Learn the English Phrases WHERE YOU AT? and WHERE IT'S AT

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,

where you at?

This is a slang phrase

of asking the question are you.

Let's imagine my brother is out driving his car

and it breaks down on the side of the road.

He might phone me and say,

hey can you come pick me up,

my car has broken down.

And I might respond by saying, where you at?

Basically, what I'm asking him is, where are you?

I don't know why we use this phrase,

it doesn't save you any time to say where you at

instead of where are you,

but I would probably say that.

I'd probably say, yeah no problem, where you at bro?

I don't always call my brother, bro,

but it sounded cool there, didn't it?

So anyways, when you say, where you at,

it means where are you?

You could also use this with other nouns,

you can say, where is he at or where is she at, as well.

All of those work perfectly well.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase,

where it's at.

When you say something is where it's at,

it means that it is cool.

If someone was to say,

where did you get those flowers?

And if someone responded and said,

I got them from Jen's flower farm,

that's where it's at,

if you want to by flowers.

So when you say something is where it's at,

it means it's the cool place or the awesome place

or the neat place to be if you want to do a certain thing.

Right now in Canada,

nowhere is where it's at because you can't go anywhere.

But if you do ever visit this area,

Niagara Falls is where it's at.

That is a very cool place to visit.

So to review,

when you say to someone, where you at,

you're simply asking, where are you,

what is your location?

We don't ever say that by the way,

we say, where are you or where you at?

We don't ever say, what is your location,

that sounds very formal.

And if you say to someone that something is where it's at,

it means that that's the cool place.

In a school, the students might say,

what's the best place to be at lunch time,

and someone might say, oh, the gym is where it's at.

That means that that's the fun place,

the cool place to be at lunch time.

But hey,

let's look at a comment from a previous video,

this comment is from Anna,

and Anna says, those store-bought cakes are very convenient,

I like to bake from scratch

as I can get a sense of fulfillment out of it.

And cakes made by myself are healthier I guess.

And my response is this and you're right,

store-bought are convenient.

Back when we had guests come over,

like before COVID when you were allowed to have guests over,

we'd sometimes buy store-bought cookies

if we were pressed for time

but normally we would try to make something ourselves.

So thanks Anna for that comment.

Yes, definitely there is a sense of fulfillment

when you make something yourself.

It's kind of fun to make your own things, isn't it?

So thanks again for that comment.

Hey, I wanted to show you something behind me,

we have to walk over here a little bit.

You may have thought that there was snow behind me

when I was making the first part of this lesson.

Oh, my tripod hit the ground.

But there is not snow behind me,

but these trees have white blossoms all over them.

Let's get a little bit closer so you can see.

And these are cool,

but I also find them kind of annoying.

So first of all,

I think these are just a standard,

they're a thorn tree,

they have thorns on them.

I think they might be a type of crab apple tree,

a native crab apple tree.

And I love them because of all the white blooms,

there's actually another one over there,

but what I don't like about them

is I think I'm allergic to them,

because whenever these tree are blooming,

my nose gets very stuffed up for a few days.

So I don't know if it's these trees or simply something else

that blooms at the same time.

But certainly when these trees are blooming,

I wake up in the morning and my nose is all stuffed up,

and it's not very pleasant.

Anyways, thanks for watching this short English lesson,

I hope you enjoyed it.

I'll see you in a couple days with another one.