Learn the English Phrases "mutually beneficial" and "the feeling is mutual"

In this English lesson, I wanted

to help you understand the English

term mutually beneficial.

When something is mutually

beneficial, it benefits both people.

The other day in my lesson

I used the term win win.

When something's a win win, it means

it's good for both people who are

involved in whatever is happening.

You could say the same thing here.

When something is mutually

beneficial, then both people are...

both countries benefit.

I will say this, I don't like

to get political, but tariffs don't

seem to be mutually beneficial.

The world's a little crazy right now.

Again, I don't like to comment

on too much of the political

spectrum, but I'm not sure

everything is mutually beneficial

right now in the world.

The other phrase I wanted

to teach you today is the feeling

is mutual. When someone tells

you what they think about you or

how they feel about you.

And if you respond by saying

the feeling is mutual, it

means you feel the same way.

If one of you didn't like me

and said, Bob, you're not very nice

and I thought the same

about you, I would say,

hey, the feeling is mutual.

You can also use this to talk about,

like if two people think

the same way about something, you

could say the feeling is mutual.

Like if one of you said

that you don't like tariffs, I could

say, oh, the feeling's mutual.

It means I don't really

like them either.

I hope I don't get too many

comments from this lesson.

But anyways, to review when

something is mutually beneficial,

it's good for both people or both

parties or both countries.

And when the feeling is mutual,

it means that you and another

person or a group of people

and another group of people feel

the same way about something.

But hey, let's look at a comment

from a previous video.

This is from Mohd Ags.

It's so good to see you Mr.

Bob.

Thank you for the useful

phrase sight unseen.

And thanks to the student that

used it naturally, they basically

taught us the phrase too, eh?

Correct use of "eh" by the way.

And my response?

Yep, the people around me are

unaware that they are

inadvertently teaching all of you.

So thanks Mohd Ags for that comment.

And yeah, I've explained

this before, haven't I?

That what I do in order to

figure out what to teach you today

is I just listen to people

and someone actually used the phrase

mutually beneficial today.

And then usually the second

phrase, I just look for something

that's kind of related.

It doesn't always mean the same

thing, but it usually

has the same word in it or

some version of that word.

So yeah, what was I going

to talk about today?

Not politics.

I'm not going to talk

about that at all.

Or did I already do that?

Maybe a little bit.

I know someone else commented,

and I didn't have this comment

on the screen that in the last

video I was probably talking

faster than I did in previous

lessons on this channel.

And that could be true.

I'm a little out of practice

In English,

when you say you're out of

practice, it means you haven't

done something for a while, so

you're maybe not as good at it or

not doing it in the same way that

you used to do it.

So maybe I'm a little

bit out of practice.

I just intentionally started speaking

a little bit more slowly, 10% more

slowly than normal, and pronouncing

all my words correctly.

So we'll see.

Now I feel like I'm thinking

about it too much and adjusting

how I speak too much.

So I'll try to go back to normal.

The idea with this channel is that

I do speak close to my normal speed

for the last two minutes, so

hopefully I'm getting close to that.

Anyways, thanks for watching! Uh, live

stream tomorrow or later this

morning on my bigger channel.

Yeah, it depends when you watch this,

but I will be doing a short live

stream, maybe half an hour, maybe 40

minutes, just to get back into it

again. Thanks for watching.

I'll see you next week with

another short English lesson.

Bye.