100 English Words for Every Day Life | English Vocabulary

Welcome to JForrest English, I'm Jennifer and today you're going to learn over 100 natural

Expressions to help you

sound just

like a native English speaker. These are common Expressions that you can use every single

day. Let's get started. First let's talk

about

all the different natural ways that you can say bye in English to help you sound like

a native English speaker. You can absolutely.

You say bye or goodbye? It's grammatically correct. The problem is that it sounds very

formal and native speakers. Don't really

say

goodbye. We say goodbye but then we add on a nostril expression. So let's talk about

natural Expressions. You can use in everyday situations like shopping at the grocery store

at a restaurant or dealing with a customer service agent.

You can say bye but then add on take care. Bye take care. Now, you can also say take

care and then by take care. Bye. Or you can simply say take care. It's okay. You can say

have a good and then whatever the time reference is have

a good day morning afternoon evening night or you can say have a good one which is General

to any situation.

Ation have a good one. Bye. Take care. Have a good one. A quick tip is that native speakers

commonly

combine multiple

expressions? Like, I just did. Bye, take care. Have a good night. It's very common to use.

Two, three or more Expressions. So, feel free to combine them. Now you can replace the adjectives.

Good with a different adjective, have a wonderful day. Have a fabulous afternoon, have a fantastic

week

Weekend. You can say bye for now, which implies that you're going to see that person again.

Bye for now, or you can say enjoy the rest of and then the time period, enjoy the rest

of your day, your night, your evening, your weekend, your vacation, enjoy the rest of

your evening. Now I created a free lesson PDF that summarizes. All the greetings from

this lesson. You can look for the link in the description or the comments section below.

Let's talk about saying, goodbye to your friends. The most common is see you soon. See you later.

A common one is also talk soon by talk soon. See you later. I'll see you later. Now, if

you have a future date planned with that friend, you can say see you next weekend. See you

tomorrow. See you at the party and reference that next event. You can add can't wait to

To add some excitement. Can't wait to see you next weekend. Can't wait to see you at

the party. You can say by it was so nice seeing you instead of so nice, you can add. It was

awesome, it was amazing. It was wonderful. It was lovely. And instead of seeing you,

you can add it was lovely catching up. It was lovely having dinner. It was

Lovely chatting. So you can add different alternatives to that expression. If your friend

is getting into a vehicle, you can add by drive safe by have a safe trip. Be well. Now,

if you don't have a next date planned with your friend you can add something to show.

You want to see them again by let's catch up soon. Don't be a stranger.

ER, keep in touch. This is a very common one, by keep in touch, take care. Now, let's talk

about some more informal. Slang Expressions, you can use these with your friends, your

family, or even with your co-workers as long as the, a more informal situation. We commonly

use, Gada got to gotta, I gotta go, I gotta jet, I gotta head out, I gotta take off. I

gotta hit the road.

God. I gotta get going 6:00. I gotta jet. You can also say catch you later, which just

means see you later. Catch you later. And notice I took you and reduced it to ya'. Catch

you later. Catch you later. Sometimes we just say later, later. A fun expression is catch.

You on the flip side, I have no idea what the flip side is. But catch you on the flipside?

Catch you on the flippety-flip. I'll catch on this.

Flippity

flip by some people say, peace out. I personally have never said this, but I do hear it. A

lot from some other speakers, peace out or simply piece. So if that suits your personality,

you can use that one. Peace out. One of the most common informal Expressions is just Sia,

so we take see you later and we reduce it to Sia. Okay. Bye. See ya, Let's talk about

some

You can use with your husband/wife. Boyfriend/Girlfriend significant other spouse life partner. Bye.

My love, my love, and we say it in such a nice voice. Bye my love. I miss you already.

I like that one. I miss you already, even though they're right there, I miss you already.

Buy my love Barbara's. You're already

Now, we can use our pet name for each other by sweetheart. Bye sweetie. By Cuddle Bear

by my darling, or whatever your romantic name for each other is and if you have young kids,

you can use this really cute expression, which goes, see you later alligator. Do you know

what comes next in a while crocodile, but just use that one with young children. Now,

let's talk

about professional Expressions that you can use at work in a job interview, a networking

event or conference by looking forward to seeing you again soon. Looking forward to

working

together. So notice the Jaron verb we need, you can also use a noun looking forward to

the conference looking forward to the project if you're meeting someone for the first time

you can

Say bye. It was a pleasure. It was a pleasure meeting you. It was nice talking to you in

a job interview. We generally Express appreciation. Thank you so much for this opportunity. I

look forward to hearing from you. The interviewer will also Express appreciation. Thank you

so much for coming today. I appreciate your time. Thank you so much for your time. Today.

We'll be in touch

Touch shortly. Notice that expression in touch. We'll be in touch soon, we'll be in touch

shortly. Superiors can add some words of encouragement, I keep up the good work, the great work, the

amazing work, or they might say if you need me, I'm a phone call away by. If you need

me, I'm a phone call away. You know where to find me which is letting you know, you

can just text me.

You know where to find me. I'll be on my phone, you know, where to find me or a comment. One

in the office is by my doors, always open, and that's encouraging you to come back. If

you want to discuss anything, or if you need help, I door is always open. Now, all of these

expressions are designed to help you sound like a native English speaker and if you are

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about becoming a member today. Now, let's move on and talk about all the natural ways

that you can say. I think in English first

Of all, there is nothing wrong with saying, I think I say it all the time but I have many

other expressions in my vocabulary that I use as well, and my choice depends on the

situation. I'm in. So let me share all the different Alternatives that you need. First.

Let's talk about everyday situations. Let's take the statement. It's going to rain.

Rain instead of I think you can say, I'd say it's going to rain. I'd say this is a contraction

of I would I would say but native speakers. Use the contraction. I'd say it's going to

rain. You can add to that. And say, if you ask me, I'd say it's going to rain. They're

exactly the same is just something. Nice. We add on, I believe is going to rain. This

is the

This alternative to I think and it's very commonly used. It seems to

me

that the way I see it to me, it's going to rain. All three are used to really show your

personal opinion. My close friend. Always says, I reckon I reckon is going to rain.

I personally don't say I reckon, but I really love when she says it, I prepared a free lesson.

In PDF that summarizes all the expressions from this lesson so you can find that in the

description and in the comments section. Now you can also say it's going to rain and then

add that's my take on it. This is a very common expression. My take on it. Take is your assessment.

How you see the situation? That's my take on it. So you first share

Your opinion or statement. And then say that's my take on it. You can do the same thing with

the idiom. That's my two cents to sense. That represents opinion is going to rain, that's

my two cents. Now, let me share some more formal Expressions that you would use in a

job interview. A conference, a work meeting or other formal situation.

Ins, let's say your opinion is we should revise. The report revised means make changes to we

should revise the report. Of course, you can say, I think that we should revise the report.

You

could also say, from my perspective, this is a very common one. It sounds quite Advanced.

From my perspective, we should

revise

the report. Of course, you can simply say in

My opinion, in my opinion we should revise the report and that does sound

more formal than saying. I think you could say it's my view that we should revise the

report or it appears to

me that we should revise the report. Keep in mind, the word that is optional. We generally

use it in

written English and we generally exclude it in spoken.

Yes, but that's not a rule. So you could say, it appears to me, we should revise the report

or it appears to me that we should revise the report. Both of these are correct. Let's

talk about some Expressions that

Express

certainty certainty 100%. So let's take our statement, we should promote

John

luggage on. Now, if you're 100% certain

You could say, I'm sure I'm certain, I'm positive.

We

should promote John. You could say, it's obvious that we should promote John. You could replace

obvious with

indisputable,

which means nobody could dispute it. It's indisputable that we should promote John.

That sounds very

firm.

I like that one indisputable.

It's undeniable. It's unquestionable. It's beyond a doubt. We should promote, John, John

must be really awesome. Now, let's say that you do want to express some uncertainty or

some doubt, so it could happen but maybe it won't happen. You can say it's possible that

she's going to get the promotion instead of possible you

I'd say it's probable or it's likely. She's going to get the promotion I figure or I gather

that she's going to get the promotion one. I really like is I have a hunch, I have a

hunch that she's going to get the promotion. When you have a hunch, it's more based on

your intuition rather than external evidence. I have a hunch that she's going to get up.

A promotion. I just have this really good feeling. You could say correct me if I'm wrong

but she's going to get the promotion. But if you say correct me, if I'm wrong, you're

admitting that. You may be wrong. You could also say if I'm not mistaken, she's going

to get the promotion again. There's some doubt there because you could be mistaken, you could

say to the best of my knowledge to the best of my knowledge. She's

Going to get the promotion. Let's talk about some Expressions that sound more

diplomatic.

So diplomatic because you might be introducing an opinion that people don't agree with or

that is the opposite of what

most

people think. So maybe all your co-workers think that John should get the promotion but

you

don't.

So our statement is, John isn't

Ain't a good fit he isn't a good fit to be honest. In all honesty, John isn't a good

fit. Now remember this is something that a lot of people don't agree with so you might

want to say it with

some

regret to be honest. In all honesty, John isn't a good fit, I'm sorry to say it but

John isn't a good

fit

if you want to be more neutral, you could say.

Could argue that John isn't a good fit. Everyone else is saying he

is.

So you want to be more neutral and talk about how he isn't. One could argue that my impression

is that John isn't a

good

fit. I saved my favorite for last to be diplomatic and that's I get what you're saying but

John

isn't a good fit. Now in this case, get means

I understand. So if you want to be more casual informal use get

I get what you're saying but John isn't a good fit. If you want to be more formal, you

can say, I

understand what you're saying but John isn't a good fit. So what's your favorite alternative

to? I think. Share that in the comments below and let's continue on now. Let's talk about

how

To greet someone naturally and you'll learn alternatives to the very robotic. How are

you? I'm fine, which doesn't make you sound very natural. So let's get started. First,

let's talk about why you should add alternatives to your speech. How are you? I'm fine is absolutely

a greeting in English and native speakers use this greeting. But

We use it more as a pleasantry in situations where it's more obligated to interact. For

example, if you're waiting in line at the grocery store, or when you're being served

at a restaurant, the waiter or waitress will say, how are you, and you reply, I'm fine.

It's just an expected interaction but you don't actually tell the person how you are.

So we only really

Use it in these situations when we're interacting with our friends, our family, our co-workers

and more social situations, native speakers. Do not say, how are you? I'm fine. The most

common alternative is to say. How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing?

So notice I'm changing this into the present. Continuous, how are you doing? It's a very

small change, but it

It will make you sound so much more fluent and natural. How are you doing now to answer?

You can say, I'm doing plus adjectives, doing, plus adjectives. I'm plus, adjectives or simply

the adjectives. Now, let's talk about the most common adjectives. You can use to answer

starting from the most positive to the most - I'm doing.

Amazing. I'm awesome doing fantastic. You kidding. I'm fantastic. Incredible. Wonderful.

Super or Never Better. You could also say I've never been better but to shorten that

never better Fiona. I've never been better. And after you answer, you can say and you

what about you? And I were

Are you doing? I created a free lesson PDF that summarizes all the expressions from this

lesson so you can look in the description or comment section for the link to download

the PDF for more neutral adjectives. That mean not amazing but not terrible. You could

say I'm doing pretty good so far, so good doing okay. I'm all right, not too bad, not

bad, not shabby.

I can't complain. I have no complaints I'm hanging in there and sometimes you're just

having a bad day. So let's talk about some more negative adjectives. I've been better,

not the best not great, I'm not too good. Hopefully you only need to use the positive

adjectives, another very common way to say how are you and my personal favorite is

Is how's it going? How's it going to reply? You would say it's going plus adjectives,

going, plus adjectives or simply adjectives and you can use this same adjectives. We've

already discussed. How's it going? It's going great. Thanks. And you, how's it going? Another

comment alternative to. How are you is, what have you been up to?

Lately or recently, what have you been up to lately? Not too much. I've been busy at

work. What about you? The most common way to answer? This is to say, not too much, not

too much but then you can add on what you did. So the past simple or what you've been

doing. So the present perfect continuous. Not too much last week.

I moved. So I've been busy decorating, my new apartment, some more casual alternatives

to this expression, are what's new, what's new and exciting, what's happening? And a

more slang expression is what shaking. So what's new and exciting with you? Well, I

started a new job a few weeks ago, so I've been pretty busy settling.

In. And there's one very common slang expression that you can use as an alternative to this

greeting. And that's what's up, what's up? Or you can even shorten this and simply say

sup sup, if you want to sound like a very cool young native English speaker. You can

say so so well, what's up sup? Hey sup bro sup but I don't

Say that I say what's up? So what's your favorite greeting and adjective from this list? Share

that in the comments below. Now, let's talk about how to say. I don't know in both casual

situations and professional situations in the workplace. First, let's talk about some

everyday ways that you can say. I don't know, you can use these and more casual situations

and professional situations, so

Once a your friend or co-worker asks you a random question, like how far away is the

Sun and you don't know the answer, how can you reply the most popular answer would be?

I have no idea and this is really to stress the fact that you have no knowledge on the

topic. Remember the

In is, how far away is the sun? I have no idea. Now, we can also shorten this and simply

say, no idea. I have no idea, no idea. Another common answer is I'm not sure, I'm not sure.

Now, you can expand on this and you can say I'm not too sure, not too sure. I'm not too

sure about that. That meaning the question I'm not too sure about how

Far away the sun is sure about that. Not sure about what a fun one is simply to say, who

knows? Who knows? Seriously, who knows, do you know, who knows? You could say, your guess

is as good as mine. It's implying that you also don't know the answer. Your guess is

as good as mine. Well, your guess is as good as mine. I created a free lesson PDF that

summarizes all the

Ways to say, I don't know, you can look in the description or the comment section for

the link. Now, another one with the word guess is, if I had to guess, I'd say so you're letting

the person know that your answer could be completely wrong. So how far away is the sun

if I had to guess? I'd say 100 million miles? I don't know. Am I right?

You let me know in the comments if I'm right. You could say. I wish I knew that's an interesting

piece of knowledge. I wish I know but I don't, I wish I knew, I wish I could help you. I

wish I could help you with that. I wish I could answer that for you, but I can't. I

wish I knew Robin. I wish I knew you could also say I can help you with that one. I

I can't help you with that question. You could say that's an interesting question but and

then use any of the Expressions. We just learned. That's an interesting question. But I have

no idea. You could also just say I've never thought about that before, which is probably

true a common way to answer that question now is simply to take out your phone and say,

hey Siri how far away is the Sun

Hey, I was actually pretty close. It was 149 million miles away and I said 100 million

miles and I completely guest. I'm pretty proud of that. So that's a great way to answer.

Just ask Siri, or Alexa, or whoever else. There are two very common idioms that you

can use. The first idiom is Beats me. That beats me, but we commonly get rid of that

and

Simply say, beats me, and that's the same as saying, I have no idea beats me. The other

idiom is, I haven't the slightest idea and the slightest is this much, the smallest amount

possible, but you're saying, you don't even have that. So it's another way of saying I

have no idea, I haven't the slightest idea. Now, instead of slightest you could say

Foggiest, or faintest, and it means the exact same thing. Or you can say I haven't a clue

which also means the same thing. So they're just slight changes to the same idiom and

they're very commonly used because I haven't the foggiest idea, why? I mean, look at me.

Now, let's talk about some more professional Expressions that you can use when you're asked

a question, but you don't know that answer.

Answer. So let's say your boss asks you how many units of a specific product were sold

last month, you could reply back and say when do you need to know by and your boss will

likely say an hour, two hours tomorrow next week and tell you when they need the information.

Now, if they say right now, I need it right now. Then you can reply back and say

Let me get that for you, get that that being the answer the information or you could say

let me find out. Let me look into this instead of let me you could also say I will as a contraction,

all I'll find out. I'll look into this. I'll let you know. I'll get back to you. Another

way to reply is to say, I need

To check something and then I'll get back to you. So you're letting the person know

that you just need to do something. First, instead of chat, you could say, I need to

confirm something, I need to verify something. I need to look into something and get back

to you. You can also specify a specific time or date when you'll have the information.

Let me look into this and I'll get back to you.

I 2:00 by the end of the day by tomorrow by next week and let the person know, let me

look into it. Now, if you do want to admit that, you don't know the answer. Now you could

say something like I'm not sure offhand. So offhand is just an expression we use to mean

right now. I'm not sure offhand let me look into

Into this and I'll get back to you by 2:00. Does that work for you? And you can add, does

that work for you to clarify that getting back to them with the information by 2:00

is acceptable? Your boss will likely say, sure, no problem or they might say, no, no,

no, I have a meeting in ten minutes and I need this information. Well, then, of course

you say, no problem. I'll find out right now and get

Back to you in a few minutes. Well, of course by the deadline your boss just told you now

instead of saying, I'm not sure offhand, which again, is just an expression. I'm not sure

offhand. You could say, I'm not sure off the top of my head. So again this is another way

of just saying right now, off the top of my head, I'm not sure. Let me find out and I'll

email you the information in 10 minutes.

It's so you could also use in and a Time reference in 10 minutes in an hour in 20 minutes or

you could simply say ASAP. I'm not sure off the top of my head let me check and I'll get

back to you ASAP that means as soon as possible you can also say ASAP there's two different

ways to say it ASAP or ASAP. They're both acceptable. I

ASAP is more common though. I'll get back to you ASAP. Look into it, get back to you

ASAP. Now you have all the Expressions, you need to say, I don't know, what was your favorite

expression? Share that in the comments below? And finally, let's talk about all the different

ways that you can say. I'm sorry, naturally to sound like a native English speaker. First,

let's talk about some casual Expressions that you can use in.

Everyday situations. Let's take the example of bumping into someone at the grocery store

and you want to apologize. So instead of saying I'm sorry, you can simply say sorry, I know

it's a subtle difference but it will really help you sound more natural to just say sori

sori. You can also add so or very in front of it. So

Very, very sorry or you could say sorry about that, that being the mistake, bumping into

the person at the grocery store. Sorry about that. So sorry about that. I'm so sorry about

that to help you remember. All of these Expressions I created a free lesson PDF, you can look

in the description or the comment section for the link to download the free lesson,

PDF another common.

That thing is simply to make a sound effect. Like oops. Oops, whoops. Oh no. Oh my. And

then you don't even have to say anything else because usually, it's your facial expression.

Oops! Oh whoopsie, thanks, whoops.

A slightly more formal one, but that's still very casual is to say, excuse me, or pardon

me, excuse me, pardon me, those are quite common as well. Let's say that your friend

asked, you to buy her a chocolate chip cookie, but you bought her an oatmeal cookie. So instead

of saying I'm sorry you could say,

My bad. My bad. This is extremely common in North America and it will really make you

sound like an American English speaker. My bad, my bad keep in mind, it is quite casual

and it's used for smaller things. You want to apologize for like getting the wrong cookie,

my bad, you could also say my fault, my fault or

or the my mistake, my mistake. I got you the wrong cookie. My bad. Let's say you want to

admit your mistake, for example, you told your friend, the party started at 8:00, but

it actually started at 7. You could say, I was wrong. So, instead of saying I'm sorry,

I gave you the wrong time, you could say I was wrong. Of course, you can use any of our

other.

Expressions, my bad. But one to specifically, admit your mistake is simply to say I was

wrong, often, we say sorry, if we can't do something that someone wants us to do. So

let's say your friend invited you to a party but you can't attend. It would be very common

to say I'm sorry. I can't attend your party instead of

Saying I'm sorry you can say unfortunately. So replace i'msorry with unfortunately unfortunately

I can't help you. Unfortunately I can't attend your party. Unfortunately, I can't drive you

to the airport. Now let's talk about some more professional Expressions that you can

use in the workplace or a more formal situation. Let's say you arrive.

Of to an important meeting 10 minutes late. Instead of saying I'm sorry, you can say my

apologies. Now you can expand that and say my apologies for being late to make it stronger.

You can add sincere, my sincere apologies for being late to sound even more formal.

You could say, please accept my

Apologies, please accept my sincere. Apologies for being late. That sounds very formal. Let's

say you made a mistake at work and you ordered 100 boxes but you should have ordered 10 boxes.

Now, in the Casual example, we learned I was wrong to admit. You made a mistake in a professional

context. I recommend

I take full responsibility, this sounds very professional because the word responsibility,

sounds professional. I take full responsibility for ordering the wrong number of boxes. My

sincere, apologies, I take full responsibility. You can also say, I understand I made a mistake,

I'll fix it now. Instead of understand you can say, aye

I know I made a mistake. I admit I made a mistake all fix it. So notice you're not just

admitting it. You're also offering a solution. I'll fix it. I'll call the supplier right

now. I'll get this resolved. So offering a solution is a great addition to admitting

a mistake. Let's say that you kept a client waiting on the phone.

For a long time. Now instead of saying I'm sorry for the wait you can say I appreciate

your patience. So instead of talking about the - you talk about the positive, which is

the fact that your client is patient, I appreciate your patience. Thank you for your patience.

Thank you for understanding. Thank.

Q for holding. I appreciate your time. I appreciate your patience. Now. Let's say that your boss

your coworker or your client offers you some constructive criticism. So they tell you about

something that you're not doing very well. Maybe your last presentation wasn't very good

and they give you some constructive criticism some feedback.

Others saying I'm sorry, my presentation wasn't good. You can say thank you for bringing this

to my attention or thank you for letting me know and then you can add a solution. I'll

work on that all improve that or you can even ask them, how can I improve? Can you give

me some suggestions to improve? Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Tension, there's one common idiom that you can use to admit you made a mistake. So remember

in the Casual example, you can say I was wrong. In the professional example, you can say,

I take full responsibility, the idiom that you can use in. Any situation is the buck

stops with me, the buck stops with me. This simply means I was wrong, or I take full

Responsibility, the buck stops with me. So now you have so many alternatives to help

you sound very fluent and natural. My favorite is my bad, my bad because I hear Americans

use it all the time and I want you to sound more fluent by using it to my bad. What's

your favorite from this list? Amazing job with this lesson. Share your favorite new

expressions in the comments below and make sure you download this.

This free speaking guide where I share six tips on how to speak English fluently, and

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