And we're going to try out some substitution that American and native English speakers tend to use in the workplace.

I'm super excited to share these with you because they come from working together with my students inside my premium course, fluent communication.

So I've noticed these firsthand and I'm happy to share them with you quickly here as well.

So let's start with the word facilitate.

Oh, and by by the way, if you're new here, welcome, I'm Gabby, your American English teacher and founder of go Natural English dot com.

I almost forgot to introduce myself.

But now if you're ready to get fluent, then let's go with this quick lesson facilitate.

If you're going to use this word, look, it's more formal, it is advanced.

Um It is used by native speakers, but I'm going to offer an alternative.

But first if you want to use this verb to facilitate, make sure that you're pronouncing it correctly.

We can learn a lot from the pronunciation of this verb because it has a lot of syllables.

It's long.

And we really want to understand the stress, the syllable stress which falls on the second syllable.

Facil, look Tate.

Okay.

So we have four syllables.

The second is stressed.

What happens to those syllables before and after the stressed one, we do not pronounce them as they look.

So if you're reading this word facilitate, you might think that you should pronounce it fat city like tatty or something like that.

Okay.

What actually happens is we have a very weak vowel sound also known as a chua and then the strong syllable C and then a week syllable uh and then kind of a normal syllable Tate to facilitate.

Now I'm going to offer you an alternative because that word is not only a bit formal, but it's also a bit difficult.

So try instead saying to run, I'll facilitate the meeting turns into, I'll run the meeting.

I'll run the meeting.

Who's running the meeting?

Is it you next?

Many English learners use the verb to arrive.

There's nothing wrong with this verb.

But for example, if you want to ask, what time should I arrive at work?

I remember I had a new job once teaching English in Japan, I had no idea when to arrive at work.

So I actually got to the office an hour before anyone else.

I sat down at my desk and I looked around and there was no one around me.

I waited, I waited.

Finally, an hour later, people started rolling into the office and I realized I don't need to get to work so early too tomorrow.

So you probably heard me use the alternative to arrive, which is to get to get to work, means to arrive.

Now, you've probably also noticed that native English speakers love to use the verb.

Get for like everything, not everything, but many, many things we love using.

Get in a phrase of verb.

And I actually made another video all about using get as a phrase, a verb with many, many many examples.

And I'll try to link to that video here below or in the comments.

Um I will get back to you with that link.

So to get back to you is another suggestion I have instead of using the verb to respond instead of using the verb to respond.

Oh, I'll respond to your phone call as soon as possible.

Say I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

This is also a great verb to use a phrase, a verb to get back to when you don't know the answer to something.

If you're in a meeting or you're presenting information, you're doing public speaking and someone asks you a question out of the blue.

Don't panic.

It's okay.

Just use this phrase, I'll get back to you on that.

I'll get back to you on that as soon as possible.

Another verb to start, I'll start the project soon.

I love this alternative spearhead to spearhead.

I'll spearhead the project starting Monday.

It's just a powerful verb that really implies.

You're gonna take action in a strong way and finally review if you're at the end of your presentation or the end of a meeting and you want to review key points, you can use the verb to review.

It's kind of basic and overused.

So why not try a more native word that's often used by American English speakers to recap, to recap the key points of the meeting.

So let's recap the key points of this quick English tip.

You can try instead of the word to review, say to recap, let's recap the key words here instead of to arrive to get, instead of to facilitate, to run instead of to respond to get back to and instead of to start to spearhead.

All right, if you love insightful vocabulary lessons like this, that help you especially in the workplace, then subscribe here to go natural English.

And I highly encourage you to try out these vocabulary words in your own sentences because really it takes several like 30 times of seeing, hearing and using vocabulary words like these two really inter personalize them to your memory and to remember them in situations when you want to use them automatically just like a native fluent English speaker.

So I'll watch for your practice in the comments.

Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next in that video about how to use, get as a phrase Alvar verb.

So you can look for that link in the description or in the comments and I'll see you there.

Bye for now.