ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: Speak English Confidently: Daily Life Vocabulary
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Are you ready to learn a real English from a real English conversation?
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I hope so, because today you are going to learn 10 naturally used English phrases from the conversation
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that I had with my neighbor Michelle a few weeks ago here on my YouTube channel.
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Not only will you learn how they were used in that conversation, but also how you can use them,
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including one expression that that if you use it in the wrong way could be kind of rude.
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So you have to be careful, but don't worry, I will teach you how to use it well.
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Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa .com and like always,
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I have created a free PDF worksheet that includes all of today's vocabulary, definitions,
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sample sentences, and all of those nuanced meanings that we'll talk about today
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so that you can use these expressions in your daily life without being too rude, right?
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Plus as a bonus, I have included in the worksheet a little quiz.
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Test yourself and see if you can really remember the expressions that you're going to learn in today's lesson.
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So how can you get this worksheet?
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that, the worksheet plus the bonus quiz will land in your email inbox.
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This is my gift to you.
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So make sure you click on the link in the description to get today's PDF and bonus quiz.
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All right, let's get started with our real natural English expressions.
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The first expression is outside the box.
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I'm going to be telling you what the expression is
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and then you're going to see the clip where it was used in the original conversation with my neighbor, Michelle.
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This will give you some context and then we'll talk about the expression and then you'll watch that clip again.
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I have a feeling that you're going to understand that clip a lot better, so your listening skills will grow your vocabulary skills will grow
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and i hope you'll have a great time all right let's
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take a look at the clip where we used outside the box let's watch
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and i feel like your garden style is like
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so much more outside the box than mine i've got like raised beds in these orders these little seed stars
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and you got like snails and bags because i spend too much time on Instagram.
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In this clip, I said, I feel like your garden style is more outside the box than mine.
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And it's true, Michelle's style of gardening is a little more creative or unusual than mine.
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Mine is pretty standard.
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I have little boxes where I grow each of my plants and I plant them in my garden beds.
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Now this expression was quite clever, if I do say so myself,
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because I was talking about garden boxes and here the expression is outside the box.
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Great.
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Well, let me give you another example of how you can use this.
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If you're having a marketing meeting and you're trying to figure out how to get more customers, one of your coworkers might say,
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well, we can spend more on our advertising.
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You might say, well, I think we need to think outside the box more.
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We've tried spending more money on advertising and it didn't lead to more customers.
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So what are you suggesting here?
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You're suggesting different creative or unusual ways to get more customers.
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Let's not think of the usual ways, let's think outside the box and come up with some new ways.
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All right, let's watch the original clip again when we used outside the box.
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I want you to listen for that expression and understand more than the first time.
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Let's go.
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And I feel like your garden style is so much more outside the box than mine.
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I've got raised beds in these orders, these little seed stars, and you got snails and bags and circles.
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That's because I spend too much time on Instagram.
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The second real life English phrase is, I'm cheap. Are we buying someone?
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Is this product cheap?
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Not exactly.
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Let's take a look at the original clip and then I'll explain it.
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Let's go.
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You've been growing like a lot of these starts at home.
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Why don't you just go to the store and buy little tomato plants?
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Because I am cheap.
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So this is cheaper?
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This is a lot cheaper.
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In this clip, Michelle was explaining
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that she likes to grow things from seeds at home by herself because she said I'm cheap.
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It doesn't mean that we're purchasing Michelle.
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A product can be cheap, but also a person can be cheap too.
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And this simply means that you don't like to spend money.
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Michelle doesn't want to spend money on buying expensive plants.
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She knows that she can try it herself and save money.
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I would say that it's best to not call someone else cheap.
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If you say you're cheap, it kind of implies that they're stingy,
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they're kind of rude and don't want to spend money on necessary things.
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But really you can call yourself cheap and it's totally fine.
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I think that goes for a lot of kind of rude things.
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You can call yourself that, but you shouldn't call someone else cheap.
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If you want a little bonus expression for how we can talk about someone not wanting to spend money, but in a nice way,
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you can use the word frugal.
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If you say he's frugal, that means the same thing.
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He doesn't like to spend money, but the nuance is that it's positive.
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He's careful with his money.
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It's not just that he's cheap.
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He doesn't want to spend any money.
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He wants to keep it for himself.
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No, instead he's frugal.
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He's careful with his money.
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All of these little nuances of the expressions will be included in the PDF worksheet.
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So make sure that you download it so that you can remember all of them.
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All right, let's watch that clip one more time and hear how Michelle said the word cheap.
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You've been growing a lot of these starts at home.
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Why don't you just go to the store and buy little tomato plants.
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Because I am cheap.
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So this is cheaper.
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This is a lot cheaper.
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The next expression is kind of an advanced one.
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It is the least I could do.
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Hmm.
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I want you to watch the original clip
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and then we're going to break down the nuance of this so that you can use it accurately.
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Let's watch.
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I released them elsewhere.
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One of them accidentally died and you buried that.
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Thank you.
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I felt like I had this least I could do is bury the groundhog.
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But what's it going to be this year?
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In this clip, Michelle said, I felt like the least I could do was bury the groundhog.
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So we trapped many groundhogs.
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I think it was seven groundhogs that were eating our vegetables last summer.
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I trapped them.
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I relocated almost all of them, but one of them died.
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It was pretty sad.
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So what should we do with that dead groundhog?
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Well, Michelle felt like she owed me.
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She felt like she had a debt to me.
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I was taking care of the other six groundhogs.
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I was doing that work and I was happy to do it, but she felt a little bit guilty.
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So that's the nuance here.
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She used this expression it was the least I could do to bury the groundhog
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because she felt like she should do more.
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She felt like I need to do more than just bury the groundhog.
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So I'm going to do this to kind of make myself feel less guilty.
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So let me give you another scenario for when you can use this because you're probably not burying groundhogs, I imagine.
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But let me give you a common scenario.
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So a couple weeks ago, one of my friends had a new baby.
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And I know when you have a new baby, you have no time to do anything else except for care for that baby.
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So I made her a lot of food.
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I made her a couple dinners.
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I made her family some muffins, some desserts.
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I brought over food several times.
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This was my pleasure.
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I was so happy to do this for her.
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And even though it was my pleasure, she still felt a little bit guilty.
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She wanted to do something for me, even though she did not need to.
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I told her this is just me giving back because so many people gave to me when I had my babies.
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But even though that was the case, she still felt like she wanted to do something for me.
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So when she gave back the containers of the food after she ate it, and she washed it and gave it back to me,
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she put in there some packets of tea that I love.
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This was a little gift for me.
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And when I opened it, I said, oh, you didn't need to do this for me.
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And she used this expression.
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She said, it was the least I could do.
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She felt a little bit guilty that I gave her
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so much and she was only giving me a little bit in return, just some tea.
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But it was my pleasure.
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I was very happy to do it.
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I didn't expect anything in return, but she felt a little guilty.
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So that's a great way to use this phrase.
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And it's a good way to show, I appreciate all your hard work.
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It was the least I could do.
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I am happy to give you this.
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Let's watch that clip one more time and I want you to hear that expression, it was the least I could do.
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Let's go.
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I released them elsewhere.
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One of them accidentally died and you buried that.
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Thank you.
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I felt like I had this least I could do is bury the groundhog.
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What's it going to be this year?
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The next expression is a fun question and it has a nuance with the way that you say it.
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What else do you need?
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What else do you need?
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Notice this excitement, this heightened anticipation.
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What else do you need?
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I'm not asking this sincerely.
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What else do you need?
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No, instead, this is a rhetorical question.
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I am not expecting an answer.
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I want you to listen to the way that it was used in the conversation with Michelle, and then I'll help you use it yourself as well.
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Let's watch.
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Also, we have lots of extra eggs right now.
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See?
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Think about it.
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We got eggs, we have tomatoes, we can make omelets.
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It's fine.
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What else do you need?
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That's true.
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Yeah.
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In the conversation, we were talking about all of the different types of food
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that we grow or have at our houses already.
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We have eggs, we have tomatoes, we can make an omelet.
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It's fine.
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What else do you need?
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So here, this phrase is implying we don't need anything else.
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If you sincerely ask, what else do you need?
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It's a question.
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You want an answer.
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You want to know what else that person needs.
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But when you say it like this, what else do you need?
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What else do you need?
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Notice that inflection.
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It implies you don't need anything else.
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You're not expecting an answer.
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This is called a rhetorical question.
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You're not expecting an answer.
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You're just making this statement as part of the conversation.
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So you might say that about learning English as well.
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You might say, I'm learning English with Vanessa.
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What else do I need?
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Which implies you don't need anything else.
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All you need are my lessons.
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All right.
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Let's watch the clip from the original conversation one more time.
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I want you to listen for the inflection in our voice.
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Let's go.
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also we have lots of extra eggs right now extra see so think about it we got eggs we have tomatoes
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we can make omelets it's fine what else do you need yeah the next phrase is rain
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or shine i want you to watch the original clip
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and hear about what it's like to have a cow let's watch
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and then we'll talk about rain
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or shine like it's just every day you milk them twice a day rain or shine they're out there for 30 minutes.
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Otherwise they're in pain.
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The cow's in pain.
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You have to milk your cow.
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And they even have like a little machine.
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In this clip, I was talking about someone I know who has a milk cow
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and they said they have to milk their cow rain or shine every day for 30 minutes.
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Well, yes, they have to do it if it is raining or if the sun is shining, but this has more nuance to it.
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This expression is more figurative.
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It means if there are bad things happening or good things happening in their life, it doesn't matter.
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Maybe the farmer has the flu and they can't get out of bed.
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They have a fever.
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It doesn't matter.
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They have to still milk that cow.
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Maybe it's a beautiful day and they're so excited to be outside, they have to milk the cow.
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So it implies it doesn't matter the circumstance, you still have to do it, rain or shine.
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So let me give you another example that doesn't involve going outside
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or the weather to show you you can use this expression to not talk about outside at all.
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Well, let's say that you are a mother like me.
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You are in charge of feeding your family.
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That's me.
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Well, your kids and your family are hungry probably three times a day.
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So what does that mean?
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You have to cook dinner rain or shine every day.
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Okay.
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Who cares about the weather?
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You're inside.
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That's probably where you make dinner.
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Well, if you're feeling not too well, you have to cook dinner.
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If you're tired, you have to cook dinner.
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If you're busy, you have to cook dinner.
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Hopefully you have some help in your life, so you actually do get a break.
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For me, my husband and I often split cooking duties.
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He cooks a couple of times a week, I cook a couple of times a week, so he can help if I'm actually really sick.
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But in general, my family has to eat dinner every night, rain or shine, so I need to cook, rain or shine.
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All right, let's watch how this was used again in the original conversation, and I want you to feel empowered to use this yourself.
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Let's watch.
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Like it's just every day you milk them, right?
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Twice a day, rain or shine, they're out there for 30 minutes.
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Otherwise they're in pain too.
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The cow's in pain.
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You have to milk your cow.
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Yeah.
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And they even have like a little machine.
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The next real life daily expression that we used in the conversation was, I looked into it, or just the phrasal verb,
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to look into something, to look into something.
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Let's watch the original conversation clip, and then we'll break it down together.
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Let's go.
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Someone else would have a cow.
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Goats would be the same way.
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Plus, you have to have a setup to send the goat in that holds them still while you're...
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I looked into it.
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I'm not doing it.
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In the conversation, Michelle was talking about having a goat.
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She said, you have to have a setup for where you milk the goat.
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I looked into it and I'm not going to do it.
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So she has researched getting a goat.
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What does it mean to have a goat?
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How much work is it?
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Is it easy?
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Is it worth it?
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She researched it or she looked into it and she decided, uh -uh, This is not for me.
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So this phrasal verb, to look into something, means that you research it.
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Simply that.
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You could use this to mean, I'm looking into the box, but that's a figurative way.
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We use that less often.
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Instead, we can use it in a more figurative way to talk about researching something.
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Let me give you another example for how to use to look into it.
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Well, Well, if you have ever watched the news, you know that the media tries to portray everything as big news,
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infuriating news, get angry about this, get worked up about this.
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This is so important, but often the news and what goes on in the world is way more complex
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than the news really wants to show.
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So if you are talking about the news with your friend, you might use this phrase and say, you know what?
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I looked into it and this topic is way more complicated than the media is trying to tell us.
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The media is making it seem like this is the good guy, this is the bad guy, but really, I looked into it.
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It is so complicated.
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And isn't that the truth?
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Most topics, especially when it comes to politics are really complicated.
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And if you look into it, you see there's a lot more nuance than the media would like to portray.
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All right, let's watch this clip one more time so that you can see how to look into it was used.
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Let's watch.
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Someone else would have a cow.
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Goats will be the same way.
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You know, they'd be the same.
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And plus you have to have like a setup to send the goat in that holds them still while you're...
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I looked into it.
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I'm not doing it.
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Yeah.
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The next real English phrase is a long one, you just never know.
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This is used often all together as a fixed phrase, you just never know.
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So let's listen to how it was used in the conversation and then we'll talk about it together.
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I would rather, if it's available, buy meat and not have to be that person.
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I'd rather grow tomatoes.
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But you want to be able to if you have to.
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You just never know.
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And prices are going up.
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I mean, I don't know about other parts of the world, but eggs are seven bucks for a dozen now.
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In the conversation, we said, you need to be able to take care of yourself because you just never know.
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Notice this pronunciation.
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The word just is reduced so much, it's said so quickly that it's hardly there.
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Listen when I say it.
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You just never know.
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You just, just ...
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My lips don't even move.
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You just never know.
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You just never know.
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You just never know.
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But it's still important that it's there in the sentence.
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You just never know.
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You just, you just never know.
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Here we're talking about scenarios that we can't plan for, something unexpected.
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I often say that about recording these English lessons for you.
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I have a lot of moving parts in my life.
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I have three kids.
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Two of them are in school.
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One of them is taking a nap right now. Who knows?
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Maybe one of those kids is going to get sick or maybe my child won't take a nap.
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How am I going to record this lesson?
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Well, I need to record them a little bit in advance because you just never know.
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You never know what's going to happen.
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So when I tell my friends, hey, sorry, I can't get together today.
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I need to record some lessons for my students.
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They might say, hey, didn't you just record lessons last week?
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And I would use this phrase.
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Well, you just never know.
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My kids could be homesick from school tomorrow and then I can't record anything.
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So I need to do it in advance when I am available and can, because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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You just never know.
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All right, let's watch this clip from the original conversation so that you can use it yourself.
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I would rather, if it's available, buy meat and not have to be that person.
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I'd rather grow tomatoes.
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But you want to be able to if you have to, you know, you just never know and prices are going up.
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I don't know about other parts of the world, but eggs are seven bucks for a dozen now.
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The next real life expression is feels like.
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This is often used with temperature.
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So I want you to listen to this clip from our real conversation and hear how feels like is used with temperature.
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And then we'll talk about it.
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Let's go during the day you can't come out here i
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know the other day i went downtown with the kids
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and it said 92 feels like 106 yes like what are
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we doing out here in this clip we were talking about the hot hot hot summer weather
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and i said i went downtown with my kids
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and the temperature said 92 feels like 106
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so here often especially where i live it's really humid so that means that But whatever is the real temperature,
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it feels way hotter because of the humidity.
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If you live somewhere dry, you probably don't experience this on a daily basis.
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But if you travel to somewhere that's humid, the heat is just a totally different thing.
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So this phrase feels like is often used to talk about what the temperature actually feels like.
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We can also use this in the winter.
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So if there's a lot of wind and it feels a lot colder than the actual temperature, it might say, well, the weather today,
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the temperature is 31 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Okay.
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So two degrees.
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The temperature is two degrees, feels like minus 10.
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So that means the wind is blowing so much that it's going to feel that much colder than the real temperature.
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So you can say, well, it's 92, but feels like 106, whatever that is in Celsius, I'll put it here.
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But it's talking about the difference between the real temperature and what it feels like.
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All right, let's watch that original clip so that you can see how this expression was used, and you can use it too to talk about temperature.
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Let's go.
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During the day, you can't come out here.
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I know the other day I went downtown with the kids and it said 92 feels like 106.
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Yes.
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What are we doing out here?
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The next expression is dense.
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You have to be careful with this one.
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I will teach you how to use it carefully, but we're going to watch how it was used in the conversation and then we'll break it down.
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Let's go.
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Let's see.
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The one that I just showed you is a vintage wine.
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Look at how dense this is.
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And then there's another one called San Marzano.
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I know.
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I tried to prop them up.
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In the conversation, we were going on a tour through the garden and said, look how dense this part of the garden is.
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When we're talking about a thing, it is absolutely okay to use the word dense.
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It means it's packed together.
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So you might say the dense rows of corn were difficult to walk through.
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Okay.
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It's all packed together, but warning, warning, warning, do not say that someone is dense.
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If you use this or you hear someone use this to talk about a person, it means they're not smart.
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They are dumb.
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It's not a nice thing, right?
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So if you hear someone say, maybe in a movie or a TV show, man, he's so dense.
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It's not nice.
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I could imagine this used in a scenario where maybe the girl is flirting with someone
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and the guy just has no clue.
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She's like, oh yeah, we're friends and we're going over here and we're doing this.
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And the girl is flirting so much.
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She's trying to make him see, I like you.
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I want to be with you, but he has no clue.
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Well, she might say, man, he's so dense.
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He doesn't see that I'm trying to flirt with him.
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So it's not a positive thing when we use dense to talk about a person, but to talk about something, it's no problem.
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All right.
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Let's see how this was used the original conversation i want you to listen for
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that word dense let's go let's see the one
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that i just showed you is uh vintage wine and then there's another one called san marzano I know,
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I tried to prop them up.
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Our final real life English phrase is as you can see.
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There's a little nuance to this phrase.
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So let's watch how it was used in the conversation
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and then I'll break it down for you so you can use it too.
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Let's go.
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So yeah, as you can see, like a lot of my pathways are taken over because I don't have good planning skills for how big plants get.
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Me neither.
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Me neither.
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In this clip, I said, as you can see, a lot of my pathways in the garden are taken over by plants.
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A lot of the plants by that point in the summer had grown
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so big that we couldn't walk on the pathways that were planned for us to walk on.
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But it's kind of obvious, right?
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If you look at it, you can see there's no pathway,
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but it's kind of a little bit rude to just say all of the pathways are covered.
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Instead, I want to acknowledge that it's something obvious.
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As you can see, all the pathways are covered by plants.
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I didn't plan it very well and they just grew so big, which I guess is a good problem to have, right?
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But you can use as you can see when you're pointing out something obvious, but you want to be polite about it.
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So let's imagine this scenario.
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You're having a business meeting and you're showing a graph.
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You're showing all of the purchases made for the last quarter.
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And it goes like this do, do, do, do, do.
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It goes up.
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Great.
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That's a good thing, right?
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But if you're talking about this, you might say, oh, our purchases have gone up or our revenue has gone up.
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It's fine.
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But if you add this expression, it shows, hey, I know that you're not dense.
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You can see that the revenue has gone up.
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So you can add that phrase.
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As you can see, the revenue has gone up because we have been selling more products.
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This is just a nice expression to add when something's obvious and you want to show the other person, I trust you can see this,
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but I'm going to say it anyway.
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All right, let's watch how that was used in the clip one more time so that you can use it yourself.
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Let's go.
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So yeah, as you can see, like a lot of my pathways are taken over because I don't have good planning skills for how big plants get.
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Me neither.
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Me neither.
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Well, great work practicing all of those real life English expressions.
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Now my challenge for you is to download the free PDF worksheet for all of these phrases.
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I have included all of the nuance, the extra expressions, the sample sentences, everything so that you can use these correctly yourself as well.
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And when you're watching a movie or TV show, you'll be able to remember Or, oh yeah, that's what they're really trying to say.
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Even though that's what their words are saying, maybe the nuance is a little different.
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So you can click on the link in the description, enter your name and email address, and voila, just like that,
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the free PDF worksheet plus the bonus quiz will land in your email inbox.
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I will continue to send you my free PDF worksheets every single week.
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You never need to sign up again.
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Well, thank you so much for learning English with me
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and I'll see you again next Friday for a new lesson here on my YouTube channel.
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Bye.
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But wait, do you want more?
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If you haven't had a chance to watch it yet, I recommend watching the original conversation with Michelle.
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Immerse yourself in real English conversations and be able to use real English yourself.
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I'll see you there.
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คุณกำลังฝึกภาษาอังกฤษกับ "Speak English Confidently: Daily Life Vocabulary" ด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing — วิธีที่พัฒนาขึ้นสำหรับการฝึกนักแปลมืออาชีพ
ฟังทีละประโยค สังเกตการเน้นเสียงและการเชื่อมเสียง แล้วพูดตามดังๆ อย่างมั่นใจ ฝึกวันละ 15–30 นาทีจะเห็นผลลัพธ์ที่ชัดเจน
เทคนิค Shadowing คืออะไร?
Shadowing เป็นเทคนิคการเรียนรู้ภาษาที่ได้รับการรับรองทางวิทยาศาสตร์ พัฒนาขึ้นสำหรับการฝึกนักแปลมืออาชีพ วิธีการนี้เรียบง่ายแต่ทรงพลัง: คุณฟังเสียงภาษาอังกฤษจากเจ้าของภาษาและพูดตามทันที — เหมือนเงาที่ตามผู้พูดด้วยช่วงเวลาห่าง 1-2 วินาที การวิจัยแสดงว่าเทคนิคนี้ปรับปรุงความแม่นยำในการออกเสียง ทำนองเสียง จังหวะ การเชื่อมเสียง การฟังเข้าใจ และความคล่องแคล่วในการพูดได้อย่างมีนัยสำคัญ
















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