Name: STOP Saying "Friend". Say This Instead | Sound Like A Native English Speaker
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What's going on guys! I'm Ethan your Reallife English fluency coach, and today's lesson we're going to dive into

Adverbs of frequency

a very common problem amongst English learners and that is that usually learners of any language tend to

The imperative

Now if you want to sound more confident and natural when you speak English, then it can be really useful

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to you how this lesson will be structured so it's actually broken into

three different parts so first off we're gonna talk about useful synonyms which

are much better than using the word friend in English

Next we're gonna talk about some creative alternatives to this word.

And finally we'll dive into phrasal verbs

and expressions related to friendship that you can use all the time.

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Now I'm sure you already know the word friend is probably the most

common one that you will find in the USA but I bet you also know another word

that is commonly used in other english-speaking countries.

now of course the word mate is very commonly used in Australia, the UK

among other countries but in the USA you'll also find it attached to other words

such as "roommate," "teammate" or "classmate."

Now, some of the most common alternatives that you can use to call a friend

so the first one is "bro" and there are also some common alternatives to this one

that you can encounter such as "brotha" "bruda" "bra"

if you're in South Africa you could here bru.

now of course this is a very masculine sounding word and it's mostly used to

refer to male friends but you can also use it with close female friends

although you can also encounter alternatives such as "sister" or "sis"

Now, the next one that you can very commonly hear is "buddy" and this is often

I would say that buddy is probably more colloquial in the way that you could actually hear

so you could say "How are you doing, buddy?"

you see someone even if they're just kind of an acquaintance they're not

really a close friend but the next one "dude" you would probably use more

commonly with people who actually are your friends or who are part of your

group of friends to say "Hey dude can you do me a favor"

or "Hey dude what are you doing this weekend?"

now another very similar one to "dude" is man

and this can actually be used to refer to both guys and girls.

The next one is fella now I probably wouldn't use thisone so often it's actually derived from

the word fellow and this is probably thought of as kind of old-fashioned but

depending on the area of the United States that you go to you could actually

encounter people using this in the same way as man or dude or buddy

The last one is pal now this one is very similar to buddy and the way that it

might be used sometimes even with someone who's not necessarily a friend

and also it's kind of similar in the way to fella that you'll encounter it more

in certain parts the United States than others.

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all right so now let's look at some alternatives that you could also encounter native saying

or that you could use if you want to sound a little bit more creative with your English

so first off you probably know that if you're in a relationship with someone and you're

not married yet that you would call this person your boyfriend or girlfriend respectively

however you'll also encounter women using the word

girlfriend to refer to friends of theirs that are female so this doesn't mean

that they're in a relationship romantically with this person but it

just means that they consider that person to be a close female friend

however for men the word boyfriend does not work in the same way it only

something else that's really fun about English is that is such a blend it's a fusion of a lot

of different words coming from other languages and with the word friend

there's actually some alternatives that are derived from other languages coming

from the influence of immigrants as well as just popular culture so one of the

most common ones comes from Spanish amigo and of course you're not going to

say this with a Spanish accent at all you would just say it like an American would: amigo

and a couple others that are drive from other languages are compadre and paisan

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