hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's number one English Fluency Guide and it
is a pleasure to welcome you back to the
studio with me today today I really want
to talk about just helping you sound
more like a native speaker by teaching
you some English fluency bits and these
are something that really I don't
believe anyone else teaches actually I
tried googling that and when you do you
find a snippet that Google has actually
about me teaching these things so I
thought that was pretty interesting
anyway English fluency bits are very
common and they're very commonly used in
regular conversational speech and really
what an English fluency bit is it's just
a little bit of conversational speech
that makes you sound more casual and
even they can make you sound a bit more
advanced but you'll hear these these are
phrases that are basically unnecessary
but people use them to sound you know
maybe either more casual more
conversational or if they want to sound
actually more impressive so people who
are academics will use them all the time
or these are special phrases that a
lawyer might use if they just again want
to sound a bit more impressive but
really these are things that just kind
of like an idiom or any other kind of
phrase it just makes you sound more
native when you use it but usually these
phrases again they're not necessary they
will help you sound more native but
they're pretty easy to understand so
unlike an idiom where you really can't
quite understand where maybe some of
those meanings are coming from when
you're looking at an English fluency bit
it's actually quite simple so let's go
through three of these things and some
very simple examples so that you can use
them in your conversations and sound
more native the first one is if I'm not
mistaken if I'm not mistaken now this is
also commonly heard as unless I'm
mistaken now you don't have to put this
here but this is a way of softening and
an opinion or a claim or maybe you're
saying something but you're not quite
sure if it's correct or not
so I could say unless I'm mistaken isn't
that your dad's car over there now maybe
I see a car driving down the street and
it's unexpected maybe it's not even a
big deal but you know it's like oh like
your dad has kind of a rare car and
there's another person driving either
his car or somebody else's so I think
that's kind of
right so I could say oh that's your
dad's car or isn't that your dad's car
if I may be a bit more unsure if that is
his car not but if I see the car driving
and I say unless I'm mistaken isn't that
your dad's car
I add the unless I'm mistaken they're
really just to say that I could be wrong
but I want to sound a bit more
impressive and natural when I'm speaking
again it doesn't like we don't have to
put that in there but if you add this
unless I'm mistaken if I'm not mistaken
again it's just a way of sounding a lot
more native and conversational and
you'll try this if you can maybe give
two examples about like a conversational
situation where like you say to one
person isn't that your dad's car and
then you say to another person if I'm
not mistaken isn't that your dad's car
the second person will think wow you
really sound a lot more like a native
now you can use this in any kind of
situation where you're making a claim
about something or asking a question but
again you're just trying to sound a bit
more native by adding that really nice
English fluency bit at the beginning of
that unless I'm mistaken didn't we
release that report last week so I'm
asking maybe a question about work or
something like that
you get the idea next another great
English fluency bit truth be told
truth be told now truth be told is
something where we're trying to admit
something where maybe a friend of mine
is asking me a question or I'm just
revealing some kind of truth it's
another way of saying honestly but it's
an English fluency bit because again
it's not really something we need to use
I can just say honestly or I can just
actually tell the claim or the truth or
the opinion whatever that is so if maybe
my friend is asking me oh do you like
your wife's cooking and I say yeah I
like it you know and I kind of think for
a while then I say you know truth be
told there's some things that I don't
really like so I could say honestly
that's perfectly fine English but truth
be told is a really great casual way but
it's also a bit more advanced as well
that's going to help you sound a lot
more like a native speaker truth be told
truth be told and last
advanced one especially you will hear
this in academic situations professional
situations or again as I gave the
example of a lawyer before so some may
be like a legal situation and this is
despite the fact that despite the fact
that so despite the fact that is really
just a longer way of saying although so
even though or like this could be true
but I mean it's even really that simple
but the whole point really when you're
kind of learning at a like a higher
trying to be more educated or to see
more impressive like that people will
add these phrases even though they are
kind of common things that everybody
knows when you're listening to a speech
or at certain situations you know one of
these phrases is going to come but
especially like despite the fact that is
a very common one that you'll hear in
situations where even though really
could be used or even something as
simple like but despite the fact that I
really wanted to hurry home
I drove at the speed limit so I could
just say I wanted to hurry home but I
drove at the speed limit I don't need to
add despite the fact that but it just
makes the sentence sound more impressive
and it makes me sound more intelligent
as a result of that so this is why
people add these extra English fluency
bit phrases because it makes them sound
more fluent so these little bits of just
the vocabulary just a few simple words
you can add that really changes the way
people see it isn't that cool so again
remembering these these three phrases
almost have three three cz's remembering
these three phrases as you're going
through go back and remember these and
look for opportunities to use these and
again I'll probably share some more
English fluency bits you will find these
in premium programs we have like the art
of conversation and the fluency course
which you can learn more about English
anyone calm but I hope you have enjoyed
these so do take these go out and use
them in your conversations and I will
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