Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I think...
Yeah, probably. Okay. Yeah. Hello? Hello?
What just happened? Hello? Oh, god. Don't
you hate when that happens? All of a sudden,
the person I was talking to just... They're not there anymore. In English, we say that
the call dropped. So, this literally doesn't
mean that I dropped something, although I
did. This word "drop" in slang has a few meanings.
Let's go through them. Let's learn some slang.
You probably know to drop something means you hold it, just like I did with my phone.
I hope it's okay. And if you drop something,
so you let go, and something falls. And this
is usually a mistake. We don't want to drop the things, just like I dropped my phone.
There's a difference between making something,
something falling, and something dropping.
So, if something falls, it's like... But if
something drops, it's a mistake. But in slang,
we've got some crazy new meanings for you.
Maybe you've heard something like, "Oh, hey,
Ronnie's new video on YouTube is going to drop tomorrow." And you're like, "Oh, hold
on. Why is Ronnie dropping things? Is YouTube
okay? Why are things dropping?" But it doesn't
mean that I'm letting them go when they fall.
This means something is being released. If
you listen to the radio, which is a good idea
to help with your English listening skills,
you'll hear the DJ say, "Oh, the new album
by Spongebob Trot is going to drop tomorrow."
And you think, "Oh, don't drop it. It's going
to break." They're just going to release it.
So we can drop things like new products. Maybe
you have a favourite brand or designer, and
they're going to drop or release a new shoe
or a new line of clothing. "Oh, this perfume
company's going to drop a new scent for the
fall." Okay, cool. It doesn't mean that they're,
you know... Oops. It means they're releasing it, so I have a new marker.
Number five, if you release a new album or
single-which means just one song-or a product,
people would say, "Ronnie will drop her new
video on YouTube." Notice that I'm using the
simple future. We can use simple future, or we can also talk about the past when we
use this, because slang, it's what you want
it to be. It can be past, it can be present,
it can be future. It's up to you. So, "Ronnie
will drop her new video on YouTube" means
I'm going to release it.
Let's go on with some more examples of dropping.
If you're fighting, bam, you knock someone
over, we would say, "He dropped Kevin with
one hit." So this means she or he's fighting
against Kevin, one hit, and Kevin, bonk, he drops. He kind of just passes out and falls
to the ground. "Kevin, need to do some more
exercises. Get up there. Get up again, Kevin.
Let's go." This is really popular. I hear this
all the time in movies when I'm eavesdropping
on people's conversation. "Eavesdropping" means
I'm listening in to other people's conversations.
I like to do this. If I go someplace and there's
other people around, I will sit silently,
observe or watch, and listen to what other people
are talking about. This is called eavesdropping.
So, I'll hear people say, "Yeah, you know
what? I'm going to drop a grand on this shirt."
So, if you drop money on someone... On a shirt,
it means you're going to spend a lot of money.
Now, here's another little slang tip, here. "A grand" actually means, and I don't know
why, 1,000 smackeroonies, $1,000. So, if someone says, "I'm going to drop a grand on
this shirt", it means I'm going to spend $1,000
on a shirt. This happens. If you want to drop
a grand or two, you can drop it on www.engvid.com.
Give it to me. I'm not going to buy your shirt.
Okay? And do you see this? This is weird, right?
"I'm gonna", what is this? This is slang, too.
When we talk about the future, we have the simple future will, we also have the verb
"to be" with "going to", but we don't say,
"I'm going to drop a grand on this new shirt."
We say, "I'm gonna", and this, in the long form, is "I am going to", and we squeeze it
all together and speak really quickly and say
"gonna". "I'm gonna drop a grand." Whoops,
better pick it up. No, no, give it to me,
give it to me. So, I'm going to drop a grand
on this new shirt. Spend a lot of money.
Okay, next one. Uh-oh. Oh, no, take drugs. Wow, bad people out there. If you're going
to take drugs, example, acid, which is LSD,
or ecstasy, I don't know what drugs you people
are doing. Whatever drugs you're doing, instead
of saying "take", you can now be super cool
and say "drop". So, for example, I could call
my friend and go, "Hey, let's drop acid tomorrow
at work", and your friend's like, "Great idea,
Ronnie. You know I've got a presentation,
but let's do it on acid. Let's drop some E tomorrow before we go to the club." I don't
know if people still do E, but whatever. Don't...
Don't do chemicals. Okay? Yeah, I'm your mom.
Give me advice. Oh, this is a bad one. If
somebody says "yeah", okay. Uh-oh. "The label
dropped them." Again, it doesn't mean that
they fell. It means that the label ended the
relationship or the contract with them. You
can also use it for friends, right? So, whoa,
ow. I'm dying. Someone call 911. I just stepped
on something. Everything's fine. To end a
like I didn't exist. It just means he... He ended the friendship. Just like, "Bye-bye,
Ronnie. Oh, see ya. Bye-bye." We already went
through this. Release a new album, single
or product. "Nike's going to drop the latest
shoe tomorrow", on your head. And as I said
at the beginning of the lesson when I was talking to my imaginary friend, if you lose
a phone connection, so, "Oh, I don't know what happened. The call just dropped." Just
"Hello? Hello? Not there." So, slang can be
crazy in English. There's already... There's
always new slang being creative. It's hard to
learn everything, but hopefully these little...
Six little phrases will help you, and I hope
that you've got lots of money to drop on English
classes with me. You can hit me up at englishwithronnie.com,
drop a grand, learn some English with me.
Till then, I'll talk to you later. Don't drop anything. Ow.