Happy Weekend everyone! So, did you enjoy the lesson? Do you agree with me? Do you think we should avoid these 3 features of informal English and stop talking like the Kardashians?! 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤪
Definitely, I really enjoyed the lesson! Yes, I do. You can say that again! I think we should avoid these three features of informal English and stop talking like the Kardashians as well.
The use of the words 'like' and 'basically' as conjunctions by young people in recent years has increased so much ,its almost like a linguistic fashion statement.
Lecturer Leila I never watch those tv show programmes. I always speak ENGLISH correctly without using any contractions.. Greetings from Peru I'm delighted to find a brilliant channel to learn British ENGLISH So, surely by your help I wll Best regards Your faithfully, a Peruvian ENGLISH teacher who is learning and improving every day by watching every lesson what you provide us. From the bottom of my heart Thank you.
Overusing and misusing some common words are bad habits in any language, indeed. It mainly depends on the level of literacy but also it's a way to look cool for teens, in particular. It's tough to struggle against some kinds of TV shows celebrities, I get you. Maybe a little vintage but my models are Judi Dench and Emma Thompson. And you two, of course.!!!! 🇮🇹🇬🇧✌️
Oh wow! For you to put sabrah and me on the same league as Emma Thompson and Judie Dench is a massive honour! This might just be the best comment EVER! 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕☺️☺️☺️☺️👍👍👍👍👍👍
Honestly, you were superb at what you explained here. We end up watching so much TV shows and at the end of the day we catch ouselves overusing "like". It sounds horrible. Terrible! Thanks for the amazing video! I love you,girls, so much. Again, thank you.
I remember exactly when people started speaking with rising inflexion/ intonation. It was in the 1980s! When the TV 'soap' Neighbours, came to the UK, from Australia. That is how they speak over there. I know this because I lived there for a while during the 80s. It drove me nuts!
Highly appreciated lesson Leila .I completely AGREE with you. You have very deftly cleared my doubts about those things.Thanks and stay safe.God bless the earth.
Thanks a bunch for such a fruitful lesson. I really liked you imitating Kardashian. 😁😁 First 2 points were a bit obvious but what amazed was 3rd one (Uptalk). Seriously, I didn't know about that how does it affects our speaking in professional settings. I'm not sure about myself though, I'll have to focus on my speaking skills to find out if I'm doing those mistakes. Thanks Again 🙂💎
HI Leila, thanks a lot for great lesson, thanks for this fantastic advices yes I agree with you, even in my native language the Spanish also happens this kind of situation, thanks for teach the way right.😁
Thanks so much for making a video to address the stupid talk, it is needed. Uptalk has crept in to British speech and I hear everyone using it and it makes me cringe. It needs to go. For some time I have been wanting to reply to anyone speaking to me like this with: "Are you asking me or telling me?"
English learners should learn to speak slowly at a pace they are comfortable with. Really, people, speak like the English teacher here. No filler words, good logic. Communication is not about doing things as quickly as possible but as clearly as possible!
Thanks to Leila and Sabrah it’s really a good lesson. 15 mins learned a lot and the way you teach sound superb and very clear hope nobody need any more clarification regarding this ., stay safe , stay healthy.
Thanks a lot for your great and successful lesson Lila jaan I think you’re first language is Farsi and main is the same your doing really good job well done for you
I never heard 'stupid' a lot of times, I like your videos and the way you teach, however nowadays there are many people who are sensitives instead set a challenge on their mindset, I would recommend don't use that word but to me is funny, beside you looks pretty beautiful and smart I believe you better than Kardashian don't worry there are many people in earth making marketing sold entertainment, etc.
Hi Leila as always another interesting video you're fantastic teacher and i love how you teach thank you so much Have a great weekend you and Sabrah my beautiful teachers 😉🇧🇷 stay home
Hi, classy Queen Leila!💓👑 Gosh, exceedingly breathtaking lesson! Enjoyed and marvled!💕✨✨ Big kudos to you and Sabrah for making such various and top-notch lessons!👍👍👍👍 You are our role models and we mimic absolutely right ladies! The suspense is killing us! We're looking forward to watching your next lesson! 💐🥀 Buh-bye! XOXO
This is a very interesting lesson. Actually when I listen to the famous American TV series " Friends", I notice that they also use often this " like" and I think that this usage is quite natural in normal American people's daily conversation despite the fact that it is too abused risking of losing the beauty of the original language sound. By the way this uptalk phenomenon seems a bit common in all the languages, especially among younger generations who tend to invent even new words, sometimes for their ignorance, sometime for their innocent mistake, sometimes for expressing something just symbolically or superficially instead of concretely, sometimes just for saving time & energy for pronunciation. Languages are alive and always receive some influence in each era. I myself try to keep using the standard Japanese language ( I am from Japan and currently live in Italy), however, at the same time I am trying to get accustomed to younger people's " modern " talk as well because, otherwise I cannot follow them anymore when I talk with them or when I hear them talking. I studied linguistics at university in 1980s and I find these linguistic phenomena very interesting.
“Languages are alive”, no doubt, but laziness is even more alive. That's why you have to be careful, because language shapes action, without a doubt either.
@@ColHogan-bu2xq Languages are always influenced both positively and negatively by their users and thus they change their forms gradually and each generation accepts them as they are, considering them as standard ones, this is a natural course of each language and it is the same as our life style. There never exists an absolute criterion. Time changes, things change, as we ourselves are currently observing very clearly how this new normal by the covid - 19 is becoming our current standard which can be changed again sooner or later in the future. Certain things continue to change regardless of our efforts and/or our attention. .
@@yoidoretennshi777 "There is never an absolute criterion." Sorry, there are. For example, one finds perfect English in Shakespeare, or perfect Italian with Dante, or perfect French with Molière. Forgetting these criteria - or simply not knowing about their existence - leads people to total decadence. (See the Roman Empire ...) "Certain things continue to change regardless of our efforts and/or our attention." Sure. It doesn't mean that we don't have to resist, even if we don't win in the short term. For me, it's a question of self-respect, which does not depend on what people think or do.
@@ColHogan-bu2xq Everything is relative in this world. You can resist if you want, you don't need to resist if you don't want. Everybody has their own choice and at last it often happens that the majority's choice tends to influence more every subject but this majority can change at any time and nobody can predict the result. Perfect language does not exist. I live in Italy and I know very well Italian language and I studied it for more than 34 years and I studied Spanish language for 6 years including 4 years at university, Romanian language, Latin language, " medieval" Spanish language and linguistics for two years each at university and I studied French and Portuguese by myself for several months and I have read some parts of Dante's Italian of that era. After all these experiences about the several languages deriving from Latin language, I can tell you that Dante's Italian is not perfect at all. It has still lots of old Latin language influences like medieval Spanish language. However, if somebody says that Dante's Italian is perfect, maybe it is so but only for this somebody. Or maybe it was perfect but only in that era because Dante's Italian language cannot be understood by today's Italians anymore except for some who are interested in the literature of that era or those who had a chance to study it at school or university. It means that it is not useful anymore at least in our daily life. Italians might call it beautiful but would never call it perfect. Also my native language Japanese is more or less the same. This was heavily influenced by Chinese language until 6 - 7 th century and was composed almost 100% of Chinese characters in written language( the pronunciation in spoken language became different between Chinese and Japanese), however, later Japanese people modified it and invented other two different categories of characters that don't exist in Chinese language, therefore, Japanese people have been using these three different groups of characters since then, while the grammar and expressions had changed drastically after 1870s and that old Japanese language was not used anymore. And even this new Japanese language became old after the Second World War and we started to use another style of Japanese language which continues to be used until today. For people like me who were born after the Second World War, that style before the end of the war is quite difficult to understand because we don't use it anymore in any scene. I can read it enough well only because I love reading books and I have read several books written before the war, but normally today's generations cannot understand it so easily. Then which is the perfect Japanese language? The answer is each Japanese language which was considered as a standard one in each " era" whose word definition can remain very ambiguous. Our language has been changing again in the last few decades because younger generations are creating lots of new words and expressions which are against the traditional grammar but as they are being used very often not only in their daily conversation but also on TV & radio programs so the society is accepting them as they are and even the dictionaries are starting to acknowledge them accordingly. Of course there exists a standard Japanese language in written form which should be used in official document and/or speech but I am not sure neither if this can last for a century as our recent history shows the opposite result. I know that we need some kind of standard/crietrion which we want to consider perfect, however, nothing can be considered as perfect unless subjectively.
@@yoidoretennshi777 Wow, such an impressive resumé ... I'm inclined to think that every language has its own history, which of course is different from any other language ... Of course I do agree on the relations between both Chinese and Japanese languages (how could I not ?), and your comments seem to be totally relevant. Now, I've been reading old and medieval French for a time, then "modern" French, and I can assure you that there exists a "perfect" French language. Why do I say "perfect" ? Well, for two reasons : First, "perfect" French says what it means, which is quite difficult because of our draconian grammar rules, without which French language loses all sense and all meaning. That's why in French you can't do what you want. Second, in France "perfect" French is the language of politeness, which allows peaceful social relations. As soon as the rules are forgotten, the French become almost like "wild beasts". (Remember the French Revolution ?...) English speaking people, for instance, do not have this problem, because English "tone" is naturally extremely polite. Moreover, English culture forbids all kinds of bravados, pride or boasting.This is unfortunately not the case in France, where you have to stick to the rules to remain more or less civilized ... Of course, this doesn't mean that the English or the Japanese, who are always very polite, already live in Heaven ... It only means that they can understand each other. See the "Oxford Union debates", for example, or the "Fake or Fortune" shows, or the Graham Norton shows ... ua-cam.com/video/yuXGpUR7fXA/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/2avOxIQr-vc/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/2avOxIQr-vc/v-deo.html Now let me end on a kind of joke : don't you think that “nothing can be considered perfect unless subjectively” is also a little subjective ? Glad to have had this interesting conversation with you. God bless. (God IS perfect, by the way ...)
Other abuses: 1) overusing the word "so" to start almost any response to an open question "So...". 2) Using the word "again" as a filler word, even when they are saying something for the first time "Again..." I hear those all the time. Another thing that bothers me is the mainstream use now of the urban slang "to go down" as in "to happen." Newscasters in the States will say to a reporter "Tell us what went down ..." as if that is acceptable English.
Brilliant. Another bugbear, not used as much as the dreaded and irritating “like” is “and that” at the end of every sentence. How do you tell someone who is obviously unaware they are doing it, to please stop?!
Excellent piece of advice, Leila! Thank you Love English. Could it be that the K's way pretend to sound cool and that's why some.people imitate them? Cheers!!
ASAP, VIP , RSVP (French!) have been used long before text talk! You're not old enough to remember! Agree about LIKE! What about REACH OUT - CONTACT is one word! ER, UM shows limited knowledge of vocabulary!
I just thought I was making a good impression by sounding more'' American''. Now I know I was just looking stupid. Thank you, you stopped me from ruining everything.
Nice job Leila! But I must say the 3 examples of Uptalk were pretty bad! I live on the west coast of the US and I have to tell you that I hear this type of speech all the time! It could literally be any declarative sentence that will end in the "question" tone. It could drive you up a wall! Also once last comment. I notice that the Brits say "Right" a lot. Which is kind of like saying "Like". It really doesn't mean anything... unless you are trying to imply that you're asking your listener to agree with you?
Hi Leila, An interesting lesson about how to use smart sound in English conversation and make it more effective. I admire your suggestion and tips. Some other suggestions: 1. That - Don’t use ‘that’ when you refer to people. 2. Went - Instead of ‘went’, consider drove, skated, walked, ran, flew. 3. Really - Avoid repetition of ‘really’ word. 4. Just - It’s a filler word and it makes your sentence weaker, avoid it. 5. Okay - Certainly is a great alternative to ‘okay’. Thank you.
Another word to exchange , is the word, got and get. It’s perfectly natural to use them sometimes but, for example, I got milk at the store, it sounds more descriptive to say, I bought milk at the store.
I couldn't agree with you more my lovely teacher. These habits are stupid and in fact Donald Trump sounds also really unprofessional at times. He has confused the word origins with oranges in spoken English. I mean there isn't much difference but you don't expect that, right? Btw another really stupid habit that Germans are adopting in English is the usage of OR at the end of sentences. This mistake stemms from a direct translation. Germans use the word oder which means or at the end of sentences as a question tag. It drives me up the wall when I notice that error! Ps: I've been watching Jane the Virgin a lot lately. I've already watched the first three seasons but there are so many episodes! Thank you very much for having recommended this series to me. I've learned a lot.💕🇬🇷
And what makes things even more nightmarish ,when these “speak monstrosities “ come out from young nonnative speakers of English ,combined with all sorts of grammatical mistakes, you just don’t know whether you want to pull off your hair, or laugh your head off, on second thought, I’d say pull their hair off !! True, the kardashians sadly , are every where 😭😭
My favourite filler is "right"... Well I get one idea, right, but I only tell the other two about it, right? And he's got his ideas., right, and mostly I think it's rubbish, right? And he hasn't got any ideas at all... LOL
Happy Weekend everyone! So, did you enjoy the lesson? Do you agree with me? Do you think we should avoid these 3 features of informal English and stop talking like the Kardashians?! 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤪
☺ I do prefer Leila and Sabrah's way - I dislike abbreviations in short messages too
And you!
Definitely, I really enjoyed the lesson! Yes, I do. You can say that again! I think we should avoid these three features of informal English and stop talking like the Kardashians as well.
Hahaha, spending time waxing bikinis sides ! Classic !! No bushes!
Yay! ☺️👍👍💕
The use of the words 'like' and 'basically' as conjunctions by young people in recent years has increased so much ,its almost like a linguistic fashion statement.
What really disturbs me is the over use of "so" in the beginning of a sentence
Thank you for teaching people to speak properly and smartly ‼️ This generation needs more people like you 😊
Dear Mam! I am running out of words to express how marvelous your videos are! This is real English which we are not taught in schools.
Lecturer Leila I never watch those tv show programmes.
I always speak ENGLISH correctly without using any contractions..
Greetings from Peru
I'm delighted to find a brilliant channel to learn British ENGLISH
So, surely by your help I wll
Best regards
Your faithfully, a Peruvian ENGLISH teacher who is learning and improving every day by watching every lesson what you provide us.
From the bottom of my heart
Thank you.
I definitely have problems with overuse of "like". So, thank you for your advice! I'll try to keep it in mind when speaking...
I definitely use 'like' more than anyone should, so thank you for the advice.
I LIKE this class..sounds absolutely sensible 👌
Overusing and misusing some common words are bad habits in any language, indeed. It mainly depends on the level of literacy but also it's a way to look cool for teens, in particular. It's tough to struggle against some kinds of TV shows celebrities, I get you. Maybe a little vintage but my models are Judi Dench and Emma Thompson. And you two, of course.!!!! 🇮🇹🇬🇧✌️
Oh wow! For you to put sabrah and me on the same league as Emma Thompson and Judie Dench is a massive honour! This might just be the best comment EVER! 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕☺️☺️☺️☺️👍👍👍👍👍👍
Honestly, you were superb at what you explained here. We end up watching so much TV shows and at the end of the day we catch ouselves overusing "like". It sounds horrible. Terrible! Thanks for the amazing video! I love you,girls, so much. Again, thank you.
YOU SOUND MUCH BETTER THAN YESTERDAY, HAPPY THAT YOU'RE FEELING WELL
Thank God I clicked and watched this video.....
I'm gonna choose a good character to mimic when I watch TV ...
I like your videos. I speak english and want to improve my vocabulary to raise my level of communication
20 synonyms (A)
1. Abandon - desert
2. Abundant - plenty
3. Abduct - kidnap
4. Ability - skill
5. Able - capable
6. Abolish - Revoke
7. Accomodation - lodging
8. Accomplish- achieve
9. Accurate- correct
10. Admit - confess
11. Adore - love
12. Adversary - opponent
13. Affection - love
14. Ally - companion, friend
15. Amend - change
16. Amplify - exaggerate
17. Amusing - Funny
18. Angry - furious
19. Amaze - astonish, surprise
20. Anger - infuriate
20 synonyms (B)
1. Baby - infant
2. Back - rear
3. Baggage- luggage
4. Ban - prohibit
5. Barrier - obstacle
6. Battle - fight / war
7. Beast - animal
8. Beverages- drinks
9. Break - fractured
10. Brief - short
11. Blank - empty / vacant
12. Burst - explode
13. Buy - purchase
14. Build - construct
15. Bliss - happiness
16. Boring - dull , gloomy
17. Beat - hit
18. Brave - courageous
19. Below - under
20. Begin - start
20 synonyms (C)
1. Calamity - Disaster
2. Catch - arrest/ capture
3. Cease - stop
4. Change - alter
5. Certainly - definitely
6. Chaos - diaorder
7. Copy - imitate
8. Chuckle - giggle
9. Coarse - rough
10. Cheat - deceive / trick
11. Courteous - polite
12. Courageous- brave / daring
13. Cruel - wicked
14. Cunning - sly
15. Cure - remedy
16. Custom - habit
17. Cry - weep
18. Constant - regular
19. Considerate - thoughtful
20. Compliment - praise
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20 synonyms (D)
1. Damp - moist
2. Dangerous- hazardous
3. Daybreak - dawn
4. Daring - brave / courageous
5. Dispute - argument/ fight
6. Demonstrate - illustrate
7. Depart - leave
8. Dirt - filth
9. Disappear - vanish
10. Disclose - reveal
11. Disease - illness
12. Dishonest - deceitful
13. Display - exhibit / show
14. Diversity - variety
15. Drowsy - sleepy
16. Dumb - mute
17. Dusk - twilight
18. Drop - fall
19. Drift - float
20. Delusion - hallucination
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20 synonyms (E)
1. Eager - keen
2. Edible - eatable
3. Egocentric - self-centered
4. Embrace - hug
5. Eminent - famous
6. Emperor- king
7. Enlarged - extended
8. Essential - necessary
9. Evil - bad, wicked
10. Examine - check
11. Expensive - dear
12. Environment - surrounding
13. Entire - whole
14. Enormous - huge , gigantic
15. Endanger - harm , hurt
16. Eternal - forever
17. Enemy - foe
18. Enough - sufficient
19. Emphasis - stress
20. End - finish👍
Yes Leila esp the overuse of like, but on the contrary, I normally over-use 'like' when I don't know what to say.
A good solution could be not to say anything, couldn it ?
I actually heard an American say ‘boughten’. As in, ‘she had boughton the tickets, already’. Americans are destroying the English language.
I remember exactly when people started speaking with rising inflexion/ intonation. It was in the 1980s! When the TV 'soap' Neighbours, came to the UK, from Australia. That is how they speak over there. I know this because I lived there for a while during the 80s. It drove me nuts!
I loved it today!
Very practical and useful phrases!
I totally agree. it really sounds horrible. Thanks, you just taught me how to not embarrasse myself around people. I always love your teachings.
Highly appreciated lesson Leila .I completely AGREE with you. You have very deftly cleared my doubts about those things.Thanks and stay safe.God bless the earth.
Ah great! Good to have a supporter for the cause! 👍💕☺️
Thanks a bunch for such a fruitful lesson. I really liked you imitating Kardashian. 😁😁 First 2 points were a bit obvious but what amazed was 3rd one (Uptalk). Seriously, I didn't know about that how does it affects our speaking in professional settings. I'm not sure about myself though, I'll have to focus on my speaking skills to find out if I'm doing those mistakes.
Thanks Again 🙂💎
Uptalk was invented in Australia, and went over the Pacific to the US
I like the way you teach.
HI Leila, thanks a lot for great lesson, thanks for this fantastic advices yes I agree with you, even in my native language the Spanish also happens this kind of situation, thanks for teach the way right.😁
Informative and entertaining! Well done, marvelous work, wicked, like. Now who would have thought English could be this much fun?
Don't say lol ...just laugh" was so hilarious I literally laughted out loud
😃😃
Thanks so much for making a video to address the stupid talk, it is needed. Uptalk has crept in to British speech and I hear everyone using it and it makes me cringe. It needs to go. For some time I have been wanting to reply to anyone speaking to me like this with: "Are you asking me or telling me?"
Thank God I don't speak like those idiots 😂😂
thanks Leila for such a lovely video.
I must say your Kardashian debut is hilarious😂
English learners should learn to speak slowly at a pace they are comfortable with. Really, people, speak like the English teacher here. No filler words, good logic. Communication is not about doing things as quickly as possible but as clearly as possible!
You are a great professor 🙏
Thanks to Leila and Sabrah it’s really a good lesson. 15 mins learned a lot and the way you teach sound superb and very clear hope nobody need any more clarification regarding this ., stay safe , stay healthy.
Great lesson!
I dislike this way to talk. It's difficult to keep on talking and annoying. You're great teachers. A big thumb up
Thanks for you teacher am start to enjoy later
I really appreciate your video, my greetings to Persian community in the UK
Thanks Leila, very helpful lesson 🙂
Another word, like you should avoid, is " literally". You know what I mean like.
another huge problem is mumbling ... if you want to communicate speak clearly and speak up because everything you say must be important
I agree 100% with you!!! Nice video. I like it so much!!! I'm following you now!!!!
Ah wonderful! Thank you for following us and taking the time to comment! ☺️👍💕💕💕💕
OMG THE FIRST FEW MINUTES MADE THIS THE BEST DAMM VIDEO ONLINE. GOD I LAAAAAUGHED. LOOOOVE U FOREVER 🤣🤣🤣💜
I enjoy watching films
but I mimic you
I have told you that I became a brittish English fan
because I like the way you talk
Thanks a lot for your great and successful lesson Lila jaan I think you’re first language is Farsi and main is the same your doing really good job well done for you
I would rather hear someone say UM, instead of LIKE !
I never heard 'stupid' a lot of times, I like your videos and the way you teach, however nowadays there are many people who are sensitives instead set a challenge on their mindset, I would recommend don't use that word but to me is funny, beside you looks pretty beautiful and smart I believe you better than Kardashian don't worry there are many people in earth making marketing sold entertainment, etc.
From someone who used to watch a lot of the Kardashians and now subscribed here...👀
Overuse of like is plain dumb. I agree.
Thank you very much dear teacher, here is another beneficial lesson very interesting and full of proper education.Thanks again.
Regards,
Maqsood.
Hi Leila as always another interesting video
you're fantastic teacher and i love how you teach thank you so much
Have a great weekend you and Sabrah my beautiful teachers 😉🇧🇷 stay home
Please explain 'you've got that covered'
I absolutely love this video. Thanks for being courageous and caring enough to make this. ♥️
Are you on Instagram?
Definitely agree.
Hi, classy Queen Leila!💓👑 Gosh, exceedingly breathtaking lesson! Enjoyed and marvled!💕✨✨ Big kudos to you and Sabrah for making such various and top-notch lessons!👍👍👍👍 You are our role models and we mimic absolutely right ladies!
The suspense is killing us! We're looking forward to watching your next lesson! 💐🥀
Buh-bye! XOXO
I loved the Kardashian parody! Brilliant!
Emma Watson: an applause!!👉👏👏👏
Nice video ma'am
This is a very interesting lesson. Actually when I listen to the famous American TV series " Friends", I notice that they also use often this " like" and I think that this usage is quite natural in normal American people's daily conversation despite the fact that it is too abused risking of losing the beauty of the original language sound. By the way this uptalk phenomenon seems a bit common in all the languages, especially among younger generations who tend to invent even new words, sometimes for their ignorance, sometime for their innocent mistake, sometimes for expressing something just symbolically or superficially instead of concretely, sometimes just for saving time & energy for pronunciation. Languages are alive and always receive some influence in each era. I myself try to keep using the standard Japanese language ( I am from Japan and currently live in Italy), however, at the same time I am trying to get accustomed to younger people's " modern " talk as well because, otherwise I cannot follow them anymore when I talk with them or when I hear them talking. I studied linguistics at university in 1980s and I find these linguistic phenomena very interesting.
“Languages are alive”, no doubt, but laziness is even more alive. That's why you have to be careful, because language shapes action, without a doubt either.
@@ColHogan-bu2xq
Languages are always influenced both positively and negatively by their users and thus they change their forms gradually and each generation accepts them as they are, considering them as standard ones, this is a natural course of each language and it is the same as our life style. There never exists an absolute criterion. Time changes, things change, as we ourselves are currently observing very clearly how this new normal by the covid - 19 is becoming our current standard which can be changed again sooner or later in the future. Certain things continue to change regardless of our efforts and/or our attention.
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@@yoidoretennshi777
"There is never an absolute criterion." Sorry, there are. For example, one finds perfect English in Shakespeare, or perfect Italian with Dante, or perfect French with Molière.
Forgetting these criteria - or simply not knowing about their existence - leads people to total decadence. (See the Roman Empire ...)
"Certain things continue to change regardless of our efforts and/or our attention."
Sure. It doesn't mean that we don't have to resist, even if we don't win in the short term. For me, it's a question of self-respect, which does not depend on what people think or do.
@@ColHogan-bu2xq
Everything is relative in this world. You can resist if you want, you don't need to resist if you don't want. Everybody has their own choice and at last it often happens that the majority's choice tends to influence more every subject but this majority can change at any time and nobody can predict the result.
Perfect language does not exist. I live in Italy and I know very well Italian language and I studied it for more than 34 years and I studied Spanish language for 6 years including 4 years at university, Romanian language, Latin language, " medieval" Spanish language and linguistics for two years each at university and I studied French and Portuguese by myself for several months and I have read some parts of Dante's Italian of that era. After all these experiences about the several languages deriving from Latin language, I can tell you that Dante's Italian is not perfect at all. It has still lots of old Latin language influences like medieval Spanish language. However, if somebody says that Dante's Italian is perfect, maybe it is so but only for this somebody. Or maybe it was perfect but only in that era because Dante's Italian language cannot be understood by today's Italians anymore except for some who are interested in the literature of that era or those who had a chance to study it at school or university. It means that it is not useful anymore at least in our daily life. Italians might call it beautiful but would never call it perfect. Also my native language Japanese is more or less the same. This was heavily influenced by Chinese language until 6 - 7 th century and was composed almost 100% of Chinese characters in written language( the pronunciation in spoken language became different between Chinese and Japanese), however, later Japanese people modified it and invented other two different categories of characters that don't exist in Chinese language, therefore, Japanese people have been using these three different groups of characters since then, while the grammar and expressions had changed drastically after 1870s and that old Japanese language was not used anymore. And even this new
Japanese language became old after the Second World War and we started to use another style of Japanese language which continues to be used until today. For people like me who were born after the Second World War, that style before the end of the war is quite difficult to understand because we don't use it anymore in any scene. I can read it enough well only because I love reading books and I have read several books written before the war, but normally today's generations cannot understand it so easily. Then which is the perfect Japanese language? The answer is each Japanese language which was considered as a standard one in each " era" whose word definition can remain very ambiguous. Our language has been changing again in the last few decades because younger generations are creating lots of new words and expressions which are against the traditional grammar but as they are being used very often not only in their daily conversation but also on TV & radio programs so the society is accepting them as they are and even the dictionaries are starting to acknowledge them accordingly. Of course there exists a standard Japanese language in written form which should be used in official document and/or speech but I am not sure neither if this can last for a century as our recent history shows the opposite result.
I know that we need some kind of standard/crietrion which we want to consider perfect, however, nothing can be considered as perfect unless subjectively.
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Wow, such an impressive resumé ...
I'm inclined to think that every language has its own history, which of course is different from any other language ... Of course I do agree on the relations between both Chinese and Japanese languages (how could I not ?), and your comments seem to be totally relevant.
Now, I've been reading old and medieval French for a time, then "modern" French, and I can assure you that there exists a "perfect" French language. Why do I say "perfect" ? Well, for two reasons :
First, "perfect" French says what it means, which is quite difficult because of our draconian grammar rules, without which French language loses all sense and all meaning. That's why in French you can't do what you want.
Second, in France "perfect" French is the language of politeness, which allows peaceful social relations. As soon as the rules are forgotten, the French become almost like "wild beasts". (Remember the French Revolution ?...)
English speaking people, for instance, do not have this problem, because English "tone" is naturally extremely polite. Moreover, English culture forbids all kinds of bravados, pride or boasting.This is unfortunately not the case in France, where you have to stick to the rules to remain more or less civilized ...
Of course, this doesn't mean that the English or the Japanese, who are always very polite, already live in Heaven ... It only means that they can understand each other. See the "Oxford Union debates", for example, or the "Fake or Fortune" shows, or the Graham Norton shows ...
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Now let me end on a kind of joke : don't you think that “nothing can be considered perfect unless subjectively” is also a little subjective ?
Glad to have had this interesting conversation with you.
God bless.
(God IS perfect, by the way ...)
Thank for the lesson it's really helpful
Other abuses: 1) overusing the word "so" to start almost any response to an open question "So...". 2) Using the word "again" as a filler word, even when they are saying something for the first time "Again..." I hear those all the time. Another thing that bothers me is the mainstream use now of the urban slang "to go down" as in "to happen." Newscasters in the States will say to a reporter "Tell us what went down ..." as if that is acceptable English.
Great teaching.. ❤️ From India
Sound. Keep the pressure on.
Wonderful
Thanks so much love english!
I like chocolate as well. I love your teaching guys. 😋😋😋
Brilliant. Another bugbear, not used as much as the dreaded and irritating “like” is “and that” at the end of every sentence. How do you tell someone who is obviously unaware they are doing it, to please stop?!
Excellent piece of advice, Leila! Thank you Love English. Could it be that the K's way pretend to sound cool and that's why some.people imitate them? Cheers!!
I just like (ups..) love the way you LIKE Kardashian)) Thanks for the lesson!
And I fully write it down as my perfect class lesson.
Great! 👍💕
Thanks for your videos. I really love them. Have a good day!!
Hellow ma'am could I say we salute your incessant efforts?? I want to appreciate my ma'ams work..
Helpful!
"total crap on t.v." that sounds about right.
She's very impressive 😅❤️
Great
Thank you Leila 😍
Wonderful lesson. Really helpful!
ASAP, VIP , RSVP (French!) have been used long before text talk! You're not old enough to remember! Agree about LIKE! What about REACH OUT - CONTACT is one word! ER, UM shows limited knowledge of vocabulary!
I decided to imitate you from the first time I have seen you on youtube xxx
I just thought I was making a good impression by sounding more'' American''. Now I know I was just looking stupid. Thank you, you stopped me from ruining everything.
There's nothing wrong with sounding American!
@@joaninha3484 I know, but I was mistaking speaking American as speaking like a Kardashian and therefore sounding stupid.
OMG this is like so you know like not like cool it's like so last week
smart, funny and gorgeous... what else can I ask?
You might have heard of it, not you might of heard of it! Please, be careful!
True very common mistake and everybody repeats it.
Nice job Leila! But I must say the 3 examples of Uptalk were pretty bad! I live on the west coast of the US and I have to tell you that I hear this type of speech all the time! It could literally be any declarative sentence that will end in the "question" tone. It could drive you up a wall! Also once last comment. I notice that the Brits say "Right" a lot. Which is kind of like saying "Like". It really doesn't mean anything... unless you are trying to imply that you're asking your listener to agree with you?
You look rocking today
Disclaimer: No Kardashians were harmed in this video!
Thanks now i have a reason to avoid american movie instad add more portion in british show
Thanks to the media American english is becoming the norm today in England
Mam my friend told me TIDYEFY book are good book any book are available in london of these name....plz reply
Hi Leila,
An interesting lesson about how to use smart sound in English conversation and make it more effective. I admire your suggestion and tips.
Some other suggestions:
1. That - Don’t use ‘that’ when you refer to people.
2. Went - Instead of ‘went’, consider drove, skated, walked, ran, flew.
3. Really - Avoid repetition of ‘really’ word.
4. Just - It’s a filler word and it makes your sentence weaker, avoid it.
5. Okay - Certainly is a great alternative to ‘okay’.
Thank you.
Another word to exchange , is the word, got and get. It’s perfectly natural to use them sometimes but, for example, I got milk at the store, it sounds more descriptive to say, I bought milk at the store.
Explain 'respectively '
I couldn't agree with you more my lovely teacher. These habits are stupid and in fact Donald Trump sounds also really unprofessional at times. He has confused the word origins with oranges in spoken English. I mean there isn't much difference but you don't expect that, right? Btw another really stupid habit that Germans are adopting in English is the usage of OR at the end of sentences. This mistake stemms from a direct translation. Germans use the word oder which means or at the end of sentences as a question tag. It drives me up the wall when I notice that error!
Ps: I've been watching Jane the Virgin a lot lately. I've already watched the first three seasons but there are so many episodes! Thank you very much for having recommended this series to me. I've learned a lot.💕🇬🇷
Nice video 👍👍👍👏
Known as Valley Speak.
Mam , I imitate you very often while watching your videos......
Leila, you are incomparable! You should be an actress. :-) Thanks for the lesson!
Liela nice session ✌️
Thanks ☺️👍💕
And what makes things even more nightmarish ,when these “speak monstrosities “ come out from young nonnative speakers of English ,combined with all sorts of grammatical mistakes, you just don’t know whether you want to pull off your hair, or laugh your head off, on second thought, I’d say pull their hair off !! True, the kardashians sadly , are every where 😭😭
my mind is pushing me to tell you you are beautiful but i refuse. any way i do like your channel because you provide right lessones.
The kardashians want to know your location Leila .
Lol! I told them I’m the video! 😂😂😂😳
My favourite filler is "right"...
Well I get one idea, right, but I only tell the other two about it, right? And he's got his ideas., right, and mostly I think it's rubbish, right? And he hasn't got any ideas at all... LOL