Hi guys and welcome back to Love English! Today's lesson is going to be a little
bit controversial if you are a native speaker of English you might not want to
watch this lesson, if you are a non-native speaker then this lesson is
really going to help you sound smarter more eloquent more articulate and
generally speak better English. I'm going to tell you the seven words that you
should NEVER EVER say in English these words will simply make you sound well... I
don't want to say less intelligent but... I'm going to! LESS intelligent you will
not sound as smart as you could if you used an alternative to these words. Now
of course you will hear many English people using these words and expressions
and you might think that that is completely acceptable to use and you
want to speak in this way but many of you are learning English to use in a
business environment or at university or to help you get a better job. So, using
these expressions is not the best way to sound and the best way to speak in
English and of course if you are English you can comment below and complain about
everything that I say... but I am right! don't use these seven words in English
because it is just bad grammar speech vocabulary
it doesn't make you sound smart
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that you think you should avoid in English if you want to sound smarter and
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the lesson seven that's right seven words expressions that you should
never use in English if you want to sound smart ain't it ain't you hungry
number one eight eight eight is not a word it doesn't exist in the English
language it is simply a very informal tag question the weather's great ain't
it or it could mean are you not it is not any hungry no do not say this do not
use the word ain't it is bad bad English instead just use be not aren't you
hungry the weather is great isn't it if you want to learn more about how to use
question tags there is a link here and I will provide one in the description box
below so if you've heard the word eight forget it don't use it if you want to
sound smart number two similar to eight innit innit
this is an expression you might hear more in London but again generally
speaking it is very very informal it is not correct English and I do not
recommend you use it even when you're talking with friends it's just a bad
habit to get into so in it again means isn't it a little
bit like eight the weather's great innit chocolates fattening in it is
it it is not a correct question tag it is not correct grammar do not use it
understand it if you're watching an English film a television program but
don't think that it is the right way to speak number three so like I was walking
to the shops and like I saw this dog and this dog was like huge so like I cross
the street because like I don't want to be attacked by a dog using like now I
think this is a little bit more of an American way of speaking but it has also
come over to the UK using like as an interjection just to add emphasis does
not sound good of course we can use it to talk about
similarities the dog was like the size of a house but you would not use it as
an interjection in terms of sounding more intelligent it would only make you
sound less eloquent less articulate it is not a good way to speak in formal
situations and just bad English in general so you might hear it but do not
use it when you need to use emphasis when you want to emphasize something you
can simply add word stress the dog was huge the dog was like really big tonight
the dog was huge that's all you need to do that adds emphasis or of course you
can use an intensifier very really totally completely these also work very
well too number four in the same way that we
would use like too much people also used so now using so as an interjection to
keep repeating this when you speak does not sound very good so I went to the
shops and then so what happened was there I saw my friends so I said hi how
are you so she came over just using so repetitively in fact any word
repetitively doesn't sound good in English and it just simply sounds like
you don't have a wide enough vocabulary to choose different words number five
the word literally literally literally is when you are saying that something is
factual that when you take something exactly for what you have said for
example the driver took me literally to take someone literally when I said drive
across the roundabout meaning he drove over the roundabout rather than going
around it so when you take someone literally for what they say you exactly
take their words word-for-word and you don't understand the subtleties the
differences in their speech and what they're trying to explain now the word
literally is used by some people to emphasize things so I was literally
terrified I literally couldn't think and I was literally just stuck for words
just using this over and over again does not emphasize anything and it doesn't
sound very intelligent so avoid using the word literally you don't even need
to use it it's not necessary unless you are explaining someone taking your word
literally taking what you say literally number six whatever whatever
is an exclamation but it can sound very very rude it is much better to say I
don't mind either any but using whatever does sound rude especially in the wrong
context which would you like tea or coffee whatever doesn't sound good so
remember choose your words carefully I don't mind either would be good any
would be fine by me number seven Lowell now we all know that Lowell means laugh
out loud but recently I have noticed some people starting to use this when
they speak as an English teacher it drives me crazy and I do not want to
hear us speaking in text talk in ten years time
The Sands that English needs to evolve and it changes but don't be so lazy as
to say Lowell just laugh if something's funny laugh or say that's
so funny but don't say Lowell dies it does not sound good and talking in
abbreviations and especially text talk regularly is just bad English and lazy
you know better you have a better vocabulary range than that so that's it
seven words and phrases that I do not want you to use when you are speaking
English because I want you to sound a more confident and smarter when useful
you want to be eloquent articulate and a confident speaker so remember those
seven phrases you might hear them but I do not want you to repeat them thank you
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