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okay so you're with your friend and your
friend is very nice but he's a bit naive
he doesn't understand everything and he
really likes this one girl and he
messages her every day like hey what you
doing let's hang out and she's always
like hmm no I'm busy
the next day hey hope you're good let's
do something today
sorry lots to do really busy you
understand I understand but he doesn't
understand the hidden meaning here
because she didn't explicitly say it and
therefore maybe it's not obvious but we
see these messages and see the hidden
meaning behind it what she is inferring
so we we read between the lines
we find the hidden meaning in a
situation we find what is inferred I
always message her to hang out but she's
always busy so we will say to our friend
read between the lines man she doesn't
like you she's not interested again to
read between the lines
something isn't exactly said but we
understand that this is the meaning
behind it
where are you going tonight you going
somewhere fun yeah yeah yeah I'm going
out to see some friends just some
friends when someone is lying to you and
you know it
you don't believe their lies not for one
second you understand exactly what the
real situation is you can understand
that this is a lie you see right through
someone or you see right through the lie
hmm he told me he's going to see friends
tonight Yeah right I can see right
through his lies he's going to see Maria
it's always Maria sentence if there's an
Alanis Morissette song right I can't
play it because copyright but I see
right through you
I don't believe any of your lies so
that's I see right through you but if
you want to be specific this lie you
would say something like you know he
told me he's going to see friends but I
saw right through it
oh I saw right through that I know it's
a lie it's always Maria but then then
she followed her boyfriend to the
restaurant and of course she knew it
he's meeting Maria this is Maria so
imagine you are her what is the first
thing that you think of what do you
understand about this situation you're
cheating on me with Maria it's always
Maria so this when you see a situation
and think you understand everything
before you know all of the facts we have
an expression before she knows all the
facts she is jumping to conclusions
because because he
we'll say this is Maria I told you I'm
seeing friends tonight and all of a
sudden hi sorry I was in the toilet I'm
John hi Maria's boyfriend how do you do
well this might be awkward for her
because she thought she understood the
situation before she knew all of the
facts so sorry I jumped to conclusions
artists awkward have you ever jumped to
conclusions and found out you were wrong
about a situation tell me your funny
stories in the comments I spilt coffee
okay you start a new job it's your first
day as a barista in a coffee shop but
everything is new you don't know how the
coffee machine works you don't know
anything how do I make coffee it takes a
while to understand something new to
learn a new skill right so when you
finally understand how something works
you can do your job or this new skill
easily like it's normal to you you are
making coffee like a pro we say that you
get the hang of something so in this
case he can say I got the hang of it
finally it took a lot of practice but I
got the hang of it we can replace it
with a verb so the verb is make coffee
so as a verb you need that in form
making coffee I got the hang of making
coffee and this can be used in the
positive or the negative both are fine
so I got the hang of it great but in a
negative
for example I quit because I couldn't
get the hang of it I couldn't learn this
new skill because it's learning a new
skill that's an ability in the negative
you'll probably use couldn't or can't in
the present I couldn't get the hang of
it I wasn't able to learn this new skill
again tell me in the comments is this
some new skill that took you a long time
to get the hang of is there something
that you tried and you couldn't get the
hang of it let me know type type type
now for me the Korean writing system I
can't understand it I am too stupid I'm
very very stupid and when you can't
understand something it makes no sense
to you we have an expression we say this
I can't get my head around Korean or I
can use the pronoun I can't get my head
around it so usually this is in the
negative I can't get my head around it
because we're talking about the ability
to understand it you can use it in a
positive way like it took me a really
long time to get my head around the
language but now I can speak it that's
not true I'm still stupid I don't
understand Korean sorry the meaning is
very similar to get the hang of
something but this is very uniquely for
something mental
so something you understand like a
language or a new system perhaps again
tell me what can't you get your head
around let me know in the comments
practise this vocabulary side note yes
you can say I can't get my head around
Korean or I can't get my head round you
have the choice both are fine okay next
you take a break from work or school for
a week when you come
back to work or school you missed a lot
of information and now you need to know
all of that information that you missed
until now so you and everyone else are
at the same level of knowledge for this
we say sorry I just got back can you
bring me up to speed on everything to
bring someone up to speed it's just like
hey give me the update oh and of course
you can say get instead of bring for
example hey Maria can you get Allie up
to speed on the new changes always Maria
things to remember it can be bring it
can be get both are fine so you can
change the pronoun to whoever needs the
update and preposition is on finally
what is the update that you need that
goes at the end yeah that is an option
so you can just say get someone up to
speed stop that's fine so if for example
you missed last week's video go watch it
now get yourself up to speed and finally
to make a decision about something for
example at work you need to hire a new
person you interview lots of people and
there's one guy that you really like you
really want to hire this guy I mean the
job is to chop wood and he has his own
choppy thing it's fight he's great he's
perfect for the job but your colleague
says look I I don't think we should hire
a guy from a horror movie for the job
just I don't think it's professional so
he's giving you advice before you make
your decision and he wants to say please
acknowledge my advice just before you
make any decision
take my advice onboard before you hire
him okay so to take something on board
usually it's advice or information of
facts you acknowledge that information
before making a decision now this is a
very formal thing to say so usually it
would only happen in formal situations
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