One Secret That Made Me Fluent | Learn 10 Advanced Idioms in English to Sound Like a Native Speaker

hello guys and welcome back to my YouTube  channel today I want to share one secret  

that helped me learn English to a very high  level guys if I had to name one thing that  

helped me become more confident interacting with  native speakers and improved my fluency overall  

it's probably going to be learning and using  phrasal verbs and idioms correctly honestly  

I understand your pain guys there are so many  idioms and phrasal verbs that people use all  

the time and your teachers are probably always  telling you you have to learn phrasal verbs you  

have to learn idioms but your question is always  probably where do I find them and how do I know  

that this expression is actually a good one and  luckily guess you subscribe to my channel you  

know me you're watching this video and I'm  here to help so let's move on to the first  

expression to black out and the color here is  black it means to faint and people use it a lot  

for example mom is really afraid of blood and  she always blacks out at the side of it which  

is actually true guys my mom is really afraid  of blood and she's always like on the point  

blacking out if she sees blood and see what  I did here I used the example that relates  

to my life and this is something that I always  recommend you guys do if you can't remember an  

expression if you can't remember a word always  try to create an example that is relatable to  

you right it can be about you about your family  member about your friends about your colleagues  

it has to be something you'll remember and we  tend to remember things that are important to  

us talking about other things that can be black do  you know the expression Black Sheep means if the  

answer is no make sure to check out this video  because there I explain its definitions do you  

remember anything before you blacked out moving on  to our second expression born with a silver spoon  

in your mouth and you're probably wondering where  is the color here this idiom is too long and the  

color here is silver Guys Silver Spoon it means  to be born into a rich family where everyone is  

doing everything for you and you don't need to  care about anything saying everything is done  

for you for example he hasn't worked a day in  his life he was born with a silver spoon in his  

mouth so he was born into a rich family and he  didn't even need to work because everyone around  

him was providing for him Joe was born with the  silver spoon in his mouth and guys I think one  

of the things that you do a lot at your job or in  your studies is making PowerPoint presentations  

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can record anything you want on your computer  screen and the advantage of using democrator is  

that it allows you to use drawing tools scheduled  recordings and even do dual monitor recordings so  

let me show you how I use democrator by using a  presentation I made for one of my projects so one  

once you've downloaded democrator just hit start a  record project then make sure to check that you're  

using the correct microphone that your webcam is  on and if everything is okay choose the area you  

actually want to screen record I think I'm gonna  just choose my whole screen and then press record  

I love using democrator for creating online  courses or explaining something to my students  

for example this is a presentation I use for  my speaking club and while walking my students  

through our course curriculum I can use different  features for example I can use this Arrow feature  

and point in something for example week one iPhone  and week one week two I appointed week two if I  

want to draw my students attention on a specific  tool I can use the spotlight tool once you're  

done with recording all you need to do is press  end recording after it's been imported you can  

start editing your file and this is where the fun  begins you can use different effects like you can  

try to remove your background able to blur your  background also you can add captions something  

that I really really like finally you can use  different stickers like the Subscribe button  

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talking about idioms sorry I just got too excited  talking about democrator but our next idiom is to  

catch someone red-handed if you catch someone  red-handed it means that you catch someone in  

the process of doing something wrong or illegal  and here I could come up with some formal sentence  

as an example for you guys but I think I'm gonna  talk about something else imagine you made a cake  

and it's in the fridge and you told your kids you  can't eat it today because it's for tomorrow and  

then you come back into the kitchen and you see  your kid eating the cake and get say oh my God  

I just caught you around here and hit it you're  eating the cake if someone is doing something you  

told them not to do you can say I just caught you  red-handed We're Gonna Catch You redundant one day  

then we'll see how human you are the fourth  expression is golden opportunity which means  

the perfect chance the perfect opportunity for  example by not investing my money into Bitcoin  

in 2010 I missed a golden opportunity to become  a millionaire because the price of Bitcoin in  

2010 was under one dollar and right now the price  is over 20 000 which is crazy how can you think  

of giving up a golden opportunity that you've  worked so hard for the next expression is to give  

the green light which means to give permission  to do something when you see the traffic light  

turn green you know that you can go for example I  really want to start working on this new project  

I'm just waiting for my boss to give me the green  light you got the green light to burn expression  

number six that I use pretty often is once in a  blue moon which means not very often almost never  

for example my best friend moved abroad a year ago  so now we see each other once in a blue moon what  

about you guys person in your life you see once  in a blue moon and why an opportunity like this  

comes along once in a blue moon expression  number seven has the color of the T-shirt  

I'm wearing today and now it's not pink it's  rose rose colored glasses so if you're wearing  

rose-colored glasses it means that you have an  unrealistically positive opinion about something  

for example many people imagine the United States  with rose-colored glasses they only see the great  

things about the United States without seeing  all the disadvantages of living there parents  

they see their kids with rose-colored glasses  expression number eight or is it eight okay that's

okay yeah fly isn't lie would tell to protect  people's feelings for example we told Grandma  

that her cake was delicious which was actually a  white lie do you guys think a white lie should be  

considered a lie and should be viewed as something  more serious what do you think let me know in the  

comments and have you ever told a white lie to  someone for example your friend is asking you  

how do I look and you you know that this outfit  doesn't really look that great on them and you  

say yes it looks amazing but in reality it's a  white lie have you had this experience before let  

me know in the comments it's a little lie a little  white lie to protect the bigger truth expression  

number nine is gray area if something is a gray  area it has no clear rule or answer and also guys  

make sure to spell this word correctly the word  great because in British English we spell it with  

the letter e but in American English would spell  it with the letter A so make sure to be careful  

here for example the question of whether parents  should allow their children to use cell phones is  

a gray area some parents allow their kids to use  phones While others think it's not the best choice  

that's not a gray area that's theft your thief and  our last expression is show your true colors which  

means show your real self show who you really are  and this expression is usually used in a negative  

way he seemed nice at first but when we started to  discuss politics he showed his true colors meaning  

he wasn't that nice anymore maybe his political  stance was different from yours and you couldn't  

agree with him so you know your impression of  him changed completely and your true colors shine  

through so I think that's it for this video guys  I hope you liked it I hope you found it useful  

and I really really hope you'll be using all of  these expressions and idioms while talking to  

other people in English just a quick reminder to  use the link down below to check out democrator  

and make beautiful presentations and videos and  thank you guys so much for watching this video