90 Minutes of English Conversation Practice

want to speak real English from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at englishclass101.com top 10 language learning strategies let's begin befriending or dating someone who speaks English watching movies or listening to music in English read English newspapers or magazines record your voice and compare your pronunciation with native English speakers download dialogue tracks and listen to English conversations repeat the phrases that you hear out loud again and again review all the lessons on English class 101.com to master them completely read line slowly at first then re-read and increase your speed set small

and measurable learning goals with your personal deadlines try harder lessons to challenge yourself and improve faster 10 ways to stop translating in your head let's get started identify objects around you in English the first way to stop translating in your head is to identify the objects around you in your target language so if you're studying English that means you look at the objects around the room look at the things in your life don't think of them in your native language first think of them in your target language first so if I look around the room

I see a computer I shouldn't think my native language word I should think my target language word so start with the items and the situations in your everyday life if I say computer in English maybe I should say computer in Japanese I should say not I don't know water in English I should say omizu in Japanese so start associating the words in your target language with your everyday life now so if you're studying English that means start getting familiar with the things in your everyday life in English repeat phrases you hear native speakers use number

two is to repeat the phrases that you hear native speakers use so if you're watching this channel for example or you're watching a TV show or a movie listen for the way that native speakers make those phrases if you hear a phrase you have never heard before or you hear an interesting combination of words try to repeat them yourself don't just listen try to say them yourself if you're in a public space and it's difficult for you to do that fine practice in a place where you feel more comfortable maybe if you have some private

space to practice just repeat them get your mouth used to saying the words the way that the speakers the native speakers do so if you never actually say words if you're only taking in if you're only listening and you're not actually producing the language it's it's kind of hard to to practice and to to Really hone your pronunciation to improve your pronoun enunciation so when you listen to native speakers try to repeat after them so for example if you're studying English you can try to repeat after this video you can repeat after the things I'm

saying because maybe I'm using an expression or I'm using a certain series of vocabulary words together the way a native speaker would and it's maybe a good idea to try to practice the ways that native speakers put their words together so try to repeat after native speakers especially when you're looking at media and you can do this when you're reading books too you can try to read out read out loud interesting lines of books that you find or something that may be as difficult for you very nice practice tip make a situation where you can't

escape into your native language make a situation where you can't escape into your native language essentially means immerse yourself of course going to that country or going to a place where you can speak only that language is very difficult for some of you totally understand but if in your life you can create a situation in your library in your room in your house somewhere for just an hour or I don't know maybe a day I don't know what your schedule is like but if you can create a situation or create an environment where you have

no choice but to use that language and you cannot Escape meaning you cannot go back to using your native language as a crutch you can't use the native language at all it forces you to use the language that you're studying so of course if you are lucky enough to live in the country or to live in a place where people speak the language you're studying great but you have to go out and interact with people you have to put yourself in a place where you have no choice but to speak it's very hard and it's

very scary and it's very embarrassing at first but if you take time to find places and to make environments that are comfortable for you where you feel comfortable making mistakes and asking questions it's very valuable for your learning process this is actually something that I did totally I totally did this my Japanese wasn't very good for a long time but then I started making friends who could not speak English actually I just did this through finding Hobbies there was a hobby that I had I joined a group I joined actually a school to where I

could learn how to do that Hobby and everything was taught only in Japanese and the people in my class only spoke Japanese mostly and then maybe we would go out for drinks and food late at night or on the weekends and everybody spoke only Japanese and if I couldn't communicate even simply in Japanese I had no hope of keeping that friendship together so it forced me to study it forced me to think about the words they were using and to try to learn those words those patterns as well as how to produce them naturally myself

so I was learning the vocabulary words the people around me were using and learning how to apply them on my own that was only possible because I had no Escape in those situations so try to do that even if you can do it yourself in your house it's super helpful I think watch TV and movies in your target language without subtitles tip number four is to watch TV and movies in your target language without subtitles without subtitles so I think that watching uh with subtitles can be very beneficial so if I'm watching something or if

you want to watch something with subtitles on great but I sometimes find that I can in my case I I think too much about reading the subtitles and I forget to listen so maybe if you've seen a movie in your target language a few times with the subtitles on try turning the subtitles off and think about the like character's body language the words they're using you can always look that up later look up the you know the words you don't know in a dictionary but try to do it where you're focusing completely on the way

that people are using their words try not to use the subtitles so kind of play around with it a little bit if there's a word that's difficult for you to here you can actually turn on the subtitles in like the in the native language of the movie as well that's something that I've done like if uh like if I wanted to study Japanese it's very useful when the actual words spoken in Japanese appear on the screen sometimes it's easier for me to catch a word if I see it visually and I hear it at the

same time so another way to kind of explore how you can use TV and movies is to actually turn on the closed captions like the the um the words on the screen in the native language of the movie so uh so this is sort of two points in one so one watch movies without subtitles meaning subtitles in your native language in hint too is to watch movies with closed captioning on but the closed captioning is in your target language not in your native language so you can try those two things with TV and with movies

don't bring a dictionary to your lesson number five is don't bring a dictionary to your lesson okay so give me a second here so I understand the dictionaries especially electronic dictionaries we have them on our phones now are very very convenient of course it's important to use them and it's they're a great resource to have however one thing that really bothers me and that I think is detrimental it's not helpful for students is when students are in a lesson and they're practicing conversation and they reach a point in the conversation where they don't know the

word they want to use they know it in their native language and they don't know how to say it in their target language they pull out their dictionary they say to this the person listening to them their practice partner in their lesson where they have a limited period of time just a moment and then they look it up on their phone and it takes a few seconds the flow of the conversation stops and then they say a word and I was like whoa no that's not you don't have that ability you don't have the ability

to do that in a conversation with a native speaker most people like if you go to a bank and try to open a bank account are you really going to pull out your dictionary and sit there and try to communicate you know just a moment just a moment as you look up each word you don't know no or if you do that's not a real conversation so instead try using a different strategy by that I mean if you find a word you don't know in conversation explain the word to your conversation partner maybe they know

the word if you're speaking with a native speaker this is a chance for them to teach you a word I find that when people take the time to teach me a word I remember the word much better than just looking it up on my dictionary so try to resist maybe you can bring a dictionary to your lesson but don't use it or try not to use it in your conversation practice this it's just it destroys the flow of a conversation so instead practice the skill of describing the vocabulary word you want to use and learn

how to ask the meaning of a word or learn how to ask for a vocabulary word from your partner so you can use an expression like ah what's the word that means blah blah blah or you know it's this thing that does this and this and this so this is an opportunity for you to describe characteristics of something or find a different way you can use your body language you can use whatever you have a lot of tools but try not to use a dictionary in a conversation because it's not realistic train responses to common

questions number six is a quick one I think number six hint number six I have is just to train responses to common questions train responses to common questions so for example a very common question in English is hey how are you you should know how to answer this question just have a default response hey how are you I'm good like if it takes you a long time to answer the question hey how are you you need to practice I think that's a pretty good uh a pretty good indicator so for example sometimes I ask students

a question like that they they haven't quite gotten the idea of how to respond just yet they they're not so quick at responding I say uh hey how are you and they say yes and then they think and they go I'm uh I'm not good and it's like that's a very common question so think about just a default response that you can spit out that you can quickly say if it's how was your weekend or hey what's up or what do you want to do for dinner tonight think about like just a handful meaning just

a few responses to those questions and train them quickly just how are you I'm good how are you I'm okay how are you not bad there's three so it's just training responses to those questions there's no reason to be surprised by a question like how are you like that's a very common question so for those common questions train responses to that we've got a bunch of videos especially beginner level videos for some example responses you can do so don't get stuck with these little questions just train a few responses practice a few responses till they

feel natural to you it'll save you time and it'll help the person asking the question to to move forward in the conversation okay study with materials that don't provide a translation the next tip is to study with materials that don't provide a translation so by this I mean if you're using worksheets and or some kind of textbook or whatever and it has your target language the language you're studying and it has your native language next to it while this can be useful I feel that if you can studying your materials only in your target language

and then simplified explanations for more detailed points also in your target language can be a little bit better so I don't want to say like you should only study things in your target language and nothing from your native language because of course like it can be helpful sometimes to look up a word or to understand a grammar point in your native language but where possible if you can find something that provides simplified explanations in your target language it can be really really helpful because again you're thinking you're learning to think on like a simpler on

a more basic level about the language you're studying in the language that you're studying so this can be really really good so finding some materials to use where there's no translation maybe you can practice um of course with with books and with written materials but also with like video materials as well so there are a variety of different ways that you can um find materials in your target language like in video and TV so some things to think about there are the level of vocabulary words people are using in the media content you're watching who

the media content is intended for children young adults adults the speed at which the speaker is talking so like I have the ability to change the level of difficulty of videos based on the rate of speech the vocabulary words that I use and how many like idioms and things I use so I could make a video very difficult we could make a very like a very difficult video series by leveling up our vocabulary user by speaking very quickly or as you might see in like our English in three minutes series we can also use very

simple vocabulary and speak at a low rate of speech so maybe right now this is a very intermediate level video so please think about that so not just for written materials but also for your audio and visual materials think about who your audience is the level of the material and so on it can be really fun and it can be helpful to think about your your target language in your target language all right we're almost done study phrases in addition to single vocabulary the next tip is study phrases in addition to single vocabulary words so

yes of course vocabulary is important but I find it personally very very useful to look at how a vocabulary word is used in a phrase because sometimes using it in a phrase helps you understand the Nuance of that vocabulary word really really well so if I like a word like crazy for example in English depending on the situation where the word crazy is used it could mean something different it could mean like a person who's mentally confused or mixed up it could also mean something really good it could mean something really bad so if we

look only at the word crazy it's quite difficult to understand really the meaning of the word but if you look at the way the word is used in a phrase you can get a lot more information so take a look at the way people use words in phrases not just single vocabulary words you can learn a lot more that way I think do your daily activities in English where possible the next tip is to do your daily activities in your target language so if you're studying English that means try to do some daily activities in

English if possible so this can be very very boring stuff but just think about it when you're doing the activity so like right now I'm filming a video for englishclass101.com or I'm going to work I'm cooking breakfast I'm doing the laundry what do I have to do tomorrow so try thinking about your everyday life in English if you're studying English try thinking about your everyday activities the people that you meet what are you doing so this is a way to help you practice your verbs so if you don't know if you're I don't know you're

doing something at work and you're like oh my gosh how do I explain the what's the verb for you know a picture like I want to blah blah blah a picture what's the word you can check a dictionary at that point and go ah it's draw I need to use the verb draw for draw a picture so you can find these little gaps in your everyday life these little gaps in your knowledge if you think about your everyday activities in your target language if you don't think about it in your target language you might not

realize you have vocabulary gaps or phrase gaps here and there so this is a really good and kind of funny actually way to study use a Learner's Dictionary for new words the last tip is to use a Learner's Dictionary for new words so in English there are Learners dictionaries available in English so my favorite my personal favorite is Merriam-Webster Merriam-Webster is a fantastic dictionary resource they're so interesting and they have tons of like historical information I really do just sit and like read things on the dictionary page lately it's true but um of course there's

a definition there's a meaning for Words there are example sentences for words but Merriam-Webster also has what's called a Learner's Dictionary if you find a word that you don't recognize you can check it uh in a dictionary in a Learner's Dictionary and it gives you a simplified a simple explanation in simple English of that word so instead of checking it in your native language you can check it in your target language so again this helps you to understand the word that you are that you're focused on but you understand it from the language you're studying

not from your native language so using a Learner's Dictionary can be really really useful as well all right 10 ways to report speech Let's Go say the first word is say say as a verb say is a very neutral word you can use to report someone's speech to explain something someone said in the past so for example he said the barbecue was canceled which is a simple neutral report tell the next verb is tell tell is used when one person is giving information to another to tell someone something they did not know before don't say

tell me your phone number that's weird but like can you tell me where the station is can you tell me where to buy a hamburger can you tell me where to pick up my new car like so giving someone information they don't know or or on the other hand explaining something one way to another person so don't tell me what I can't do is a very good lost reference if you've ever watched lost uh so tell another example sentence my boss told me I was doing a good job speak uh the next one is speak

speak so we use speak when we're talking about language ability like I speak English I speak Japanese we can use speak in the past tense to report something but it usually sounds a little more formal so like I spoke to my boss about or I spoke to my parents about or I spoke to my boyfriend or girlfriend about blah blah blah that using speak instead of talked makes it sound a little bit more formal so you can use speak but it's going to sound polite in a sentence my colleague spoke with me about an upcoming

project was like okay the next one uh the next two actually are very very casual Expressions so when you're speaking with friends and you're kind of talking about a quick maybe somewhat emotional conversation you will hear native speakers especially Americans perhaps this is unique somewhat to Americans use the phrase was like I was like he was like she was like this is a very casual way to report speech and you'll hear it often very very quickly together so someone will say I was like what and then she was like No And then I was like

yeah that's the kind of pattern you'll hear it in very very quick ways to report speech but the subject changes I was like he was like she was like we were like this is a way to share what happens quickly instead of I said he said she said which might sound a little too formal we can use I was like he was like to do that instead so this is a really fun one and if you can use this uh naturally I think that it'll really help you sound more natural too so in a sentence

and then he was like I love that movie was all the next one is also similar to was like we have the expression was all so it was all uh don't worry about all all does not have the meaning of the whole of something or a complete something instead was all this set phrase is used to report speech usually this one is used when there's some kind of emotional uh emotional aspect to your conversation or it's a little dramatic or maybe a little exciting we use it the same way as was like in that very

very quick style of speaking and then he was like and I was all and then she was like and I was all we use those together but I was all has a little more emphasis I feel I tend to use it when my when I want to express a stronger emotion and I was all no way or and I was all what so you can use it for those very like surprised emotions or maybe angry emotions was like and was all are both you used in very casual situations so in a sentence and I was

all oh my God me too talk next word is talk so talk similar to say is a fairly neutral verb when reporting speech you'll use it in a situation where someone is giving new information to you but maybe it's a two-way conversation so for example we talked about blah blah blah for a topic or my boss talked to me about blah blah blah so maybe new information is being exchanged but the conversation is two-way there are multiple participants with tell it's like the Nuance is sort of one person is reporting information giving information with talked

it's there's an exchange happening there so keep in mind when you use the word talk you will say either I I talked to or I talked with someone uh and then you'll usually have a topic so I talked to my friend about blah blah blah I talked to my friend about my new apartment I talked to my boss about a raise I talked to my boss no I talked to my dog about what dogs do okay so there's some kind of there's some kind of exchange happening there you'll need to use to or with when

you're referring to the person or entity you're talking to and you'll use about to refer to the subject so you can use this one um yeah when you're when you want to discuss exchanges of information so in a sentence she talked to me about my family mention let's go to the next one the next one is mention mention is used when like something is just there's just one small point in a conversation like just a little side note or maybe it's not the focus of a conversation but just something someone says quickly or there's just

a little thing that you hear oh you mentioned something about blah blah blah or you mentioned that a new project like it's it's maybe not the focus of the conversation but something that you heard a little bit about that's that's when we use the verb mention we can also use it in a statement like please mention any skills you have on a resume so the Nuance is sort of like a like just a little bit of information is when we use mention so in a sentence our manager mentioned upcoming changes at the company to go

on and on okay the next expression is to go on and on so to go on and on means just to talk for a very long time so maybe you have a co-worker or a friend or a family member that just talks and does not stop talking we say to go on and on that's the expression we use so in a sentence the speaker at the seminar was going on and on about the topic if you really want to emphasize it you can say it was going on and on and on and on and on

that really emphasizes that the person continues to speak so if you know somebody who does that a lot you can use this expression to talk about them according to uh the next expression here is according to according to is used uh actually in the news or like to officially report something so according to sources or according to the police according to the government official according to my teacher according to my mother these are like direct reports of information and their direct reports of information from a specific source so according to the newspaper my neighborhood has

50 000 amazing ramen shops that's not true but if I want to instead of just saying my neighborhood has 50 000 amazing ramen shops I'm giving a source for that so according to my newspaper this is this is where I got the information so this is important to use in news and newspapers and any kind of official documentation you will see and hear according to in these cases ah in a sentence according to a witness at the scene the suspect escaped report great so um the next one is report so reports similar to according to

we use report in more official situations so to officially share information like to report to the police to report to your teacher to report to uh your boss sometimes it means to submit documentation like to to give someone a written report sometimes it's to share information officially just just with your voice to report news or to report an update so when you want to give and give official information we'll use the verb report so in a sentence the sources in the area report that the accident was not serious thank goodness all right top 10 must-know

phrases for the restaurant let's get started a table for three please a table for three please you tell them the number of people that you are total so that the host can bring you to an appropriate table a table for two please a table for five please could I please see a menu could I please see a menu usually menus are given to you as soon as you sit down at your table but if that's not the case and you need to ask this is a polite way to do it could I please see a

menu I'd like to try this dish I'd like to try this dish when looking at a menu hopefully you'll find something you want to eat I'd like to try this dish could you leave out the onions could you leave out the onions if there's an ingredient in the dish that you're ordering that you don't want you can always ask the waiter if it could be prepared without that ingredient so for example I might say could I get the burger but with no cheese could you pass the salt could you pass the salt when you're at

a restaurant especially if you're at a big table with a lot of people you might not always be able to reach things so you would ask could you pass me the salt could you pass me the ketchup because you passed me another napkin waiter waiter a waiter is someone who takes your order and brings you food in America and in many other Western countries it's more polite to call a waiter to your table by simply saying excuse me or if you see another waiter walking by but it's not your waiter you can always say excuse

me if you see our waiter could you please let them know to come to our table is there any dairy in this dish is there any dairy in this dish this is something you would say if you have a dairy allergy a dairy intolerance or you just don't like Dairy you're asking the waiter about the ingredients in a particular dish I do this all the time is there any cheese in this no okay and if there is an ingredient that you don't want for example onions you could say are there any onions in this and

the waiter might say yes and if you don't want it you could always request could you leave out the onions could you prepare it without the onions please can we get Separate Checks can we get Separate Checks this is actually something that's very common especially in America if you might go out with a group of friends or even if you're on a date sometimes you might want to get Separate Checks pay for your own things that way way you can all pay separately just for what you yourself ordered and you won't have to worry about

owing each other money or calculating off a big huge bill are there any specials today are there any specials today a special at a restaurant is a dish that isn't usually on the menu it's something that's special but it's a special that the chef is offering that day or that week or that month so sometimes if you don't see what the specials are you'd ask your waiter excuse me are there any specials today could we have the bill please could we have the bill please this is how you request that the check or the bill

comes to your table can we get the check please could we get the bill please you're asking this to your waiter who will then bring you the check and you can pay 10 words that you can use at a bar let's go to buy around the first expression is to buy a round to buy around means to buy a round of drinks essentially a round of drinks means one drink for everyone in your group one drink for everyone in your party by the the way the word party is used to mean group at a bar

or restaurant the number of people in your party is the number of people in your group so to buy around means to buy a drink for everybody in a sentence our boss began the Party by buying everyone around in a different sentence you're buying the next round on the Rocks the next expression is on the rocks on the Rocks is a way to order a drink when you say on the rocks it means your drink on Ice only so rocks are the ice in your glass so you can imagine the ice the pieces of ice

in your glass the ice cubes or an ice ball these are like rocks so saying I'd like a whiskey for example on the Rocks means just whiskey served over ice that's what on the Rocks mean so in a sentence I'd like a gin on the rocks straight up the next expression is straight up so a straight up drink is different from an on the Rock strength a straight up drink is chilled with ice but it's strained so there's no ice in the drink but it is it has been chilled with ice so a straight up

drink there's nothing else in the glass but it is a chilled drink in a sentence uh I'd like a martini straight up some people use the word straight or straight up but they mean neat which is the next word we're going to talk about so keep in mind straight or straight up means chilled that's one of the key points here so yeah a martini straight up is a chilled Martini neat so the next expression is neat to order a drink neat means the drink is not chilled and there is no ice it's just it's just

the the alcohol it's just the liquor there's nothing special about it a neat drink is only the drink that's it nothing happens to it so in a sentence I'd like a whiskey neat pint half pint the next expression is really two expressions these are words you use when you order beer they are pint and half pint depending on the country that you live in Pint can be a different size they vary by a few milliliters depending on the country where you live in a half pint then is roughly half of the pint size so a

half pint and a pint are two ways two sizes we use to order beer in a sentence can I have a half pint of this Stout Chaser the next expression is Chaser so a chaser is something you use to follow an alcoholic drink Chasers are often used after shots so shots are small drinks that are usually kind of strong in alcohol content and they have a very strong taste so some people like to have something after that and they call it a chaser so the image is that the the second drink is chasing the first

drink into your body you can think of it that way the Chaser is a non-alcoholic drink so it could be water it could be soda it could be something like that juice maybe so Chaser in a sentence shots of tequila are often followed with Chasers to be tipsy the next word is to be tipsy to be tipsy is a way to describe your feeling when you're drinking so if you can imagine when you're when you're standing straight up when you're standing as regular you're very like confident and tall and you don't move very much but

if you feel Tipsy this comes from the verb to tip like this so something tips to one side or another think of your body in this way so we use the word Tipsy the adjective Tipsy to describe this feeling maybe you're not so steady on your feet you could tip over ah at any time that's called being tipsy from alcohol okay so in a sentence let's see I'm a little tipsy I need some water to be drunk the next expression is to be drunk so we talked about the word tipsy so Tipsy is a little

bit like a little unsteady but drunk is just a mess you're just you're just a disaster I mean you're being noisy you're being loud it's difficult to control your body or your friend's body whatever so drunk is usually seen as a negative thing um so yeah so drunk uh expresses yeah it's it's just not pretty sometimes so in a sentence your friend is drunk let's take him home to call it a night the next expression is to call it a night to call it a night means to decide to finish at the bar to go

home uh you're ready to be done so uh here I'm going to call it I'm going to say this is tonight tonight is finished so in a sentence it's been a long evening I'm gonna call it a night I mean I'm going to go home I'm done it's a casual expression hangover and then one more that you can use maybe the day after you visit a bar is Hangover so a hangover is a noun hangover is the word we use to describe the feelings after drinking too much so maybe you feel sick to your stomach

you have a headache your body is sore there are a number of different feelings you might have when you feel hung over to be hungover is another way to say it but when you have a hangover it usually doesn't feel very good in a sentence I have a hangover today I'm not going drinking tonight at the top 25 English phrases so let's get started the first phrase is hello hello of course is used as a greeting you can greet your friends you can greet your co-workers your family with this phrase just by saying hello hey

hi what's up hello what's up yo pretty much any time of day you can use hello hello the next phrase is good morning good morning is used as a greeting in the morning you can kind of feel when morning ends for you good morning is nice and polite or even just morning with your close friends or close co-workers the next phrase is good night good night is fine we don't use this to greet other people we use it when we're saying goodbye to other people at night family members particularly mothers and fathers to say good

night to their children before they put them to bed you can say it to your friend in a text message or in an email if you've been talking for a while good night so the next word to talk about is goodbye uh use it when you say goodbye to your friends when you leave your friends goodbye bye of course take care have a nice day peace out that's another way to say goodbye okay the next phrase is I'm plus your name of course this is a way to introduce yourself you can use I'm in my

case Alicia I'm Alicia to introduce yourself in any situation new friend I'm Alicia okay the next phrase is what's your name what's your name is used to ask someone else what their name is is so what is your name sounds a bit try to use what's your name if you forget someone's name you can say sorry what's your name or sorry what's your name again next phrase is nice to meet you nice to meet you anytime you meet someone new nice to meet you is fine good to meet you is a little more casual great

to meet you sounds very excited pleasure to meet you sounds like uh maybe a formal situation or a business context okay the next phrase is how are you how are you isn't it's just a friendly way to check in with the other person you can use it with friends your family your co-workers maybe even your boss to a certain degree uh how are ya how you doing the next phrase is I'm fine thanks and you uh if you saw English in three minutes we talked a lot about this phrase instead of I'm fine thank you

and you say I'm good thanks how are you just shorten it make it a little bit more natural how are you good how are you great how are you not so good how are you okay and so on so when someone says how are you offer I usually say I'm good this this week I blah blah blah give some information about what you've been up to maybe a hobby something that you did recently an event something interesting you saw whatever people want to make that connection with you and it's a good chance for you to

continue speaking the next word is please please as a polite phrase used when you want something from someone else you can use this as a response when someone offers you something like in a restaurant for example would you like more water would you like something to drink oh please the next phrase is thank you thank you is used to express your appreciation you can use thank you with everybody the next phrase is you're welcome you're welcome when someone says thank you you can say you're welcome no biggie I use no biggie as in no biggie

is short for no big problem the 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 no next I'm guessing I know it yep the next word is no no is a negative response to something when you have to give a negative answer so as you can probably guess the long form of no is negative I like to use nope it's very very casual not gonna happen my parents would use that with me to

soften that a little bit if you want to show a negative response to something like let's go for dinner tonight what do you want to do like do you want to go out not really no I don't think so to soften it the next word is okay okay this word comes from copy editors okay when they had to check a manuscript they had to label the manuscript all clear AC but because they were copy editors and they have a very very sick sense of humor they thought they would mark it okay for all clear to

make a joke because o and K do not start all and clear but it caught on among everybody in the world anyway okay uh is used to agree with somebody else well it can be used actually to express a positive or kind of a slight negative I feel transitioning in your conversation you can say okay now we're going to talk about blah blah blah okay the next phrase is excuse me excuse me it's used to get someone's attention in English when you don't know the other person for example in a store or a supermarket maybe

a stranger on the street you need to ask directions you can use Excuse me you can use Excuse me in the supermarket excuse me can you tell me where the hot sauce is if you've done something rude in public you can use Excuse me I personally do not do rude things in public ever I'm sorry is the next word we're going to talk about I'm sorry is used to apologize when you have made a mistake or someone you know has 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 what time is it is the next phrase when you need to check what time it is what time is it when you ask someone else what time it is maybe you say this to yourself too check your watch check your phone check a clock pretty straightforward phrase there aren't really any short versions so that's an easy one where is the plus a location so you can use this

for a building or a store we don't we're not going to use this where is the for a place a city name or a state name or a country name to do that you would need to remove the but where is the bank where is the Post Office you can use this to ask directions to ask for help in your house or at work where is the copy machine where is the file I need where is the blah blah blah where is the bathroom is perhaps a very important question to know the next one is

may I use the restroom may I use the restroom as a polite and soft expression that you can use if you need to use the toilet you need to use the washroom when you're at someone's house for the very first time when you're in a place that you're that is new to you you can ask may I use the restroom more casually can I go to the the bathroom to be very polite you can say may I go to the bathroom 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'd like a 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 see you soon see ya 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 phrase is see you later see you later is very similar to see you soon but the point is with 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 it's a really good practice for your intonation the ways to say hi this should be fun let's get started first is yo this one is a little bit casual in case you couldn't tell a used for close friends maybe family

members if you have kind of a silly relationship with them just quick short easy to do in a sentence yo how's it going howdy howdy uh traditionally associated with cowboy culture I suppose you should play a banjo maybe or you've just gotten up a horse I don't know I use howdy from time to time howdy howdy howdy that was my banjo yeah in a sentence you might say Howdy Folks welcome to the barbecue you play next is hey hey is good friendly phrase you can usually use hay with a wave and smile look happy if

you don't people might think that you're down in the dumps people might think you're not in a very good mood in a sentence hey uh I heard you got engaged last week congratulations something like that it's usually kind of a cheery happy expression all right next is what's up uh what's up is the long form of sup this does not literally mean what is above you right now if you want to be funny you can say the ceiling or the sky but that joke gets old really fast and chances are the person you're talking to

has already heard it before it just means what are you up to what is going on with you in a sentence what's up did you have a good weekend typical response to Whatsapp is not much find out some more responses in English in three minutes read an episode on this nothing much how about you that's pretty good pretty good pretty good pretty good I don't know what I'm doing uh the next one is long time no see you can use this when you haven't seen the other person for a long time you're at a party

you're in an event or whatever anytime it's been a long break you can decide how long long is not the day before or the week before maybe a few weeks or a month whatever is unusual for you and this other person when you see them you can say hey a long time no see how have you been 10 words for talking about beauty and skin care so let's begin all right the first word is makeup makeup is all makeup everything we're going to talk about almost everything we're going to talk about later is makeup makeup

is usually used by women but maybe men use makeup too makeup is usually put on the face to change the appearance of the face in some way so in a sentence I use makeup almost every day or I wear makeup almost every day use and wear are both okay the next word is eye shadow so eye shadow is makeup up which goes on top of the eye so the eyelid this part is called your eyelid eye shadow goes here on top of the eyelid so in a sentence what kind of eye shadow do you use

the next word is eyeliner eye liner so eyeliner is used to draw a line to draw lines near the eyes that means it's safe to use near eyes it depends on the person in their style but maybe they use eyeliner to make lines in different ways on their on their face on near their near their eyes in a sentence eyeliner is really difficult to put on okay the next word is lipstick lipstick there's also lip gloss too lipstick is kind of the traditional just like a single color you apply it just on your lips and

it gives I don't know not sometimes shiny sometimes a very neutral I don't know depends on the lipstick lip gloss gives lips like this very glossy almost like liquidy appearance so lipstick and lip gloss have different effects in a sentence you have a lot of lipstick the next expression is foundation Foundation is the makeup product it is applied to the skin usually of the face so it's used to make the face seem like all one color Foundation maybe people apply it with I don't know like a spongy thing or with their hands or a brush

there's like a forgot what it's called it's like a sponge I don't know then is is that a thing I think I I don't know I don't know I'm the wrong person I don't know it's a beauty blender a thing I'm not very good at the beauty stuff either I don't know anyway Foundation is intended to make your skin color appear even foundation so it's called Foundation because it's like the base the foundation for the rest of your makeup so the foundation is the kind of the basis so once your skin color is all correct

and the same then the other parts we can fix the other parts that's my theory anyway in a sentence there are a few different types of foundation all right the next expression is blush blush is usually applied on your cheeks and it's like a pink or red color it gives the appearance of blushing so when we feel embarrassed or maybe we feel excited our cheeks might turn red so blush is makeup which creates that effect of blushing this is usually a pink or red color to simulate to make it look like you're blushing even if

you're not really in a sentence do you wear blush the next expression is bronzer bronzer so we talked about blush which is supposed to give your skin the appearance of being pink or blushing bronzer gives skin the appearance of being more bronze or more tan so you can apply this maybe in summer and it makes your skin look a little more tan which you might like other people also may use bronzer to create Shadows because it makes the skin a little bit darker in the places where it's applied so there are a few different ways

to use bronzer in a sentence bronzer is nice in summer the next word is face wash face wash so this is a special soap that's for your face specifically for the face maybe your face is very sensitive or you have some trouble spots or I don't know there's a specific wash you use for your face only in a sentence a good face wash is in important for clear skin Oh the next word oh the dreaded I have a couple words here that are maybe problems all of us deal with the first kind of problem word

on this list is acne acne is an uncountable noun acne refers to usually this is this a problem happens for like teenagers or people around that age but adults can also have acne acne is like imperfections in the skin sometimes they're itchy or they're painful red bumps on your skin or maybe they're not painful but they're just blotches or a number of different ways that acne can can be an issue which we'll talk about in the next word too but acne is an uncountable noun is just about that problem skin problem in general acne bad

acne in a sentence I had acne when I was a teenager so the next word for today there are two words here there's pimple and zit these are both words we use to refer to the individual parts of acne acne we can say I have bad acne or maybe my acne is improving today but acne has made me the whole condition of your face like everything your their faces situation each part each one of those little uh problem spots we we call that a pimple or a zit the difference pimple sounds a little bit smaller

usually zit sounds a bit bigger and maybe maybe more painful so but either way pimples and zits are both words we can use to describe acne so in a sentence I hate getting pimples 10 words you can use to talk about hygiene or cleanliness so let's be in to wash your hands the first expression is to wash your hands to wash your hands is with soap and water in the restroom somewhere so wash your hands before cooking or wash your hands after using the toilet for example in a sentence wash your hands after using the

bathroom to shower the next expression is to shower to shower or to shower or maybe you prefer to take a bath so to shower is usually standing up though you can do it sitting down depending on the country you live in I suppose to shower is that yeah the water just hits you continuously to take a bath is you sit in the bathtub you sit down and you are surrounded by water that is a bath I did buy one sitting down surrounded by water in your home on purpose is a bath if it's not on

purpose you should probably call a plumber that is not a bat that is an emergency [Laughter] shower every day or I love taking a bath every once in a while to brush your teeth the next expression is to brush your teeth to brush your teeth so with a toothbrush usually in the morning maybe at night as well you brush your teeth you clean your teeth uh in a sentence make sure to brush your teeth in the morning to style your hair uh the next expression is to style your hair to style your hair means to

to arrange or to fix your hair the way you like it so today I styled my hair like this you styled your hair like that eyes tomorrow maybe I'll style my hair in a ponytail I probably won't but maybe you can put your you can style your hair in a mohawk or in a faux hawk or in a bouffant Buffon that's that Focus uh yeah it's focusing yeah that's a blue font all right so to style your hair in a sentence it takes a long time to style my hair that's true my hair is naturally

explosive and so I have to straighten it before like everything and then as soon as humidity gets it it goes it makes that sound too to shave the next expression is to shave to shave is to remove hair like if you're a man here usually uh to remove the hair here with a razor with another like a a blade of some kind or maybe you remove body hair or hair on your legs whatever uh you we use the verb to shave to shave with a razor in a sentence shaving is a pain or sure meaning

shaving is troublesome soap or cleanser the next word is soap or cleanser so soap is just used to clean your skin or yeah to clean your face Maybe to clean your hands we do not use soap for the stuff you use to clean your teeth soap is used for like body cleaner or maybe um what you use to wash your clothes so soap or a body cleanser in a sentence I like nice smelling soaps and cleansers that is true who does not hmm deodorant the next word is deodorant deodorant so deodorant is the product you

might put on your body to prevent unpleasant smells so usually it goes in this region so this is called the armpit this region so arm and then pit so like yeah kind of this cavish area in your arm we call the armpit but it's common to apply deodorant here you might put it in other areas on your body but the goal is to prevent uh bad smells or to in some cases just stop sweating completely so this is deodorant well deodorant actually if I'm going to be strict here deodorant is used to stop unpleasant smells

antiperspirant is used to prevent sweating so perspirant comes from perspire so to perspire means to sweat anti means not or stop so an anti-perspirant is a product to make you stop sweating so deodorant is the smell one antiperspirant is the sweat one sometimes you can buy a deodorant and antiperspirant together great in a sentence wearing deodorant is important especially in summer mouthwash the next word is mouthwash mouthwash I hope is easy to understand it's wash it's something to clean the inside of your mouth so uh you can use this like in the morning maybe after

you brush your teeth or after lunch maybe to keep your breath smelling fresh uh but it usually is in like a blue or a green or maybe an orange color and kind of has a minty or citrusy taste but you put it in your mouth and kind of swish like I don't know I can't swish nothing you could swish it around in your mouth and then spit it out and that's mouthwash so you've washed your mouth with this product in a sentence I like minty mouthwash toothpaste the next word is toothpaste so toothpaste we do

not say like tooth soap or tooth cleaner or whatever we use toothpaste for uh the product to clean our teeth the product we use to brush our teeth is called toothpaste uh so in a sentence I need to buy more toothpaste shampoo and conditioner the next expression is shampoo and conditioner so shampoo and conditioner are commonly used together in the shower or in the bath maybe shampoo usually comes first we shampoo shampoo is soap for your hair really and then conditioner is a treatment for your hair conditioner is used to make your hair feel softer

or more moisturized so oftentimes they are used for shampoo and then conditioner together as a set so in a sentence I like trying new shampoos and conditioners want to speak real English from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at englishclass101.com gossip let's go oh my God so the first phrase is oh my God so so oh my God so is a introductory phrase you can use to start your topic with like a surprise Factor so you say oh my God and then so is your transition phrase so for example oh my

God so I have to tell you about this movie I saw or oh my God so I saw my neighbor in the shopping mall this morning or oh my God so did you see my new dog kind of a weird one usually it's about a person not about a dog but who knows you won't believe what happened to me the other day the next expression is you won't believe what happened to me the other day you won't believe what happened to me the other day meaning something happened to you and you think it's going to

be a surprise to the person listening to you you won't believe what happened to me the other day so it's a very fast phrase because it sounds like you want to share very quickly like you won't believe what happened to me you can drop the other day if you want or you say you can say you won't believe what happened to me this morning you won't believe what happened to me last night you won't believe what happened to me this weekend you won't believe what happened to me over my winter vacation so that you won't

believe what happened to me gets very very quick and short so examples uh you won't believe what happened to me the other day I ran into my ex-boss or you won't believe what happened to me the other day I tripped and fell down a flight of stairs or uh you won't believe what happened to me the other day I got a new Parrot tour I don't know maybe one of you can use that guess what the next phrase is very short the next phrase is like an exclamation so an excited statement and a question guess

what guess what so guess what is inviting The Listener to guess what happened to you guess what uh the full question would be guess what happened or guess what happened to me but we only say guess what so guess what and sometimes the listener guesses and sometimes the listener just says what usually The Listener just says what uh ask so meaning you should continue the story so if you say guess what I quit my job or guess what I saw my best friend with a new guy I haven't seen before another example uh guess what

I got a new car something like that so some kind of shocking like um difficult to guess situation I haven't told you about this yet the next expression is I haven't told you about this yet I haven't told you about this yet so have not becomes haven't I haven't told you about this yet so maybe you've told you have told other people but this specific person maybe you have not told that person your news or some information yet but this yet implies you were planning to or you want to tell them this so it's it's

kind of creates a little suspense I haven't told you about this yet so we could use this like I haven't told you about this yet I'm going to France next summer or I haven't told you about this yet but I broke up with my boyfriend last night or I haven't told you about this yet but I'm throwing a big party for my co-worker this weekend can you come other examples I haven't told you about this yet I saw my boss out for dinner with someone who's not his wife oh my God that's my true that's

not true or I haven't told you about this yet I heard that the company is gonna go bankrupt also not true okay so those are some pretty juicy juicy gossip that's an expression we use we say juicy gossip is something that's like really really interesting gossip or a really interesting story about people we say juicy gossip for that have you heard about the next expression is have you heard about blah blah blah have you heard about can be followed with a noun phrase have you heard about a a person you can use a person or

have you heard about a situation you can use both uh you can use a an object too so have you heard about the new iPhone or have you heard about the new office policies you can use that um for pretty much anything you want to inform your listener about so have you heard about is usually said very quickly have you heard about so the U becomes shortened to yeah have you heard about have you heard about blah blah so have you heard about the new secretary have you heard about our new boss or have you

heard about my co-worker quitting his job have you heard about the neighbors above us they're moving so you can use people here for gossip expressions or you can use objects um in this expression just to introduce something new very useful phrase have you heard about my mom sorry Mom I don't know why you came into that one okay so the other day the next expression is kind of like the beginning to a story so maybe this can be for gossip maybe it can just be like a story something interesting or maybe boring that happened to

you the expression is so the other day so the other day so the other day the other day here means not today some other day which day it doesn't really matter it's not really important but we say the other day someday in the past this expression is used for so we can say so the other day I was sitting at my desk in the office when my manager came and asked if he could speak to me or so the other day I was shopping and I ran into my ex-boyfriend or so the other day I

was renting a car and the former president of the United States came into the car rental shop what all right so the other day just someday in the past so I was talking with and the next one you can use um maybe for gossip sometimes but also you can use for making plans it's so I was talking with someone and blah blah so I was talking with someone means you were having a conversation uh at another time with a person and you want to kind of report information or share something from that conversation with the

person listening now so I might say so I was talking with Risa and I think that we should plan a party for this weekend what do you think so I was talking with my team about this and I think that we should make some changes so that's a very kind of everyday work situation use of this phrase but you can also use it for gossip like so I was talking to my best friend and I think I'm gonna move or I was talking to my parents and I think it's best if we break up oh

so it can be for plants it can be for gossip it can be for just any conversation plus a report what's up with the next expression is kind of a little like mysterious then the expression is what's up with blah blah blah usually what's up with person for gossip meaning there's like the Nuance here is there's some problem where it seems like something's wrong with this person they're unhappy they're sad they're angry uh some kind of negative emotion we use this so it's like what's up with Stevens I haven't heard from him lately what's up

with your brother he seems really upset or what's up with your neighbor why is he so noisy or what's up with your boss he's so strict so it sounds like there's some problem we usually use this intonation what's up with what's up with to introduce somebody who has a problem we don't say what's up it's not that it's not that sort of hello um expression it's a it's an expression for a problem you can also use a noun phrase that is not a person person here like what's up with this new office policy or what's

up with this new rule at work or what's up with this new item on the menu at this restaurant it's super weird so what's up with blah blah blah has sort of a negative Nuance you can use it for people to talk about strange Behavior what's up with you have you heard from lately the next expression is have you heard from blah blah blah lately have you heard from person lately have you heard from Stevens lately I haven't seen him have you heard from your mom lately have you heard from your dad lately have you

heard from your brother lately have you heard from your landlord lately I don't know why you hear from your landlord but have you heard from someone lately there is sort of an ex like a little bit of an expectation that you are in contact with the person involved in this sentence like you have some relationship maybe it's a family relationship romantic relationship professional relationship there's some relationship with this person and lately it's like have you heard from them recently lately in the last few days in the last few weeks so you can use this if

for example you are looking for someone or you're worried about someone you can use this here you can also use it just just to check in about some other person without asking that person directly so like if I want to ask about I'm using Resa in my example Risa is our Japanese Channel host um if I want to ask about how Risa is but I don't want to ask Risa I know maybe she's busy or I don't know for some reason I I it's difficult to talk to her I can ask like my co-worker I

can say hey have you heard from Risa lately it seems she's really busy or have you heard from so and so lately it seems they're busy so if I want to ask about another person but I don't want to bother this person or that something makes it difficult I can use have you heard from blah blah blah recently or lately to ask about them very useful phrase I have to tell you about next expression um ah the next expression is I have to tell you about blah blah blah I have to tell you so have

to becomes have to I have to tell you about it has a nice sound I have to tell you about blah blah or I have to tell you about something so I have to tell you about my weekend I have to tell you about Stevens I have to tell you about my mom I have to tell you about my boyfriend I should tell you about my girlfriend whatever it is some person used at the end of this sentence creates a Nuance like there's exciting news about that person or I have to tell you about this

thing that happened you can use a situation at the end of the sentence too but you're using I have to at the beginning of this sentence so that sounds like it's really important like I feel it's so important it's my responsibility to tell you because this is so exciting of course you can use this in more boring situations as well like I have to tell you about the new office policy you can use it in that way with a very flat intonation but for gossip purposes use I have to tell you about blah blah blah

that sounds really good so what do you have to tell somebody about I have to tell you about this new idea I have for a business or I have to tell you about what happened to me last night okay so there are these really exciting ways that we can introduce things that happened or that we can talk about people or whatever okay 10 words for talking about space Planet the first word is planet planet so planets are those really really big things that we have in our solar system now there are officially eight because Pluto

is no longer considered a planet in my example sentence Pluto used to be considered a planet star the next word is star star so stars are those very very bright objects that you can see in the sky sometimes at night that's the closest star to us is the sun the sun is a star and we can see a lot of other stars if we look up into the night sky sometimes in a sentence it's hard to see stars from big cities solar system the next expression is solar system solar system so solar system in our

case here on planet Earth refers to the system of planets and objects which are near our star so our solar system now there are eight planets in our solar system used to be nine planets sorry again Pluto eight planets in our solar system and then we can talk about other objects which maybe enter our solar system like a like comets for example or a meteor or some other events might happen in space within our solar system so our solar system is the area surrounding our sun and our planets that we know of in a sentence

Mercury is part of our solar system Comet the next expression is Comet a comment is actually an icy body that is uh slightly melting and then releasing gases so that's what produces that look A comet okay in a sentence comets are really cool meteor all right so yes the next word is meteor meteor or just meteor so essentially meteors are different from comets because comets are made of ice meteors however are made of rock so these are two different kinds of objects that can that move around in space in a sentence lots of meteors burn

up before they pass through the atmosphere meteorite uh the next word is meteorite meteorite so this is an important distinction that many people don't know about actually this drives me crazy too so a meteor is the is the space rockets in space or it's in the atmosphere a meteorite however is the rock if if the meteor makes it if the meteor can pass through the Earth's atmosphere and fall to the surface of the Earth that rock then is called a meteorite so in space in the atmosphere it's a meteor when it falls to Earth it

is a meteorite that becomes a meteorite when it hits the Earth so fun facts okay that's the difference between the two in a sentence have you ever seen a meteorite supernova supernova supernova so the explosion of a star is a huge event a supernova is the name of it so the star explodes and that's what we call it it's called a supernova a star explosion in a sentence supernovas must be incredible things black hole ah all right the next expression is black hole black hole black holes are the subject of a lot of study they

have intense gravitational pull so meaning they have very strong gravity black holes will pull other objects into them um it is said that like a Time stops in a black hole or and like if you get too close to a black hole if you get too close to the event horizon of a black hole you yourself will be pulled into that hole too it's pretty crazy so like the Event Horizon is the point at which there's no there's no turning back from like you can't you can't escape essentially the gravitational pull of a black hole

once you're within the Event Horizon of that space it's like crazy you're done for all this kind of stuff is so interesting so in a sentence black holes are mysterious Galaxy okay uh all right so the next word is galaxy galaxy before we talked about the expression solar system uh so solar system is kind of our region of space uh the region we're familiar with but the next step up so if you think of the solar system as kind of your neighborhood a little bit you could think of maybe the Galaxy as like your city

or your country maybe it's sort of the next step out so a galaxy is made up of lots and lots of stars maybe other planets other solar system many other solar systems in one Galaxy so uh I think yeah we belong to the Milky Way galaxy I believe in a sentence our galaxy is made of lots of different stars and planets Earth the next expression is Earth Earth is our planet Earth is the planet we live on earth is yeah habitable meaning humans can live here this word I included it in this vocabulary list because

it is a very good word to practice your pronunciation it is the word Earth Earth that R and the th sound can be difficult to pronounce together ER F Earth so this is a great word to use to practice your pronunciation Earth so in a sentence our planet is called Earth ten words for talking about sleep let's go to wake up the first word is to wake up to wake up is to open your eyes probably in your bed or the place where you are sleeping to wake up is to uh to become conscious to

become awake every day you wake up uh presumably hopefully in a sentence I woke up three times last night to get up to get out of bed all right the next word is to get up or to get out of bed so that means to physically move your body from your bed out of bed to stand up from your bed to get out of your bed we say to get up or to get out of bed in a sentence I got up at eight o'clock this morning to snooze the next word is to snooze so

we have to snooze an alarm and also to snooze so to snooze means to take a short sleep to have a short sleeping time or to snooze an alarm is when your alarm goes off in the morning you have a button most alarm clocks have some button you can press so the alarm will turn on again in like you know five or ten minutes or something so to snooze an alarm is to like to ask your alarm to wake you up again a few minutes later that's to snooze so we have to snooze an alarm

and to snooze meaning like a short light sleep in a sentence I always snooze my alarm at least once that is usually true to oversleep the next word is to oversleep to oversleep means to sleep too much or to sleep late uh actually no it doesn't mean to sleep late to sleep late means just to sleep until a late time in the day oversleep means sleeping beyond the time you wanted to get up so for example if my alarm is set for eight o'clock but I wake up at nine o'clock I overslept I slept beyond

my wake-up time so we can use oversleep to talk about times when you sleep too much you sleep more than your body needs you to so maybe your body needs depending on the person like six to nine hours or so but if you sleep like 14 hours we can say that's over sleeping you're sleeping too much that's the Nuance here in a sentence I overslept on my first day of work nap the next word is nap nap is a short sleep so a nap is maybe 30 minutes one hour just a short sleep a short

rest so a lot of people will take a nap in the afternoon for example or maybe children actually take naps for example in preschool or when they're very very young they have an afternoon nap a short sleep like yeah just like an hour or so I imagine in a sentence I love naps actually I do like naps I don't like naps because when I take a nap it becomes asleep it's always like I wake up four hours later and I'm like okay well I've destroyed my sleep schedule dream the next word is dream dream so

dreams are those those Visions those images you see those maybe experiences it seems like you have when you are asleep in a sentence I always have weird dreams nightmare so the next word is nightmare nightmare is a word which means bad dream or scary dream negative dream so children maybe have nightmares a lot they wake up crying or they're really upset by nightmares monsters terrifying things happening and so on in a sentence do you ever have nightmares to go to bed the next word is to go to bed so before we talked about to get

up or to get out of bed this is the opposite to go to bed means to get in your bed uh to to try to go to sleep to go to bed in a sentence I usually go to bed fairly late to hit the hay to hit the sack the next expression is kind of a I don't know a slang expression uh we have to hit the hay and to hit the sack these both mean to go to bed um they both mean to try to fall asleep but we just use them in more casual

situations the image here of hit the hay is with your body hitting hay like laying down in Hay I believe historically because uh hay was used to stuff um things that people slept on so that's why we have this expression to hit the hay with your body same thing for to hit the sack so a sack full of something soft to sleep on is where this expression comes from in a sentence I think I'm gonna hit the hay to fall asleep the next expression it is to fall asleep to fall asleep you're in bed and

you finally you lose Consciousness you you stop being aware you are asleep in that moment we say you fall asleep in a sentence it takes me a long time to fall asleep all right want to speak real English from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at englishclass101.com top 10 must-know prepositions and conjunctions for English Learners let's get started two two I threw the ball to my dad two is sort of directional it it's saying that it's going towards something I wrote a letter to my mother I went to the mall I

went to the park my mom asked me to go to the store to buy some bread to a destination to a person from from is the opposite of two from implies where it's coming from the place of origin so if I'm going to the mall I'm coming from my house this letter is from my daughter from how long does it take you to get from your house to your job to and from they go together with with with it means together with something I am at the movies with my friend I went out to eat

with my friends I go shopping with my boyfriend with means you are together with something I like to have grilled cheese with tomatoes on it I'm here with my book at at is a very short word I always go to bed at 11 o'clock if I'm lucky I usually go to bed at around one in the morning unfortunately I get very little sleep at specifies a time or a place let's go to the movies at two in the afternoon I'm at home right now where are you we decided to meet at the beach it's a

pinpoint of time or location in in means you are inside of something or in the middle of something it means being immersed in something I am in bed right now the cat is in the Box uh the child is in the tree the plane is in the sky I graduated school in 2019 in on on I left the book on my desk on means on top of I like ketchup on my fries so that means my French fries are here and I like to put ketchup on them the man is on the roof the car

is on the street the motorcycle is on my nerves but but I think I remember her name but I'm not sure but is a way to add a negative to a sentence so for example I really love eating cake but I don't eat it often because it's not healthy I'd love to go to the movies with you but I have too much work to do I really like you but I don't want to date you and and is a very common word you will hear all the time it's a way of adding on a new

subject or thing to your sentence I love candy and pizza I'm hungry and I'm tired my friend moved to Spain and I moved to Canada I love playing outside and I love being inside and is a way to add on a new subject or thing to what you're talking about so so I have a toothache so I went to the dentist so is a way of adding an example another way to say because of this I did this you say something and then you add so and then what follows is the effect so there's the

cause so the effect so I was feeling very hungry so I had some pizza this video is going to be Pizza themed everyone apparently I was really tired so I took a nap I was in the mood for some Adventure so I got on an airplane and flew to Mexico that sounds nice or or is a way of presenting a choice so for example you can either have pizza or you can have candy I don't know if I should go to the movies or if I should go to the mall which color do you like

better red or green it presents differences of choice today's video is on Words Americans overuse I haven't seen these words yet but apparently it's going to be a series of words that we as Americans I'm American we overuse we use too often so let's start uh oh the first word is definitely definitely is definitely a word that Americans overuse we use it to put emphasis at the end of a phrase to what emphasis the end of a sentence as in oh that party last week was so great yeah definitely or to agree with somebody like

that uh oh God literally oh just in the last few days I've seen the word literally so many times on the internet and used in just such stupid ways the word literally uh means actually or truly something this is literally the best hamburger I've ever eaten so literally meaning truly or actually would mean that in that person's entire life that is the best hamburger they've ever eaten however it gets misused a lot in sentences um like George Bush was literally supporting the war in Iraq or something like that taking a phrase like that literally would

have to mean that you know the president the former president would be you know physically supporting a war with his body onward onward hilarious hilarious is the next word I like to use the word hilarious when something is actually funny um hilarious of course means something that is really funny super funny it's a step above funny maybe two steps three steps I don't know however people like to use this word in place of laughter so uh for example friends are talking and instead of just laughing the friend will say that's hilarious well if it's so

hilarious just laugh oh this must be the last one because this is the worst one this word is like um I've probably said it several times already today for the for the purposes of this video um the word like is used as a filler word so it's the same as something such as um or uh or hmm for example we use like um as a filler word when we're trying to think of something you it's not uncommon to hear the word repeated like three four five times in a row when someone is thinking they'll say

oh you know that party that I went to like like uh like uh like uh do you know who was there it just invades your speech sometimes when you're trying to think of something and no other filler words come out but the word light does ah this wasn't the last word there is another one seriously seriously is used oh it's it's good for any time you receive bad news um well not from your boss it's a really casual word but if you hear something um like your friend lost their job and you can sympathize with

them or maybe empathize is with them by saying seriously oh that's too bad or oh tell me like all your problems oh my God I just use like oh God I hate myself want to speed up your language learning take your very first lesson with us you'll start speaking in minutes and master real conversations sign up for your free lifetime account just click the link in the description