Meaning of HANG IN THERE - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So sometimes you want to quit doing whatever you're doing.
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Maybe you want to quit learning English because you feel like it's too hard and in English
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we would say, "You need to hang in there!"
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When you tell someone that they need to hang in there it means that they need to NOT quit.
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It means you need to keep doing it.
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It means that maybe someone who has done that thing before knows that it gets better over
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time.
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So I would say for all of you if you find learning English really hard I think you should
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hang in there.
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I think you should find a way to learn a bit more English every day.
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Find a way to make it a little more enjoyable.
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Find a way to make it exciting again, but for sure you should hang in there because
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the reward at the end for learning English is great.
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It would be so cool if all of you could become bilingual.
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So hang in there.
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You can do it.
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Hey there's another phrase, "stick it out", which means the same thing.
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You might think stick it out means like to stick your tongue out, or something like that,
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but when we say to someone, "Hey!
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Stick it out", it means the same as hang in there.
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Both phrases mean the same thing.
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So if you think that you should quit learning English I think you should stick it out because
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if you can get to the level of fluency that will allow you to speak English to native
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speakers I think you will be happy that you stuck it out and you will very happy that
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you hung in there.
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So stick with it people, you can do it.
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Oh by the way, that's another one!
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Stick with it!
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So, Stick it out!
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Hang in there! and Stick with it!
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You can do it!
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