Name: English Boost Level Up Your Skills | English Podcast Conversation | Episode 06
Uploaded: 2024-11-05T10:08:18.000Z
Duration: 19 min 17 s
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Hello English learners, welcome back to another show with us here at EnglishPod.

And today we're bringing you another romantic lesson, but a little bit sad as well.

Today, unfortunately, our couple is going to be breaking up.

So it's a little bit sad today, but it's going to be good because we're going to be teaching you some great words and phrases that you can use when you are faced in this situation.

And so we're going to learn some phrases for breaking up and also some phrases for staying together.

So let's listen to the dialogue for the first time and see what happens with our young couple.

I've been thinking and well, I think we need to start seeing other people.

I mean, we've had our ups and downs and we have the occasional disagreement, but we're happy together, aren't we?

I know that I can be hard to deal with and you're a great guy.

You're the type of guy that any woman would kill for.

You're breaking up with me because I'm perfect?

You deserve someone who can make you smile and make you happy the way that you made me happy.

I could say that I'll be all you need, but that'd be a lie.

I know that we can get through this, but we got to stick together.

I hope someday you can find some way to understand I'm only doing this for you.

I don't really want to go, but deep in my heart, I know this is the kindest thing to do.

I'll send my sister to pick up the rest of my things next week.

I wish you all the best and I hope that one day we can meet again.

Okay, so a pretty sad ending to this relationship, isn't it?

Yeah, but I don't think the girl was very moved or very sad by breaking up with him.

Maybe she's got some other boyfriend somewhere else.

Well, as you mentioned, we listened to some great phrases and it's time for us to take a look at them now in Fluency Builder.

Okay, here we're going to focus on phrases that people use when they break up.

So maybe you've heard these in movies and we're going to look at the meaning now.

All right, our first phrase, as we heard, she started by saying, we need to talk.

All right, so it's a very direct sentence.

So when you tell someone, we need to talk, you're telling them that you want to talk about a serious thing, right?

So if somebody tells you, we need to talk, you know that you're going to talk about a very serious matter.

Yeah, a problem or a breakup or something.

And after that, she told him that they should start seeing other people.

Okay, I think we need to start seeing other people.

All right, so this is very easy to understand.

Okay, so it basically means that you will break up.

It's an indirect way of saying that, right?

Yeah, you're not saying, hey, let's stop dating.

You're saying, oh, well, maybe we should date other people.

And kind of giving the idea that you will still date each other, but everyone knows you won't.

All right, so let's start seeing other people.

Now for our third phrase, she says, it's not you, it's me.

Now this is a very cliche phrase and you hear it all the time in movies and well, some people still use it, right?

Right, so I am breaking up with you because it's my fault, not your fault.

Yeah, so it's kind of a nice way to break up with someone.

But actually, everyone knows that it's kind of a lie.