How to talk about your friends in English

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Would you like to be my friend please be my friend?
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That's weird. No. Thank you
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today's lesson is going to be about
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friends
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Do you have any friends?
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I hope so
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It's very very very strange
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In English to ask someone or you be my friend
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That's very strange. So you can say to people
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Hello
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You can tell them your name
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But please don't ask them can I be your friend because it's very very strange if we were children
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That'll be great, and I'd say yeah sure let's hang out
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But we are not children. I'm not a child anymore and
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Viewers, I don't know if you are children or not if you were a child. I hope you make lots of friends
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Friends you love them
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today, I'm going to teach you a lot of
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Things that I hear people making mistakes that are so funny. It makes me laugh, I
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Don't want you to make these mistakes. I want to help you. I want to correct your mistakes because it can be so
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Embarrassing and people will laugh at you, and you have no idea. Why?
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Why are people laughing at me so the very very first sentence is?
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Do you want to play with me?
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Now maybe some of you are laughing some of you are giggling because you know
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What this sentence means when we are adults if you use the word?
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play when you were an adult it means to have sex or
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to do sexual
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not just intercourse so if I said to someone on the street, or if I called my friend
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And I said hi, how are you friends?
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Do you want to play with me?
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they'd either say yes or no and
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That would be a very fun time. Maybe so you
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Have to remember that play
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Implies
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sex
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Now if you want to have sex with your friends, that's your choice
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But I don't recommend it what you want to do is you can ask your friends?
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Do you want to?
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Hang
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out
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with me
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So all you're going to do in this sentence is you're going to replace the word
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Play with hangouts
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This is slang you're learning slang if I said this to my mother hey, mom would you like to hang out?
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She'd understand me, but she would use more a word like
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Vivid Older people would say my friend came to visit me yesterday
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They would not say I played with my friend yesterday that would be strange for your mother maybe
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so this sentence is
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Hilarious if you understand what I just taught you this sentence is I?
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played with my grandma or
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grandmother
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this is
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the short form
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Of grandmother now people might say grandma Gran Granny
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It's up to you, but if you said to someone hey last night, I played with my grandmother oh
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Mel's will Drop and
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People will not want to be your friend anymore
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so what you're going to do is you're going to use the past tense of
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hang out
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All we're doing is changing this word into the past tense does anyone know what it is the past tense of hang is
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hung oh
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So you're Gonna Say I?
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hung out
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with my grandma
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Good awesome. We had some tea
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Mm-Hmm
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The next word that I hear people using when they talk about their friends is
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Making an appointment or having an appointment
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This is wrong. Okay an appointment. We only use for anything to do with
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business, or
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if you have to go to the doctor or
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God Forbid a lawyer
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Anything that you have to pay the person to do
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You're gonna make an appointment. If you need to get your hair cut you're gonna make an appointment because it's a business
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with your friends
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Maybe you do not have to pay them
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to hang out with you, so
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instead of saying an appointment
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You're gonna say again hang out or you can say plan you can say I have a plan
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with my friends
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The next sentence or word that a lot of people misuse is
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the verb meet
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the past tense met I
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Will hear people say I met you at the mall yesterday
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No, you didn't
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Meet or met is only used for the very very first time
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You are introduced to someone
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so if I'm
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Meeting someone for the very first time I can say I met you five years ago and you
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Had short hair it is only for the first
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time
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You meet someone so again you're going to use the word hang out or you can use
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Or in the past tense saw it's natural to say I
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saw you
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Yesterday at the mall or I'm going to see you okay? We don't say I'm going to meet you
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when we want to do it for the
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Umpteenth time we say in the past. I saw you I saw you yesterday
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Not I met you yesterday
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It's wrong
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the next one the last one
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I've already told you about his visit visit
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basically means the same as
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Hang
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out we always hang out with
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someone okay
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My mother would say I visited my friend. I would say I'm going to hang out or past tense
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I hung out the past tense of visits. It's a regular idi verb is
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Visited so I could say I visited my friend's house
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We hung out?
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We did not play I
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Hope you have a good time
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meeting your friends
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Having fun, and maybe playing goodbye
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you
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