Learn the Top 25 Must-Know English Phrases!

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Hi everybody, my name is Alisha and today we are going to be talking about the top 25
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English phrases. So let's get started!
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The first phrase is ''hello''. Hello of course is used as a greeting. You
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can greet your friends, you can greet your co-workers, your family with this phrase just
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by saying hello. Hey. Hi. What's up? Hello. 'Sup? Yo. Pretty much any time of the
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day you can use hello. Hello?
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The next phrase is ''good morning''. Good morning is used as a greeting in the
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morning. You can kind of feel when morning ends for you. Good morning is nice and polite
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or even just morning with your close friends and close co-workers.
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The next phrase is ''goodnight''. Goodnight is fine. We don't use this to greet
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other people. We use it when we are saying goodbye to other people at night or family
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members particularly mothers and fathers to say goodnight to their children before they
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put them to bed. You can say it to your friend in a text message or in an email if you've
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been talking for a while, goodnight.
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So the next word to talk about is ''goodbye''. Use it when you say goodbye to your friends,
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when you leave your friends, goodbye, bye of course, take care, have a nice day. Peace
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out, that's another way to say goodbye.
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Okay the next phrase is, ''I'm (plus your name)''.
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Of course, this is a way to introduce yourself. You can use I'm - in my case Alisha. I'm
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Alisha to introduce yourself in any situation. New friend, I'm Alisha.
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Okay the next phrase is ''what's your name?'' And what's your name is used to ask someone
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else what their name is. So" what is your name" sounds a bit - try to use what's your name.
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If you forget someone's name, you can say sorry what's your name or sorry what's your
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name again.
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Next phrase is ''nice to meet you''. Nice to meet you. Anytime you meet someone
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new, nice to meet you is fine, good to meet you is a little more casual, great to meet
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you sounds very excited, pleasure to meet you sounds like maybe a formal situation or
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a business context.
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Okay the next phrase is ''how are you?'' How are you is just a friendly way to check
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in with the other person. You can use it with friends, your family, your coworkers, maybe
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even your boss to a certain degree. How are ya? How you doin'?
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The next phrase is ''I am fine, thanks. And you?''
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If you saw English in Three Minutes, we talked a lot about this phrase. Instead of ''I am
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fine, thank you. And you?'' say ''I am good, thanks, how are you?'' Just shorten it and
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make it a little bit more natural. How are you? Good. How are you? Great. How are you?
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Not so good. How are you, okay and so on. So when someone says how are you, offer I
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usually say I am good. This week I blah, blah, blah give some information about what you've
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been up to, maybe a hobby, something that you did recently, an event, something interesting
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you saw, whatever. People want to make that connection with you and it's a good chance
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for you to continue speaking.
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The next word is ''please''. Please is a polite phrase used when you want
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something from someone else. You can use this as a response when someone offers you something
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like at a restaurant for example, would you like more water? Would you like something
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to drink? Oh, please.
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The next phrase is ''thank you''. Thank you is used to express your appreciation.
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You can use thank you with everybody.
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The next phrase is ''you're welcome''. You're welcome. When someone says thank you,
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you can say you're welcome, no biggie. I use no biggie as in no biggie is short for
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no big problem.
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The next word is ''yes''. Yes, of course. Yes means it is any of this
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positive expression. Someone asks you a question and the answer is a positive answer. You say
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Yes. Yep. Uh-huh. Yeah. Oui. No, next term I'm guessing I know it, yep.
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The next word is ''no''. No is a negative response to something when
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you have to give a negative answer. So as you can probably guess, the long form of no
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is negative. I like to use nope, it's very, very casual. Not going to happen. My parents
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would use that with me. To soften that a little bit, if you want to show a negative response
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to something. Like let's go for dinner tonight, what do you want to do like do you want to
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go out, not really. No I don't think so to soften it.
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The next word is ''okay''. Okay. This word comes from copyeditors okay
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when they had to check a manuscript. They had to label the manuscript, all clear ac
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but because they were copyeditors and they have very, very sick sense of humor, they
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thought they would mark it okay for all clear to make a joke because o and k do not start
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all and clear but it caught on among everybody in the world. Anyway okay is used to agree
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with somebody else. Well it can be used actually to express a positive or kind of a slight
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negative I feel. Transitioning in your conversation you can say okay, now we are going to talk
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about blah, blah, blah.
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Okay the next phrase is ''excuse me''. Excuse me, it's used to get someone's attention
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in English when you don't know the other person. For example, in a store or a supermarket,
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maybe a stranger on the street you need to ask directions, you can use excuse me. You
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can use excuse me in the supermarket. Excuse me can you tell me where the hot sauce is.
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If you have done something rude in public, you can use excuse me. I personally do not
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do rude things in public ever.
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''I am sorry'' is the next word we are going to talk about.
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I am sorry is used to apologize when you have made a mistake or someone you know has made
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a mistake and you are connected to it or you just feel bad, you can use I am sorry. You
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made a mistake at work, I am sorry, you forgot to feed your cat, I am sorry. Sorry about
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that, you bumped someone next to you, sorry.
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''What time is it?'' is the next phrase. When you need to check what time it is: What
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time is it? When you ask someone else what time it is. Maybe you say this to yourself
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too. Check your watch, check your phone, check a clock, pretty straightforward phrase. There
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aren't really any short versions. So that's an easy one.
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''Where is the (plus a location)?'' So you can use this for a building or a store.
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We are not going to use this where is the for a place, a city name or a state name or
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a country name. To do that, you would need to remove the but where is the bank, where
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is the post office. You can use this to ask directions, to ask for help in your house
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or at work. Where is the copy machine, where is the file I need, where is the blah, blah,
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blah and where is the bathroom is perhaps a very important question to know.
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The next one is ''may I use the restroom?'' May I use the restroom is a polite and soft
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expression that you can use if you need to use the toilet, you need to use the washroom
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and when you are at someone's house for the very first time, when you are in a place that
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is new to you, you can ask may I use the restroom and more casually, can I go to the bathroom.
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To be very polite, you can say may I go to the bathroom.
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The next phrase is ''I would like (to order something)''.
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You can use this at a restaurant probably or in any situation where you need to place
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an order I'd like a pizza, I would like a beer.
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''Can I get the check please?'' This will be used at a restaurant when you
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finished your meal and it's time to go, can I get the check please. In a very, very casual
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situation, you can just say check please, that's fine.
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The next phrase is ''see you soon''. See you soon is used with friends and family
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members perhaps when you expect to see them again soon after saying goodbye to them. This
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is used at the end of the conversation. You are going in separate directions, you say,
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see you soon. See ya is also good or just see you. To make it a little more formal,
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you can say I will see you again soon and make a full sentence out of it that way.
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The next phrase is ''see you later'' See you later is very similar to see you soon
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but the point with see you later is that you are probably going to meet that person again
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later on in that same day.
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The last phrase is ''really''. Really is a very useful word because you can
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use it to show you are interested in a conversation with upward intonation, really, really tell
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me more or to show that you are not so interested in the conversation with download intonation,
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really. So there are many other words that you can use similar to really in this way
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like seriously or oh, oh and so on. So it's a really good practice for your intonation.
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So those are 25 very common words and phrases in English. If you like this video, if you
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to check them out. Thanks very much for watching and let's see you again soon. Bye....Really?
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oh interesting, uh-huh, okay I see, great, fantastic, unbelievable hmm... gratitude, subjects. What
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do we have for dinner today? Pizza, affirmative.
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