Hello naturals, how are you today?
If you have never seen me before if this is your first time here, let me introduce myself
My name is Gabby Wallace and I am an English teacher
From the United States with over 17 years of experience
And a master's degree in teaching English as a second language
I love learning languages and I speak Portuguese
Spanish and a little French and a little Japanese
Anyway, I'm here to help you to speak English like a natural which means like a native speaker
The way that people really speak English
Conversationally in the real world
So it's time to close your textbook and watch this lesson
Today we're talking about five words that you're probably not
Using correctly five words that you can stop using or perhaps change the word that you're using to
Express what you really want to say?
So if that sounds interesting and you'd like to improve the way you speak English today
Then let's begin
Just before I share these five
important words that you need to stop using I
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Okay, let's begin with the first of five words that you really need to stop using
the first word may come as a surprise its
teacher
So it may come as a surprise
Because the word teacher is not a bad word to use but we don't use it in the same way
in American English as you may use it in
Your language. I noticed that a lot of my English students. Call me teacher and
we don't do that in the United States when students want to address their teacher or
Their professor they use the teacher's name. So it's more appropriate to say
Gabi or
Miss Wallace or professor Wallace?
since I
Have been a university professor. I'm used to being called professor Wallace
or when I teach more
casual English
Conversational classes I'm used to being called Gabby. So please call me and
Your other teachers at least your English teachers by their names
It's always safe to ask your teacher
What should I call you? Do you want me to call you teacher or?
Gabby or Miss Wallace or
Professor Wallace, it's always a good idea to ask if you're not sure
number two the word
must
You are probably over using this word because English textbooks teach you to use must
for
important situations a textbook might say you must
study English or you must turn off the lights before you go to sleep, but
Native English speakers don't use must as often as your textbook would lead you to believe in
fact the only
situation when I use must is
not to talk about
important
commands or important actions I
use must when I want to share a
logical guess
for
example I
See people out in the street are wearing coats. It must be cold outside
so I'm making a logical guess and that is how
Native English speakers use the modal verb
must
Most often when we want to say something is very important
Like I'm making an important suggestion then we use should
And I know what your textbook says, that should is
Less strong. It's weaker than must and must is when you want to really show something is very important
but the reality is
Trust me on this one that native speakers. Do not use the modal verb a must like they used to and
even less common is
Mustn't in the negative. This is very very old
Archaic English that is not used anymore
Sure, there's always going to be someone who
Comments and says, but I use must I here mustn't used all the time. That's fine
but my reality as a native English speaker with over 17 years of experience teaching English and living in
English-speaking countries is that people do not use must?
like your textbook tells you so trust me on this one and
Mustn't is gonna make you sound like you're 80 years old. So you mustn't use mustn't please don't do it
third
don't say
Goodnight when you actually mean good evening
Don't use good night as a greeting we can use good night to say. Goodbye
for example
If you went to dinner with your friends and you're leaving the restaurant and you're going your separate ways
You could say have a good night or good nights
But good night is most commonly used when you're just about to go to sleep maybe
with your family and you're living in the same house and you're going to go to your bedroom get in bed and
Sleep you would say goodnight. So if you want to greet people at nighttime, it's better to say good evening
This is a little formal but people do say good evening
We don't say good night to greet each other. It's only to say goodbye
to finalize a
Conversation we have two more words that you really should not use and actually number four is two words. So
Thanks. God is a huge mistake
That you all do quite a lot and we don't say. Thanks God
This is a phrase we use. Thank God
To express some kind of relief. Oh
Thank god
It's not raining. I can go outside without my umbrella, but we never say thanks God
This is for when you want to directly
thank someone like
Thanks to you
We are studying English together or thanks to YouTube. We are studying English together
Similarly, we wouldn't say thanks you we say thank you. So we say thank God
so just remember no s
similarly number five our final word that I see a lot of you having trouble with making this mistake with is
advice never say
advices because advice is a non countable noun and we're never going to make it plural so
Thank you for your advice
I
Really appreciate your advice
Could you give me some advice? Is this a nice t-shirt? Should I wear this t-shirt again? Thank you for your fashion advice
So that's just an example of how you could use the word advice. It's never ever
Going to be in the plural, so just to recap
Don't call your teacher teacher
Don't overuse must use it more for logical guesses. Don't use goodnight to greet people and
Don't use
Thanks. God only thank God and
Advice only in the singular because it's a non-count noun. So I hope that this was helpful
And I think that if you make these changes your English is going to improve a lot
don't get down or feel sad if you were making these mistakes because everyday
We're learning how to improve our English little by little I'm a language learner, too
And I know what it feels like to make mistakes
I would like you to stop feeling bad about making mistakes and start looking at mistakes as a good opportunity to
learn
So today is a great day to make a mistake and we'll learn from it
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