Learn the English Phrases "first impression" and "under the impression"

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English term first impression.
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Your first impression is what you think of someone or something
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the first time you see them or see it.
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A good example would be this if you were to introduce me to someone in your family.
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My first impression would probably be that they are a nice person just like you.
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So however, I think about the person in the first few moments
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that I meet them would be my first impression.
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Maybe you want to buy a house and when you walk into a house
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that you might buy, maybe you're looking at a house,
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your first impression might be it seems really nice.
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So a first impression is simply that first, that very first thought
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that you have about a person or about someone.
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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is under the impression.
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And this means that you think something about someone,
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but you're not sure if it's true or not, but you kind of thought it was.
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I could say this to you.
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I was under the impression that you are the oldest in your family.
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I was under the impression that that guy had worked here for ten years,
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but he just started last week.
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I was under the impression that this house was only going to be $250,000,
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but this house is $400,000.
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I'm just imagining that I'm looking at a house.
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My first impression was that the house was really nice,
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and then I was under the impression that it would be a lot cheaper than it actually is.
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So I think under the impression you think something,
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but you might actually be wrong as well.
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So to review your first impression is the first thing
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you think when you first watched one of my videos,
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I would assume if you're still here, that your first impression was,
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I think this guy's a pretty nice English teacher.
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And when you are under the impression it means maybe
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without facts, you think something about someone or something.
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So I could say something like, I was under the impression
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that these videos would be 5 minutes long, but they're only 4 minutes long.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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Let me get it out of my pockets.
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And this is from Aleksey.
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I also like to have a free hand.
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Even if things get out of hand, I can always say that my hands were tied.
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Pun intended! And my response haha.
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Great series of phrases there. Aleksey, nice work.
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So that's from Aleksey Thank you very much.
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Good use of a number of different phrases with the word hand in it.
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So I can't walk too far today because it's quite windy out.
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Actually, it's kind of settled down a bit, but what I wanted to show you is
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we're a little concerned right now.
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If you look here, you can see that
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some of the grass in our driveway
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is starting to turn brown.
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The reason this is happening is because
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it has not rained here for about two and a half weeks.
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And this is the time of year where we really need rain.
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Let me show you over here as well.
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This is very minor, but you can see that the grass
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in the middle of the driveway and along the edges
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is starting to turn brown.
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The grass in those areas is usually the first to go.
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That's the first area to turn brown when we're going
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into what feels a little bit like a drought.
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I hope we're not entering a drought, but Jen and I have been watering flowers
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far more than we normally do this time of year.
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Usually in May and early June we have timely rains.
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It usually rains every week, but this year looks like it might be a dry year.
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I don't know for sure how long it will last.
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There's no rain in the forecast until Saturday,
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and then it's only like 30% chance of rain, which is not very high at all.
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So hopefully it starts raining soon.
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We need that for the crops to grow.
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We need that for the flowers to grow
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and we'll have to just wait and see.
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Everything looks great now, but who knows if it doesn't rain, it's not going to stay like
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this forever. See ya!
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