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You've been studying english a long time you know you're good, but then you visit an english-speaking country, and you're like
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I know my english is good. Why don't I understand you and you I don't understand you you in the back
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I don't understand you. Well. We have a Few English expressions
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Which you probably didn't learn in school, but we use all the time
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So here are five really useful really common English expressions
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Number one is not fussed not bothered. What does it mean?
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you want to go for dinner and your friend says where shall we go for dinner Italian food Thai food
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what kind of food and you want to say
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Everything sounds great. This is good. This is good. This is good. I have no preference you could say
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I'm not fussed usually we contract it - not fussed
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pronunciation that sounds like t fussed fussed
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not facet no and eat the t
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so not fussed not fussed where do you want to go not fussed or
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Not bothered not bothered not fussed. This is a super common way to say I have no preference
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Whatever you suggest. I'm happy with it and personally I am terrible at making decision.
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So I use that expression all the time where do you want to go? I'm not fussed? What do you want to do today [Ali]?
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I'm not bothered. You're really not helpful
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Hmm. This is basically every conversation
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I ever have with my friends number two fair enough pronunciation be careful of that end R
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Remember British English has linking R
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So that end [R] sound links into the next word fair enough fair enough
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Say with me fair enough, when do we use it we want to say that's acceptable. That's okay
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I accept that that's a that's fine
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It's your birthday party, but one friend cannot come why because they're working. I mean it's bad, but
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You're not going to be angry your friend for working they have to work so your response is going to be
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That's that's fair enough. You have to work. I understand hmm now
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The whole sentence is that's fair enough, but most commonly we lose that
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You have to work, fair enough.
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So in [arguments]. This is a great way to stop an argument when you don't want to continue arguing
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Maybe you and another person have different opinions on religion politics
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Whatever you want to stop the argument for example. I'll love Trump
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very simply you can say
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You love Trump fair enough fair enough
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This stops an argument because you're saying okay your that's your opinion. This is my opinion
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You're not going to change my mind. I'm not going to change your mind. Let's stop, done.
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The next one is to say I suppose so commonly we lose the I
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we just say suppose so but in conversation
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We speak fast so it sounds like supposo, yeah supposo, but what does it mean?
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One reason is when you agree to do something and you're saying hmm
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I don't see why not, why not, okay fine.
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for example
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Perhaps a young boy is saying to his mum. Can we get some ice cream and the mum wants to say
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Okay, I why not sure
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Yeah, I suppose so. so maybe she doesn't completely want to but she's also saying I don't see a reason
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why not。
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Remember you agree with something so it could be someone says something
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Oh, I think he's a zombie and you want to say hmm. Yeah, I think that's true. I think you're right you could say
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Hmm, yeah, I suppose so looks pretty zombie remember the pronunciation the u we usually drop it sounds more like
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Spose
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Spose
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Suppose so. next one I'm afraid
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Blah blah blah remember that I'm afraid means I'm scared yeah
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But in another context you can use it to say in a polite way, I'm sorry, but Bla Bla
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So it could be to refuse something it could be to give information, which is maybe bad news
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if
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Someone invites you to something. Can you come to my party? But you want to say ah I'm so sorry I can't
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then you could say this
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Ah, I'm afraid I can't the pronunciation
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We've got the schwa afraid afraid I'm afraid I'm afraid I
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can't
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pronunciation should be very careful ah
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stay with me ah
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can't I'm
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afraid I can't I'm afraid I can't
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Remember of course in this context. I'm afraid means. I'm sorry not I'm scared。
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Now with missing word here, I'm
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afraid that I can't but typically we don't usually put that
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We just say I'm afraid I can't I'm afraid he can't she can't
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Or much more simple and more versatile. I'm afraid not. I'm sorry [no]
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Do you want to come out tonight? I'm afraid not are you feeling Super British now?
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Well, you should after this fifth expression which is this
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may as well or might as well this expression is super super common. You definitely need to learn it
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So what does it mean? How do we use it ah?
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You arrive at a party and the party is rubbish. There's like one person
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you don't like and the music is rubbish, and you're thinking oh if
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I had stayed at home that would have been better than here or at least no different. No more or less
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level of fun
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Then you can say this
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[ah] [I] might as well have stayed at home
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pronunciation
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Eat the t. I might as well might as well say with me might as well. I might as well
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Grammar have stayed we've got present perfect that is because it's a past action
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to stay at home that will be a past action so have stayed and
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remember of course you can say I may as well may as well have stayed at home
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This also could be a response to a suggestion when you want to say well
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There's nothing better to do then you can also use this
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Should we just shall we go home?
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He can say yeah might as well. Now this is the short version. what's the long version?
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We might as well go home
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So notice in the previous example. We said I might as well have stayed at home
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Have stayed because it's a past action which was better
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This action is a future action
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Might as well go home in the future
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There's no have might as well go
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home and that verb will not change whether it's he she it doesn't matter. It's always in the infinitive
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Now I did just say use it when there is nothing better to do. I don't mean wow
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There is nothing better to do I don't mean it like that. I mean it like this
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Well nothing better to do I can't think of anything
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Like that so so be careful how you use it. Try to use those expressions in the comments and in your real life
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That's how you're going to learn. I'll see you in the next class.
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See you later.