Hey guys welcome to my channel in this video
I'm gonna give you eight tips on how to write emails and essays and letters
Like an American so if you're willing to improve your writing, please continue watching this video
Back to San Francisco that might change
This number one be direct again American people are very relaxed when I was dealing a lot with British people
I noticed that their email would be like that but the whole point can be minimized to two or three sentences your goal is to
Talk about what you want to talk in two or three sentences in an email and again be relaxed
Relax
It doesn't matter if you ask how are you or are you doing people?
Don't really do that in emails and I was surprised with my investor is fly to me
They say hey marina when I first saw this I'm like really to use hey in a formal email
But it turns out that yes, Americans are so relaxed they even use hey informal emails. They use a lot of contractions
they use of a lot of idioms self be prepared to write like an American and
Another advice have a really clear call to action. This is called CTA. What are you asking for?
What is the purpose of this email make sure that the person gets it right away when you are writing in American English?
Make sure you're using active voice instead of using passive voice passive voice is when I say
Baybridge was built by an American government. This is a phrase
I would use if I'm doing a tour of San Francisco
But if I'm writing an email I would use active voice the American government
Instructed the builders to build the bay bridge for example tip number three and this can relate to your
Spoken English as well, please please. Please do not over explain. Hey, don't explain it
Just clarify if you feel that you're asking a question
don't give people answers just ask that question if you feel that you cannot explain a
phenomena without coming up with 50 examples then maybe your description of the phenomena is wrong so
as concise as you can
Tip number four when you're writing a formal email or an essay please refrain from writing there is of there are for example
There are a lot of students in San Francisco basically there are
Here is just a filler word because you don't have to use it students come to study in San Francisco
That's a much better written sentence refrain from using Paris and there are serious
Tip number five some more words that you should refrain from using and these words really very so and a lot
I'll give you a couple of examples
She's really beautiful
instead of she's gorgeous gorgeous
What sounds more American to you where she's gorgeous try to use words that are strong in their meaning instead of using really very?
So etc next tip is using
Strong verb and by strong verbs I mean a verb that can it comprises a verb and a noun
and I will give you a list below this video an
Example is to give definition
Is a lot of words, but you can just say to define again?
You're just
Comprising everything in just one word and this is called a strong verb so if you want to sound more American
And if you want your written speech to be really
Use this from the burbs if you can say that somebody was better in competition. You can just say he dominated the competition
Instead of saying he was better
Or if something became bigger you can say it expanded by the way guys if you're writing an essay right now
Or if you're raising money in America
Or if you if you're trying to get into American University and doing a lot of writing
I would really recommend fluent dot Express
This is an app that my team, and I develop fluent Express you go there
You upload your text in English and you get instant correction by native speakers?
Who would make sure that you sound as American as you can we're going to take care of all your grammar and?
Stylistic mistakes so that native speakers wouldn't tell the year from a foreign country
Tip number seven sometimes I look at my email
And I realize that every single sentence starts with I I am writing to ask you for this
I wanted to update you on my pro
I am writing to update you on my progress
I was wondering if you could I
Wanted to tell you and this is just III bow looks so weird so the solution that I came up with for myself is
Introducing bullet points here on my update, and I just go in bullets
I don't have to start every sentence or over and over again introduce bullet points and make sure you are
Double checking your email double-checking your essay and look for those smaller things like when you start every sentence which I?
Another very important aspect is how you finish your email in America
we usually put kind regards best regards to talk to you soon comma
marina McGill Co also another cool tip if you want to impress somebody for example if you're reaching out to a
university and you're asking for
Financially you want to mention something that would make them interested in you so for example what I've done
There was an article about me like making moves in tech in my email signature
I gave a link to that article and I wrote
In regards Marina McGill Co one of the 16 email powders making moves in tech you can do the same
I always link to my YouTube channels for example if you have any articles published that you published or have been published about use you
Can mention them in your signature?
If you're writing an informal email in America
Or if you're texting an American or maybe you follow American vloggers and Instagram
American people use a lot of contractions in their written English and now we're gonna learn the most popular ones I
DK. I don't know
Lol laughing out loud you can write lol with something's really funny
OMG. Oh my god. This is something is really exciting or really surprising. Oh
BRB be right back when you want somebody to wait for you for a moment
Wi d what are you doing if you want to make last-minute plans and asking your friends?
What is he doing right now, and if he is able to join you for something LMK. Let me know
bTW by the way
bTW of my name is TV a
ma
Asked me anything, and this is something when you're like doing a video answer your questions
I can tell you AMA in comments below, and I will answer your questions in the next video Q&A is not an acronym
But it's common to use n instead of aunt Q&A question and answers
And this is a part of you know a formal conference when you can ask a speaker a question FAQ
I know it sounds a little funny
But this is frequently asked questions the section of the website where you give answers to the commonly asked questions
TV and to be honest be honest s MH
Shaking my head. This is international of I'm not approving that s mhm
BFF best friends forever
GF
girlfriend
F
boyfriend
IMHO, I've seen a lot of those and recently found out the meaning in my humble opinion this means that in my opinion you don't
Have to consider that so in my humble opinion, okay, Kimi
IMHO and BD no big deal no problem. It's no big deal and BD
TL DR. I've seen a lot of those on Facebook so for example if you're writing a really long post and
Do you think that a lot of your followers don't have that much attention you want to give them like a short description?
Too long didn't read. This is the exact meaning of this four letters if you're writing a long text
You will give a couple of sentences at the beginning of it with a short description, and you would read TL DR
IRL in real life, why would you guys actually meet IRL?
xoxo kiss hug kiss hugs
BYOB, this is so American bring your own beer when you organize the body you can ask your friends to bring drinks because you would
Not be providing them
DIY do it yourself
No
DIY do it yourself DM. This is direct message you can DM me on Instagram direct message be
FYI
for your information
fYI
TVC to be confirmed for example if you do not know the place where you're meeting you can write TBC if the place is
TBC the places to be confirmed
aka
Also known as Marina McGill, Co aka lingua, Marina and the last one pretty common
ASAP people also say ASAP as soon as possible
Bye officer, and if you're writing an urgent email to somebody you can put in the subject
This is si ap it's very urgent
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