Talking about completed actions in English How using passive and active voice - By Learn English with EnglishClass101.com
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| 00:01 | our weekly live stream . My name is Alicia and | |
| 00:04 | in this week's lesson , we are going to talk | |
| 00:06 | about how to use active and passive for completed actions | |
| 00:12 | . So a lot of people ask about the differences | |
| 00:15 | between active voice and passive voice and when to use | |
| 00:18 | them . So we're going to review this topic a | |
| 00:21 | little bit today and I'm going to focus on a | |
| 00:24 | lot of examples that you can use in everyday life | |
| 00:28 | , uh , in a lot of different situations , | |
| 00:30 | work situations , home situations and so on . I'm | |
| 00:34 | going to share an active sentence and a passive sentence | |
| 00:38 | and we're going to talk about the differences between the | |
| 00:40 | two And why you might want to choose one more | |
| 00:44 | than the other . So I hope this will be | |
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| 03:27 | Okay , let's take a look at today . Then | |
| 03:30 | here today's lesson board , this is what we're going | |
| 03:33 | to cover today . So active voice and passive voice | |
| 03:36 | for completed action . So we are going to look | |
| 03:41 | first , what is active voice ? What is passive | |
| 03:43 | voice ? Then we're going to look at a lot | |
| 03:46 | of example sentences and many different situations . And we're | |
| 03:51 | going to compare the differences between active voice and passive | |
| 03:55 | voice in those cases . Okay , so if you | |
| 03:58 | have questions like should I use active here or what | |
| 04:02 | ? Why should I use passive here ? Please send | |
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| 04:08 | people are saying this sound isn't great . I've gotten | |
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| 04:15 | to fix it . Okay , let's go to the | |
| 04:18 | first part of today's lesson then . So active voice | |
| 04:23 | or passive voice . Also , if you have not | |
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| 04:27 | some other people can find today's lesson . Okay , | |
| 04:31 | let's begin . So first active voice , passive voice | |
| 04:35 | . What is this ? Let's talk about the differences | |
| 04:39 | between these . It's a little bit dark . Yeah | |
| 04:40 | . Okay . Let's talk about the differences between active | |
| 04:45 | voice and passive voice . First active voice . Let's | |
| 04:50 | begin . What is active voice ? Here are three | |
| 04:53 | example sentences . First I opened the door . Active | |
| 04:57 | voice . My roommate ate the last cookie or you | |
| 05:02 | stole my idea . Okay , these sentences are all | |
| 05:08 | active voice sentences . So what's active voice for ? | |
| 05:13 | What is happening here in each sentence here , the | |
| 05:16 | subject is the person doing the action . In this | |
| 05:21 | case I opened the door so I know the person | |
| 05:25 | who opened the door me . So that's the subject | |
| 05:29 | of the sentence in this sentence . My roommates h | |
| 05:32 | the last cookie . My roommate . The person who | |
| 05:35 | did the action is the subject of the sentence . | |
| 05:38 | Okay then you stole my idea . So the person | |
| 05:43 | stealing you in this case is the subject of the | |
| 05:46 | sentence . Okay so we use active voice when you | |
| 05:52 | want to focus on the person doing the action . | |
| 05:56 | Like in these sentences the person doing the action is | |
| 06:00 | important or when you know who did the action . | |
| 06:05 | So you need to know the person in most cases | |
| 06:08 | who did the action and when you want to be | |
| 06:12 | clear about who did what ? So when you're talking | |
| 06:17 | about responsibilities or maybe you're planning something and it's very | |
| 06:22 | important to be clear you should do this , you | |
| 06:26 | should do that and so on . When you want | |
| 06:28 | to be very clear about roles and responsibilities , you | |
| 06:32 | can use active voice to do that . So the | |
| 06:35 | subject of your sentence is the person doing the action | |
| 06:39 | . Okay so this is why uh these are the | |
| 06:43 | reasons we use active voice . Active voice . Okay | |
| 06:49 | . The person who does the action is important . | |
| 06:50 | Yes , heavier . Okay . Good . Good . | |
| 06:52 | Good . Um All right . I think those are | |
| 06:57 | all the questions Why is active voices ? David Maria | |
| 06:59 | , do you mean why is it called active voice | |
| 07:02 | ? Maybe maybe that's the question . Why is it | |
| 07:05 | called active voice ? Because the person acting you can | |
| 07:10 | this maybe you can help this can help you remember | |
| 07:12 | the person acting ? The person doing the action is | |
| 07:16 | the subject of the sentence maybe that can help you | |
| 07:19 | to remember ? Okay . Um Good . Okay , | |
| 07:23 | I don't see other questions . So let's compare this | |
| 07:26 | to passive voice now . So passive voice ? What | |
| 07:31 | is passive voice again ? Let's look at example sentences | |
| 07:34 | . These sentences are the passive versions of these sentences | |
| 07:39 | . So here passive voice , the door was open | |
| 07:44 | , the door was opened or the last cookie was | |
| 07:49 | eaten , the last cookie was eaten and my idea | |
| 07:54 | was stolen idea store . So these sentences have the | |
| 08:00 | same basic idea as these sentences . Right ? The | |
| 08:04 | difference with these sentences is the subject here . The | |
| 08:08 | subject is the door or the last cookie or My | |
| 08:13 | idea right ? In these sentences the focus is the | |
| 08:17 | person doing the action in passive voice . Sentence is | |
| 08:22 | the focus is on the thing receiving the action . | |
| 08:26 | Okay . So why do we use passive voice ? | |
| 08:29 | Why do we need to do this ? We use | |
| 08:32 | passive voice when you want to focus on the thing | |
| 08:37 | receiving the action . You want to focus on the | |
| 08:41 | thing receiving the action . Like the door was opened | |
| 08:45 | . Who opened the door ? Maybe we don't know | |
| 08:48 | , Okay or you don't know who did the action | |
| 08:53 | or it's not important , you don't know who did | |
| 08:57 | the action or it's not important . For example , | |
| 09:01 | the last cookie was eaten . Who ate the last | |
| 09:04 | cookie ? I don't know . Or maybe I think | |
| 09:07 | it was my roommate but I'm not sure . Okay | |
| 09:10 | . So you don't know who did it or it's | |
| 09:12 | not important . Finally , when you want to hide | |
| 09:17 | the do er of the action , you want to | |
| 09:19 | hide the doer of the action . So like my | |
| 09:22 | idea was stolen someone , someone did it who did | |
| 09:26 | it ? I don't know . Or maybe you want | |
| 09:28 | to keep a secret for someone else . You can | |
| 09:31 | use passive voice to do that . Okay , so | |
| 09:34 | these are the differences between active voice and passive voice | |
| 09:39 | . In today's lesson . I am not going to | |
| 09:41 | talk about how to make these . I have some | |
| 09:44 | lessons . I have a lot of lessons actually about | |
| 09:47 | how to make active and passive voice . So I'm | |
| 09:50 | not going to talk about that today , but you | |
| 09:53 | can search are less than archives to find some information | |
| 09:57 | . So today I'm going to use a lot of | |
| 10:00 | examples . We're going to compare lots of examples of | |
| 10:04 | these two . Uh , so you can , I | |
| 10:07 | hope make better decisions about when to use active and | |
| 10:11 | when to use passive in your daily life , at | |
| 10:14 | school or at work or at home . Okay , | |
| 10:17 | cool . So that's part one for today . Let's | |
| 10:20 | take a quick break and then we'll go to part | |
| 10:23 | two . I'll check your questions in the live chat | |
| 10:26 | . Lots of you are sending examples . These look | |
| 10:29 | good . Um , my smartphone was stolen by someone | |
| 10:33 | says Salma Good . Okay . Cardiology says he was | |
| 10:35 | betrayed by his own best friend . Good . Uh | |
| 10:39 | , no , I thank you . Very nice comments | |
| 10:41 | as well . Uh , the students were asked to | |
| 10:43 | come earlier . Good example of everybody . Uh , | |
| 10:47 | pre enthuses . please teach us how to use that | |
| 10:50 | with modal verbs . I'm not going to cover that | |
| 10:53 | today . Um , but maybe I can include that | |
| 10:58 | in a lesson in the future modal verbs with passive | |
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| 12:23 | really . Uh So next the the part two and | |
| 12:27 | part three for today are going to focus on lots | |
| 12:31 | of examples . We're going to compare the active and | |
| 12:35 | passive versions of sentences and explain why you might want | |
| 12:40 | to use one more than the other . Okay , | |
| 12:43 | so let's take a look . So I've put to | |
| 12:48 | explain this . I've put in black the situation . | |
| 12:52 | So a sample situation you can think about and then | |
| 12:56 | in blue will be active voice . In red will | |
| 12:59 | be passive voice . So we're going to compare them | |
| 13:03 | and talk about why you should choose one . Okay | |
| 13:07 | , so for example if you are at work or | |
| 13:10 | at school or maybe home after you finish a task | |
| 13:15 | after you finish a task , a task is some | |
| 13:18 | responsibility . Something you need to do After you finish | |
| 13:22 | a task like a report . Maybe you write a | |
| 13:24 | report . Active voice . Is I finished the report | |
| 13:28 | , I finished the report . Can write an email | |
| 13:31 | or tell your manager passive voice . The report was | |
| 13:35 | finished . The report was finished . Okay , so | |
| 13:38 | when should you use active ? When should you use | |
| 13:41 | passive ? Both are 100 correct . Both expressed the | |
| 13:44 | same idea . An active voice sentence here , uh | |
| 13:50 | , communicates I did this thing . So if it's | |
| 13:53 | important to you to express that you like you want | |
| 13:57 | the credit , you want to show responsibility for this | |
| 14:01 | task . You can use active voice to do that | |
| 14:05 | . If it's not so important to explain who made | |
| 14:09 | the report . If it's like just a regular task | |
| 14:12 | or somehow , maybe it was part of a team | |
| 14:15 | effort . Maybe you can say the report was finished | |
| 14:18 | or maybe if you're worried about the report , if | |
| 14:21 | there's something bad in the report , you can say | |
| 14:24 | the report was finished and try to remove yourself from | |
| 14:29 | the statement . Okay , so again , both are | |
| 14:32 | correct . But I finished the report is like look | |
| 14:36 | at me , I did this thing . That's the | |
| 14:37 | difference . Okay then let's go to the next one | |
| 14:42 | . I'm looking for your questions too . If you | |
| 14:44 | have questions , send them in the chat . I'll | |
| 14:46 | try to check live . Okay , next one . | |
| 14:50 | How about when you have not finished a task yet | |
| 14:55 | ? So maybe you expect to finish a task but | |
| 14:59 | it's not done yet . Active Voice . You can | |
| 15:02 | say I have not finished the report yet yet . | |
| 15:08 | You can include , I haven't finished the report or | |
| 15:10 | haven't finished the report yet . Passive voice . The | |
| 15:14 | report has not been finished yet . The report has | |
| 15:18 | not been finished yet . Okay , so when should | |
| 15:22 | I use this again ? When you want to show | |
| 15:26 | your responsibility ? I have not finished the report yet | |
| 15:31 | . It's me . I am the reason the report | |
| 15:34 | is not done . You can use active voice . | |
| 15:37 | So if you want to take responsibility you can use | |
| 15:40 | active boys here . I have not finished the report | |
| 15:43 | yet . Okay , passive voice then . The report | |
| 15:48 | has not been finished yet . Oh , okay . | |
| 15:50 | But I don't mention me in the sentence . Just | |
| 15:54 | the report has not been finished yet . So my | |
| 15:56 | responsibility is maybe not so clear . So this is | |
| 16:02 | a great example of a situation where we tend to | |
| 16:05 | choose passive . We tend to choose passive more in | |
| 16:10 | kind of negative situations like I didn't finish something or | |
| 16:15 | I broke something or I may be caused a problem | |
| 16:18 | when we want to kind of hide from the responsibility | |
| 16:24 | a little bit . We use passive voice to do | |
| 16:27 | that with our words . So the report has not | |
| 16:30 | been finished yet . It's totally true . And I | |
| 16:33 | , but I don't want to make it clear that | |
| 16:35 | it's my fault . Okay , So this is a | |
| 16:38 | situation where we might use passive . Okay . All | |
| 16:44 | right . Okay . I don't see other questions . | |
| 16:47 | So I'm going to continue next one when you're working | |
| 16:50 | in a team . So , uh in a team | |
| 16:53 | at school or in a team at work or hobby | |
| 16:56 | team , let's say your team when your team creates | |
| 17:00 | something great . When your team creates something great , | |
| 17:03 | like a new product , for example . Okay , | |
| 17:07 | so , active voice . Our team is the subject | |
| 17:11 | . Our team made an incredible products , incredible means | |
| 17:15 | very , very good , amazing . Excellent . Our | |
| 17:18 | team made an incredible product , passive an incredible product | |
| 17:25 | was made , incredible product was made . Okay , | |
| 17:28 | so what's the difference here in this sentence ? In | |
| 17:31 | this pair ? Our team is the focus in the | |
| 17:34 | active sentence . So if you are trying to create | |
| 17:38 | a good team environment , like uh , everybody is | |
| 17:42 | working together . You want to give your team a | |
| 17:45 | compliment or you want to note your team's great work | |
| 17:50 | , you can use active voice to do that . | |
| 17:52 | Our team made an incredible product . If however you | |
| 17:57 | want to use this sentence . An incredible product was | |
| 18:01 | made . You don't want to focus on your team | |
| 18:04 | , You want to focus on the product . So | |
| 18:07 | maybe you've seen a sentence like this on like uh | |
| 18:13 | sales website . So like on a smartphone product information | |
| 18:17 | sheet . Yeah , the focus is on the product | |
| 18:20 | , right ? Not the person , not the group | |
| 18:23 | of people who made it . So this is the | |
| 18:26 | nuance in difference between active voice and passive voice . | |
| 18:30 | Okay . Mm . Oh , David Reno says active | |
| 18:34 | voice and passive voice . Only when you're talking about | |
| 18:36 | the past . No , no . Not only when | |
| 18:38 | you're talking about the past in today's lesson . Yes | |
| 18:41 | , I'm focusing on active voice and passive voice for | |
| 18:45 | complete completed actions . Okay . All right . Uh | |
| 18:50 | Giancarlo , how do we know for sure if it's | |
| 18:53 | passive or active ? Also ? Happy birthday . How | |
| 18:55 | do you know ? It's my birthday . That's amazing | |
| 18:57 | . Active passive voice or active voice . Um I'm | |
| 19:01 | not talking about the differences between the two today , | |
| 19:05 | but look for that was and uh let's see where | |
| 19:10 | is it here was plus verb . So like this | |
| 19:14 | this is a bad example . Was made this before | |
| 19:17 | your verb here . This is a good sign of | |
| 19:19 | passive voice . Yeah , I have a lot of | |
| 19:22 | videos about that on the channel , but that's a | |
| 19:25 | quick hint . Okay , Okay , let's go to | |
| 19:30 | the next part . Um All right . The next | |
| 19:33 | one is this one ? Oh , very , very | |
| 19:36 | important one here . The next situation when someone makes | |
| 19:40 | a mistake , when someone makes a mistake . So | |
| 19:43 | you or another person , for example , Alicia wrote | |
| 19:48 | the wrong information in the spreadsheet . Alicia wrote the | |
| 19:52 | wrong information in the spreadsheet . What's a spreadsheet ? | |
| 19:55 | A spreadsheet is if you know , Excel , Excel | |
| 19:58 | files , that those documents are called spreadsheets . Okay | |
| 20:03 | , Alicia wrote the wrong information in the spreadsheet . | |
| 20:05 | Active voice , passive voice . The wrong information was | |
| 20:10 | written in the spreadsheet . So the difference in the | |
| 20:15 | active voice sentence I'm saying it was Alicia . Alicia | |
| 20:18 | wrote the wrong information in the spreadsheet . Oh no | |
| 20:21 | , it was her . I saw her . So | |
| 20:23 | I'm very direct . Right ? It was you in | |
| 20:27 | this sentence . The wrong information was written in the | |
| 20:29 | spreadsheet . It's like a B . I don't know | |
| 20:33 | who did it or I know it was Alicia but | |
| 20:37 | I don't want to make her feel bad so you | |
| 20:41 | can use this to express . I noticed a problem | |
| 20:45 | . I want to express the problem , but it's | |
| 20:48 | not important to say it was you so much less | |
| 20:52 | direct . Okay . All right . Um Okay , | |
| 20:57 | so this is the first part Virginia products . As | |
| 21:02 | can I say , an incredible product has been made | |
| 21:07 | . That's totally correct . An incredible product has been | |
| 21:09 | made sure that's grammatically correct . Okay , uh Rianta | |
| 21:13 | says can we watch this lesson again on your Youtube | |
| 21:16 | channel ? Yes . This video is being broadcast live | |
| 21:19 | on Youtube and facebook at the same time . So | |
| 21:22 | you can watch after as well . Okay . Um | |
| 21:26 | Good . I'll take one more short break and then | |
| 21:28 | we'll go to the last group of examples . The | |
| 21:32 | last group is just three examples situations . I included | |
| 21:36 | some kind of interesting expressions that are kind of common | |
| 21:40 | that we'll talk about so quickly if you missed it | |
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| 22:34 | on Youtube . Ahmed go to the link below the | |
| 22:38 | video in the Youtube description . Okay let's go to | |
| 22:43 | the last part of today's lesson . The final part | |
| 22:47 | I included some kind of interesting expressions that you might | |
| 22:52 | not understand at first . So let's cover these . | |
| 22:55 | This situation very useful when you want to ask someone | |
| 23:01 | or someone asks you about a task , an errand | |
| 23:05 | and assignment whatever . O . J . And thanks | |
| 23:08 | very much on Youtube . Um So when you want | |
| 23:11 | to ask someone for an update about something like let's | |
| 23:16 | look at this short conversation here A . Says any | |
| 23:20 | updates on my dinner reservation . So A . Asked | |
| 23:24 | be to make a dinner reservation . Yeah please make | |
| 23:27 | a dinner reservation A wants information they want to know | |
| 23:31 | about updates . Are there any updates on my dinner | |
| 23:35 | reservation ? B . Says active or passive ? Which | |
| 23:40 | one should I choose ? Uh So active voice is | |
| 23:43 | I took care of it . I took care of | |
| 23:46 | it . Do you know this this part ? To | |
| 23:48 | take care of something To take care of something means | |
| 23:51 | like to be nice to something like your pet to | |
| 23:53 | give it food . But it also means to complete | |
| 23:57 | a task to take care of something . Yeah , | |
| 24:01 | B could also say passive voice . It's been taken | |
| 24:07 | care of , it's been taken care of , which | |
| 24:11 | means the task has been completed . Who did it | |
| 24:17 | ? Maybe it was me . So I included this | |
| 24:20 | one right here . This sentence . It's been taken | |
| 24:22 | care of Because you see this expression a lot in | |
| 24:26 | movies , especially action movies . If you like action | |
| 24:29 | movies often like the bad guy will ask his team | |
| 24:34 | to do something bad like hurt somebody or steal something | |
| 24:39 | or get secret information , whatever when it's finished . | |
| 24:43 | Sometimes the team member will say uh , it's been | |
| 24:48 | taken care of . Why do they use passive voice | |
| 24:51 | in that sentence in like an action movie ? Why | |
| 24:54 | ? Like it's been taken care of . There's no | |
| 24:57 | I did it . There's no responsibility . They just | |
| 25:00 | want to report that task is done , it's completed | |
| 25:04 | . So this is a very common expression , uh | |
| 25:08 | , in media , in my care . Okay . | |
| 25:11 | All right . Um , Ansarullah huge run says , | |
| 25:17 | can I stay ? The story was written by ali | |
| 25:19 | ? Yes , you can . Okay . Um , | |
| 25:23 | lots of people are saying happy birthday , thanks very | |
| 25:25 | much , everybody . Thanks . Okay , let's go | |
| 25:29 | to the next situation . We just have two more | |
| 25:32 | . Next one . I included here is about food | |
| 25:36 | . So when you're eating something and you're drinking something | |
| 25:40 | and you want to comment , you want to share | |
| 25:42 | some comment about the food or about the cooking . | |
| 25:45 | How can you do that ? So active voice ? | |
| 25:48 | Maybe you cooked something and you think uh , I | |
| 25:52 | used too much salt . I used too much salt | |
| 25:55 | . It's my fault . It was me passive voice | |
| 25:58 | . You can say too much salt was used too | |
| 26:02 | much salt was used . Okay . I included a | |
| 26:06 | note right here in a sentence like this . You | |
| 26:11 | might hear like when you go to a restaurant . | |
| 26:14 | Native speakers use they as the subject like this sentence | |
| 26:19 | . So this note says they is sometimes used as | |
| 26:23 | the subject to make an active sentence like this . | |
| 26:26 | They use too much salt . This they we use | |
| 26:31 | when we don't know the specific person . For example | |
| 26:35 | , when you go to a restaurant and you don't | |
| 26:37 | know exactly who did something , but you want to | |
| 26:41 | talk about the restaurant . Generally we use they to | |
| 26:47 | do that instead of this restaurant used too much salt | |
| 26:51 | or this place used too much salt . We use | |
| 26:54 | they they do that . So you might hear this | |
| 26:58 | as an active voice sentence again because the speaker wants | |
| 27:02 | to emphasize uh at the restaurant . Okay . Um | |
| 27:08 | All right . Everyone that's right . No more questions | |
| 27:12 | now . Everybody's just writing nice messages . Okay , | |
| 27:14 | let's go to our last one then . your last | |
| 27:16 | one when your internet connection dies . I want to | |
| 27:19 | end with the computer expression because computers use a lot | |
| 27:23 | of passive voice notifications . Okay . So when your | |
| 27:27 | internet connection dies , when your internet connection dies , | |
| 27:31 | so your internet goes out , What happens ? Active | |
| 27:34 | voice ? Your computer ? Uh I'm sorry my computer | |
| 27:38 | lost its connection . My computer lost its connection . | |
| 27:42 | Active voice , passive voice . The connection was lost | |
| 27:46 | , the connection was lost . So this one in | |
| 27:51 | this sentence you express . It was the computer the | |
| 27:53 | computer was the problem passive voice . We don't know | |
| 27:57 | exactly what the problem was . Maybe it was my | |
| 28:00 | computer . Maybe it was my network . We don't | |
| 28:02 | know . Okay . But note here , last note | |
| 28:06 | for today , computer notifications often use passive . So | |
| 28:10 | short messages are very common like connection lost or file | |
| 28:16 | saved or database updated these kinds of things . So | |
| 28:20 | passive is used a lot with computers . If you | |
| 28:24 | use your computer in english which is a great way | |
| 28:26 | to study by the way , you will probably see | |
| 28:29 | these something like this every day . Okay . All | |
| 28:34 | right , good . So these are a few situations | |
| 28:38 | where you might think about the differences between active and | |
| 28:41 | passive . I know it seems kind of simple but | |
| 28:45 | making good choices between active and passive really helps you | |
| 28:50 | in making good relationships with people . Like you can | |
| 28:53 | protect other people's feelings in difficult times . You can | |
| 28:57 | take responsibility in positive times . So it's really important | |
| 29:02 | to know how to choose between the two . It | |
| 29:05 | will help you sound a lot more fluid . Okay | |
| 29:08 | . Alright great . So I have to finish up | |
| 29:11 | there I think . Yes it is time for me | |
| 29:12 | to go . So I'll show you next week's lesson | |
| 29:16 | information once more to here's today's lesson boards . If | |
| 29:19 | you want to take a look , take a screenshot | |
| 29:21 | . But we talked about active voice and passive voice | |
| 29:24 | . The difference , we talked about a lot of | |
| 29:27 | situations where you need to choose between active and passive | |
| 29:32 | and a couple of common examples uh that you might | |
| 29:36 | hear like uh the last one I talked about the | |
| 29:39 | action movie , it's been taken care of . Okay | |
| 29:42 | , thanks everybody for all the nice birthday messages . | |
| 29:45 | I really appreciate it . That's super , super nice | |
| 29:47 | . Okay . Someone wrote passive voice . Your birthday | |
| 29:51 | is being commemorated , awesome . Thank you everybody . | |
| 29:53 | That's super , super nice . Uh I have to | |
| 29:56 | go but I'll be back next week , next week's | |
| 29:59 | lesson , but I'm next week will be april 14th | |
| 30:02 | Wednesday april 14th 10 p.m. Eastern Standard time , new | |
| 30:07 | york city time . If you don't know your local | |
| 30:09 | time , please google it . Or you can set | |
| 30:12 | a notification on youtube or on facebook . Or if | |
| 30:15 | you follow me on instagram , I always post a | |
| 30:17 | link and a topic reminder in my stories . So | |
| 30:21 | check that out . You can find the link for | |
| 30:22 | my instagram or twitter uh from the link below the | |
| 30:25 | video in youtube description . Next week I'm going to | |
| 30:29 | talk about quantities , how to talk about quantities . | |
| 30:34 | We're going to practice using too much , too many | |
| 30:37 | , not enough enough , those kinds of things . | |
| 30:40 | We're going to cover . Um this topic that comes | |
| 30:43 | up every day . Super , super common topics . | |
| 30:46 | So please join me again next week for this lesson | |
| 30:49 | . Okay ? So I have to go for this | |
| 30:52 | week , but thank you very very much for joining | |
| 30:54 | me . Thank you for all your great example sentences | |
| 30:57 | and your great questions . I will say good bye | |
| 31:00 | . Thanks for all the birthday messages . That's super | |
| 31:02 | , super nice of you , enjoy the rest of | |
| 31:04 | your day , enjoy |
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