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

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English with Veronika Mark


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hello guys and welcome back to my YouTube  channel today I want to share one secret  
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that helped me learn English to a very high  level guys if I had to name one thing that  
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helped me become more confident interacting with  native speakers and improved my fluency overall  
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it's probably going to be learning and using  phrasal verbs and idioms correctly honestly  
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I understand your pain guys there are so many  idioms and phrasal verbs that people use all  
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the time and your teachers are probably always  telling you you have to learn phrasal verbs you  
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have to learn idioms but your question is always  probably where do I find them and how do I know  
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that this expression is actually a good one and  luckily guess you subscribe to my channel you  
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know me you're watching this video and I'm  here to help so let's move on to the first  
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expression to black out and the color here is  black it means to faint and people use it a lot  
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for example mom is really afraid of blood and  she always blacks out at the side of it which  
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is actually true guys my mom is really afraid  of blood and she's always like on the point  
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blacking out if she sees blood and see what  I did here I used the example that relates  
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to my life and this is something that I always  recommend you guys do if you can't remember an  
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expression if you can't remember a word always  try to create an example that is relatable to  
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you right it can be about you about your family  member about your friends about your colleagues  
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it has to be something you'll remember and we  tend to remember things that are important to  
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us talking about other things that can be black do  you know the expression Black Sheep means if the  
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answer is no make sure to check out this video  because there I explain its definitions do you  
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remember anything before you blacked out moving on  to our second expression born with a silver spoon  
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in your mouth and you're probably wondering where  is the color here this idiom is too long and the  
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color here is silver Guys Silver Spoon it means  to be born into a rich family where everyone is  
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doing everything for you and you don't need to  care about anything saying everything is done  
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for you for example he hasn't worked a day in  his life he was born with a silver spoon in his  
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mouth so he was born into a rich family and he  didn't even need to work because everyone around  
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him was providing for him Joe was born with the  silver spoon in his mouth and guys I think one  
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of the things that you do a lot at your job or in  your studies is making PowerPoint presentations  
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but what if I tell you that you can make those  presentations more eye-catching with the tool  
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called democrator democrator is an all-in-one  screen recorder and video editor it can offer a  
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variety of tools and functions and one place that  all existing products have today for example you  
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can record anything you want on your computer  screen and the advantage of using democrator is  
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that it allows you to use drawing tools scheduled  recordings and even do dual monitor recordings so  
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let me show you how I use democrator by using a  presentation I made for one of my projects so one  
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once you've downloaded democrator just hit start a  record project then make sure to check that you're  
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using the correct microphone that your webcam is  on and if everything is okay choose the area you  
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actually want to screen record I think I'm gonna  just choose my whole screen and then press record  
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I love using democrator for creating online  courses or explaining something to my students  
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for example this is a presentation I use for  my speaking club and while walking my students  
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through our course curriculum I can use different  features for example I can use this Arrow feature  
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and point in something for example week one iPhone  and week one week two I appointed week two if I  
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want to draw my students attention on a specific  tool I can use the spotlight tool once you're  
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done with recording all you need to do is press  end recording after it's been imported you can  
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start editing your file and this is where the fun  begins you can use different effects like you can  
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try to remove your background able to blur your  background also you can add captions something  
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that I really really like finally you can use  different stickers like the Subscribe button  
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or this cute snail and for those of you who are  watching my video right now I have a special link  
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you should use to download demo Creator and start  working on your next project now let's continue  
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talking about idioms sorry I just got too excited  talking about democrator but our next idiom is to  
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catch someone red-handed if you catch someone  red-handed it means that you catch someone in  
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the process of doing something wrong or illegal  and here I could come up with some formal sentence  
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as an example for you guys but I think I'm gonna  talk about something else imagine you made a cake  
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and it's in the fridge and you told your kids you  can't eat it today because it's for tomorrow and  
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then you come back into the kitchen and you see  your kid eating the cake and get say oh my God  
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I just caught you around here and hit it you're  eating the cake if someone is doing something you  
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told them not to do you can say I just caught you  red-handed We're Gonna Catch You redundant one day  
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then we'll see how human you are the fourth  expression is golden opportunity which means  
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the perfect chance the perfect opportunity for  example by not investing my money into Bitcoin  
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in 2010 I missed a golden opportunity to become  a millionaire because the price of Bitcoin in  
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2010 was under one dollar and right now the price  is over 20 000 which is crazy how can you think  
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of giving up a golden opportunity that you've  worked so hard for the next expression is to give  
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the green light which means to give permission  to do something when you see the traffic light  
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turn green you know that you can go for example I  really want to start working on this new project  
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I'm just waiting for my boss to give me the green  light you got the green light to burn expression  
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number six that I use pretty often is once in a  blue moon which means not very often almost never  
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for example my best friend moved abroad a year ago  so now we see each other once in a blue moon what  
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about you guys person in your life you see once  in a blue moon and why an opportunity like this  
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comes along once in a blue moon expression  number seven has the color of the T-shirt  
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I'm wearing today and now it's not pink it's  rose rose colored glasses so if you're wearing  
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rose-colored glasses it means that you have an  unrealistically positive opinion about something  
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for example many people imagine the United States  with rose-colored glasses they only see the great  
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things about the United States without seeing  all the disadvantages of living there parents  
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they see their kids with rose-colored glasses  expression number eight or is it eight okay that's
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okay yeah fly isn't lie would tell to protect  people's feelings for example we told Grandma  
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that her cake was delicious which was actually a  white lie do you guys think a white lie should be  
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considered a lie and should be viewed as something  more serious what do you think let me know in the  
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comments and have you ever told a white lie to  someone for example your friend is asking you  
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how do I look and you you know that this outfit  doesn't really look that great on them and you  
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say yes it looks amazing but in reality it's a  white lie have you had this experience before let  
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me know in the comments it's a little lie a little  white lie to protect the bigger truth expression  
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number nine is gray area if something is a gray  area it has no clear rule or answer and also guys  
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make sure to spell this word correctly the word  great because in British English we spell it with  
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the letter e but in American English would spell  it with the letter A so make sure to be careful  
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here for example the question of whether parents  should allow their children to use cell phones is  
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a gray area some parents allow their kids to use  phones While others think it's not the best choice  
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that's not a gray area that's theft your thief and  our last expression is show your true colors which  
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means show your real self show who you really are  and this expression is usually used in a negative  
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way he seemed nice at first but when we started to  discuss politics he showed his true colors meaning  
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he wasn't that nice anymore maybe his political  stance was different from yours and you couldn't  
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agree with him so you know your impression of  him changed completely and your true colors shine  
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through so I think that's it for this video guys  I hope you liked it I hope you found it useful  
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and I really really hope you'll be using all of  these expressions and idioms while talking to  
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other people in English just a quick reminder to  use the link down below to check out democrator  
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and make beautiful presentations and videos and  thank you guys so much for watching this video  
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