How to Encourage Someone in English

In life when you do something difficult,

it can be really nice if someone encourages you

along the way.

It's really nice if someone cheers you on

while you do that difficult thing.

In this English lesson, I'm going to teach you

a bunch of different English phrases

we use to encourage someone

when they're doing something difficult.

I'm going to do it by encouraging you

because you are doing something difficult right now.

You have chosen to learn the English language

and it can be very challenging

and hard to learn the English language.

So in this English lesson,

I'm going to give you some encouraging words.

And as I do, you will learn some words and phrases

that we use in English when we want to encourage someone.

Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson

where I'm going to help you learn

how to encourage others in English.

And I'm going to do that by giving you

some words of encouragement.

Before we get started though,

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just a little bit more English.

So some of the first phrases that I want to teach you

start with the word you.

They're phrases that you use to talk directly to someone.

So you can say things like this, you've got this

or the more slang form, you got this or you could say,

you can do it.

When you say these phrases in English,

you're communicating to that person

that you believe they can do what they're doing.

So if I think about you learning English,

maybe you're sitting on the subway,

maybe you're sitting at home,

maybe you're at your kitchen table,

maybe you're listening to me while you're making food.

However, you're watching this video,

I wanna speak directly to you and say this,

you got this, you've got this, you can do it.

I really believe that.

I believe that if you put your mind to it,

you can master this crazy and weird language

that we call English.

Anyways, you've got this,

you can do it, you got this.

These next phrases have the word keep them.

And they're phrases we use to encourage someone

maybe when they want to quit doing something hard,

we would say things like this, keep it up,

keep up the good work or keep at it.

So basically what we're saying is

I recognize that you're doing something difficult

and I want to encourage you to keep doing it

even though you might want to quit.

Maybe as an English learner,

you're halfway through reading an English book

and it's very challenging and very difficult.

And you're thinking of quitting,

you're thinking, you know what?

I'm just not going to finish this book.

So I want to say to you right now, keep it up, keep at it,

keep up the good work, you can do it.

You can finish that book if you just keep at it,

I know you can, you can do it.

So I read recently that many people

who take online language courses,

don't actually end up finishing them.

They sign up for a course, they pay for a course

and then when they get about halfway through they quit.

In that situation, these are the words of encouragement

I would give.

I would say, don't give up, never give up, stay strong.

Maybe you're in that situation, maybe a week ago

you signed up for an online language course

and you went to the first couple of classes

but now you've kind of stopped going.

You don't go to the Zoom meetings.

You haven't done the readings,

you haven't done the listening practice,

you're kind of quitting.

In that situation, this is what I would say to you.

Don't give up, never give up, stay strong

and then once again, you can do it.

I know you can, it just takes a little bit of determination.

There's an English phrase that we sometimes say

before words of encouragement

in order to kind of emphasize the words of encouragement

that we are giving and that phrase is come on.

So in all the previous examples I could add,

come on before the phrase of encouragement

that I was giving.

So I could say things like this, come on, you can do it.

Come on, you got this, come on, keep at it,

come on, you can do it.

When you add the phrase, come on.

It simply means that you're encouraging them even more.

In English, sometimes we like to add a few extra words

just to emphasize what we are saying.

So anyways, come on, you can do it.

Come on you got this, come on

I know you can do this.

There are words of encouragement

that we also give after someone completes something.

I know that as you study English,

there's little things you do along the way.

And it's really nice to hear things like this

when you finish some of those little jobs.

It's nice to hear phrases like this,

nice work or nice job.

We also sometimes say good work or good job

or we'll just say, well done.

So maybe you're reading an entire novel,

maybe you're just trying to watch this whole video

without clicking the stop button

and watching something else.

When you are done that thing, when you are done that task,

it's really nice to hear this nice work or nice job,

good work or good job or well done.

I think if you are some of the people

who study English every day for an hour

and you do that five or six days a week

and if you've done that for a few months,

I would certainly say nice job or nice work,

good job or good work or certainly I would say, well done.

Well, thank you so much for watching

this little English lesson on how to say something

encouraging to someone else.

I hope that as you walk away from this lesson

that two things happen.

One, I hope you feel encouraged.

I hope you did really sense that I was talking to you.

Again, wherever you are,

maybe sitting at your kitchen table,

maybe riding the bus wherever you were watching this video

I hope you felt encouraged.

The second thing I would like you to do is this

is kind of spread the words of encouragement

to those around you.

Whether it's in English or in your own language,

please have a good day and please communicate

to others some encouraging words today

so that they have a good day too.

It's always nice to hear someone say

you can do it or job well done.

Anyways, Bob the Canadian here

thanks again for watching this video.

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