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you win the first phrase is you win you
win if you hear the phrase you win it
means you have won something you are
probably going to receive something for
free whoo that's a very happy thing
right you want to give free things
congratulations you win a car
yay here are the keys to your new car
great thank you
I brought you something special this is
exciting to hear because it means this
little something special as I call I
thought only of you so I brought you
this I brought you something special
really thank you I miss you I miss you I
miss you is nice you can use this with
your friends your family members your
partner whoever I miss you shows that
you want to meet the other person
probably you haven't you haven't seen
them as much as you would like to so you
can say I miss you I miss you call your
husband or wife or boyfriend girlfriend
whoever on the phone maybe you haven't
seen them for a long time you can say I
miss you I miss you too the budget is
unlimited the next phrase that you
always want to hear is the budget is
unlimited the budget is unlimited this
could be at work this could be a budget
a personal budget maybe but it just
means there's no limit to the budget you
can spend as much money as you want
whew very exciting so let's see in a
business context perhaps you have this
new client who's going to give you a lot
of money to build a new house or
something maybe you're building houses
that's your project your boss comes to
you the budget for this project is
unlimited really let's go crazy there'll
be a bonus at the end of the month yeah
this is a phrase that you probably are
very excited to hear it means you are
going to receive extra money from your
job at the end of the month whoo-hoo
very exciting extra money maybe you'll
hear this from your boss or your manager
or maybe your coworker at work maybe you
see it in an email there'll be a bonus
at the end of the month really I'm gonna
use mine to buy a new car really I'm
gonna use mine to go out on a date
really I'm gonna use mine to get a new
fish you did a great job you did a great
job you
did a great job is something you'll
probably hear from well I don't know you
could hear this from pretty much anybody
any time you've done a good job someone
will congratulate you or tell you their
opinion with this phrase you did a great
job you finished a project at work and
your boss says you did a great job thank
you so much it was really fun or thank
you
just just say thank you you look great
today you look great today the other
person thinks that your physical
appearance is nice today don't think
about that today part you know just just
just take the compliment oh really thank
you so much you look great today
oh thank you so much I got a new haircut
thank you so much i i got enough sleep
yeah you were right you were right this
means that something that you said in
the past was correct and it everybody
likes to be correct I think I saw that
movie that you recommended you were
right it was really good oh good I'm
glad you enjoyed it don't be like I know
or yeah I knew I was right don't do that
just say oh good I'm glad you're an
excellent cook you're an excellent cook
this is a nice compliment especially for
someone who enjoys cooking if you say
you're an excellent cook it means you
enjoyed their food so let's see at a
dinner party for example you're an
excellent cook this food is delicious oh
thank you so much I'm really glad you
enjoyed it I love your cooking this is
my personal favorite compliment oh my
god I love cooking like I'm always
posting like pictures of things that I
cooked on Twitter I'm just like crazy
about food so this would be a compliment
that I would love to get like the
ultimate compliment for me that would be
will you make my birthday cake that
would be such a compliment like it's a
question but it's in there's so much
behind that will you make my birthday
cake you would give that to me so maybe
after you can use this after a meal for
example I love your cooking and the
other person will be like
great job great job this is a compliment
that you can use anytime you can use it
to your with your friend with your not
with your boss your boss might use it
with you an employee a co-worker or
colleague pet even whatever it's it's
just a very small scale very easy to use
compliment it means you think whatever
has just happened is good I use great
job all the time I use great job and I
use good job sometimes when I make a
mistake or something funny happens and
I'm alone at my house and I want to make
fun of myself I'll be like yeah great
job Alicia but if I'm if I'm trying to
be positive about a failure or laugh at
myself a bit but in general it's just a
good easy compliment to give someone
great job you have a way with words you
have a way with words this can be
speaking this can be writing it means
you think that the other person is a
good communicator or maybe even more so
than just a good communicator you think
that the way they speak or the way that
they write is particularly good so that
could mean funny it could mean romantic
it could mean dramatic something about
the way they speak or the way that they
write you really enjoy that you can say
you have a way with words it's quite a
nice compliment I think it's kind of
like a you know it's smart it's a bit of
a smart thing you have a way with words
or you can say you're good with words
you're really good with words
yeah all right next one you look
gorgeous you look gorgeous very nice
compliment to give just be very careful
with the way that you say this for an
everyday compliment I tend not to say
you look nice or you look gorgeous today
or something like that because the
underlying comment there is on the other
days that person doesn't look nice like
so if I want to compliment someone's
appearance I try to pick a specific
thing I'm like oh I've never seen you
wear that sweater before it looks nice
on you something like that like
yesterday my friend had a new dress on
and like is that a new dress and because
I thought she looked nice but I didn't I
didn't want to make it sound like I
don't think she looks nice every day so
I said is that a new dress and she goes
yeah and I said I think that color is
really really nice on you it looks
really good and she was so happy about
that
so yes there there are these compliments
like you look nice you look great you
look gorgeous and so on but I personally
kind of prefer to level them up a little
bit and just say pick a specific thing
like did you get a new haircut did you
dye your hair or you did you get
something
did something happen like what whatever
it is try to pick up on a specific thing
because then that shows you're paying
attention to the other person and you
think that whatever they have chosen to
do whatever like clothing or whatever
haircut whatever it is you think that
they have good sense there too or good
style so it's kind of like a double it's
a very subtle double compliment yeah you
have good tastes you have good taste
this can be for food fashion style for
decorating sense music in movies
whatever if you think that that person's
artistic selection is in whatever
capacity if you think that that person
makes good choices with their their
appearance or their hobbies or whatever
you can say you have good taste this is
a fairly sophisticated compliment I
think we use you have good taste for
something like it's it sounds a bit more
sophisticated maybe if you both choose
the same bottle of wine perhaps like it
has kind of a more formal adult dish
sophisticated feeling about it this
compliment so yeah maybe maybe wine is a
good example of that yeah oh nice bottle
choice like I really like that you have
good taste
you can follow this by the way you have
good taste in blah blah blah you have
good taste in movies you have good taste
in music if you want to be specific
about something that you think that
person is really good at choosing you
have good taste in now you have a great
sense of humor you have a great sense of
humor this is the this is the underlying
compliment in the phrase you are so
funny this is the underlying compliment
you have a great sense of humor means
the other person thinks you are funny
that you are good at telling jokes or
you make them laugh this is actually one
of my favorite compliments to get you
have a great sense of humor
um yeah because I think that like you
know people like to laugh so it's an
it's an if someone makes you laugh you
can say this you have a great sense of
humor or you're very funny yeah it's a
good one it's a really good one um so
you could say after a joke for example
or after maybe you've you're you
finished laughing it's something the
other person has said you can say ah you
have a great sense of humor good next
one is your resume is impressive this is
a weird compliment to say to your
friends unless you're like reviewing
your friends resume it's a bit weird
this is something that perhaps someone
interviewing another person for a job
would say the candidate comes in for the
interview the interviewer says why your
resume is very impressive I'd like to
ask you a few questions about it so this
is good to hear in a work situation yeah
you really probably won't need to use
this with your friends you make me want
to be a better person this is something
that I think you see in movies from time
to time yeah I've had I had one person
say like like oh that something you did
inspired me and that was like really
like wow that was really exciting like
somebody was inspired by something like
wow that's great I want to be like you
that's a really cool compliment but if
someone says you want to make me be a
better person it's like oh wow like that
means I'm really important to that
person which is really flattering but at
the same time if someone said that I
would also be like if it's like my
friend I'd be like but I want you to be
you like I think you're a cool person
already yeah it's like oh you make me
want to be a better person like in that
person's viewpoint you're like somehow
above them and that's uncomfortable yeah
just I would rather say you inspire me I
think that that or like this thing that
you did really inspired me like if
somebody said like I saw that picture
that she posted on Twitter of that pizza
today Alisha and it really inspired me
and I made my own pizza I'd be like yeah
you are an awesome friend this is really
really good to use after your friend has
helped you with something maybe you're
moving to a new apartment or new house
or maybe
you've had some trouble and your friend
gave you some good advice or your friend
just listened to you when you really
needed to talk to someone after that
experience you could say thanks so much
you were an awesome friend or maybe your
friend did something really really cool
and you just want to like tell them like
I think you're really awesome just say
you are an awesome friend they'll be
happy to hear that or just you can
abbreviate it - you are awesome not just
you're an awesome friend just you are
awesome you're a cool person you are
awesome you're fantastic
you are an awesome friend this is
delicious because I love cooking so when
somebody tells me this is so good like
when they say it in just that right way
and you can tell that it's real if you
can tell that it's true I'm just like
yes when people go oh my god this is so
good like I've cooked something really
really well they say oh my god amazing
or I want to eat your food that sort of
thing when people say that I'm just like
yes like that makes me so so happy
because it's something like that's one
of my favorite things to do it's a skill
and it's something like I've worked hard
to try to do well so when someone
compliments me on that I get really
excited hi everybody and welcome back to
top words my name is Alisha and today
we're going to be talking about 10 ways
to ask for help help me help me ask for
help let's go
can you can you bah bah blah so can you
give me that pen can you turn off the
fan can you give me a sandwich for lunch
I forgot mine in this sentence can you
send me your email address so very
simple requests you can use can you blah
blah blah
with them could you give me a hand with
the next expression is could you give me
a hand with blah blah blah meaning I
need you like I need physically I need
your hands to help me maybe or I need
something I need you to help me with
something could you give me a hand with
this computer could you give me a hand
with this furniture it's you can use it
to talk about like moving something
heavy or
you can also use it for like a task like
could you give me a hand with this
report I don't know this information so
you can use it for ya physical tasks or
for mental tasks too could you give me a
hand with something in the sentence
could you give me a hand moving this
sofa can you show me how to the next
expression is can you show me how to can
you show me how to bla bla bla this
means please teach me something so can
you please show me how to use this
computer can you show me how to use this
software can you show me how to book a
ticket so these are all ways to ask for
help with how to do something this is a
very useful expression I think can you
help me out with the next expression is
can you help me out with can you help me
out with something
so before we talked about can you give
me a hand with this is very similar can
you help me out with some tasks you can
use it for physical activities or mental
activities here so can you help me out
with this project can you help me out
with cleaning this house I don't know in
this sentence can you help me out with
my homework
I need help the next expression is I
need help
bla bla bla so you can use the
expression I need help that's fine but
if you want to be specific which I
recommend I need help
bla bla bla I need help with my homework
I need help doing the dishes I need help
cleaning the yard I need help something
something something very clear very
direct it's a little bit casual I
suppose but yeah you can use this in
most situation where you need help the
sentence I need help making dinner
tonight
could you the next expression is could
you so the first expression we saw in
this lesson was can you you can also use
could you Timmy could you sounds a
little bit more formal than can you so
can you love wha is it's a good kind of
neutral
every day way to ask for help could you
sounds just a little bit more polite a
little bit more formal so could you
please send me that file could you
please stop smoking here in this
expression could you send me the project
files will you so the next expression is
will you so this is used kind of for
light maybe you just thought of
something you just thought of something
you need help with so it's probably a
small task or a small favor that you
need so for example will you get some
milk at the store on your way home it's
like something you just thought of for
the future so will you help me with my
homework will you give me a moment of
your time it's something very small very
quick so in this sentence will you let
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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 see him
either a like you've completely
forgotten meeting them or be like you
are a very strange person for saying
it's nice to meet you again so when you
use this the first time you can shake
hands with someone and say hello it's
nice to meet you I love travelling you
are the kind of person who wants to go
to many different countries and you want
to be able to speak to the people in
those countries presumably
english-speaking countries you can say I
love travelling maybe I think it's gonna
rain tomorrow you can say yeah maybe you
don't know for sure yes or no but it's
possible it's a good sort of in-between
expression but if you use maybe all the
time it's gonna sound really strange and
it's gonna sound like you can't make a
decision so use maybe very sparingly
don't use it so often maybe is very
commonly used it's a soft no it's up to
you to figure that out among the people
that you're talking to though can I try
this on is useful when you're shopping
for clothes so you find something that
you'd like to try just ask the staff can
I try this on you can just say I want to
try this on if you like the neck
pattern is I feel like blah blah blah
you can use I feel like when you
introduce a suggestion or something that
you would like to do especially for food
drinks or activities so for example I
feel like coffee
I feel like Italian food I feel like an
action-movie there's some activity or
something you would like to do at the
end of this pattern
I feel like bowling this afternoon
something needs to go here some sort of
activity of course you can use this
expression to talk about your feelings I
feel like something but this something
must be a noun it must be a noun like if
you feel really great I feel like a
million bucks for example if you feel
really bad I feel like garbage that's a
nice expression that somehow it just
came out of my head anyway you can use
this in two ways but this must be
completed with a noun phrase at the end
of the sentence 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 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 I enjoy many of my
students say what is your hobby but
that's not something that native
speakers will say no native speakers say
what is your hobby instead we ask what
do you like to do or what do you do in
your free time this is a much more
natural question than what's your hobby
the answer to this then is I enjoy or I
like plus a noun phrase so for example
what do you like to do I like listening
to music or I enjoy listening to music
what do you do in your free time I like
watching movies what are you do in your
free time I like baking cakes what do
you do in your free time I enjoy tap
dancing what do you do in your free time
I enjoy making new friends aaaghh I want
to speak to my partner's family in their
language I want to speak to my partner's
family in their language so maybe
you and your partner share a common
language and you can communicate
together but maybe your partner's family
does not have that same common language
you maybe decide oh I want to learn some
of the language so that I can
communicate with my partner's family
that might be a good reason to study yes
you're right yes you're right means
you're correct yes I agree with you I
think that's the right information I
think that's the correct opinion just a
very clear agreement phrase you're right
it also has the nuance of being correct
so maybe there was there were there was
a possibility the other person could be
incorrect did you know that pepperoni
pizza is the most delicious pizza in the
world yes you're right you could change
it too that's right for that opinion you
can use your to talk specifically about
the person itself but that's right yes
that's right that information is correct
could we have the menu please if for
some reason you don't receive a menu
when you come to the table you can again
just wave it a member of the staff and
say could we have the menu please where
are you from
the next word the next question is where
are you from this can refer to your
country or your city mmm but I feel like
problem or stuff and 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 absolutely absolutely means
100% yes exactly precisely definitely
it's a quick and clear and can be polite
as well as casual word that means you
agree with the other person hey do you
want to go to the beach this weekend
yeah absolutely absolutely 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
know 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 at a
time
that's true 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 I'd like
to have a non-smoking seat please so
when you go to a restaurant you have an
option between smoking and non-smoking
sections the staff will say smoking or
non-smoking you can say I'd like to have
a non-smoking seat please quite honestly
though the most natural response is just
to say non-smoking I'm sorry is the next
word we're gonna talk about I'm sorry is
used to apologize when you have made a
mistake or someone you know it's 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
tell is the next verb tell me a story
tell me lies tell me sweet little life
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 no lies every day
don't tell lies 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 then
I want to go to your house is this the
train for blah blah blah or is this the
train that goes to blah blah blah to
confirm with someone that I'm indeed on
the correct train line if I say is this
the train bound for San Francisco you
can use that to check if you're correct
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 like 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 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 see you soon
seeya 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
phrases see you later see you later is
very similar to see you soon but the
point is would 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 were 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
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