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

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In this English lesson
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I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,
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"to see for yourself".
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When you need to see for yourself
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it means someone has told you something
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and you might believe them or you might doubt them,
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but you want to try
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or experience what they've told you for your yourself.
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You want to do it.
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If someone said to me,
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"Hey, skydiving is the most exciting thing
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you could do in life."
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I would say,
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"You know, I'm going to have to see for myself."
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Of course, I have to change yourself to myself
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because I'm talking about me.
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I would say I'm going to have to see for myself.
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That means that I want to do it.
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I want to go and do that activity
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so I can form my own opinion of it.
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Maybe someone says to you,
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"Hey, you should go see the latest "Spider-Man" movie.
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It's the best Spider-Man" movie ever!"
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You might say, "Hey, you know what?
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I'll go, but I'm going to have to see for myself."
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I want to experience the movie
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and then I'll decide if it's the best one.
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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase,
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"to be full of yourself".
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When we say that you are full of yourself
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we mean that the person we are talking to is arrogant.
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If I was to say,
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and I'm gonna switch from your self to myself and himself,
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but if I was to say
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"I am the best YouTuber in the whole world,"
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you would say, "You know, Bob's really full of himself."
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So yes, I have to change the yourself to himself,
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basically meaning Bob's really arrogant.
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He's not the best YouTuber in the whole world.
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By the way, I don't think that at all.
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I am not full of myself.
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Yeah, I had to change the yourself to myself.
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Sorry, I do have to flip these phrases around
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so they make sense.
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So to review, to see for yourself means that you want
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to do something yourself in order to determine
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whether you think it is a certain way or not.
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And to be full of yourself simply means
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to think you're the most amazing person.
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It means to be really, really arrogant.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from, I believe it just says user.
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I liked it better when I could see the names,
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but the comment is,
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"You can check the weather forecast on your phone,
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although sometimes it may not be accurate."
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In my response,
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"Yes, you have to look at your phone and the horizon
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and then you'll get a better sense of what is coming."
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So we do rely on weather forecasts here,
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and you're right often they are wrong,
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but usually they're somewhat accurate.
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Accurate enough for us to prepare
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if we think it's going to rain.
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But sometimes it's simply better to look at the horizon.
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Now, interestingly enough,
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if you look at the horizon here
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I'm not sure how well you can see it,
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but we are now under a smoke alert again,
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a smoke advisory.
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So it is smokey here again,
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there are fires to the north of us
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and the wind is coming from the north,
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so you can smell a campfire smell in the air.
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And we're told not to do
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vigorous activity outside right now.
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So I'll be at market later today.
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I'll just try not to sell flowers vigorously.
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But we do have to sell the flowers,
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so hopefully the smoke is not too bad.
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And by the way, I used the word alert
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and Noriko and Aleksey were talking about the word alert
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in the comments from the last video.
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You can get an alert on your phone
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and it can mean the same as a notification.
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But right now there is a smoke alert right now.
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They're sometimes are weather alerts
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and those are a little more serious.
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There's a fly on the lens.
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Okay, Mr. Fly, don't land on the lens.
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I'm trying to teach an English lesson here.
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So an alert can mean just a simple notification,
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but an alert can also mean something more serious.
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If there was like a severe weather alert,
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we would look to the horizon a lot
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and at our weather app on the phone a lot
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to see if a bad storm was coming.
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