Hello! Hello! Hello everybody and welcome to
My name is Steve Ford and my Youtube channel is PrivateEnglishPortal
Today I have three great questions from Lucas and Carlos from Brazil
and a mystery woman from country X!
Let's listen to Lucas's question first
Lucas, only grammarians and someone who wants to make a point of being correct or posh
use whom and the only example that I know of is when writing a formal letter
Who is supposed to be the subject and whom the object
If you don't have to write some high level English test like the Cambridge or Michigan proficiency tests,
or don't need to speak textbook English for whatever else, don't worry about it.
Some University profs might nail you for it, but I wouldn't give it too much thought.
Know that the majority of English speakers simply DON'T use it.
Next up is mystery woman from country X
Good question. If you can find a movie that you would like to watch more than once
I'd suggest you watch it the first time with the subtitles on
to compare the pronunciation of the words being spoken with the subtitles
as they can be different
You can get some tricky omissions, all the time in fact, of consonants and contractions
all linked together for example
So slowly we can hear and we can everything clearly
then faster using the contraction for will
many English learners are afraid to use I'll, you'll, she'll, we'll etc.
but this is totally normal in spoken English.
The last one links the consonants and vowels together
an, no "d", I'll, let+you becomes letchyou, letchya
So mystery woman, keep in mind that linking the words together is fundamental
to understanding how native speakers talk fast and to see it in action
compare the subtitles with what is being said by the actors
an extremely formal greeting is How do you do?
now we answer the same way we ask, it's like an echo
this happens in many languages
often the greeting and the answer are he same thing
extremely formal English
Ist it used? Not much!
When you leave you can say
In class and at some jobs you can change those to something more informal by saying
Usually you'll use it with the person's name
street talk
These are common greetings you'll hear in the streets
Many of them fall into the category of cool
and can be heard in rap and hip hop
Well everybody that's it for me! I enjoyed teaching you today and look forward
to Learn English Live 17. Catch you later!