Learn the English Phrases "to see for yourself" and "to be full of yourself"

In this English lesson

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,

"to see for yourself".

When you need to see for yourself

it means someone has told you something

and you might believe them or you might doubt them,

but you want to try

or experience what they've told you for your yourself.

You want to do it.

If someone said to me,

"Hey, skydiving is the most exciting thing

you could do in life."

I would say,

"You know, I'm going to have to see for myself."

Of course, I have to change yourself to myself

because I'm talking about me.

I would say I'm going to have to see for myself.

That means that I want to do it.

I want to go and do that activity

so I can form my own opinion of it.

Maybe someone says to you,

"Hey, you should go see the latest "Spider-Man" movie.

It's the best Spider-Man" movie ever!"

You might say, "Hey, you know what?

I'll go, but I'm going to have to see for myself."

I want to experience the movie

and then I'll decide if it's the best one.

The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase,

"to be full of yourself".

When we say that you are full of yourself

we mean that the person we are talking to is arrogant.

If I was to say,

and I'm gonna switch from your self to myself and himself,

but if I was to say

"I am the best YouTuber in the whole world,"

you would say, "You know, Bob's really full of himself."

So yes, I have to change the yourself to himself,

basically meaning Bob's really arrogant.

He's not the best YouTuber in the whole world.

By the way, I don't think that at all.

I am not full of myself.

Yeah, I had to change the yourself to myself.

Sorry, I do have to flip these phrases around

so they make sense.

So to review, to see for yourself means that you want

to do something yourself in order to determine

whether you think it is a certain way or not.

And to be full of yourself simply means

to think you're the most amazing person.

It means to be really, really arrogant.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

This comment is from, I believe it just says user.

I liked it better when I could see the names,

but the comment is,

"You can check the weather forecast on your phone,

although sometimes it may not be accurate."

In my response,

"Yes, you have to look at your phone and the horizon

and then you'll get a better sense of what is coming."

So we do rely on weather forecasts here,

and you're right often they are wrong,

but usually they're somewhat accurate.

Accurate enough for us to prepare

if we think it's going to rain.

But sometimes it's simply better to look at the horizon.

Now, interestingly enough,

if you look at the horizon here

I'm not sure how well you can see it,

but we are now under a smoke alert again,

a smoke advisory.

So it is smokey here again,

there are fires to the north of us

and the wind is coming from the north,

so you can smell a campfire smell in the air.

And we're told not to do

vigorous activity outside right now.

So I'll be at market later today.

I'll just try not to sell flowers vigorously.

But we do have to sell the flowers,

so hopefully the smoke is not too bad.

And by the way, I used the word alert

and Noriko and Aleksey were talking about the word alert

in the comments from the last video.

You can get an alert on your phone

and it can mean the same as a notification.

But right now there is a smoke alert right now.

They're sometimes are weather alerts

and those are a little more serious.

There's a fly on the lens.

Okay, Mr. Fly, don't land on the lens.

I'm trying to teach an English lesson here.

So an alert can mean just a simple notification,

but an alert can also mean something more serious.

If there was like a severe weather alert,

we would look to the horizon a lot

and at our weather app on the phone a lot

to see if a bad storm was coming.