Name: Sound like a native English speaker by using ACRONYMS!
Uploaded: 2021-01-12T20:35:11.000Z
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I wanna help you sound more like a native English speaker again, probably Mawr, North American, British, Australian.

They will have their own things to do with this as well as you'll see.

But to sound like a native English speaker, you have to know a little bit about the slang and the shortcuts that negatives use.

So what, we're gonna look at our called acronyms?

Acronyms are letters or initials of words, and instead of saying all the different words separately, we just squeeze them all into the first letter of each word.

So, for example, all of you, I think No, the company I b M.

It's a big international computer company, International Business Machines.

So this is an acronym for a company name.

But we also have acronyms for regular words, so we're gonna look at some of these now.

It's very important to remember that these air, generally used in casual conversation, don't use this informal writing.

And in certain situations, don't use them in like very formal context, like a business meeting or presentation in a conference.

And when you're talking about the A b CS, you're talking about the basics.

Okay, so these are some basic acronyms you should know f y i for for your information.

That's when you want somebody to understand something very important that's coming up, for example.

So it in business, for example, somebody from head offices coming by tomorrow and just f y I they're coming to see you who to promote to headquarters, right.

So just f y I means just to let you know is basically what it means just for your information.

But just to let you know, they're looking to promote somebody to head office.

So keep that in mind and be ready and make a good impression.

So f y I just That's why I This is a very common usage, So just f y I do well be impressive.

Okay, A que Sometimes you'll see it with dots sometimes you won't so just recognize both.

Also known as so when somebody has a nickname or when you're talking about like instead of using quote, you wanna give something a different title, you can say a K a.

So there's lots of famous people like, uh, Sean Combs, I think a.

I keep forgetting who's who there, but a que when you have a nickname and you have the rial name.

Okay, then you say, also known as to make sure that people can recognize this person.

The president of the United States, aka Donald Trump, also known as Donald Trump.

C basically means air conditioning or air conditioner, so it's really hard in here.

Most native speakers will not say air conditioner too long.

So we have Air Con de Xin owner, Five syllables or a C two syllables.

So native English speakers love to take shortcuts.

They love to use fewer syllables, and that's why there's a lot of acronyms.

There are a lot of shortened words, etcetera.

Now, some of these words, if there are vowels in them, like for example, here I don't say.

I say a k I don't say aka Sometimes we take the acronyms and we make a word out of it ASAP.

Some people say asap some people to say, except both okay, but not aka.

This is a bit of a younger person's expression, but it's becoming so common.

And since the Internet and social media made it a bit famous, there was some celebrities that started using this all the time.

So when you're talking about a very close relationship, you're talking about this person and his BFF for her BFF or whatever again, up to you.

It just means very close relationship between people.

So at the end of the meeting, I'm gonna have a Q and A.

Till then, I'm gonna have ah, Q and a period, or we're gonna have a Q and A basically questions and answers.

So, in most again, professional situations or even academic situations, somebody's giving a lecture.

And then they set aside some time for the participants to ask questions and get the answers to those questions.

So instead of saying we're gonna have question, period, we're gonna have questions and answers.

We'll have a Q and A at the end of the meeting.

Please save your questions till then, but again, very commonly used.

So when you have somebody who is in charge of an event, somebody who welcomes the guests and introduces the speakers and tell people what's going on the schedule of events, etcetera.

This person is called the master of ceremony.

It could be in a business meeting or conference.

It could be in ah, wedding like or a social event.

It could be at just a function or promotional event.

Anything you have, the one person who is basically overseeing and running the show.

So keep in mind, you can also use this as a verb.

So somebody, uh, some celebrity is going to emcee the Oscars this year, right?

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