What I Say When I Talk To Myself - Native English Vocabulary

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the English fluency guide welcome to another  live video uh I just had this this is kind of  

a uh an impromptu video I thought I would make  this or cover this topic uh because I think to  

myself all the time and there's certain U  phrases or Expressions that I use talking  

to myself uh and natives will use these uh  but you can also use these same phrases when  

you're speaking with other people so they are  interesting ways to think about situations and  

they will give you a little bit of insight into  how natives are thinking uh so you can use these  

same phrases as well so part of the practice we  get when we uh when we hear different phrases so  

natives will often hear things in a particular  situation uh in the same way that they might  

you know like you get hurt and you say ouch  so there are certain triggers we get that  

encourage us or make us want to say certain  things so I thought I would talk about some of  

the things I say to myself uh just sometimes  consciously sometimes unconsciously but you  

can continue to use those again in everyday uh  communication all right so looks like YouTube is  

working let's get started all right see if we have  anybody here let's see Anna nice to see you there  

hello Silvana nice to see you thank you for the  class my pleasure and RSM eraser hey good morning  

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osak and ET Tom from Herman in Congo look at that  we got people all over the place smart Tech good  

morning all right let's get right into this  so basically this is going to be a vocabulary  

lesson and I'll teach you about the same kinds  of things that I'm thinking uh when I'm in even  

just kind of talking to myself as people will  normally be doing so you can use these same things  

when you're speaking to yourself and you can use  these expressions and think to yourself in English  

rather than your native language all right uh so  the first one is let's see what I want to cover  

first so curiosity and speculation all right so  these are some very simple things like I'm often  

uh I often have a lot of ideas about things and  so the most basic thing I will often say to myself

is what if what if and so I will just be thinking  thinking even if I don't say this out loud I will  

be thinking to myself what if so what if I do  something okay so maybe I'm uh I'm trying to  

build a project or I'm thinking about what if uh  maybe I I'm reorganizing my room or my office or  

something like that and I say oh what if I put  the chair over here or the desk over here or  

what if I get a hammock what if I do this what  if I do that this is the most basic form uh and  

again you can use this in regular communication  so if you're giving advice to someone else maybe  

you're recommending something or you're giving  a suggestion you can just say well what if you  

do this okay so what if he does something or  what if she does something or what if they do  

something but very simple but it's just it's  asking and more about kind of curiosity and  

maybe questioning wondering so a similar  thing I might say to myself is I wonder

I wonder if I'm always trying to make sure  this is nice and simple for people so what  

if very easy thing to remember it's just talking  about possibility uh and another thing you might  

say here is I wonder or I wonder if something  something so I wonder if uh a friend of mine is  

is coming to town today or I wonder if it will  rain I wonder if or what if something these are  

kind of similar similar questions you can use  them basically in the same situation talking  

about possibility uh but typically maybe a  slight difference is like what if it's kind  

of kind of imagining things that may be like  almost a wider range of possibility so if I'm  

thinking uh like I wonder if it will rain tonight  or I wonder if it will rain today uh this is more  

thinking like either it will or it will not it's  not like a wide range of possibility um but you  

use those in a similar way like I wonder if  I could do something so like is it possible  

or might it happen but what if is is really  thinking about a a broader wider range of  

possibility all right so similar situation and  you could use those you will hear natives using  

both of these in these kinds of situations  so talking about what if or I wonder if or  

possibly potentially something like that  uh another way I might say this is suppose

suppose this is another it seems like a more  advanced word but it's actually very commonly  

used so suppose I do something suppose I do  something uh so this is basically like if I  

do something so if I if I were to do something  what would happen all right so suppose I uh buy  

a house boat all right so we're we're going to  create this condition or this idea or here's  

we call this you another way you could  express this is like a thought a thought

experiment so a thought experiment you're just  thinking of something in your mind and you're  

wondering huh wouldn't that be interesting I  wonder what would happen so what if uh often  

these are thought experiments so you're imagining  something you're guessing you're thinking maybe  

something something could happen what if what  would that be like all right so uh another  

thing to to see the reason I'm giving you various  examples is because there are always different  

ways to express something so even if I forget one  thing or I might not say the same thing all the  

time I have many different ways I could express  this excuse me uh and I'm also prepared for when  

other people use these things okay so someone  else might say what if or I wonder or suppose  

I or suppose they suppose I uh and these are all  uh in a simple way basically talking about thought  

experiments all right so typically when people  actually use the term thought experiment it's  

like a a bigger idea maybe they're thinking about  a business or they're just having an interesting  

conversation about you know what if what if people  walked on their hands instead of their feet so  

this is like a thought experiment and you begin  with that idea or that premise so the idea what  

what is what are we talking about here's the  condition so what if what if everyone walked  

on their hands instead of their feet so we begin  with that idea that premise that thought and now  

we have a thought experiment just thinking about  what might happen Okay so if everybody has to walk  

on their hands maybe go everybody buys gloves at  the glove store instead of the shoe store maybe  

you don't need shoes anymore I guess I don't know  all right so that's a kind of a thought experiment  

I'm being a little bit silly right now but I'm  trying to give many examples of how these things  

work and they really are very commonly used so  suppose I do something so suppose I'm uh suppose I  

get a new job all right so I'm talking maybe with  my wife and we're thinking what might happen like  

what if or what happens or what changes suppose  I get a new job suppose I get a new job suppose  

uh suppose uh I get into an accident what would  happen to my family all right so again these are  

all just thinking about here's a condition or  a state or some situation that might happen and  

we're just thinking what's the conclusion of that  or what might occur as a result okay hopefully  

that makes sense so these are lots of interesting  ways where I might be thinking and even if I'm  

not speaking with anyone else I'm still talking  to myself or I'm speaking to myself in my mind  

all right and so these are things you can do as  uh when people often ask me about how to think  

in English the point really for fluency is  not really to think in English it's more to  

eliminate doubt and then to not need to think  about anything at all uh the ideas just come to  

you because you understand them naturally and you  know how to make these connections and a way to  

do that uh is actually learning many different  ways to express yourself like I'm showing you  

here but when you're talking with yourself that  is a good way just to to get into the habit of  

using these different things and you can obviously  try different ones when you're in that situation  

so if you are talking with yourself talking to  yourself this is uh also known as selft talk selft

talk so what do you say when you talk to yourself  so selft talk so when I was thinking you know this  

morning like maybe I should get uh a goldfish what  if I what if I got a gold fot so what if I got or  

what if I did something what if I got a goldfish  okay so maybe maybe I should get a goldfish okay  

hopefully that makes sense all right let me go  back and check chat to see if anybody has any  

questions about this it's a pretty simple idea  but the point is these are the things that will  

naturally pop into my mind during the day and it's  just a situation will trigger this vocabulary so  

I might be thinking about something or I noticed  something and I think oh what if I do that what  

if okay and as you understand the vocabulary you  also hear the pronunciation so even something very  

simple like this you will sound much more native  if you blend it together so this is the one rule  

for pronunciation that I teach in speak like me uh  so this is basically instead of what if it really  

Blends together so the T basically disappears and  this becomes a D sound here so what if what if  

what if what if so what if what if uh nobody comes  to pick me up today what if what if I have to work  

uh work uh underwater what if I have to walk on  my hands instead of my feet okay these are all  

ways of talking about the same thing but notice  the pronunciation here W diff what if what if  

what if all right let's see here I'll go back and  check chat before we uh cover a few more things  

here meditation Channel says hello sir and it's  my first time to attend your class welcome Sarah  

just says hello teacher from Mexico Olympia with a  big heart nice to see you there Rod uh rerio says  

hello I'm Korean I'll try my best today it's all  right you always try your best let's see Sophia  

good morning from Malaysia nice to see there and  oh my let's see I connect Africa okay that's what  

that is hi teacher and Nelson says hello good  evening from Colombia yamar good evening from  

Thailand look at there like one person from every  country it's like the Olympics representing of the  

English learning Olympics over here uh Messias  from Brazil Nina says hello from Morocco Salah  

says I wonder if my girlfriend still loves me yes  here very good question you should say I wonder  

if my girlfriend still loves me I wonder if my  girlfriend still loves me that might be a typo  

but remember take care with your subject verb  agreement so I wonder if my girlfriend still  

loves me tar says good morning teacher H I wonder  if cats have a sense of curiosity I bet they do I  

bet I bet cats have a a sense of curiosity they're  always uh getting into trouble that's why in  

English if you don't know this expression already  we say curiosity killed the cat curiosity killed  

the cat curiosity killed the cat uh so this just  means you know people trying to see about things  

or getting into trouble learning about something  uh often you can get in trouble doing that but  

we also have an expression in English that cats  have nine lives cats have nine lives and this  

means cats will often maybe they fall from a  really high building but they're just fine so  

it looks like they get into lots of trouble but  they never seem to die so cats have nine lives  

uh K says hello teacher uh is today a grammar  lesson well it's not I don't know not particularly  

a grammar lesson specifically but I'm when I'm  teaching vocabulary or grammar or pronunciation  

or whatever uh when I'm doing this for my children  and just teaching them things normally I never say  

to them okay guys we're going to learn a grammar  point right now what I'm doing is trying to help  

them understand the language and you always have  grammar or vocabulary or pronunciation all of  

these things are connected so you can't have you  can't say anything without pronunciation so like  

the way I say something either I'm pronouncing it  correctly or incorrectly uh but the the grammar  

the way I speak things so all these things are  connected so don't don't try not to worry about  

like what the specific topic like for the language  name of that thing like if it's a grammar point or  

whatever the idea if you want to speak fluently  is do I know the right thing to say or one of the  

things I might say for a particular situation so  that's what we're doing here and just saying in  

this situation if I'm wondering about something  or thinking about the possibility uh of something  

or I'm curious about something these are the  kinds of things I might say and I might say  

these to myself I might be thinking to myself or  I could also say them to other people all right  

so you'll notice grammar is in here as well in  pronunciation and vocabulary all right all right  

let's see here back to the uh the English learning  Olympics let's see how did I miss I miss somebody  

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have trouble with prepositions or articles or  other things uh like that and I show you how to  

understand those things like a native all right uh  austo says oh KN oh probably nice I'm guessing oh  

nice to be here maybe T says do we use W then in  the rest of the sentence when using the thought  

experimenting Expressions uh not necessarily so  I wonder if it will rain tomorrow all right so  

I wonder if I I I wonder if there will be rain  as an example so we're not using wood in that  

situation so but you could say like like a simple  way to use wood in a in this situation is like  

like um like what what would happen or if you're  not so sure you might say what might happen What  

might happen so what would happen or if you're  asking another person like what would you do  

if something happens all right so if you're asking  a question what would you do so what would you do  

what would you do if something happens so what  would you do if a robber or a burglar gets into  

your house what would you do all right uh but you  can also just talk about this in general from you  

know just describing yourself you could say uh  if something something I would so if a burglar  

got into my house I would do whatever I would  do something okay so it doesn't necessarily  

you don't have to use wood but you could use it  in there all right so again if you're if you're  

ever in a situation and you're thinking like oh  no I have to use wood because wood describes the  

future that's not how natives think about the  language remember natives have a particular  

situation or a thing they're trying to explain or  describe or communicate and there are many ways  

you could do that and this is why native don't  get stuck in conversations because they're not  

just thinking about one way to say something  they have many different ways to say something  

and so at each moment there are always more  options they have all right so don't think  

about like a particular word that you have to  say this is just one of many things you could

use and but if someone could make a thing where  I could jump back to the the comment I'm on that  

would be awesome all right uh uh I think more  let's see okay Tom nice to see there morning  

teacher Drew Salah says the cats are curious if it  is raining cats and dogs yes you would say raining  

cats and dogs raining cats and dogs Cass says you  are the most amazing teacher I have faced so far  

well welcome welcome to the English Olympics here  where we have people from all over the world uh  

here just an interesting point about language  right here so you say you are the most amazing  

teacher I have faced typically when we use the  word face we're talking about like a competitor  

or an enemy or something like there's a conflict  here so you might face a problem but I don't I  

don't like face a friend of mine so you could say  uh you are the most amazing teacher or you are the  

best or whatever person I have ever encountered  or experienced or just met or seen all right so  

you are the best I've ever seen or met or whatever  you want to say but faced is again typically when  

there's some sort of competition or a fight like  in the Olympics for example so you might like one  

person from Germany faces someone from Greece all  right so they're facing each other like this and  

it's a lot more like a conflict rather than like a  positive thing you might say so I understand what  

you're trying to say uh but I recommend you use a  different word for that all right [Music] and all  

right and Olympia says as it as I do as I do as  I do let's see I don't know if you I don't know  

what that's referring to Olympia says let's see  and then Tom again with some typical Japanese it  

says I like you because you don't have an accent  well I I mean everybody has some kind of accent  

but I'm not I'm I'm intentionally being clear  so people can understand what I'm saying I'm  

not trying to speak with a particular accent it's  it's really just a I guess you could say a neutral  

way of speaking so people can understand me uh and  really the the point of these videos number one is  

to help you learn some useful vocabulary and and  then mostly to teach you how to get fluent all  

right so then you can apply those rules you can  apply what I learn in your speaking and learning  

to become fluent faster let's see a go says oh  years I am talking to myself that it is wonderful  

to be here glad to hear or you would say like I am  I am saying to myself or I often say to myself Sal  

says uh it is very clear thank you glad to hear  it baraco says hi from KS I don't know where that  

is I goes I wonder myself what could be better  opportunity that this class or you could say yes  

I wonder what what could be a better a better  opportunity than this class uh meditation again  

from a teacher your techniques are way practical  and not conventional at all my greetings sir uh  

yeah well I'm I I basically teach people English  the way I teach my own children English so my you  

know when I'm trying to the the point in general  is to eliminate doubt and so if I if I explain a  

bunch of difficult grammar rules that's probably  going to cause you more doubt uh which is why a  

lot of people struggle to speak even though  they spend a lot of time learning so if you  

can understand things and eliminate the doubt that  stops you from speaking then you will communicate  

fluently so that's what I try to do let's see  and debang Sho says from India let's see Sal  

says LOL I'm guessing I don't know what that's  referring to but something is funny hey Keo nice  

to see you here Alexis says hello Drew from Miami  nice to see you there what does curious mean well  

that's a good question you should look that up  you can learn about curiosity if you look that  

up I I'll I'll leave the answer for for Google  for that one just cuz it will teach you the  

lesson better at Tom says teacher how can I avoid  thinking in French in order to think directly in  

English uh you should spend more time consuming  material in English that helps you understand ways  

of thinking and speaking in English so often if  you're learning English through French then you  

would be speaking and thinking in French or at  least trying to think about words and organize  

sentences before you speak so the more you learn  in English and understand things in English the  

less you would need fren but this is like we're  doing in this video and the other videos I make  

I'm giving you examples of how to do that and  shabam shab shabam says hi Mariana says hello  

from Athens there you go look at that we even  have someone from Greece here there you go go  

says how often do you do lives it could be maybe  like once or twice a week uh they are unscheduled  

but often they are on Mondays and Thursdays Japan  time let's see R says think about positive things  

yes it's always nice to think about positive  things PO says hyre good evening is chat GPT a  

good source for correcting small doubts one might  have not translating but correcting an expression  

or phrase for example if not what do you recommend  uh yes chat gbt can be good but I always uh just  

like the way the way I teach and help people or  remind people that the best way to get fluent is  

to see many examples from many different people  so if I learn a phrase and I know that chat GPT  

is sometimes in incorrect I should probably get a  few different sources just to check if something  

is correct or not so I might if I'm trying to  learn a grammar point or there's an expression  

I'm learning I might go to chat gbt and say hey  like how would you explain this or can you can  

you teach me this thing um but then I might also  go to Google or YouTube to also get uh additional  

confirmation about that thing so once you know  what you're learning I should make a video about  

this about how to correct your mistakes before you  make them uh but the the goal is to understand the  

vocabulary really well by getting uh exposure  to lots of different sources so chat GPT can be  

very helpful but it can sometimes make mistakes uh  and I've had that experience many times with chat  

GPT so if I'm working with chat gbt in English  it's easier if I notice it makes a mistake about  

something I can uh I can catch that but if I'm  trying to learn something in Japanese from chat  

gbt it would be more difficult so says first time  I am going to subscribe in your channel glad to  

hear it would say subscribe to your Channel all  right let's see K says I jumped to conclusions  

I'm sorry about that let's see uh I wonder what  if I don't make it yeah so you can just say what  

if I don't make it what if I don't make it or  I wonder I wonder I wonder even just saying I  

wonder by itself is perfectly fine like you know  a native might say that out loud or think that  

to themselves like h i wonder and they're just  thinking like what what if something happens  

guys I like your video said to avoid the doubt  that makes me start the journey to be fluent yes  

so if you're if you're thinking about what to  learn it's really what questions do I have that  

are stopping me from speaking and it's usually  questions about particular verbs or phrases or  

pronunciation or something like that so if there's  a word and I don't know how to pronounce it so I  

wouldn't want to say that word in a conversation  because I don't want to make a mistake in front of  

other people then the thing I should do is solve  that pronunciation doubt all right so it's it's  

like a a very specific thing that I have to do so  you don't you don't just continue learning lots  

of random English you are strategic about how  you learn and you were basically destroying the  

various doubts that stop you speaking because  the fastest way to get fluent is is to destroy  

the doubts that stop you from speaking all right  Alexander says is it going to rain tomorrow oh no  

I had to go out tomorrow or you could say I have  to go out tomorrow to do some errands and I don't  

have an umbrella very good so remember if we're  talking about the future I have to do something  

all right uh regards from Mexicali MX from Mexico  nice to see you there and Elder says what's going  

on Andrew just in time when you start to talk  about cat and curiosity from tip of my tongue  

the cat and her Nine Lives yes so we we just  covered those various Expressions so you would  

say like on the tip of my tongue like the the cat  uh and her Nine Lives or the cat has nine lives  

and Mo's laugh laugh in about something over there  Alexander uh like a confrontation is your teacher  

not your opponent come on yeah so you guys are  getting it so remember this is the whole point of  

learning so you might say something and the the  point is understood so I understand if someone  

says wow you were like the coolest person I've  ever faced so I would think okay like are we going  

to fight now like maybe you respect me as a as a  as an opponent but uh you know we're still going  

to fight about something so I'm I'm f faing you  you think like your face and my face like this but  

I could just see someone and think wow that's like  that's the the coolest thing I've ever seen or  

experienced or encountered there are many ways you  could you could express that but typically face is  

when we're talking about a problem uh or a person  or an enemy or a challenge something like that so  

you're you're ready when you face something  you're ready to challenge that thing to face  

that thing uh but so don't feel bad about making  a mistake this is often how we learn and so we we  

use something maybe we use it incorrectly but then  we get the correction for that thing and then we  

understand how to use it correctly so often that's  how uh how how it works now it's nice if you can  

correct your issues and learn the proper thing to  say before you make the mistake that's what we do  

in fluent for life we try to uh help people not  make those mistakes uh because you're actually  

getting the practice you need before you speak all  right uh let's see s says you are or your awesome  

teacher you would say you're an awesome teacher  and awesome teacher uh so you are the most amazing  

teacher I have met so far very good yes that would  be a good way to say it Moy says you are the most  

amazing I have come across on YouTube is that okay  yes you could say that very good so Meg says Hi  

teacher good morning from Brazil men says how to  practice final sound in English please practice  

final sound in English what do you mean by that if  you're talking about pronunciation get Frederick  

uh just click on the link in the description  below this video to get the app and it will  

show you everything about pronunciation and teach  you not only the pronunciations of over 2,000  

words but plenty of sentences as well so you can  see how everything fits together Richard again I  

can speak English at a basic level however I  still want to go further well welcome to the  

uh English Olympics here and so as again Brazil  uh Bruno how important is pronunciation should I  

focus more on pronunciation drills no basically  for learning pronunciation there are two things  

the first one as I mentioned with learning uh  Frederick is learning the individual sounds  

of English so these are known uh as phonics so  these are the sound rules for pronunciation and  

about 84% of the language has specific rules for  pronunciation so as an example well we can just  

look at some of these words right here so th this  is a a diagraph it has a particular sound like in  

this word and then a is a particular sound like  a so we have the pronunciation of th a th so  

this is how we learn so young children  are learning uh pronunciation and they

learn these English pronunciation rules called  phonics phonics now phonics there are as I  

mentioned about 84% of the language gives you  the sound rules but for the rest of that you  

just have to remember what the sound is so as  an example a word liketh we don't pronounce it  

as two different sounds like th f e we sayth  so it's pronounced as one sentence or excuse  

me one just like one unit one sound like that  'th but most of the so this kind of breaks a  

phonetic rule or a sound phonic rule uh but often  when you're learning these things there there are  

many as you understand these rules you also come  to understand these sounds that break those rules  

so Frederick teaches you both of those we teach  you Frederick excuse me we teach you uh phonics  

but we also teach you the sounds that break  those rules too and you re and we like the'  

is such a commonly used word you should know  how to pronounce it uh and you also should know  

how to pronounce it in different situations as  an example a movie like The Planet of the Apes  

so it's the same word but we might pronounce it a  little bit differently depending on which word we  

we put that in front of so the planet the  Planet of the Apes the the the the all right  

so you'll notice more things like that as you get  examples and so that's the second part of learning  

pronunciation so the first part is learning the  individual sound rules and the second part is just  

getting lots of examples of native speaking so  you can hear different ways that people pronounce  

things so you will often find like lots of people  will say the Planet of the Apes the Planet of the  

Apes or some people might say the plan of the Apes  and pronounce it put a little bit more emphasis on  

it and so as you're learning things this is not  just for pronunciation but uh you get to see a  

wide range of examples not just one teacher like  me telling you how to pronounce something exactly  

it's much better and you will become much more  confident as you see each individual person say  

a word or phrase and you will feel okay like I  get a good idea I'm I'm pretty confident that I  

should say it this way because 10 different people  just said that expression like that all right so  

those are the two things you need uh if you want  to have good pronunciation you should understand  

the individual sounds but then also hear lots of  different examples of natives uh pronouncing these  

things so that's why we produce uh courses that  help you do both of those so Frederick covers the  

individual words and sounds like this uh and uh  fluent for Life shows you how to put everything  

together uh let's see austo said really you are  a good teacher I am proud to be here well well  

welcome there's a lot of Praise in the comment  section today I'm I'm I'm happy I don't know why  

every lots lots of I guess people are practicing  uh using those expressions Swan says greetings  

from bogot Colombia I remember I was in bogot  when was that it was maybe like nine years ago  

something like that that was a fun time though I  remember I had trouble breathing a little bit it  

was hard to get used to uh atto man says I am  from Sagal West Africa it's not easy for me to  

watch the live at this time see you tomorrow well  watch the videos anytime you like uh K says by the  

way I jump to conclusion and I'm getting ahead of  myself which is natural um well if [Music] you're  

if you're if you're jumping to a conclusion you're  you're kind of thinking uh like what's the result  

of something but to get ahead of yourself is is  more like maybe I'm I'm thinking about what are  

some possibilities or or they could be related but  not necessarily so you don't have to think about  

it that way let me think about a good way  to explain it um so if I'm like a friend of  

mine is uh let's say she she's worried about  her husband like she says oh my husband is  

coming home late recently and she jumps to the  conclusion that he's cheating on her so like  

that that's not like a logical conclusion like  if I could if I could describe it for you here

see if black oh black is faded  too okay let me switch back to

Red so something happens a happens or a like  you know whatever that thing is so my uh my  

friend's husband is coming home late all right so  that's the situation uh and then the wife jumps to  

the conclusion of like oh uh like conclusion one  is he's cheating on me he's cheating on me so  

she's going to what just jump to that conclusion  so here I'm I'm I'm just very quickly assuming  

something because of that and I say wait wait  wait maybe uh maybe there's also like you know  

two like he's just working late maybe he's busy at  work why don't you call him and find out okay so  

there are actually you know various reasons why  something might be happen happening but if you  

jump to a conclusion you're thinking oh like I'm  going to assume one of these things is true even  

if I don't have lots of evidence for that thing so  that's jumping to a conclusion uh but uh getting  

ahead of myself like is a is a slightly different  situation uh and that's more if I'm thinking about  

something and maybe I'm like like let's say I want  to go to college all right so in that situation  

here here's like situation A over here is I want  to go to college uh but then I'm also having to  

think about well what happens after I graduate uh  and then like maybe I have to move to a different  

uh City and then maybe like what if I I don't  know get into a car accident or something like  

that like hey like I'm already out here I'm I'm  still over here I'm I didn't even go to college  

yet so I'm getting ahead of myself I'm thinking  like way into the future about something that  

I couldn't really know so I'm I'm getting ahead  of where I am now so I'm getting ahead of myself  

all right so here I am I'm thinking well maybe  I should go to college but if I do that maybe I  

have this thing and maybe that's it leads to these  other things that might happen but wait a minute  

and so my I'm just talking with my dad right now  uh should I go to college and he says oh well you  

know what do you want to do do you want to go  to I don't know like go to business school or  

do you need to become a doctor do you want to do  and then I'm and I start talking about all these  

other things over here he's he's saying whoa  whoa whoa you're getting ahead of yourself slow  

down focus on this particular thing because you  don't really know all of this other stuff that's  

going to happen anyway okay so this is uh to get  ahead get ahead of yourself if you can read that  

get ahead of yourself uh but this one over here  is to jump jump to some conclusion or jump to a

conclusion so you could be jumping to conclusions  there could be multiple oh no he's cheating on  

me you know like if I'm in a movie oh no my  my husband is late I jump to the conclusion  

that he's cheating on me so I didn't I didn't like  reasonably think about it or get lots of you know  

in interesting information about that it's just  I jump to the conclusion that he's cheating on me  

okay does that make sense so like you can see how  these two things are related but I I wouldn't say  

to this woman like oh my husband's cheating on me  hey you're getting ahead of yourself I wouldn't  

say that to her because she's she's not like  logically thinking thinking through a bunch of  

steps here this is more what I just jump directly  to the conclusion here so I'm jumping from a he's  

working late to be which is he's cheating on me  all right so I'm jumping to conclusions all right  

so in the college example if I want to say jump  to conclusions that would be more like uh maybe  

this school this school is lower price so it's a  worse school and I would say no I I don't jump to  

that conclusion like so you're you're making  a connection between one thing and something  

else which may not be true okay so it might be  true but maybe not so maybe we need some more  

information uh to to understand something that's  happening all right now it's interesting this this  

phrase jump to conclusions or jump to the wrong  conclusion uh this is this is often how people are  

like the mind is working that way when people  learn vocabulary so when people are learning  

language uh when they they first learn something  they jump to the conclusion of what it means but  

often as they get more examples they understand  that that word really means something else or  

they have a stronger definition of that so try to  control yourself from jumping to con conclusions  

and spend more time getting more information  so you don't or uh to make sure you don't jump  

to conclusions all right let me know if that  explanation makes sense so you can see they're  

similar but typically getting ahead of yourself  means you're walking forward and you're continuing  

to ask more questions or going through more steps  rather than just whoop like one big step going up  

to here that that probably is incorrect all right  so these things over here if I'm thinking about  

many different steps that might be true but maybe  not all right either way like whoa whoa whoa whoa  

like don't jump to conclusions like don't don't  just say like it's over here and often it's a  

bad conclusion or a wrong conclusion uh but it's  slightly different situation it's related we're  

talking about something in the future but it's  the actual specific situation is is a little  

bit different all right let me know if that makes  sense and let's see who else did we get here here  

and okay baraco says my AI Snapchat is better than  chat gbt well my AI is better than your AI what do  

you think about that well very interesting men  says when speaking I often forget final sound  

in English how to fix this yes okay uh just get  Frederick it'll show you how to do that Julian  

says Hi teacher and people hear greetings from  manales colia and I wonder I've got it okay let  

me know uh if that EXP Nation helped you Elizabeth  nice see there from Brazil and tukua from South  

Africa look at that people all over the place from  Afghanistan it's like ali uh she means fluently  

I'm guessing let's see will good morning from  China that's an interesting name you found the  

name wool wow that's that's like the most simple  that's a great name just like wool that's awesome  

let's see ham says thanks teacher from Morocco  uh Naomi I'm guessing or maybe Naomi from Brazil  

and atom says teacher if I understand everything  that you are saying right now what English level  

am I I can't tell what English level you are  based on your level of understanding because  

these are different skills so you can understand  things very well but still be a really bad speaker  

so the only way you can tell that is yourself  uh do you feel doubt when you speak or do you  

not if you do not feel doubt when you speak then  you're probably a fluent speaker but if you do  

then you're probably not uh again sir I'm asking  for your WhatsApp number I want to take my English  

lessons well you don't need my WhatsApp number  you can just watch videos right here on YouTube  

the to says greetings from Brazil hello Drew and  again how much do you charge me the panel to beat  

my English to be fly I don't know what exactly  you're saying but if you'd like to learn more  

about courses uh and what we offer you can click  on the links in the description below H says why  

do you live in or why are you you would say why  do you live in Japan or why are you you living  

in Japan I came here originally to study Japanese  gardening uh and I don't do anything with that now  

unfortunately but I would like to I enjoy teaching  and spend all my time doing that let's see uh go  

says a of austo nice and Zab says thank you for  your help from Somalia uh good basic techniques  

here I learned a lot of tricks and tips rules  to improve my English makes me sense your method  

of teaching glad to hear Alexander jumping to  conclusions would be like an irrational way of  

getting ahead of yourself maybe yeah I mean you  so yes like you can see you can see how they're  

how they're connected and basically I'm I'm kind  of jumping to particular conclusions about this  

but the idea of getting ahead of yourself usually  means you're thinking about multiple steps and  

that's the that's the the kind of bigger picture  difference about these things so uh I could even  

be getting ahead of myself if I'm if someone is  explaining something to me and I'm thinking like  

oh we got this and then like then we can do this  thing and that thing but other people are maybe  

they don't understand it yet I would say whoa whoa  whoa like you're correct but you're getting ahead  

of the class or you're getting ahead of yourself  just wait let me make sure I explain everything so  

it's not necessarily an irrational thing in that  situation or it's not even incorrect uh it's just  

wait and just take your time and and hopefully uh  you understand that thing better by by by spending  

a little bit more time listening or thinking about  that all right uh bro says you're so patient well  

I try let's see always jump to conclusions  of judging me yes so you could use it that  

way and marcelian says hello I'm from Brazil I'm  intermediate not Advanced I understand so much but  

sometimes I can't speak fluently yes it's probably  because you have some kind of doubt uh about  

whatever pronunciation or vocabulary or something  like that yes it's truth is better than AI  

thank you sir I get my answer let's see I says  good morning from Morocco gotcha I appreciate it  

all right uh let's very quickly cover some other  things I'm already gone for about 45 minutes or  

40 about 45 minutes so just some other things I  say to myself but look at that you're getting an  

extra vocabulary lesson today lots of good  useful Expressions here I like that the uh  

jump to conclusions versus uh versus uh what  was that getting ahead of yourself it's always  

interesting things here and there are always  more questions to ask uh let's see uh this is  

another interesting situation uh and so this is  talking about um like motivation and if I try to  

do something like especially with working out so  if I'm exercising or I'm trying to read or study  

and I want to push myself just a little bit here  are some phrases I might use in that situation  

so let's say I'm running so I'm out uh doing a  run and I I'm almost finished but I think well I

might so might let me find a better way to hold  this I might as well and then I might as well  

continue or I might as well do one more lap or  run around one more time okay another way to say  

this is I'm already this I've got this like  super thick marker so it's harder to dra but  

this is the the I guess the best marker to use  all have to use the edge of the marker the thin  

Edge so I'm already here so so if I'm exercising  and I've already done I don't know 10 push-ups or  

something well I might as well do one more all  right so I'm already here I'm already here so I  

should just try one one more add an additional  one to that okay so when I'm talking to myself  

I'm trying to encourage or motivate myself it's  like well you already did did this you're you're  

studying a little bit you know try to spend five  more minutes you can't spend five more minutes  

spend five more minutes reviewing something all  right so if you've watched a few videos about  

something you're you're trying to learn how to do  something and you don't quite get it don't stop  

spend that extra time you're already doing it so  I might as well I should just continue all right  

I should just keep going all right now this is  an interesting thing because it's also using a uh  

it's I'm I'm explaining it as a positive situation  but you could use it as a negative situation as  

well so maybe like uh I lost my job today so  I might as well eat uh a bunch of ice cream or  

something like I want to make myself feel better  or uh I don't know it's raining today so I might  

as well sleep a little bit longer instead of wake  up and exercising or doing something like that all  

right so these are the thoughts that go through  your head but obviously you can use these in  

conversations as well so like if I'm recommending  someone else do something like you're already here  

you might as well continue so it's a good idea or  you should do something all right so I'm already  

here uh you might as well continue to do something  but again we hear how this Blends together I might  

as well I might as well so that T here becomes  more of a D sound I might as well might as well  

I might as well I might as well so I might as well  keep going like I should it's a good idea if I do  

do that thing and so I'm encouraging you also try  not to think about the individual words and and  

and logically try to figure it out first just try  to understand the whole phrase as a unit and think  

about when people say that so like I might as  well keep going so I've already been running for  

5 minutes I I still have a bit of energy left  I might as well do something I might as well  

continue doing that thing and then like later if  you want you can go back and try to figure out why  

the words are organized the way they do but often  natives aren't thinking about the vocabulary that  

way we just have a particular unit it's like a  communication pattern and natives just understand  

these because they've heard them so many times  all right so I might as well continue to do  

something all right I might as well all right  uh last thing here this is another very common

situation cover this very quickly also you can  find these uh examples I've given you some example  

sentences if you look in the description below  this video you will find those as well uh very  

simple thing I bet so we talked at the beginning  of this video about possibilities uh and I wanted  

to give you one more example of something where  you're wondering like I wonder if something might  

work uh but I bet so this is another way of saying  I guess or what if like we talked about at the  

beginning of this video uh but I bet is a really  common very short very easy thing to remember  

just like you're placing a bet uh if you're you  know playing poker or black blackjack or gambling  

or something like that you're guessing you're  betting that something might happen so there's  

a probability that something might happen I bet  something will work all right so if I'm thinking  

about uh a situation like maybe something will  happen I'm looking at the clouds and I think I  

bet it will rain today I bet there will be rain  I bet it's going to be a rainy day you notice I'm  

giving you different examples of how you might  say that because there's not just one way to say  

that so I bet it's going to rain I bet we'll have  rain today I'll bet it's going to be a rainy day  

okay so I bet I bet something or I bet my friend  is going to be late because he's always or often  

late I bet he's going to be late all right so  instead of if you're looking for a very simple  

way either you're thinking about this or you're  speaking with someone else you're talking about  

a guess or a probability you're saying there's a  good chance that something will happen I bet all  

right so I bet something happens all right so I  bet it will rain I bet my friend will be late I  

bet uh I don't know I bet like these you know  two people are are having a fight or something  

like that Isaiah I uh I I bet there's going to be  trouble I bet and there's going to be trouble so I  

think or I believe or I'm guessing that's the kind  of thing you would say but it's so short so easy  

and very commonly used because of that all right  so I bet so I bet you can remember this expression  

I bet you can I bet you can do it I often use this  with my kids when they're saying well I don't know  

if I can do that I can do that I say I bet you can  I bet you can there's a good chance you can do it  

I bet all right very common expression very useful  all right let me check last comments over here and  

make sure everybody understands but I bet I bet  you guys got it over here all right Alexander says  

gotcha I appreciate it and aa aa aa from Morocco  again thank you sir I think I got that one already  

all right uh barago says I am and says I took day  off even though we haven't set the travel dates  

yet I took day off I guess I got ahead of myself  yes you you could use it in that way too but you  

could say like like I took days off even though we  we haven't set the travel dates or we haven't said  

the travel dates yet you could say both of those  so I guess I got ahead of myself yes so again  

you're you're doing something before maybe you  should so maybe it actually is a good idea and you  

know it it uh it makes sense to do something like  that like if you're trying to plan a vacation trip  

and you don't book the tickets but you already I  don't know you tell your boss or you ask your boss  

can I have some time off or can I get some days  off for that and Baro again wish me luck guys I  

applyed for a job well good luck uh let's see I  might be serious of my choices I might be serious  

of my choices I don't know what that's referring  to I might be getting a job I bet you'll get it  

I bet you'll get it let's see after discussing it  we reached ah glad to hear it so I bet the meeting  

toor will be good y there you go good usage of  it I bet the conclusion that we should wait a  

bit longer yeah meeting sorry no that's fine yeah  so I bet I bet the meeting yeah uh tomorrow will  

be good all right it looks like people got it  though uh but hopefully you guys see uh this  

is great vocabulary that you can use even when  you're talking with yourself because often natives  

will'll be doing that and we'll think about things  and these words will just come into our minds and  

if you train yourself in the same way by getting  exposed to lots of examples of the vocabulary if  

you watch what natives are saying in particular  situations again this is what we do in fluent for  

Life showing you lots of examples of how natives  are responding to things or responding to each  

other what they say when they feel a certain thing  uh but if you get enough examples then the doubt  

will disappear because you'll know how to express  yourself the same way a native does all right  

but if you have any questions uh you can always  email us at info@ English anyone.com if you have  

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all right any final questions here let's see all  right well it looks like getting some uh love from  

E mcra about the the potential job opportunity  so hopefully that works out well for you and kigo  

says thank you very much well have a fantastic  day everyone and I will see you next time bye-bye