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Well hey there, I'm Emma from mmmEnglish.
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If you want to improve your English conversation skills, this lesson is definitely for you.
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It's actually part two in a series that I've made about small talk
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so I'm sharing all of the essential phrases and expressions
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that you need to know to be successful with your small talk conversations in English.
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In part one, I shared some really useful everyday questions and phrases to talk about work, the weather,
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hobbies and your free time and I'm definitely going to link to
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that video at the end but in this one I'm going to dive a little deeper
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and I'm going to share some useful questions
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or ideas to help you spark some small talk conversations about news and current affairs.
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I'm also going to be talking about how to start a conversation at a social event
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or a networking event when you don't really know anyone there.
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Awkward.
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And most importantly, I'm going to talk about how to end
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that conversation in a relaxed and friendly way so
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that you've got the opportunity to do it all again sometime in the future.
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So let's dive in!
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Discussing news or current affairs can be a really great icebreaker.
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You just need to make sure you keep it light, okay?
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So avoiding topics that might cause offence or prompt an argument or a disagreement of some kind.
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Politics, religion, any sort of strong opinion about something it's best to avoid.
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Small talk is not the place for that.
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Start with something simple and the question
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did you hear about is a really useful one in this situation
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because you can pick anything relevant that you read in the paper that morning or you heard on the radio, something that is on the news at that moment.
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Did you hear about the train strike in Melbourne last week?
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You can also introduce the topic by saying, I read, I read that Point Cook is the most multicultural suburb in Australia,
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I had no idea or I heard, I heard on the radio that the Queen's visiting next month.
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In order to really get your conversation flowing though, you need to make sure that you follow up with a question
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or something that invites their opinion or their thought on whatever you shared.
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Conversation is two ways, right?
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So you could always follow up with a question like so what do you think about that?
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What are your thoughts?
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How do you feel about that?
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Okay so now I'm going to share a couple of really useful phrases to help you at social or networking events.
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Sometimes these can be really awkward or uncomfortable places
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when you're standing with someone that you don't really know and you don't have anything really to talk about.
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Well if you have a friend or a colleague in common
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that you both know you can start with that
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so how do you know Ed otherwise you can try
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and work out how you might know them
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or how you're connected have we met before you look familiar you can always try giving a compliment
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that works really well I love
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that dress can I ask where you got it from now
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sometimes you actually meet people who you know quite well over
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the phone you maybe deal with them a lot via email
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but you've never actually met in person so a good thing to say at
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that point is Ah it's great to finally put a face to the name
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and when you get introduced to someone that you've heard about
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but you've never met before you can say I've heard so much about you.
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The best response to this is all good I hope
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and this just means I hope that everything you've heard about me was good
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and not bad which sounds a bit funny but it's really common
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and it definitely helps to relax the conversation with a little bit of humour which is always nice.
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I hope that everything you've heard about me is good.
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Now of course a lesson about small talk would not be complete without some phrases to help you end the conversation.
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This is...
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Crucial, sometimes it can be the most difficult part.
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Once you've started and you're thinking yeah okay, this is good, I'm asking you some questions and then okay, I'm running out of things to say now.
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Abort!
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Get out!
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So how do you politely end your conversation and just get back to doing what you were doing?
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I mean you can't just say okay, bye.
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That is really awkward and uncomfortable for everyone isn't it?
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Oh okay bye.
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If you're at work you can say something like well I'd better get back to work or
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I'd better get back to it, I'll see you around.
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At a social event you could say I'd better keep moving it was nice chatting
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or you can kind of make up an excuse that you need to leave and say something like I'm looking for Jennifer, you haven't seen her around anywhere, have you?
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I was just looking for the bathroom, do you know where it is?
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Well I'm gonna go grab a drink, I'll see you in a bit.
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These last three are a little less direct.
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I'm not saying okay, I'm done with this conversation now, I don't want to talk with you anymore.
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I'm just politely moving away to do something else, right?
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So it doesn't cause offence to the other person that you're talking to, you're just moving along and then you end the conversation comfortably
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and it makes it easy to come back and start a new conversation with that person at some other time.
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Well done!
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A huge high five to you if you got all the way through part one
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and part two of this series about small talk.
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If you did, you've learned over 50 phrases and questions
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and potential answers that will help you to make small talk in English.
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So all you need to do now is to make sure that you put it into practice.
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Make sure you do that.
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Just studying them and learning them and trying to remember them is not going to help.
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You need to try this out.
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Do that wherever you speak English, alright?
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every week so you definitely want to be here when I bring out the next one.
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For now, let's check out this one together.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Le parole che ritornano più spesso: conversation, heard, English, phrases, lesson. Questo video contiene 71 frasi e 1215 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 7:24. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 164 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 88% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire. 17 delle sue 71 frasi sono domande: un buon esercizio per l’intonazione interrogativa e le risposte brevi.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| lesson sostantivo | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | lezione |
| phrase sostantivo | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | espressione, polirematica |
| awkward aggettivo | /ˈɔk.wɚd/ | maldestro, impacciato |
| topic sostantivo | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | tema, categoria |
| introduce verbo | /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/ | presentare |
| affair sostantivo | /əˈfɛɹ/ | affare |
| uncomfortable aggettivo | /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/ | scomodo |
| dive verbo | /daɪv/ | immergersi |
| everyday aggettivo | /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/ | quotidiano, giornaliero |
| membership sostantivo | iscrizione, appartenenza | |
| skill sostantivo | /skɪl/ | abilità, capacità |
| connect verbo | /kəˈnɛkt/ | connettere, connettersi |
| invite verbo | /ɪnˈvaɪt/ | invitare |
| crucial aggettivo | /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/ | cruciale |
| wherever | /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/ | dovunque |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| check out verbo | investigare | |
| come back verbo | tornare | |
| make up verbo | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | comporsi |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- What are your thoughts?
- How do you feel about that?
- Can I ask where you got it from?
- You haven't seen her around anywhere, have you?
- Do you know where it is?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've made · I've put · you've never actually met |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | people who you · humour which is |
| Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppo | the most multicultural · The best · the most difficult |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — un’azione in corso in un momento del passato | were doing · was just looking |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 51 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, you've, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, disagreement /dɪsəˈɡɹiːmənt/, multicultural /ˌmʌltiˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/, hobby /ˈhɑ.bi/, humour /ˈhjuːmɚ/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, awkward /ˈɔk.wɚd/, topic /ˈtɑpɪk/, introduce /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/, relax /ɹɪˈlæks/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come lesson, phrase, awkward.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.