hi i'm vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm
i'd rather i prefer which one is more
natural let's talk about it today i want
to talk to you about the natural
expression I would rather or I'd rather
maybe you remember from elementary
school English classes learning the
phrase which do you prefer chocolate or
vanilla I prefer chocolate this
expression the sentence this question
it's okay but it's not really something
that we use very commonly in daily
conversation and I don't want to tell
you that native speakers never use the
word prefer we do use the word prefer
but today I want to give you another
expression that you can use to build
your vocabulary and have some more
variety to sound like a native speaker
here's what I recommend instead do you
want to eat at the Japanese or Italian
place tonight I'd rather eat sushi so
let's go to the Japanese place this
construction is I'd rather plus a verb
I'd rather eat sushi let's go to the
Japanese place or you can ask Vanessa
why don't you live in New York City why
did you choose North Carolina when you
could live in New York City and I might
say I'd rather not live somewhere that
cold this construction with the negative
we need to add not before the verb I'd
rather not live somewhere that cold I'd
rather not last year when we moved back
to the US after living in Korea for
three years my husband and I didn't know
which city we wanted to live in I said
that I'd rather not live in the city
where I grew up and my husband Dan said
the same thing about the city he grew up
in so we had to make a list and decide
what were our priorities what did we
want in a city that we would live in for
the next few years so we sat down and
made a list and
I said that I'd rather walk or bike than
drive because I feel healthier I enjoy
walking I enjoy biking and driving just
isn't my thing so it was important to
have a city that had a nice downtown
area that we could hopefully live close
to and for Dan he said that he'd rather
have a place with down-to-earth people
not maybe high-class type of people he
wanted somewhere where we could fit in
and meet friends who were similar to us
and in the end we found two different
cities one city was five hours from my
husband's family six hours from my
family and a little bit further north
but the second city was only one hour
from my family and eight hours maybe
seven hours from my husband's family in
the end we decided that we'd rather live
close to one family then far from both
families so in the end we decided to
live in Asheville North Carolina which
is where I live now it was a great
choice the weather's nice
the people are down-to-earth we can walk
to the downtown area I can walk to the
grocery store in the end we got what we
wanted it's a great place to visit
because we were really intentional and
we tried to choose this place carefully
on my website I'm going to write some
more sample sentences in details about
the expression I'd rather so if you're
not on my website already click the link
below this video to check out the full
free lesson and now I have a question
for you can you make a sample sentence
using today's expression I'd rather I'd
love to see your comment in the
questions below and I'll talk to you the
next time goodbye
you