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Hi everybody, my name is Alicia

and today we're going to be talking about the top 25 English phrases.

So let's get started.

The first phrase is hello.

Hello 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.

Sup.

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.

Uh 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.

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 is 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 you?

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.

Uh, 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 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 is 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, um, the long form of no is negative.

I like to use nope.

It's very, very casual.

Not going to 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 out 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, um,

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. a few 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, 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 um a building or a store.

We don't we're not going to use this where isthe 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 is a polite uh

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 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.

Uh when you expect to see them again soon after saying goodbye to them.

This is used at the end of the conversation.

You're going separate directions.

You say see you soon.

See you 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 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.

Uh, so those are 25 very common words uh and phrases in English.

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Really?

Oh, interesting.

Uh-huh.

Okay, I see.

Great.

Fantastic.

Unbelievable.

Gratitude subjects.

What are we having for dinner tonight?

Pizza.

Affirmative.

I'll riff on that.

I am Chris Hardwick.

Hi everybody, my name is Alicia

and today we're going to be talking about the top 25 English verbs by

frequency.

So let's get into it.

Be is the first English verb.

Be refers to existence.

I want to be an astronaut.

I think you would be a great person for this job.

Be yourself.

Let's be friends.

I could have been a writer if I wanted to be.

The next verb is have.

I have a dog.

I have an idea.

What do you have?

How many do you have?

How much money do you have?

Do you have any friends?

How have you been?

Have you seen my mom?

I can't find her.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas.

The next verb is do.

Do you want some pizza?

Do you have a dog?

Do d do d do d do d do d do d do d

do d do d do d doby doobydoo

if you're Frank Sinatra.

I do the things that you do better.

Say say what you want.

Say my name.

Say my name.

Say you love me.

Do you know what I'm saying?

Know what I'm saying?

The next verb is get.

Get a life.

Get a job.

Get a haircut.

Get a better suit.

Stevens.

What you got?

I could have gotten pony, but I went with a lizard instead.

I'm getting tired.

That's not true.

The next verb is make.

Make make a cake.

Make your mother proud.

Someone outside is making a strange face at me through the window at the

moment.

That is a true story.

Make a living through legitimate means.

The next verb is go.

Go big or go home.

I'm going to the beach.

You should go to the beach.

You should go to the forest.

Go to a baseball game with me.

Past tense of go is went.

I went spelunking on my holiday.

The next word is no.

This is an interesting word

because no is actually not commonly used in the progressive tense.

No is commonly used in present tense uh to refer to your mental state

or your emotional state.

So we don't really say I am knowing really.

But we can say I know.

I know the answer.

What do you know about this issue?

He couldn't have possibly known the location of the treasure.

How many people do you know?

I knew it.

The next verb is take.

Take take a cake.

Take a break.

Take your yourself to bed.

You should take a vacation.

Have you ever taken a bath?

The next word is see.

We'll see.

I'll see you later.

Uh, the next verb is come.

Come is the next verb.

Please come to my house.

Come to a party.

I'm gonna come over to your place later.

The next word is think.

Think.

I think you're great.

He thinks pizza is the best food.

I'm thinking about lunch.

I'm thinking about coffee.

What are you thinking about?

I've been thinking about something.

That's a Hansen song.

Uh, have you ever thought about the meaning of life?

Look, look is the next verb.

Please look at the camera.

Look over there.

Look over here.

Look, a dog.

Look at your mom.

Oh my gosh.

Would you look at that?

Look at the time.

Look, it's a bird.

It's a plane.

It's actually a bird.

Look at that.

Is it me you're looking for?

Hello.

Next word is want.

Want.

What do you want?

I want food.

How many coffees have you ever wanted?

I wanted to go to the dry cleaners this morning,

but I ran out of time.

That's true.

The next verb is give.

Give me a break.

I'm going to give you a raise, Stevens.

I'm giving you the axe.

Fired.

Give me a break.

Give me a break.

Break me off.

I have given you everything I have.

Go to Mordor Fro.

I could have given you the world and instead I gave you a carpet.

Use is the next word.

Use.

Don't use a pen.

I like using chocolate when I make food.

Are you using me for my brain?

Next is find.

We could have found buried treasure last weekend.

I'm finding Nemo.

Find things on the internet with Google.

Find English words and phrases at englishclass101.com.

Yeah.

Tell is the next verb.

Tell me a story.

Tell me lies.

Tell me sweet little lies.

Tell me the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

I'm told that you are an extremely good opera singer.

I'm telling you to leave.

Tell lies every day.

Don't tell lies.

The next word is ask.

Ask.

Please pronounce this correctly.

It is not axe.

Many native speakers make this pronunciation mistake and it really bothers me.

Ask.

Ask me about my collection of rare doughnut recipes.

Ask your mom about her life.

Why don't you ask your boss to the party?

How about you ask your coworker for some advice about this issue?

I should have asked for help, but I didn't.

Next verb is work.

Work is work.

I'm working now.

Seem to seem.

The weather seems nice today.

He seemed a little angry this morning.

Feel is the next word.

Feel.

I feel happy.

Feelings.

How does it feel?

Feel.

Feel.

Clap along if you feel like that's what you want to do.

Try.

Oh my gosh.

Try is the next word.

I'm trying my best.

I try every day to work very hard.

Have you ever tried ramen?

I tried ramen yesterday and it was really good.

Do you try to exercise every day?

I'm trying to sleep.

Go away.

The next verb is leave.

Leave.

Leave me alone.

Leave your doors unlocked.

Don't leave your doors unlocked.

I have never left a hot air balloon without first taking a picture.

The next verb is call.

Call is the next verb.

Give me a call.

Please call me later.

Call me maybe.

Call your mom on her birthday every year.

She'll be happy.

Call.

Call.

If you're a seagull, have you ever called the wrong number?

Have you ever called a dog by another dog's name?

And that's the end.

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Some very, very common English verbs. give them a try.

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Surfed.

Look at that.

Do you want to build a snow?

Leave your babies outside of the movie.

Leave your attitude at the door.

There are a lot of verbs in English.

Okay, these are just a few.

Hi everybody, my name is Alicia

and today we're going to be talking about the top 25 English nouns.

These are the top 25 most commonly used nouns in English.

So let's get started.

The first noun is the word name.

Name of course is used in common questions like what's your name?

My name is and so on.

My favorite actor's name is Harrison Ford.

Something like that.

Say my name.

Say my name.

The next word is time.

Time is used of course to express the point in the day.

Is used in questions like what time is it?

Can you tell me what time it is?

I don't have any time lately if you're really busy.

Have you any time?

It's time for my favorite show.

House of Cards.

Kevin Spy is cool.

The next noun is man.

Please be careful.

Man is one of those words that has an irregular plural form.

When you need to use the plural of the word man,

you should say men.

Do not say man's.

It's very funny, but uh don't say it.

Who's that man?

Or what's up, man?

You can use man with men or women.

Interestingly enough, the next word is woman.

Woman also has an irregular plural form.

Please say women when referring to more than one woman, not women's or woman's.

Even though the uh the singular

and the plural form of women

and woman have the same spelling at the beginning,

w the pronunciations are different.

Woman women.

So watch out for that when you say this pretty woman.

The next word is person.

Person, you can use it to refer generally to either a man

or a woman.

Please be careful.

Person's uh plural form becomes people.

When you want to talk about another culture, for example,

you can say such

and such country's people

or the people in

that country speak blah blah blah language.

The next word is thing.

Generally an inanimate object,

something that is that just doesn't move like a water bottle

or you know a sweater. a thing.

You can use it when you don't know the word for something.

So thing is very very useful.

What is this thing?

Uh I like many things for example.

Where the wild things are.

The movie that's already out that I totally knew about.

The next word is mother.

Mother is the person the woman who gave birth to you.

Isn't that exciting?

Mother is commonly shortened to mom or mama or mommy.

Ma madre if you speak Spanish.

Mum.

Mamba.

If you're me, mamasita.

The next word is day.

Of course, day is used in all of the days of the week.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Time period when the sun is out.

The day or the daytime.

Have a nice day.

The next word is world.

World just refers to the entire planet Earth.

I like to travel all around the world

or I like trying foods from all around the world.

In the world of science, this is an upcoming technology.

Or in the world of literature, he's one of the most famous authors.

So worlds can be used to refer just just to um kind of a

more specific hobby or a specific interest

or just a specific person's life.

War of worlds.

Father, father is your dad.

Um other other common words used for father are dad, papa, pop, daddy, pa,

faja.

I use that one with my dad.

While mother is used to refer to kind of like nurturing kind of like

you know the earth

or things that like kind of give life to others.

Father at least in my mind there's kind of this image of um someone

who's a little bit more strict in your life.

The next word is sister.

A female sibling is your sister.

You can also use sister for a female person

that you feel very very close with.

So I might call my female friend who's I'm very close to my sister.

My brother likes to shorten it to sis.

You might also hear sister as well.

If you are silly, sister.

Whoopy Goldberg was in a famous movie called Sister Act.

The next word is brother.

Brother is a male sibling.

Uh you can also use brother to refer to a close male friend.

Common variations of brother are brother, bro, bra, brosy, broski.

Depending on what kind of person you are,

you can choose to use any number of those.

Like I might sarcastically say to my friend, "Cool story, bro."

Like if he's told me a story that's not very exciting.

In Mario, for example,

the name of the Mario games is actually Super Mario Brothers,

but brothers is abbreviated as B R O S.

Super Mario Bros..

Yeah.

Just be careful about your use of bro

because it sounds a little bit like a collegeage boy.

Uh, that's kind of the kind of the feeling of the word bro.

Oh, brother, where art thou?

The next word is daughter.

Daughter is a female child.

Daughter.

Do you have a daughter?

I have a daughter.

I don't have a daughter.

Taken.

It's sun.

A male child is someone's son.

Sun.

S O N is pronounced exactly the same as s u n.

Sun.

What are you talking about?

Son.

The next word is I.

E.

Y.

I....................

Your.

I.

Is the round thing that you use to see with.

I is used in a lot of expressions

and idioms in English

as in I've got my eye on you,

meaning I'm watching you.

Or keep your eye out for something.

Meaning please look for something.

Or please pay close attention.

I'm waiting for something to happen.

The next word is hand.

Body part.

Give me a hand

or can I give you a hand means please help me

or can I help you?

To give someone a hand.

Head.

This thing on the top of your body, your head.

We use head to refer to the top of things

as in the head of a company,

the head of a group, the head of the line.

So, whoever is first in the line, whoever is top at the company,

they are the head.

If you have a head, dance.

If you have a head, then dance.

The next word is foot.

This is another word that has a weird plural form.

One foot, two feet.

Foot, interestingly enough, foot is used, of course, to refer to your body part.

Uh, a foot also is a unit of measurement

if you are from America

or I believe one other country in the world uses this system.

Sorry, we're not on board with the metric thing in America.

But foot uh is 12 in about this long.

So if head refers to the top of things,

foot is used to refer to the bottom of things.

If you've written a paper on Microsoft Word, for example,

um at the very bottom of the page,

there will be a space called the footer,

meaning the bottom where you can put little notes uh to your reader.

The next word is place.

Place can be used to refer generally to a location,

commonly to refer to friends homes or apartments.

Let's go to your place

or can we have the party at your place is a little bit more

natural than I want to go to your house.

The next word is work.

Be careful about using work as a noun and work as a verb.

Your work refers to your job, your responsibilities,

your tasks at your office or your work place.

You can use it in a phrase like I have a lot of work

to do or please help me with my work.

I like to go to work.

It can be used to just refer to anything artistic in general.

So it can mean it can be a painting.

It can be a building.

It can be a sculpture.

It can be, I don't know, whatever.

Anything artsy can be referred to

as work as in I really like

that new work by

that artist.

Or did you see so and so's new work twerk?

The next word is week.

Uh week refers to the 7day period

that we have decided is one week here in the modern world.

Commonly used in expressions relating to your activities

as in I go to the gym once a week

or I see my friends twice a week

or I have to work every day of the week.

Monday through Friday is referred to as uh weekdays.

Saturday and Sunday weekend.

Next word is month.

Month is um there are 12 months in a year.

My favorite month depending on which country I'm in.

I generally like uh autumn months like uh October.

I think I usually like the month of October.

September October is good because it's not too hot,

not too cold and Halloween is coming and that's my favorite holiday.

Hannah month.

Tana.

The next word is year.

Year refers to the time period, usually 365 days.

There are leap years where there is an extra day in the month of

February.

What year were you born?

Or I was born in the year of the rabbit.

Uh depending on which calendar you like to use,

it can be used to introduce a story

as in many years ago I went to blah blah blah.

Year of the platypus.

Next is the word one.

The number one, the first number one of something to refer to somebody who

you loved and who left your life.

You can say oh he or she was the one that got away.

The next one is the word number,

but it can be used in a number of expressions like what's your phone

number or give me your number

or here's my number.

It means phone number, but we don't always say phone.

That's the end of the top 25 most common nouns in the English language.

Maybe you've used some of these. do probably have.

Keep them in mind and uh have fun with them.

Thanks very much for watching this episode and we'll see you again soon.

Bye.

If you have a head.

Woo!

Do you like trees?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right, Matt.

The coffee is in me.

Hi everybody, my name is Alicia

and today we're going to be talking about the top 25 English adjectives.

So these are the top 25 English adjectives in terms of how often they're

used.

So let's get right into it.

Okay, the first adjective is the word good.

Good can be used to refer to anything

that you think is good

or great or positive.

In the comparative form, it is better.

In the superlative form, it is best.

So I think pizza is good.

I think that sleep is good.

I really think that sleep is good.

Baseball is good.

Playing sports is good.

Video games are good.

The next word is new.

Comparative form, newer, com superlative form, newest.

I have a new haircut.

Do you want a new bike?

I need to get a new job.

Not true.

Sorry.

No, just an example.

So, next one is first.

First just refers to um the number one of something.

Yeah, the original of something.

You could say the first silent film

or the first movie I ever watched

or the first CD I ever bought.

The first CD I ever bought was Michael Jackson's Bad.

The next word is last.

The final of something.

We use last to refer to the most recent of something as well,

as in the last time I went to the beach

or the last time I went to the forest

or the last time I saw my friend.

Have you ever eaten the last piece of pizza when you weren't supposed to?

What was the last word we talked about?

It was first.

The next word is long.

A long anything that you feel is lightsabers are long.

Subway sandwiches are long.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I I'm not supposed to laugh for long.

The next word is great.

Great can be used to express any positive emotion.

Somebody gives you new information and you think it's good.

Uh but you want to express that it's even better than good.

You can say it's great.

Greater is the comparative form.

Greatest is the superlative form.

The greatest invention of all time was the light bulb, for example.

What do you think is your greatest achievement?

One of life's greatest pleasures is finding people to be good friends with is

great.

The next word is little.

This is a very common uh word

that gets used in an expression like

when I was little referring to

when you were a kid.

So when I was little I really like to play outside

or when I was little I was really into Pokémon.

I have said very little about the word little.

The next word is near.

Near.

Nearer.

Nearest.

You probably know the location of the nearest maybe supermarket to your house

or the nearest post office.

I live near a very fashionable store.

The next word is big.

Big is used for anything that is large in size or large conceptually.

So for example, you can say an elephant is a big animal.

Or in terms of concept,

you can say um let's see

that fashion is really big right now

or that artist is really big right now.

And that refers to popularity.

Big movies are exciting to watch with friends.

Do you have any bigger sandwiches?

I'm really hungry.

Next word is other.

Other just refers to something else.

Something different from what is currently happening.

The other thing, the other person.

My other friend is a DJ.

My other friend is a cook.

My other friend is a dancer.

My other friend I have very interesting friends.

What other things have you done with your life?

The next word is old.

Old, it can be used to refer to people.

It can be used to refer to animals, to art,

anything that has a long history.

So maybe I like old movies

or I don't like old art

or I think my grandpa is really,

really old.

This is getting old.

The next word is right.

This can be used to refer to the direction right

as in the opposite of left.

Or it can be used to refer to something that is correct.

So in a sentence like you're right, it means you're correct.

That is the correct answer.

It can also be used to mean right as in make a right turn.

Uh but you'll have to listen to the context to decide

which meaning is the true meaning.

This is not right could mean something that's not fair

or that you disagree strongly with.

This is not right.

The next word is high.

High refers to something that is very tall, very way up somewhere.

So many people might say like I have a fear of high buildings

or I have a fear of high places.

It can also in the comparative form just refer to something higher

or taller than something else.

Highest meaning the most high.

Squeaky level is high.

I like high volume uh music.

The next word is different.

Not the same as something else is different.

I think that having many different friends is a lot of fun.

Do you enjoy listening to different kinds of music?

The next word is small.

Small, smaller, smallest.

Small and little are extremely similar.

I would pretty much use them in the same way.

Uh, however, we don't say when I was a small kid.

We say when I was a little kid

or you can say

when I was small.

The next word is large.

Large and big are very much the same.

I will say though that large is used on clothing sizes.

Big is not.

When we talked about big,

we talked about how big can be used to refer to something that's very

popular.

Large is not used to refer to something that's popular.

or large is used for for sizing I feel only

so like a house can be large

but it's used to refer to like the physical size of something uh large

and in charge large this is the largest bottom is in the zoo I

have to go the next word is easy is the next word easy easier

easiest this is a good one

that you can use anytime something seems very simple for you for example this

test is easy.

Or that was the easiest thing I've ever done.

Or I hope this test is easier than the last test.

You gosh, don't call a person easy, Alicia.

Uh, don't ever call a person easy unless you're trying to be really rude.

My driving test was really easy.

Or, what's the easiest language you've ever studied?

The next word is difficult.

Uh, difficult is something that seems hard to do.

What is the most difficult thing you've ever had to do?

The most difficult thing I've ever had to do was move to a different

country.

The next word is young.

Young.

Younger.

Youngest.

Come on, guys.

Uh, younger.

Younger generations have a lot of uh new technologies to experiment with.

Young.

The next word is important.

Important.

More important, most important.

What is important to you?

I think that practicing a another language is more important than playing my banjo.

I don't have a banjo.

You can find something that's important to you and put your time into it.

I think drinking a lot of water every day is important.

Putting on your shoes before you leave the house is very important.

I have to go.

It's very important that I go.

Next word is interesting.

Interesting.

Anything that you think is cool.

Anything that you find that makes you go, "Ooh, is something that's interesting."

I think that this type of music is the most interesting type of music.

Your mom is interesting.

The next word is short.

Short.

Shorter.

Shortest.

I am the shortest person in my class.

I'm the shortest person in the room.

Short just refers to something that is not long.

So it can refer to a size

or it can also refer to a concept um

as in a length of time.

So like I'm going to travel abroad for a short period of time.

Bad.

You know I'm bad.

I'm bad.

You know it.

Bad.

Something that is not good.

Bad food will give you bad feelings in your stomach.

You're a bad dog.

Who's a bad dog?

You're a bad dog.

The next one is boring.

Something that is not interesting.

Something that does not make you go, "Ooh, but something that makes you go."

The most boring story I've ever heard was a story about a tomato.

If I don't do anything, this will be really boring.

Far, referring to distance.

Something that is not near to you is far.

How can I go farther?

Far.

The farthest I've ever run is 7 km.

I am not a runner.

Okay, that's the end of the top 25 English adjectives.

You've probably used these if you're studying English.

Uh and if you haven't,

try to experiment with them um

and see what kind of interesting sentences

that you can make up.

Try to use the uh the normal form

and the comparative form

and the negative form

and the superlative form.

You can express a lot with just these 25 words.

So, give them a try.

Thanks very much for watching us in this lesson

and we'll see you again soon.

Bye.

Cows are delicious.

Hi everybody, my name is Alicia.

Today we're going to be talking about the top 10 favorite English words.

We asked our fans on Facebook what their favorite English words were

and these are the top 10

that came out.

So let's talk about them.

Come on.

The first word, the first phrase is come on.

Come on is a phrase that's used to encourage other people like let's go

to the party.

Come on.

Or you can also use it with downward intonation

as in come on

when you feel upset about something.

Uh someone has stopped in front of you on the middle of the street

and you're trying to walk

but they they just don't move.

You can say come on

though say that out loud maybe

because they might get upset with you.

Come on over.

Come on over baby.

That's a good one.

Yeah.

Come on over to my house

or come on over to the barbecue this weekend.

It's going to be a good time.

So you can use it as part of a separate phrase as well,

not just by itself.

Believe.

The next word is believe.

Believe is used a verb.

It's a verb.

Um when you trust in something

or that you feel

that you know uh

that something exists or something is possible

or something is capable.

Um many people use it

as in like uh I believe in you to show

that they think that the other person

or the other group of people is capable of doing something

or um people use it for their faith

as well like I believe in God

or I don't believe in God for something

that you you have your faith in

and another person or in religion whatever

that might be.

Consistency.

Consistency is a noun.

The consistency of a liquid can be really thick or kind of thin.

Or you could also use consistency to talk about um something that's important

that you need when you're studying a language.

For example, consistency.

So consistency refers to doing the same thing the same way over

and over and over again.

Studying every day or making a habit out of studying.

Creating consistency in your study patterns will really help you in learning another language.

Watch our videos every week.

We're consistent.

Friend.

Friend.

That's good.

I'm glad that that was a word that was chosen from the Facebook thing.

Friend.

Um yeah.

So someone that you feel close to

or someone that you get along really well with is your friend.

In a sentence, I went out drinking with my friends yesterday

and that was a bad idea.

Friend also can be used um for the people who follow you

or the people who you're connected to on social media.

So your Facebook friends, maybe Twitter, you can have Twitter friends,

um maybe Instagram friends,

people that you haven't actually met

but that you somehow have a connection with online.

People are now calling them your friends.

Um but whether or not they are true friends remains to be seen.

What is a true friend?

A true friend is someone who you can tell all your things to

and they won't judge you for it.

Gate crash.

This this uh gate crash means to go to an event without having been

invited to the event.

I've also heard um just crash.

I haven't heard it with gate,

but I've just heard crash as in to crash a party.

So, in a sentence, I once crashed a house party.

H I wasn't invited,

but someone somehow we had a connection

and we just showed up

and had a good time.

But usually gate crashes are perceived

as um they're very unwelcome like you you shouldn't be there.

Great.

Great is just a positive word.

How are you?

I'm great.

Oh, how was that movie?

It was great.

Anytime that you want to express some sort of positivity,

you could use the word great.

Great.

You're great.

Eene, pizza is pretty great.

I haven't eaten pizza in a while.

Pizza?

I don't know.

I love the phrase I don't know.

I talked about this phrase in um one of the English topics videos

that we did with Michael.

Check that out if you haven't already.

I don't know, of course, is used when you do not know information.

You don't know the answer.

Your teacher asks you a question in math class

or something and you can say I don't know for I have no ideas.

So, you can use it in this way,

but I like to use I don't know a lot to transition in my

speech.

When I don't have a good idea

or when I'm out of things to say

and I want to kind of pass the conversation to the next person,

I go, I don't know.

I don't know.

You can use this when you're trying to make a decision, for example,

and you kind of want to encourage the other person to like help make

the decision.

So, one person might say, what do you want to do?

And you can say, I don't know, what do you want to do?

I don't know.

What do you want to do?

And eventually, somebody has to make the decision.

But you can kind of pass back and forth with I don't know.

I don't know in this sort of soft way.

Never mind.

Yeah, never mind means don't worry about it

or um maybe like stop thinking about

that.

I don't need to think about that anymore.

Never mind.

Like you want to move on in the conversation.

You can say never mind.

Or you make an embarrassing comment.

Never mind.

What is happening?

There was there's like a creaky cracky thing happening.

Never mind.

Oh, I just used it.

Never mind.

No, it wasn't on purpose.

So I just used never mind.

That was pretty good.

Passion.

Passion.

Passion refers to something that you feel very strongly about positively usually.

So you can feel passion for your studies.

You can feel passion for your hobby.

You can feel passion for your family or your friend.

I think we use passion more

so to talk about um like a love relationship,

a romantic relationship.

So you can say I have passion for my wife.

I have passion for my husband.

Or like I have passion for this hobby that I do.

Um, it's a really positive word.

So, in a sentence, let's see.

I think a relationship should be full of passion.

I have passion for music.

I do.

I have passion for music.

I'm constantly listening to music.

Uh, from the moment I wake up in the morning,

I literally have headphones in in my bed

and I'm listening to my latest the latest new things on my Soundcloud stream.

That's true.

Sparkler.

Why did you guys pick sparkler?

Sparkler.

A sparkler is a a small firework like a handheld firework

that you can use like at Fourth of July.

You light one end of it

and it kind of goes it makes

that sound too.

It goes and it kind of burns

and you can write stuff

and if you take a picture with a like a long timer on the

camera or whatever you can spell out boobs.

One of my favorite things to do on the 4th of July in America

is to light sparklers with my family

and friends.

And that's the end.

So those were let's see how many 10.

Those were 10 really cool words that you guys chose uh from Facebook.

Thanks a lot for participating and sending in those words.

Uh, it's interesting to see what you guys chose.

Uh, thanks again for watching today and we will see you again next time.

Bye.

We're stirring the pot here at Englishcloud101.com.

Hi everybody.

My name is Alicia

and today we're going to be talking about 10 of the hardest words to

pronounce according to you guys.

So, we collected some information from you on Facebook.

Thanks very much for sending in your ideas.

And these were the top 10 uh most difficult words for you to pronounce.

So, let's get started.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Absolutely might be tough to pronounce.

Absolutely means 100%.

Absolutely is uh an agreement phrase.

Are you going to that music event next week?

Absolutely.

Yes, 100% definitely.

Absolutely.

Loot like a loot.

L U T E Grime.

Be grime apparently means dirty.

I have never heard nor used this word before,

but perhaps it's difficult to pronounce.

Be grime.

The door to my apartment was be grimed in the storm last week.

Breakfast.

The next word is breakfast.

Breakfast is hard to pronounce, but that is the meaning of breakfast.

You're breaking the fast.

So, a fast is a period of time without eating.

And to break means to to well in this case breaking something it doesn't

refer to like crushing a thing

but um stopping something to break the fast of the night in other words.

So you're fasting during the night you're not eating.

So you wake up in the morning you break the fast

but we don't say break fast we say breakfast in a sentence.

This morning for breakfast I ate a bowl of cereal with grapes

and I had a coffee too.

Colleague.

Colleague.

Yes.

Colleague.

Many of my students struggle with this.

They say colleague or they say colleagueu

or something because the spelling of this word is really really strange.

There's that gu at the end

or more commonly I feel it's just co-orker.

Uh colleague sounds slightly more formal to me than co-orker.

Somebody who you work with

or somebody who you have a business relationship with in some sense.

Could be a person from another company could be somebody from your own company.

Anyone who you do business dealings with is your colleague can be your colleague.

In a sentence, I'm going to a networking event with my colleagues next week.

Miscellaneous.

That misc miscellaneous.

It's just the spelling I think maybe is confusing for this word miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous just means other stuff or just other unatategorized stuff.

I keep a lot of miscellaneous items in a drawer in my house.

Maybe they don't they don't really fit into one category.

Like it's not kitchen things.

It's not clothing.

It's just sort of a mixture of of things, miscellaneous things.

Negotiation.

The next word is negotiation.

Negotiation.

Yeah, there are two T's in this, but neither T is a hard T.

They're both very soft, that sh sound,

because they're followed by the I and another vowel, the she a negotiation.

Negotiation refers to a compromise uh between two people.

You're trying to make a decision and you negotiate.

In this case, it's the noun form negotiation.

Business negotiations continued for more than a month with this important deal.

Realm.

Realm.

I see why this one's hard.

It's that realm part.

Little realm.

It's a weird word, isn't it?

It's used to talk about just like the kind of a fantasy world is

sort of the nuance of this phrase.

The realm uh in a sentence,

let us go to the realm where the elves live and eat their bread.

Unfortunately.

The next word is unfortunately.

Unfortunately. unfortunately just means too bad.

Uh you can use this to to start bad news.

For example, like unfortunately I can't come to work today

because I'm sick or unfortunately I broke my arm at the basketball game last

week or unfortunately my haircut is bad.

Vocabulary.

Vocabulary.

Vocabulary.

Vocab vocabulary.

Vocabulary.

Vocabulary.

Vocabulary just refers to the uh words in a language.

My vocabulary in my second language is really really low.

I need a bigger vocabulary so that I can express myself more clearly.

World.

World.

Ah, I see why this one's hard.

World.

World.

Hard to pronounce that RL D.

I think together is tough.

Plus that W at the beginning as well.

It's such a short word,

but you have to say so many weird things at the same time.

World.

Your tongue is going like this in a sentence.

I have traveled all over the world

and the best food is in my stomach.

That's the end.

So, those were 10 hard to pronounce words.

Give them a try slowly at first

and just kind of try to work up to saying it at a more

natural speed if you like.

Thank you so much for sharing your opinions with us on Facebook.

And please make sure to subscribe to our channel

so that you don't miss out on any of this fun information.

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You don't need new shoes, you need new feet.

Why is the Jurassic Park theme songs coming out?

Hi everybody.

My name is Alicia

and today we're going to be talking about 15 questions

that you should know.

So these are 15 questions

that not necessarily um you need to know how to ask them.

Perhaps you know um some of the questions already,

but you will probably also hear these questions as well.

So um we'll practice a few different answers for these questions too.

So let's get started.

Do you like American food?

The first question is, do you like American food?

You will probably be asked this question.

Do you like American food?

You can either say yes or no or you can give a specific example.

Someone says, "Do you like American food?"

"Yes, I love Philly cheese steaks."

I would recommend saying yes or a little.

Or or or you can just say, "I don't know."

What do you recommend?

Have you been to the United States?

The next question is, "Have you been to the United States?"

Have you been to the United States?

So, someone asks you, "Have you been to the United States?"

You should reply with either yes, I have, or no, I haven't.

Or maybe no, I haven't yet, but I want to.

When you want to ask someone this question, you can say,

"Have you been to Japan?

Have you been to Egypt?

Have you been to China?"

Whatever.

You can use your own country when you ask this question.

How are you?

How are you?

When someone asks, "How are you?"

Don't say, "I'm fine, thank you."

And you?

Please don't say that.

Please say something more natural like good, great, I'm good, how are you?

Something like that is much better than I'm fine,

thank you. and you and be a little more genuine in your reply.

Also, when you ask this question,

maybe one point to help you sound a little more natural

when you ask someone else,

don't like try to say, "How are you?"

"How are you?"

instead of, "How are you?"

or u and make make sure your intonation is correct.

I've had a few people ask me uh how are you like a little

too with this question

or like how are you,

but how are you should be the intonation with this.

How are you?

How are you is a little bit more natural.

How long have you been studying English?

How long have you been studying English?

How long have you been studying English?

Great question to know the answer to.

Your answer should be I have been studying English for blah blah blah years

or blah blah blah months

or blah blah blah weeks.

But if that's too much for you, you can just use the time.

How long have you been studying English?

Six years.

How long have you been studying English?

Two months.

So just pick the time.

Uh if if the whole sentence is quite long for you.

How old are you?

We don't really go around asking people how old they are,

like just the first time you meet them necessarily, especially uh if they're older,

much older than you.

Like, uh, in particular, it's sometimes considered rude to ask, especially women, uh,

how old they are.

So, just be careful with this question.

But if you're about the same age group, um, you know,

maybe you're at an event

or a party or something

and you just want to check how old the other person is,

you can use this phrase.

When you reply to this, just say, uh,

I'm plus the number to make a really simple response.

So, how old are you?

I'm 15.

How old are you?

I'm 42.

Whatever the answer is, just stick I'm in front of it.

Not I, but I'm.

I am.

But use the contracted form to sound more natural.

I'm number.

If you want to make a full sentence,

you can say I'm number years old.

Don't forget that s in years.

I'm a million years old.

What did you say?

What did you say?

If you couldn't quite hear something that someone else said,

you can use this question to confirm.

I'm sorry.

What did you say?

It's a little nicer than just saying what?

What did you say?

Or what did you just say?

Sorry, what did you say?

I couldn't hear you.

What's this?

What's this?

When you don't know what something is, what's this?

When you're out for dinner,

you're out for lunch

or something and you find a new food

or you just you're curious,

just say, "What's this?"

To reply to this question, just say it's blah blah blah.

What's your name?

What's your name?

Of course, you should know how to ask this question

and how to answer this question.

What's your name is a little more natural than what is your name.

Again, contracted form will help you sound much more natural.

So, what's your name?

Someone asks you, you can just give your name, Alicia.

That's fine.

You can say Alicia.

You can say I'm Alicia.

That's fine, too.

You can say my name is or my name's Alicia.

Either any of those are fine.

In a more formal situation, a business situation,

I would I would use my name is blah blah blah

while I shake hands

or something.

What's your phone number?

The next one is, "What's your phone number?"

I would not ask this question right away.

Like maybe you've met the person a few times,

but you would like to contact them,

whether it's because you're romantically interested in them

or because you want to be better friends with them,

but just if you meet someone for the first time and you're like,

"What's your phone number?"

It's like a little it's a little too much.

So, use this question after you've met the person a few times

and you know you want to become better friends.

When you want to give your phone number, just say it's and the number.

That's fine.

Just it's blah blah blah

or my phone number is blah blah blah with the number 555 1 million526.

When is your birthday?

So maybe you want to plan a birthday party for example

or it's just another fun question the first time you meet someone.

When is your birthday?

So when you want to tell someone your birthday,

just give the month and the date.

M January 15th, August 42nd, that's a real day.

If you want to make a full sentence,

you can say my birthday is month, date, where are you from?

The next word, the next question is where are you from?

This can refer to your country or your city,

but I I feel like probably more often it refers to your country.

So where are you from?

Your answer should be I'm from place.

I'm from China.

I'm from Japan.

I'm from Vietnam.

I'm from America.

Whatever.

I'm from.

Where did you learn English?

The next question is, where did you learn English?

Where did you learn English?

If you're speaking great English,

you can say I learned English at englishclass101.com

because you did cuz you're watching now.

Anyway, where did you learn English?

In this case, in the case of like these videos,

I learned English online

or I learned English from uh

and then the school name

or the program name.

So, I learned English from englishclass101.com.

For example, if you studied English at university,

you can say I learned English at university

or I learned English from my friends perhaps.

Where do you live?

Where do you live?

Depending on the situation where you're asked this,

this can mean your country like uh I live in America.

I live in China.

Sometimes it's about the place in the city where you live.

Sometimes it's about the country where you live.

So you can kind of feel I think

which question which type of question is being asked.

Where do you work?

Where do you work is talking about your job.

You can use the pattern I work at company name

or I work for company name.

Either is fine.

I work at ABC company.

I work for ABC company.

Either is okay.

But you know if

if you have answered with the wrong information the other person will just ask

you like oh I mean where is your office

or oh I mean

which company do you work for?

Use the force for this one.

Where is the bathroom?

Where is the bathroom?

Very important question.

Where is the bathroom?

In American English, where is the bathroom

or where is the restroom is more common than where is the toilet.

Using the word toilet is a little bit too direct in American English.

So I recommend bathroom or restroom.

So those are 15 questions that you should definitely know.

Um know how to ask these questions and know how to answer these questions.

They are very useful uh and very important for everyday conversation.

Thanks very much for joining us.

Thank you very much for um subscribing.

If you haven't subscribed yet,

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>> Did you know my birthday is January 15th before you said that?

No.

Is it really?

>> Is it really?

>> Yeah.

>> Thunderdome in my stomach.

That's going at the end of a video, I'm sure.

Steak.

>> Hi everybody, my name is Alicia and welcome back to Top Words.

Today's topic is 10 lines you need for introducing yourself.

So, let's go.

Hello, it's nice to meet you.

Hello, it's nice to meet you.

You can only use this the first time that you meet someone.

If you say this to somebody after you have met them already,

you're going to seem either a like you've completely forgotten meeting them

or b like you are a very strange person for saying it's nice to

meet you again.

So, when you use this the first time,