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  • Welcome back to top words.

  • Today we're gonna talk about 10 ways to stop translating in your head.

  • Let's get started.

  • Identify objects around you in English.

  • The first way to stop translating in your head is to identify the objects around you in your target language.

  • So if you're studying English, that means you look at the objects around the room.

  • Look at the things in your life.

  • Don't think of them in your native language.

  • First think of them in your target language first.

  • So if I look around the room, I see a computer.

  • I shouldn't think my native language word.

  • I should think my target language.

  • Words.

  • So start with the items and the situations in your everyday life.

  • If I say computer in English, maybe I should say Compute the in Japanese I should say not.

  • I don't know water in English, I should say Oh mi za in Japanese.

  • So start associating the words in your target language with your everyday life.

  • Now So if you're studying English, that means start getting familiar with the things in your everyday life in English.

  • Repeat phrases you hear native speakers use Tip number two is to repeat.

  • The phrase is that you hear native speakers use.

  • So if you're watching this channel, for example, or you're watching a TV show or a movie, uh, listen for the way that native speakers make those phrases.

  • If you hear a phrase you have never heard before or you hear an interesting combination of words, try to repeat them yourself.

  • Don't just listen.

  • Try to save them yourself.

  • If you're in a public space and it's difficult for you to do that, fine practice in a place where you feel more comfortable.

  • Maybe if you have some private space to practice, just repeat them.

  • Get your mouth used to saying the words the way that the speakers, the native speakers d'oh.

  • So if you never actually say words, if you're only taking in, if you're only listening and you're not actually producing the language, it's It's kind of hard thio to practice and to, um to really hone your pronunciation to improve your pronunciation.

  • So when you listen to native speakers try to repeat after them.

  • So, for example, if you're studying English, you can try to repeat after this video.

  • You can repeat after the things I'm saying, because maybe I'm using an expression or I'm using ah certain ah Siri's of vocabulary words together the way a native speaker would.

  • And it's maybe a good idea to try to practice the ways that native speakers put their words together.

  • So try to repeat after native speakers, especially when you're looking at media.

  • Ah, and you can do this when you're reading books to you can try to read out, um, read out loud, interesting lines of books that you find or something that maybe is difficult for you.

  • Very nice practice to make a situation where you can't escape into your native language, make a situation where you can't escape into your native language Essentially means immerse yourself.

  • Of course, going to that country are going to a place where you can speak on Lee.

  • That language is very difficult for some of you, totally understand.

  • But if in your life you can create a situation in your library, in your room, in your house, somewhere for just a hour or, I don't know, maybe a day.

  • I don't know what your schedule is like, but if you can create a situation or create an environment where you have no choice but to use that language and you cannot escape, meaning you cannot go back to using your native language as a crutch, you can't use the native language at all.

  • It forces you to use the language that you're studying.

  • So, of course, if you are lucky enough to live in the country or to live in a place where people speak the language, you're studying great.

  • But you have to go out and interact with people.

  • You have to put yourself in a place where you have new choice but to speak.

  • It's very hard and it's very scary, and it's very embarrassing at first.

  • But if you take time to find places and to make environments that air comfortable for you, where you feel comfortable making mistakes and asking questions, it's very valuable for your learning process.

  • This is actually something that I did totally.

  • I totally did this.

  • My Japanese wasn't very good for a long time, but then I started making friends who could not speak English.

  • Uh, actually, I just did this through finding hobbies.

  • There was a hobby that I had.

  • I joined a group I joined, actually a school to where I could learn how to do that hobby and everything was taught on Lee in Japanese, and the people in my class on Lee spoke Japanese mostly.

  • And then maybe we would go off for drinks and food late at night or on the weekends, and everybody spoke on Lee Japanese.

  • And if I couldn't communicate even simply in Japanese, I had no hope of keeping that friendship together.

  • So it forced me to study.

  • It forced me to think about the words they were using on and to try to learn those words, those patterns as well as how to produce them, naturally myself.

  • So I was learning the vocabulary words the people around me were using and learning how to apply them on my own.

  • That was only possible because I had no escape in those situations.

  • So try to do that, even if you could do it yourself in your house.

  • It's super helpful, I think.

  • Watch TV and movies in your target language without subtitles.

  • Tip number four is to watch TV and movies in your target language without subtitles without subtitles.

  • So I think that watching ah with subtitles can be very beneficial.

  • Um, so if I'm watching something or if you want to watch something with subtitles on great.

  • But I sometimes find that I can.

  • In my case, I I think too much about reading the subtitles and I forget to listen.

  • So maybe if you've seen a movie in your target language a few times, Um, with the subtitles on, Try turning the subtitles off and think about the characters, body language, the words they're using.

  • You can always look that up later.

  • Look up the You know the words you don't know in a dictionary, but try to do it where you're focusing completely on the way that people are using their words.

  • Try not to use the subtitle.

  • So, um, kind of play around with it a little bit?

  • If there's a word that's difficult for you to hear, you can actually turn on the subtitles in, like the in the native language of the movie as well.

  • That's something that I've done like if, uh, look if I wanted to study Japanese.

  • It's very useful when the actual words spoken in Japanese appear on the screen.

  • Sometimes it's easier for me to catch Ah, word if I see it visually, and I hear it at the same time.

  • So another way to kind of, um, explore how you can use TV and movies is to actually turn on the closed captions like the the words on the screen in the native language of the movie.

  • So, uh, so this is sort of two points in one, so one watch movies without subtitles, meaning subtitles in your native language in Hint to is to watch movies with closed captioning on.

  • But the closed captioning is in your target language, not in your native language.

  • So you can try those two things with TV and with movies.

  • Don't bring a dictionary to your lesson.

  • Tip number five is Don't bring a dictionary to your lesson.

  • Okay, so give me a second here, so I understand the dictionaries, always especially Elektronik dictionaries we have them on our phones now are very, very convenient.

  • Um, of course, it's important to use them, and it's, um, they're a great resource tohave However, one thing that really bothers me and that I think is detrimental it's not helpful for students is when students are in a lesson and they're practicing conversation and they reach a point in the conversation where they don't know the word they want to use.

  • They know it in their native language, and they don't know how to say it.

  • In their target language.

  • They pull out their dictionary.

  • They say to this, the person listening to them, their practice partner in their lesson where they have a limited period of time, just a moment and then they look it up on the phone and it takes a few seconds.

  • The flow of the conversation stops, and then they say a word.

  • It's like, Wow, no, that's not You don't have that ability.

  • You don't have the ability to do that in a conversation with a native speaker.

  • Most people like if you go to a bank and try to open a bank account, are you really gonna pull out your dictionary and sit there and try to communicate?

  • You know, just a moment.

  • Just a moment.

  • As you look up each word, you don't know no or If you do, that's not a real conversation.

  • So instead, try using a different strategy.

  • By that, I mean, if you find a word you don't know in conversation, explain the word to your conversation partner.

  • Maybe they know the word.

  • If you're speaking with a native speaker, this is a chance for them to teach you a word.

  • I find that when people take the time to teach me a word, I remember the word much betterthan just looking it up on my dictionary.

  • So try to resist.

  • Maybe you could bring a dictionary to your lesson, but don't use it or try not to use it in your conversation practice.

  • It's just it destroys the flow of a conversation.

  • So instead practice the skill of describing the vocabulary word you want to use and learn how to ask the meaning of a word or learn how to ask for ah, vocabulary word from your partner so you can use an expression like, Ah, what's the word that means Bob a block Or, um, you know, it's this thing that does this in this in this, So this is an opportunity for you to describe characteristics of something or find a different way.

  • You can use your body language.

  • You can use whatever you have a lot of tools, but try not to use a dictionary in a conversation because it's not realistic.

  • Train responses to common questions Number six is a quick one.

  • I think number 6/10 number six I have is just to train responses to common questions.

  • Train responses to common questions.

  • So, for example Ah, very common question in English is Hey, how are you?

  • You should know how to answer this question.

  • Just have a default response.

  • Hey, how are you?

  • I'm good If it takes you.

  • Ah, long time to answer the question.

  • Hey, how are you?

  • You need to practice.

  • I think that's a pretty good ah, pretty good indicator.

  • So, for example, sometimes I ask students a question like that.

  • They haven't quite gotten the idea of how to respond just yet.

  • They they're not so quick.

  • It responding, I say, Ah, Hey, how are you?

  • And they say yes.

  • And then they think and they go, I'm Ah, I'm a good think.

  • That's a very common question.

  • So think about just a default response that you can spit out that you can quickly say, If it's how was your weekend or Hey, what's up?

  • Or what do you want to do for dinner tonight?

  • Think about like just a handful, meaning just a few responses to those questions and trained them quickly.

  • Just how are you?

  • I'm good.

  • How are you?

  • I'm okay.

  • How are you?

  • Not bad.

  • There's three.

  • So it's just training responses to those questions.

  • There's no reason to be surprised by a question like, How are you?

  • Like?

  • That's a very common question.

  • So for those common questions, train responses so that we've got a bunch of videos, especially beginner level videos for some example responses you can do so don't get stuck with the little questions.

  • Just train a few responses, practice a few responses till they feel natural to you.

  • It'll save you time, and it'll help the person asking the question to to move forward in the conversation study with materials that don't provide a translation.

  • The next step is to study with materials that don't provide a translation.

  • So by this I mean, if you're using worksheets and or some kind of textbook or whatever, and it has your target language the language you're studying, and it has your native language next to it.

  • While this can be useful, I feel that if you can, studying your materials on Lee in your target language and then simplified explanations for more detailed points also in your target language can be a little bit better.

  • So I don't want to say like you should Onley study things in your target language and nothing from your native language.

  • Because, of course, it's It can be helpful sometimes to look up a word or two, understand a grammar point in your native language.

  • But where possible.

  • If you can find something that provides simplified explanations in your target language, it can be really, really helpful, cause again, you're thinking you're learning to think on like a simpler on a more basic level about the language you're studying in the language that you're studying.

  • So this can be really, really good.

  • So finding some materials to use where there's no translation.

  • Maybe you can practice, of course, with with books and with written materials, but also with like video materials as well.

  • So there are a variety of different ways that you can, um, find materials in your target language.

  • Um, like in video and TV.

  • So some things to think about.

  • There are the level of vocabulary words people are using in the media content you're watching who the media content is intended for Children, young adults, adults.

  • Ah, the speed at which the speaker is talking.

  • So like I have the ability to change the level of difficulty of videos based on the rate of speech, the vocabulary words that I use and how many like idioms and things I use So I could make a video very difficult.

  • We could make a like a very difficult video.

  • Siri's by leveling up our vocabulary.

  • You, sir, by speaking very quickly, Or as you might see in like our English and three minutes Siri's, um, we can also use very simple vocabulary and speak in a low rate of speech.

  • So maybe right now this is a very intermediate level video, so please think about that.

  • So not just for written materials, but also for your audio and visual materials.

  • Think about, um, who your audience is, the level of the material and so on.

  • It can be really fun.

  • Uh, and it can be helpful to think about your your target language in your target language.

  • All right, we're almost there.

  • Study phrases.

  • In addition to single vocabulary, the next tip is study phrases in addition to single vocabulary words.

  • So, yes, of course, vocabulary is important.

  • But I find it personally very, very useful to look at how a vocabulary word is used in a phrase, because sometimes using it in a phrase, helps you understand the nuance of that vocabulary.

  • Word really, really well.

  • So if I like a word like crazy, for example in English, depending on the situation where the word crazy is used, it could mean something different.

  • It could mean like, ah, person who is mentally confused or mixed up.

  • It could also mean something really good.

  • It could mean something really bad.

  • So if we look on Lee at the word crazy, it's quite difficult to understand really the meaning of the word.

  • But if you look at the way the word is used in a phrase, you can get a lot more information.

  • So take a look at the way people use words in phrase is not just a single vocabulary words You can learn a lot more that way, I think.

  • Do your daily activities in English where possible.

  • The next step is to do your daily activities in your target language.

  • Eso If you're studying English, that means try to do some daily activities in English, if possible, So this can be very, very boring stuff.

  • But just think about it when you're doing the activity.

  • So, like, right now I'm filming a video for English class 11 dot com or I'm going to work.

  • I'm cooking breakfast.

  • I'm doing the laundry.

  • What do I have to do tomorrow?

  • So try thinking about your everyday life in English.

  • If you're studying English, try thinking about your everyday activities that people that you meet.

  • What are you doing?

  • So this is a way to help you practice your verbs.

  • So if you don't know if you're I don't know, you're doing something at work and you're like, Oh my gosh, how do I explain the What's the verb for?

  • You know, a picture like I want to bubble, but a picture.

  • What's the word?

  • You can check a dictionary.

  • At that point, it's dry.

  • I need to use the verb draw for Draw a picture so you can find these little gaps in your everyday life.

  • Thes little gaps in your knowledge If you think about your everyday activities in your target language, if you don't think about it in your target language, you might not realize you have vocabulary gaps or phrase gaps here in there.

  • So this is a really good and kind of funny actually way to study.

  • Use a learner's dictionary for new words.

  • The last tip is to use a learner's dictionary for new words.

  • So in English, there are learners, dictionaries available in English.

  • So my favorite, my personal favorite, is Merriam Webster.

  • Merriam Webster is a fantastic dictionary resource.

  • They're so interesting, and they have tons of, like, historical information.

  • I really do just sit in like rehab things on the dictionary page lately.

  • It's true.

  • But of course there's a definition.

  • There's a meaning for words.

  • Their example sentences for words.

  • But Merriam Webster also has what's called a learner's dictionary.

  • If you find a word that you don't recognize, you can check it in a dictionary in a learner's dictionary, and it gives you a simplified, a simple explanation in simple English.

  • Off that word So instead of checking it in your native language, you can check it in your target language.

  • So again, this helps you to understand the word, um, that you are that you're focused on.

  • But you understand it from, um, the language you're studying, not from your native language.

  • So using a learner's dictionary can be really, really useful as well.

  • All right, so those are 10 tips, those air 10 tips to help you stop translating in your head.

  • I know it's very difficult, but it's it takes time and it takes practice.

  • And I hope that these air a few strategies that can help you as you study any language.

  • Of course, this is an English language channel in English language Learning Channel, but I think these tips are pretty good for learning just about any language, Really?

  • So I hope those air useful for you if you have tried these strategies or if you have any other comments or other tips, please let us know in the comments section below this video.

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  • Thanks very much for watching this episode of tough words and I will see you again soon.

  • Hi.

  • Hi, everyone.

  • I'm Bridget and welcome to today's lesson.

  • Today's topic is 10 ways to say Hello in English.

  • Good morning.

  • Good morning is the first thing you say to someone when you see them in the morning.

  • Good morning, sir.

  • Would you like a cup of coffee?

  • Good morning.

  • Could I please get some orange juice?

  • Good morning.

  • I'm still tired from the night before.

  • Hello.

  • Hello is the most common greeting.

  • You'll hear that.

  • And hi Hello is a polite, nice way to greet someone when you see them.

  • Hello.

  • Everyone says it.

  • You cannot go wrong saying hello Hello can be used at any time of the day.

  • No matter whether it's morning or at night or at 4 a.m. When you see someone, you can say hello and it will still be appropriate.

  • Long time no see.

  • Long time no see.

  • It's not necessarily grammatically correct, but it's a saying that we have Hey, long time no see.

  • What it means is that You haven't seen that person in a long time.

  • So it literally means long time, no see.

  • Long time no see.

  • Is something you say to someone when you haven't seen them in a while.

  • Hey, John.

  • Long time no see.

  • How are the wife and kids?

  • How have you been?

  • Hey, how have you been?

  • I haven't seen you in a long time.

  • How have you been?

  • Is asking someone how they're doing and how they've been for the past.

  • However long.

  • If you haven't seen them in a while, you might say Hey, long time no see.

  • How have you been?

  • How have you been?

  • That's past tense.

  • It implies that you haven't seen them in a while.

  • And you want to hear about how they are and how they've been for all of that time that you haven't seen them.

  • Hey, long time no see.

  • How have you been?

  • How are you?

  • How are you?

  • Means how are you doing?

  • How are you feeling?

  • How is everything?

  • It's a standard thing that you might say to anyone.

  • Even if you've seen them the day before.

  • You might see them today and say, Hey, how are you?

  • How's it going?

  • Hey, how's it going?

  • How is it going?

  • Is a more informal way to say How are you?

  • So how are you and how's it going?

  • They mean the same thing.

  • It's asking how you're doing, how you are feeling.

  • Is everything okay with you?

  • What's up?

  • What's up is another way of saying Hey, how is it going?

  • But this one is even more informal.

  • So you might say this to friends.

  • Hey, what's up?

  • And they'll say nothing.

  • Just living my life.

  • You know, Dan and day out.

  • Hey, what's up?

  • Hey, what's up?

  • Good afternoon.

  • Good afternoon.

  • How are you?

  • Would you like some lunch?

  • Good afternoon is a polite way to greet someone in the afternoon.

  • So if you run into your boss, you might say good afternoon.

  • It's very nice.

  • It's polite.

  • Not a lot of people say it to their friends, but it za polite way to greet someone.

  • Good evening.

  • Good evening is a nice way to greet someone in the evening time.

  • You can only use this phrase in the evening because it's wishing someone a good evening.

  • It's saying hello at a certain time of day.

  • Good evening would you like some dinner?

  • Good evening.

  • Have you eaten it?

  • All of my examples involve food.

  • It seems it's nice to meet you.

  • It's nice to meet you.

  • This is something that's very common to say the first time that you meet someone, you might shake their hand and say Hi, It's nice to meet you.

  • My name is Bridget.

  • My name is It's telling that person that you are happy to be meeting them.

  • It's a pleasure to meet them.

  • Hi, It's nice to meet you.

  • That brings us to the end of this lesson.

  • 10 ways to say hello.

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  • Yes, Sometimes we visit even more.

  • Where's our first stop?

  • Charlotte?

  • Hey, I have friends in Charlotte.

  • It would be nice to see them.

  • Good evening in room dining.

  • This is Alex.

  • How may I be of service?

  • Hello.

  • I would like to order some food.

  • Of course, ma'am.

  • Just to confirm this is Mrs Rawson in room 4 17 Yes, it is excellent me to take your order.

  • Yes, I would like a turkey sandwich on a Parmesan bagel.

  • And what's a drink?

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  • Will there be anything else?

  • Yes, I would also like a wake up call for seven.

  • My majors.

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  • How about you?

  • I'm an English major.

  • Sure, I like English.

  • Oh, and what's Oksana's major?

  • She's also an English major.

  • That's nice.

  • You can help each other.

  • Study?

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  • In fact, I need to meet her now so we can study together.

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  • It was nice talking with you.

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  • Melissa West.

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  • Here's the registration information.

  • Does everything look correct to you?

  • Yes.

  • It seems to be correct.

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  • Now I will just need a photo.

  • 80 for legal purposes.

  • Will my passport do?

  • That would be just fine, ma'am.

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  • Hey, Vicky.

  • Did you forget our study date at 10.

  • This morning?

  • I'm sorry.

  • Now, me at 10.

  • I was talking with my professor and couldn't get away.

  • I'm sorry.

  • I should have called.

  • That's okay.

  • So how did the meeting go with the professor?

  • It went fine.

  • He gave me an extension on my paper, and I could still take the midterm.

  • How is your study group yesterday?

  • Well, we were studying together during lunch when I noticed on an old friend of mine from high school in the same cafe.

  • My consent lesson quickly switched from class to catching up with my friends, so I didn't get much done.

  • You've taken that class before, right?

  • Yeah, last semester.

  • I was always asking questions in that class because it was so difficult.

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  • I can't think of anything else to write.

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  • In this video, we'll be talking about how to curse like an English native speaker.

  • Piss a slang term for urine, for example.

  • Don't piss your pants.

  • You can say this when you're really scared or anxious.

  • For example, if you're about to go on stage to make a speech or perform, someone can say, Don't piss your pants.

  • You can do it Pissed off to be really angry.

  • When I'm angry, I can say, Hey, I'm really pissed off at you right now.

  • Why did you do that for Loser?

  • Used to describe an uncool person in high school.

  • My friends and I would use this a lot, and we would say, Hey, loser, how's it going?

  • Idiot used insult people by saying they're not intelligent off all the mean things that you can say.

  • This is on the lighter side, but people still use it.

  • Shoot.

  • This is used to show disappointment or frustration without using a stronger curse.

  • Word.

  • Shoot!

  • I spilled my coffee.

  • Shut up!

  • You can use this when you want Hm to be quiet.

  • Or there's something surprising that you just heard you can say Shut up.

  • No way Ticked off to be really angry.

  • You can say this with pissed off.

  • So this is actually an older term.

  • Not many people use this as much anymore because most people actually just use pissed off.

  • Fool.

  • This is similar to saying someone is like a clown.

  • You can say you're acting like a fool right now.

  • Jerk.

  • This is a light insult.

  • Used to describe someone who was mean.

  • For example, If there's someone bullying another person, that person is being a jerk Whip.

  • This means someone who isn't strong.

  • There is a movie out right now called Diary off a wimpy kid.

  • Have you seen it?

  • Have you not?

  • I haven't yet.

  • So how was it?

  • If you have any more questions, please leave a comment below.

  • See you next time.

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  • I'm Paris from English Class one a one dot com.

  • In this video we're talking about howto ask and give directions Let's start to love.

  • The first phrase is Where is the where is the for example?

  • You can ask Where is the bank?

  • This game used to ask for a general location or detailed directions.

  • Don't be surprised if you only receive basic information.

  • For example, next to the grocery store, the next phrase is I need to go to the I need to go to the for example.

  • He can say I need to go to the police station.

  • The word need is used, but this is used for non emergencies as well.

  • How do I get to the How do I get to the for example?

  • You can say, How do I get to the museum?

  • This question could be used to ask for step by step directions instead of a general location is the near here Is the near here, for example, you can say is the library near here?

  • If you're unfamiliar with an area, you can ask to get this information about a specific place where you want to go.

  • Is the bathroom near here?

  • Excuse me.

  • Do you know where the is?

  • Excuse me?

  • Do you know where the is?

  • For example, you can say, Excuse me?

  • Do you know where the park is on Lee used?

  • Excuse me when you're starting a conversation with a stranger, another common phrases is the far from here is the far from here.

  • For example, you can say is the post office front from here This is an indirect way to ask for directions.

  • People will tell you how far the places and probably tell you the best way to get there walking, taking a bus, driving uber.

  • Now let's take a look at expressions to give directions Turn left, turn left, for example.

  • You can say turn left after two blocks.

  • This gives you information about how far you should go before you make any changes.

  • In this case, you should go left to love.

  • Gola, turn right turn right, for example, you can say turn right at the third traffic light.

  • This also gives you information about how far you should go before taking another action.

  • In this case, you should go right.

  • Go street, go straight.

  • That simply tells you to go in one direction.

  • It also implies that if you keep going straight that you will eventually find what you're looking for.

  • Go past go past, for example, you can say go past the church.

  • Ah, landmark is Justin easily noticeable Place, for example, a movie theater restaurant at the corner off at the corner of for example, you can say it's at the corner of this means that a place is located at the corner where two streets meet in front of in front of, for example, you can say the bus station is in front of the supermarket.

  • We use front to refer to the main entrance of the building.

  • It can also mean visible from the front and doesn't necessarily mean it's directly in front of something behind behind.

  • For example, you can say the parking lot is behind the movie theater we used behind to say that something is at the rear of a building.

  • The front of the building is its main entrance, so which side it's facing the street is really not important.

  • Next to next to, for example, you can say the restaurant is next to the part.

  • This an example of using a non specific location to give in general directions next to congee anywhere besides, in front of or round a place.

  • McDonald is next to my house.

  • Between between, for example, you can say the store is between the coffee shop and the pet store between his use with two other places.

  • When using between, the main place will always be in the middle of the two other places.

  • Okay, that's all for this lesson.

  • Which phrase do you like the most?

  • Leave us a comment and let us know.

  • I'll see you next time, guys.

  • Bye.

  • Hey, guys, I'm Paris from English Class 101 dot com And this video will be talking about making complaints of English.

  • So let's get started.

  • The first complaint is, I'm starving.

  • I'm starving.

  • This is an exaggeration you can use when you're hungry.

  • I am always starving, even right now.

  • The next complaint is It's noisy.

  • It's noisy.

  • This kind of complaint is one that you would make to a friend.

  • Telling the staff of a restaurant won't help, since I can't tell people to be quiet.

  • I hate when it's noisy.

  • Restaurants.

  • Save that for another time, then we have.

  • It's hot, it's hot.

  • This could be used to talk about the weather or the temperature of a room.

  • You can add a request like, can you turn on the air conditioner?

  • I am never hot, so I like that.

  • The next complaint is It's cold.

  • It's cold.

  • This could be used to talk about the weather or the temperature of the room.

  • He could add a request like, Can you turn on the heater?

  • I always make this request because it's always too cold.

  • Everywhere, everywhere.

  • It's too expenses.

  • It's too expensive.

  • Even if you have enough money to buy something, it may be more money than you want to spend.

  • It would probably be considered rude to say this to someone who works at a store, but I always think, Okay, I'm in Gucci.

  • It's way too expensive.

  • Another common complaint is I'm tired.

  • I'm tired.

  • Uses complaint to imply that you want to sit down, Relax, go home, take a break.

  • When I baby sit my five year old cousin, I leave thinking I'm tired.

  • The next complaint is I gained weight.

  • I gained weight.

  • This is a self criticism that implies that you want to lose weight.

  • Many people say I got so fat.

  • I'm always broke.

  • I'm always broke.

  • Use this complain about never having enough money.

  • I am always broke because I always want more money.

  • The next complaint is my job is boring.

  • My job is boring.

  • This is a really common complaint used by people who don't think their jobs are very exciting.

  • Usually it means that you want to find a different, more fun job.

  • It's all right, teachers.

  • Your job isn't boring.

  • That person stinks.

  • That person stinks.

  • You can use stinks to talk about a literal physical smell or, in general insult, meaning that you don't like how someone smells.

  • I hate when people snow on the bus.

  • Not good.

  • Not okay.

  • The next complaint is there's too much traffic.

  • There's too much traffic.

  • This is a common complaint among people who commute to work by car.

  • Certain roads are especially bad during rush hour, which is the time in the morning or night.

  • Most people are going home or to work.

  • If I left at it was 7 p.m. I would be here in 10 minutes, but because it's daytime in L.

  • A.

  • It took me 30 minutes to get here, and I drive really, really fast and it still took me 30 minutes.

  • The next complaint is the WiFi here is too slow.

  • The WiFi here is too slow.

  • This is just a general complaint you may have about the Internet speed.

  • If you're at a cafe or somewhere with WiFi, you can request that they reset their WiFi to improve the speed.

  • If you're having a party and you having friends over and your wife I is too slow, you might as well end that party now.

  • No WiFi, no party.

  • My boss is annoying.

  • My boss is annoying.

  • Annoying can be used to mean that someone does think that you don't like or they ask you to do things that you don't like.

  • Either way, an annoying boss is a bad experience.

  • I am very familiar with this.

  • Hey, pairs, grab a coffee.

  • Hey, Pairs.

  • Check my e mails.

  • My boss is annoying, but don't tell him I said that the pay is too low.

  • The pay is too low.

  • You can use this to complain about how much you make or to reject a job offer because it doesn't pay enough.

  • I'm a surgeon.

  • The pay is too low.

  • I don't like it.

  • I don't like it.

  • This is a very general complaint that can be used for almost anything.

  • What don't I like posting 1000 selfies on Instagram?

  • I don't like it, Huh?

  • Okay, that's it for this lesson.

  • Which complaint do you like more?

  • Leave us a comment and let me know and we'll see you next time.

  • Bye.

  • You just got a text message from your hotel's pickup service.

  • What does the first number refer to?

  • What does the first number refer to?

  • The number in the text message refers to the customer code.

  • You were at a train station where you've just bought an express ticket.

  • Which train?

  • Car, row and seat number.

  • Are you in?

  • Which train?

  • Car, row and seat number Are you in?

  • The ticket says that you're in train car number one in the eighth row in seat C.

  • You were at a train station where you're attempting to buy an express ticket from a ticket machine.

  • Which option should you choose to buy an express ticket.

  • Which option should you choose to buy an express ticket?

  • The option on the bottom left is for an express ticket.

  • You are on a platform at a train station where you're waiting for your train.

  • Suddenly a message appears on the display.

  • What does the message on the display mean?

  • What does the message on the display mean?

  • The display reads The next train will not stop.

  • You were at a train station where you're reading the train schedule for an express ticket that you've just bought.

  • On which days are there no express trains running?

  • On which days are there?

  • No express trains running?

  • There are no express trains running on public holidays and the third Sunday of every month.

  • I want to speak really English from your first lesson.

  • Sign up for your free lifetime account at English Class 101 dot com You are on a platform at a train station where you're waiting for your train.

  • Suddenly a message appears on the display.

  • What does the message on the display mean?

  • What does the message on the display mean?

  • The display reads.

  • The next train will not stop.

  • You were at a train station where you're looking for the best exit to catch a taxi.

  • Which exit should you take to get to the taxi?

  • Stop.

  • Which exit should you take to get to the taxi stop?

  • You should take the east exit in order to get to the taxi stop.

  • Hi, everybody.

  • My name is Alicia, and today I'm joined again in the studio by my goal.

  • Oh, and today we're going to be talking about things that were cool in the nineties.

  • So things that were interesting or things that maybe we were interested in in the nineties.

  • I'm guessing that we're going to have some very different opinions based on our experiences of the nineties.

  • So let's get right into it.

  • Michael, Your first item, please.

  • Um Okay, boy bands.

  • So I remember boy bands were very, very popular.

  • When I was a kid in the nineties, I had three older brothers who would punch me and tell me, boy bands are for girls don't like boy bands.

  • So that was my experience with them, and they became kind of un cool.

  • I feel like after the nineties, and then they never were un cool in like Korea.

  • And like a lot of Asian countries, they still had, like, a strong boy band, kind of Ah, seen or whatever bands.

  • Now, is that really what The cold?

  • I don't know.

  • I just mean, I think I feel like boy there, boy, bands that are now becoming boys to men.

  • Maybe this so I mean, now they came.

  • Now it came back like, what is the with the British one now?

  • It's kind of cool again.

  • One direction, one direction.

  • Yeah.

  • So I think it's come back full circle didn't just break up.

  • I'm gonna go with something that I loved in the nineties.

  • This is probably way too specific.

  • Ah, probably.

  • But it's this show called Doug that was on Nickelodeon and there weren't a whole lot of episodes of Doug was I don't know, like, 20 or 30.

  • I feel like not even that many did.

  • You have to see this show.

  • Yeah, that's very nostalgic for me.

  • I don't 23.

  • I feel I feel like I had I'd seen them also.

  • I I I know that I saw them all because it would come back.

  • It would come on one day after school, and I think I've seen this episode.

  • But the whole the whole idea with Doug is Doug was like this.

  • Just this plane kid and he had an older sister.

  • He went to school, he had a dog in a best friend, and he would just encounter these everyday life scenarios.

  • That would be kind of troubling or he wouldn't know how to deal with them.

  • But like he was kind of a role model.

  • I feel like he was kind of being like a good kid.

  • Um, are sometimes he would get into trouble.

  • But then, you know, eventually he would solve the problem or he'd find a way out of it.

  • So But I really love that show.

  • I really loved Nickelodeon in general during the nineties.

  • In yeah.

  • Did you watch that channel?

  • Of course I love Nickelodeon.

  • Um, I think I was more like Fox stuff like that, but I guess I'll Segway into another one of mine.

  • You're talking about wholesome, so something That's my childhood.

  • I was raised on TV was sitcoms, so I think this is kind of die down again, like the boy bands where people think it's cheesy.

  • Now it's all reality TV shows that kind of stuff, but that's that is my childhood right?

  • There is full House and these kinds of shows step by step, where there's a moral at the end of the story, and so everyone there's always kind of like the protagonist is always like Maybe he's unsure, but by the end they know the right thing to do and they play like the violin.

  • Kind of sad, not quite sad, but like heartwarming music.

  • And then they're like, Well, and then they give a speech.

  • And as a kid, you know you don't really like.

  • Think about it, but that gets into your like I proved man deep because of Full House If you lie.

  • I've learned this is deep in my subconscious.

  • If you lie and then you keep lying, it snowballs and it gets worse and worse and worse.

  • So it's best to just ride away.

  • Tell the truth.

  • That was a really common theme.

  • And most sitcoms, I think, like they're just trying to teach kids Don't lie.

  • It's You're right, you're right.

  • Sit comes a huge And by the way, sitcoms is, um is ah portmanteau portmanteau.

  • Meaning two words put together of situation and comedy.

  • So situation and comedy equals sitcom in this case.

  • OK, nice.

  • Nice.

  • Um, I'm gonna go to my next one.

  • Um let's see.

  • I think probably every little girl in the nineties in America anyway knew what this was.

  • I don't know if you knew.

  • Um, it's this brand called Lisa Frank.

  • Um, police of Frank.

  • Are you aware of Lisa?

  • Frank, Are you aware?

  • Lease of right?

  • No.

  • Okay.

  • She knows this issue knows that Lisa Frank is so Liza.

  • Frank is, um, just bright.

  • It was always like brightly colored school supplies like pinks and purples and blues, and would always have unicorns and dolphins and mystical creatures.

  • He was just bright and everybody, all the girls loved it.

  • I loved it.

  • I had Lisa, Frank, just whatever.

  • I could get my hands on the pencils or erasers or just pinks and rainbows and hearts and stuff like that.

  • So I think every every girl who grew up in the nineties knows what Lisa Frank is.

  • Okay, So talking about style in what not grunge Grunge is something that I hits close to home for me.

  • And I think that came out of the nineties is, um I mean, everybody knows around the world, I think most people know Nirvana.

  • Yeah, Kurt Cobain.

  • And this is something that I guess was B brought to the world from Seattle.

  • And it was a music genre, and it was kind of It's like rock, but sometimes slower, almost m oh, kind of like sad, usually undertones.

  • But anyways, the style that came with it was the opposite of, like, the eighties and early nineties of really bright colors.

  • You know, it was the opposite.

  • You just wear holy genes.

  • You don't really shower that much, don't shave and, like, plaid and just really like dreary colors.

  • So that was really popular.

  • I at least I remember in, like, the early NYSE.

  • You need nineties.

  • Yeah, I assume, as I saw that card grunge as I go on Nirvana, that was that.

  • The first thing that comes to min

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