Name: Learn this English slang for 2018: go-to, hit it, rock up
Uploaded: 2018-04-28T10:36:13.000Z
Duration: 6 min 59 s
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To-infinitive

I'm Ronnie, and I'm going
to teach you some slang.

The superlative

Probably the coolest thing in the world is
to learn how to speak like a normal person,

instead of reading a textbook and
sounding like my grandmother.

So, slang is really important and you have to use it,
but there's a problem: It's really hard. Yeah. You...

If you study grammar, you don't understand
how you could use two verbs together and it

has a completely different meaning
- welcome to the world of slang.

And I invite you to make up
your own slang, it's fun.

But I'm going to teach you three slang terms
that we use a lot, and I think they're kind

of confusing for you, but once
you learn this it'll be easier.

The answer is because grammatically it doesn't
make sense, so I want you to take grammar

and throw it out the window, and think about
how you communicate with people, how people

communicate with each other on an everyday
basis, because guess what, ladies and gentlemen?

So, this is a really popular phrase that I
hear a lot, it's called: "go-to" plus a noun,

and basically this means this would be something
that you choose regularly or this is your

"Indecisive" means I have a very difficult
time making a decision or choosing something.

So, for example, if I have to buy a bottle
of wine, there's so many bottles of wine,

This means this is the wine that I always
choose because I know it's delicious and it's

But let's say that I go to the
supermarket and I have to buy yogurt.

I don't know about your countries and the
yogurt selection, but it is overwhelming at

There are probably 42 different types of yogurt,
and never mind the flavours, they're just

different kinds of yogurt,
and I'm pretty...

I have no idea what to choose, maybe I'm
an hour picking a strawberry yogurt.

If you're decisive, you rock in, you go
there, and you pick the yogurt and you go.

Ronnie takes hours
just to pick a yogurt.

So, when we use this, we use it with a noun,
so I can say: "This is my go-to dish."

This means this is what I usually cook
because I know how to do it and it's easy.

Ones that you just bust out
or you use all the time?

Because with any song you know
it's going to be perfect.

"This is my go-to guy"
or "man for advice".

So maybe you need advice for something, you
have one friend who you always can depend

It has nothing to do with movement,
you're not actually going to a wine.

It means that this is the one that you choose,
and you know that it's going to be great.

We talk about "go-to bag": "Oh,
this bag matches everything".

Or: "My go-to shoes", it means that these are
the shoes that you wear every day because

you know they're easy and
they match everything.

Yeah, so these are my go-to shoes, but
I don't have any feet, so that's fine.

The next one, one of my favourites,
I like this one: "I rocked up."

So we have to be careful with the pronunciation
of this word, we have to say "rocked", it

We don't say: "rocketed", we pronounce it
like "t", we say: "rokt up", so this means

So this means I went to the bar: "Hello",
and I received a delicious beverage.

You can rock up to a person, this
means you just talk to them.

So: "I rocked up to her and
asked her for a dollar."

This is the past tense,
you're telling a story.

You can say to your friend: -"What time
did you rock up to my house last night?

So you're thinking: "Wow, it has
nothing to do with a rock, Ronnie."

So: "rock up" means you go
someplace or you talk to a person.

"Hit it" or "hit" plus a
place, so if you say...

Let's say your friend says:
"Oh, do you know what?

Do it. Make it a dream come true.
Do it. "Hit it."

We also have an expression that we use with
sex, if you're looking at people, be like:

I'd hit that."-men usually say this-this means
that they would like to have sex with someone.

And if you say: "I'm gonna", which is "I'm
going to", but we don't say "going to", we

If you use it with a place, it
means you're going to go to.

So: "I'm going to hit the gym" means
that I'm going to go to the gym.