More Simple Two Word Questions That Make English Conversations Easier!

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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So a couple of weeks ago I made an English lesson
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about simple two-word questions that you can use
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when you're having an English conversation.
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Well, in this English lesson,
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I'll teach you five more simple two-word questions
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that you can use
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to make an English conversation go smoothly.
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(upbeat music)
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The first simple two-word question
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I'm going to teach you is the question,
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Now what or what now?
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You can actually say it both ways.
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This is a question we ask after someone tells us some news
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about their life, and we're not sure
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what the next thing they're going to do is.
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Someone might say to you,
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"I lost my job today, today I got fired."
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You could continue the conversation by saying,
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"Now what or what now?"
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Because you want to know what they're going to do next,
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now that they've lost their job.
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Maybe somebody says to you,
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"I was in a car accident today and my car is totaled."
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That means you can't drive it at all anymore.
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You might then ask them one of the two-word questions,
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"Now what or what now?"
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To find out what they're going to do next.
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They'll probably need to rent a car for a little while,
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while they look for a new one.
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So the first two questions
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you can flip the words either way,
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are the questions, what now and now what?
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The next two-word question is the question, you did?
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And this is a question that we ask
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after someone tells you they did something,
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and you don't quite believe them.
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Maybe someone says to you,
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"The other day with some friends, I went skydiving."
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You could continue the conversation
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by asking the question, "You did?"
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"The other day we went skydiving," you did?
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because you kind of don't believe them,
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and you want to know more information.
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Maybe a friend of yours says to you, "I bought a boat."
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You could then ask the two-word question, "You did?"
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Because you're not quite believing them,
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you're thinking, "Wow, you bought a boat, tell me more?"
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So you could use the two-word question, you did.
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So whenever you're in an English conversation
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and someone tells you
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about something they've done in their life,
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and you're not quite sure you believe them,
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you can ask the two-word question, you did?
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The next two-word question is simply another way
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of saying, I don't care or it doesn't concern me.
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And it's the question, so what?
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This is a question you could use in the following situation.
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If someone said to me,
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"Bob, don't shave off your beard and mustache, your kids,
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"and your wife, and your viewers on YouTube won't like it."
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I could respond by saying, "So what?"
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Which means I don't care what those people think.
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So you can see it is a little bit informal
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and a little bit rude,
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and it's simply another way of saying that you don't care.
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I do care, by the way,
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that's why I keep my beard and mustache
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because everyone likes this look,
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so I'm gonna keep it for a long time.
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Maybe you're driving over the speed limit,
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and your friend is in the passenger seat and says,
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"Hey, slow down a bit, don't drive over the speed limit."
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You could say, "Ah, so what?
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"The cops aren't gonna catch me anyways."
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Again, basically another way of saying,
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I don't care or it doesn't concern me.
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By the way, you shouldn't drive over the speed limit,
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it's always a bad idea.
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The next two-word question is the question, how often?
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This is a question you can use
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when someone says they do something,
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and you're curious to know how often
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or how frequently they do it.
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Maybe someone says to you, "I like to go running."
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You could then ask the question, how often?
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Because you want to know if they do it every day.
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Do they go running every day?
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Do they go running every other day?
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You're curious to know how often they go running,
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so you use the question, how often?
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Maybe someone says to you,
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"I love eating out, I love going to restaurants."
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You could say, how often?
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Because you want to know if they go every weekend?
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Do they go once a month?
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Do they go every night?
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That would be a little bit crazy, but anyways,
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if you need to know or you would like to know
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how frequently someone does something,
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what days of the week they do it on,
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you could simply use the two-word question, how often?
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The next two-word question can be used
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when someone mentions something that's countable,
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and they don't say the total number.
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You could then ask, how many?
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Maybe someone is a teacher and they say to you,
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"I have a lot of students in my class."
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You could then ask, how many?
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Because you want to know exactly
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how many students are in that class.
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Maybe someone says to you,
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"Oh, I have to bring cookies to the party tomorrow."
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You might then ask how many?
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Because you'd like to know
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how many cookies they need to bring to the party tomorrow.
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So whenever someone mentions something vaguely,
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when they mention something that's accountable,
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but they don't say the exact number
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you can use the English question word, how many?
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Well, thank you so much
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for watching this English lesson about five simple
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two-word questions you can ask
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to keep an English conversation going smoothly.
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If this is your first time here,
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don't forget to click that subscribe button over there.
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Give me a thumbs up, leave a comment,
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and if you didn't watch part one of this video,
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I'll link it right here.
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And here's another lesson you can watch
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if you're interested.
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