well hello and welcome to this month's
month's phrase builder and pronunciation
pronunciation practice lesson it
it is a pleasure to have you with
with me again to date this month our
our topic for the month is deep conversations
conversations so
so we want to help you not just have
have kind of you know basic everyday
everyday conversations about sports
sports or the weather or how's the
the family things like that we
we want you to be able to talk deeply
deeply and have really interesting
interesting conversations which we
we call you know kind of philosophical
philosophical or deep conversations
conversations where you really get
get to talk about things that you're
you're passionate about I'll
I'll explain more about a what a deep
deep conversation is in the master
master class lesson but for right
right now we'll just cover a few of
of the different words and phrases
phrases that appear in the conversation
conversation itself so we'll be talking
talking about two different things
things
things first
first we have the short one word and
and you know very kind of very quick
quick and easy phrases that you can
can use and we'll also talk about
about some of the longer phrases and
and expressions let's
let's get started all right the first
first one that you'll hear is dapper
dapper Dapper now Shannon he's
he's an Australian guy so he would
would pronounce it data data and his
his pronunciation is a little bit
bit stronger than mine with that s-sound
s-sound data data and I have the stronger
stronger earth sound dapper Dapper
Dapper so in the American English
English
English it's
it's a little bit more difficult for
for people to pronounce but if you'd
you'd like to have more of an American
American accent you have to try extra
extra hard and listen to a lot of
of American speakers like myself so
so you can really get that are sound
sound dapper now
now what dapper means is handsome
handsome it's kind of neat and sharp
sharp and right now I don't look very
very dapper maybe I have a dapper
dapper haircut but you know I'm just
just regularly you know wearing a
a t-shirt and it's not particularly
particularly handsome or you
you know anything fancy like that
that but if i have a nice suit you
you can say i was looking dapper now
now this is just a great phrase a
a great word you can use instead of
of calling someone handsome you can
can say I you look dapper and people
people will be surprised and impressed
impressed by how you sound dapper
dapper Dapper next half decent half-decent
half-decent good decent half-decent
half-decent half-decent is a great
great way of some is kind of saying
saying something that's and it's okay
okay it's not so great it's it's half
half decent the restaurant over there
there it's and it's half decent half-decent
half-decent so you could go to that
that restaurant the pizza is pretty
pretty good but and it's half decent
decent half-decent so listen carefully
carefully watch how i'm using the
the expression not just the words
words i'm using but the way I'm saying
saying it and a half decent half-decent
half-decent so how was that how was
was the movie how
how was the movie yesterday and it
it was half decent half-decent half-decent
half-decent so decent just kind of
of means it's kind of a more intelligent
intelligent way of saying like okay
okay like fifty percent and we were
were decent it was decent my
my job is decent but then half decent
decent is a little bit lower than
than that so and half decent half-decent
half-decent next we were talking about
about clothing and especially loud
loud clothing now
now loud clothing is like a bright
bright red shirt with pictures of
of penguins fighting dragons and things
things like that that you'll see like
like lots of sparkles this
this is called loud clothing or you
you can describe someone's clothing
clothing as being loud wow
wow that guy really has a loud shirt
shirt a loud shirt where he's got
got some left out
out pants so sometimes you'll see
see people wearing things out instead
instead of just saying well you know
know it's a like its a bright shirt
shirt or it's a sparkly shirt or it
it has a crazy design you can just
just call it loud loud next to pull
pull off something to pull off something
something
something now
now this is a really fantastic phrasal
phrasal verb that i highly recommend
recommend and what it means is to
to succeed at something so usually
usually let's say I'm I'm trying to
to I'm trying to pull off like a crime
crime or something like that so i'm
i'm i'm a diamond thief and i'm going
going to sneak into a jewelry store
store and I'm going to pull off a
a robbery
a robbery now
now what that means if I pull it off
off if I succeed then I get what I
I want
I want so
so i can pull it off in the fashion
fashion sense you can talk about someone
someone being able to pull off a certain
certain kind of clothing now
now maybe a beautiful woman could
could wear like a song you know those
those like really tiny bathing suits
suits but i could not pull off a thong
thong
thong I
I couldn't pull off a thong if I was
was wearing a thong walking around
around at the beach I think people
people would think that was pretty
pretty funny so
so to pull off something means to
to be able to do it to succeed at
at being able to do something to pull
pull off pull off pull off next to
to be out there to be out there to
to be out there means to be crazy
crazy or wild or different from everyone
everyone else so
so if everyone else has a suit on
on i'm wearing my black suit with
with a white shirt and a black tie
tie and maybe other people are wearing
wearing the same thing and then one
one guy he has a crazy hat with stars
stars and sparkles on it and a purple
purple suit and a cane and big glasses
glasses that guys out there out there
there so he's different from everyone
everyone else he's
he's crazy you can use it in a good
good way or in a bad way but usually
usually we talk about something being
being out there is just kind of different
different than normal so we have a
a kind of normal space and then outside
outside of that so
so describing someone as being out
out there his ideas are really out
out there
out there he
he thinks about things in a different
different way out there out there
there
there next
next a gray area gray area usually
usually when children are very young
young we have very kind of maybe one
one year old two-year-old three year
year old kids we teach them things
things that yes
yes it's it's good or no it's bad
bad and we usually call this black
black or white thinking and for kind
kind of teaching children it's a bit
bit easier to do but as they get older
older they learn that there are gray
gray areas like maybe if a woman asks
asks me oh how do I look or
or do I look fat and maybe I think
think she does maybe I think she doesn't
doesn't but if I think she does I
I might tell a white lie so a white
white lie is a kind of a small lie
lie where you're not really saying
saying anything bad or trying to do
do anything you
you know kind of hurtful to someone
someone so this is a white lie now
now I might tell a white lie because
because this is a gray area now are
are lies a good thing or our lives
lives a bad thing well
well there's a gray area sometimes
sometimes it's okay and sometimes
sometimes it's not a gray area a gray
gray area next a side note side
side note let's say I'm talking about
about something I'm talking about
about my pet iguana and I have a baby
baby iguana over here and then I say
say
say as
as a side note so here's just an extra
extra piece of information as
as a side note i bought this iguana
iguana in Hawaii so
so I'm talking about the Iguana like
like what it eats and other things
things and as a side note i bought
bought it in Hawaii so
so a side note it's literally like
like a note but it's a piece of information
information on the side of something
something else so
so the main conversation is here but
but on the side here's
here's some extra information you
you might want to know on
on the side a side note a side note
note and finally repercussions repercussions
repercussions a repercussions is an
an unintended consequence or something
something bad that happens when you
you were trying to do something else
else
else let's
let's say you have two parents that
that are arguing with each other they
they are having a really bad fight
fight and maybe they just think they
they are the only two in the conversation
conversation but in the next room
room
room one
one of their children is listening
listening to that so the repercussions
repercussions of them arguing is that
that the child feels bad so
so this is a an unintended consequence
consequence so
so the parents they didn't intend
intend to make the child feel bad
bad but the child does feel bad repercussions
repercussions repercussions repercussions
repercussions and
and now we'll go over some of the
the longer phrases that appear in
in the conversation first
first a penchant for a penchant for
for I have a penchant for expensive
expensive cars I
I have a penchant for expensive cars
cars to have a penchant for something
something means you have a disposition
disposition or you really like something
something or you have a habit for
for something so it's just something
something you have a kind of natural
natural liking for something i have
have a pension for expensive cards
cards
cards I
I have a penchant for expensive cars
cars next damned if you do damned
damned if you don't damned
damned if you do damned if you don't
don't
don't to
to be damned means to be cursed by
by something or to have a problem
problem or something happened to you
you
you now
now what we're talking about in the
the conversation is how Shannon was
was dealing with his wife so
so Shannon wanted to wear one kind
kind of clothing in a and then his
his wife told him to wear kind of
of a different kind but he said that
that it's really difficult to find
find a kind of middle area where it's
it's ok for his wife because if he
he wears what she wants then she says
says it's boring but if he wears what
what he wants then she says well that's
that's that's out there that's kind
kind of too crazy you shouldn't do
do that
do that so
so if you're in a situation where
where no matter what you do there's
there's going to be a problem you
you can say I i'm damned if i do damned
damned if I don't so
so if i do something there will be
be a problem if I don't do something
something
something there
there will also be a problem next
next a little bit goes a long wait
wait a little bit goes a long way
way usually when we talk about medicine
medicine or trying to solve a problem
problem
problem you
you can say that making a little bit
bit of effort or just using a little
little bit of medicine or something
something will go a long way and what
what that means is that if you have
have even just a little bit of something
something it will solve the problem
problem to go a long way means to
to solve a problem in this way so
so a little bit of honey goes a long
long way to helping you recover from
from you know a sickness or the flu
flu or a sore throat so a little bit
bit goes a long way be
be careful with that medicine a little
little bit goes a long way so
so a little bit is strong enough for
for the solution or a little bit is
is very powerful so
so you don't have to use very much
much of it a little bit goes a long
long way a little bit goes a long
long way
long way next
next to do your part to do your part
means to help
help in some way I'm doing my part
part for the environment I'm
I'm doing my part for the environment
environment by cleaning up all the
the trash in my neighborhood I'm
I'm doing my part now it can be for
for an organization or for a person
person or a group of people it doesn't
doesn't really matter what to do your
your part means that you're using
using yourself for you know helping
helping some cause or some group of
of people
of people something
something like that to do your part
part do your part do
do your part now do your part for
for the environment next
next to do right by something to do
right
right by something means to help or
or to be positive for that thing to
to do right by something so i'm doing
doing right by the planet even though
though to do right by it sounds kind
kind of weird to non-native speakers
speakers but it's again a phrase that
that you should learn is one unit
unit to do right by so to do right
right by the planet you
you shouldn't throw your trash on
on the ground do right by the planet
planet do right by the planet so
so to be helpful and to do something
something positive and beneficial
beneficial next
next on both sides of the issue are
are on both sides of an issue usually
usually you can think of an idea as
as having a good side or bad side
side or look at something from one
one perspective or another perspective
perspective so
so the issue or the problem of something
something or the question of something
something
something usually
usually it has two different sides
sides so you can look at it from this
this side of the issue or this side
side of the issue sides of the issue
issue
issue so
so I'm on this side of the issue he's
he's on that side of the issue and
and we are thinking about both sides
sides of the issue so
so an issue might be should children
children be able to smoke let's
let's say should little kids be able
able to smoke maybe some people think
think it's ok let people smoke and
and other people think no no no do
do not let children smoke so
so we have people on both sides of
of the issue some
some people say yes and other people
people say no both
both sides of the issue both sides
sides of the issue and finally the
the tip of the iceberg the tip of
of the iceberg the
the tip of something is the very top
top edge or the last little piece
piece of it this
this is the tip of my finger the tip
tip of my finger or the tip of one
one of my hair's the tip just the
the end of it and iceberg is one of
of those big pieces of ice floating
floating out in the water so
so usually an iceberg you have the
the surface of the water here and
and the iceberg will look like this
this it will have a really big part
part under water and just a small
small part on top of the water up
up here so the iceberg the big piece
piece of ice is floating in the water
water like this and you can only see
see the tip of the iceberg even
even though the iceberg is very big
big you can just see the tip of it
it
it this
this is a really common expression
expression i highly recommend you
you remember this one if you don't
don't remember all of these phrases
phrases remember this one in particular
particular because it's so useful
useful and you'll hear it everywhere
everywhere this
this problem is just the tip of the
the iceberg this
this problem is just the tip of the
the iceberg so
so this little thing right here they
they were experiencing it's only just
just the beginning or only just a
a small piece of a much bigger thing
thing
thing the
the tip of the iceberg the tip of
of the iceberg well
well that's it for this month i hope
hope you enjoyed all of these phrases
phrases
phrases be
be sure to go back and review all
all of them listen to my pronunciation
pronunciation as I'm saying them in
in practice with me if you'd like
like to sound more like a Native American
American speaker and i look forward
forward to seeing you in the next
next lesson this month have
have a fantastic day and keep practicing
practicing bye-bye