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00:10	hi everybody , welcome back to top words . My
00:13	name is Alicia and today we're gonna be talking about
00:16	10 words for connecting thoughts . These are going to
00:19	be 10 words that you can use to transition between
00:22	ideas very useful in both speech and in writing .
00:25	Let's go . Also . Also also is a word
00:30	that you can use to add information . I went
00:34	to the store this morning also I went and got
00:39	coffee . That's true . However , however , however
00:44	, is used to contrast or to contrast depending on
00:47	your pronunciation to differentiate , to show a difference between
00:52	two pieces of information . A good pattern would be
00:55	a however , be so for example , I love
01:01	tonkotsu ramen . However , it is very high in
01:04	calories so I don't eat it often . Also true
01:07	on the other hand , on the other hand ,
01:09	on the other hand is I feel used more commonly
01:12	in speech than it is in writing . Um Again
01:16	, it's used to present like two sides to a
01:19	story or two sides to some information . So for
01:22	example , I'm thinking about visiting Taiwan sometime this year
01:28	, but on the other hand , I'm also thinking
01:30	about visiting Thailand still . So it might be common
01:36	to use still with the word like but forward ,
01:39	like even though , so you're saying even though there's
01:41	some other factor like um like I'm really , really
01:44	tired this week or even though I have a lot
01:46	of homework to do , I still want to go
01:49	out with my friends and I still want to um
01:51	see a movie this weekend . So there's this other
01:54	, there's this thing that maybe makes this other action
01:57	difficult to do or tough to do or whatever .
02:00	But even though there's this , you still have this
02:05	over here . So maybe the tube are kind of
02:07	used as a pair . I still want to go
02:09	out later even though I'm tired then then yes ,
02:13	a very useful word we use then when telling stories
02:17	a lot . Um , so for example , if
02:20	I could tell a story about my morning today ,
02:22	when I got up , I brushed my teeth and
02:26	then I cooked breakfast , then I did a little
02:30	bit of work , then I took a shower ,
02:33	then I did some cooking blah , blah , blah
02:36	. You'll often hear and then as well and then
02:39	I , and then we , and then you and
02:42	so on . So then it is really , really
02:44	useful for sequence . So a useful word I think
02:48	besides besides , so it's commonly used in a pattern
02:51	like besides that meaning other than something else . I
02:55	went out with my friends this weekend . But besides
02:57	that I didn't really do much . So , another
03:00	way to say that sentence is I went out with
03:03	my friends this weekend , but other than that ,
03:06	other than that activity , I didn't do very much
03:09	. Okay . Meanwhile , meanwhile , or you might
03:12	hear the similar expression in the meantime . It means
03:16	while you're doing action A . At the same time
03:21	, maybe somewhere else Action B is happening . This
03:25	is used while telling stories a lot . So ,
03:28	for example , I was working at my office all
03:31	week last week . Meanwhile , my co workers across
03:34	town , we're having a party without me . What
03:38	? So these two things are happening at the same
03:41	time , but maybe separate from one another . Meanwhile
03:46	, Likewise , okay . Likewise , I don't really
03:50	use this word personally myself at all . It's often
03:53	used after an introduction . Um similar to the pleasure
03:57	is all mine in a formal situation . So maybe
04:01	somebody says , you know , hey , it was
04:03	really great to see you last weekend . Thanks very
04:06	much for coming to my barbecue . You can say
04:08	, yeah , likewise , it was really good to
04:11	see you in your family . So likewise means I
04:14	have the same feeling or I have the same idea
04:17	. It's kind of a friendly phrase , but personally
04:20	I don't really use that to transition between thoughts I
04:24	would just use and I suppose . But no ,
04:28	that's how I would use it instead instead . So
04:33	, so instead it's used like instead of I want
04:36	to a instead of be can be used to express
04:40	your plans or what you want to do . I
04:42	want to have chinese food instead of italian food tonight
04:45	. So you're , you're presenting to alternatives essentially .
04:48	So instead of means in place of or as a
04:51	substitute for , so I should have drank a lot
04:57	of water this morning , but instead I drank a
05:00	lot of coffee . That's true . I wanted to
05:06	um have dinner with my friends this weekend instead I
05:10	had dinner at home . In addition . In addition
05:16	, this is a really good word for more formal
05:19	situations I like to use in addition in writing ,
05:22	I don't really use in addition and speaking unless I'm
05:26	trying to be very formal for some reason uh similar
05:30	to additionally as well , so you make a point
05:32	A . And point B . And then when you
05:34	want to make one more point that's related to point
05:37	A . And point B . You can say in
05:39	addition point C . So you're like building an argument
05:42	and in addition can be used to kind of finish
05:45	that argument off a little bit . Our new marketing
05:48	plan worked really well . Last month we noticed increased
05:51	sales in product A . In addition we've gained a
05:56	lot of new customers , something like that . So
05:58	just your your quickly presenting a series of ideas that
06:01	are related to one another you can use in addition
06:04	to finish it off . All right . So that's
06:07	the end of 10 words for connecting thoughts . I
06:09	hope you get to use a lot of these .
06:11	Try to mix it up . It's good to use
06:13	a variety of different words . Thanks very much for
06:16	watching this episode and we will see you again next
06:18	time for more fun stuff by mm Whenever I'm ready
06:24	. All right , welcome back to weekly words .
06:27	I'm Alicia . And this week we're going to talk
06:31	about commonly mispronounced , missed pronounced wow . This week
06:37	we're going to talk about commonly mispronounced words , words
06:40	that are often pronounced incorrectly . This is funny I
06:44	enjoying this pronouncing this first word . The first word
06:47	is hyperbole , hyperbole . Um , it's not hyper
06:51	bowl though . It does sound very funny to say
06:53	that hyperbole just means to exaggerate something . Um or
06:58	to make to blow something up . Make it really
07:00	extreme . My friend uses a lot of hyperbole when
07:03	she talks about her life stories . I really don't
07:06	think some of those things happen to her . Hyperbole
07:09	. Not hype . Herbal . Next antarctic . Not
07:14	uh Oh , I see , antarctic is the correct
07:17	pronunciation of this word some people say . And and
07:21	tart antarctic . Really ? Oh , I guess when
07:25	you're saying this word quickly , you might leave out
07:27	that first . See in the antarctic . So don't
07:31	say that . Don't do that say antarctic . The
07:34	very , very cold region . The arctic is the
07:36	north cold region on the planet Earth . The south
07:39	is the antarctic . They're sort of like almost a
07:41	hiccup in the word . Their antarctic . Oh ,
07:45	in a sentence , I'm thinking about taking a cruise
07:48	to the antarctic . What do you think I need
07:51	penguin suit etcetera ? Not etcetera . Oh , yeah
07:55	, okay . I hear I hear this Ek Ek
07:58	thing a lot , et cetera is just used at
08:00	the end of the list to imply that you mean
08:03	other things . Uh so the list is not exclusive
08:07	to the things that you've listed . Other things can
08:09	also be included in it . So , in a
08:11	sample sentence , um types of fruits are apples ,
08:15	oranges , peaches , et cetera . There are others
08:18	as well . So don't say etcetera . That's not
08:21	correct , et cetera is good . The next word
08:24	is jewelry . What ? Not money ? The next
08:30	word is jewelry , jewelry . I think I'm probably
08:32	guilty of this mispronunciation . I can't say that word
08:36	mispronunciation , where the word kind of gets a little
08:39	bit smushed together and we say jewelry . Instead we
08:43	missed that second e sound in there . It should
08:46	be jewelry . Uh in a sample sentence . Maybe
08:50	you would say I'm shopping for some jewelry for my
08:52	mother for her birthday , jewelry were too lazy ,
08:56	prescription , not prescription . Okay . A prescription is
09:01	something that the doctor gives you when you're sick and
09:04	you require medicine . The doctor will write you a
09:06	prescription . Some people might say prescription , wow .
09:11	Okay . I didn't even notice and I was doing
09:14	it while I was telling you guys not to do
09:15	it . That's embarrassing prescription . A doctor writes you
09:19	a prescription , not a prescription . When you go
09:23	to the doctor's office , the doctor might say ,
09:25	here is your prescription and all right , well we've
09:29	learned that I apparently can't pronounce some words the way
09:32	they're meant to be pronounced . So please work on
09:34	your pronunciation . I will work on my pronunciation to
09:37	thank you for joining us on weekly words this week
09:39	. I will see you next time . Bye bye
09:42	. Welcome back to weekly words . My name is
09:44	Alicia and this week we're going to talk about commonly
09:47	quoted movie lines . Ooh , I hope I know
09:51	these . I'll be back . A lot of people
09:54	like to try and do an Arnold Schwarzenegger impression ,
09:56	this comes from the movie terminator where Arnold Schwarzenegger plays
09:59	a robot from the future and it's really awesome .
10:02	You can use this with your friends , you can
10:04	use this in common everyday situations where you have to
10:07	leave someplace , but you want to tell people in
10:09	a kind of a funny way that you plan on
10:11	coming back . You can say all the book inconceivable
10:14	, say this with a list inconceivable . If you've
10:17	seen the movie The Princess Bride inconceivable , so to
10:20	conceive of something , something you can think about putting
10:24	that in at the beginning of the word means can't
10:27	are not able to conceive of something , you can't
10:30	even think about it , you can't believe it .
10:32	In other words , this is one word that means
10:33	I can't believe it or this is just ridiculous .
10:36	So you can use this any time , you're just
10:38	shocked by something , you just can't believe that something
10:40	is happening , you can say inconceivable . This is
10:42	a very good one . A recent one from the
10:44	movie anchorman will Ferrell says this uh he says ,
10:47	I immediately regret this decision , I immediately regret this
10:50	decision . It's a very long phrase , but it
10:53	means you've just made a choice and you very quickly
10:57	immediately realize this was a bad decision . I should
11:00	not have done this . You can say , I
11:01	immediately regret this decision , but with kind of like
11:04	a flat tone to it , it's a little bit
11:06	funny . Okay next is a very famous quote from
11:09	the movie , Forrest gump Tom Hanks was in this
11:11	movie , his character famously says mama always said life
11:14	was like a box of chocolates . The next line
11:16	is you never know what you're gonna get . So
11:18	this refers to picking a piece of chocolate out of
11:21	a box of chocolates , Maybe you've seen kind of
11:23	the fancy ones that have a number of different styles
11:26	of chocolate in them when you bite into it .
11:27	Oftentimes you don't know what's on the inside , So
11:30	the character is saying that life is like that too
11:32	, you might try to do a few different things
11:35	, but you never know what's going to happen until
11:37	you actually try to do it . So this is
11:40	an interesting phrase to use , maybe if your friend
11:42	is having trouble in their life in some way ,
11:44	you can maybe try to console them or cheer them
11:46	up by saying mama always said life is like a
11:48	box of chocolates . The next quote comes from the
11:51	movie Apollo 13 , a very famous space movie .
11:54	The quote is Houston , we have a problem .
11:56	Houston refers to the control center , Nasa's control center
11:59	and the astronaut is famously quoted as saying we have
12:02	a problem , any time you run across a problem
12:05	at work or with your friends , with your family
12:08	, whatever you can say , Houston we have a
12:10	problem , meaning you're just trying to alert the other
12:12	people around you that something is wrong , you need
12:14	help with something perhaps . So it's usually not a
12:18	very serious problem though , I should say that .
12:20	So don't use it for like a medical emergency ,
12:22	use it for something , you know like oh I'm
12:24	out of eggs , Houston , we have a problem
12:25	. You know if you're cooking something very very lighthearted
12:28	is good and that's the end of some famous movie
12:31	quote . So try to use a few of these
12:33	if you like , they're kind of fun and if
12:36	you use them with the right timing , that can
12:38	be very , very funny and people will generally appreciate
12:41	that you use such an interesting references in your conversation
12:44	. Thanks very much for joining us this week and
12:47	we'll see you again next time . Bye . Here's
12:49	looking at you kid . What does that even mean
12:52	though ? Classic goodbye line , kind of welcome back
12:58	to weekly words , I'm Alicia and this week we
13:00	are going to do words with strange plural forms .
13:05	This is good practice . I bet . Let's start
13:07	. Yeah , antenna . The plural form of antenna
13:11	is antenna , I think I would say . And
13:13	today and I think I probably actually just say antennas
13:18	and antenna on an old tv set for example would
13:22	be kind of look like this . We call it
13:24	bunny ears where you had to adjust the bunny ears
13:26	, you have to and just adjust the antenna to
13:29	make the signal on your tv . Coming more clearly
13:31	bugs . They have antenna from their heads . The
13:35	next word is millennium . The plural is millennia .
13:38	A millennium is a period of 1000 years , 1000
13:42	years is a millennium . A series of thousands of
13:45	years would be called millennia , you might say Many
13:49	millennia have passed since the earth was formed . Cactus
13:57	is the next word . A cactus is a plant
13:59	. Uh These are the arms of the cactus .
14:04	I couldn't make the trunk of the cactus , wow
14:07	, You can put a picture on the screen instead
14:09	of my amazing cactus . The plural of cactuses ,
14:13	cacti or cactus is I think I'm more inclined to
14:16	sekac die . So when you go to the desert
14:19	, you might say keep an eye out for cac
14:21	die . If you step on one , it could
14:23	really hurt you . The next one is an interesting
14:25	one . I don't think I've ever used this word
14:27	in the singular . Like if you have a swimming
14:29	pool or if you've seen a pond or whatever ,
14:31	it's that green sort of scummy stuff that accumulates on
14:34	top of it or on the sides of your pool
14:36	. If you haven't cleaned it in a while ,
14:37	algae , bacterias and things that like to live in
14:40	the water . There's a singular form and I'm just
14:43	, I'm looking at it for the first time .
14:44	I don't know how alga to use the plural that
14:46	you would say I need to clean my pool .
14:48	There's a lot of algae in it . Yeah ,
14:51	Next is ox ox , the plural of oxes ,
14:55	oxen . These animals used to be used for farming
15:00	. I don't know that they are very much anymore
15:02	. I don't have much personal experience with farming ,
15:04	but they're , they look like really , really big
15:06	cows with huge horns , huge horns . Yeah .
15:10	Okay . Next is the end uh , plural words
15:15	that have weird plural forms , so please keep them
15:18	in mind when you are trying to use them in
15:21	conversation and use the correct form of the plural .
15:23	Thank you for joining us again this week . For
15:25	weekly words . Next time we will see you for
15:28	more weekly words . That was weird . We'll see
15:30	you again next week . For more fun information .
15:33	Take care . Bye . Mm . Oh no .
15:37	All right . Welcome back to weekly words . My
15:40	name is Alicia and this week we are going to
15:42	talk about commonly used on um , on Apia ,
15:45	this is gonna be a fun one . We talked
15:46	briefly about an animal in Apia zoom in a previous
15:50	episode of weekly Words , we're going to talk some
15:52	more about some more . Talk some more about some
15:54	more . We're going to talk about more today .
15:56	The first word is beep beep beep is any kind
16:01	of electronic sound or a car sound ? And was
16:03	also in a popular american cartoon , Wiley coyote and
16:07	the Roadrunner . The Roadrunner would commonly say meat ,
16:09	meat car sound will usually make a beep or honk
16:12	sound for electronics . However , the beep becomes a
16:15	little bit more robotic will often see like beep beep
16:18	beep beep . So in a sentence , let's say
16:21	you have a computer problem , you tell your friend
16:23	the computer won't stop beeping at me . What do
16:25	I do next Is the sound jingle jingle , is
16:29	any kind of light ringing sound ? This word gets
16:31	used a lot in holiday seasons , particularly christmas ,
16:35	thanksgiving New Year's . Any jingling sound is very commonly
16:39	assigned to Bell's like the song jingle bells for example
16:43	, is a perfect example of this jingle is just
16:45	the sound that a bell makes in a sentence .
16:48	Let's see . You might say she has a small
16:51	bell attached to her phone so she jingles everywhere she
16:54	walks . It's really irritating . Okay , the next
16:58	word is thump . A thump is for something to
17:00	hit heavily . To give an example . The people
17:03	who live in the apartment above me often thump on
17:06	the floor . It sounds like maybe they're dropping something
17:08	heavy or um they're stepping very heavily . All right
17:13	, Next is splash . Anything that falls into liquid
17:17	lens in liquid . Makes a splash . Is that
17:20	sort of sound that comes from water or any other
17:23	liquid ? Really , we refer to that as a
17:25	splash sound . There is also a popular Tom Hanks
17:27	mermaid movie called splash . This has nothing to do
17:31	with that about him falling in love with a mermaid
17:33	. I made a big splash when I jumped into
17:35	the swimming pool this summer . That has kind of
17:38	a double meaning mysterious . Next is blurt . It
17:42	means to say something quickly . I blurted out the
17:45	news as soon as I heard it , like I
17:47	blurted out the secret , I couldn't hold it any
17:49	longer . It means you just say something without thinking
17:52	to blurt the first part of the word , what
17:54	that blur sound . It sounds like something is just
17:57	kind of sort of slips out on accident and then
18:01	the harsh blurt . The T at the end is
18:04	like a kind of a final like , oh my
18:07	gosh , I've just said something . I slipped and
18:09	then I've said something . Oh no , I didn't
18:10	think about that . All right , that's the end
18:13	of that one . So I hope you learned a
18:14	few new on amount of pius that you can try
18:16	out the next time . Thanks for joining us for
18:19	weekly words and I will see you again next time
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18:31	Hey and welcome back to weekly words . My name
18:35	is Alicia and this week we're going to talk about
18:38	interjection , This is gonna be fun . Let's start
18:41	. The first word is by vh maybe you're upset
18:44	about something or you're tired of dealing with something .
18:47	People will often throw up their hands like this when
18:49	they say that the body and walk away bah humbug
18:52	is a very , very well known use of this
18:55	Interjection this from the story of christmas carol , one
18:58	of the characters says bah humbug at all these things
19:01	that upset him . Alright , the next introduction is
19:04	ah ha ha ha is used whenever you feel surprised
19:08	about something or when you have a good idea about
19:11	something . For example sitting at work actually , maybe
19:14	you shouldn't do this at work because your co workers
19:15	will think you're crazy . If you're feeling really excited
19:18	about your idea you can go like this with your
19:20	finger and go ha ha ha I have an idea
19:22	for my presentation next week . Okay , the next
19:25	one is this one I think has only become popular
19:29	in the last , I don't know , started being
19:31	used I think it started more on the internet and
19:33	now it has come to be used in everyday life
19:35	and then it's just when you're not very excited about
19:37	something , maybe you went to a party , your
19:39	friend asks you how it was and you're like ,
19:42	yeah , I went it was pretty mad . We
19:44	use it like an adjective actually , or you can
19:46	just use it as one word interjection . Okay .
19:51	Next word is oh , oh , oh , it's
19:54	a very , very useful one you can use oh
19:56	, in a number of situations when you're surprised ,
19:59	when you're thinking of something , when you want to
20:00	have kind of a soft introduction to whatever you're saying
20:03	, I think I tend to use it as a
20:05	question or when I'm feeling surprised . So when my
20:07	friend tells me something like , oh hey , I
20:09	have this great news . I'll say , oh ,
20:11	just by itself as a question to get somebody's attention
20:14	. I might say , oh , did you see
20:15	that new movie last week ? A sentence started for
20:17	me Anyway , Okay , the next door . It
20:19	is mm We use when we're thinking about something .
20:22	When we need a minute to consider our thoughts .
20:25	It can be used at the beginning of a sentence
20:27	or just while you're thinking on its own . Mm
20:30	What might be a good example sentence for mm And
20:35	and those are all interjections . Those are all interjections
20:39	. Try to use them . If you use these
20:41	correctly in your speech throughout your speech , it will
20:43	help you to sound a lot more natural and a
20:45	lot more smooth in your speaking ability . So give
20:48	them a try . Thanks again for joining us this
20:50	week and I will see you next time . For
20:51	more weekly words begin . Hi everybody welcome back to
20:55	weekly words . My name is Alicia and this week
20:57	we're going to look at some common english idioms .
21:00	Let's begin . The first word or phrase rather is
21:03	about to about to means you're going to start something
21:06	. You're going to begin doing something . For example
21:08	, I'm about to start explaining this idiom to you
21:11	. Hey , okay , the next word or phrase
21:14	idiom , The next idiom is by the way ,
21:17	the word here they've used as incidentally , it's a
21:20	way to transition to another topic that's related to what
21:23	you're talking about . For example , this week I'm
21:26	going to a party by the way , did you
21:27	hear about the party happening next week ? So there's
21:30	somewhat related , Okay , the next idiom is in
21:34	a way , in a way this is kind of
21:36	in a way it was a good thing that the
21:38	burrito shop was closed because otherwise I would have eaten
21:41	way too much and you can use this to show
21:43	that there may be two sides to a situation .
21:45	Maybe some things are negative , Maybe some things are
21:47	positive . Next is on the other hand , I
21:49	hear this a lot . On the other hand ,
21:51	is a way of just saying however or to share
21:54	two different sides to a story . For example ,
21:57	I think my coworker is really irritating . On the
21:59	other hand , at parties . He's really funny .
22:01	So you can show to maybe different sides to a
22:04	point with this phrase . Next is a matter of
22:07	fact , as a matter of fact , as an
22:09	idiom . Uh this is a long way to just
22:11	say actually or really it's a little bit more formal
22:14	sounding , so you might use it in a business
22:16	meeting . For example , everybody at the business meeting
22:19	might feel a little bit unsure about the previous month
22:22	sales and you can begin your presentation by saying something
22:25	like , I know everybody was a little bit unsure
22:28	about last weeks or last month sales performance , but
22:30	as a matter of fact , things improved and that's
22:35	the end . Those are some common idioms that you
22:37	might hear in english , give them a try .
22:39	They're pretty useful and you might hear a lot of
22:41	them in conversation . Thanks very much for joining us
22:43	this week and we'll see you again next time for
22:45	more information by Hi , welcome back to weekly words
22:49	. My name is Alicia and this week we're going
22:50	to talk about ways to say , hi , this
22:53	should be fun . Let's get started . First .
22:54	Is you hope this one is a little bit casual
22:58	in case you couldn't tell used for close friends .
23:01	Maybe family members , if you have kind of a
23:02	silly relationship with them , just quick short , easy
23:05	to do in a sentence . Yo , how's it
23:08	going ? Howdy ? Howdy traditionally associated with cowboy culture
23:13	? I suppose you should play a banjo maybe or
23:15	you've just gotten off a horse . I don't know
23:17	. I use howdy from time to time . Howdy
23:19	, howdy , howdy , howdy , that's my banjo
23:24	. Yeah . In a sentence , you might say
23:27	howdy folks , welcome to the barbecue place . Next
23:34	is , hey , hey , is good friendly phrase
23:37	you can usually use , hey with a wave and
23:39	smile , look happy . If you don't , people
23:41	might think that you're down in the dumps , people
23:43	might think you're not in a very good mood in
23:44	a sentence . Hey , I heard you got engaged
23:48	last week , congratulations , something like that . It's
23:50	usually kind of a cheery happy expression . All right
23:53	, Next is what's up ? What's up is the
23:56	long form of sup . This does not literally mean
23:59	what is above you right now ? If you want
24:01	to be funny , you can say the ceiling or
24:03	the sky , but that joke gets old really fast
24:06	and chances are the person you're talking to has already
24:08	heard it before . It just means what are you
24:10	up to ? What is going on with you in
24:12	a sentence ? What's up ? Did you have a
24:14	good weekend ? Typical response to what's up is not
24:17	much . Find out some more responses in english in
24:19	three minutes . We did an episode on this .
24:21	Nothing much . How about you ? That's pretty good
24:23	. Pretty good . Pretty good . Pretty good .
24:27	I don't know what I'm doing . The next one
24:30	is a long time . No . See you can
24:31	use this when you haven't seen the other person for
24:33	a long time . You're at a party or an
24:35	event or whatever any time it's been a long break
24:38	. You can decide how long long is not the
24:41	day before or the week before , Maybe a few
24:43	weeks or a month . Whatever is unusual for you
24:45	in this other person . When you see them ,
24:47	you can say , hey , long time no ,
24:49	see how have you been , That's the end .
24:51	So those are a few different ways to say hi
24:53	in a few different situations . I hope that you
24:55	have a chance to try them out the next time
24:57	you meet someone or you greet someone . Thanks very
24:59	much for joining us this week and we'll see you
25:01	again soon , bye . Instead of things up .
25:04	I like to say soup , soup , soup ,
25:07	Hi everybody , welcome back to top words . My
25:09	name is Alicia and today we're going to be talking
25:12	about 10 different phrases that you can use to respond
25:15	to the question , how are you ? So let's
25:17	go . I'm great . The first phrase is ,
25:20	I'm great . If someone says , how are you
25:23	? You can say , I'm great . Try to
25:25	say I'm great with a kind of an upbeat voice
25:28	. Um , so something like how are you ?
25:30	I'm great , I'm feeling bad . I'm feeling bad
25:35	. If you say I'm feeling bad , the other
25:37	person is probably if they're a friend of yours or
25:40	a co worker going to ask you why what happened
25:42	? So if you want to use , I'm feeling
25:45	bad , make sure you have an explanation ready .
25:47	Anyway , Somebody says , how are you and you
25:49	go , I'm feeling bad . Maybe I went out
25:52	for drinks last night with my coworkers . Oops ,
25:55	I'm okay , I'm okay . I feel like this
25:57	is one of those intonation practice ones . I'm okay
26:00	with that . I'm okay . It's like sort of
26:03	upward intonation . You're like , cool . But if
26:06	someone says , how are you ? You're like ,
26:07	I'm okay . They're like , oh no , what
26:11	happened ? So you can use your intonation with ,
26:14	I'm okay to make it a good thing , or
26:17	not a good thing . But either way , it's
26:19	not like a very like , super serious response .
26:21	Thank you for asking . Yeah , I imagine this
26:25	would be in a more formal situation , like if
26:28	my friends said to me , how are you ?
26:31	And I was like , thank you for asking .
26:33	They'd be like , what ? I would say I'm
26:36	fine , or I'm doing well , I'm doing great
26:39	. Plus , thank you for asking . So how
26:41	are you ? I'm doing very well , thank you
26:45	. Oh , that's how I would use it ,
26:46	and you , the next one is and you ,
26:49	like , the least natural response to how are you
26:52	is I'm fine , thank you . And you ,
26:54	like , just get out of , just take it
26:57	out of your head . Nobody says that . I
26:58	always say , how about you ? That's a much
27:01	more natural thing . How are you ? How are
27:04	you ? How are you can be a response again
27:06	after you have given your answer to the question ,
27:09	How are you ? I'm great . How are you
27:12	? How are you ? I'm good . How are
27:14	you ? I'm great . How are you ? I'm
27:15	okay . How are you ? How have you been
27:18	recently ? How have you been recently ? This is
27:20	only useful if you haven't seen the other person for
27:23	a while . I'm not bad . I'm not bad
27:26	. I'm not bad . How are you ? I'm
27:28	not bad . I'm not . Bad things . Could
27:31	be worse . I would probably do this . I'm
27:34	a standard back . I'm sleepy . The next expression
27:37	is I'm sleepy . Hey ? It's like so specific
27:41	. If someone said , how are you ? I
27:42	would probably say I'm OK , but I'm a little
27:46	sleepy . I don't know that . I would just
27:48	say I'm sleepy unless it's a really good friend of
27:51	mine . It's a person close to you . You
27:53	can say I'm so tired . I'm I would say
27:55	I'm super tired or I'm really tired and I feel
27:59	like that's a little bit more natural than just I'm
28:01	sleepy . I'm good one that I use a lot
28:04	. If someone says , how are you ? I
28:06	say I'm good . Uh that's just probably my go
28:09	to response . Yeah , I'm good . I'm good
28:11	. Maybe I'll repeat it While smiling . I'm good
28:14	. I'm good . Yeah , thanks for asking .
28:16	Great . Uh sorry , that is the end .
28:18	Those are 10 phrases that you can use to respond
28:21	to the question . How are you if there's one
28:23	takeaway from this and from other things that we've done
28:26	over the last few years in this channel , just
28:28	get rid of that . I'm fine . Thank you
28:30	. And you and pick one of these that we've
28:32	talked about today . Um of course , if there's
28:34	another expression that you use for a response to ,
28:39	how are you ? I'd be very interested to learn
28:42	about that . But uh , in general , you're
28:45	pretty safe with the stick with these . I think
28:46	so . Thanks very much for watching this episode of
28:49	Top Words and we will see you again soon .
28:51	Bye Noise Lapetina . That means we're going to the
28:58	movie theater . Right ? All right . Hi everybody
29:02	. My name is Alicia . Welcome back to Top
29:04	Words today . We're gonna be talking about Must know
29:07	expressions for agreeing and disagreeing . Very useful . So
29:10	let's go exactly . Exactly . When you agree .
29:14	100 with something someone else has said . You can
29:17	say exactly . For example , roman is one of
29:20	the best foods in the world . Exactly . I
29:23	don't agree . I don't agree . You have a
29:25	different opinion from the other person . They tell you
29:28	, I think that soccer is the best sport you
29:30	can say . I don't agree . But be prepared
29:33	to provide your own opinion after this . I think
29:36	soccer is the best sport . I don't agree .
29:38	I think that football is . Oh , that could
29:41	cause some problems . Soccer football americans say football when
29:44	we mean american football , but the rest of the
29:46	world says football when they mean soccer . Maybe ,
29:50	maybe it's when you don't know when you can't make
29:53	a decision or when you're not sure about something .
29:56	Okay . So someone tosses you an opinion . Someone
29:58	says their their idea to you . I think it's
30:01	going to rain tomorrow . You can say , yeah
30:02	, maybe you don't know for sure yes or no
30:05	, but it's possible . It's a good sort of
30:07	in between expression . But if you use maybe all
30:10	the time it's gonna sound really strange and it's gonna
30:12	sound like you can't make a decision . So use
30:15	may be very sparingly . Don't use it so often
30:18	. Maybe is very commonly used as a soft .
30:20	No , it's up to you to figure that out
30:22	among the people that you're talking to though . You
30:25	want to stay over at my house this weekend and
30:27	maybe I couldn't agree with you more . You are
30:31	in complete agreement with the other person and really want
30:34	to communicate that to them . You think that what
30:37	they have just said is really really correct . Super
30:40	correct . Yes . You are completely on board with
30:43	that idea . You can say I couldn't agree with
30:46	you more . I couldn't the negative form . I
30:48	could not agree with you more meaning . It's not
30:51	possible that I could agree more with what you're saying
30:55	next week . It's really important that we have a
30:59	barbecue because summer is ending and then your friend can
31:03	say I couldn't agree more . That's a fantastic idea
31:06	. I'll buy steak . I think we're going to
31:10	have to agree to disagree , agree to disagree .
31:14	This is a kind of it seems like a simple
31:16	phrase , agree to disagree . So you're agreeing with
31:20	the other person . You agree that we have a
31:23	different opinion , agree to disagree . I would use
31:26	this expression at the end of a discussion . So
31:29	person A . And person B . Have different opinions
31:32	and they've been discussing those opinions for a long time
31:35	. And person A . Is not changing his or
31:37	her opinion . Person B . Is not changing his
31:39	or her opinion . So you can say at the
31:41	end of the conversation , okay , we have to
31:44	agree to disagree . Let's just accept our different opinions
31:48	and move on in the conversation . You have a
31:51	point there . This is not necessarily a an agreement
31:56	or disagreement phrase . It's a small agreement within a
31:59	larger discussion . So maybe you've been discussing a topic
32:03	for a long time and you've disagreed with the other
32:07	person until this this time this person says something and
32:11	you agree with that , you have a point there
32:14	. So there's one thing that this person has said
32:16	that you can agree with , you can say you
32:19	have a point there . I think that's correct or
32:21	I agree with that point . That's exactly how I
32:24	feel . That's exactly how I feel , meaning my
32:28	feeling is the same as your feeling or my opinion
32:31	is the same as your opinion . That's exactly how
32:34	I feel . Maybe you can use this if someone
32:37	describes your feeling very accurately , for example , you
32:40	can say I feel like the company is really heading
32:42	in a nice new direction . You can say ,
32:44	yeah , that's exactly how I feel . I really
32:46	like the new boss . I don't think so .
32:49	I don't think so . It's soft , it's not
32:52	so direct . It's not a hard I disagree ,
32:55	but just I don't think so . Of course you
32:57	can use it to discuss opinions but you can also
33:00	use it when you're making plans . Are you going
33:02	to that party this weekend ? And I don't think
33:04	so . It's not a disagreement , but it can
33:06	be used as a negation phrase and a negative response
33:11	to something when used as an opinion . I think
33:13	chinese is the hardest language to learn . You can
33:16	say , I don't think so . I think that
33:18	Arabic is the hardest language to learn . Yes ,
33:20	you're right . Yes , you're right means you're correct
33:23	. Yes , I agree with you . I think
33:25	that's the right information . I think that's the correct
33:27	opinion . Just a very clear by agreement phrase .
33:30	You're right . It also has the nuance of being
33:33	correct . So maybe there was there was a possibility
33:37	the other person could be incorrect . Did you know
33:40	that pepperoni pizza is the most delicious pizza in the
33:44	world ? Yes , you're right . You can change
33:47	it to , that's right for that opinion . You
33:48	can use your to talk specifically about the person itself
33:52	. But that's right . Yes , that's right .
33:53	That information is correct . I guess so . I
33:57	guess so . It's an agreement but it's sort of
34:00	a flaky agreement I guess . So . It's like
34:03	you don't really want to make a decision but you
34:06	don't feel strongly in one like an agreement or disagreement
34:10	you can say I guess so . It's usually said
34:12	with this tone of voice I guess so . You
34:15	know , we don't really say I guess so .
34:16	Generally it's like you can't quite make a decision or
34:19	you don't want to make a decision . You can
34:21	say I guess so . But hey , we're gonna
34:23	go for chinese food for dinner tonight . Do you
34:25	want to come ? Yeah , I guess so .
34:27	You don't feel strongly either way ? I guess so
34:30	. I'm afraid I disagree is a rather polite expression
34:33	that you can use in a business situation . For
34:35	example I'm afraid here doesn't mean I'm actually scared or
34:39	I'm really frightened but just it's a softener that's used
34:42	at the beginning of sentences to introduce a negative opinion
34:46	. So I'm afraid I disagree or I'm afraid I
34:48	can't agree with you . For example , I think
34:50	that you need to adopt a new policy for your
34:52	company . I'm afraid I disagree . It's a soft
34:55	disagreement that sounds a bit more formal than some of
34:59	the other phrases we've talked about so far . Absolutely
35:02	, absolutely means 100% . Yes , exactly , precisely
35:06	, definitely . It's a quick and clear and can
35:09	be polite as well as casual um , word that
35:12	means you agree with the other person . Hey ,
35:15	do you want to go to the beach this weekend
35:16	? Yeah , absolutely . Absolutely . Oh , that's
35:19	in . So those are some phrases that you can
35:22	use to agree and disagree with other people . There
35:25	are a lot of them so , and you can
35:27	kind of mix and match them as you see fit
35:30	. So give them a try . Thanks very much
35:32	for watching this episode of Top Words and we'll see
35:34	you again soon . Bye fly his beach . Mm
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