50 English Phrases to Use in a Conversation

wanna speak real English from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at English class 101.com you win the first phrase is you win you win if you hear the phrase you win it means you have won something you are probably going to receive something for free whoo that's a very happy thing right you want to give free things congratulations you win a car yay here are the keys to your new car great thank you I brought you something special this is exciting to hear because it means this little something special as I

call I thought only of you so I brought you this I brought you something special really thank you I miss you I miss you I miss you is nice you can use this with your friends your family members your partner whoever I miss you shows that you want to meet the other person probably you haven't you haven't seen them as much as you would like to so you can say I miss you I miss you call your husband or wife or boyfriend girlfriend whoever on the phone maybe you haven't seen them for a long time

you can say I miss you I miss you too the budget is unlimited the next phrase that you always want to hear is the budget is unlimited the budget is unlimited this could be at work this could be a budget a personal budget maybe but it just means there's no limit to the budget you can spend as much money as you want whew very exciting so let's see in a business context perhaps you have this new client who's going to give you a lot of money to build a new house or something maybe you're building

houses that's your project your boss comes to you the budget for this project is unlimited really let's go crazy there'll be a bonus at the end of the month yeah this is a phrase that you probably are very excited to hear it means you are going to receive extra money from your job at the end of the month whoo-hoo very exciting extra money maybe you'll hear this from your boss or your manager or maybe your coworker at work maybe you see it in an email there'll be a bonus at the end of the month really

I'm gonna use mine to buy a new car really I'm gonna use mine to go out on a date really I'm gonna use mine to get a new fish you did a great job you did a great job you did a great job is something you'll probably hear from well I don't know you could hear this from pretty much anybody any time you've done a good job someone will congratulate you or tell you their opinion with this phrase you did a great job you finished a project at work and your boss says you did a

great job thank you so much it was really fun or thank you just just say thank you you look great today you look great today the other person thinks that your physical appearance is nice today don't think about that today part you know just just just take the compliment oh really thank you so much you look great today oh thank you so much I got a new haircut thank you so much i i got enough sleep yeah you were right you were right this means that something that you said in the past was correct and

it everybody likes to be correct I think I saw that movie that you recommended you were right it was really good oh good I'm glad you enjoyed it don't be like I know or yeah I knew I was right don't do that just say oh good I'm glad you're an excellent cook you're an excellent cook this is a nice compliment especially for someone who enjoys cooking if you say you're an excellent cook it means you enjoyed their food so let's see at a dinner party for example you're an excellent cook this food is delicious oh

thank you so much I'm really glad you enjoyed it I love your cooking this is my personal favorite compliment oh my god I love cooking like I'm always posting like pictures of things that I cooked on Twitter I'm just like crazy about food so this would be a compliment that I would love to get like the ultimate compliment for me that would be will you make my birthday cake that would be such a compliment like it's a question but it's in there's so much behind that will you make my birthday cake you would give that

to me so maybe after you can use this after a meal for example I love your cooking and the other person will be like great job great job this is a compliment that you can use anytime you can use it to your with your friend with your not with your boss your boss might use it with you an employee a co-worker or colleague pet even whatever it's it's just a very small scale very easy to use compliment it means you think whatever has just happened is good I use great job all the time I use

great job and I use good job sometimes when I make a mistake or something funny happens and I'm alone at my house and I want to make fun of myself I'll be like yeah great job Alicia but if I'm if I'm trying to be positive about a failure or laugh at myself a bit but in general it's just a good easy compliment to give someone great job you have a way with words you have a way with words this can be speaking this can be writing it means you think that the other person is a

good communicator or maybe even more so than just a good communicator you think that the way they speak or the way that they write is particularly good so that could mean funny it could mean romantic it could mean dramatic something about the way they speak or the way that they write you really enjoy that you can say you have a way with words it's quite a nice compliment I think it's kind of like a you know it's smart it's a bit of a smart thing you have a way with words or you can say you're

good with words you're really good with words yeah all right next one you look gorgeous you look gorgeous very nice compliment to give just be very careful with the way that you say this for an everyday compliment I tend not to say you look nice or you look gorgeous today or something like that because the underlying comment there is on the other days that person doesn't look nice like so if I want to compliment someone's appearance I try to pick a specific thing I'm like oh I've never seen you wear that sweater before it looks

nice on you something like that like yesterday my friend had a new dress on and like is that a new dress and because I thought she looked nice but I didn't I didn't want to make it sound like I don't think she looks nice every day so I said is that a new dress and she goes yeah and I said I think that color is really really nice on you it looks really good and she was so happy about that so yes there there are these compliments like you look nice you look great you look

gorgeous and so on but I personally kind of prefer to level them up a little bit and just say pick a specific thing like did you get a new haircut did you dye your hair or you did you get something did something happen like what whatever it is try to pick up on a specific thing because then that shows you're paying attention to the other person and you think that whatever they have chosen to do whatever like clothing or whatever haircut whatever it is you think that they have good sense there too or good style

so it's kind of like a double it's a very subtle double compliment yeah you have good tastes you have good taste this can be for food fashion style for decorating sense music in movies whatever if you think that that person's artistic selection is in whatever capacity if you think that that person makes good choices with their their appearance or their hobbies or whatever you can say you have good taste this is a fairly sophisticated compliment I think we use you have good taste for something like it's it sounds a bit more sophisticated maybe if you

both choose the same bottle of wine perhaps like it has kind of a more formal adult dish sophisticated feeling about it this compliment so yeah maybe maybe wine is a good example of that yeah oh nice bottle choice like I really like that you have good taste you can follow this by the way you have good taste in blah blah blah you have good taste in movies you have good taste in music if you want to be specific about something that you think that person is really good at choosing you have good taste in now

you have a great sense of humor you have a great sense of humor this is the this is the underlying compliment in the phrase you are so funny this is the underlying compliment you have a great sense of humor means the other person thinks you are funny that you are good at telling jokes or you make them laugh this is actually one of my favorite compliments to get you have a great sense of humor um yeah because I think that like you know people like to laugh so it's an it's an if someone makes you

laugh you can say this you have a great sense of humor or you're very funny yeah it's a good one it's a really good one um so you could say after a joke for example or after maybe you've you're you finished laughing it's something the other person has said you can say ah you have a great sense of humor good next one is your resume is impressive this is a weird compliment to say to your friends unless you're like reviewing your friends resume it's a bit weird this is something that perhaps someone interviewing another person

for a job would say the candidate comes in for the interview the interviewer says why your resume is very impressive I'd like to ask you a few questions about it so this is good to hear in a work situation yeah you really probably won't need to use this with your friends you make me want to be a better person this is something that I think you see in movies from time to time yeah I've had I had one person say like like oh that something you did inspired me and that was like really like wow

that was really exciting like somebody was inspired by something like wow that's great I want to be like you that's a really cool compliment but if someone says you want to make me be a better person it's like oh wow like that means I'm really important to that person which is really flattering but at the same time if someone said that I would also be like if it's like my friend I'd be like but I want you to be you like I think you're a cool person already yeah it's like oh you make me want

to be a better person like in that person's viewpoint you're like somehow above them and that's uncomfortable yeah just I would rather say you inspire me I think that that or like this thing that you did really inspired me like if somebody said like I saw that picture that she posted on Twitter of that pizza today Alisha and it really inspired me and I made my own pizza I'd be like yeah you are an awesome friend this is really really good to use after your friend has helped you with something maybe you're moving to a

new apartment or new house or maybe you've had some trouble and your friend gave you some good advice or your friend just listened to you when you really needed to talk to someone after that experience you could say thanks so much you were an awesome friend or maybe your friend did something really really cool and you just want to like tell them like I think you're really awesome just say you are an awesome friend they'll be happy to hear that or just you can abbreviate it - you are awesome not just you're an awesome friend

just you are awesome you're a cool person you are awesome you're fantastic you are an awesome friend this is delicious because I love cooking so when somebody tells me this is so good like when they say it in just that right way and you can tell that it's real if you can tell that it's true I'm just like yes when people go oh my god this is so good like I've cooked something really really well they say oh my god amazing or I want to eat your food that sort of thing when people say that

I'm just like yes like that makes me so so happy because it's something like that's one of my favorite things to do it's a skill and it's something like I've worked hard to try to do well so when someone compliments me on that I get really excited hi everybody and welcome back to top words my name is Alisha and today we're going to be talking about 10 ways to ask for help help me help me ask for help let's go can you can you bah bah blah so can you give me that pen can you

turn off the fan can you give me a sandwich for lunch I forgot mine in this sentence can you send me your email address so very simple requests you can use can you blah blah blah with them could you give me a hand with the next expression is could you give me a hand with blah blah blah meaning I need you like I need physically I need your hands to help me maybe or I need something I need you to help me with something could you give me a hand with this computer could you give

me a hand with this furniture it's you can use it to talk about like moving something heavy or you can also use it for like a task like could you give me a hand with this report I don't know this information so you can use it for ya physical tasks or for mental tasks too could you give me a hand with something in the sentence could you give me a hand moving this sofa can you show me how to the next expression is can you show me how to can you show me how to bla

bla bla this means please teach me something so can you please show me how to use this computer can you show me how to use this software can you show me how to book a ticket so these are all ways to ask for help with how to do something this is a very useful expression I think can you help me out with the next expression is can you help me out with can you help me out with something so before we talked about can you give me a hand with this is very similar can you

help me out with some tasks you can use it for physical activities or mental activities here so can you help me out with this project can you help me out with cleaning this house I don't know in this sentence can you help me out with my homework I need help the next expression is I need help bla bla bla so you can use the expression I need help that's fine but if you want to be specific which I recommend I need help bla bla bla I need help with my homework I need help doing the

dishes I need help cleaning the yard I need help something something something very clear very direct it's a little bit casual I suppose but yeah you can use this in most situation where you need help the sentence I need help making dinner tonight could you the next expression is could you so the first expression we saw in this lesson was can you you can also use could you Timmy could you sounds a little bit more formal than can you so can you love wha is it's a good kind of neutral every day way to ask

for help could you sounds just a little bit more polite a little bit more formal so could you please send me that file could you please stop smoking here in this expression could you send me the project files will you so the next expression is will you so this is used kind of for light maybe you just thought of something you just thought of something you need help with so it's probably a small task or a small favor that you need so for example will you get some milk at the store on your way home

it's like something you just thought of for the future so will you help me with my homework will you give me a moment of your time it's something very small very quick so in this sentence will you let me know when you're free want to speak real English from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at English class 101.com hello it's nice to meet you hello it's nice to meet you you can only use this the first time that you meet someone if you say this to somebody after you have met them

already you're going to see him either a like you've completely forgotten meeting them or be like you are a very strange person for saying it's nice to meet you again so when you use this the first time you can shake hands with someone and say hello it's nice to meet you I love travelling you are the kind of person who wants to go to many different countries and you want to be able to speak to the people in those countries presumably english-speaking countries you can say I love travelling maybe I think it's gonna rain tomorrow

you can say yeah maybe you don't know for sure yes or no but it's possible it's a good sort of in-between expression but if you use maybe all the time it's gonna sound really strange and it's gonna sound like you can't make a decision so use maybe very sparingly don't use it so often maybe is very commonly used it's a soft no it's up to you to figure that out among the people that you're talking to though can I try this on is useful when you're shopping for clothes so you find something that you'd like

to try just ask the staff can I try this on you can just say I want to try this on if you like the neck pattern is I feel like blah blah blah you can use I feel like when you introduce a suggestion or something that you would like to do especially for food drinks or activities so for example I feel like coffee I feel like Italian food I feel like an action-movie there's some activity or something you would like to do at the end of this pattern I feel like bowling this afternoon something needs

to go here some sort of activity of course you can use this expression to talk about your feelings I feel like something but this something must be a noun it must be a noun like if you feel really great I feel like a million bucks for example if you feel really bad I feel like garbage that's a nice expression that somehow it just came out of my head anyway you can use this in two ways but this must be completed with a noun phrase at the end of the sentence what did you say what did

you say if you couldn't quite hear something that someone else said you can use this question to confirm sorry what did you say it's a little nicer than just saying what what did you say or what did you just say sorry what did you say I couldn't hear you I enjoy many of my students say what is your hobby but that's not something that native speakers will say no native speakers say what is your hobby instead we ask what do you like to do or what do you do in your free time this is a

much more natural question than what's your hobby the answer to this then is I enjoy or I like plus a noun phrase so for example what do you like to do I like listening to music or I enjoy listening to music what do you do in your free time I like watching movies what are you do in your free time I like baking cakes what do you do in your free time I enjoy tap dancing what do you do in your free time I enjoy making new friends aaaghh I want to speak to my partner's

family in their language I want to speak to my partner's family in their language so maybe you and your partner share a common language and you can communicate together but maybe your partner's family does not have that same common language you maybe decide oh I want to learn some of the language so that I can communicate with my partner's family that might be a good reason to study yes you're right yes you're right means you're correct yes I agree with you I think that's the right information I think that's the correct opinion just a very

clear agreement phrase you're right it also has the nuance of being correct so maybe there was there were there was a possibility the other person could be incorrect did you know that pepperoni pizza is the most delicious pizza in the world yes you're right you could change it too that's right for that opinion you can use your to talk specifically about the person itself but that's right yes that's right that information is correct could we have the menu please if for some reason you don't receive a menu when you come to the table you can

again just wave it a member of the staff and say could we have the menu please where are you from the next word the next question is where are you from this can refer to your country or your city mmm but I feel like problem or stuff and it refers to your country so where are you from your answer should be I'm from place I'm from China I'm from Japan I'm from Vietnam I'm from America whatever I'm from absolutely absolutely means 100% yes exactly precisely definitely it's a quick and clear and can be polite as

well as casual word that means you agree with the other person hey do you want to go to the beach this weekend yeah absolutely absolutely next word is yes yes of course yes means is any positive expression someone asks you a question and the answer is a positive answer you say yes yep uh-huh yeah we know next word is want want what do you want I want food how many coffees have you ever wanted I wanted to go to the dry cleaners this morning but I ran at a time that's true where is the bathroom

where is the bathroom very important question where is the bathroom in American English where is the bathroom or where is the restroom is more common than where is the toilet using the word toilet is a little bit too direct in American English so I recommend bathroom or restroom I'd like to have a non-smoking seat please so when you go to a restaurant you have an option between smoking and non-smoking sections the staff will say smoking or non-smoking you can say I'd like to have a non-smoking seat please quite honestly though the most natural response is

just to say non-smoking I'm sorry is the next word we're gonna talk about I'm sorry is used to apologize when you have made a mistake or someone you know it's made a mistake and you're connected to it or you just feel bad you can use I'm sorry you made a mistake at work I'm sorry you forgot to feed your cat I'm sorry sorry about that you bump someone next to you oh sorry tell is the next verb tell me a story tell me lies tell me sweet little life tell me the truth the whole truth

and nothing but the truth I'm told that you are an extremely good opera singer I'm telling you to leave no lies every day don't tell lies the next word is place place can be used to refer generally to a location commonly to refer to friends homes or apartments let's go to your place or can we have the party at your place is a little bit more natural then I want to go to your house is this the train for blah blah blah or is this the train that goes to blah blah blah to confirm with

someone that I'm indeed on the correct train line if I say is this the train bound for San Francisco you can use that to check if you're correct the next phrase is I would like to order something you can use this at a restaurant probably or in any situation where you need to place an order I'd like a pizza I like beer can I get the check please this will be used at a restaurant when you've finished your meal and it's time to go can I get the check please in a very very casual situation

you can just say check please that's fine the next phrase is see you soon see you soon is used with friends and family members perhaps when you expect to see them again soon after saying goodbye to them this is used at the end of the conversation you're going separate directions you see you soon seeya is also good or just see you to make it a little more formal you can say I'll see you again soon make a full sentence out of it that way the next phrases see you later see you later is very similar

to see you soon but the point is would see you later is that you're probably going to meet that person again later on in the same day the last phrase is really really is a very useful word because you can use it to show you were interested in a conversation with upward intonation really really tell me more or to show that you're not so interested in the conversation with downward intonation really so there are many other words that you can use similar to really in this way like seriously or oh oh and so on so

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