full crew has this ever happened to you
you are having a conversation with someone and all of a sudden your
conversation dies a miserable death of stench e bad conversation
why did that conversation die
I ask you there's probably two very good reasons why your conversation has died
the first one is that you are too shy or too embarrassed to ask a person about
new vocabulary we are living in such a time as we have new slang old slang new
vocabulary old vocabulary around us all the time sometimes my mother will say a
word
and I will have no idea what the word means because it's either British
English or really old-fashioned or old school
on the other hand if you're talking to native Canadian speakers are native
English speakers they might throw some slang at you
and you have no idea what they're saying
for example if someone said I have to go take a dump
yeah what a dump truck you're taking a dump truck
so instead of stopping the conversation with the person who has to take a dump
you're going to realize that you have just earned some new exciting vocabulary
this is a common occurrence in a conversation
two people will be talking area hey man -
one person will say a new word and the other person will stop talking because
they don't want to look stupid and just ask the person to for one very simple
question
what's that so if i was talking to someone or you were talking to me and I
said excuse me I have to take a dump
I'll be right back i'm back instead of not talking to me anymore
what you're going to do is you're going to ask me Ronnie what take a dump and
does it take a dump means i have to go to the washroom
I'll be right back
you can use this with one word or a phrase like i have used take a dump is
slang
it's usually used with when men speak to two girls you can see it - it doesn't
matter
take a dump basically means you have to go number two
there's going to be some poo it's usually not polite to mention two people
my name is Ronnie nice to meet you I gotta take a dump it's better to be more
polite and say I have to go to the washer and we don't care what you're
doing there
or do we the second thing you can say what does the word mean
ok or the phrase me these two expressions are the same
let's imagine that I was telling you about my adventures in Mexico and that's
imagine that I went to a beach in Mexico and I saw a donkey and you have no idea
what a donkey is so instead of going huh
or the other thing that people do is they go donkey donkey donkey donkey
donkey
I then think one you did not hear me say donkey or two
you have no idea what I'm talking about
so instead of repeating the word you don't know
donkey donkey donkey literally asked the person the question what's donkey or
what does donkey mean
oh it's soon of use
you have asked them the question they realize that you don't understand some
new vocabulary people will try to help you
maybe they want most people want to teach you new slang new vocabulary
they want to help you so instead of closing off running away
what you're going to do is you're going to ask them what's this word mean or
what does it mean
ok you cannot say what does mean donkey
I hear a lot of my English students saying teacher
what donkey mean does you cannot change the structure of the sentence
this is very easy it's one word what's the mystery word
ok so practice if someone throws out some new slang new vocabulary don't be
afraid come back with these two words conversation skills
second thing this happens to me so i can imagine it will happen to you
maybe you are learning English
maybe you are learning how to communicate with people at a new job
I don't know what are you doing what you're going to do is you know the
English word
you know what you know this word you notice where you've heard this word
before but you don't remember the english word or you don't know the word
whatsoever
you know the word in your language but you have not learned the translation
into english language
this is where the fun begins so for the second reason a you don't know the word
at all or you don't remember the english word what you're going to do you get to
play a game with
the person you're talking to yes you're going to take all of the vocabulary
adjectives and verbs that you know you're going to play a game with the
person
this game is called guess the word you're going to start the game by saying
a question you're going to say how do you say you are going to use all of your
vocabulary and you're going to describe the word that you don't know or don't
remember
for example i can say how do you say the food and that you sometimes eat at the
movies and it's it's white and yellow
sometimes we put butter on lookbook or popcorn your friends I got popcorn
popcorn
you have just remembered or learn the word that you couldn't do the next
phrase you can say to the people or the person
what do you call again these two words are the same so these two sentences are
exactly the same
you're going to use this or this
they're the same words same sentences again you're going to play the game with
the people i'd like to put out a warning as well
some people are stupid so be careful
some people you could describe the word and they still have no idea
that's when you get out your dictionary and leave and the next sentence
what do you call again these two of the same i can say what do you call the
animal that looks like a horse but it's a little smaller
it has long ears and I can ride the animal
I think the animal was in Shrek
you know the movie Shrek Oh donkey donkey your friend or the person you're
talking to know is the movie Shrek and tells you because of your beautiful
description that mystery word is donkey
so the next time you are having a conversation with someone
maybe he was a native speaker or someone who you're talking to for the first time
and you do not understand them or you're having a conversation breakdown
do not panic remember ask them about new vocabulary and ask them play our
beautiful game
ask them to just to talk about the word you're going to talk about the word and
they will tell you your magic answer if you would like to do a quiz on this go
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