शैडोइंग अभ्यास: English Conversation Lesson: Learn 3 advanced expressions - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें
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Hello.
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Hello, hello.
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Welcome to today's live English lesson here on the wonderful Speak English with Vanessa YouTube channel page.
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Thank you for joining me.
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I'm Vanessa, and this is my husband, Dan.
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I'm Dan.
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You might know me well.
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Yes.
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Dan is going to help today to explain three valuable English expressions.
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One of them is a phrasal verb, one of them is an idiom, and what's the last one?
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We got slang as well.
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We like slang around here.
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Yes.
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So we'll hopefully help you to expand your vocabulary
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and also just see some specific examples
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when you can use this in your daily conversations or in your writing or in your job or in your travels, anytime that you use English.
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If you're joining us live, thanks so much.
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Let us know where you're from and let us know in the chat box.
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We're going to be asking a lot of questions today.
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So make sure that you interact and participate.
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You can write out the questions.
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You can write out your answers.
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Even if you're not watching live, if you're watching the replay, you can do the same thing.
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Write out the questions, write out your own answers.
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Try to use these because that's the best way to remember what you're learning.
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Yes.
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And a happy, early Merry Christmas.
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If anybody hasn't noticed our Christmas tree back here.
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Yes.
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I love Christmas.
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It's my favorite time of year.
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Yeah.
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So we decided to open the door so that you could get a little sneak preview of our Christmas tree.
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That was Dan's idea.
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Thanks.
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Yes.
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We need the sneak preview.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Thank you everyone who's joining us from Mexico, India, Brazil, Japan, Yemen, Colombia, Egypt, Hungary.
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Thank you so much for joining us.
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Peru, Turkey, Morocco.
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Wow.
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Kurdistan.
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I've never been there.
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Everywhere around the world.
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Thanks so much.
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I'd like to start by asking you the first question.
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Okay.
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And my first question is, well, it has to do with something that happened this week.
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We had a friend who invited us to an escape room for her birthday, but I had never heard of that.
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So could you explain it to me?
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What's an escape room?
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Because if my friend's inviting me there for her birthday, I want to know what I'm going to do.
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Yeah.
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An escape room.
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I don't know if they do this in other countries yet, but it's started to get kind of popular in America.
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So you actually pay to get locked up in a room.
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Yes.
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So, and it's filled with puzzles.
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So you have to, one might say, figure out some puzzles.
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Yes.
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So I've done one before.
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And I remember they started me off in the room in handcuffs with all the lights off.
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And you were with other people or were you alone?
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I was with other people.
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It'd be a little scary alone, I think.
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I guess you could do it alone, but it's fun as maybe a group activity that's why we got invited to a friend's house.
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Right.
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And they call it an escape room because you're supposed to escape the room.
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That's the point of the game.
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So I don't know, do they have that in your countries?
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Yeah.
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Are escape rooms becoming popular in your country?
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So the kind of
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principle of this type of activity is that you have to figure out how to get out of the room.
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What is this lovely phrasal verb here?
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Figure out.
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Figure out.
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That means to learn how to do something.
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And it usually means it's a little difficult.
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You're working on something.
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Maybe you have a really hard math problem.
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This happened to me all the time when I was in school.
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Math was not my strong suit.
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So I had to figure out how to solve the problem.
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Yes.
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You had to figure out.
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So this kind of implies a process.
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It's difficult.
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Maybe you have to look from one resource to the next resource and ask someone.
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You have to do some problem solving, kind of like you can imagine
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if Dan's in a dark room with his friends handcuffed
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and they have to figure out how to get out of the room, that involves a process.
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Yeah.
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You have to problem solve and figure out other things.
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So I want to know for you, my question for you is, when was a time you had to figure out how to solve a problem?
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You can also say, figure it out.
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Figure it out.
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So when would we use figure it out?
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Yeah.
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If you're already in the process of working on something, you might just say to yourself, oh man, I really need to figure it out.
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Yeah.
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So the other day - I need to figure this out.
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I was in the office, in this room, and I think I made some kind of sound, some kind of frustrated sound.
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And you said from the other room, hey Vanessa, are you okay?
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And I said, oh, it's fine, I'll figure it out.
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I didn't tell him any specifics.
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I didn't say, I'm working on this problem on the website, and technical things are sometimes frustrating to me.
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I didn't give him any details.
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I just said, I'll figure it out.
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She knew I wouldn't be able to figure it out.
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I didn't want to explain those details.
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She figured it out on her own.
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Yes.
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So do you think that this is an expression and a phrasal verb that you could use .. in a workplace situation, if you have some kind of problem,
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it's useful for those kind of professional situations, certainly.
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So maybe if you have a problem on some kind of report
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that you're working on and you want to ask a coworker about it.
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Can you help me figure this out?
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Figure this out.
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That would be polite and it's acceptable.
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It's not slang.
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Yeah, it's not slang.
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It can be polite and you can split this phrasal verb like Dan just did,
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figure it out or figure this out or figure this problem out, figure this thing out.
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So you can split it or you can keep it together, no problem.
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We've got two different choices.
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So a lot of you are writing wonderful expressions here.
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I see Zahira says, I will figure out how to get confident in English.
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That's a good one.
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That is a great one.
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So here we can kind of imagine that you're solving the problem.
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You're working through this issue and you're going to figure it out.
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I will figure it out.
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I know I'll do it.
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I couldn't figure out what my boss was talking about as I don't speak Mongolian.
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That's a good one too.
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I couldn't figure it out in the negative.
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Yes.
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So when you're using this in the negative version, just like we saw here in this sample sentence from those of you who are here live with us saying, I couldn't figure out what my boss was saying.
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Or maybe if you had an English teacher who just talked way too fast and talked about too many complex things, then maybe you would say,
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oh, I can't figure out what Vanessa's saying.
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She's just talking too fast.
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We have a question.
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Is find out similar?
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Oh, this is a great question.
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Find out.
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I want to give you a little tip.
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Maybe a year ago, over a year ago, or maybe less than a year ago.
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I'm not sure.
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I made a video comparing figure out and find out.
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After this is finished, I'll link this video up here and then also in the description, but I want you to get some more details about that.
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If I said, I'm going to find out who is at the door.
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That means you're going to discover.
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You're going to see, find out.
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You don't know right now, and then you're going to to find out, you're going to discover.
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It kind of doesn't imply that process, you're searching a difficult thing.
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Instead, it's an instant thing like, aha, I opened the door and I can see who's there.
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I'm going to find out who's there.
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Yeah.
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Maybe if you said, I'm going to figure out who's at the door, maybe you hear a knock on the door and you look through the hole and you don't see anybody.
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Or maybe somebody's He's wearing a mask and then they give you a puzzle.
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Yeah.
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So it just kind of implies a process.
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It needs to be more involved.
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Yeah.
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So if you would like some more details about figure out versus find out, feel free to check out that video.
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But in general, figure out means there's some process.
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You're searching, you're figuring out how to do something.
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We often add how at the end, figure out how to escape from the room,
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figure out how to become a confident English speaker and find out is just the solution.
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Find out what is happening.
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Find out who is at the door.
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I want to find out what presents are under my Christmas tree.
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Are there any presents under our Christmas tree?
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There are no presents.
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Maybe someday there will be presents under the tree.
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Christmas is ruined.
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Oh, well, when you have a toddler.
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It's still early.
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You can't put Christmas presents under the tree early.
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It's a recipe for getting them opened.
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Yes.
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All right.
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I'd like to go to the second expression, which is an idiom.
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Mm -hmm.
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And this past week, our car was doing some kind of funny things, making some funny sounds.
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And I noticed that you didn't fix the car yourself.
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You took it to the mechanic.
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Why did you take the car to the mechanic?
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Well, I'm not a mechanic.
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I'm not very handy.
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Handy means you can fix a lot of things.
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I'm kind of handy, but not with cars.
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So I am in over my head when it comes to fixing cars.
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I would be in over my head if I tried to fix my car.
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In over my head.
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A lovely idiom.
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In over my head.
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We need four words here.
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Well, we can kind of imagine the feeling of being overwhelmed.
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You're completely surrounded or covered in the problem.
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So here we can imagine Dan opening the car, trying to fix the problem.
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He's trying to figure out what's making that strange sound.
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He's trying to look around.
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I'm ripping pieces out of the car.
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Oh, and he thinks, oh, it's going to be a disaster.
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I should just go to the mechanic because I am in over my head.
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There's a problem that's too big.
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You can think of swimming in the ocean.
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If you're drowning, the water's over your head, you're in trouble yes you're uh you're struggling i think that's
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a great image i think this is where this comes from yeah i kind of
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when i think of this expression i do think of water
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that you're in the swimming pool or in the ocean
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and the water's getting higher and higher and
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when the water is over your head bad news yeah i mean really
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that probably means you're going to die yeah
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so this is a little bit of a expression that's not literal obvious that's why it's an idiom right
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so you're just in trouble Yes.
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You're in big trouble.
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In over your head.
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So I want to know for you, when was a situation that was just too much for you and you felt like you were in over your head?
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What was the time maybe you decided to volunteer at your
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job to be the person who helps the American director who's coming to your office?
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And you said, sure, I'll talk to the American director.
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I'll take him out to dinner.
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I'll guide him around the office.
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I can speak English.
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This is fine.
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And then you meet him and you realize he has a strong Southern accent.
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Hey folks.
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Oh, maybe at the end of that day, you feel like I was in over my head.
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This situation was too much for me.
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I can understand English, but I didn't realize that his accent would be so strong.
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I was in over my head.
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Yeah.
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I have a personal example.
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Yes.
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What's your personal example?
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So we used to teach English in South Korea, you probably know this, and I had never taught children before.
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So the first time I had to teach a class of children, I was in over my head.
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In over my head because the children, they didn't necessarily respect me yet.
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I'm different looking in South Korea, my red hair and my freckles they thought it was weird they didn't take me seriously they started yelling and screaming
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I was in over my head
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because I didn't know what to do about it yes
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and over time you learned more and more what to do
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but that's a perfect situation a perfect expression to use especially
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for your first day at school your first day as a
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teacher your first day at your job maybe your first day living in the US
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or if you moved to Australia this happens a lot I was in over my head that first day, but eventually it got better.
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So I want to know for you, when was a situation when you were in over your head?
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Tell us about it.
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Yes.
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Let us know in the comments.
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Make sure that you use this expression as much as you can.
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I'd like to read a sentence that one of you wrote.
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I was in over my head.
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I was stressed.
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I couldn't do it.
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Oh, stress is usually associated with being in over your head.
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You're stressed.
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You're overwhelmed.
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Yes, it's just too much.
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I'm in over my head.
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Khalid says, I'm in over my head.
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The American director speaks too fast.
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That's a good example.
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I hope that that didn't happen to you, but if this happened, you're going to use a beautiful idiom to describe it.
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Yes.
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Oh, I'm in over my head.
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Are you in over your head when you watch Vanessa's videos?
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I hope not.
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Oh yes.
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I hope that you can easily understand and you're not too cool for my videos.
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But she's a little advanced.
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Sure.
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If you're here, that means you can already understand two native English speakers.
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Congratulations.
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But hopefully it means that you're learning something new while also understanding most of our explanations.
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I just used our third expression.
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You did.
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The slang expression.
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I hope you're not too cool for these videos.
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Ooh, too cool for.
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Yeah.
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So I want to know when you were a teenager, what was something that you decided that you didn't want to do anymore?
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Yeah, I can actually go back to when I was younger.
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Okay.
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Even when I was a kid, when I was eight years old, I was too cool for Barney.
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You know who Barney is?
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Barney is a kid's TV show.
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It's probably popular around the world.
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It's a big purple dinosaur.
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He's a big purple dinosaur in a big costume.
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And he's, I'm happy.
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And I remember being as a kid, I was too cool for Barney.
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And this means that I thought it was dumb.
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I wouldn't watch it myself.
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If somebody was watching this show, I would maybe look down on them.
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They're children.
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Yeah.
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They're children.
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Children watch this.
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I'm too old and too cool for this.
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I don't watch Barney.
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Oh.
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I'm too cool for Barney.
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Yeah.
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So I feel like this slang expression, too cool - Barney, B -A -R -N -Y.
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N -E -Y?
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E -Y?
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E -Y?
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E -Y?
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Something like that.
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I'm sure you'll find the big purple dinosaur online.
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Well, when you say too cool for something, it's pretty self -explanatory.
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You feel like, this is for children.
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This is for someone who is less than me.
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So it's a slang expression where you feel like you're above some kind of item or activity or concept.
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Oftentimes, teenagers feel like this.
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Maybe when you were a teenager, you felt like you were too cool to...
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hold hands with your mom when you cross to the street.
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You said, I'm a teenager.
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I can handle this.
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I'm too cool for that.
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And you kind of feel like that's for children.
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Yes.
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And this slang term definitely implies attitude.
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You're not just saying, oh no, I don't like that.
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You're saying that's stupid.
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Yeah.
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I'm too cool for that.
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That's dumb.
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I wouldn't listen to that music anymore.
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Loser.
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Yeah.
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So you might hear this often used by kids, like in Dan's example about the children's TV show, or by teenagers.
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But we can use this as adults in a joking way.
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Because we often take expressions that are strong, and then use them in lighter situations where it's not as serious
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and for example maybe if I want to watch I don't know
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if you've seen the I think it's a Pixar movie Coco
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it's really cute and I enjoyed it a lot
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if I asked Dan hey do you want to watch Coco tonight I would say yes let's imagine
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that he might say no let's say I'm too cool yeah
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I might say what are you too cool to watch Coco I don't watch cartoons That's not true, but in this situation - I actually love cartoons.
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So we might say, I might say to Dan, are you too cool for Coco?
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Too cool for Coco?
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Are you too cool for Pixar movies?
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Are you too cool for animated movies?
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So here we're using this, not in a teenager or childish way, but just in a joking way.
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It's kind of a joke.
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Yeah.
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To say, oh, you think you're better than this movie?
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it's great for everybody i enjoy it i think a lot of people have enjoyed it
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so you can use too cool for something yes in a lot of situations
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and by the way the original expression i think from too
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cool is uh too cool for school we actually say
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that still sometimes people even say
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that like um as a good thing like wow that's too cool for school
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and when would you use that This is taking slang to the next level, extra slang.
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If you saw maybe like an outfit, like an outfit that was really cool, you'd say, whoa, that's too cool or that's too cool for school.
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I wouldn't say this is extremely common, but people would understand you're not being rude.
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Yeah.
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So I imagine if you heard this in a TV show or a movie, now you'll feel a little more comfortable with too cool and also too cool for school,
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which is just the rhyming original expression.
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But yeah, the original expression was, you would say, somebody is too cool for school.
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He's too cool for school.
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He doesn't like to go to school.
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He is unhappy at school.
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He has an attitude.
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He doesn't like reading, that kind of thing.
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That's the original source.
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Yeah.
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Well, we have a lot of great sentences here from those
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of you who are joining us live talking about - Your grandma's too cool to watch Coco.
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Oh no. Well, Sylvester says, I will never be too cool to watch cartoons.
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Oh, I'll never be too cool for cartoons.
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Maybe it's because I was a child with cartoons.
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I still like cartoons, especially Miyazaki.
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Does anybody watch Miyazaki Japanese animation?
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Very cool.
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I like that.
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Very cool.
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Or another great comment we've got here is, I'm too cool for dancing.
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Oh, so maybe if your friends ask you to go to a concert to dance or a club or somewhere to dance, you're like, I'm too cool for dancing.
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I'm not too cool for dancing, but I'm bad at dancing.
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There are lots of excuses you can give, various excuses.
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Too cool for Brad Pitt.
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Oh, maybe there's a lot of different ways that you can use too cool for something.
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Well, I'd like to thank you so much for joining us to learn about phrasal verbs, idioms, and the slang expression today, figure out, in over my head,
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and too cool for something.
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If you enjoyed Dan and I's explanation and our little stories about this, we do this every month in the Fearless Fluency Club.
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We make a vocabulary lesson that's about ...
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How long would you say?
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That's like 30, 40 minutes.
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Oh, I'd say it's about an hour.
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Usually, there's two parts.
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There's two 30 -minute parts that we have for the vocabulary lessons.
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Okay, that's true.
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We cut it in half.
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Yeah, we cut it in half and make two different parts.
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So you'll get an hour of about 15 to 20 vocabulary expressions every month.
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So for the month of December, you got a sneak preview about these expressions.
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In December, three of the 17 or 18 expressions are figure out something,
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in over my head, and too cool for something.
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These are three expressions that we talk about in the December lesson set for the Fearless Fluency Club.
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So I'd like to show you really quick and give you a quick sneak preview.
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Yes, let's take a look.
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Yes, of this wonderful .. monthly lesson set so that you can see here,
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we have the December 2018 lesson set that's going to come out tomorrow.
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If you join in December, you'll get access to the December lesson set and you can use the coupon code NEW,
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N -E -W, to get it for only $5.
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I'd like to show you here, we have the vocabulary that we just mentioned.
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The vocabulary part one, You can see ...
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Oh, we're going to put this on ...
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Hmm.
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I had a haircut.
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.. on mute so that you can see it.
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We talk about a lot of different expressions, and then you can see the clips from the original conversation when it was used.
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Here you're getting great explanations from Dan and I, two different parts, and then we go on to the grammar lesson.
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In December, you're going to get one of the longest grammar lessons that I've ever made it's 34 minutes,
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but you're going to get access to this grammar lesson where we're going to discuss some excellent expressions with would have, would have.
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Oh, this is a complex verb.
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It seems simple, but it's quite complex.
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So we break it down, go through it step by step, and I try to help you use it naturally.
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Then in the next section in December, we talk about pronunciation.
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This pronunciation lesson is extra special because we're gonna be focusing on a lot of sentences.
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Oh, here we have a sentence with figure out.
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They can figure things out.
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We go through this step by step and you can figure out how to pronounce this sentence as accurately as possible.
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And then you get to watch the conversation with my friend Faith.
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You get to hear her naturally say this originally in the conversation
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Because the last video is the conversation where we have a 30 -minute chat together about her interesting job working for AmeriCorps,
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which is a nonprofit in the U .S.
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She volunteers at different schools, at different organizations, and has an interesting perspective about education.
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So we're going to talk about some wonderful ideas there we also focus on a story
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that includes all of the vocabulary and grammar, all of the would -have expressions, some new expressions as well that are in the story.
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This is a fun Christmas story because it's the December lesson set, and you can study this all together.
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So I hope that this lesson set overall will help you to feel comfortable using English
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and really trying to incorporate it into your daily life.
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So if you enjoyed today's lesson, feel free to join us every month in the Fearless Fluency Club.
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There is a link in the description.
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You can continue learning with Dan and I.
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You can figure out English with us.
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Yes, you can figure out how to use it.
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If you're not too cool for school.
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Yeah, don't be too cool for school.
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Before we go today, I'd like to practice pronouncing a final sentence sentence
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that uses two of the expressions we talked about today.
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The sentence, I wrote it down here so that we can practice it together.
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It is, I would like to say it slowly, and then we're going to speed it up, and I want you to say it out loud so that you can use your speaking muscles.
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I'd like you to join me too, Dan.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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I'm nervous.
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All right, we got this.
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The sentence is, I was in over my head before,
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but now I figured figured out how to learn English.
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I was in over my head before, but now I figured out how to learn English." What does this sentence mean?
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I was in over my head before, but now I figured out how to learn English.
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Well, this means that before today, maybe, you didn't know how to speak English at all.
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You didn't understand me, you didn't understand Vanessa, but now you have figured it out.
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Yes, you have figured out the best path and the best method is with Vanessa and Dan.
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This is true.
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So, let's speed this sentence up and I want you to pronounce it clearly and then use it yourself.
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Are you ready?
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I was in over my head before, but now I figured out how to learn English.
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Let's say it faster.
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I was in over my head before, but now I've figured out how to learn English.
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I was in over my head before, but now I figured out how to learn English.
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Can you say it?
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I was in over my head before, but now I have figured out how to learn English with Vanessa and Dan.
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Thanks so much for learning English with us.
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I hope that you enjoyed this lesson, this live lesson.
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You can join me for a new lesson every Friday, and you just can subscribe to my YouTube channel
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and click the bell to get a notification every time there's a live lesson.
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I hope that you'll continue to enjoy these, and we'll see you again next Friday for a new lesson here on this youtube channel thanks
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so much we'll see you again later everybody bye
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आप "English Conversation Lesson: Learn 3 advanced expressions" के साथ Shadowing तकनीक का उपयोग करके अपनी अंग्रेजी का अभ्यास कर रहे हैं।
शैडोइंग तकनीक क्या है?
शैडोइंग (Shadowing) एक विज्ञान-समर्थित भाषा सीखने की तकनीक है जो मूल रूप से पेशेवर दुभाषिया प्रशिक्षण के लिए विकसित की गई थी। विधि सरल लेकिन शक्तिशाली है: आप मूल अंग्रेज़ी ऑडियो सुनते हैं और तुरंत इसे ज़ोर से दोहराते हैं — जैसे वक्ता की छाया 1-2 सेकंड की देरी से। शोध से पता चलता है कि यह उच्चारण सटीकता, स्वर, लय, जुड़ी हुई ध्वनियाँ, सुनने की समझ और बोलने की प्रवाहशीलता में काफ़ी सुधार करता है।















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