Let’s get going! 10 Casual English Expressions You Can Start Using RIGHT NOW

Hey, everyone. I'm Alex, and you are learning English

with www.engvid.com. That's www.e-n-g-v-i-d.com.

And today, we have an interactive speaking

lesson. So I am going to give you some standard

English questions and sentences, and then tell you their casual English equivalents.

So you can say what people actually say in

informal speaking situations with their friends,

their colleagues, people they meet in a restaurant,

for example. So all of the stuff you have today,

all of the things we learn here today will be

applicable to real life, and I am going to give

you a chance to listen and repeat. So this will

help you with your listening, with your vocabulary

development, and your speaking skills. So let's get started with number one.

Of course, if you want to offer your help to

someone, you can ask them, "Do you need any help?"

Right? So why don't you repeat that after me? Do you need any help?

Okay, good. And yeah, you can feel it flow as

almost one word. Do you need, right? Do you

need any help? Do you need any help? Now, a more

casual way to offer your help to someone is to

say, I'm going to go over here for now, is, "Do

you need a hand?" So, of course, if you are going

to help someone, typically you will use your hand,

or give them something, or help them open a door,

or carry something heavy. So why don't you repeat after me, "Do you need a hand?"

Was that too fast? Okay, I will try it a little slower. "Do you need a hand?"

Okay, good. So next time you see someone who needs help with something,

you can ask them this question, "Hey, do you need a hand with that?" for example.

Okay, next, "I didn't hear you." So, this happens

in conversations where someone says something,

and maybe you're in a noisy environment. Maybe the person's volume is really low,

maybe they are sick, and say, "Sorry, I didn't

hear you. I didn't hear what you said." Now,

you notice I didn't say, "I didn't listen to

you." When you are using the physical ability

of hearing, the verb is "hear". You can also

say, in a casual situation with someone you're

familiar with, comfortable with, "I didn't catch

that." So, you can catch a ball, for example.

You can also catch someone's words, or catch

someone's meaning or message. So, repeat after

me, "I didn't catch that." Okay, and are you catching everything that I am saying?

So, let's continue to number three. If you want to invite a person to your home,

of course, you can say, "Hey, do you want to come

to my house?" And you can add to that question,

"Do you want to come to my house for dinner,

for lunch, to watch a movie?" for example.

A more common casual way to ask a person to come

to your home, or just to come to where you are

right now, is, "Do you want to come over?" So,

here we have, "come over". Remember, "over".

So, they are coming from where they are, this is where you are, and they are coming

over to where you are. So, repeat this

invitation with me, "Do you want to come over?"

And if you are a little more advanced, we will do a faster version of this,

where we say, "Do you want to come over?"

So, listen to me, "Do you want to come over?"

I'm sorry, I know it's a tough one. "Do you

wanna, do you wanna, do you wanna come over?"

Okay, we can work on that. And next, if you

want to express your disbelief, or your shock at

something you saw, something you heard, a piece

of news that you just learned about, of course,

you can say, "I don't believe it." Right? So, this is a very standard thing to say,

"I don't believe it. That can't be true. That's impossible. That's very shocking."

A more casual way, a more casual response and

interjection is to say, "No way!" Right? So,

you can say, "No way" to express your disbelief.

You can also use "no way" to express, like,

a strong refusal to do something. So, if someone

asks you to do something and, you know, you don't

want to do it, like, if they say, "Hey, can you

give me $200 and I will pay you back in three

months?" And say, "No way!" Right? "No!" Like, you

can say, "No way" to refuse someone. You can also

say it in a way that shows your disbelief. So,

again, you see a video and it looks incredible.

You can say, "Whoa, I don't believe it." Or, "No

way!" "No way!" So, repeat after me. I have said

it a lot already. "No way!" And now, let's use the

intonation to show, like, a refusal when you want

to say, "Mm-mm." So, even say the "Mm-mm"

with me. Repeat after me. "Mm-mm." "No way!"

Good. Okay. And next, when you are talking about

the price of something. Something can be cheap,

which means it does not cost a lot of money.

Something can be expensive, which means it costs

a lot of money. Another way to say something is

expensive. Instead of "expensive", you can use the

word "pricey". "Pricey". And you can see the word

"price". So, what is the price? What is the cost?

So, repeat after me. "It's very pricey."

Okay? And you can also say, "It's a little pricey."

So, let's try that one, too. "It's a little pricey."

Okay. Very good. So, "pricey" just means expensive. It costs a lot of money. Next,

if someone asks you, "Hey, where did you put my

bottle?" For example, say, "Oh, it was empty. I

put it in the garbage." Now, if it's a plastic

bottle, it should be in the recycling or something

like that. Just an example. Instead of saying,

"You put something in the garbage." By the way,

"garbage", very Canadian, American. If you travel

to other areas of the world, such as England,

you will probably hear the word "bin". So, I put

it in the bin, the garbage bin, the garbage can,

or just the bin. You can also say the phrasal

verb. The phrasal verb is "throw out". So,

you can say, and repeat after me right away, "I threw it out."

Okay. And here, you can see we have "threw it out". So, we have this, like,

liaison. In French, we say, like, a liaison,

where it sounds like one word, "threw it out",

"threw it out". So, try that one more time

with a smooth pronunciation. "I threw it out."

All right. So, you're connecting the consonants to the vowels, "it out",

"it out", "it out". And you notice I'm using,

like, a flapped "t" here, like, "threw it out",

"it out". It sounds like a "d" almost. In the UK, in England, you can also just say,

"Sorry, I binned it. I binned it. I threw it in the bin. I threw it in the garbage."

So, repeat after me, "I binned it."

Excellent. Next, "let's go", "let's leave". If

you want to start a journey to another place

because you are going home, or maybe you are

going to a concert and you want to encourage

people to move, say, "Okay, let's go. Let's go."

Or, "Let's leave." Okay? If you're leaving a place.

Instead of that, in both situations, you can

say, "Let's get going." So, "get", one of the

most frequently used words in a variety of

contexts in English. In this case, "let's move",

"let's go", "let's leave". So, "let's get going",

this means let's start the process of movement.

Let's start the process of going somewhere. So, repeat after me, "Let's get going."

Okay, good. Let me ask you a question with "get

going", actually. How long does it take you to

get going in the morning? So, this means you're

starting your engine in the morning, like your

body is waking up and, "Oh, what? What's going on?"

Like, does it take you a long time to really get

going in the morning? Or does it take you, you know, a couple of hours to get going?

Do you get going instantly? Do you jump out

of your bed in the morning? So, to get going,

to get started, to move. Is that true? Okay,

this is the next one. Standard question,

"Is that true?" I want to know if it's false,

if it's true, is it a lie? Instead of saying,

"Is that true?" with your friends, if they show

you, like, a video or a piece of news on a phone,

you can also just say, "For real?" Right? "For

real?" It's the "r", because you have "for real",

it sounds like one "r" here. So, try, you

can also say, "for", "for real", "for real",

or "for real". It depends on how you feel at the

moment, basically. So, repeat after me, "For real?"

That's how I say it, that's my intonation. I

always go up like, "For real?" Okay? You can

also say, "For real?" Right? And of course, another

word, I know you can do this in many languages,

you can just say, "Seriously?" Did you repeat?

I didn't tell you to repeat, but I know you did.

In case you didn't, let's do these one more time. Repeat after me, "For real?"

"Seriously?" Like, I want to know if that is true. "I'm kidding", "I'm joking",

or "I'm just kidding", "I'm just joking",

"I'm not being serious", you know, "I'm just

playing", basically. Another way to say, you know, "I'm just joking with you",

or "I'm just kidding", is "I'm just messing",

"I'm just messing with you". So, to mess with

someone means to do something that is not serious

in a way to try to trick them, or make them

think that something is the case when it is not the case. You can say, "No, no, no,

I'm not being... I'm not serious, I'm not serious,

I'm just messing with you." So, you see the word

"mess", right? A room can be clean, a room can

be messy, and you see the word "mess" here,

it's like, "I'm just messing with you", right? I'm

just trying to play with your mind in this case.

So, repeat after me, "I'm just messing with you."

Now, I wouldn't actually say it that way, that sounds a little too polite,

so I would say it like this, "I'm just messing with you."

Okay, now, one more, "let's meet". You can just say "let's meet" at the location,

like, "let's meet at the theater", "let's meet at

the park", "let's meet downtown". Another way to

make "meet" a little bit more casual, and you

probably know this if you have studied phrasal

verbs before, if you just add the word "up", many

phrasal verbs, or many verbs turn into phrasal

verbs and suddenly sound a little more cool,

or cooler, depending on who you ask. And, yeah,

so, instead of "meet", we can say "meet up".

So, here, "let's meet up at the theater". Now,

I sound very staccato, "let's meet up at the theater", so let's make it smoother,

"let's meet up at the theater", "let's meet up

at the theater", "let's meet up at the theater".

Okay, repeat after me, first slow, "let's meet up at the theater".

Okay, and you notice, when you are reading, when you're speaking in English,

you are linking, with phrasal verbs, you're always linking the verb with the particle,

so, "meet up", "meet up", and then "meet up at". And when you have a preposition,

a prepositional phrase like "at the theater",

"in my home", "at six o'clock", "in your house",

it also sounds like one word, so, "meet up at

the theater", "let's meet up at the theater".

Now, you see that "la", "hmm", "hmm", "hmm", "hmm", "hmm", "hmm", "hmm", "hmm".

So, one more time, "let's meet up at the theater".

Okay, fantastic, you're done. We just did an interactive speaking lesson,

you got to practice your listening, you got to

practice your speaking. Do you feel good? Yeah?

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description. So, until next time, can I use one

of these? I haven't thought if I can use one of

these. I didn't catch that, do you want to come

over? No way, it's really pricey. I bend it. Ah,

there we go. I need to get going, so that means

I need to go. So, bye for now. I'm going to get

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