small number like there's not enough of something or it's too bad so something negative perhaps has happened so let's take a look at an example that uses few and a few first he gave us a few ideas he gave us a few ideas so you'll notice yes a few with the article here and don't forget your s so this is a countable noun idea we need to use the plural form a few ideas so he gave us a few ideas a general fact just a simple statement or if i'm excited i could say he gave us a few ideas like i sound happy i sound positive about that if however maybe i had some expectation like this was a really creative person i expected lots and lots and lots of ideas but he didn't give us a lot of ideas i want to communicate that i can say he gave us few ideas he gave us few ideas so we keep this ideas in the plural form the only change is no article in front of few he gave us few ideas so this shows that like we maybe had some expectation or we hoped for something different so he gave us few ideas and that's bad or that's a negative thing so when we want to communicate this using few or little we use an article or no article to change the feeling to change the nuance of the sentence okay so i want to continue by looking at these last pairs of example sentences here so i explained in both of these cases that using no article creates a negative feel like most in most situations i would say however if you're dealing with a situation where your noun is a bad thing so i've made a note here if the noun in your sentence refers to something bad or to something negative then the feeling actually changes the feeling becomes positive when you use no article so let's look at this example sentence first or this pair rather so in this case my noun is pollution pollution um means like a dirty environment like dirty water dirty air some kind of environment related problems so pollution is a bad thing in most cases i think so pollution is a bad thing if i want to make a sentence using little or a little because pollution is an uncountable noun i could say the city has a little pollution so that's a statement of fact the city has a little pollution yes if i use no article here though the city has little pollution actually that's a good thing so we're saying there's only a little of this so because pollution is a bad thing using little shows there's not a large amount of this bad thing and that means it's good so if this noun is something that's negative or that's not good then using no article is going to create a more positive meaning there so let's look at one more example same idea just a different noun and a different word here few so let's look at this countable noun problem so problem is a bad thing a negative thing in many cases so a problem is something we don't want first we have a few problems we have a few problems so again just a simple statement of fact so i'm probably not happy about that i would not say we have a few problems i would say we have a few problems so there's a negative feel with this actually same thing over here as well second though we have few problems so this means only a small number of this thing this bad noun in this case so because there are few a small number of these problems this sentence expresses a good situation so we have few problems that's a good thing so in cases where your noun is referring to something that's not good you can actually change the meaning if you do not use the article in front of little or few so keep that in mind that's just a kind of an exception in most cases though you'll see it used as i talked about in the beginning in most cases it follows this rule this negative feel but just pay attention to the noun that little or few is modifying and you can kind of understand should it be negative feel or positive feel okay so this is an introduction or a quick lesson on the differences between a little and little and few and a few so i hope that it was helpful for you if you have any questions or comments or if you want to practice making some example sentences in the comments section please feel free to do so of course if you like this lesson 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 lesson and i will see you again soon bye-bye hi everybody my name is alicia in this lesson i'm going to talk about how to describe an object's dimensions dimensions means the size of an object all of the different sizes of an object i'm going to talk about a few key words that we need to describe these sizes and i'm going to talk about how we make sentences that use this kind of information so let's get started first i want to begin with this list of keywords for this lesson so i want everybody to be careful about the grammar of the sentences when they build these sentences so first let's look at these words here these words are all nouns the words are length length width width height height and depth depth so each of these nouns when we use them to talk about the size of an object explains some kind of like question so by that i mean with length for example length tells us how long the object is so length you can connect it with the word long remember though this is an adjective how long is the item length is the noun form here similarly width width tells us how wide is the object how wide is the object so length is how long width is how wide the object is height tells us how tall the object is how tall if that's our question we're looking for the height of the object how tall is the object my height is that's what we would use to talk about it as a noun not tall which is the adjective form but height that's the noun form finally depth depth we use depth to explain how deep an object is so we might use this more for like things where we need to go under the ground perhaps in some cases it's used for talking about buildings like how far back something goes we could also use this to talk about underwater measurements or maybe like as you'll see later like a bathtub measurement something that goes down so depth tells us how deep something is so to review length is how long something is width is how wide something is height is how tall something is and depth is how deep something is so when we are talking about these points we use measurements measurements so a measurement is the unit that we use to talk about these things so there are two systems in the world that are used the u.s is one of i believe only two countries that uses what's called the imperial system in the imperial system we use inches which we write in a short way an abbreviation as i n inches and feet which we abbreviate as f t feet f t inches i n so there are 12 inches in one foot so an inch is a small unit a foot is a larger unit there are 12 inches inside one foot this is the imperial system now there are larger measurements in the imperial system yes but for today's lesson i'm focusing on measurements of objects so i'm not going to talk about the larger measurements okay but let's compare this to the metric system the metric system most of the world uses the metric system in the united states the imperial system is used but most of the rest of the world uses the metric system for today's lesson i want to focus on these three key vocabulary words they are millimeters millimeters which we abbreviate we make short as mm we have centimeters centimeters which we abbreviate as cmcm and finally we have meters meters we abbreviate with m so for reference inside one meter inside one meter there are 100 centimeters centimeters and there are 1 000 millimeters millimeters so 1000 millimeters 100 centimeters inside a meter so if you're interested you can break down this centa and milli to learn more about the histories of these words but that's a little bonus point for those of you who are interested let's look at how we use this then to describe an object's dimensions to talk about the size of something with these words too so i've drawn this object a box for this lesson and i have marked here 20 40 and 60. so i want to use these numbers to talk about the size of the object so let's take a look at a very basic way to describe these dimensions this box is 20 centimeters in this case x 40 centimeters x 60 centimeters so very commonly in english writing and in writing i think maybe from other languages too we see this x between our measurements in english we read this as by by so naturally i would say 20 centimeters by 40 centimeters by 60 centimeters and if it's understood if this unit of measurement is understood we might say just 20 by 40 by 60 or 20 by 40 by 60 centimeters is also okay we often don't need to say centimeters centimeters centimeters after each one because everything should be in the same unit of measurement so 20 by 40 by 60 is a very clear way to say that if you're using inches actually these are the same measurements just in inches in the imperial system you might see for example a dot in the number followed by a couple more numbers so these are the same measurements actually just in the imperial system in inches so to describe the dimensions of this box i would say this box is 7.84 inches by 15.74 inches by 23.62 inches so again we're using by here we read this the dot as point point you'll also notice the number or numbers before the dot are read as regular by that i mean 7 and 15 and 23 those are read as regular numbers the numbers after that are read individually so 7.84 not 7.84 7.84 we read it one at a time each number is read one at a time 7.84 inches by 15.74 inches by 23.62 inches so when you need to read these small numbers after the decimal point this is called a decimal point here we just read it as point make sure to read these individually not together so this is another small point about dimensions of course you may see this in centimeters too maybe 20.5 centimeters for example so this is how we read these portions of the sentence and also a point about reading the numbers too so how do we use the word long and length and so on so there are a couple of different ways to describe this so as i've said here this is very common using just the dimensions like this we can do that if you want to be very specific about your dimensions you could say for example this box is 20 centimeters long that means the length of the box so in this case maybe this is 20 for example and also maybe it's like the difference between width and length is sort of just up to the person who created the object or maybe it's just um for reference purposes so sometimes there's not like necessarily always a rule for which is width and which is length but length tends to be longer than width so for this example probably 40 we would say is the length and 20 is the width but for this example sentence this box is maybe 20 centimeters long this is how i would use long in a sentence however if i want to use length the noun form i talked about earlier the length is 20 centimeters so notice this sentence and this sentence are sharing the same information the length of the box that's the information but the grammar of the sentence changes this box is 20 centimeters long adjective here the length is 20 centimeters or the length of this box is 20 centimeters so note noun form and adjective form length and long they require slightly different sentence structures let's look with wide and width then so here this box is 40 centimeters wide this is my adjective form the width is 40 centimeters this is my noun form we can do the same thing with tall and height this box is 60 centimeters tall or the height is 60 centimeters so again tall is my adjective height is my noun so depending on the word i use i need to make sure my grammar the structure of my sentence is correct i cannot say the tall is 60 centimeters that is incorrect because tall is an adjective i must use a noun here i also cannot use height in this pattern this box is 60 centimeters height is incorrect because height is a noun i have to use an adjective here it's 60 centimeters tall this is correct we use the same pattern when we're talking about people's height so her height is 160 centimeters or she is 160 centimeters tall so please keep this in mind when you're talking about the object dimensions the sizes of objects finally i mentioned the word deep or the word depth to so you might use this if you're talking about like your bathtub for example my bathtub is 80 centimeters deep so here deep again this is the adjective form to use depth we would make a pattern like this the depth of my bathtub is 80 centimeters for example so this is how we introduce sizes in english so important points to take away are this by and this point this will help you sound more natural when you are reading dimensions for things so when you make when you're taking a measurement of something you can use this number 20 centimeters and then as you're taking the next measurement it's very common to say bye so 20 centimeters by 40 centimeters by 60 centimeters as you're measuring something that's a very common way to express that so i hope that this is helpful for you in terms of the measurements of objects but if you have any questions or comments or if there's something you would like to practice if you want to make an example measurement for example in the comment section please feel free to do that as well of course if there's something else you want to know about this topic please let us know in the comments too if you like this lesson 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 lesson and i will see you again soon bye hi everybody welcome back to top words my name is alicia and today we're going to talk about 10 words for persuading people so let's go urge the first word is urge urge so to urge someone to do something i urge you to blah blah blah i urged him to blah blah blah i urged her to blah blah blah so you'll hear i'm using i urge you to or i so we use urge plus the object uh so him or her or them whatever to do something to take an action so i urge you to buy a new car i urge you to get a new job i urge you to talk to your boss so to urge someone is to strongly recommend them to do something i strongly recommend blah blah blah um we'll talk about the word recommend in just a moment but i urge you to do something urge is not really such a common word for persuading i think in casual conversation you might see this in like news reports from for example politicians or maybe like policymakers or kind of people in influential positions like i urge you to vote for such and such person you might hear it in those cases but in everyday conversation we don't use urge so much so in a sentence i urge you to make a change recommend the next word is recommend recommend is a very common very simple way to make a suggestion a suggestion based on your opinion so i recommend you uh drink a lot of water or i recommend you eat healthy or i recommend he so you'll notice i recommend you i recommend he i recommend she not i recommend to uh blah blah blah but i recommend you do something i recommend you take a vacation i recommend you get a new haircut i recommend plus uh who who are you recommending this to you can do that also you can say you can follow the recommendation you can follow the verb with like a noun phrase like i recommend toothpaste i recommend restaurant abc for dinner tonight so you can follow recommend with the item you are recommending so i recommend product a for this i recommend product b for that or you can follow it with a a pronoun so i you me i recommend well not i i recommend you blah blah blah or i recommend noun okay in a sentence he recommended i see a doctor consider the next word is consider consider so consider to consider something means to think about something consider is a little more formal than think about so this is think about maybe consider is a step above uh think about so please consider blah blah blah so please consider uh plus some noun phrase usually comes after the verb consider so uh please consider my new plan or please consider your mother's feelings so again use consider in formal situations so please consider my proposal please consider a change in the department for example so use consider in more formal situations to ask someone to think about something so please consider blah blah blah in a sentence please consider all the options you should the next word is you should you should or the next expression is you should blah blah so you should is perhaps the most common way to try to persuade or to give a suggestion to someone you should blah blah blah i think you should get a new apartment i think you should find a new job i think you should be dating a different person i think you should ask for a refund so you should you should is a very common way to give advice what do you think i should do is a way to ask for it you should blah blah blah to give your advice or to try to persuade someone of your opinion in a sentence i think you should find a new apartment suggest okay next word the next word is suggest suggest so be careful with your pronunciation with this word there are two g's here it is not sagest or sagester i don't even know i've heard some very strange pronunciations of this word it's suggest so there's a g sound and then it's followed by a j sound suggest quickly happens there suggests what do you suggest um that's a tricky one so practice slowly sug just suggest suggest fun okay anyway so to suggest something is to give a very soft recommendation for something uh so i suggest you study every day i suggest you see a doctor uh he suggested in the past tense he suggested we take a vacation or we suggest a new policy or why don't you suggest this to your manager for example so suggest is to give a kind of soft recommendation to just sort of share an opinion it's a sort of soft persuasion okay in another sentence can i make a suggestion try the next word is try try so try is commonly used just in the command form try something so like try this food try that drink try something so we can use try to kind of give these very direct uh recommendations it's a more direct way to try to persuade someone of something so it's probably best used in cases where you are fairly close to the other person so try my new cake or did you you should try i've used you should you should try uh this pasta for example or uh try my new product if you're trying to sell something or try out our new online course so try is a very direct and quick and clear way to persuade someone in a sentence try new things why don't the next expression is why don't why don't blah blah blah you can use why don't in the negative don't why don't we use this this negative form why don't you why doesn't he of course if the if we uh if we change the sentence a little bit why doesn't he why doesn't she why don't you why don't we why don't they uh so we use this as a very soft way to make a suggestion why don't we see a movie this weekend why doesn't he just talk to his girlfriend why don't you tell me more about your amazing plan uh why don't we go to bed so why don't you or why don't we why don't why doesn't he why doesn't she um we can use these expressions to make a suggestion please be careful there are uh depending on your intonation you can change the meaning of this sentence for example if i say why don't you call me back if i ask in like that complaining tone like why don't you call me back it sounds very different from ah why don't you call me back like uh it's make if my second sentence there ah why don't you just call me back later for example uh sounds like a suggestion however if i use a complaining tone of voice why don't you call me back it sounds like there's a uh like a problem i'm trying to uh to communicate so be careful here depending on your intonation you might cause some miscommunication so make it make you make sure you use a suggestion intonation why don't you blah blah upward intonation why don't you call me back later or why don't you meet me for dinner for example why don't you meet me for dinner sounds a lot different than why don't you meet me for dinner so please be careful here okay in another sentence why don't you take a break how about next expression is how about how about so uh you use how about to make a suggestion how about we go hiking this weekend how about we have dinner tonight how about we get a coffee how about a drink after work how about is very casual very simple easy to use friendly way to make a suggestion to try to persuade someone in a very friendly manner how about an activity so in a sentence how about a trip to the mountains this weekend what do you think about the next expression is what do you think about what do you think about so what do you think about so not what do you think about but what do you think about what do you think about activity so what do you think about going swimming what do you think about going for drinks tonight what do you think about studying for the test together tomorrow so again we use this as a soft persuasion expression so what do you think about something so asking the listener what do you think sounds like you're asking for their opinion what do you think about doing this activity together it's like you you've made a suggestion you want to persuade that person and you're getting their opinion in return so in another sentence what do you think about italian for dinner tonight let's the next word is let's let's so let's is very interesting there's a one common mistake i see a lot with the word let's let's by default let's on its own implies that you are going to do something with another person let's means let us let us is the expanded form of let's let's is the contracted form of let us the key here being us so let's implies let's means therefore that it is the speaker plus the listener involved in the action so for example let's cook something together or let's eat or let's get a drink or let's study it sounds already like there's the listener and the speaker are involved sometimes i hear let's study with us something like that not correct let's study you don't need with in this case unless unless you're talking about a third party there's someone else so let's study with uh stevens or like let's talk let's talk about this with stevens let's talk about this with the boss so let's means the people who are involved in the conversation let's blah blah blah you can add with to talk about somebody who is not involved in the planning conversation right now so don't use us here this should be somebody not involved in the conversation let's is the people involved in the conversation be very careful here so we use let's again as a very soft way to persuade someone just a suggestion a more casual expression let's talk about this at the next meeting let's talk about this with our manager tomorrow let's talk about oh i'm doing lots of talking uh let's go to bed i'm tired for example so using let's shows that there are a couple of people at least the immediate group whoever can listen at that point in time they're all involved there so keep that in mind let's is a very interesting word all right in one more sentence let's go to the movies all right those are 10 words and 10 expressions you can use when you're persuading people i hope that those are useful for you if you liked this video please make sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel if you have not done so already also check us out at englishclass101.com for more good things thanks very much for watching this episode if you have any questions or comments please be sure to let us know in the comment section below this video thanks for watching and we'll see you again soon bye this is how i persuade people i just advance menacingly towards them until they agree hi everybody welcome back to top words my name is alicia and today we're going to be talking about the top 20 useful phrases for a hair salon before we get to the main part of this lesson make sure to check the link in the description to get pdf cheat sheets that you can use to build your vocabulary and your phrase knowledge you might take a look at this conversational phrase cheat sheet it includes some expressions that you can use when making a reservation or when making payments for things as you'll need to do when you visit a hair salon so make sure to check this out in the description all right let's get to the video okay the first expression is i would like a simple haircut i would like a simple haircut okay this is a very basic phrase that expresses that you want just a trim essentially you don't want to make any crazy new styles you want your existing style but just a little bit shorter so you can use this i'd like a simple haircut expression next is can i have a shave can i have a shave so can i have a shave typically refers to shaving the hair on someone's face so you probably don't want to ask for this if you're going into a hairdresser's to get the hair on your head cut there are some styles that use razors and so on for like the back of the head or maybe the side of the head to create interesting designs so you can ask for those things specifically but generally when we say shave something it refers to the hair on the face okay let's head to the next expression i have to visit the stylist i have to visit the stylist you can use this expression to tell someone else about your plans to visit your hair stylist so stylist here means hair stylist you can use either word but stylist is just a little bit shorter so i have to visit the stylist i need a haircut okay next is i need to speak to the hairdresser i need to speak to the hairdresser alright so hairdresser is a little bit of an old-fashioned word you might hear a hair stylist or a stylist or maybe something else but generally when you need to speak to a hairdresser it's because you have some idea for something you want to do with your hair maybe you want to make a new color or maybe you want to create a new style for yourself or use some specific kind of technique either way you need to consult with your hairdresser or your hair stylist you can use this expression to do that i want to try something different today i want to try something different today so when you come to the hair salon or your stylist's shop you can express to them i want to try something different today to mean you want to be a little bit more adventurous with your haircut this means you're open to their opinions and their ideas so if you feel comfortable asking your hair stylist their opinion you can say i want to try something a little different today next is can i request a different shampoo can i request a different shampoo so when you go to the hair salon and it's time to shampoo your hair you might have specific needs for your hair or your skin or maybe you have an allergy to a certain ingredient whatever if you need to request something else be used from what the hair stylist typically uses you can use this expression of course you can change shampoo for conditioner or treatment or color or whatever it is you need next is my hair is damaged can i have it fixed my hair is damaged can i have it fixed okay so if your hair has damaged that means maybe it's dry or there are split ends maybe it has damage from the sun whatever if you want to make it clear to your hair stylist that your hair has some damage and you want a little bit of extra treatment for it you can use this expression my hair is damaged can i have it fixed next is i'd just like a trim i would just like a trim okay the most basic request at a hair salon is just a trim you don't even have to say i would you can just say just a trim please or even a trim please that means i want just a little bit removed from my current hairstyle just a tiny bit so just to trim is the most basic and probably most common request you can have ready when you go to the hair salon okay next expression is could you cut a little bit more could you cut a little bit more all right at native speed this could you cut a little bit more means could you please cut a little bit more of my hair so use this when the hairstylist has already cut some of your hair and you want it a little bit shorter you want a little bit more hair to be cut off could you cut a little bit more next expression is could you straighten my hair could you straighten my hair okay so to straighten your hair means to make your hair straight to use a hair iron or use something to create straight hair from wavy or curly hair if you want your stylist to finish your hair and make it look straight you can use this expression could you straighten my hair make sure to say straighten not straight not straight but could you straighten my hair okay next expression is i don't have an appointment do you have time today i don't have an appointment do you have time today so if you decide on the day that you need to go to the hair stylist you can call them or maybe drop in and say i don't have an appointment but do you have some time today you can try using this expression if you need to see someone urgently like if you have a hair emergency so use this i don't have an appointment but do you have some time okay the next expression is i would like to dye my hair i would like to dye my hair okay so if you want to change the color of your hair you can use this expression i'd like to dye my hair or i want to dye my hair to be specific about the color you can say i want to dye my hair black or i want to dye my hair blue or i want to dye my hair pink whatever the color is can come after this expression you can also say i'd like to change the color of my hair or i want to color my hair these expressions are also okay all right next expression is what kind of hairstyle do you recommend what kind of hairstyle do you recommend so this is an expression that you can use to ask your hair stylist for some advice maybe they can look at your hair type they can look at the shape of your face consider your needs and help you to choose a hairstyle that's right for you what kind of hairstyle do you recommend okay the next expression is can you make it look like this picture can you make it look like this picture okay so in lots of cases if you find a new style in a magazine or online or something like that you might think to yourself i should bring this to the hair salon when you do that you can point to the picture and say can you make it look like this picture or you can also just say i'd like this haircut can you do that so showing something is a really helpful way to indicate what kind of style you want you can do that with this expression can you make it like this picture okay the next expression is i would like to change my hair color i'd like to change my hair color so we talked about this expression a little bit earlier in i would like to dye my hair this is a very general expression i would like to change my hair color so you should expect a follow-up what kind of color are you thinking about or what color do you want to change it to so again if you want to change the color of your hair this is another expression that you can use alright next expression is can you show me different hairstyles can you show me different hairstyles so this is something you can use if maybe you're not very prepared when you come to the hair stylist if you need some advice or if you need to see a few different pictures to help you make a decision you can ask your stylist for a few different hairstyles with this expression can you show me some different hairstyles okay next expression is can i get a mohawk can i get a mohawk so a mohawk is a very specific hairstyle it's one strip of hair in the middle of the head usually and it's kind of tall or some people like to have extremely tall extremely spiky mohawks but you can use this pattern to talk about any hairstyle you want you can say can i get a hairstyle can i get a bob or can i get a bowl cut whatever type of cut you want you can use this pattern to express it okay next is i'd like a cut and blow dry i'd like a cut and blow dry you can use this expression when you make your appointment or when you arrive at the hair salon so a cut means a haircut and blow dry means you want them to blow dry your hair as well so it depends on the salon you go to maybe at some salons there's just a cut and no hair washing or no hair treatment options whatever if you want to be specific that you just want a cut maybe a wash and a dry you can use this expression to do that okay next is around what time will we be finished around what time will we be finished you can ask your hair stylist this question if you want to know about when your appointment will be done so if you're a very busy person or you have somewhere to be you can ask your hair stylist about how long they expect the appointment to take you can say about what time will we be finished all right next is does this price include shampoo does this price include shampoo if you have questions about the prices at your hair salon you can ask something like this does this price include shampoo or maybe does this price include a style does this price include treatment whatever it is that you're looking for if you have a question about the price and what it includes you can use this pattern to do that all right that brings us to the end of the top 20 useful phrases for a hair salon what did you think you can let us know in the comments and don't forget to click the link in the description to get your free pdf cheat sheets and learn even more useful english words and phrases you can download them to any device or print them out they're yours to keep so click the link and get them for free thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next video bye hi everybody welcome back to top words my name is alicia and in this lesson we're going to talk about 10 phrases that you can use at the post office let's get started before we get to the video a quick reminder that you can find some free pdf cheat sheets from the link below this video check out the youtube description to find this you can find conversational phrases and expressions that you can use in everyday life so if you want to work on building some skills in your vocabulary and phrase knowledge check them out okay let's get to the video okay first one my home address is this my home address is this okay so if you bring something to the post office you want to send it somewhere and it's not clear which address is your address the place you are sending something from you can tell the post office staff my home address is this and you can point as you say it or you can reverse it as well this is my home address you might also hear slightly different pronunciations you might hear address or address both are fine so my home address is this or this is my home address both are fine okay the next expression is can i schedule a re-delivery can i schedule a re-delivery this is something you can use on the phone if there's not like an online delivery option can i schedule a re-delivery means you expect to receive a package and the package came but you were not at home so you need to reach out to the post office or to the delivery service and schedule another delivery time you can do this on the phone can i schedule a re-delivery okay the next expression is how much does the shipment cost how much does the shipment cost another way to ask this question is how much is shipping you might hear that used how much is shipping how much does this shipment cost means how much will it cost me to send this package or to ship this package you can use this when you're not sure how much something is going to cost if you want to try to find a cheaper way to ship something for example you can confirm the price with this expression okay let's go to the next expression can i have the package insured can i have the package insured okay so if you're sending something valuable or maybe something that's breakable or something really really important you might want to buy insurance for your package or for your letter whatever you're sending you can ask can i have this package insured to mean i want to buy insurance for this package so you can use this when you send something from the post office or the delivery service can i have this package in short okay the next expression is how long does the delivery take how long does the delivery take how long does the delivery take or how long does shipping take you might hear something similar to that this means how many days will it take for my package to reach the destination how long will the delivery take so they might say two business days or five business days or a week but this will give you some idea of when the other person can expect to receive your package okay the next expression is will the recipient receive my package by the end of this week will the recipient receive my package by the end of this week so you can use this expression if you have a specific deadline in mind and you can change by the end of this week to your deadline you can say something for example to change this a little bit like will the package arrive by tomorrow or will the package be there by the end of the month so you can change this expression the by the time to refer to your deadline so if you want to confirm when something will arrive you can use this to do so all right next expression is will i be able to track the delivery will i be able to track the delivery another way to ask this might be how do i track the delivery or can i track the delivery if you want to use online tracking services you can ask this question when you send your package will i be able to track the delivery they might give you a website or perhaps some kind of mobile phone number that you can call depends on the delivery service but if you want to track your package and see where it is you can use this question okay on to the next expression how reliable is the delivery process how reliable is the delivery process this is a question you might ask if you're shipping something that's really easy to break or something that's really valuable or maybe if you need to ship something to like a dangerous area or a place where maybe roads have been affected by something recently so if you have some questions about how safely your package will arrive you can use this question how reliable is the delivery process this might lead to asking some questions about insurance for your package as well okay on to the next expression i'd like to send it via first class i'd like to send it via first class you might also just hear i'd like to send this first class so you don't have to use via but first class means the highest level like a premium level of shipping so it's more expensive yes but perhaps there's insurance you might have faster shipping times whatever it depends on the delivery service that you're using but if you want to get the best shipping service available you can ask for first class i'd like to send this first class please okay on to the next expression i'd like to send several parcels at once i'd like to send several parcels at once so parcel is another way of saying package you can of course replace parcel for package here you can say i'd like to send several packages or maybe you have a few things you want to send the point is if you come to the post office or the delivery service with many things you want to send you can express that to the person working there you can say i have a few things i want to send or i have several parcels i'd like to send so if you go to the post office and you have a few things you need to send you can use an expression like this you can say something like i have several parcels i'd like to send or more casually i have a few things to send or i'd like to send a few packages please you can use parcel or package whatever sounds most comfortable to you but this expression can help the other person understand your needs you don't have just one thing to send you have a few alright that brings us to the end those are 10 phrases that you can use at the post office what did you think you can let us know in the comments and don't forget to click the link in the description to get your free pdf cheat sheets to learn even more useful english words and phrases you can download them to any device or print them out they're yours to keep so click the link and get them for free thanks very much for watching and i will see you again in the next video bye hi everybody welcome back to top words my name is alicia and in this lesson we're going to talk about 20 useful phrases you can use when talking to your doctor let's get started before we start a quick reminder that you can find free pdf cheat sheets to download from the link in the description you can find a bunch of different topics you can use these to build your vocabulary you can use them to find daily conversation expressions and a lot more so have a look check the link below the video okay let's get to the lesson i have an appointment today i have an appointment today when you arrive at the doctor's office you can go to the reception desk or the person working there who's receiving people and you can say i have an appointment today this means they should be expecting you you can expect to give your name and maybe some other personal information after you say this okay let's go to the next expression how are you feeling today how are you feeling today this is a key question that your doctor will ask you it's a question about your condition they'll say how are you feeling today or they might ask something like what seems to be the problem or asking something else about your specific symptoms so when your doctor says how are you feeling today you can explain you're feeling good or not so good depending on what kind of checkup you're doing you can express that something is painful or something doesn't feel quite right there are many different ways to respond to this question so that's up to you okay on to the next phrase not very well not very well so not very well is a very general way to respond to the question how are you feeling today when you say not very well you should expect to provide more detail so why don't you feel very well so this means that you just don't have a very good feeling about your body about your condition okay on to the next expression i think i sprained my left ankle i think i sprained my left ankle okay so this is an example of a more specific way of explaining your condition so in this case a sprain is a type of sports injury and we tend to see it around the ankles or maybe around the wrists too so if you think that you know what type of injury you're experiencing you can express that with something like this i think i sprained my ankle in this case okay let's go to another way to express your feeling i feel a sharp pain in my right knee i feel a sharp pain in my right knee okay so this is another way that you can describe something that you're experiencing if you're not sure about the type of injury for example but you want to express you are feeling pain you can do it with something like this sharp pain is a knife-like pain so you can use i feel a sharp pain in my plus the body part in this case your right knee of course you can change that to any other body part to express that you're feeling sharp knife-like pain in that place okay let's go to another example my knee is aching my knee is aching okay so here we have a knee as our example place again but in this case we're using ache so aching refers to a kind of dull low pain generally that doesn't go away so when you say that something aches it's different from a sharp pain which we saw in the previous example because a sharp pain is like a very strong knife-like pain an ache is something that's kind of constant and low so you can say my body part is aching to mean that that's the feeling that it has now okay let's go to the next expression my throat hurts a little my throat hurts a little okay so most people have experienced a sore throat so you can say i have a sore throat or another way to say that is my throat hurts a little of course you can change throat to any other body part my finger hurts a little or my stomach hurts a little to express that there's a little pain or a little discomfort in that body part okay on to the next one i have a terrible stomach egg i have a terrible stomachache okay so if you have pain in your stomach so you feel sick to your stomach you can express that with stomach ache so we talked about the word ache earlier that kind of low constant pain we have that in our stomach sometimes when we eat something that we disagree with or when we have some kind of bacteria in our stomachs so if you have a really really bad one if it's very very uncomfortable you can express that with a terrible stomach ache i have a terrible stomachache okay next expression i've lost my appetite i've lost my appetite okay this expression means you no longer want to eat food your appetite is how hungry you feel when you see food so usually we want to eat a few times a day right but if you lose your appetite it means you're no longer interested in food so if you have this experience you can tell your doctor this you can say i've lost my appetite okay next expression i have a rash on my arm i have a rash on my arm okay so a rash is a part of your skin that turns red or maybe even another color and that's sometimes itchy or maybe kind of painful so if you have one of these spots on your skin you can express that with i have a rash on my plus the body part so i have a rash on my arm i have a rash on my neck and so on okay next expression do you have a cough do you have a cough this is a question that will come from the doctor so if they want to check your symptoms they might ask do you have a cough or do you have some other symptom a cough refers to an uncomfortable feeling where you want to push the air out of your lungs and this sound is called a cough so your doctor might ask you do you have a cough to check your symptoms okay next expression i get tired very quickly i get tired very quickly okay so this expression refers to fatigue or a feeling of having no energy if your doctor asks about your symptoms and you want to express that recently you don't have much energy you can say i feel tired very quickly this helps the doctor understand that there's been a recent change in your energy levels okay next expression does it hurt when i press here does it hurt when i press here this is another question that will come from the doctor during a physical examination the doctor may touch parts of your body and the doctor might ask you does it hurt when i press here which means do you feel pain when i press this spot on your body so just answer yes or no to respond okay next expression take this medicine and rest take this medicine and rest this is an instruction from the doctor after your examination your doctor might tell you to take some medicine so they might also tell you to get some rest in this case it's both take some medicine and rest it means take the medicine the doctor is giving you and rest your body okay next expression you might need surgery you might need surgery okay so this is something that will come from the doctor after your physical examination if your injury or your sickness cannot be treated just by using medicine you might have to have an operation or surgery so there are very simple surgeries and there are more complex surgeries so it depends on your condition but if the doctor thinks you may need something like this they'll tell you with an expression like you might need surgery okay next expression i need a medical certificate i need a medical certificate if you need a document that describes your health condition or your medical history you can ask for one with this expression i need a medical certificate you might not have to ask your doctor specifically for this in many cases you can simply ask the reception desk for this information okay next expression i'd like to get a second opinion i'd like to get a second opinion okay this expression means i'd like to get a second doctor's opinion so after your physical examination if you're not sure about this doctor's conclusion you might want to talk to another doctor and get their opinion about your condition you can express that with i'd like to get a second opinion okay next expression that's a relief that's a relief okay that's a relief is an expression that you can use when you feel relieved about the doctor's conclusion if you thought you might have a serious illness but the doctor says you just have a cold and it's no problem you can express that feeling of relief with this expression ah that's a relief it's just a cold okay next expression please come back next week for a checkup please come back next week for a checkup this is an instruction you may receive from your doctor so after your first examination maybe you receive some medicine or you have some other kinds of care or treatment guidelines your doctor wants to check your condition again in a week they will say something like this please come back next week for a checkup okay next expression thank you i will confirm the date of my visit thank you i will confirm the date of my visit all right this is an expression that you would typically use if you are making a schedule for upcoming treatment or an upcoming doctor's appointment you might say this on the phone or in person to someone if you need to check your schedule before you confirm something thanks i need to confirm the date of my visit all right that brings us to the end of 20 useful phrases you can use when talking to your doctor what did you think you can let us know in the comments and don't forget to click the link in the description to 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overwhelmed and reach your language goals so today you'll learn one what solo language learners need to succeed and two how to do self-assessment and set yourself up for success [Music] but first listen up here are this month's new lessons and resources be sure to download these now before we take them down in a few days first the giving directions conversation cheat sheet do you know how to tell a taxi driver where to go in your target language you'll be able to with this pdf cheat sheet you'll learn must know words and phrases for giving directions second the most common verbs pdf ebook you'll learn over 90 common verbs with this bonus pdf picture ebook download and review on any device third how to talk about what you do in your free time learn how to say video games phishing and much more you'll pick up over 25 words for leisure activities with this vocab bonus fourth how to learn from home learning strategies want to learn the language from the comfort of your home this one minute lesson will give you all the best tactics for learning languages fifth the top 35 adjective for personalities can you describe your personality this next bonus teaches you the 35 must-know adjectives for personalities so you can talk about yourself in your target language to get your free resources click the link in the description below right now they're yours to keep forever okay let's jump into today's topic the first step in your language learning journey that will guarantee your success here's a question for you when you want to learn a language how do you usually get started with that goal you might say the inspiration comes first and that motivates you to start then you get a textbook or an app and go from there right that's a pretty standard answer but how does that tend to work out most people end up falling off a week or a month later why do you think that happens leave a comment with why you think people tend to lose inspiration quickly more often than not it happens because you pick a goal a learning routine or a resource that overwhelms you and just isn't right for you here's a typical example let's say you work an 8 hour day and you want to try to start learning most people would try to squeeze in learning for one or two hours at night or you could try and wake up an hour early and usually that doesn't work out because you're trying to do things that you're not used to wake up earlier and study earlier it doesn't fit your current lifestyle so what should you do differently well let's take an example from language schools before you start learning language schools force you to take an assessment test on the first day why so that they make sure the language lessons fit your level and put you in the proper class the goal of an assessment test is to find out where you are and meet you there that's something most solo learners don't do and the problem is if you're a solo learner no one assesses you and you yourself don't know what routine works best for you how much time you can set aside and how much studying you can comfortably do we all imagine we can do an hour a day but realistically speaking it'll be a lot less than that so that's where self-assessment comes in before you start learning a language or do any goal for that matter it's important to know where you are in life what your daily schedule is like when you're busy and when you're free so you can set your expectations know how much time you can put in and so you can start learning at a pace that works for you now how do you actually assess yourself there are three assessments you can do one a life assessment two a routine assessment and three language assessment language assessment will only be helpful if you already have some experience if you're brand new you won't need this first life assessment here the goal is to see how the language will fit into your life and how you generally deal with goals as in if you succeeded with the goal before what helped you succeed you could take that and apply it here if you failed before find out why so you can avoid it this time so you'll need to answer the following questions why are you learning this language how will it help your life what current connections do you have to this language for example listening to music watching tv you have a relative you have neighbors or friends that speak it what have you been doing so far to learn have you learned languages before have you failed any goals before how or why have you succeeded with any goals before how or why write these questions out and answer them next the routine assessment write out your daily routine for a whole week for example wake up at 7am breakfast at 8 a.m commute to work at 8 30 a.m arrive at work at 9 30 a.m lunch at 1 p.m and so on do this for every day of the week the goal here is to see what your daily routine is like so you know when you're free when you're busy and where you can fit in language learning that way if you're super busy on mondays and five minutes is all you can do then that's good enough you won't feel bad about doing only five minutes if you see that you spend 30 minutes on commuting add language learning on top of that existing routine if you take walks or go for a jog play an audio lesson there or even if you're cooking at a certain time play an audio lesson in the background remember look for an existing routine that you already stick with like commuting and where you can multitask don't try to create new routines for example waking up at 7am to learn will set you up for failure if you usually wake up at 8am waking up at 7am will be even harder and then actually trying to learn a language at 7am makes it even harder this is where new learners start having trouble you're trying to do two things at once trying to learn the language and trying to stick to a new routine one is hard enough trying to do two can overwhelm you so piggyback off of your existing routines first so you can build momentum and finally there's language assessment if you're an absolute beginner you won't need much of an assessment just start with our absolute beginner recommended learning pathway but if you have experience and want to assess yourself there are two things you can do first if you're a premium plus user then you're asked to do an assessment test when you join but you can always request it again from your teacher and second if you're a premium user check our recommended pathways we assign these pathways level 1 to level 5 based on your learning level from absolute beginner to advanced at the start of each pathway there's a diagnostic test you can take that to assess yourself so thank you for watching this episode of monthly review next time we'll talk about when routines grow stale how to learn more language with a new routine if you enjoyed these tips hit the like button share the video with anyone who's trying to learn a language and subscribe to our channel we release new videos every week and if you're ready to finally learn language the fast fun and easy way and start speaking from your very first lesson get our complete learning program sign up for your free lifetime account right now click the link in the description see you next time bye what's your reason for learning language is it a personal goal a hobby or do you have dreams of moving to a country where it's spoken in this video you'll learn why your reason is crucial for motivation and for your success in language learning we'll look at the top 10 reasons for learning a language from language learners just like you what's your number one reason for learning a language whatever your reason is whether big or small knowing it or knowing your why is crucial for success and motivation number one i love the culture and the people who speak the language this is a popular answer learning a language can be a great way to learn more about the culture and open up new ways to experience it number two i want to understand my favorite songs movies and tv shows that's right songs movies and shows are great ways to immerse yourself in the language if you're spending your time learning and also immersing yourself you'll learn faster number three it's a beautiful language sometimes the answer is as simple as that you have a genuine interest in the language itself number four my family comes from a place where the language is spoken this can be popular for students who have moved to a new country and might want to connect to their home country's culture learning a language lets them learn things about their heritage and communicate with people who can teach them more about their cultural history if your grandmother speaks a different language from you it can be pretty hard to connect so a lot of people want to learn a language to connect to family members as well number five i want to speak to my partner's family in their language similar to the reason above perhaps you want to speak to your partner's parents or grandparents but they don't speak your language not only can learning their native language let you connect with them on a more personal level but it's also likely to impress them number six i'm learning the language to impress someone we have many students say that they want to learn a new language to impress someone in their life this could be a teacher a parent a friend or even someone they admire and look up to it always feels good to accomplish something and have other people recognize and be proud of your achievement and you see this very often in language learning when you learn a new phrase or can make a longer conversation the people around you are bound to be impressed number seven a love of traveling there's no surprise here many people want to learn a new language to be able to travel more because you can see new places and learn about different cultures traveling is a popular hobby for many people and what better way to connect with the people that you meet on your travels than by being able to speak with them in their native language we have a lot of students who just want to learn some basic conversations to help them on their trips but even this can help you day to day number eight i want to live in a country that speaks the language after traveling around someone might discover a country that really appeals to them and they might decide they want to move there but their language skills could use some work or maybe for a job or family reason someone has to move to a new country not knowing the language can really make adjusting to a new home and even a new culture much more difficult we have a lot of students who want to learn a language to help them when they move number nine i just love learning languages this is popular for people whose hobby is learning other languages they fall in love with the process of actually studying and being able to speak in a new language it's a huge feeling of accomplishment number 10 i want to open my mind and become more international it's so important to expand your horizons and learn about more than your own culture people around the world live their lives in different ways and it's good to learn about them and how they interact you never know what you could learn by opening your ears and mind to new things whatever your reason might be for learning a new language as long as it keeps you motivated it's a good one learning a new language is not an easy journey it's one filled with lots of ups and downs so keep in mind your reason and motivation for learning whether it's so you can move to a new country or connect with a grandparent and let it push you towards success and if you're ready to achieve your language goals just check out 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 have you speaking 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 know how to improve your listening and speaking skills be able to save conversations listen to them as many times as you want and learn hundreds of practical everyday conversations well there is an easy way to do this in this video we'll go over how to speak more using the dialogue track so what is the dialogue track the dialogue track is an audio track with just the conversation from the lesson it's only about 10 to 30 seconds long let's say you're looking at a 5 minute lesson about ordering food at a restaurant first you hear a conversation then our teachers explain every grammar rule and translate every word so you know what it all means that's where the dialogue track comes in it gives you just the conversation here's what makes the dialogue track so powerful first you can quickly review the conversation without re-listening to the lesson the dialogue track is just 10 to 30 seconds long so it won't take you very long to cover both new and old information this makes it perfect for a quick review of what you've just learned and it helps keep it fresh in your brain second you'll remember the conversations easier listen on repeat like you would with a song and the words phrases and grammar rules will stick better and the more you come back to re-listen the better it will all stick third you'll speak more of your target language so if you have 10 20 or 100 dialogue tracks like that then you have 10 20 or 100 conversations that you'll know inside out and that you can use in real life for example conversations like catching up with friends ordering in a restaurant talking about your family introducing yourself and much much more fourth you improve your listening skills and can immerse yourself in the language so imagine you've finished 20 lessons and you've downloaded 20 dialogue tracks to your phone that's 20 conversations you can create a playlist and play those 20 tracks and get used to the language and immerse yourself to recap what we just learned here's what you do to make the most of the dialogue tracks first after you finish a lesson download the dialog track save it to your computer or phone so you can listen to it on repeat whenever possible just replace three to 15 minutes of music listening for some language review next if you've finished 20 lessons you should have 20 dialogue tracks use those to create a playlist of these dialogue tracks so that you can listen to all kinds of conversations and finally try shadowing the conversations that you hear this will become super easy once you've heard the conversation enough times but if you're still struggling with a word or two go back to the lesson and check the line-by-line breakdown of the conversation to find the words you need to practice boost your speaking skills with the dialogue track and check out our complete language learning program sign up 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read and work on any device browser or reader last we have our premium study tools as a premium member you have unlimited website access which means you also unlock our premium study tools you'll get access to our 2000 word core vocabulary list these words are the most commonly used in everyday conversation and they're essential to your conversational fluency and you'll master them fast with our smart flash card system and the word bank you can perfect your pronunciation by reading from line by line transcripts this means you'll have access to all the must-know words and you'll be able to practice them with the correct pronunciation don't let your language learning slow down if you're running low on motivation power up your language learning with premium get all of our premium tools for studying just check out 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 have you speaking in your target 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actually understand the entire conversation as a listener you'll get exposed to brand new conversations and start understanding real life conversations so what's the next step step three you'll need to start speaking and repeating what you hear that's the best way to start speaking any language do it from day one with our voice recorder available inside the lessons you can listen to each line of the conversation and then repeat and record yourself to see how close you are to a native speaker finally step four in case you missed anything you can review with vocab lists quizzes and the line by line feature the line by line breaks down the conversation so you can hear and read each line again and again so even if you can't catch something the first time you can review what you heard and be able to hear it on the next listen but remember the most important step is the first one you must jump into new lessons and new conversations in order to make a language breakthrough to make your 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Published: Tue Jun 22 2021