USEFUL English phrases for daily conversation | How to stay positive and succeed

Hi there, this is Harry and welcome back to  advanced English lessons with Harry, where I  

try to help you to get a better understanding of  the English language. If you're preparing for some  

proficiency exams, or if you're preparing for a  job interview, or you just simply want to improve  

your business English or your conversational  English, well, you've come to the right place.

In this particular advanced English lesson, we're  going to look at expressions and phrases how you  

can encourage somebody by using English. So  expressions to encourage somebody in English,  

there are advanced expressions, okay, I've got 10  of them, I'm going to go through them with you,  

then I'm going to give you a situation, perhaps  when you can see it working, and then you can  

use that as well. Okay, so I said, there are  10 of them, let me go through them. Okay. Now,  

a lot of these, as you'll hear, when I said them,  there is a lot to do with intonation, and the  

intonation can change and put different emphasis  on it. So I'll try to introduce that when we when  

I'm giving you the situations that I feel worked  for these particular expressions or phrases.

Okay, so let's look at the first one, you can do  it. Okay, so there's an exclamation after this,  

you'll see it on the screen, you can do it. So  if you're really trying to encourage somebody  

who's been in a little bit deflated, Oh,  I don't know about this exam. I'm not even  

sure if I can pass I'm not even sure do I  want to pass. Oh, come on, you can do it,  

you can do it. You've been studying hard, you've  been working hard. After all, you know what it  

means when you get it, you'll be able to get the  better job and you'll be able to get more money,  

you can do it. You can do it when you try. Okay,  so it's all about encouraging some somebody to do  

something they know they can do it. They just need  that little encouragement from you. You can do it.

Next, it might work out fine. Okay, there's  a bit of a risk that it won't work out. But  

it might work out fine. Yeah, why not? It might  work out fine. What have you got to lose anyway,  

you could have to try, it might work out fine.  So you know, somebody's worried about the job,  

they're not so sure whether they should accept the  job because it's going to mean changing location,  

perhaps you're going to have to change  schools for the kids. And when they talk  

it over with their partner, they say, Come  on, is a great opportunity for you. You know,  

it's... there's risks with everything, but it  might work out fine. The kids will settle very  

quickly. Okay, for a couple of weeks, they  might be just disorientated. But you know,  

kids like to make friends very easily. The  biggest problem wouldn't be for for you or me,  

but I think it might work out fine. So let's  go for it. Okay, so it might work out fine.

Next one, don't give up or never give up. So  if you're trying to encourage somebody, then,  

you know, it's easy for somebody to give up.  You know, they try to do that tense exercise  

and they can't get past it. They tried to get  on to the next level of their computer games,  

and they can't get past it. They try to get on to  C1 in English, but they don't seem to be able to  

get past the B2 level. So it's easy to give up and  say, Well, look, that's it. It's not for me. But  

if you want to encourage people, then you say,  Look, never give up. Don't give up. People who  

give up always regretted later on. So yeah, it's a  little bit difficult. But you know what, just put  

in that little bit of extra effort, and it will  work out for you. So never give up. Okay, so we  

should always encourage our kids that way. If they  want to do something they want to be successful.  

You gotta try. The Einstein and all that these  famous inventors. They didn't give up the first  

time they tried to do something they tried and  tried and tried. And then eventually, that's a  

eureka, eureka moment. It worked. So never give up  or simply don't give up. Yeah, if you're running a  

marathon, and you hit the wall at 19-20 kilometres  or 30 kilometres or 35 kilometres, all the people  

around you will be saying, Come on, come on.  Don't give up. You can do it. Just walk out,  

run a little bit more slowly. You'll get there.  You've come too far to give up now, don't give up.

I'm sure it'll be fine was a little bit  similar to it in might work out. I'm sure  

it'll be fine. You say, Look, don't read  too much into it. Don't overthink it. Or  

I'm always telling this to my my beloved  wife. She overthinks things. So I tell her,  

Don't overthink it. I'm sure it will be fine.  Things always work out at the end. It will come  

good. I'm sure it will be fine. So you might do  something you might have made a little mistake  

or you know the way we are always our worst  critics and our worst, our own worst enemies  

and we do something. Ah, I'm not so sure I did  such a good job. I don't think the interview was  

really so good as I thought it might be. Maybe  I could have answered that question better or  

differently. I'm sure it will be fun. I know they  haven't contacted you to say you're dismissed or  

you've been dropped from the panel. So let's  see what happens. I'm sure it will be fine.

Another way of expressing it, you never  know. Well, of course we never know. I mean,  

things have a habit of changing. Things have a  habit habit of changing very quickly. So yeah,  

exactly. You never know, you never know what  might happen. You never know what the day... the  

next day is going to bring. Okay? So when you're  trying to encourage somebody, if they don't try,  

well, if you don't, if you're not in, you  can't win. So you never know. So for the  

kids when they're entering a competition, well,  look, if you don't go in for the competition,  

certainly you have no chance of winning. But  if you enter the competition, you never know,  

you might have a bit of inspiration.  Somebody might like your particular art  

compared to somebody else's. And anyway, it's  not all about winning, it's about competing,  

it's about making yourself better, is about  you being as good as you possibly can, in this  

competition, in this exam on this particular  day, so you know what you never know. But try,  

try, try, try, try and try again. My grandmother  used to say that to me, never give up try,  

try and try again. Looking at this particular  lesson, and if you do like the lesson, please,  

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Another way of giving people some encouragement is  expression, keep up the good work, or simply keep  

at it. That this is a expression bosses like  to use to give a little bit of encouragement  

to the workers, you know, it's it's good  idea, if you're the manager, line manager,  

or whatever manager you are, when you walk around  the room, or you meet the colleagues to give them  

a little bit of praise. Yeah, keep up the good  work, you're doing really well. Keep at it,  

you know, we're getting there things are  improving, you know, you're really settling  

into the company. Well, keep at it, keep up the  good work, you've got a bright future. So these  

are good words of encouragement to hear. And this  is how we should use them. So if you are a boss,  

if you are a line manager, people  like to get some sort of gratitude,  

they like to get some sort of praise. They like  to be inspired and simple words can inspire them  

a lot. It's not about money all the time. It's  not about promotion. It's just simple gratitude.  

Keep up the good work, you're doing really well  keep at it. Yep, you've got a bright future.

Give it a try. Well, this is a great way to  encourage people, how do you know unless you try,  

you don't want to take up a new sport. I think  I'll give it a try. Meaning I'll see what what  

it's like if I don't like it after three or  four weeks, but I can try something else. So  

perhaps you're looking at some of these sports,  like judo, or perhaps you're looking at some  

other sport or gymnastics, or something that you  haven't done before, perhaps is learning another  

foreign language, French, Italian, I'll give it  a try. I really liked languages, I'd love to be  

able to speak those languages better. I really  want to travel more. So I give it a try. So to  

give it a try means to attempt to do something,  you might not be successful. But you know what,  

sometimes when you give it a try, you get to  like it, and you keep going and going it might  

not be perfect the first time, but you will get  better. So give it a try. Right? So it's perhaps  

sitting in your driving test. Maybe you don't  feel so comfortable with some of the rules.  

Maybe you don't have enough experience. But  you'll you won't know until you try. So when  

you give it a try. You can be successful.  So give something a try. Attempt it. Okay.

What do you have to lose? Well, this is a good  way of facing difficulties. What's the downside?  

What's the worst that can happen? So I often say  to people, if they're, you know, they don't ask,  

they will never find out. So what's the worst  somebody can say? They can say "no." So,  

you know, if that's the worst and you might as  well ask, yeah. So if you're asking your boss  

can you have more responsibility, than if you  don't ask, you'll never know. If he says no,  

you're no worse off. Okay? If he says yes,  you're a winner. Okay. So you have to try and  

ask what have you got to lose by not asking,  Okay, what do you have to lose by entering  

the competition? If you've got a good voice  and you want to enter a singing competition,  

but you're not quite sure your friends will give  you the encouragement? Well, what have you got to  

lose? You've got to go through some preliminary  rounds. And if you're successful there,  

you get into the final stages, more practice  more experience. It could be a bit of fun. Now,  

if you start off and you don't think you can win  Well, every step you go further, is a little bit  

of a win for you. Okay, so what have you got  to lose? A bit of fun, a bit of entertainment,  

the chance to get yourself on that stage a chance  to test yourself against other people. You know,  

you can you can do it. It's just a question of how  you measure up against other people. So what do  

you have to lose nothing really no reputation  at stake, no money at stake, nothing to lose.

Keep pushing. Now, when we tell people to keep  pushing, we mean, keep trying to move forward,  

keep pushing yourself, yeah, keep pushing yourself  to be better. Keep pushing yourself to learn more,  

keep pushing yourself to perform better. It's  after all, what it's all about, particularly,  

for example, if you go to a gym, you have to keep  pushing yourself, you go the first day of first  

two days, You're as stiff as a poker when you  wake up the next morning, because the muscles  

are really, really sore. So you push yourself to  go the next day. And after three or four weeks,  

the exercises become easier and easier. So  you've got to do something a little bit quicker,  

or a little more frequently, or you have to lift  in some extra weights, you have to keep pushing  

yourself to perform well. Okay, so keep pushing,  and you'll you'll achieve some sort of success.

And then finally, hang in there. Well, now  this is when you're up against the wall,  

you're back to the wall, and you've got really,  really, you're not sure whether you're going  

to succeed or fail. But somebody will say, Come  on, come on, you can do it, hang in there. Yeah,  

you're just, you've got another four kilometres  to run, before you get to the end of the marathon  

hang in there. You can do it. Yeah, okay.  Or perhaps it's about some exam, you know,  

you've it's in four or five stages, you've got  three through, the first three to four stages,  

you're in the last leg of it, you've got two parts  to complete. And you feel like given up, it's got,  

I've got to still do some more study. So somebody  will say to you, Come on, come on, hang in there,  

you've only got two parts to do, you've  done three, you've done really, really well,  

up to now. So just give it another few days. And  then you can breathe a sigh of relief, it will  

be all over. So hang in there. So hang in there  as when something is getting a little bit tough,  

a little bit difficult. You're not so sure whether  you can continue. But you need that encouragement  

for others. So come on, hang in there, you  can do it. Okay, so the same with English,  

you want to get to the next level level, hang in  there, don't give up on your lessons just because  

something got a little bit difficult. Don't  give up because you don't understand some words,  

don't give up because at some stage, we  all have it. We feel we're not learning  

as quickly as we might hang in there, you  can succeed. So the people who come back to  

the English lessons time and time again, on  a consistent basis, guess what? They're the  

ones who speak better English at the end of the  day. So hang in there, learn as much as you can.

Okay, so they're the phrases that we would use  where we want to encourage somebody so 10 phrases  

in total, I'm gonna give them to you one more  time. You can do it. It might work out fine.  

Never give up or don't give up. I'm sure  it'll be fine. I'm sure it will be fine.  

You never know. You never know. And listen to  my intonation. Okay. Keep up the good work or  

keep at it, you'll succeed. Give it a try. What do  you have to lose? What do you have to lose? Keep  

pushing. Come on, keep pushing. And then finally,  hang in there. Hang in there. You can do it.

Okay, so 10 expressions of how you can encourage  people in English. Advanced English lesson try to  

use them, try to read up about them. Try to  put them in sentences and practice them and  

you know the drill by now. If you don't  understand something you want some more  

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