Hi and welcome back to love English I'm Leila and today
I want to help you sound well more native in English I also want to help
you sound a little bit more polite and to do that I'll be explaining ten and
different expressions that you can use instead of saying I like or I don't like
now the great thing about these expressions is that they are commonly
used in English very often it is not polite to say I don't like do you like
the cooking no I don't like it English food well don't like it it
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when we are talking about disliking something hating something it really is
too strong to use those expressions you could say I dislike or I'm disinterested
in but this is rather strange it's a bit too formal and really not the way we
naturally speak so to say that you are keen on a nice phrasal verb there I'm
keen on swimming I'm keen on playing tennis I'm keen on fish and chips all
I'm not really keen on football I'm not really keen on cooking this is a super
common way of expressing you like or dislike for something and remember to
pay attention to the structure there's a preposition there so you need to have a
noun or a gerund that follows I'm keen on swimming I'm keen on football not
really very keen on English food number 2 and this really is quite informal
completely appropriate to use with friends
to be into something I am really into Netflix at the moment I'm really into
arts and crafts I've been doing a lot of it lately in the same way just adding
not actually more commonly not really just for a more polite way of saying
this I'm not really into Chinese food I'm not really into sports to be honest
pay attention to my pronunciation there in too but when I speak naturally fast
inter not really into that at the moment I'm not really into that number three
using the expression crazy if you say I'm crazy about her I'm crazy about him
it means you really really like them it's not that you're totally crazy it's
just that you exceptionally like it it's just that you really like it so I'm
crazy about teaching you guys English not really crazy about studying grammar
again preposition gerund after it or and noun number four I am such a big fan of
the color blue I'm such a big fan of Julia Roberts
thinking of actors here are you such a big fan of love English to be a big fan
of someone as fanatic is when you really like them you think they're amazing if
you're a big fan of a sports person and actor an actress you would probably
follow their career I'm a big fan of what music do I listen to
I'm a big fan of pink again if you say I'm not really a big fan of you don't
really like it again you're saying it in a positive negative way you're using a
positive expression adding the negative not really to express it you're not so
interested you don't like it that much now this expression is really just used
for people if you say I've got a bit of a soft spot for him it doesn't
necessarily mean that you're madly in love with that person but it does mean
that you really like them you wouldn't really use this
the negative form you wouldn't say I don't have a soft spot for him this is
not really a common expression it's much more common to use it in the positive
form I have a soft spot for him I really like him six seven and eight a little
bit more formal number six is slightly more formal more
polite could be used in more formal situations even business situations I'm
fond of or I'm not fond of it means that you like or you dislike that's simple
I'm really fond of her she is such a good friend I'm not really very fond of
her she's a little bit rude and again fond of is with a noun or a gerund I'm
fond of tennis I'm fond of playing board games again gerund or now I'm partial to
you can use this expression it's less common it is more polite I'm partial to
a gin and tonic in the evenings means I like to have a gin and tonic in the
evenings occasionally not too often I'm an alcoholic but I'm partial to a
gin and tonic again you wouldn't necessarily use this expression in the
negative I'm not partial to you're probably saying oh I'm not really fond
of drinking in the evenings but to say I'm partial to means that you like this
you enjoy this activity or thing occasionally it's not really used to
describe people you can't say I'm partial to him no you'd say I'm fond of
him but I'm partial to doing something drinking something I'm partial to
watching a game of football occasionally the best example is I'm partial to a
little bit of chocolate now and then I like to have it occasionally not
occasionally for me number eight is really really formal you
might use it if you are speaking to your boss you could definitely use it if
you're talking to the queen but I wouldn't really use it in my day-to-day
English you might hear it in films or a meeting or some kind of situation that
is quite formal it's not to my liking it's not to my liking or usually in the
question form if you want to be very polite is it to your liking is your
hotel room to your liking is your to your liking a good example of where
this could be used in a hotel where someone is providing a service is your
room to your liking is there anything else I can get you so that is really one
of the few occasions you might hear that expression but when you say it's not
really to my liking or you ask the question is it to your liking
it would be a slightly more formal situation and you could use it in the
negative as well it's not really to my liking I'm afraid 9 and 10 idioms guys
and you know what one of these is gonna be I'll leave that one to last it
doesn't take all my fancy that film just didn't take all my fancy in this case
you're saying you don't like it it doesn't really took all my fancy in that
film doesn't really took all my fancy Chinese doesn't really took all my fancy
if you think about fancy it's often used when we're expressing a desire it could
be for a person or often it's I fancy a burger every fancy some chocolate but if
you say it doesn't take all my fancy it means you don't really want that you
don't like it very much you could also use this in question form does it tickle
your fantasy did it tickle your fancy did you enjoy it
number 10 the idiom of all idioms so British quintessentially British you
know what it is it's not my cup of tea it's not my cup of tea if something is
not your cup of tea you don't like it it's not something that you enjoyed
doing or that you liked at all it could be used for a situation a thing
a person he's not really my cup of tea he's a little bit arrogant grammar is
just not my cup of tea I do not enjoy studying it but of course if you do like
something then you could use this expression in the positive it is my cup
of tea in fact it's just my cup of tea it's
perfect it's exactly what I like it's very well matched to my likes so there
we go 10 amazing expressions to express likes
and dislikes do not say I like or I don't like I like
is boring I don't like can be rude I hate really rude don't say it
don't forget comment below and let me know what is your cup of tea
what are you keen on is the only thing that tickles your fancy tonight let me
know use some of these expressions comment below and I will check them out
or correct them if they need it thank you so much for watching bye