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Come on, The first word first phrases.
Come on, come on is a phrase that's used to encourage other people like, let's go to the party.
Come on.
Or you could also use it with downward intonation as in, Come on, when you feel upset about something, someone has stopped in front of you in the middle of the street and you're tryingto walk.
But they just don't move.
You can say, Come on, though.
Don't say that out loud.
Maybe because they might get upset with you.
Come on over.
Come on.
That's a good one.
Yeah.
Come on over to my house.
O r.
Come on over to the barbecue this weekend.
It's gonna be a good time.
So you can use it as part of a separate phrase as well.
Not just by itself.
Believes the next word is believe.
Believe is used a verb.
It's a verb.
Um, when you trust in something or that you feel that you know that something exists or something is possible or something is capable many people use it as in like, uh, I believe in you to show that they think that the other person of the other group of people is capable of doing something.
Or, um, people use it for their faith as well.
Like I believe in God.
Or I don't believe in God for something that youth you have your faith in and another person or in religion, whatever that might be.
Consistency.
Consistency is a noun.
The consistency of a liquid can be really thicker kind of thin.
Or you could also use consistency to talk about something that's important that you need when you're studying a language, for example, consistency.
So consistency refers to doing the same thing the same way over and over and over again, studying every day or making a habit out of studying.
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We're consistent, friend, friend.
That's good.
I'm glad that that was a word that was chosen from the Facebook thing, friend.
Um, yes.
So someone that you feel close to or someone that you get along really well with is your friend in a sentence.
I went out drinking with my friends yesterday, and that was a bad idea.
Friend also can be used for the people who follow you or the people who you're connected to.
You on social media.
So you're Facebook friends, Maybe Twitter.
You can have Twitter friends, maybe Instagram friends, people that you haven't actually met but that you somehow have a connection with online.
People are now calling them your friends, but whether or not they're true friends remains to be seen.
What is a true friend?
A true friend is someone who you can tell all your things too.
And they won't judge you for it.
Gatecrash this This gate crash means to go to an event without having been invited to the event.
I've also heard just crash.
I haven't heard it with gate, but I just heard crashes and to crash a party.
So in a sentence, I once crashed a house party.
I wasn't invited, but someone somehow we had a connection and we just showed up and had a good time.
But usually gatecrashers are perceived as um They're very unwelcome like you.
You shouldn't be there.
Great.
Great.
Is just a positive word.
How are you?
I'm great.
Oh, how is that movie?
It was great.
Anytime that you want to express some sort of positivity, you could use the word great girl.
Right?
You're great.
Eileen.
Pizza is pretty great.
Haven't eaten beets in awhile.
Feeds A I don't know.
I love the phrase.
I don't know.
I talked about this phrase in one of the English topics videos that we did with Michael.
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If you haven't already.
I don't know.
Of course, is used when you do not know information.
You don't know the answer.
Your teacher asks you a question in math class or something, and you can say I don't know, for I have no ideas so you can use it in this way.
But I like to use I don't know a lot to transition in my speech when I don't have a good idea or when I'm out of things to say and I want to kind of pass the conversation to the next person, I go, I don't know.
I don't know.
You can use this when you're trying to make a decision, for example, and you kind of want to encourage the other person too, Like help make the decision.
So one person might say, What do you want to do?
And you can say I don't know.
What do you want to dio?
I don't know.
What do you want to do?
And eventually somebody has to make the decision.
But you can kind of pass back and forth with I don't know.
I don't know in this sort of software, never mind.
Never mind means Don't worry about it.
Or maybe like, stop thinking about that.
I don't need to think about that anymore.
Never mind like you want to move on in the conversation, you can say Never mind.
Are you making embarrassing comment?
Never mind.
What is happening.
There was There's like a creaky, cranky thing happening.
They're mine.
00 I just used it.
Never mind.
It wasn't all service, so I just used Never mind.
That was pretty good.
Passion, passion.
Passion refers to something that you feel very strongly about positively, usually so you can feel passion for your studies.
You can feel passion for your hobby.
You can feel passion for your family or your friends.
I think we use passion more so to talk about, um, like a love relationship of a romantic relationship.
So you could say I have passion for my wife.
I have passion for my husband or like I have passion for this hobby that I do.
It's a really positive word.
So in a sentence, let's see.
I think a relationship should be full of passion.
I have passion for music.
I do.
I have passion for music.
I'm constantly listening to music.
From the moment I wake up in the morning, I literally have headphones in in my bed, and I'm listening to my latest, the latest new things on my sound bloodstream.
That's true.
Sparkler.
Why did you guys pick spark sparkler?
A sparkler is a a small firework, like a handheld firework that you can use like 1/4 of July.
You light one end of it, and it kind of makes that sound, too, because it kind of burns and you can write stuff.
And if you take a picture with like a long timer on the camera, whatever you can spell out boobs when my favorite things to do on the Fourth of July in America is too light sparklers with my family and friends.
You win.
The first phrase is You win.
You win.
If you hear the phrase you win, it means you have won something.
You're probably going to receive something for free Woo.
That's a very happy thing, right?
You want to give free things?
Congratulations.
You win a car.
Hey, here are the keys to your new car.
Great.
Thank you.
I brought you something special.
This is exciting to hear because it means this little something special is like, Oh, I thought only of you.
So I brought you this.
I brought you something special.
Really?
Thank you.
I miss you.
I miss you.
I miss you.
Is nice.
You can use this with your friends, your family members, your partner.
Whoever I miss you shows that you want to meet the other person.
Probably you haven't.
You haven't seen them as much as you would like to.
So you could say I miss you.
I miss you.
Call your husband or wife or boyfriend?
Girlfriend?
Whoever on the phone.
Maybe you haven't seen them for a long time.
You could say I miss you.
I miss you to take a break.
I'll do the cleaning today.
Take a break.
I'll do the cleaning today.
This means someone else is going to clean up your house for your clean up something for you.
I would be very happy to hear this phrase right now because my apartment is a disaster.
Because I'm only there to sleep.
So maybe you've had a long day at work.
Er a long day doing something.
You come home and somebody else has offered to do this for you.
So take a break.
I'll do the cleaning today and you can reply.
Really?
Thank you so much.
I'm gonna relax.
The budget is unlimited.
The next phrase that you always want to hear is the budget is unlimited.
The budget is unlimited.
This could be at work.
This could be a budget.
A personal budget.
Maybe, but it just means there's no limit to the budget.
You can spend as much money as you want, Wu.
Very exciting.
So let's see, in a business context, perhaps you have this new client who's gonna give you a lot of money to build a new house or something.
Maybe you're building houses.
That's your project.
Your boss comes to you the budget for this project is unlimited.
Really?
Let's go crazy.
And there'll be a bonus at the end of the month.
Yeah.
This is a phrase that you probably are very excited to hear.
It means you are going to receive extra money from your job at the end of the month.
Who?
Very exciting extra money.
Maybe you'll hear this from your boss, your manager?
Or maybe your coworker at work.
Maybe you see it in an email.
There'll be a bonus at the end of the month.
Really?
I'm going to use mine to buy a new car.
Really?
I'm gonna use mine to go out on a date.
Really?
I'm gonna use mine to get a new fish.
You did a great job.
You did a great job.
You did.
A great job is something you'll probably hear from.
Well, I know you could hear this from pretty much anybody.
Anytime you've done a good job, someone will congratulate you or tell you their opinion with this phrase.
You did a great job.
You finish a project at work and your boss says you did a great job.
Nice.
Thank you so much.
It was really fun or thank you.
Just just say thank you.
You look great today.
You look great today.
The other person thinks that your physical appearance is nice today.
Don't think about the today part, you know, Just just just take the compliment.
Oh, really?
Thank you so much.
You look great today.
Oh, thank you so much.
I got a new haircut.
Thank you so much.
I I got enough sleep.
Yeah, you were right.
You were right.
This means that something that you said in the past was correct.
And everybody likes to be correct.
I think I saw that movie that you recommended.
You were right.
It was really good.
Oh, good.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Don't be like I know or Yeah, I knew I was right.
Don't do that.
Just say Oh, good.
I'm glad you're an excellent cook.
You're an excellent cook.
This is a nice compliment, especially for someone who enjoys cooking.
If you say you're an excellent cook, it means you enjoyed their food.
So let's see, at a dinner party, for example, you're an excellent cook.
This food is delicious.
Oh, thank you so much.
I'm really glad you enjoyed it.
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This is my personal favorite compliment.
Oh my God, I love cooking like I'm always posting like pictures of things that I cooked on Twitter.
I'm just like crazy about food s Oh, this would be a compliment that I would love to get, like the ultimate compliment for me.
That would be, Will you make my birthday cake?
That would be such a compliment, like it's a question, but it's there's so much behind that when you make my birthday cake would give that to me.
So maybe after you could use this after a meal, for example, I love your cooking and the other person will be like Next is great job, Great job.
This is a compliment that you can use any time you can use, uh, to your with your friend with your Not with your boss.
Your boss might use it with you.
An employee, ah, co worker or colleague uh, pet.
Even whatever it's, it's just a very small scale.
Very easy to use.
Compliment it means you think whatever has just happened is good.
I use great job all the time.
I use great job and I used good job sometimes.
Ah, when I make a mistake or something funny happens that I'm alone in my house and I want to make fun of myself.
I'll be like, Yeah, great job, Alicia.
Uh ah.
But if I'm if I'm trying to be positive about a failure or laugh at myself a pit.
But in general it's just a good, easy complement to give someone a great job.
You have a way with words.
You have a way with words.
This can be speaking.
This can be writing.
It means you think that the other person is a good communicator, or maybe even more so than just a good communicator.
You think that the way they speak or the way that they write is particularly good, So that could mean funny.
It could mean romantic.
It could mean dramatic something about the way they speak or the way that they write.
You really enjoy that.
You can say you have a way with words.
It's quite a nice compliment.
I think it's kind of like a You know, it's smart.
It's a bit of a smart thing.
You have a way with words.
Or you could say you're good with words that you're really good with words.
Yeah, All right.
Next one.
You look gorgeous.
You look gorgeous.
Very nice compliment to give.
Just be very careful with the way that you say this for an everyday compliment.
I tend not to say you look nice or you look gorgeous today or something like that, because the underlying comment there is on the other days, that person doesn't look nice like so if I want to compliment someone's appearance, I tried to pick a specific thing like, Oh, I've never seen you wear that sweater before.
It looks nice on you.
Something like that.
Like yesterday my friend had a new dress on and like, Is that a new dress?
And because I thought she looked nice with us, but I didn't I didn't want to make it sound like I don't think she looks nice every day.
So I said, Is that a new dress?
And she goes, Yeah, I said, I think that color is really, really nice on you.
It looks really good.
And she was so happy about that.
So yes, there.
There are these compliments.
Like, you look nice.
You look great.
You look gorgeous and so on.
But I personally kind of preferred tow.
Level them up a little bit and just say pick a specific thing like, did you get a new haircut?
Did you dye your hair or you Did you get something?
Did something happen?
Like, look, whatever it is trying to pick up on a specific thing, because then that shows you're paying attention to the other person.
And you think that whatever they have chosen to do whatever, like clothing or whatever haircut, whatever it is you think that they have could sense there too, or good style.
So it's kind of like a double.
That's a very subtle double compliment.
Yeah, The next word is you have good taste.
You have good taste.
This can be for ah, food.
Ah, fashion style for decorating sense music in movies, Whatever.
If you think that that person's artistic selection in in whatever capacity, if you think that that person makes good choices with ah there their appearance or their hobbies or whatever you can say you have good taste.
This is a fairly sophisticated compliment.
I think we use You have good taste for something like it's it sounds a bit more sophisticated.
Maybe if you both choose the same bottle of wine.
Perhaps like it.
It has kind of a more formal, adult ish, sophisticated feeling about it.
This compliment.
So, yeah, maybe maybe wine is a good example of that.
Yeah.
Oh, nice bottle choice.
Like I really like that.
You have good taste.
You can follow this.
By the way.
You have good taste in blah, blah, blah.
Ah, you have good taste in movies.
You have good taste in music.
If you want to be specific about something that you think that person is really good at choosing, you have good taste in now.
Okay.
Okay.
Um, next one is you have a great sense of humor.
You have a great sense of humor.
This is the This is the underlying compliment in the phrase.
You are so funny.
This is the underlying compliment.
You have a great sense of humor.
Means the other person thinks you're funny, that you are good at telling jokes or you make them laugh.
This is actually one of my favorite compliments to get.
You have a great sense of humor.
Um, yeah, because e think that, like, you know, people like to laugh, so it's.
And if someone makes you laugh, you can say this.
You have a grand sense of humor or you're very funny.
Yeah, it's a good one.
It's a really good one.
Um, so you could say after a joke, for example, or after, Maybe you you finished laughing at something the other person has said.
You can say, Wow, you have a great sense of humor.
Good.
Next one is your resume is impressive.
This is a weird compliment to say to your friends, unless you're like reviewing your friends resume, it's a bit weird.
This is something that perhaps someone interviewing another person for a job would say.
The candidate comes in for the interview.
The interviewer says, While your resume is very impressive, I'd like to ask you a few questions about it.
Yeah s Oh, this is good to hear in a work situation.
Yeah, you really probably won't need to use this with your friends.
If you do, it's kind of weird.
Oh, wow.
This next.
What is quite a compliment.
Nobody's ever said this am to be fair, if somebody said this next one to me, I would feel a little bit of like pressure.
The compliment here is you make me want to be a better person.
This is something that I think you see in movies from time to time.
Yeah, I've had I had one person say Like like, Uh oh, that something You did inspired me and that was like, really how that was really exciting, Like somebody was inspired by something like, Wow, that's great.
I want to be like you.
That's a really cool compliment.
But if someone says you want to make me be a better person, like Oh, wow like that means I'm really important to that person, which is really flattering.
But at the same time, if someone said that, I would also be like if it's like my friend, I would be like, but I I want you to be you like I think you're cool person already.
Yeah, it's like, Oh, you make me want to be a better person.
Like in that person viewpoint.
You're like somehow above them, and that's uncomfortable Yeah, just I would rather say you inspire me.
I think that that are like this thing that you did really inspired me.
Like if somebody said, like, I saw that picture that she posted on Twitter of that pizza today, Alicia and it really inspired me and I made my own pizza.
I'd be like, Yeah.
Oh, next one is nice.
Actually, I say this to my friend's quite a bit.
You are an awesome friend.
This is really, really good to use after your friend has helped you with something.
Maybe you're moving to a new apartment, a new house.
Or maybe you've had some trouble on your friend.
Gave you some good advice or your friend just listened to you when you really needed to talk to someone.
After that experience, you could say thanks so much.
You were an awesome friend.
Or maybe your friend did something really, really cool.
And you just wanted to, like, tell them like I think you're really awesome to say.
You are an awesome friend that we happy to hear that.
Or just you can abbreviate it too.
You are awesome.
Not just your an awesome friend.
Just You are awesome.
You're a cool person.
You're awesome.
You're fantastic.
You are an awesome for Rin.
You're an awesome friend.
Compliments that I want to hear.
Quite honestly, I I feel that the any physical appearance compliment is sort of boring to me.
Honestly, when people Delia, really, I'm just like a grape.
I didn't do anything to be have this this body or face or whatever.
It's just it's like, OK, that doesn't mean anything.
Like what?
What are we gonna do with that?
It's like if you want.
If you want to compliment somebody, I feel like I should compliment them on their skills.
Ah, something that they have done or something that they have created, or something about their personality that is valuable to you.
I think that that's a much better compliment.
So for me, I like this is delicious cause I love cooking.
So when somebody tells me this is so good, like when they say it in just that right way, and you can tell that it's really you can tell that it's true.
I'm just like, yes, when people go Oh, my God, this is so good.
Like I've cooked something really, really well they say, Oh, my God, Amazing or I want to eat your food, that sort of thing.
When people say that I'm just like, yes, like that makes me so, so happy Because it's something like That's one of my favorite things to do.
It's a skill.
It's something like I've worked hard to try to do Well, so when someone compliments me on that, I get really excited.
Would you like to go out to dinner with me?
Okay.
The first phrases.
Would you like to go out to dinner with me?
This is a pretty typical invitation I think you can use.
Would you go out for lunch with me Is okay too.
Or would you like to get a coffee with me as well?
If you invite someone out for breakfast, it's a little wait.
I feel like I don't think I would say to someone like I'm making a barman.
Would you like to go for breakfast?
Sometimes It's just not really something you would say, you know.
Would you like to go out to dinner with me?
Sure.
Sounds great.
Are you free this weekend?
Are you free this weekend?
Are you free?
Free means are your Is your schedule free?
Do you have an open schedule this weekend?
Very nice.
Very casual as well.
So are you free this weekend?
Yeah, I've got some time.
What's up?
Would you like to hang out with me?
The next phrases?
Would you like to hang out with me?
That sounds a little too formal to me.
If it were me, I would just say Do you wanna hang out?
Do you want to get together?
That's a little bit more natural.
So do you wanna hang out this weekend?
Yeah, sure.
Let's catch a movie.
You're so cute.
I'm gonna preface this by saying I don't say this.
Okay, the next raises.
You're so cute.
I never say this.
Maybe I'm just cold.
It's typically said with downward intonation.
People say you're so cute.
You're so cute.
Kind of going down like that.
You can also use this as a compliment.
People like parents will say this or grand parents will say those two Children in the family.
So, um, you're so cute.
Thank you, I suppose is what you say.
You look great.
Next one is a much better compliment.
I think much more sincere it is.
You look great.
You look great.
Maybe you're going out for dinner.
Something nice.
Your partner looks really nice.
You can say you look great.
Oh, thank you.
I had a great time.
The next one is I had a great time.
I had a great time.
So this is a This is an expression you use after your date.
You go out for dinner, you spend some time together on you, have fun.
You can say I had a great time.
So Ah, the interaction might be Thanks so much for tonight.
I had a great time.
Me too.
Let's get together again.
Soon I'll call you.
Next expression is I'll call you.
I'll call you so again Probably used after the date to show how you want to keep in touch Later So one person might say I'll call you.
Sounds get I'll drive you home.
Ah, the next one again used at the end of the date.
After the date has finished, I'll drive you home So maybe you live someplace where cars are the normal.
Ah, are you?
Drive for your dates.
Ah, so you can say I'll drive you home.
Meaning I'll take you home in my car.
Um, so in the situation, maybe I'll drive you home.
Okay.
Thanks very much.
I don't know why I keep looking for my date Is my date is very tall, like Super doll, like eight seats.
Okay.
Can I see you again?
Okay.
The next expression Again after the date.
Or maybe even like the day or two after the day.
You could say, Can I see you again?
Uh, I want to see you again.
Or let's get together again.
Meaning you had a nice time.
You want to see that person again?
So you can say, Can I see you again?
Sure.
That would be great.
Shall we go somewhere else?
The next one.
Okay, so maybe you've gone for dinner, for example, with with someone.
And you want to suggest a different location.
Like, let's go for a drink after dinner.
You can say, Should we go somewhere else?
This says, Shall we go somewhere else?
I would say.
Do you want to go somewhere else in this situation?
I say, Shall we go somewhere else?
I don't think so.
I'm kind of tired.
Oh, no.
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