REAL LIFE ENGLISH | Speak English Like A Native Speaker Episode 1

hey you want to speak English like a native English speaker right you want to sound natural you really want to speak English fluently well in order to do that you must use the words and expressions that we actually use in real life and that's exactly what I created this series for you real life English now I'm going to teach you words and expressions that we really use are you ready well then I'm teacher Tiffany let's Jump Right In so we're going to look at our first situation A group of young ladies and we're going to

see how I as a native English speaker would describe this situation now looking at this situation I first see these two young ladies in front and I would say wow Dependable now I want you to watch me really quickly after me Dependable excellent one more time after me Dependable good job now again when I see these two young women I think of Dependable but what does the word Dependable actually mean so dependable means trustworthy reliable and capable of being trusted or depended on so when I look at those two young women I see one is

leaning on the other I think man she really trusts her she really can rely on her and maybe in your your life there is someone that you truly rely on someone that's always there for you you can say my friend my mother my father my sister my brother wow they're really Dependable makes sense right now let's look at an example sentence right here repeat after me her boss said that she was a very dependable assistant your turn excellent now we're seeing in this sentence how to use Dependable to describe someone now I do want to

remind you really quickly that this word can be used all the time not just in a business environment you can also use it when speaking to your friends and in other environments so one more time after me Dependable excellent all right now let's go to our next word looking at this picture I would next notice this young lady right here beautiful smile and I would say exuberant exuberant now after me this one's a little tricky after me exuberant good last time after me exuberant good job now what does the word exuberant mean this is a

word again that popped in my head when I first saw the situation exuberant means joyously unrestrained and enthusiastic many people tell me a lot teacher Tiffany you're so enthusiastic well now you can say teacher you are such an exuberant individual makes sense right now think about someone around you someone who is enthusiastic always full of joy someone that makes you smile that person is an exuberant individual now let me show you an example sentence how to actually use this word in real life here we go after me he had has such an exuberant personality good

job you can use it like this an exuberant personality now keep paying attention because we do have a quiz coming up soon all right so again we learned the first one Dependable the second one exuberant looking at this picture now then my eyes naturally would go to the top the top left and I see this young lady and she looks reserved d one more time after me reserved and maybe you're thinking wow teacher what does that word mean why did that word pop up in your head teacher Tiffany well after me one more time reserved

excellent very good now again if you need practice and help with your pronunciation you can always download my app English with Tiffany the link is right in the description there's a pronunciation course and a conversation course within the app so you can download it and get help with your pronunciation right now but again this word reserved is very important reserved means restrained in words and actions now I am not a reserved person I'm very outgoing I like talking to people but a reserved person kind of holds back a little bit they don't talk as much

to other people they just kind of are a little quieter around bigger groups of people just like in the picture you can tell that the woman seems a little bit shy a little bit reserved maybe someone you know is reserved one of my closest friends she is very reserved when we get in big groups she kind of gets quiet and just kind of sits in the background she is reserved so how would you use this in a sentence here we go you can use it like this and repeat after me my friend is more reserved

than I am but she loves being around people makes sense all right repeat after me again my friend is more reserved than I am but she loves being around people your turn ah good job excellent job all right so now you understand what the word reserved means now I do want to give you this tip really quickly this word can be used for people and for Animals maybe you have a pet maybe you have a dog or a cat and your dog or cat loves you but when other people come around the dog kind of

goes in the background very shy doesn't like talking to other people doesn't like playing with other people you can say ah my dog is a little bit reserved makes sense right okay good so now we have three words we had Dependable exuberant and reserved now when I go back and look at this image the next thing I notice are these other the these other two women right here I notice these women and I say you know what ride or die huh ride or die why would you say that teacher don't you worry I'm going to

explain now this is actually a slang term so after me ride or die good job now ride or die this actually is something that you should know it means to be extreme uh extremely loyal so it refers to extreme loyalty to someone or something when you are willing to do anything for someone you love or someone you really appreciate in your life you can say that's my ride or die you see how I kind of changed even the way I said it it's slang right so we say my ride or die this person is so

loyal to me they'll do anything for me we say ride or die in English now let me show you an example sentence that will help you use use this word in real life here we go my best friend will always be my ride or die your turn good job now maybe you have the same thing you have a best friend that really is your ride or die my best friend is my ride or die make sense all right good job now when I go back and I look at the image I see something else I

go back and I look at these ladies and I notice within the first two ladies the other lady on the right something about her expression she looks self assured again after me self assured good last time after me self assured great job now self assured this is when someone is super confident so this is an expression this combination of two words it means confident in one's own ability or character and when I looked at that picture and I saw that woman she just looked confident she looked like she could conquer the world so the first

thing that popped in my head literally was self assured so again now you know the word or the expression you can use in this situation but let's check an example sentence here we go after me the new employees could tell that their boss was a very self assured and confident leader your turn good job excellent self assured extremely confident so again you can use this self assured in place of confident if you'd like makees sense right now remember I told you that a quiz is coming but I want to give you this quick tip this

can be used self assured can be used to compliment or insult someone so you must be careful how you use it okay you can say you're too self assured that's kind of an insult but if you say I love my boss she's so self assured that's a compliment so it all depends on the way that you actually say it make sense all right so again great you've learned Dependable exuberant reserved Rider die and self assured so now you know what time it is it's time for your English quiz now I want to know if you

are ready for this quiz I want to see how much you remember from our lesson so let's start off with question number one here's the question I want you to fill in the blank with the word or expression we learned today now remember you only have right here five seconds all right here's the sentence the interview revealed that he was a very blank and mature young man you have five seconds ready and now I want you remember you only have five seconds so here we go ready go time all right now what is the answer

the answer is self assured I think you got it right good good all right so now let's go to the next question let's go to the next question and see if you can get the answer right for question number two all right question number two since her mom was always there for her the woman said she was her what's the answer here's the timer time what's the answer come on I know you know it exactly she was her ride or die excellent very good job very good job all right now let's go to question number

three here we go the question is and let's reset the timer is my friend is quiet and here's the timer quiet and what time all right the answer to the question is what my friend is quiet and reserved very good I think you got it excellent excellent now let's move on to question number four you're doing a great job here we go question number four his passion revealed that he was a very dancer this one's a little harder he was a very dancer 5 Seconds here we go uh oh it went a little faster I'll

give you two more seconds time all right what's the answer come on you know it exuberant excellent an exuberant dancer very good very good all right last quiz question here's the last quiz question now here's the question I need someone here's the sentence I need someone blank to take care of the children while I'm at work I need someone blank to take care of the children while I'm at work 5 Seconds time what's the answer come on I know you got it exactly I need someone Dependable someone I can rely on to take care of

the children while I'm at work excellent job very very good so again you learned the words and you got the quiz questions right now I do want to quickly give you some patterns to use for example Dependable you can use this pattern to make make your own sentence the pattern is the name is the most Dependable person I know because and then you give the reason so let me show you what that would look like again you can use this pattern if you want to see this written down just go to the website speak English

with tiffany.com and you'll see this post for this YouTube video and you can copy down the notes here's what this would look like using the pattern Mark the name is the most Dependable person I know because he is always there when I need him okay makes sense right use the pattern to actually make the sentence all right let's keep going here we go next one is exuberant exuberant now with exuberant here's the sentence pattern the exuberant person and then a description of the person and then an action connected to their exuberance now I'm going to

show you how to do this all right it's the pattern patter but here's an example the exuberant woman that's the person with the long hair that's a description and what's the action enjoys making other people laugh so using the pattern you're able to make a sentence properly in English and use the word all right what about Reserve we learned reserved here's the pattern person was very reserved so person didn't and then the action connected to being reserved so what does this look like here's the example sentence using this pattern her brother was very reserved so

he person didn't speak to anyone at the event so we're using the pattern and making a sentence for the word reserved all right now what about ride or die you know I like that one talking about someone who's always be there for you here's the p pattern person has been my ride or die since and then the time period so what about my best friend let me show you how I would use this pattern she has been my ride or die since we were in the fourth grade and that's true actually she's been my ride

or die since we were in the fourth grade person she her name is Wilma and then time period since we were in the fourth grade now last one what about self assured now self assured here's the pattern a self assured person usually now change the parenthesis action connected to being self- assured so here's what you can say for this one I said a self-assured person usually speaks well in front of a crowd of people so I used the pattern and made a perfect English sentence and you can do the same so again you learned quite

a few words today real words you learned real life English that will help you sound like a native English speaker now I hope you enjoyed today's lesson I hope that you use the words and expressions and start sounding like a native English speaker remember don't forget to download the English with Tiffany app the link is right in the description I hope you have an awesome day and an awesome week and I'll catch you next time you still there you know what time it is it's Story Time hey I said it's story time all right so

today I want to tell you a story about my ride or die my best friend so I have to be very careful with the names that I use in this story just in case they watch this video later so this was when I was in college now I had dated a guy all through high school at the beginning of high school and we also kind of hooked up a little bit through throughout college but we weren't together at the time of this story so my best friend and I we were going to another friend's event

and this guy just happened to also be at the event so myself you know I was going and my ride or die my best friend was coming with me so we were at the event and we were actually sitting at a table about to eat lunch and she and I were sitting there talking and the guy the one I used to date sat right in front of us so it's my friend and I sitting next to each other and then the guy sat in front of us now we didn't have a bad breakup but it

was still a little bit awkward between us so he sat down and he started talking now of course he was looking at me he he knew my best friend um but he was talking to me and my best friend could tell that I wasn't necessarily comfortable I wasn't nervous it was more of why why are we talking like we're not together and you know you're with somebody else I'm not I'm confused why he's sitting here that was going on in my mind and my best friend picked it up so he's sitting there talking to me

and the conversation kind of dwindles and kind of stops a little bit and he's just sitting there looking at me so my best friend let me tell you something about her yes she's my or die but she's also a very reserved person like we learned she's a little bit shy and she's not really the person you'll see make the first step or make the first introduction she's kind of shy so I was sitting there and the guy was looking at me and I was looking at him and it was getting a little bit awkward and

my best friend who was reserved said why are you still sitting here and she was talking to him it caught me off guard and he looked at her she said if you're done it's okay to walk away now the thing is she's a very reserved person she doesn't normally do things like that so I looked at her because it caught me off guard and then I looked at him and he looked at her and then he looked back at me and I just shrug my shoulders because I didn't know what to say she said it's

okay for you to walk away it's okay if the conversation is done and he did walk away now don't get me wrong we're all still friends like this happened a long time ago but in that moment I realized my best friend may be reserved but when she needs to talk when she needs to speak up she will let's just say he never started an awkward conversation with me again when she was around now since that time we've had many conversations we've talked a lot on the phone and everything he and I but I will never

forget that situation because my friend the reserved person that I thought would never speak up in certain situations actually spoke up to stand up for me in that situation so maybe you have a friend like that too your RIT or die that maybe he or she is reserved or seems like they want to be in the background but when it's time they speak up and stand up for you so it was a shorter story today but something that I will never ever forget all right guys I hope you enjoyed today's lesson I hope you learned

a lot and I hope you continue to study English I will see you next week