Learn the English Phrases "to make eye contact" and "to make contact"

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you
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learn the English phrase to make eye contact.
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When you talk to someone, you
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can look directly into their eyes.
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You can make eye contact when you talk to them.
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But often when you're having conversations, you
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do look away occasionally as well.
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There's a little bit of lightning there.
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I hope I can get this video done safely.
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Anyways, when you make eye contact,
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it means you look at someone.
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If you look straight at my eyes right now
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we're making eye contact kind of through the Internet,
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I guess. In North America, it's okay to make
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eye contact when having a conversation with someone.
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In some cultures, it might not be,
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but where I live, it's common.
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The way I talk to you on the camera
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is the way I talk to people normally.
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Sometimes I look away.
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Sometimes I make eye contact for a little bit.
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Sometimes I look away again.
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So what you see when you're watching these
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videos is how I actually talk to people.
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The second phrase I wanted to teach
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you today is to make contact.
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When you make contact with someone, it means that you call
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them or you text them or you send them a letter.
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Maybe you have an uncle who moved away and you want to
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make contact with him to invite him to a family event.
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You might send him an email.
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You might send him a quick text on the phone.
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You will make contact however you can
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so he knows that something's going on.
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Anyways, to review, to make eye contact means
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to look at someone directly in the eye.
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Eye to eye.
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And to make contact means to contact someone.
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But, hey, let's look at a
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comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Konstantin, and it is... Duplex.
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Looks like a townhouse, but only for two families.
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Thanks for showing around and keep
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having a nice, warm weekend. My response? Yes.
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When there are more than two
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units, we usually call them townhouses.
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I'll try and make a video in front of some of them....
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...in front of some next time.
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I'm having trouble reading English today,
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so that's where I am.
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And the rain has stopped a little bit,
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so we can go on a little tour.
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These are townhouses, so every house is very
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similar to the house beside it, and it's
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probably a little hard to see, but there
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are four separate residences in each building.
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There's a little gap down here that you'll see
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in a minute, but there's a door here.
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Number 67, number 65, number 63, and number 61.
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This whole building, actually, I
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think there's six in here.
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Did you see the lightning in the sky?
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I should get back in my van, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6....
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There's actually eight in this one.
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So there are eight separate families or eight separate
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people, sets of people living in this house.
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They don't have to be families, of course,
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and each one has their own residence.
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So we would call this a townhouse.
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I think it might be called row housing in
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some places, but we would call them townhouses.
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This one's for sale.
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If you're moving to Canada, you could
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move into this townhouse right here.
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I have no idea how much it costs.
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I'm going to guess it probably costs
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around $600,000 or maybe a bit less.
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I might be on the high side with that
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guess. So, yeah...
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Townhouses.
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There's a whole street of them here.
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They're considered one of the cheaper
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ways to buy a house.
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I know I just said $600,000, but when you're looking to
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buy a house, often you will buy a townhouse if that
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is the first house you're buying, because they're on the cheaper
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side of what houses cost here in Canada.
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So, anyways, townhouses.
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I'll let you see them in the background as
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I walk back towards the safety of my van.
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By the way, this is how.
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Let me show you. This is how.
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Oh, I got a drop on the lens.
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This is how I made my very first video.
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I can remove this lens, and then it'll be gone.
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My very first video on my big channel I
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made standing under the back door of my suv.
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And to keep me out of the rain.
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You should go watch that.
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I'll put a link somewhere, and
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you can go watch that one.
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Anyways, thanks for watching. Have a good day.
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I'll have another short English lesson
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for you in a few days. Bye.
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