Learn the English Phrases THAT'S FINE WITH ME and I'M FINE WITH THAT

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In this English lesson I wanted
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to help you learn the English phrase, that's fine with me.
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This is a phrase we use when we are saying
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that something is okay with us.
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If my son was to say to me,
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"Dad, I wanna go out with my friends tonight.
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"Is that okay?"
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I could say, "That's fine with me."
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It basically means that, that's okay with me
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if he does that.
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I won't be bothered if he does that, that's fine with me.
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He can totally go out and see his friends tonight.
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Actually, he can't because there's COVID.
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But if this was a normal world right now,
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and my son wanted to go out with his friends,
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I could say, "Hey, that's fine with me, go ahead."
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase,
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I'm fine with that, which means exactly the same thing.
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If you don't mind having cats run by in the background
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when I'm doing lessons, I'm fine with that too.
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It basically means that that's okay with me,
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it doesn't bother me, I'm fine with that.
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That wasn't the exact example I was going to give.
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I was going to use the same example as before.
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I could say, if my son asked if he could go
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hang out with his friends, I could say,
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"Hey, I'm fine with that, no problem."
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I could also say, "That's fine with me."
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And it would mean exactly the same thing.
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So I don't know if I need to review these phrases now,
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but let's do it anyways.
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If I say to someone, "That's fine with me,"
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it means that it doesn't bother me,
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it means that I'm okay if they do something,
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it's totally fine with me.
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At work, someone could say, "Do you mind if I use your chair
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"while you're teaching in your classroom?"
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I would say, "That's fine with me."
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If someone came to the room and said,
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"Can we take three desks out of your room?"
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I could say, "Oh, that's fine with me."
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Or I could say, "Yeah, I'm fine with that, no problem."
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So basically it just means that you're okay
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with something someone else is doing.
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But, hey, let's look at a comment from the previous video.
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I actually forget who this comment's from.
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I put it in my pocket earlier today.
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This comment is from Xavier.
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"Roughly a month ago, I took up learning how to brew coffee.
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"I would never have thought that brewing good coffee
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"could be so hard, and sometimes I think of quitting
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"and just drinking bitter coffee again."
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So that's, Xavier's talking about from the lesson
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where we looked at, to take something up
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which means to start doing something.
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My response was, "I'm actually experimenting
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"with drinking tea instead of coffee, so far, so good."
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So thanks Xavier for that comment.
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Yes, there are some really cool ways
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to make really good coffee and there's some easy ways
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to make really not so good coffee,
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or coffee that's a little bit bitter.
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I've made a couple changes lately in my diet.
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I've actually stopped drinking coffee
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and I started drinking tea in the morning.
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I don't know why, I just thought I would make a change.
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Tea maybe is a bit better.
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I've actually cut sugar out of my diet.
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So I don't add sugar to anything.
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I'm just trying that for a bit,
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we'll see where it goes.
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But I've been drinking tea more
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because I like tea without sugar,
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better than coffee without sugar.
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So I've been drinking tea a bit more.
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And then, yeah, Jen and I decided
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that we needed to be healthier.
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We already are quite healthy.
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We are very active people,
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and I think we were eating fairly healthy food
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but my weight was slowly creeping up every winter
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and then throughout the summer, because Jen and I
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do a lot of really physical activity on the farm,
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my weight would go down again.
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So I thought I would try to get in good shape
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before the farming season started a little bit different
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instead of letting the hard farm work
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help me get into shape,
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I decided I need to lose a few pounds.
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I know we use kilograms in Canada
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but we still talk about pounds
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when we talk about weight, I needed to lose a few pounds,
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so I'm working hard on that.
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I think it's going well, I have more energy.
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I'm eating less food, I'm eating better food,
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but I have way more energy now.
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It's kind of interesting.
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You would maybe have expected the opposite.
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Anyways, Bob, the Canadian here,
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hope you're having a good day.
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I'll see you in a couple of days
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with another short English lesson.
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