Learn the English Phrases "I beg to differ" and "It begs the question"

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you
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learn the English phrase I beg to differ.
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This is a phrase when someone says something
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and we don't agree with them, we might
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start by saying, I beg to differ.
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If someone was to say, I think that, let's
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see, France has the best football players in the
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world, I might say, I beg to differ.
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I think Canada has the best
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football players in the world.
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So it's a way to introduce
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kind of the opposite thought.
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If someone said that Ford makes the best cars in
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the world, I might say, I beg to differ.
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I think that Toyota makes the best cars in the world.
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So it's a way to nicely tell
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someone that you disagree with them.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach
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you today is it begs the question.
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This is how we introduce a
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thought after making a couple statements.
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Here's an example.
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If I said, taxes keep going up, taxes have
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gone up three times in the past year.
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So it begs the question, what is
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the government doing with all the money?
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Or you might say this.
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You might say, oh, Bob hasn't
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made a video for six weeks.
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So it begs the question, where is Bob?
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I don't think that will ever happen.
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But if it did happen, it would
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certainly beg the question, where is Bob?
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So to review, if you say I beg to differ, it
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simply means that you are going to disagree with someone.
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If you say cats are the best pets in
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the world, I might say, I beg to differ.
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I think dogs are the best pet.
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And when you say it begs the question, it
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usually means you're asking something after a while.
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If you say something like this, all of the
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milk is gone and I didn't drink it.
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So it begs the question, who drank all the milk?
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Ozdeniz and
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the question is, or, sorry.
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And the comment is the best teacher.
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And my response: Am I
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though? I would beg to differ.
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I think the best teacher is always yourself.
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You know yourself and how you learn.
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And I agree with that.
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And I do like the compliment, by
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the way, that I'm the best teacher. By the way,
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you can read that compliment two ways in English.
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If it had a comma in it.
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If it said the best teacher, it would mean
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that the lesson I did was the best.
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But if there's no comma and it says the best teacher,
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it means that you think I'm the best teacher, which I
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don't think I am, I'll have to say, I have to
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say I think I do an okay job.
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I'm not going to stand here
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and say I'm the best teacher.
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I think I do the best job I can do and
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people seem to like the lesson, so I'll accept the compliment.
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But I am not going to claim I am the best teacher.
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But thank you for the comment anyways.
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And did you see how I used the phrase? I beg to differ.
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I like to try every once in a while to
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actually use the phrase in the comment that I'm leaving.
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Well, this week it's Friday.
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Sorry, you're watching this on a Friday. It's Thursday.
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This is one of those weeks.
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I think I've taught you that phrase before when
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you say ah, it's one of those days.
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Or this is one of those weeks.
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I just can't get all my work done for some reason.
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I had a day where I felt a bit off
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and I didn't get as much done as normal.
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But wow, it's starting to feel like one of those weeks.
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In particular, I have a whole lot of photos
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to take from emails to get ready for a
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live stream on Saturday on my bigger channel.
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I requested people to send photos
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and I've gotten hundreds of photos.
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Well, at least a couple hundred.
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And they're great. I love them.
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But it's going to take me a little
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while to get all of that compiled.
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But that was just one extra thing.
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And there's a bunch of extra stuff at work as well.
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I'm sure you don't need to
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hear me complain about my day.
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I'm sure you have all had days like that
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in the past where or weeks like that where
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it's just hard to get everything done.
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But as of right now, I think I'm starting to
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be a little bit more on top of things.
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Certainly by Saturday morning at 11am when I'm
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done my live stream, everything will be awesome.
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Anyways, thanks for watching.
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Ill see you in a couple days or a
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few days with another short English lesson. Bye.
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