Hi everybody! My name is Luke and welcome to English top tens. In this video you're
going to learn 10 must-know expressions for agreeing and disagreeing with
someone in casual and spoken English. This video is going to help you sound
much more natural when speaking in English. So let's get started! The first
expression we're gonna study is I couldn't agree more I think everyone
should stop getting so upset over politics I couldn't agree more. We use I
couldn't agree more to show that we completely 100% agree
with someone else's opinion and that is actually impossible for us to agree any
more even though this is quite a strong way to show that you agree with someone
it is really common in everyday English. Now listen to how I say this expression,
"I couldn't agree more" I want us to focus on the words couldn't so this is
actually two words could and not and they get put together and shortened. We
call this a contraction and in spoken and natural English we use contractions
all the time so remember never say I could not agree with you more instead
say I couldn't agree with you more. Also when native speakers are speaking
really quickly sometimes the 't' sound in couldn't get dropped and it's
pronounced like this 'couldn' 'couldn' I couldn't agree with you more I couldn't
agree with you. The next expression is you've got to be kidding me!
I think we should go home early tonight. You've got to be kidding me!
I'm having a great time. I don't want to go home.
You've got to be kidding me it's quite a strong way to show that you disagree
with someone and it shows that you are a little bit angry, frustrated, or even
surprised with that opinion or suggestion. Now let's look at the
pronunciation of this expression. So the first thing you need to know is that
there is a contraction and it's with the words 'you' and 'have' they get put together
and become 'you've' 'you've' .the second thing is with the word 'to' in this expression
the word 2 takes the weak form and it sounds like 'tu' then it's linked with
the word 'got'. So together it becomes gotta gotta. Now if you put it all
together it's pronounced like this "you've got to be kidding me" a bit more
quickly you've got to be kidding me "you gotta be kidding me". The third
expression is tell me about it. Our teacher is given us a lot of homework
nowadays tell me about it it's way too much tell me about it is used when you
are agreeing with someone's opinion because you have experienced the same
thing so in the example speaker a said our teacher is giving us a lot of
homework and speaker B said tell me about it this is because speaker B is
also getting the homework so he's experienced the same thing here's
another quick pronunciation tip so listen to how I say about and it in this
expression when I'm speaking quickly ready tell me about it
so here the top sound in about actually becomes more like a duh sound then that
the sound links to the next word which is it and it sounds like this about it
about it all together tell me about it okay guys before I tell
you the fourth expression please do me a favor and give me a thumbs up if you
liked this video it will really help me a lot okay so the fourth expression is
don't make me laugh can you finish this report by tomorrow don't make me laugh
it's gonna take me weeks don't make me laugh is a really strong way to disagree
with someone's opinion and it's used when you think that opinion or
suggestion is really outrageous or foolish again this expression has
another contraction remember always use contractions when you're speaking so
don't say do not make me laugh instead say don't make me laugh that's
much more natural don't make me laugh now number five on this list is you can
say that again Tottenham Hotspur are the best football
team in the Premier League you can say that again so you can use you can say
that again when you 100% agree with an opinion this is used to show some
excitement or passion when you're agreeing but remember this expression
doesn't mean that you want the person to repeat what they've said it's just used
to show that you strongly agree with their opinion so here's a quick
pronunciation tip can in this expression takes the weak form and it's pronounced
like cun when you say the whole expression it sounds like this you can
say that again you can say that again
expression number six is I don't see it that way
I think everyone should have a three-day weekend I don't see it that way
I think people need to work more
I don't see it that way is a really polite and soft way to disagree with
someone's opinion and it's also used just before you give your own opinion
this is a very casual and common way to disagree with someone very politely and
softly I don't see it that way okay because I see to Monica I don't see
it that way now expression number seven is that sounds about right I think Trump
will lose the next election that sounds about right that sounds about right is
another way to agree with someone but this is used when you want to show that
you are not completely certain with that opinion you just think that might be
right the word about in this expression shows that you are a little bit
uncertain if you want to sound more certain you can just say that sounds
right or that sounds right to me yeah that sounds about right yes that sounds
about right number eight you can't be serious Iron Man three is the best movie
ever made you can't be serious it's good but it's not the best so you can't be
serious is another way to disagree with someone but this one is used to express
your disbelief and surprise about what someone has just said so you can use
this expression when you're really shocked by someone's bad or silly
opinion again there's another contraction in this expression see I
told you contractions were really common in this expression the contraction is
can and not they get put together and it becomes can't you can't be serious
you can't be serious and number nine you're dead right English idioms are so
difficult you're dead right there's just so many of them you're dead right is a
very casual idiom which is used to say that you strongly a
agree with someone there are many idioms in English with dead and some are even
positive like this one the opposite is simply you're dead wrong you can use
that to show that you strongly disagree with someone are their idioms in your
language with the word dead and here's another contraction so in this sentence
the contraction is your which is you and are again they got put together and it
became your it's very uncommon to hear people say you are dead right it's
always you're dead right and the last expression on my list is speak for
yourself we thought that movie sucked speak for
yourself I loved it so speak for yourself is used
to show that you disagree with someone but this is only used in a specific
situation when someone tries to include you in their opinion but you disagree
like in my example speaker a said we thought that movie sucked
but speaker be like the movie so he said speak for yourself
I liked it so only use this expression when someone else is trying to include
you in their opinion but you disagree with them
speak for yourself no speak for yourself so that's it there are many ways to
agree and disagree with someone in casual and spoken English here were just
10 very common ones remember most of these expressions are really casual and
quite informal so only use them in spoken English don't use them in formal
written English so that's it now it's your turn I want you to make
your own sentences with these expressions so leave them below in the
comments and I'll check thanks for watching and I'll see you next time see
you