Shadowing Practice: Speak With Me: 30 Minute English Speaking Practice - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello, hello.
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Hello, all.
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Welcome.
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Settle down.
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Come in.
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Sit down.
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English class has begun.
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So today, we're going to be looking at B2, kind of like upper intermediate level phrases, sentences in context.
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And hopefully, you're going to be practicing speaking.
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I want you speaking.
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I want you talking.
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I want you saying these sentences, these phrases out loud with me.
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Say them with me.
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You don't have to say them at the same time, but you can say it after I say it just i
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want you to be practicing them i want you to be practicing your speaking
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so you're practicing listening and speaking the phrases
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that we're looking at today the sentences
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that we're looking at this is like real life english this
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is what native speakers use on a regular basis this is normal stuff
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so this is good for you to practice english and also learn english get comfortable with more phrases and sentences in English.
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So let's begin.
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Basically, I'm going to be giving you a sentence or two, like to provide context.
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And then I'm going to tell you what you can say in that situation.
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So I'm going to be reading this stuff.
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I have my laptop here.
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So you're at work, your coworker, this is a good word.
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A lot of students don't know this word or they don't use this word.
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They say colleague.
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Colleague is okay, but I personally like to use coworker, even though I don't have any because I work by myself. So sad.
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Anyways, your coworker explains a plan, but you think it might cause problems later.
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You can say, I'm not sure that's going to work in the long run.
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Okay.
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I almost said workout, even though I read work, but I almost said workout
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because we like to use phrasal verbs you know my my
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brain is my brain is wired for phrasal verbs yeah you
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could say either way i think i'm not i'm not sure
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i'm not sure that's going to work in the long run
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or i'm not sure that's going to work out
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so i'm not sure that's going to work in the long run in the long run right long term
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or in the long run i'm not sure that's going to
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work it's written that's going to work i'm not sure that's going to work
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but you know native speakers even at work even in professional
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environments we say gonna i'm not sure that's going to work
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in the long run i'm not sure that's going to work
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long term i'm not sure that's going to work in the
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short term in the in the short short run short run i don't know
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if we say short run
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but we definitely say short term short term long term long
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run i don't know different ways of saying it all right
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next one you're talking to a friend who is stressed about
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something small like being late by a few minutes oh my goodness she's stressing or he
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or she is stressing about being late by a few minutes
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clearly not someone from latin america okay you want to calm
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them down you can say it's not really a big deal
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well you be careful with your with your tone with your
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with your attitude sometimes sometimes i say this in the in the wrong way
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so um yeah it's not really a big deal
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or you you know what i would probably say girl
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or boy no no you don't have to say be careful with
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that because it could be disrespectful
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so you got to be careful how you use girl and boy
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but anyways you can say it's not a big deal no don't worry about it girl it's not a you're
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if you're a few minutes late relax okay i'm on latin
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time i don't care i'm used to it i'm used to it relax it's not a big deal Hey, it's not a big deal.
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It's a few minutes.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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Next one.
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You're in a group conversation.
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Someone says something you don't agree with, but you want to stay polite.
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By the way, sorry if there's glare in my glasses and you can't even see me.
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Anyways, you're in a group conversation.
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Someone says something you don't agree with, but you want to stay polite.
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You can say, I see your point, but I don't completely agree.
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Yeah.
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So it's good to, even if you disagree, like it's good to validate someone's point or perspective
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that makes them feel heard that makes them feel listened to
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so you can say i see your point i see your
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point i i understand what you're saying i get what you're saying
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but i don't completely agree you got to stay firm in
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that i i see your point
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but i don't completely agree i don't completely agree i don't really agree i don't agree with
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that and here's why all right you're explaining why you couldn't finish something on time at work or school.
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You can say, I ran out of time.
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Yeah, I ran out of time.
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You know how we use this expression, ran out, ran out of something?
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Like when you, you know, you need to go to the grocery store and buy more food because you ran out of food.
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Like, I ran out of avocados.
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I got to buy more.
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Same thing with time.
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I ran out of time.
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I ran out of time.
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I didn't have enough time.
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I ran out of time.
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We love to run out.
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To run out of something, native speakers, we use it all the time.
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You're talking about a plan, but you're not 100 % sure it will happen.
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You're talking about a plan, but you're not 100 % sure it'll happen.
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you're not 100 % sure it will happen.
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I said it'll, but it actually is it will happen.
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But I read it as it'll happen.
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It'll because we do that, you know, contractions.
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You're not 100 % sure it'll happen.
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You can say, we'll see how it goes.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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Maybe, maybe it'll happen.
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Maybe we'll see.
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Sometimes a lot of times we just say, we'll see.
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We'll see.
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We will see.
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We'll see.
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We'll see.
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We'll see how it goes.
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Yeah, let's, let's see how it goes.
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We'll see how it goes.
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We'll see.
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You're reacting to something surprising that someone tells you.
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You can say, I didn't expect that.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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That's crazy.
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I didn't expect that.
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Wow.
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I didn't expect that.
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That's crazy.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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That surprised me.
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Wow.
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That surprised me.
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I didn't expect that.
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I didn't, I didn't expect, I didn't expect that.
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We react to things a lot like that.
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You sound like a native speaker.
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If you react like that, you're explaining a problem that is starting to get worse.
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You can say it's starting to become a problem yeah it's
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starting it's starting to be to be an issue it's starting
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to be an issue it's starting to be a problem it's
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starting to become a problem starting to become an issue it's
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starting to turn into a problem you can say it's starting
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to turn into a problem starting to turn into an issue
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yeah starting to become an issue you're talking about a situation
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that depends on something else happening first you can say it
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depends on what happens next i don't know it depends sometimes we just say it depends uh
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but you can say the longer version you know it depends
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on what happens depends on what happens next it depends on
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what happens first it depends on whatever it depends on you're in a meeting
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and you want to return to the main topic after people go off topic
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so when you go off topic you start talking about something else
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so you're in a meeting people go off topic you want to get back to the main point
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so you say let's get back to the main point oh
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my god this literally i didn't even read the phrase i just said the first thing
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that popped into my head
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and it's the phrase it's it's the thing i'm going to teach you
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and i didn't even know that that was what it was uh yeah
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that just is proof that's proof
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that this is realistic stuff right here let's get back to
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the main point all right guys let's get back to the main point all right
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and we're getting we're getting off topic you can say we're
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getting off topic we're getting off topic let's get back to
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the main point let's get back let's get back to the main point you're explaining
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that something didn't happen the way you planned you can say
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things didn't go as planned things didn't go as planned as
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planned things didn't go as planned things didn't go as planned
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that's how it would be like fast you know things didn't go as planned go as yeah as
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when we don't put emphasis
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because we're saying it fast in a sentence we just say
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go as go as planned as as it's not like as it's like as go as planned
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and it sounds like is
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so you have to be able to differentiate differentiate i mean is wouldn't make sense in
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that case so that's how you know based on the context
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but yeah as when we talk fast it sounds like almost like is
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so be careful like didn't go as go as go as
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planned didn't go as planned things didn't go as planned all
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right you're talking to someone who is making a simple situation
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too complicated who is making a simple situation too complicated you
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can say i think you're making it more complicated than it
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needs to be then it needs to be remember then is
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what we use like to compare things right like this is bigger than
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that then t -h -a -n t -h -a -n
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so i think you're making it more complicated than it needs
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to be i think you're making it more complicated than it
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needs to be yeah pretty simple straightforward a lot of this
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stuff is like pretty straightforward easy stuff a lot of you probably already know all this stuff
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but like some of you don't a lot of you probably understand all these phrases, but are you using them yourself?
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Are you using them in your normal speaking, in your normal life of English, in your English life?
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Would you use these in conversation easily, effortlessly?
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So it's still good to practice.
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Even stuff you already know, it's good to practice speaking it, saying it for many reasons.
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So don't ever be like, oh it's too easy okay i'm not teaching you like the
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dog is brown the cat is small i'm not teaching you stuff like
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that okay this is like this is like really useful everyday real life sentences
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that are not for beginners they're not basic um
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but it's just normal english
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and it's good to practice speaking saying them okay you're reacting to a suggestion that sounds reasonable a reasonable suggestion.
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You can say, that sounds like a good idea.
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That sounds like a good idea.
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Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.
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Sounds good.
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Something I noticed today when we ask if something sounds good, sometimes we just say, sound good?
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Like, I'm telling you, okay, in this video, blah, blah, blah, we're going to do this, this, this.
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Sound good?
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I'm asking you, like, is that okay?
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Is that okay for you?
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Do you think that's good?
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Sound good?
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So a lot of times we just say, sound good, when we're asking the question, right?
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Sound good?
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But the answer or the sentence would be, sounds good.
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It sounds good.
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So the full thing would be, it sounds good.
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A lot of times we just say, sounds good as a response or as a sentence, as a statement.
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But when we're asking someone, we're going to cut off the S and say, sound good?
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Sounds good.
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Sound good.
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Sounds good.
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I don't know why we do that, but yeah, just so you know, there is sometimes a difference there.
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So that sounds like a good idea.
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You're explaining that something is okay for now, even if it's not perfect.
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You can say, it's good enough for now.
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It's good enough for now good enough it's good enough yeah
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it's good enough for now you're talking about a situation you're
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talking about a situation where you need more time to decide
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you can say i need a bit more time to think
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about it um i don't know this is the first one
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that maybe it doesn't sound supernatural to me i need a
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bit more time i need a bit more time i would
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probably say uh i need a little bit more time i
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need a bit more time i need a little bit i
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feel like little bit sounds better i need a little bit more time
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or just I need a I need a little more time
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yeah I would probably just say I need a little more
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time I need a little more time I don't know I
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think maybe the British like to use just bit more often than I think we like little in American English
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and little bit little so
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because I would say I need a little more time I
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need a little more time I need a little more time
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to think about it yeah that's probably what I would say I need a little I need a little and you know, little, when we say it fast, it sounds like Lil, you know, that's why like you have rappers like Lil Wayne,
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Lil Wayne, you know, it's not because it's little, but when you, when we say it, it sounds like Lil, Lil, um, I need a little more time.
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I need a little more time to think about it.
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I need a little more time.
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Yeah.
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I just need a little bit more time.
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I need a little bit more time to think about it.
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You're reacting when someone explains something clearly, you can say that makes sense okay that's that's a little bit too easy
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that makes sense okay let's do more all right you're at
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work a lot of at work stuff here you're at work your manager asks
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if you can finish a task today finish a task today
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finish a task today that's a tongue twister tongue twister finish
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a task today task today some things in English I'm just
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like geez that's hard to say It's hard to say
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and i'm a native speaker You can your manager asks if you can finish a task today, but you already have too much to do You want to be honest without sounding negative.
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You can say i'll do my best, but I can't promise i'll finish it today Sometimes we say I can't promise anything.
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I'll try i'll do my best, but I can't promise anything I'll do my best, but I can't promise i'll finish today.
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I can't promise.
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Oh, sorry I'll finish it.
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Don't forget the it.
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I didn't read that part.
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I'll finish it It is very important.
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I'll do my best, but I can't promise I'll finish it today.
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A lot of English learners forget the it because their languages don't use it so much or, yeah, it's not always necessary.
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But in English, we use it a lot to refer to the thing that we're talking about.
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I'll do my best, but I can't promise I'll finish it today.
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Can't promise.
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Can't promise I'll finish today, but I'll do my best.
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I'll do my best.
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You're talking to a friend who keeps canceling plans at the last minute, keeps canceling plans at the last minute.
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You want to show you're annoyed, but not too aggressive.
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You can say, it's getting a bit frustrating, to be honest, to be honest.
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It's getting a bit frustrating, to be honest, to be honest.
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Yeah.
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So we say, to be honest, we also say, honestly, honestly, honestly, it's getting a bit frustrating.
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It's getting a bit annoying.
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It's getting a little annoying.
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Once again, like you can say bit a bit frustrating you can say
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that I think my personal preference is I usually say little
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it's getting a little annoying it's getting a little annoying
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but also it's getting a bit annoying now I use it I use bit also I use both just
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so you know you can use both it's getting a bit
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frustrating it's getting a bit it's getting a little annoying it's
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getting honestly it's getting a little annoying it's starting to bother
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me it's starting to annoy me it's starting to bother me
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to be honest it's getting a bit frustrating yeah you're in a discussion
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and someone explained something I saw this video about how this woman uh she she's saying how she loves
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when people who wear glasses do this like push up their
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glasses with their finger like this she's like she loves it I need to remember to do
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that more often I guess it's cute I don't know I usually just I just go like this.
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You're in a discussion and someone explains something, but you don't fully understand.
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You want them to explain it again.
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You can say, can you go over that again?
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Can you go over that again?
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Go over that.
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Go over it.
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Go over has a lot of meanings, doesn't it?
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Can you go over that again?
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So in the context of a discussion, talking about something, especially, yeah, somebody explaining something, teaching something,
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a lecture, but it could just be a discussion conversation.
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But usually it's, yeah, when someone is explaining something or teaching something, you would say, go over it.
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Like the teacher might say, all right, today I'm going to go over this, this, this, like I'm going to go over this topic and this, it's like to talk about it in depth, to explain it, to teach it.
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Yeah.
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So can you go over that again?
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Can you explain it again?
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can you teach it again talk about it again yeah
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so it's for this specific kind of context you wouldn't say
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that if you just want someone to repeat what they said like in any conversation it doesn't work
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that way it's not it's not like what did you say it's not like
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that it's like to go in depth about a topic you know to talk in depth
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so can you go over that again i i didn't understand that part
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when you talked about blah blah blah yeah you're explaining why
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you made a decision quickly you're explaining why you made a
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decision quickly you can say i didn't really have much choice
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i didn't really have much choice well yeah you could say
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that i didn't really have much choice uh i didn't really
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have a choice i didn't really have any choice i didn't
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really have any i didn't really have a choice i didn't
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really have much choice yeah um i didn't really have any
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other options like i didn't really have much choice i didn't
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have uh it wasn't up to me like it wasn't my
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decision um yeah i didn't really have much choice i i i made this decision quickly
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because i don't know it seemed like a good idea in the moment i didn't really have many other options
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many other choices so yeah i didn't really have much choice i i had to i had to make this decision quickly.
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I had to make that decision.
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You're reacting to something that seems obvious to you.
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You can say, that's pretty clear.
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Okay.
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I disagree with this one.
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If something seems obvious to you, I wouldn't say that.
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I would probably say like, yeah, I think that's pretty obvious.
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You got to be careful though.
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It can sound a little rude.
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I would say, yeah, I mean, you can say that.
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That's pretty clear.
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Yeah, it's fine.
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It's fine.
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You can say that.
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I guess it all depends on the context.
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Sometimes it's hard for me to imagine like the specific conversation in which I would say this or the specific moment, but yeah, that's pretty clear.
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Like, yeah, we can, we can tell, we can, we can see it.
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We can, yeah, we can, it's pretty obvious.
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It's pretty clear.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think, I think most of us understand that.
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I think, yeah, I think it's pretty evident, pretty clear, pretty obvious.
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Yeah.
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I already know that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. So, okay.
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So I don't, disagree um it all it all just depends like even though
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i'm giving you context i'm not giving you i'm not telling you what we're actually talking about
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so it's still like limited context so sometimes it confuses me
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but yeah it's fine maybe not in every situation
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but it's fine you're talking about a situation where something is
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improving slowly you can say it's getting better little by little
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okay i think most students know this phrase little by little it's getting better little by little.
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You can also say it's, it's gradually getting better.
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Gradually.
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This is a good word.
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It's gradually improving.
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It's, it's gradually getting better.
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Um, it's slowly getting better.
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It's slowly improving.
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Um, yeah, it's, it's getting better little by little.
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It's improving little by little.
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Yeah.
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You're in a meeting and you want to add your opinion.
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Why do I always, I just realized I'm like doing all these hand stuff, but I don't even know if you can see okay you're in a meeting
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and you want to add your opinion after listening to others
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you can say from my point of view we should try something different okay um yeah i
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or you could just say i think we should try something
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different like yeah i mean yes you can say from my
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point of view from my perspective in my opinion like yes
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you can say these things i would just cut right to the chase i would just get right to it
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and probably just say yeah i think we should try something different i think we should try something different
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because i think we can do better i think this isn't
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working um yeah i think we should try something different yeah i feel like i feel like from my point of view,
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it's kind of almost not even necessary in this phrase because it it kind of sounds like you're about to
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provide some whole new complex perspective
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but all you're saying is we should try something different
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so it's kind of simple so i think maybe we should just keep it simple
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and say i think we should try something different
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but there are these phrases like from my point of view
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which means like in my opinion from my perspective so if you didn't know those phrases now you know them.
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But do I use them all the time?
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No, not really.
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Because a lot of times we just say, I think, we just say, I think, I think we should do this.
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So yes, these phrases exist and they can be useful, but you know, a lot of times native speakers, we just keep it simple.
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You know, you're explaining that something is not your decision to make.
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You can say, it's not up to me.
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Okay.
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I already said this phrase, right?
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It's not up to me.
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It's not my decision it's not up to me it's up to
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so and so it's up to whoever
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that person it's not up to me it's up to you
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it's up to you it's not up to me all right
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uh you're reacting to a situation where something went wrong unexpectedly
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you can say i don't know what i don't know what
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i don't know what went wrong what went what went god
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i can't even speak english today i don't know what went wrong.
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I don't know what went wrong.
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I don't know what happened.
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That's probably what I would say.
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I don't know what happened.
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Yeah.
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I don't know what went wrong.
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I don't know what happened.
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I don't know what happened.
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Yeah.
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It was crazy.
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Like I didn't expect that.
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I didn't expect that.
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I don't know what happened.
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You're talking about a plan that might change later.
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You can say, this is just a rough plan for now.
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Okay. So rough.
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Sometimes we use rough to say like, like a rough idea, a rough plan, even a rough draft is like,
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maybe the first time you write something, it's a rough draft.
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And then you have to edit it and you have to improve it, you know, and eventually you get your final draft, your final version.
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But in the beginning, you just have a rough draft.
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It's just a lot of times we use rough to refer to like the beginning stage of something.
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Like it's just a beginning, just like a starting idea, a starting plan, a starting piece of writing or video,
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you know, like when I first filmed this video, like this video I'm filming right now, this is a rough draft.
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Then I have to edit it.
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I have to do things to it.
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You know, this is the rough draft right here.
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So rough sometimes is used that way to say like the starting point, the starting version, the first version.
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So this is just a rough plan for now.
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It's just like, this is just like the first plan, the first idea, but it's like, it could be different it could change it's probably going to change
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or evolve over time
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but this is just a rough idea a rough plan um yeah it's like a starting point you know
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and you could think about it is like um like maybe you have a material that's rough rough
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and you have to make it smooth over time
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so it's like rough to touch
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and you have to smooth it smooth it you have to make it better over time
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so maybe that's why we use rough to refer to like
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the original point like you know how you have wood
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when you're building something you have wood like just raw wood from the tree
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and it's rough but then you have to take like sandpaper
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and sand it sand it down and it becomes like smoother
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and then you polish it and whatever
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so the rough wood is like the first wood you know i think you understand okay you're explaining
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that you agree with someone you can say i think you're right about
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that ah super simple you see a lot of times b2
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is not even like it's like a lot of you are b2
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and you don't even know you're b2 because it's not
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that hard like it's simple stuff it's simple english it's like this is everyday english i think you're right about
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that yeah i think you're right about
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that um yeah i guess fluency it's not it's not
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so much about like what you can understand it's about like
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how you can express your how easily you express yourself how naturally you express yourself
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when you speak so
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if you can confidently use phrases like this then yeah you're doing fantastic um
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but i think for a lot of people like they understand these phrases
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but they might not confidently use them themselves
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so that's what we got to work on here that's what we got to practice speaking
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so you're explaining that you agree with someone you can say I think you're right about
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that yeah you know what I think you're right about
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that you know what I think you're right I think you're right about
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that yeah yeah I think you're right about that
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you're reacting I was trying to think of another way
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that we say you're right um
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but I feel like that's the only way we say it
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like you're right yeah that's like the main way we say
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it at least I can't even think of another way that we say it so
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yeah you're right yeah you're right i'm wrong you're right i think you're right about
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that yeah or we just say like true
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that yeah that's true that's true that's that's true you're reacting
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when someone suggests something unrealistic you can say that's going to
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be difficult i would just say that's not realistic that's not going to happen that's that's unrealistic like
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that sounds great in theory
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but in reality in real life it's not realistic it's probably
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not going to happen it's probably not going to happen yeah
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that's going to be difficult that's going to be too hard
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to do that's going to be too difficult uh it's we're probably not going to want to do it
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or we're probably not going to achieve it like it's going to be too hard you're explaining
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that something is not very important you're explaining that something is not very important Did I say that right?
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You're explaining that something is not very, not very important.
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You can say it's not that important.
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God, it's so simple.
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It's not that important.
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It's not that important.
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Yeah.
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It's not that big of a deal.
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Yeah.
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We use that to like in these kinds of sentences, like it's not that crazy.
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It's not that good.
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It's not that bad, you know, to like express the degree okay you're talking about a situation
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where you expected a better result you can say i thought
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it would be better than this sometimes this is what happens
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when i order food
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and it doesn't turn out the way i i had hoped
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sometimes it's not as good as i hoped it would be
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i thought it would be based on the pictures the description
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so sometimes i'm like i have my food here that i ordered
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and i'm like i thought it would be better than this
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like i thought i thought it would be more food i
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thought it would be bigger um yeah i don't really like
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this like i wouldn't order it again i thought it'd be
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better i thought it would be yeah i thought it would
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be different i didn't really expect it i didn't expect this i didn't expect
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that it would be like this yeah okay last one you're reacting
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when someone thanks you you can say no problem at all yeah okay
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so when someone says thank you to me I usually say my my go -to phrases my phrases
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that I use the most are of course yeah of course
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of course like like why would I not like why are
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you even like of course of course I would do
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that yeah of course
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so of course uh anytime yeah of course anytime anytime um yeah absolutely yeah
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so a lot of times you know we we use you're welcome once in a
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while sometimes we use it yeah
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but not like all the time like most of the time we say like yeah of course
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or no problem yeah no problem no problem yeah yeah of
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course like that's honestly what i say oh thank you yeah
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of course no problem of course no problem no problem at all no problem at all yeah no problem
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or no problem at all same thing all right simple stuff
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simple stuff i think next time i'm gonna have to do c1 stuff
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because i think b2 sometimes it's a little bit too simple you know it's a little too simple
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but let me know in the comments let me know
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if you listen to my last video the learn english
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while you sleep video with the c1 phrases
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and then you listen to this video and tell me like
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which level you prefer like did you prefer this the the b2 ones in this video
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or the c1 ones in last video maybe you didn't see the last video
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but maybe you watch this video and you think it's a little too easy
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and you want something more challenging let me know
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so let me know in the comments like how you feel with the phrases in this video
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if you think it was like too easy
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or you want more stuff exactly like this you it was perfect level for you
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or you want um harder stuff
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or easier stuff maybe it was too hard i don't know
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like just tell me um i don't think it was too hard
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but for for most of you but
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but just let me know how you feel about this level
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and these kinds of things i thought it was it was quite simple
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but like i said even though i think most of you understand all this
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or most of this you probably are not practicing saying these phrases these sentences you're probably not practicing speaking
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and saying saying these things you're not practicing this like in
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conversation you know imagining yourself in a conversation using these
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and even if you have said these before or even
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if you know this stuff it's still always good to just practice speaking a language
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that you're you're trying to be fluent in
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because the more you speak it the more natural it will
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feel in your mouth it'll be easier to say these sounds and faster
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and you can practice you can focus on like pronouncing it
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more clearly there are always components to work on I think like
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when I'm speaking Spanish I think it helps me even
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if everything that I'm saying is all stuff
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that I've said before a million times I think it still helps me Thank you.
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to speak Spanish like even if I'm saying simple stuff simply
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because it's it's having it's it's keeping my mouth in the mode of speaking Spanish
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so that I'm like more ready I'm ready for
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when for whatever situation that comes where I want to speak it
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because when I don't speak it for a little
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while like even a week I feel like a little rusty
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so it's good to keep that regular maintenance and
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if you like this video I can continue making videos like this
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and we can just keep practicing our speaking together thank you
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for watching it to the end I love you guys you
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guys are my favorites go ahead tell the others I don't care tell them you're my favorite
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and have a wonderful day see you next video see you next time bye
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Real-Life English Speaking: Navigating Work and Friendships
The video dives into practical, upper-intermediate (B2) English scenarios that mirror daily life. Imagine you’re at work, and a coworker shares a plan—but you spot potential future issues. Or you’re comforting a stressed friend. These are the moments where english speaking practice becomes critical, as they require natural, confident communication. The dialogue focuses on phrases native speakers use daily, making it perfect for learn english with videos and even IELTS speaking practice, where real-world fluency matters.
Useful Chunks & Collocations to Memorize
- "In the long run": A common collocation for talking about long-term outcomes (e.g., "I’m not sure that’s going to work in the long run").
- "Work out": A phrasal verb that replaces "succeed" or "function" (e.g., "I’m not sure that’s going to work out").
- "Coworker": A casual, widely used term for colleagues (more conversational than "colleague").
- "Stressed about": A natural chunk for discussing anxiety (e.g., "a friend who is stressed about...").
- "Gonna": The spoken contraction of "going to," essential for sounding native in casual or professional settings.
Your Shadowing Challenge: Practice Like a Native
Shadow speech—repeating phrases immediately after the speaker—is one of the best ways to build fluency. Here’s your task: Play the video, pause after each phrase (e.g., "I’m not sure that’s going to work in the long run"), and repeat it exactly as you hear it. Focus on intonation, stress, and rhythm. Do this 3–5 times for each line. This exercise trains your brain to think and speak in English, making "shadowspeaks" (natural, reactive speech) second nature. For extra practice, record yourself and compare it to the video—you’ll notice improvements in clarity and confidence quickly.
Whether you’re prepping for IELTS or just want to speak more naturally, this video and shadowing technique will help you master real-life English. Start small, stay consistent, and watch your speaking skills grow.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | friend who is · someone who is · friend who keeps |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has begun · have said · I've said |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is wired · would be based |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.