3 Advanced Phrases That Make You Sound Like A Native English Speaker

hi there I'm Drew Badger the world

number 1 English Fluency Guide and in

this video I'm going to be covering

something very special something

advanced but also very useful that

native speakers often use and this is

native recaps and native transition now

a recap means just to go back over

something and typically what will happen

in a conversation is somebody will be

explaining something and then at the end

of that maybe they'll give a very short

summary in the same way like I do with

these videos so i will explain something

maybe spend a couple of minutes

explaining whatever the lesson is about

and then at the end I'll go back and say

today we did this so you'll see this in

lessons and it's you know just kind of

like a normal thing in everyday life but

the interesting thing is that if you can

use this same pattern when you're using

your own conversations or in your own

conversations you can sound much more

native by doing the same thing so you

can use your regular even if you're

speaking in a textbook way you can speak

normally in an everyday way again and

then at the end of something you can

come back with the native sounding

phrase something that's conversational

and native that an actual native speaker

would use and then you sound much more

native so it's a way of combining the

normal english that you would use maybe

something again from a textbook but with

a free that comes back and recaps that

and you can also use these phrases as

transitions and I don't want to give too

many of them so we will cover to recaps

and one transition in this video let's

begin now the first one just so you

understand these we're using these

transitions and recaps as a way of

explaining something again in a native

way so you're actually repeating

yourself or in the case of a transition

you're just using this as a way to kind

of move into something else

these are actually really two different

categories of things because a recap is

a little bit different from a transition

but i just wanted to give you a taste of

bolt in this video so the first one is

let's say I'm describing a situation and

it's maybe a negative thing so a

situation where i get myself into some

trouble so I was maybe wasting time I

should have been practicing your

studying but you know in the end I

decided not to do that thing now when

I'm telling these stories I'm again at

this point just using very regular

language I'm speaking like an eight

speaker but at the same time I haven't

used any more colorful idioms or recap

the sentences in any special way so in

this case I'm describing situations

where maybe i do something and it's not

very successful or at created a problem

for myself so I begin by creating this

situation i'm telling the story but at

the end I recap that by saying and then

I painted myself into a corner so I

painted myself into a corner now this is

a great way of telling the story but

they recapping it with something that

sounds a bit more interesting like I

painted myself into a corner now to

paint yourself into a corner is a

regular casual expression that native

speakers understand and use frequently

when they're talking about if you're

imagining yourself inside a room and

instead of starting at the door I may be

like as a way to get out of the room

when you're finished if you're painting

the floor of a room and you start

painting and then you you reach a corner

where you can't move at that point so

you paint and no no you realize you're

stuck so you're you know it's kind of a

stupid thing you would do you painted

yourself into a corner if you walk then

you know you're going to step on the

paint and mess up the paint and it

creates all these problems so this is a

way of describing in a casual way in a

conversational way that you created a

problem for yourself but notice what's

really happening here

I'm describing something and I don't

need to add that point at the end I

don't need to use that expression but

this is something that people do when

they're speaking English they will

explain something and again you might do

this in your own native language as well

but this is a very common thing native

speakers will explain something and then

they will recap it in a conversation way

so they will explain something yeah i

did this and then there was this other

thing and I'm explaining just a regular

story so I painted myself into our

corner or I ended up painting myself

into a corner i ended up painting myself

into a corner

our next example is if it's something

positive now just like the previous one

you can practice that and use that as a

way of telling a story and then adding

that at the end this is another native

recap where you can put something again

it's instead of describing a problem

that you create for yourself this is

describing something positive and it's

also using a cultural reference which i

highly recommend you use now

isn't video where I want to talk about

too many cultural references but the

important thing is that when you're

listening to things like this if you

don't quite understand something it

could be that native speakers may be

using a quote from a movie or some other

thing in popular culture like a song or

some political thing like you know Trump

recently make America great again so now

people are saying make other things

great again like make it will make this

restaurant great again or whatever so

people take that and it becomes a

cultural reference that people use in

their everyday conversation so if you

use something like make America great

again or make you know my country great

again you know whatever that is even as

a joke people think that's funny because

they're just talking about something

thats related to popular culture now in

this example if I'm describing something

where I'm maybe feeling lucky

like I go out and I mean like a famous

movie star

I'm just walking along the street and I

see wow it's like leonardo dicaprio and

for some reason maybe he watched a

YouTube video of mine and he said hey

drew like you should come on my private

yacht with me and we're going to have a

party and it's going to be awesome and I

say wow so I'm describing this story but

i'm still using very basic language but

then I recap that at the end by saying

it was like I found the golden ticket

it was like I found the golden ticket so

thank finding the golden ticket this is

a cultural reference from the movie

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or

even the book or Willy Wonka and the

Chocolate willy wonka and the chocolate

factory or charlie and the chocolate

factory

I forget the name of it maybe it's two

different things I mean it's the same

idea but anyway when you're when you're

using something like this you're taking

that cultural reference and you're just

putting it at the end of the story just

to make it sound more native so it

doesn't change anything but it just

makes you sound like you're telling a

better story and you're using an

interesting way of completing that story

but you really again not changing

anything about it so Leonardo DiCaprio

came into my life funny that a let's go

to the you know yahoo got a bunch of

people there were going to have a party

I said okay

it was like I found the golden ticket so

in the book in the movie Charlie the

main character he finds the golden the

golden ticket in a bar of chocolate and

and he uses that to go to the chocolate

factory and it changed his life forever

so people all over the world were

looking for these golden tickets but he

was the lucky one who found it so in my

case instead of just saying i was lucky

i'm using a cultural reference that

makes that same point by saying it was

like I found the golden ticket or it was

like I found a golden ticket now the

last one will cover is a native

transition and a transition just means

we're talking about one thing and then

we will explain something else but we

need to connect these two ideas and

we're trying to do this in an

interesting way to tell a more

interesting story so let's say I'm

talking about maybe in this case we

could actually use a good situation or a

bad situation so we'll do the bad

situation first

I'm walking home and I don't have an

umbrella and it starts to rain and I

start describing all these bad things

that dog runs up and like biting my leg

and I dropped my books in the water and

then so in just when I thought things

couldn't get any worse so this is again

a native transition right here this

point where native speakers will use it

exactly like that and just when I

thought it couldn't get any worse

and just when I thought it couldn't get

any worse or just when I thought it

couldn't get any worse

I like I get struck by lightning so i

get like lightning comes down in exact

meet and I get struck by lightning

so I'm explaining something and then i

use the native transition in the middle

to say and just when I thought it

couldn't get any worse than this really

bad thing happens as well again you can

also use the same thing in a good

situation so and just when I thought it

couldn't get any better

and just when I thought it couldn't get

any better so this is where you're

describing a good situation so I meet

leonardo dicaprio and he takes me on to

the yacht and he gives me like a million

dollars and just when I thought it

couldn't get any better he said hey

would you like to have this boat for

free and I say wow

yes that would be amazing so in this

example again we're taking an idea we're

telling a story and you don't have to

sound needed for the whole story but if

you can creatively use native recaps and

native transitions it will help you

sound much more native well I don't want

to go too much into detail about these

kinds of things

but if you want to learn more of these

things these are exactly the kinds of

things that we teach in master English

conversation and the fluency course

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