Learn English Conditionals Easily

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Accent's Way English with Hadar


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Hey everyone.
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It's Hadar.
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Thank you so much for joining me.
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Today we are going to talk about something painful, but I have a remedy for you.
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And that's something is conditional phrases.
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Now, listen, it might not be painful for you, but it has
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been for me for many years.
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Because for many years I would translate the way we say
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conditional phrases in Hebrew.
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And I would always say 'if I will', and 'if I would'.
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'If I'll go there', 'if I'd see her'.
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And then, and then that voice of my third grade teacher would
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come up: "No, no, no, no.
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You're not supposed to...
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use the future form after 'if'".
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And I was like, "So what am I supposed to say?
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'If I had been', in the past?
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How does that even make sense?"
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So I had to develop a system to make sense of the first three conditionals, which
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is what we're going to talk about today.
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So I'm going to share with you my weird system to figure out the
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difference between conditional one, conditional two, and conditional three.
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But that's not it.
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Because if you stay with me until the end, I will share with you my
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pronunciation confidence method to start using it spontaneously and
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confidently without doing a lot of mind work, right, like without always
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trying to figure out how to use things.
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Because these exercises that I'm going to share with you later - you can call
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it a conditional sprint - will help you to understand it not only on an
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analytical level, but also to feel it and to get it in the subconscious level,
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through repetition in certain context.
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But, wait a minute, if you're new to my channel, then welcome, my friend.
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I am so happy that you're here.
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And let me introduce myself.
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My name is Hadar.
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I'm a non native speaker of English, and I am here to help you feel confident,
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clear, and proud when speaking English.
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And I'm here to make sure that it's fun throughout the entire process.
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Okay?
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So, you can click the link in the description to find out more about me, to
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connect with me on Instagram right here.
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And you can download a lot of resources on my website for free to
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help you get started on your journey.
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Okay, so now, let's talk conditionals.
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Okay.
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So, when it comes to conditionals, there are a bunch of conditionals, and there
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are mixed conditionals, and sometimes the rules are broken, just so you know.
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So there is kind of like freedom and flexibility.
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However, I'm going to talk about the first three, just the first three, because I
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believe - I'm a firm believer - that if you have the foundations, and like most
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of the conditionals used on a day-to-day basis are the first three conditionals.
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So, to me, that is the 20%.
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And if you have been here for a while, you know that I'm a fan of
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the Pareto principle - invest the 20% to get 80% of the results.
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Okay?
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Once you do that, you'll gain the confidence, you'll build your self-esteem,
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and that will allow you to explore more and to recognize how things are a little
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more flexible than they should be.
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But don't start with all the possibilities at the beginning,
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because it's just going to confuse you.
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And confusion creates overwhelm, and overwhelm gets you to quit
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and to just not use conditionals.
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So, you might want to say something and then you'd be like, "No, I, I'm just
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not going to say it because I don't know how to say it", which is a big no-no.
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We don't let that happen in our world.
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Okay?
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So, conditionals one, two, and three.
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Conditional one is the basic one.
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When we think of a condition, we think about that.
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We need something to happen for something else to happen.
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Right?
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Something happens, and then the result is going to be in the future, and
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something will happen in response.
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Right?
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So, it's kind of like a chain of events.
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'If I go, I will see her'.
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'If I go' - now, present, right.
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And even the present is like this near future: 'if I go',
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the result - 'I'll see her'.
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Present - future.
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Present - future: if I do something in the present, there is going
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to be a result in the future.
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Present - future.
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'If I go, I'll see her', 'if I go I'll see her'.
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Okay?
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So that is like the default conditional.
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And one of the common challenges here is that people want to
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say 'if I'll go', 'if I'll go'.
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So this is why at the end I'm going to share with you the drills to get you used
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to saying it a different way, a new way.
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You'll just have to like, it's a habit, that's all there is to it.
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Okay.
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It's not something that you need to fix inside your head, it's not that you don't
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get conditionals, it's just the habit.
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You've been used to saying things in a certain way because you've
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translated it in the past from the way you say it in your native language.
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Right?
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So now we're going to flip it around so you get used to it, but I need
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you to understand that conditional number one is an action that you
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take in the present that will result in something in the future.
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This is why we use present and simple future - 'will'.
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That's it.
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Okay?
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Good.
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That is conditional number one.
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Practice after.
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Conditional number two is - now we're getting a little spooky - this
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is like the second dimension.
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It's another dimension, right?
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It's not the reality as we see it - it's another reality.
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Right?
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And because it's another reality, we need to identify it somehow.
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What does that mean?
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It's another reality because I'm talking about situations
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that are not likely to happen.
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Not impossible, but they're not likely to happen.
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Right?
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It's not something that has happened in the past, it's not something that
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is likely to happen - it's like a situation, a hypothetical situation.
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This is why I call it the second dimension.
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Right?
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It's in our brain, it's in our heads.
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Right?
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It's up here - it's not down here, like 'if I go, I'll see her', if I call you,
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you'll pick up the phone', 'if I eat this, I'll regret it tomorrow', right.
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So, it's not something practical in this day-to-day world, it's another dimension.
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Okay?
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And then, because it's another dimension, we need to use weird tenses.
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And then we need to use the past after 'if', right.
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'If I won the lottery', 'if I won the lottery' - and you're like, "Why pass?
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Like, that didn't happen in the past, we're talking about the future."
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Yes.
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But it's the second dimension.
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Right?
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And therefore, the tenses are all messed up here.
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This is why we use the past.
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'If I won the lottery' - and the result would be not 'will', cause that's like
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the reality of you and me right here right now - than it would be 'would'.
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Weird tenses, unexpected tenses.
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Right?
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Do not translate it from your native language because conditionals
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in English are very unique.
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And it's kind of like we use these different tenses to show the
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complexity of the human thought.
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I think it's beautiful.
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And, and I think if you think about it in a positive way, in this
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interesting, you know, expressive way, it makes it a whole lot easier.
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So you don't feel like, you know, being just a prisoner of tenses, but
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you understand that we use tenses to explain these different thought layers.
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Right?
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So, second dimension.
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'If we played chess, I would beat you'.
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That means 'would win the game'.
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'We'd kick your ass'.
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'If we played chess, I would beat ya'.
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Now, it's not possible.
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I'm here and you're there, right behind the camera.
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So, it's not possible for us to play chess, this is why I'm using the
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second dimension of conditionals.
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Like this layer of thought, not something practical.
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Now, technically, physically it is possible.
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So it's not something that is unlikely, against the law
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of nature to happen, right.
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This is why it's like this thought level, or second dimension, as I
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mentioned quite a few times today.
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Right?
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But it's just like the thought level.
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It is possible.
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It's like science fiction.
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It's possible, but very unlikely.
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Okay?
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I'm not changing anything, I'm not recreating events in the past.
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So that's the second conditional.
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Not four - second.
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I'll just use one hand - second conditional.
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'If I won the lottery, I would travel the world'.
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'If we played chess, I would probably not win'.
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'If I asked you about it, what would you say?' Okay?
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So, all of these things, they're like the thought level of the conditional.
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That's the second one.
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And that's why we use weird tenses.
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I repeat ideas so it's easier to understand.
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The third conditional is the upside down.
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It's a parallel world, it's a parallel universe where things happen differently.
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What does that mean?
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It means that here I'm changing something in the past, so I could
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create different results in the past.
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I'm changing something in the past to create different results in the past.
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So, this is the impossible.
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This is like fiction, impossible.
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It cannot happen.
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Right?
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You can't change the past.
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And then we need a lot of extra words to explain it because it's heavier.
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This is where we get the word 'had'.
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'If I had studied for the test, I would have aced it'.
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'If I had studied, I would have aced - in the past, again - it'.
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Weird tenses, in the past - because it's our parallel universe.
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Okay?
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So, let's have a little recap here.
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Conditional number one: a reality as it is, right now - present
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that affects the future.
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Conditional number two: and that is like the thought level, the second
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dimension - possible, but no one really wants to see if it actually happens.
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Unless we're talking about winning the lottery, because then everyone would
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be happy to see if it happens or not.
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But technically, it's just like on a hypothetical conversational level.
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And this is why we use these weird tenses to describe it, like past and would.
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Right?
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And then the third conditional is the upside down.
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It's a parallel universe where things happen differently.
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Where you can change the past.
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There is like a sense of regret.
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'If I had asked her to stay', 'if I had asked, had asked, had asked'.
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'If I'd asked her to stay, she would've stayed'.
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Simple as that, right?
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'She would've stayed - would have stayed - would've stayed'.
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A common mistake would be to say something like, 'if I asked
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her to stay, she would stay'.
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Right?
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This would be like just the thought level.
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But I'm talking about something real that I could have done and I should have done.
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Right?
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'If I had asked her to stay, she would've stayed'.
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Or, 'if I had asked her to stay, she would've said no',
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right - positive or negative.
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'She would've said no if I had asked her to stay'.
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We can also switch around the positions, still same idea.
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Okay?
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So that is the third conditional.
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And now let's talk about how to practice it.
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So, if you've known me for a while, you know that I love repetitions.
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Because the only way to change old habits - and grammar mistakes
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are usually just pronunciation habits - you need to have the clarity
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of what it is that you're saying.
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And this is what we did up until now in this video.
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But the second thing you need is to create those new habits using the new structures.
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Okay?
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So, what I'm going to do now is to take one idea of the first conditional
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and I'm going to repeat it, and I want you to repeat after me.
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And when I ask you to think of a different ending to the sentence, I want
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you to do it without thinking too much, right, using the sentence yourself.
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Because only when you use it yourself, you start connecting all the...
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making all those connections in your brain, and then you remember it.
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Okay?
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If it fires together, it wires together.
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Let's begin.
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'If I call you, you'll pick up the phone'.
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'If I call you, you'll get mad'.
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'If I call you, you'll blow me off'.
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'If I call you, you'll tell me the truth'.
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'If I call you, you won't answer'.
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'If I call you...' - now you.
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'If I call you...' 'If I call you...' 'If I call you...' - don't
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think, just say something.
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'you'll, you'll, I'll'.
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'If I call you, I'll tell you the truth.' 'If I call you,
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I'll share with you my plans.
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Okay.
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'If I go, I'll be happy.' Again.
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'If I go, I'll be happy.' 'If I go, I'll be happy.' 'If I go, I'll be
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happy.' 'If I go, I'll be sad.' 'If I go, I'll be sad.' 'If I go, I'll
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be sad.' 'If I go, I'll regret it.' 'If I go, I'll regret it.' 'If I go,
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I'll regret it.' 'If she goes, she'll regret it.' 'If she goes, she'll regret
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it.' 'If she goes, she'll regret it.'
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Don't underestimate the importance of repetition here.
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Don't tell yourself, "Oh, I get it.
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I got it.
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That's okay."
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It's the act of saying it that makes the difference.
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Trust me on this one.
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'If she goes, she'll be happy.' 'If she goes, she'll be sad.' 'If she goes, she'll
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be happy.' 'If she goes, she'll be sad.'
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'If we go, we'll find out.' 'If we go, we'll find out the truth.' 'If we go,
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we'll find out the truth.' 'If we go, we won't see anyone.' 'If we go, we
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won't see anyone.' won't - will not.
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'If we go, we won't see anyone.' 'If we go, we won't see anyone.'
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Conditional number two.
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Let's begin with the best one.
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'If I won the lottery, I'd travel the world.' 'If I won the lottery, I'd
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buy a new house.' 'If I won, I'd: won - I'd.' 'If I won, I'd buy a new house.'
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'If she said something, I'd tell her what I think.' 'If she said something,
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I'd tell her what I think.' Now, this is a hypothetical situation.
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So, she is very unlikely to say something, right?
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Otherwise, I would use the first conditional.
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So right now I'm saying something, and by the fact that I'm using these weird tenses
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- if she said, I would - is a way for me to indicate that it's very unlikely.
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'If she said something, I'd tell her the truth', right?
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'If she said, I'd', 'If she said, I'd.'
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'If she said something...' 'If she said something...' 'If she said
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something...' 'If she said something...' 'If she said something...' Good.
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Third conditional: 'If I had gone.' 'If I had gone there earlier, I would have
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gotten to see her.' 'If I had gone there earlier, I would have gotten to see her.'
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'If I'd gone there earlier, I would've gotten to see her.' 'If I had gone - I had
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gone, I had gone.' 'If I had gone there earlier, I would have gotten to see her'.
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'would've gotten', 'would've gotten', 'would've gotten', 'would've gotten',
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'would've gotten', 'would've gotten'.
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'If I had gone there earlier, I would have gotten to see her'.
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'If I had saved money, I would have been able to buy the ticket.' 'If I
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had saved money, I would have been able - lots of words - I would have been
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able, I would have been able, I would have been able, I would have been able
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to buy the ticket.' 'If I had saved money, I would have been able to buy
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the ticket.' 'If I had saved money, I would have been able to buy the ticket.'
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Okay.
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Good.
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Now, I have work for you.
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If you want to practice this with me, I created a list for you of
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drills, where I say the sentence and you need to repeat after me.
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So, there are a bunch of examples there of conditional one, two and three.
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So, you can download the PDF and the recording so you can practice
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with me if you want to build that pronunciation, confidence.
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You can do it.
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So, you can click the link below and download it so you can practice.
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And finally, along with my weird explanations of how to think about
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these three conditionals, you'll be able to use conditionals with confidence.
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That's our goal.
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Okay.
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Now, let me know in the comments below, which one of the three conditionals is
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the one that messes up with your brain the most and you always forget to use it.
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I want to know, so let me know in the comments.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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If you liked this video, please, don't forget to click 'Like' and
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share it with your friends or your students or your colleagues.
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way, come on over to Instagram.
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You can find me at @hadar.accentsway.
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Have a beautiful week, and I'll see you in the next video.
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Bye.
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Past?
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Past?
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[with a British accent].
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What am I, British now?
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Past?
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