everyday conversations learning American English lesson one
introductions and small talk dialogue one one formal greetings listen carefully good
morning professor Austin how are you doing good morning James I'm doing well and you
I'm great thank you this is my friend Emma she is thinking about applying to this college
she has a few questions would you mind telling us about the process please hello Emma it's
a pleasure to meet you I'm more than happy to speak with you please stop by my office
next week it's a pleasure to meet you, professor thank you so much for helping us don't mention
it hopefully I will be able to answer your questions all right let's talk about this
the conversation all together James starts and
says good morning professor Austin how are
you doing so what does it mean uh firstly we can say we can change the sentence like
professor Austin I'd like to wish you a nice day how are things going for you or we can
say professor Austin good morning how are things going for you or professor Austin good
morning what's new with you professor Austin starts and says good morning James I am doing
well and you so what does it mean it means James good morning I'm in good shape how are
you so in good shape means I'm really fine as fit as a fiddle means super excellent and
also, we can say good morning James I am in fine physical condition how exactly are you
James continues and says I'm great thank you this is my friend Emma okay so what is this
is you know when you're introducing somebody to someone else or to somebody else you are
using this is okay we don't say he is or she is we say this is for example my friend this
is my sister this is my brother this is my classmate this is my teacher we don't say
he is my brother she is my sister he is my teacher, we don't say that only this is okay
so in other words we can also say thank you I am fine Emma is a friend of mine so when
you're introducing somebody again you can say for example he or she is a friend of mine
or my friend we can say or you can also say thanks, I'm great Emma is a friend of mine
or you can say I mean based on this conversation based on the context we can say thanks professor
I'm doing excellent I'm here to introduce one of my friends to you her name is Emma
what a lovely paraphrase you can also say then professor actually James again continues
and says she is thinking about applying to this college so what does it mean in other
words she's considering applying to this university so university is basically the college which
means that she wants to join that specific university or college in other words we can
also, say she is debating whether or not to apply to this university debating means she
wants to make sure because she is not certain so she is asking a lot of questions to make
sure okay James continues and says she has a few questions so a few, has a synonym
which means a couple of she has a couple of inquiries so inquiry is a kind of question
what type of question a question which is a difficult one and it requires a lot of research
and solid answers or we can simply say she's got a couple of inquiries again she's got
she has or she's got they're the same and also, we can say she has a few inquiries again
we can simply say that right then James continues and says would you mind telling us about the
process please so this is really interesting first of all, after this expression like would
you mind okay or with your mind you definitely need a gerund what is a gerund if you put
an ing to the end of the verb okay that verb becomes a noun because that is a gerund so
tell telling come coming speak speaking like was your mind telling was your mind coming
with your mind going okay you need a kind of ing this is a grammatical point so would
you mind telling us about the process, please uh you can change it and paraphrase it like
could you please, could you please is a synonym for the phrase would you mind right so could
you please tell us what is the grammatical difference here after using could you please
we remove ing and to so infinitive without two okay we cannot say could you please to
tell or could you please to speak we remove to we omit it okay could you please tell
us could you please tell us about the procedure, procedure is a synonym for the word process
and also we can say please explain the procedure to us what a lovely paraphrase please explain
the procedure to us and also please tell us about the procedure what a lovely paraphrase
again and then professor Austin says hello Emma it is a pleasure to meet you which means
we can also say Emma hello it is great to meet you right it is fantastic to meet you
or we can say Emma how are you it is great to meet you and also we can simply say it's
great to meet you in person Emma all of these three sentences are great paraphrases for
that specific sentence and then professor Austin continues and says I am more than happy
to speak with you what a lovely and beautiful sentence I am more than happy which means
I'd be delighted or I would I'd means I would I'd be delighted to meet you delighted means
really happy or you can say I'd love to talk to you or I would love to talk to you right
and simply I would be delighted or delighted to meet with you or you can simply say I would
be delightful to meet you or to meet with you all right so these are paraphrases and
then professor Austin says please stop by my office next week so stop by is a phrasal verb
war it means please visit so stop by means visit synonym also drop by so stop by drop
by or visit please visit me at my office next week or we can say a couple of days later
right and also we can say next week, please visit me at my office or and pay me a visit
what a lovely expression please pay me a visit next week or please pay me a visit after
a couple of days
Emma says it's a pleasure to meet you professor so this is a very cliche sentence but it means
professor it is a pleasure to see you or we can say professor it is great to finally meet
you professor it is an honor to see you it is an honor this is super super polite and
then Emma continues and says thank you so much for helping us so thank you so much means
thank you very much thank you so much thank you very much for your assistance assistance
means helping right or you can simply say please accept our heartfelt or heartful gratitude
for your assistance or you can say thank you very much for all of your assistance
professor Austin says don't mention it so let's talk about it of course this is a kind
of expression I will talk about it later but first, let me just try to paraphrase it don't
mention it means don't bring it up so bring something up means to start to talk about
a kind of specific topic basically uh in a sort of in an inappropriate way okay or you
can simply say it's best if you don't bring up that subject means please do not talk about
it don't even think about or talk about it I didn't do anything or simply you can say
don't even bring it up right hopefully I will be able to answer your questions hopefully
means I hope full of hope okay let's talk about it says hopefully I'll be able I'll
be I will be I'll be able to respond to your inquiries okay respond means answer questions
becomes inquiries right or you can simply say I am hoping to be able to respond to your
inquiries what a lovely sentence or you can simply say hopefully I'll be able to respond
to your queries so what is query, query is a kind of question which is very simple or
very easy question easy to answer and now let's talk about language notes right so the
greetings like good morning good afternoon good evening are used at different times of
the day of course to greet people okay for example good evening is often used after 6
p.m good morning is morning afternoon is the afternoon or generally when the sun has set
so sunrise goes up sunset goes down becomes dark or night and also we can say good night
so good night is not a hello good night is the end of the conversation we cannot use
good night to say hello so good night is it is not a greeting it is used when leaving
a place or group of people thank you and good night like that thank you and good night means
see you later like finishing stopping ending the conversation so good night and see you
tomorrow see you next week these are really important next thing is when people meet
In the united states, it is customary for them
to shake hands so customary means something
that people everybody accepts it or everybody I mean there's no problem with that everybody
is okay with that okay with that behavior with that, you know mindset so like shaking
hands it is really cool or okay in united states to shake hands with people a shake
hand should be firm firm means strong like firm shake hands and usually lasts for about
two or three seconds like shaking hands for one two three seconds why because it allows
enough time to you to say nice to meet you we cannot say okay shay can I finish so we
shake hands okay oh nice to meet you know it continues like for three seconds and finally
we have like the word the expression don't mention it so don't mention it is another
way of saying you're welcome so if somebody says don't mention it he or she means you're
welcome the phrase you're welcome is more formal so your welcome is a little bit informal
you are welcome is much more formal however responses such as don't mention it no problem
happy to help are informal ways of responding to a thank you so if somebody says thank you
you can say don't mention it no problem happy to help this is lovely happy to help right
yes that's it I hope you enjoyed that until next video live long and prosper take care