Name: ECHO Words ? In English For Natural English Conversations | English Speaking Lesson With Niharika
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Hello, hello everyone. I am Niharika and thanks for clicking. In this lesson today, we are

gonna look at some informal phrases with repeated words. Now have you ever noticed people repeating

the same word? Well, that brings you a new phrase altogether. So in this lesson today,

we are gonna look at some informal phrases that you can use in your casual conversation

with repeated words. Now if you use the same word once, it means different but the moment

you add the same word again or you repeat the word, you get a new phrase altogether

which means completely different. So that's what we are gonna look at. I have ten casual

phrases that you can use. So let's get started.

The first one that I have for you is chop chop. So what does this really mean? Now if

you look at the word, chop, if you use this word just once, then the meaning is, to cut.

Right, to cut something, to cut vegetables, to chop vegetables but the moment you repeat

the same word, which is chop, chop, you get a new phrase, which actually means to hurry

up. So, when you want to ask someone to make it fast or to hurry up, you can use the phrase,

chop chop, we're getting late. Okay, so husbands especially can use it for their wives because

women take a lot of time to dress up. So, if you want them to hurry up because you're

getting late, then use this phrase, chop chop, we're getting late, we'll miss the movie.

Okay, so when you're asking someone to  hurry up, you use the phrase chop chop.

Let’s move on to another phrase which you can use, knock knock. Knock, knock, so what

does this really mean when you use it in English when you use it in your conversation? Now

it has two meanings, firstly, you might have heard about the popular knock-knock jokes.

Maybe you crack all the time among your friends. So knock knock is actually the first liner

of a joke. Okay, there are too many knock knock jokes that you will find online

and the other way that you can use knock knock is when you want to ask someone to get aside

or you want someone to hear you out. Okay, so just like you use excuse me please, you

can also use it in a very casual way, in a very informal way. Knock knock, so you're

like knock, knock hear me out. Oaky so knock knock is basically, when you knock at a door.

It’s the sound of knocking at a door but you can also use it when you are asking someone

to excuse you. Okay so rather than just saying, excuse me, another different way is knock,

Alright, let's move on to the third phrase, which is tut tut. Now that sounds a little

funny but what exactly does it mean? Now when you are extremely annoyed okay and you wanna

express strong disapproval towards something or towards someone, then you say, tut tut

like tut-tut that's enough. Okay because you are annoyed and you are expressing strong

disapproval. For example, your kids, at times they annoy you with their demands and parents

get a little annoyed and they wanna show disapproval. They wanna express strong disapproval. So

they can say, tut tut, I am not gonna take this like I am so done with these demands.

Okay, so that's how you can use this expression. Let’s move on to another one which is, now-now.

Now now is also used to express mild disapproval. So this one is a little more of strong disapproval,

especially when you are annoyed but now-now is a mile version of disapproval. Again when

you don; t agree with something and you disapprove of something or someone, then you can say

that now now that's not a good behaviour. Okay, now now that's not acceptable. Okay,

so it's a milder way of showing or expressing disapproval.

Let’s move on to the fifth one which is, here here. Now when do you use this? Again,

you use it in a very informal way but you can use it when you wanna show a strong agreement

towards something. Especially when you are debating over something and you agree to a

point and wholeheartedly, you are like yes. You know that is absolutely correct. So rather

than showing this, you can use the expression hear hear. So hear, hear is like, absolutely

right. You completely agree with it. So you use this expression to show wholehearted agreement

towards a speech or towards a debate. Okay, so an agreement towards someone or something.

Especially related to a debate or a speech.

Let’s move on to the sixth phrase that I have for you which is there-there. When you

see someone who is upset or is crying or a little unhappy about something, then it’s

time for you to comfort them. Especially kids, this expression is perfect for adults, that

they can use it for unhappy kids. So when you see a kid who is really unhappy, then

you'll be like, there-there, everything is going to be fine. You will feel much better.

So there-there is a way of comforting someone who is unhappy. So when you wanna comfort

a baby. When you wanna comfort children, then you can say, there-there, everything is gonna

Okay, let's move on to another phrase which is aye-aye. So what does this really mean?

Well aye aye is yes or sure. It’s an old-fashioned way of saying, yes. In fact, it's more of

a naval language. You know when captains used to order and the navals used to agree, they

used to be like aye aye captain. So they used to say, oh yes, sure captain. So rather than

saying, yes, they would say, aye aye. So it's more related to the naval language.

Okay, let's move on to another phrase which is so-so. So when do you use this phrase so-so?

Well, when something is not very good and neither is it very bad. So for example, someone

would ask you, so Niharika how was the movie? I would say, it was so-so. So, so so is like,

the movie was not that great but it was bad either. Okay, so something moderate. I went

to this new restaurant last weekend and the food there is absolutely so-so, so which means

that it is not amazing. It’s not that great but it's not bad either. Like yes, you can

go visit that restaurant too. So something which is moderate, you end up saying or using

Let’s move on to another phrase, which is, fifty-fifty. Fifty-fifty, well when do you

use this expression? Well again, when you are not sure about something. Okay may be

something will happen and may be something might not happen. So it's a fifty percent

chance. When someone meets with an accident, the doctor says, that there's a fifty-fifty

chance of survival. So which means that either he or she will be fine or he might not be

fine. So the chances are fifty-fifty when something has fifty percent of chances, you

Okay and then the last one that I have for you is well well. Now when do you use this?

Well, again you can use it in a casual conversation because it’s an informal phrase and you

use it to show sarcasm or to show mild surprise. Like for example, you had a fight with a friend

and this friend of yours said that I am never gonna come to your house ever again and at

the next party, you see him at your house. So you're kind of surprised and you also want

to express sarcasm, then you will say, well well, look who's here. Okay, so you are being

a little sarcastic and of course, you are quite surprised as well because this friend

of yours said that he will never show up and look he's here now. So, well well can be used

to express, to express mild surprise or to express sarcasm.

Alright, so these are the ten informal phrases with repeated words that you can sue in your

English conversation and I'll be back with a new lesson soon, till then you take care