Conversation Skills - Learn new words and keep a conversation going!

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English with Ronnie


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full crew has this ever happened to you
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you are having a conversation with someone and all of a sudden your
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conversation dies a miserable death of stench e bad conversation
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why did that conversation die
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I ask you there's probably two very good reasons why your conversation has died
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the first one is that you are too shy or too embarrassed to ask a person about
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new vocabulary we are living in such a time as we have new slang old slang new
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vocabulary old vocabulary around us all the time sometimes my mother will say a
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word
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and I will have no idea what the word means because it's either British
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English or really old-fashioned or old school
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on the other hand if you're talking to native Canadian speakers are native
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English speakers they might throw some slang at you
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and you have no idea what they're saying
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for example if someone said I have to go take a dump
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yeah what a dump truck you're taking a dump truck
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so instead of stopping the conversation with the person who has to take a dump
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you're going to realize that you have just earned some new exciting vocabulary
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this is a common occurrence in a conversation
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two people will be talking area hey man -
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one person will say a new word and the other person will stop talking because
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they don't want to look stupid and just ask the person to for one very simple
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question
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what's that so if i was talking to someone or you were talking to me and I
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said excuse me I have to take a dump
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I'll be right back i'm back instead of not talking to me anymore
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what you're going to do is you're going to ask me Ronnie what take a dump and
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does it take a dump means i have to go to the washroom
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I'll be right back
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you can use this with one word or a phrase like i have used take a dump is
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slang
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it's usually used with when men speak to two girls you can see it - it doesn't
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matter
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take a dump basically means you have to go number two
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there's going to be some poo it's usually not polite to mention two people
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my name is Ronnie nice to meet you I gotta take a dump it's better to be more
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polite and say I have to go to the washer and we don't care what you're
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doing there
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or do we the second thing you can say what does the word mean
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ok or the phrase me these two expressions are the same
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let's imagine that I was telling you about my adventures in Mexico and that's
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imagine that I went to a beach in Mexico and I saw a donkey and you have no idea
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what a donkey is so instead of going huh
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or the other thing that people do is they go donkey donkey donkey donkey
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donkey
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I then think one you did not hear me say donkey or two
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you have no idea what I'm talking about
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so instead of repeating the word you don't know
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donkey donkey donkey literally asked the person the question what's donkey or
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what does donkey mean
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oh it's soon of use
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you have asked them the question they realize that you don't understand some
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new vocabulary people will try to help you
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maybe they want most people want to teach you new slang new vocabulary
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they want to help you so instead of closing off running away
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what you're going to do is you're going to ask them what's this word mean or
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what does it mean
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ok you cannot say what does mean donkey
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I hear a lot of my English students saying teacher
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what donkey mean does you cannot change the structure of the sentence
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this is very easy it's one word what's the mystery word
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ok so practice if someone throws out some new slang new vocabulary don't be
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afraid come back with these two words conversation skills
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second thing this happens to me so i can imagine it will happen to you
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maybe you are learning English
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maybe you are learning how to communicate with people at a new job
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I don't know what are you doing what you're going to do is you know the
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English word
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you know what you know this word you notice where you've heard this word
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before but you don't remember the english word or you don't know the word
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whatsoever
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you know the word in your language but you have not learned the translation
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into english language
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this is where the fun begins so for the second reason a you don't know the word
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at all or you don't remember the english word what you're going to do you get to
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play a game with
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the person you're talking to yes you're going to take all of the vocabulary
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adjectives and verbs that you know you're going to play a game with the
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person
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this game is called guess the word you're going to start the game by saying
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a question you're going to say how do you say you are going to use all of your
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vocabulary and you're going to describe the word that you don't know or don't
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remember
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for example i can say how do you say the food and that you sometimes eat at the
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movies and it's it's white and yellow
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sometimes we put butter on lookbook or popcorn your friends I got popcorn
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popcorn
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you have just remembered or learn the word that you couldn't do the next
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phrase you can say to the people or the person
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what do you call again these two words are the same so these two sentences are
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exactly the same
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you're going to use this or this
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they're the same words same sentences again you're going to play the game with
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the people i'd like to put out a warning as well
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some people are stupid so be careful
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some people you could describe the word and they still have no idea
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that's when you get out your dictionary and leave and the next sentence
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what do you call again these two of the same i can say what do you call the
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animal that looks like a horse but it's a little smaller
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it has long ears and I can ride the animal
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I think the animal was in Shrek
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you know the movie Shrek Oh donkey donkey your friend or the person you're
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talking to know is the movie Shrek and tells you because of your beautiful
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description that mystery word is donkey
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so the next time you are having a conversation with someone
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maybe he was a native speaker or someone who you're talking to for the first time
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and you do not understand them or you're having a conversation breakdown
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do not panic remember ask them about new vocabulary and ask them play our
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beautiful game
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ask them to just to talk about the word you're going to talk about the word and
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they will tell you your magic answer if you would like to do a quiz on this go
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to invade com
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take the quiz bye
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