- Sometimes it takes just a small change in your English
to feel more comfortable, sound more advanced,
and understand native speakers,
or very advanced speakers better.
And today you'll learn how to use have and got
to do all of those things.
It's a lot easier than you think and a lot of fun.
Let's go,.
Hi, I'm your English coach, Christina
and welcome to "Business English with Christina"
where you become better at English, and better at business.
And in today's episode, also more authentic
and less formal in conversations.
Have you ever had this problem
where you learned a language in school,
and then maybe you watch lots of series in English as well,
but then you go out into the real world
like at work or just using English in real conversations.
And you realize that's a lot harder
than you thought it was gonna be.
You find yourself making these really long,
overly complex sentences.
You sound very scholarly, too formal,
and you don't understand people who speak fast
like native speakers or maybe very advanced speakers.
You know, a lot of times we native to speakers,
we use a lot of expressions with have, and got.
We actually use a lot of very simple structures,
but with the words that have so many meanings
or so many idiomatic expressions or difficult pronunciations
that the words are simple,
but it's not simple to understand.
Let me show you what I mean with have, and got,
and let's fix this problem.
So here are a few examples
and these are things that I hear all the time
with my clients.
Now, these phrases, they're not incorrect.
They just don't sound very natural.
They sound a little too formal, a little too academic.
And we can simple by all of that.
Can we review this report?
Can we have a look at this report?
Let me speak with human resources
and try to find a solution.
Let me have a talk with human resources
and find a solution.
The price of oil impacts the price of our products.
The price of oil has an impact on the price of our products.
Not that kind of oil.
You know, we're gonna be learning a lot of expressions
in this video.
So if you wanna make sure that you remember them,
and maybe test yourself to see if you remember them,
well I've got a free worksheet for you.
It's free, so I mean, you may as well go and get it.
It's gonna help you better learn
what you're watching in this video,
and also just get a better experience of learning
with this lesson.
And you can get that worksheet
over at christinarebuffet.com/worksheets.
Go and get it, come back, finish watching the video,
and just have fun with it.
One way that you can make your English
sound a lot more natural
is using have, and got to express obligation.
It sounds much more natural than saying I must,
or I'm obliged to which I hear all the time.
And if you notice when we're speaking
we don't often say, have to, or got to.
We say I hafta, and I gotta.
So here's a conversation to show you
what this sounds like
in a conversation with native speakers.
Hey, some of us are going out to this new sushi restaurant.
I heard that you hafta try the sushi.
You wanna come?
Oh, no, I can't.
I hafta work late and I gotta get this proposal out
before I leave.
Okay., well, I gotta go.
Let me know if you change your mind though.
Okay, yeah.
I'm gonna have to take a rain check this time, I think
but thanks anyway.
And if you spend enough time
with real English speakers though, I don't like that.
Native English speakers or very advanced English speakers,
at some point, you're probably gonna hear something
like Imma hafta take a rain check.
Imma hafta take a rain check.
Like I'm going to have to take a rain check
and maybe you don't know that expression,
to take a rain check.
But maybe you do,
or maybe you know how to search for something on Google.
Any case, tell me when you find the answer
or if you know what that means,
put it in the comments so everyone else can learn
what it means to take a rain check.
If you don't use it, you lose it.
So here's a perfect opportunity
to use what you learned today.
In the comments below,
try to use just one expression with have to.
Simple, put it in the comments.
It's a perfect opportunity to practice,
takes five minutes, not even five minutes actually
Takes a few minutes, I don't know.
Just try it, practice it, have fun with it,
and I'll be looking forward to what you come up with.
Now, if this lesson was helpful for you, please let me know.
And there are three ways that you can do that.
Give this video a thumbs up on YouTube
and subscribe to my channel
so we can continue learning together every week.
Go over to christinarebuffet.com/worksheets
and get the worksheet that goes with this video
so that you can practice and learn
and just have fun with it.
And remember the things from the video
and go over to watch this next lesson
which has some more tips on speaking more advanced English.
All right, thank you so much for improving your English
with "Business English with Christina,"
and I'll see you next time.