Alright. Heading to the gym and it's time for another video for you, guys
Today I wanna talk about
Informal English, right? You're gonna see this quite often when you write emails and messages, though and not spoken English
So, this is relating to articles and when to drop them
Let me just...
Get in the car
Put the video up on here so, that it's not horrible
Yes, the roof of my car needs to be fixed
But I don't have time for that
So, I want to talk about articles, right? Articles. What are articles? THE, A, AN
Right? We put THE in front of a
specific
Noun, you know the police, the beach, the beach that I like, not just a beach so, it's the definite
Article THE. With A and AN we use those as indefinite articles where we're talking about a nonspecific
Thing, right? Let me just move this. A nonspecific beach, a beach, a nonspecific policeman a policeman. So,
That tends to be something that I noticed a lot of
speakers from languages that don't use articles, obviously, have trouble with
russian-japanese
quite often they have trouble with articles and I've had one student who
he gets a lot of emails from
Australians, he's Russian, and he gets a lot of emails from Australians at work and it's difficult because at times I'm trying to always teach
Him to use articles when he's meant to be using them, but Australians and English speakers everywhere
will quite often drop articles, specially
definite articles, THE
When they're writing
informal messages or informal emails so, if they're writing quick emails to friends or to
Colleagues at work, quite often you will not say words it's like THE and sometimes even A and AN, okay?
And so some examples might be
See you at beach! If you're texting your dad. See you at beach!
It should be I will see you at the beach, but it's informal it's quick
You just drop THE because you know the person knows what you're thinking about
You know that you don't need to add in THE because the thing you're referring to is known to the other person
They know what you're talking about, ok?, So,
For instance. Maybe you're at work and you need an update done to your Facebook page for your work
You know, imagine they have a Facebook page and on specific Facebook page, but it's specific to the work
So, the work is called, you know
X12, I don't know, that's the name of the business. So, THE
X12 Facebook page.
iF you send a message to your colleagues saying that the X12 Facebook page needs to be updated
You might just say can you update
Facebook page?
you know, what what Facebook page you're talking about? THE X12 Facebook page, but
because the other person knows, because you're trying to be quick, you can ditch the article, you can even ditch the name because you
You assume the person knows which Facebook page you are talking about. Can you update
Facebook page? Can you update Facebook page?
Maybe you are going to lunch. You're going to go to lunch at a cafe down below
You know, your work, maybe you've got a cafe down in the foyer
I was working at the Museum all the time when I was doing my studies and I would often send my messages to
colleagues or friends and say
Wanna get a coffee? See you in cafe. So, see you in THE cafe,
But to be quick I would just say see you in cafe. See you at
Cafe. Wanna go to Cafe? You know, you can drop THE
Because you're assuming the person knows which specific cafe you're talking about, Ok? So that's about it
That's about all I wanted to mention today and I didn't start driving because the gym is only a few minutes away,
but when writing informal messages and
Informal, you know, emails could be on Facebook, could be text messages, written informal messages that are short, quite often native
Speakers are going to be as quick as possible and they're going to ditch a lot of correct grammar
So, if you're speaking you need to say I'll see you at the cafe
ok? I'll see you at the beach. I'll see you at
You know, wherever it is, the museum, you use it when speaking because it costs you nothing, right? You can say it quickly
But when writing, quite often in small messages, short messages, precise messages that are informal they're not
Long letters to, you know, clients that are really, really, really important
You can just ignore those definite articles THE in front of
Specific nouns that you know the other person will know that you're talking about, see you at cafe
See you at beach shortly
Can you update Facebook page?
see
See you at Museum in a few minutes. So, that's something that I thought might be helpful, guys
I know that I have a lot of students from.. I think Iran
Russia and Japan tend to be the most common ones that don't use articles and so, these kinds of emails and messages
Really confuse them. So, next time you get an email or a message from someone and you see that there's not very many articles
Used in that message, that'll be probably why
Especially if they're talking about something specific, a museum, a beach, a workplace
Anyway, I hope that helps, guys!
Let me know what you think down below in a comment and maybe see if you can write me a short message
using this example putting that in brackets
So, that I can see that you guys get it. Ok? Anyway, I'm about to go to the gym. Wish me luck
I'll chat to you soon. See you, guys!