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  • Hey guys! Welcome to my channel

  • In this video, we going to talk about 45 phrases

  • and words in American and I underlined here

  • AMERICAN English, so that you learn them

  • you train them and you sound more american

  • so, if you interested please continue watching this video

  • In this video, I'm going to concentrate on words and phrases

  • that gonna help you replace

  • the words that you use everyday like awesome

  • good and we gonna talk about words that american use and you can use to diversify your speech

  • and, also we gonna use phrases from TV shows

  • and like everything you can hear on the TV

  • So, let's start.The first phrase

  • you just open this video

  • and you do not understand what's going on and what is this girl

  • is talking about and you can ask

  • What the Heck is going on? So the original phrase...

  • again we are talking about slang, we are talking about

  • informal language, so do not use these words

  • when you write a personal statement or a letter

  • to you investor, No Never!

  • so," what the heck is going on?" is the question you gonna

  • ask when you do not know what's going on

  • in the place, what the heck is going on?

  • Phrase number two and i recently heard it from my friends

  • we were sitting and eating a burger

  • and he's like when are we going to rub elbows the next time?

  • what?

  • to rub elbows is to mean somebody and hang out with them

  • is you wanna see your friends, you can call them and say

  • Hey!Let's go and rub elbows which is

  • literally like rubbing elbows when you rubbing it with another people

  • means you are really close to each others so you spending time together

  • When you need a girl or a bugger

  • is really good-looking you can say

  • drop-dead gorgeous, instead of saying very beautiful

  • very nice, good-looking, if you wanna

  • sound more american, you can say"drop that gorgeous"

  • When you say something in a conversation but you

  • don't want people to attribute this phrase to you

  • you can say"Let's keep this off the record"

  • or when you just about to say this phrase, you're like off the record

  • I also do this, this and that, so maybe you don't

  • want people to know that you are doing something extra, you say

  • off the record, so that is stays just between you

  • and the people you talking to

  • No.no.. off the record, do you think you got the chance? Off the record?

  • the phrase that personal use a lot is

  • Don't quote me on that, i use it when I'm

  • talk about immigration's stuff or visas

  • so, officially because I'm not an immigration lawyer, when you guys

  • ask me about, you know, getting a green card or getting

  • a work visa in the united states, I can only say

  • what happen to my friends and me, because I am

  • not a professional here, I always say

  • something and I also add "don't quote me on that", just because

  • I got a Visa, it doesn't mean that everybody can get it this way

  • because there is law, and you should listen to the law so

  • you can say the phrase, don't quote me on that.

  • and other phrase or something that you can see

  • when you're driving around America is "kiss and fly" and I flew

  • from LA - san francisco and

  • when I went into San Francisco,I saw a silencing kiss and fly

  • and it's like "common,kiss and fly"

  • literally this means that there is a train,

  • airport to

  • the nearest city/to the nearest town

  • and you can drop your car there and

  • so you just go on train

  • and you kiss and fly

  • so the train takes it to the airport

  • this is a funny phrase, I really like it.

  • When you are reading an article.The article blames

  • something or somebody.And you don't think that's true

  • You can say: the article insinuates that and then you tell about the content

  • Instend of saying "the article said,

  • the article claimed that" you can say

  • "The article insinuated that"

  • So, basically to insinuate means suggest something bad/

  • in an unpleasant way or in a shady way.

  • The word jonesing I've literally

  • just learned what it means half an hour ago

  • I've heard it so many times.I'm like

  • I love doing these videos because I learn so much from these videos.

  • So jonesing-to want smth badly.

  • I am jonesing for coffee which means

  • I really-really want to coffee and btw here is my coffee

  • and I'll make a sip.

  • Was you jonesing for smth?

  • When you are just about to finish smth

  • or just about call somebody and you are asking

  • When are you gonna call me?

  • You can answer:" In no time" which means really soon

  • I'm gonna call you in no time

  • I'm gonna finish in no time.

  • Uptight!That's the word you use when you are

  • an opposite of relax.

  • For example, you come to a business meeting

  • and you don't know what to say

  • and you're really reserved -you are uptight!

  • I always wanna imagine smth when I'm talking about the word

  • so for me,tight means like stiff all in 1 straight line.

  • So you are uptight:you're sitting straight and you are

  • not relaxed at all ! Uptight.

  • To pig out.

  • Again, that's really informal, pig out -eat so much

  • that you cannot move

  • and you're feeling sick.

  • That was me yesterday :)

  • Ohh, we came from LA,I was so hungry

  • I was speaking out.

  • We ordered some tight food and big duff.

  • By the way, guys

  • if you are not only interested in sounding

  • like an American,it terms of using American words

  • but you are also like to sound American in terms your pronunciation

  • I would really recommend a couple of videos

  • that I'm gonna leave links to below.

  • Also, I wanted to recommend "Mastering the American accent"

  • My friend Venya gave it to me as a present .

  • But the coolest thing about this book is that not only add a good examples

  • of how you can use this or that sound,

  • it also shows you how to pronounce it.

  • From time to time it is gonna have pictures

  • of your mouth and whats in your throat,

  • see-you can try and feel how to pronounce smth.

  • Highly recommend it if you are working on your American accent.

  • "Mastering the American accent" by Lisa Mojsin.

  • I don't know.Second edition by Barrons I'll leave a link below.

  • Pass the buck.

  • When you don't want do smth you just pass the buck to somebody else,

  • which means you transfer responsibility,

  • transfer smth on to somebody. Pass the buck.

  • "Pass the buck,man"

  • Hyped.

  • Hyped means being excited .

  • Again you are replacing the word you probably used

  • 200 times ,300 times(excited).

  • You replace it with Hyped!

  • You know the word hype that means smth really popular right now.

  • But hyped is the adjective when you're super-excited

  • about smth happening .

  • Now when you need to release you're studing

  • you can say "I need to hit the books".

  • It does not mean like literally hitting the books -No,hitting the books no :)

  • But hit the books is an idiom and it means

  • to start studing.

  • Now you're visualising and now you really think that hit the book-start studing.

  • When you don't want somebody to hurry,when you want somebody to act

  • without any rush you can say "take your time"

  • When you get literally if you translated

  • words-to-words like taking time or what does that mean...

  • but taking your time actually means taking slowly,

  • acting in a very relaxed manner.

  • So I am taking my time,I am enjoying this Saturday.

  • "No rush..."

  • Another great phrase is

  • to go cold turkey.

  • This is not a phrase that you would hear every day.

  • These are phrases that you won't hear every day

  • but I feel that's really-really important to know them.

  • Again,when I was sitting with my friend he said "rub the elbows"

  • I'm like "What..?"

  • I don't want this to happen to you

  • I want you to sit with your friends and when they use an idiom and you are like

  • "Ohh,Marina said it in 1 of her videos ,I remember what that meansand I understand what they are talking about"

  • It does not mean that

  • I'm telling you word and you immediately like

  • using it in the class room

  • because this is a word that's in use in a real life.

  • The next time you hear you're good at remember

  • that you have already heard it .

  • And in three times you hear that ,you remember it,you use it.

  • To go cold turkey is the phrase that I wanna to share with you

  • and to go cold turkey means to suddenly quit smth

  • that's bad for your health or dangerous.

  • For example, to quit drinking alcohol

  • which I've done back

  • in 2015.

  • Since 3 years without drinking alcohol at all.

  • And yes, I just quit alcohol,I went cold turkey.

  • There was not any transition period,

  • I've just told myself

  • "Hey ,Marina,starting 1January 2016 you are not drinking any alcohol"

  • And that was it ,I went cold turkey.

  • Now I'm gonna give you some phrases

  • that gonna help you offend people.

  • 00:09:04,155 --> 00:09:07,095 The phrase is that I'm gonna tell you right now

  • are comming from the Soods.

  • And you know the Soods is a TV show where people offend each other a lot ,

  • but I feel that you have to know them cause Americans use them

  • So,Let's go.

  • First word is wuss.

  • And yes,I took it from 1 of the episodes .

  • You can tell somebody don't be a wuss

  • or stop being a wuss.

  • And if you translate it that's the same is stop being a pussy.

  • 00:09:30,525 --> 00:09:33,925 And wuss is a person who's physically and mentionally weak.

  • And the synonym is pussy.

  • So we are learning a lot of bad words today :)

  • If you've been also call somebody,I don't advice on that but you can do it.

  • You can call somebody a pushover

  • and pushover is a person who is easily controlled by somebody else.

  • So,in the TV show that I took this phrase from

  • that was this girl who was working for 1 company

  • and then somebody call her from another company

  • and she just run away to this new company.

  • So she is a pushover,she is really easily controlled.

  • When somebody is doing nothing in an office,

  • they're just swaning around the office.

  • And it comes from the word swan

  • which is a bird

  • and you can see these birds

  • swaning around the lakes

  • they just back and forth with no particular purpose.

  • This verb is actually coming from this noun,

  • so when somebody is doing nothing

  • you can say

  • "Hey,stop swaning around,do smth,do smth what matters-learn English"

  • When you are irritated by person

  • who is constantly trying to show

  • how great he is or maybe trying to show that he's wearing fancy clothes ,

  • you can call him a showoff

  • and showoff is a person who boast all the time.

  • Showoff.

  • When somebody lies a lot and you tell people not trust him

  • you can say:"Don't trust him,he's full of crap!"

  • which means he lies all the time,

  • he does not check the facts,

  • he,know,tells things that don't really make sense,

  • so his is full of crap.

  • "You are full of crap"

  • Three more phrases and we'll done with offending others.

  • Undestanding how people offend each other

  • but I feel this 2 words are pretty important

  • because you hear them all the time.

  • Douche and douchebag.

  • Douche is a tool that you actually use in a toilet.

  • But when somebody is like brainless and accent of stupid manner

  • you can call him a douche.

  • Again,douchebag is pretty similar

  • when somebody is just acts in a way that he's only respecting himself,

  • not respecting others,has no understanding of social rules,

  • and this is a douchebag.

  • And the last one for today,

  • not the last phrase though,

  • is total rat.

  • When smth happened or somebody's done smth

  • that makes you shake your haid or do a facepalm,

  • you can call him ,on the situation,train wreck.

  • Now let's couch some less offensive words.

  • Let's talk about friendship

  • and we have a friend

  • and when he is your best friend,

  • you can call him bestie or her bestie...

  • I think girls normally use this word,

  • so bestie is a best friend.

  • When you clean your apartment

  • and you want to say that is super-clean,

  • instead of saying super,because super is the word

  • you use all the time,

  • you can say:"Squeaky clean"

  • This makes you sound a lot cooler.

  • Sometimes you can also when somebody looks really good,

  • you can say:"Oh wow,you look so fresh and so clean"

  • that's from the song,

  • and squeaky clean,again,means really cool.

  • So,an apartament is squeaky clean

  • which means that really-really clean.

  • When you want to emphasize

  • that the person is extremely talented

  • and bringing a lot of value,

  • you can call this person a hotshot,

  • which means that he is a really valuable person

  • and has a lot of talents. Hotshot.

  • When you have an important meeting

  • or you have your English language exam,

  • you tell your parents:

  • "I'll bring my a-game"

  • which means I'm gonna act in a best manner as possible,

  • I'm gonna be my best self.I'll bring my a-game!

  • When you go to the mainstreet of your city

  • and there are many expensive shops like

  • Louis Vuitton,or Dior,or Gucci

  • and you're walking and you see a T-shirt

  • that costs 600$,

  • you can say:"That's a rip off."

  • This is extremely,insanely overpriced,

  • this is a rip off.

  • Is not it weird that a T-shirt costs 600$?

  • So,that is a rip off hundred %.

  • When a person changes his mind all the time,

  • and when you cannot trust them,

  • because they can do smth really unexpected,

  • you can call this person a loose cannon.

  • But you won't him that just during the conversation ,

  • you'll probably do that when you are talking to another person

  • and you're like

  • "I don't trust him,he's such a loose cannon!"

  • which means that yes,he can do smth unexpectedly.

  • I wouldn't just leave him alone,I would watch him.

  • Another way to say "amazing"

  • /and remember we are working on a lot of phrases

  • that are gonna diversify your speech/

  • is wicked.

  • Oh my God,this is a wicked sweater,I love it!

  • Which means that it's a really amazing sweater,

  • By the way,guys

  • if you're writing an important letter

  • if you're writing an important email

  • or getting ready for important meeting

  • and writing down your speech,

  • you need to be sure that you are using the words in right context.

  • That you use a right word or that you write the words in the right way,

  • you can use fluent.express.

  • This is a platform where you upload your text in English,

  • and then native English speakers,

  • who are professional teachers,

  • professional correctors

  • gonna correct your text,

  • making American how would say.

  • So that ,a person who you're writing to

  • would not guess whether you're foreigh or international.

  • It's super-important if you are applying

  • for universal mission,

  • if you are submitting application,

  • don't accelerating here-in the US

  • or doing really high-level things.

  • But also when you just wanna post on your Instagram

  • and don't wanna make mistakes,so

  • fluent.express is instant,it's gonna take like 5 or 10 minutes.

  • So,it's instant correction of your text

  • from broken English into English(The link will be below)

  • Another way to say YES/OF COURSE

  • you can say: "You bet"

  • For example,somebody is asking

  • Do you enjoy living in SF?

  • I would answer:"You bet!"

  • OMG,SF is such an amazing city

  • I do not know how you can not enjoy living here.

  • "You bet"

  • Sometimes people tell me

  • Marina,you know,it's so important to learn English!

  • The best answer for me would be not "of course",

  • the best answer will be "You telling me that"

  • And that means "Come on,of course,I know that ,

  • that has changed my while life!

  • Learning a foreign language,learning English has changed my whole life

  • so when you tell me that English is important,I can answer

  • You are telling me that?Of course I know,of course!

  • So,instead of saying "of course"

  • I'm saying a phrase that makes me sound more American.

  • When I was in LA,

  • I suggested my friend to go and see a new movie

  • he replied "I don't wanna see it,it's a chick flick"

  • And I like "what?"What does that mean?

  • Chick flick is a movie that is made for girls

  • who love happy ending,who like to be funny

  • and smiling,so it's a comedy,

  • like standard comedy.

  • So smth made is specially for girls,

  • who wear pink stuff whatever,

  • you can call them chick flick.

  • Instead of saying "a lot of"

  • you can say "a bunch of"

  • so this is super-American.

  • I have a bunch of friends who live in LA,

  • instead of saying "I have got a lot of friends in LA"

  • To hit the spot

  • means to be exactly what is required.

  • So,for example,imagine ,I was sitting here

  • and somebody comes in and says "Marina,here is your coffee"

  • And I'm like "you hit the spot,that is exactly what I need.

  • A cup of coffee..."

  • Heads up is another phrase that Americans use a lot.

  • For example,my banker told me yesterday

  • "Marina,the next time you send a wire,please,give me a heads up,

  • so I can make sure that smth is correct"

  • So,heads up means warn somebody in advance.

  • When I made a mistake,

  • for example,in my wire instructions I made a mistake and I call my banker and say

  • "I'm sorry,it's my bad"

  • I put in the wrong number.

  • So,my bad is my mistake,I'm sorry,it's my bad.

  • Another idiom that I used couple weeks ago is

  • play by ear.

  • You can say play by ear when you're talking to somebody

  • and you cannot agree on time when you gonna meet,

  • you just tel him: "hey,so we gonna meet tomorrow

  • but let's play by ear,

  • let's relay on the circumstances

  • that we gonna have tomorrow

  • and we gonna decide, what time we gonna meet.

  • Play by ear.

  • Quality time.

  • To spend quality time with somebody means

  • spending time without distracting yourself

  • with phone or computer.

  • So you sit down with your friend and send quality time with him.

  • For example,playing games or just talking.

  • And not staring in your iPhone or scrolling for Instagram.

  • To spend quality time with somebody.

  • Another way to say "excellent" is top notch.

  • So,for example,if you like this video

  • you can say "Marina,this is a top notch video!"

  • which means that's an excellent video.

  • My advice to you if you like the phrase-

  • practice it right now!

  • Write a comment below and say

  • "hey,Marina,it was a top notch video!"

  • or you don't like it,please,comment below

  • and tell me what can be improved in this video.

  • This is really helpful!

  • When you give me feedback,I can learn from it,

  • and I can improve my videos for you.

  • Hey,guys,if you know this

  • my video completely stopped.

  • Somehow my camera just died,

  • and I only know that 's in the morning as you can tell.

  • But there are 4 my phrases that

  • I wanna you to learn.Some like OK,

  • I'm gonna do that,let's do it,Marina.

  • Another phrase- zero tolerance.

  • Zero tolerance is the phrase that you use when

  • you wouldn't tolerate smth.

  • So,for example,I wouldn't tolerate my camera to stop recording!

  • So,I have zero tolerance to my camera stopping recording.

  • This is a really weird think,

  • so what I do - I just record with another camera.

  • There is no such thing as free lunch.

  • A lot of Americans use it because

  • it describes that everything is paid for.

  • Sometimes it's not paid for by you,

  • it's paid for by somebody else.

  • For example,you're watching this video for free,

  • but I get some money from YouTube,

  • because they are showing adds to you.

  • So,there is no such thing as a free lunch,

  • somebody's already paid for everything.

  • Instead of say "goodbye to you"

  • but in a different manner

  • you can say "I gotta go"

  • So,for example,"Sorry,guys,I gotta go,I gotta have my breakfast"

  • ...and upload this video for you :)

  • Instead of saying goodbye,just say "take is easy".

  • So,have a great day,take it easy.

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