what's going on michelle what's shaking hey lindsay not too much i am really excited to be
here on youtube today guys this episode is on youtube so go on over and watch us there yeah
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here absolutely all right so lindsay what's that street's name i can't think of it the one near you
i want to say bloom's treat is that right that's the one michelle you got it you got the nail on
the head awesome love it lindsey today i'm excited about this topic um this is gonna be fun because
this is one of those situations where i heard this when i was out one day and i just wrote it down
because i was like this is fun real english for you guys right we're trying to get away from the
textbook english the old way of learning this is the new way of learning where we take our english
straight from our conversations and work or colleagues or friends and we bring it to you guys
so good absolutely yeah this is fun so today we are talking about a way to show you're not exactly
sure about something um and this is fun and unique and helpful and i also think just very natural and
conversational lindsay so what is it i already said it yeah it is the phrase i wanna say right
it's also i would say in addition to being fun unique conversational it's also pretty authentic
um because you're showing the person without saying i i think or i'm not sure you're you're
showing that you're trying to arrive at the answer it's kind of cool to be authentic like
that exactly exactly yeah so i mean you touched on it a little bit but what is what does it mean i
want to say and when is it used and we and we have to say it in that way yeah so it's
used to kind of approximate kind of guess right if you're not quite sure about something or if you're
stretching you know your mind i could tell i want to say bloom street right was that what it was
this is great so useful in so many situations and very human too as we've said we're doing
a lot of human like episodes today right we're not robots we're not robots and i've never been
exactly guys this is very useful so all right let's do some examples so here here we go um
she'll meet you there what's her name i want to say marie okay good yeah so there you're
you know if you have a hard time with names right maybe be careful who you're saying this to right
i mean even this morning i ran into my neighbor we've been living here for a number of months and
i couldn't remember his dog's name and i felt so bad like oh i'm asking the dog's name again right
and i always get it confused i always say did you ask i did have to ask unfortunately but just
be careful who you're asking and for names names are tricky right it would be awkward if i if this
was like somebody's wife and i was like what's her name yeah i want to say like yeah it's not
good not good that's a little awkward but maybe i i'm imagining maybe there's like a like a realtor
or something and i'm like oh she's going to meet you there what's her name oh i want to say totally
totally yeah someone that's kind of adjacent to your immediate circle right they're just kind of
a professional in your world here's another sample sentence michelle there should be some money left
over in that account i want to say 500 um so in the end of that i could have had a question mark
which i did use a question mark in my intonation but i didn't have to right no right you didn't
you didn't have to it's okay like like you said it's kind of a human to do this so you don't
you you can just say it it's okay you don't have to sound so unsure but you can it it's up to you
good to know good to know so what else michelle what else do our listeners need to know to start
using this yeah well this basically means i think right yeah but this is a different way to do it so
and and i was thinking i was thinking about this and i thought it it also shows some confidence
um because it is unique sounding to say instead of like oh i think it's this i there's something
about this expression to me that when i hear people use it it sounds kind of confident and
i don't know why and i wonder if there if there's anything you can grasp on to there or if i'm just
uh yeah i hadn't thought about that what strikes me is that it's interesting but it's ironic
it's an ironic phrase because you're saying you want to say it but you're actually saying it
that's true too but yeah i see what you mean i mean there we've talked on this show before
about certain things you could say that create a sense of confidence in other people's eyes
you know things like i believe yes and here's why dot dot dot things like that so for you
michelle this falls into that category of confidence for you right right yeah i want
to say right i like it i don't know why but i really like it um so but lindsay would you
do you use this expression do you think oh well maybe i should use it more often it sounds cool
um sometimes i do sometimes i tend to use i think and i think we're trying to get today away from i
think right and that's kind of we're giving you alternatives to i think right what's the size of
your windows i want to say they're four by four or i think they're four by four i want to say is
more interesting and more fun right but i tend to say i think unfortunately well that's okay
that's okay but this is something you can add so i'm giving you a little assignment
okay i'm ready i'm ready um what about in business can we use this yeah absolutely
because the fact is in business things are not always short nothing is honestly sure in
business right we're just never quite sure you know you're setting your goals i want to say
we'll hit x number but who knows right again with predicting things in the future could work too
right right that's true that's true exactly so i mean i wouldn't say it all the time in business
like you you don't want to sound like you're always questioning yourself like when i talk about
it sounding confident i think it's if you use it you know what a regular a regular amount yeah
every once in a while don't repeat anything you hear on the show too much right that's the key
right right exactly so you you don't want to sound like you're questioning yourself but it it can
be useful and helpful if you know if you use it occasionally um and i just want to stress is it
ever i want to say ever lindsay no guys you know if you you study pronunciation you can mimic us
we never say i want to say we just don't have the time okay so we bring the words together
all right that's so important yeah so make sure you're using it that way um so i thought of some
other ways to get the a similar point across um so some of them are more specific i want to say
is very versatile it can be with numbers it can be with names it can be with lots of different things
yeah um so but what is this first one here so it should be around and this is kind of predicting
a number right as you said michelle it should be around 25 or 20 minutes here's a sample sentence
i'm not sure how long it will take but it should be around 20 minutes okay and you actually you
could have said it should be around i want to say 20 if you could you could double up here we can
stack these phrases it could be i'm gonna go with i i want to say right and that's the next one i'm
gonna go with this is yeah i'm gonna go with so her title what's her title i'm gonna go with vp
of student affairs yeah and one thing i want to point out about this one i think there's a little
more ceremony around this one because this i think of using it more like in a game situation you know
like the other weekend yeah we were playing a game one of those games where like you have to guess
who wrote something who wrote a certain answer to a certain question right like what's the best
day of your life and you have three answers and then you have to say i'm gonna go with you know
this person wrote this so there's a little more ceremony around saying i'm gonna go with you
right it's i think it's this right it's kind of a bit of a guessing game would you agree with that
i would and this gives me in this particular example her title what's her title i'm going to
go with it almost sounds like i'm about to type up something maybe i'm putting it on her name
tag so you better hope i'm right you know but it almost yeah like a little bit more official okay
so what we're saying here is this one's a little different because it it's elevated because you're
gonna use that information for something important a game answer and answer a question in a game or
make a title make a name card um so it's slightly different but it's the same idea
right michelle exactly exactly and then i threw in i believe because i know we probably know this one
but i wanted to stick in a more formal one so you it can be used in this way so something like
you two have met i believe in 2009 yeah and it's always good to have a more formal thing to say
here you know i michelle job interviews oh my gosh right right when did you you know attempt for that
agency in new york city oh i believe it was 2014 right you wouldn't say i want to say yes oh true
true yeah that would in a job interview i wouldn't say i want to say i wouldn't say i want to
exactly so this is really helpful to have something instead of i think in a formal situation
okay so good very good but again don't use it all the time i believe i believe i believe like
don't do that so um in a second guys we are going to do a role play with these expressions
but before we do that what do we want to remind our listeners yeah guys take our fluency quiz
find out your score very simple it's a two-minute quiz and you'll know where you are at we're all
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score okay all right well let's do it so lindsay we are co-workers in this role play in the event
planning industry yeah i always wonder what that would be like you know being an event planner how
that would be so we get a chance to see now let's go here we go okay so there should be
i want to say 50 people there that sounds about right it should be around 25 bucks ahead then
right right and the client what's her name again i'm gonna go with jean jean wants
flowers on half of the tables yeah it is jean uh i believe she said 75
of the tables actually oh that's right you got it oh gene is very demanding a demanding client yes
exactly she wants us to do a lot of counting yeah for sure all right here we go so you said
i said okay so there should be i want to say 50 people there right so i'm kind of estimating i'm
i'm saying i think there's going to be 50 people there ballpark figure right michelle
and then i said it should be around 25 bucks ahead then so maybe it changes based on how many
people are going to attend sometimes sometimes the rate can change something like that yeah for sure
and then i said right right and the client what's her name again i'm gonna go with gene
right because i need to come up with the client's name here okay yeah exactly i'm going to go with
gene so maybe you weren't writing it down but right because this one could be used if more
like if you were put her name somewhere right yeah um and then i said i believe she said 75
of the tables actually yes and so now you're going into that more professional register right
more formal because we are we're professionals here in this industry and we're doing this right
i believe she said 75 i love it so what does this do michelle for a takeaway for listeners
what does this add to your to your language when you add this in i want to say it's kind of playful
um yeah you know in a way uh it's very natural and it's a way of saying i think or you're not
a hundred percent um but it's a it's a way of of showing that uh in kind of a unique fun way
yeah for me i'm excited that our listeners can can you know stop using i think as much
just because it is so bland and it's so standard and it's probably what your textbooks taught you
but we want to hear something else from you guys right so start playing around with some of these
i want to say i believe i'm gonna go with these are what give you personality and help you connect
right michelle that's right lindsay oh my gosh well i'm glad we did an episode on this this is
fun um and guys we will see you on the next one all right sounds great talk to you soon bye bye