hi welcome to inkvid.com i'm adam in
today's video i want to help you sound
more like a native english speaker again
probably more north american british
australian they will have their own
things to do with this as i'll as you'll
see but to sound like a native english
speaker you have to know a little bit
about the slang and the shortcuts that
uh natives use so when we're what we're
going to look at are called acronyms
acronyms are letters or initials of
words and instead of saying all the
different words separately we just
squeeze them all into the first letter
of each word and that's called the
acronym so for example all of you i
think know the company
ibm it's a big international computer
company
international business machines so this
is an acronym for a company name but we
also have acronyms for regular words so
we're going to look at some of these now
it's very important to remember that
these are generally used in casual
conversation
don't use this in formal writing
and in certain situations don't use them
in like a very formal
context like a business meeting or a
presentation in a conference but
otherwise use them freely sound like a
native speaker so we're going to go over
the abcs now abc's
is not an acronym it's abc like the
alphabet this is actually an idiom
and when you're talking about the abcs
you're talking about the basics okay so
these are some basic acronyms
you should know
fyi
for
for your information so this is commonly
used when it's when you want somebody to
understand something very important
that's coming up for example
so
in business for example somebody from
head office is coming by tomorrow and
just fyi they're coming to see who to
promote to headquarters right so just
fyi means just to let you know
is basically what it means just for your
information but just to let you know
they're looking to promote somebody to
head office so keep that in mind
and be ready and make a good impression
and maybe it will be you right so fyi
just fyi this is a very common
usage
so just fyi
do well be impressive okay
aka sometimes you'll see it with dots
sometimes you won't so just recognize
both
also known as
so when somebody has a nickname or when
you're talking about like instead of
using quotes you want to give something
a different title you can say aka right
so there's lots of famous people like uh
sean combs i think aka p diddy i think
that's who it is i keep forgetting who's
who there but
aka when you have a nickname and you
have the real name okay then you say
also known as to make sure that people
can recognize this person
the president of the united states aka
donald trump
also known as donald trump again
ac
ac basically means air conditioning or
air conditioner so it's really hot in
here can somebody please turn on the ac
now most
native speakers will not say air
conditioner too long why waste
words why waste sounds can somebody turn
on the ac
right two syllables air
so we have
air con de shin ner
five syllables or ac two syllables so
native english speakers
love to take shortcuts they love to use
fewer syllables and that's why there's a
lot of acronyms there are a lot of
shortened words etc okay so turn on the
ac i need some ac
asap now some of these words if there's
there are vowels in them
like for example here i don't say i say
aka i don't say akka
sometimes we take the acronyms and we
make a word out of it asap
some people say asap
people just say asap both okay but not
akka
okay
so as soon as possible so just do it
quickly i need that report asap okay
because the deadline is coming out
so tell me when you're done asap okay as
soon as possible
bff now keep in mind bff i personally
never use this expression this is a bit
of a younger person's expression but
it's becoming so common and since the
internet and social media made it a bit
famous there were some celebrities that
started using this all the time so now
pretty much everybody uses it bff
best friends forever so when you're
talking about a very close relationship
you're talking about this person and his
bff or her bff or whatever
again
up to you if you want to use it that's
fine it just means very close
relationship between people
q a
so at the end of the meeting i'm going
to have a q a so please reserve your
questions till then
i'm going to have a q a period or we're
going to have a q a basically questions
and answers
so in most again professional situations
or even academic situations somebody's
giving a lecture and then they set aside
some time for the participants to ask
questions and get the answers to those
questions so instead of saying we're
going to have a question period or we're
going to have questions and answers
we'll have a q a at the end of the
meeting please save your questions till
then but again very commonly used you're
going to hear it pretty often
mc
master of ceremony so when you have
somebody who's in charge of an event
somebody who welcomes the guest and
introduces the speakers and tells people
what's going on the schedule of events
etc this person is called a master of
ceremony it could be in a business
meeting or a conference it could be in a
wedding like or a social event it could
be at a just a function or a promotional
event anything you have the one person
who's basically overseeing and running
the show so keep in mind
you you can also use this as a verb so
to
mc
right so somebody uh
some celebrity is going to emcee the
oscars this year right he's going to be
the master of ceremony he is going to
emcee
the ceremony or the event he's going to
be the mc both okay
ammo
modus operandi this is a latin basically
means how
a person does something the way he does
it or the way she does it so here we're
talking about people
and you're talking about a person's
particular
style of doing something when we talk
about criminals like a murderer the
police are catching them looking for a
murder and there's another murder
and they say oh yeah this has the same
mo as the last one so we know it's the
same person but you can also talk use it
in business
anybody know anything about the new ceo
or what's his mo right
how does he do things is basically what
it means what's his mode of operation
way of doing
things tlc
tender loving care when you think
something just needs a little bit of
care and attention and it'll be good
right
so i bought a new car you know it's not
perfect it's used but with a little tlc
i think it could be great a little
center loving care i will give it an oil
change i will change the tires maybe a
little paint job and it will be a
beautiful car and you can use this about
people
you can use it about things right it
just means just to give it a little bit
of care and make it better just give it
a little tlc
it'll be perfect
diy now if you watch youtube i'm sure
you've heard this uh this expression
before do it yourself
it could be with hyphens it could be
without hyphens it could be an adjective
or a noun so diy do it yourself
so i have a hole in my roof in my house
and my friend just recommended a diy
store where i can get the equipment and
diy it
so again
i can use it as a verb why don't you
just diy it
do it yourself instead of saying why
don't you just do it yourself why don't
you just diy it
okay so if you hear that expression you
understand what that means
now bo
body odor so sometimes i mean again it
happens especially in the summer you get
on the bus
and you walk in and suddenly you're hit
by a smell not a good smell but it's
there and it's common and you're
wondering what is that and then you
realize it's oh it's bo
body order sweat some people sweat and
they give off an odor so if you want to
talk about that smell you talk about
beel oh it smells like bo in here it
smells like body sweat so like a gym etc
facts now a lot of people confuse this
word with facts as in like fax machine
facts frequently asked questions okay
so uh i'm at a meeting or i'm at a
conference or an event i'm giving a
lecture and i say that uh i'm done i say
if anybody has questions please check
our fax page on our website and if you
have any further questions you can send
us an email so please check our fax page
facts not this facts
f a q s and again squeeze together to
make up a word now you might not hear
these every day and some of them have
particular contexts but you will hear
them
you'll watch movies you'll watch tv
shows you listen to the radio or youtube
whatever you will hear
these acronyms
used like regular everyday words it's
very important to know
what they mean and if you can try to use
them and you can sound like a native
speaker because you know the little
tricks and the little shortcuts of the
language okay
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