Native English Speakers Never Say These 6 Things | Go Natural English

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Hi, I'm Gabby from gonaturalenglish.com where you can learn English fluency and confident communication
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مرحبا..أنا غابي..من گوناچرال انگلش
حيث يمكنكم تعلم تحدث الانكليزية بطلاقة و التواصل بثقة
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Let's talk about six things that native English speakers never say
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لنتحدث عن ستة اشياء لا يقولها الناطقون بالانكليزية كلغة أم
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This is a guide to help English language learners like you to sound more natural more
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هذا دليل لمساعدة متعلمي الانكليزية كحضراتكم
ليبدون اكثر طبيعية..اكثر قربا لطريقة ناطقي اللغة الام
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Native-like and I chose these six things based on real-life
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و اخترت هذه الاشياء الستة استنادا الى اللغة اليومية المحكية
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conversations and things that
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Non-native English speakers or English learners. Say to me all the time. So I know that
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some people might disagree with me on these things that
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native English speakers, never say so
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let me just abridge the title just a little bit and say these are six things that
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native English speakers will rarely
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ever say and it's just not common or
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Natural it's not
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Normal to hear native English speakers say this that said I am an American English speaker and I teach American English
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So these are quite
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cultural things as well
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They're actually
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Grammatically, correct every single one of them. So the problem is not
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Grammar the problem with these phrases is that they're just not
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Drill normal or culturally, correct. So let's begin
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Number one. May I practice my English with you? Obviously?
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if you're a native speaker, you don't need to practice your English because it's a skill that you already have and
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most importantly you realize that English is a tool that you use every day to
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communicate not to practice English for English's sake but to use English in order to
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communicate to connect to convey information
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and to make friends so I highly suggest
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That instead of asking. Can I practice my English with you that you approach?
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Connecting with other English speakers in a more natural friendly way
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do not view other English speakers as
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Potential practice partners or people that should teach you English
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Unless you're actually
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working with a tutor or a teacher other English speakers are not
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Necessarily interested in just practicing to help you improve your English. They are interested however in
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Connecting with you if you have a common interest
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Or perhaps a common career or a hobby
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so look for those common threads between you and people who happen to speak English and
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you'll be able to practice your English in an
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indirect way when you simply connect with people who are interested in the things as you
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Okay, number two. I am fine. Thank you. And you?
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I
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Know some people say this in English
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But it sounds to me very stilted and unnatural because it's not very common
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It's quite rare to hear this it does get used but I used to hear this
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99% of the time in
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99% of the conversations that I had when I was teaching English in Japan. I don't know. I don't know if there's a
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Certain textbook series that teaches this to everyone in Japan but everyone and not to pick on my Japanese students
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But I spent three years teaching in Japan. So I have a lot of experience there and people would always
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Japanese English learners would always use this. I am fine. Thank you and you
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And it's just not used as much in the United States. In fact, it almost sounds too
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Formal to me because with my colleagues and friends we use a variety of greetings. Like, how are you? How are you doing?
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How are you today? How's it going? But I don't remember the last time that I've said I am fine
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Thank you and you to respond, you know normal responses would be great. How are you or
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Fine what's going on or I'm good what's going on with you?
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awesome
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how about you so even how about you or how about you is a little bit more common than and you
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so, what do you think tell me in the comments if you
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Hear native English speakers saying these phrases number three. How do you do?
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How do you do? This is definitely not American English
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I don't think I've ever heard an American English speaker use this unless they were
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Imitating a British English speaker or trying to be funny. It's just not common
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I don't know is this more common in England or in other countries? I can tell you for sure
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American English speakers do not ask. How do you do? The only time that you'll hear an American English speaker asking?
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How do you do is if there's more words in the sentence, like how do you do that or?
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How do you do your hair? It looks great, or
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How do you do your homework?
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We never ask simply. How do you do to ask someone? How are you? Okay number four in general
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Negative observations are just not really socially savvy so so many times I've had
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students and even international friends
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just directly tell me negative observations about my appearance and
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It's not normal for me. So it was really shocking they would just say wow. You look really tired or
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You look hungover, or you're looking a little fat and for me as an American
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this is
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So shocking because people don't normally comment on your appearance
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Unless they're your friend. So I'm talking about
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Acquaintances or people you just met or people that you don't know very well so family members close friends
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We might say like she look a little tired
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Are you okay? But I don't think I would even tell my best friend if
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She looked fat to be honest because it's like it's like a big insult. I
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just it's you know, it was really shocking for me when I
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in
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Other countries and people would just tell me straight up
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Directly, oh, you're looking a little fat or like in Spanish. There's this word gordita. Like wow, did that gordita?
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Oh great good for you that we'll need that
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Banker deed, that would be like, excuse me
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I'm a little fat but apparently in Spanish and
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In other cultures, this could be a good thing in American culture unless you want to offend someone I would not
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Behind you to tell them they're looking a little fat
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Number five. Are you married? I get asked this question a lot and
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If you've just met someone it's really direct. So any kind of personal question
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Are you married? Are you single?
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Are you rich? I don't know like weird. What street do you live on?
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It's a little too personal if you don't know the person like if you haven't met with them several times
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I guess it's more common in other cultures to ask
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Directly straight away if someone is married, maybe it's like getting it out of the way to know how to interact with each other
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I've had so many Buber drivers ask me if I'm married and it makes me really uncomfortable
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Because I'm like, I'm just here for a ride to the airport. Didn't want to date you
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So why are you asking if I'm married so for me?
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It's really strange and in American culture in general
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If I could be a representative of American culture here since I am American
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It's just not normal to ask someone if they're married if you don't know them already
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So like if you just met someone like if they're your uber passenger or your uber driver
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not just a passenger if they're your uber passenger or your driver, or maybe
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someone you just met it's
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Cafe or something
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Don't ask if they're married there's some indirect ways that you could kind of figure out if they're married
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You could maybe ask like, oh are you?
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here with your
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Husband or boyfriend. I mean even that sounds pretty direct
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so in American culture
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We don't really ask if someone's married or a single until we know them a little bit so that might feel strange to you
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But that's just how it is
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Also in this category of personal questions would be age. It's
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totally
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Not normal to ask someone how old their unless your filling out
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Some special paperwork like for your doctor and they need to know your age
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We don't ask people how old they are if we just met them similarly
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We don't tell people how old we are if we just met then I remember I had an English class
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I mean, I was teaching an English class where there were people from all over the world and we had to introduce ourselves and
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all the students there adult students, they all started saying their pages and it just felt so weird to me because
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In the United States American students would not
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share their age in a self-introduction
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in fact in job interviews
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It's illegal to ask someone how old they are or if they're married or personal details
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Like that because it's discrimination and finally number six
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How much rent do you pay?
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So this could be lumped in with the personal questions that I just talked about
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But this is more of a money question
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So any question that's directly related to money
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Like how much do you make or how much rent do you pay or how much did you pay for your car?
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questions like this are
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not
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Appropriate culturally in the u.s. So native speakers
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don't ask
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Unless you already know the person so the key here is how close are you to the person?
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Are they really your friend and you had several conversations with them have they asked to use some personal details?
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You could ask is it? Okay if I ask you something personal?
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Before you ask a money question or a personal question
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if you really really want to know otherwise
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We're just nice to wait because it just feels like an invasion of privacy to an American if you ask how much they paid for
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something
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Yes, there's exceptions
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If you're in a situation when people are openly talking about money
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Like if you're at a business conference or something, I don't know
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Yeah, there's exceptions
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But in general when you just meet someone for the first time stay away from questions about money
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Personal information and that guy you are married and
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Appearance or especially negative points about their appearance
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Don't say how do you do don't say I am fine? Thank you and you and
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if you want to practice your English don't ask to practice your English just talk to people and
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Preferably not with any of these questions that I just shared with you because these are things that native English speakers
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Just don't generally say so. Thank you so much for watching
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