Everyday English: 12 more phrases you should know (set three)
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2021
- This is the third video in a series on colloquial English where we're looking at common phrases and expressions we use when we're speaking.
These spoken language phrases are used in everyday typical situations by native English speakers. You can use them in casual, daily situations when you meet friends on the street. Use this online video to practise fluency and improve your level. You’ll learn how to speak English naturally.
The best way to learn them is to see them in action. That way you can see when it's appropriate to use the phrases and they become more memorable.
Using colloquial phrases will help your English sound more natural and conversational. In this video we're looking at these ones:
Nice try
Gotta go
Don't even think about it
Told you
Guess what
That'll teach him
Serves him right
Fair enough
What are you up to?
could do with
has had it
Just the job
In your dreams
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REALLY, fascinating couple, it's not only that you make English easier, but you keep who ever follows you smiling, I love your sense of humor
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0 29 Dear Jay, keepin'it tricky.
Thank you!!!
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Hi Vicki Hi Jay nice to see you
These phrases will help me a lot
Thanks a lot for your support
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What another instresting vid
And hope you guys are safe and sound
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I reall injoy watching this, I have something to do right now🏃🏻♀️I will watch it again after one hour
Thanks so much for your kind comment.
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1 35 Dear Vicky dear Jay keeping it amazing.Thank you!!!
Thank you too
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Thanks Anya. :-)
You two are an amazing couple.... Thanks alot. It is so helpful
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Very useful videos.. these phrases are perfect to speak more fluently and naturally! I can’t wait for the next one 😊
Hi Elena, We so glad you're finding this series of videos helpful. Thanks for letting us know and thanks for watching.
@@SimpleEnglishVideos Thank just to you for teaching us all these useful expressions... I will keep my eyes peeled for the next videos! Have a good day!
Lovely!!! Those are really useful phrases!! And there are a few ones I find particularly interesting: “off you go,” “chop chop”, “it’s right up your alley”, “come off it”, “Roger that”. They sound really funny to me. Lol
Oh thanks you so much for this great list Ricardo. Much appreciated. Watch this space because I'm sure we'll try to teach some of them. :-)
You never fail to come up with what falls through the cracks of formal education. Congrats! I'm an English teacher reaching you from Turkey. I enjoy and benefit from your videos. Thanx for all the effort you put in these videos. keep it up!
Wow, thank you BUCK THE TREND! Much appreciated and greetings to you in Turkey. :-)
Thanks for uploading these series of colloquial phrases. Your videos are fun and have great content.
So glad you like them, Norma! :-)
Youbare aesome couple. Alway i use of your points in my teaching good job!
That's awesome! We're so glad the videos are useful, Mandana. Thanks for watching.
I do enjoy watching your videos. Keep it up
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You guys are my joy. I'm so clueless on britspeak thanks.
Hi, Vicki & Jay, thanks for all that great job you doing 'you are spiffing' wonderful team, may God bless you and your family ever and forever
Thanks so much Hafiz! That's so kind of you. :-)
I'm happy to have found your channel
We're happy you found it as well Norma.
Hello.We keep a watchful eye on this useful tutorial.Your smiles trigger our emotions.Thank you very much, dear Vicky and dear Jay!Have a bright week.
Good to hear from you Natalya. Thanks for writing to us.
Really enjoy this video! Thank you so much!
So glad you liked it Micha. :-)!
I love this series thank you as always:)
So glad you're enjoying it Mae. Thanks for writing.
Great job, as usual! I haven't heard some of those phrases in donkey's years. Glad you' ve brought them back to life for me. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE keep doing these vídeos. I am particular keen on the different ways you say they thing in British and American English. Muchas gracias.
Hi Mel, thanks so much for writing. So glad you like the videos. :-)
Great!
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Glad you liked it, Ricardo!
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Hi Donato and greetings to you in Italy. It's great to have you with us. :-)
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Thanks so much Eder and greetings to you in Brazil. :-)
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Can you make a video on word stress?😊
So glad you like them Magician. Word stress is on my list. :-)
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I am from Saudi Arabia, and we use the idioms ‘don’t even think about it’ and ‘in your dreams’ as will ☺️
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ajay raj, thank you so much for your very kind words. There is one thing we'd like to point out to you though. We realize that in your culture, calling people granny and grandpa can be a sign of great respect (and we thank you for that). But in other cultures it can be quite rude. So depending on where you are, you need to figure what is appropriate. Here's a video we produced on the subject that you might enjoy: ua-cam.com/video/wHUuCsYtrgE/v-deo.html
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My heartfelt apologies, Mam/Sir!!!
I shouldn't have called you that way.
But as you said in that video, it's a way of showing affection in our culture.
Today I have learnt how to be polite when it comes to speaking with people who belong to various communities.
Thanks a million for your suggestion!!!🥳❤❤❤✌
Thank you teachers.
@khinpannnyeinpyone5815, you are most welcome. - Jay
Wishing you health and happiness
Chúc ông bà khỏe mạnh và hạnh phúc ạ
From VietNam with love
Hi D-Mix Channel. This is Jay writing back to you. When I translated the Vietnamese comment you made, I started to laugh. We understand that calling older people grandparents is a sign of respect in Vietnam and we very much appreciate that. However, you might be interested to know that it's not an acceptable practice everywhere. Take a look a this video and you'll see what I mean: ua-cam.com/video/wHUuCsYtrgE/v-deo.html
@@SimpleEnglishVideos Thanks for your reply. I'm glad you have to responded my comment. Actually I have watched your video before I wrote that comment. But in my language the words "ông bà" mean to respect someone. You can call me Nam and I hope one day you will refer to me in your video. Love you♡
Cảm ơn vì sự hồi âm. Cháu thực sự vinh hạnh khi được ông và bà trả lời bình loan thực ra thì cháu đã xem video đó trước khi cháu viết bình luận ấy rồi ạ. Nhưng trong ngôn ngữ của cháu thì không có từ nào thể hiện sự kính trọng hơn từ "ông bà" nữa ạ. Và cháu tên là Nam ạ hi vọng 1 ngày nào đó ông bà sẽ nhắc đến tên cháu trong 1 video. Bonus: nếu có dịp ông bà hãy du lịch đến Việt Nam một lần ạ. Cháu rất mong sẽ có dịp được gặp 2 người. Chúc ông bà luôn khỏe mạnh
Love you♡
Nam.
I didnt know there's a new video!
There's a new one every other week, Bulan.
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Thank you, Andre. That's so kind of you to say.
can u pls make a video about phrases that are used during the classroom?
thanks a lot for ur useful video.
Great suggestion! Thanks Roqaya. :-)
This phrases or expressions I guess: “come to your senses”, “bearing gifts(confusing)” , “ go out with a bang”. That’s a lot. But I really want to know what are they mean and do you use this words in daily life? By the way thank you for creating useful, funny and gorgeous video lessons for us. I’ve been learning so many things from you💗
Hi Meira. Yes! We'd use all these phrases and they are great suggestions for us to include in a future video. Thank you! And thank you for the kind words. So glad you like the videos. :-)
thanks. words i cant get are: drift, drill and clinch.
S. H., when you say you can't 'get' those words, what do you mean? Is it the definitions or the way they are used? Let us know.
I miss you guys!! Its me bulan i had a new phone so its been awhile i didnt watch your videos!
A new phone. How exciting! How's it going?
Its not a new phone,its my moms phone😂😂
If there is a couple of teachers cuter than this one, I don't know!
I love you two ❤️
And do you have instagram?
Hi Fillipe. Thanks so much for the kind words. I have an instagram account at @vickihollett, but I have never posted anything. I must get round to doing that! :-)
I once heard "something smells fishy" and I'm curious what it's about and if you could talk about it in your next video of this series
If something smells fishy that means it seems suspicious
Great suggestion Bob. Thank you. We'll certainly try to include this phrase in another video!
@@SimpleEnglishVideos In meantime I also remembered about "running out of something". It's also interesting, because you don't literally run
Are you british?
Kinda like the expression "doesn't pass the sniff test"
Could you please make a video to explain more about "of". For instance, it is said "I will not hear of this" when a girl reject to follow an order from her father. Instead of that, can we replace " I will not hear this"
Hi CA TANG. Yes, you could delete the of there but inserting the of makes it a little more formal, and we often get a little more formal when we are reprimanding someone. Hope this helps.
"That's Will teach him" in My language: Portuguese,We would say "Bem feito!!", that in English is positive,literally in English "Well done" ,but is not positive in Portuguese.
That's so interesting, Marco. Thanks for sharing that.
"Get out of here!" or "Get out!"
Thanks for this suggestion Randy. Nice one! :-)
Or fugedaboudit!
Vicki, are you aging in reverse??? You look good girl!
Oh Connie Wonnie. This is my favourite comment EVER! You have made my week! :-)
2:30 i don't get why Vicki said "moustache".
She said "must dash", but you're right, it kind of sounds like moustache.
Ha! Good one, just a student. :-)
Plz make video on phrasal verb
merabharrat, we have made a few about phrasal verbs. Check these out:
ua-cam.com/video/YJyRc_QOhbw/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/ZayJFxu15eA/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/NsKWFmJFB3A/v-deo.html
www.simpleenglishvideos.com/computer-terms-phrasal-verbs/
www.simpleenglishvideos.com/common-separable-phrasal-verbs/
www.simpleenglishvideos.com/9-really-useful-english-three-word-phrasal-verbs-transitive-verbs/
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Aye up you both lovely teachers!!
The lesson is as amazing as always, but I've one phrase whose meaning I've never understood precisely.
It's "You nailed it". Can you please provide its meaning.
Regards
Hello: I’m a native English speaker. If you “nail” something, it means that you got something right For example if someone asks you how you did on an exam and you did well, you could say that you nailed it.
Hope this helps. Sorry I’m not Vicky or Jay. LOL!!!
@@blindbookworm8019 Thank you so much for answering !
Where are you from, by the way?
@@yaggikjalan I’m from Texas USA :-) and you?
@@blindbookworm8019 Ohkkk.
I was just pondering that why did you give both my answers when here it was night, whether you sleep or not.
And now I realized, that's because I'm from India. Lol😂
So, how's the Biden govt going on
Yaggik, Blind Bookworm's answer was perfect!
Should you ever run out of ideas for new episodes, here's mine: colloquial corporate English. Phrases that are used in everyday's life in corporations and team work, such as: to push back, snitch on someone (to the manager), be on top of sth, etc. Not all of them nice, obviously.
This is a really good idea A A. I love it. Thank you!
@@SimpleEnglishVideos There is also a couple of corpo-lingo phrases used during meetings or slide presentations, such as "...moving forward" (from now/then on?) or "we'll take it from there" (let's decide later after we have finished the current stage). I have also heard "to backpack somebody" (presumably meaning that, as a newcomer, you put the burden of your questions and the time taken, onto a senior who has been longer with the company). Or "to pair up with someone" (to do something together), "to sync up", "to have a lot on one's table/plate". Not to mention the popular: to brief someone, to hand over (also handover as a noun), to have a stand-in during an absence, to cover up for someone. A lot of that! Plus a whole bunch of interpersonal behaviors and social techniques. Quite a series, I must say! Looking forward to seeing these (and even more) in your videos!
Have you always been teachers or you do it because you have a lot of free time being on pension? Anyway it is a very good idea of how to teach English. Thank you a million.
Robert, this is Jay writing back to you. Vicki's been teaching English and writing English Language training textbooks for more than 40 years. I am a film/video/multimedia producer with a Master Degree in Education and I produce many training programs for businesses and organizations around the world.
@@SimpleEnglishVideos I am so grateful for you answering my question. All the best from Jesus to you.
Is “could with do” a politer way to replace “need”? Eg. I could do with an assistant = I need an assistant.
Essentially, yes.
'I could do with an assistant' may be more polite or it may mean that they are not confident. As in, they think they would benefit from having and assistant but they are not sure they really need one.
Hi Susan. Sometimes 'could' will make a request more polite (eg. Could you help me? Is more polite than Help me) but I'm not sure politer is the best way of describing what's happening here. 'Could do with' is slightly more tentative than I need, but they mean much the same thing.
I would like to know if “could use” has the same meaning of “could do with”
Hi Alex, sorry for this late reply. Great question! Yes, could use is also possible, so we could say, for example, 'It could use a clean'.
@@SimpleEnglishVideos Thank you so much
I heard erasers are called rubbers in the uk? Haha
They are indeed Dallas Stiles. You might like this video: ua-cam.com/video/ArRdrhejS3A/v-deo.html
what does the phrase 'whats up' mean.
It is usually a greeting.
Similar to saying "how are you?" "how are you doing?" Or "how is your day going?"
"What's up?" is often used by younger people and is very informal.
Sometimes, particularly in British English, you can say "what's up" to ask why someone looks sad.
Great discussion here. "ILoveTopHatTree" is correct. But in our latest video we also discuss "What with..." You can find it at: ua-cam.com/video/ZuqYn8_O6Rk/v-deo.html
And in Australian english?
I wish I knew Manuel. Perhaps an Australian will read this and help.
In British English we can say "Moustache" 😂
Yes we can Jeremx. Thanks!
"In your dreams" seems a bit unpolite, doesn't it? 😏
Yes, it sounds rude
Yes it does many.
nice try = පුළුවන් නම් කරළා පෙන්නපන් I got to run (I have to run ) = ඉක්මනට යන්න වෙලා Do not even think about doing it = කරන්න හිතන්න වත් ඒපා ! ඔන්න මම නොකීවයි කියන්න ඒපා I told you so. = මම උමට ඔක කිව්වනෙ guess what = දන්නවද වැඩක් fair enough = සාධාරණයි what are you up to = මොනාද කරන්නෙ The kids are quiet .what are they up to ? = සද්දයක් නෑ පොඩි ඒවුන් උඩ මොනවද කරන්නෙ ? in your dreams= හීනෙන් තමයි. හැබැහින වෙන දෙවල් නොවෙ ඔවා