Learn the Top 10 Must-know Words to Party in America

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Hi everybody, my name is Alisha, welcome back to Top Words!
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Today we're gonna be talking about the 10 must know words to party in the United States.
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Not that I would know anything about that... let's go!
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party
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Party is a fun thing to do.
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A party is a place where you presumably you like, all the other people you know, a bunch
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of people, your friends are there, there's something to eat, there's something to drink,
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there's music to listen to, maybe there are cute guys or cute girls or cute puppies.
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You can enjoy whatever is happening at a party.
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In a sentence, I used to go to a party every week in college.
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That's mostly true.
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In this sentence, the party tonight is going to be crazy.
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whoo whoo!
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to dance The next expression is to dance.
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To dance at a party, sometimes when the music is good you may feel compelled, you may feel
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that you would like to dance.
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To dance is to move your body rhythmically, in accordance with beats, that's if you're
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a robot giving a definition of the word to dance, this is how your dance too, if you're
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that robot.
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Okay.
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In a sentence, I like to dance at clubs.
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Let's go see if those boys want to dance with us.
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club
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The next word is club.
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I am getting so hot I'm gonna say some words, no!
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Clubs don't usually have a very good reputation, they kind of seem like places for young people,
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like late teens, early twenties, like, there's loud music and lots of cheap drinks, and people
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go there to find dates and etc.
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So club, let's see, in a sentence, I visit a club every once in a while.
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This sentence says, every song on the radio is about going to the club.
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rave
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the next word is rave. Rave is a-- is a type of party.
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The image of rave is like, it's at night, and there are people with glow sticks and
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there's like techno music, and it's like...
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And then everybody's like Woh!! which I don't say, and they have like glowing things and
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maybe there's black lights.
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In a sentence, I don't think I've ever been to a rave.
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And in this sentence, there's a rave in my neighbor's field this weekend.
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festival The next word is festival.
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There's usually some kind of theme, like a music festival or a food festival, there's
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a theme.
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And you can go there, maybe you need to buy tickets, but sometimes it covers like one
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or two days, a festival event does.
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So festivals can sometimes be a bit more expensive than parties to participate in.
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In a sentence, there are a lot of summer music festivals.
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cheers
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I think every country probably has a word
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for this.
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When you want to start drinking with your friends, you touch glasses, or you touch drinks,
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and you say Cheers, in American English and as well as in some other countries, too.
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so Cheers is the word we use in English.
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So when everyone touches their glass together, say cheers.
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to drink
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The next word is to drink.
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So in this case, for parties, it means alcohol, some kind of alcoholic drink.
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Many of my students will say I went to drink alcohol with my friends last night or I like
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drinking alcohol or whatever, but a native speaker does not say alcohol when we say,
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I like drinking, we mean I like drinking alcohol, but we do not say alcohol.
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Don't worry, like, no native speaker thinks you're talking about water when, if you say
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I like drinking.
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If you like to drink, if you like beer, wine, whatever, just say I like drinking, that's
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enough, that's fine, it's very natural.
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In a sentence, I go drinking once a month with my friends.
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In this sentence, wow, your friends really like to drink.
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Oh my!
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to get drunk
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Okay, the next expression is one to be careful
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of, it's to get drunk.
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To get drunk means to drink too much so to be sick, or to be in trouble, or to lose your
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memory, something like that.
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So to have too much alcohol to drink is to get drunk.
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In a sentence, I don't like getting super drunk because I feel sick the next day.
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I don't like to get drunk the night before work.
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VIP
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The next word is VIP, it means very important person.
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So a VIP at a club, a festival, some kind of event, is someone who the owner or the
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manager thinks is an important person, they get special treatment, maybe free drinks and
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a nice place to sit, a private room, they get to meet the stars at the Music Festival, whatever.
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A VIP, usually it's a good thing to be a VIP.
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In a sentence, we're going to the VIP room later, do you want to come?
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In this sentence, if you're famous, clubs will let you sit in the VIP section.
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to buy a round
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The next expression is to buy a round.
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To buy a round means to buy a round of drinks, meaning to buy one drink for each person in
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your group.
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So if you're in a group of four people, maybe everybody buys one round of drinks, but if
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you're in a large group of people and you decide to buy a round of drinks for everyone
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in the group, this can be very expensive.
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In a sentence, the next round of drinks is on me, meaning I'll buy the next drink for
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everybody.
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In this sentence, James bought a round of drinks for everyone at his table.
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End!
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Alright!
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So those are 10 must-know words to party in the United States.
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Have you had any partying experiences in the US?
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If so, let us know, good or bad?
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I'm kind of interested to see.
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Thanks very much for watching this episode of top words please be sure to LIKE and subscribe
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if you haven't already.
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And we'll see you again soon.
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Bye!
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I had a friend in high school who liked to mispronounce club as "clurb."
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I'm gonna go to the "clurb" later.
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Was that a bug just now? What a jerk!
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Oh, no, there's another one!
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Bug fight!
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We have an intruder in this shoot, he wants to party in the USA.
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