Ways to say I LOVE YOU in English | Talk about love | Use these to SOUND LIKE A NATIVE

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Hi there, this is Harry and welcome back to advanced English lessons with Harry, where
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I try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language.
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Helping you with your grammar and vocabulary, adjectives, verbs, nouns.
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How to transform them.
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Whatever aspects of the English language that you have problems with.
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Well, we're here to help you out.
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And in today's advanced English lesson, we're looking at the theme of love.
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This is the month of February and it's always gifts of chocolates and flowers, romantic
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meals for two around St. Valentine's Day.
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Of course, love should be in the air all year round, but they focus particularly in February.
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Of course, it's very commercial, but it's really a good opportunity to demonstrate to
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those close to why you love them and hold them so dearly to your heart.
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So I thought we concentrate on that particular theme today.
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So we've got 14 different ways to say I love you.
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Some of these you can use directly with your loved ones, others you'd use in conversations
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with your friend about other friends who have fallen madly in love with somebody.
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Okay.
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And if you're like me, go back to the m...
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Beatles music in the 60s and the 70s.
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One of the famous songs was.
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She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Okay, so it's always been there, and it continues to be a popular theme today.
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Okay, so number one, I'm mad about you.
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So this is a very common and informal way to express your love for somebody.
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So it's not mad and crazy and do you need to go and see a doctor.
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It's just mad, crazy.
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You can't think of anything else.
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You can't think about anybody else.
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You don't want to be with anybody else.
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So I'm mad about you.
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So this is something that builds up over a period of time and somebody realises this
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is their person, this is their better half, this is their other half.
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So I'm mad about you.
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I love everything about you.
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So it's a nice way to express your feelings.
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I love everything about you.
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So it's not just the way you look.
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It might be the way you talk, the way you smile, the way you laugh, little gestures,
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you make little actions that you you have.
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So I love everything about you.
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And of course, this is always the way we feel in the very early days of romance.
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But I love everything about you is a nice general sweep-up gather everything together
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to say there's nothing about you that I don't like.
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I love everything about you.
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Somebody has fallen for somebody.
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So oh, we're talking in the coffee shop with our friends, and you say, Oh, have you been
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talking to Michael recently?
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We haven't seen him.
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I think he's fallen in love.
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Again.
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I think he's fallen for that girl in the seventh grade.
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Or he's fallen for that girl in the computer department.
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Or he's fallen for that girl he used to talk with all the time that he met on the bus or
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the tram.
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So when somebody has fallen for somebody, it means that he has fallen in love or she
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has fallen in love, or they are what they called in the old days, smitten by somebody.
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S-M-I-T-T-E-N.
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So they are smitten.
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So they're really overtaken by love.
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So he has fallen for that girl that he used to talk about.
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Remember, when we were meeting up there a couple of months ago, he was talking about
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this girl he had seen on the tram and he wasn't sure where they would go and talk to her.
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So he seems to have fallen for her.
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A very old expression but it's still used today you see it in a lot of books.
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Besotted by.
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Yeah.
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When somebody is besotted by somebody, it means they are completely infatuated with
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them.
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They are completely under their spell.
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They can't think about anybody else.
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They can't talk about anybody else.
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They're completely besotted by.
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Now, when we use besotted by it generally means that the love is only in one direction.
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That doesn't mean the love is going to come back in the other direction.
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So that can be disappointments around the corner in relation to that particular expression.
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So to be besotted by somebody is just completely, utterly, totally in love with.
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So when he's trying to study his looking out of the window, thinking about where he will
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take her, what they will do together.
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So completely and utterly besotted.
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The schoolboy or school girl who writes the name of this latest crush on their copy books
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or the workbooks or the school bag or even on their desk.
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This is the example of somebody who's completely and totally besotted by somebody else.
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And that comes to the next expression which is about crush.
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To have a crush on somebody is usually from a distance.
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Yeah.
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So often the person that you have a crush on, doesn't really know it until you tell
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them, of course.
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Or if somebody else tells them.
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So, you know, it can happen where a younger person has a crush on an older person.
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So it could be somebody having a crush on a neighbour, or a crush on somebody they see
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in the supermarket, or wherever it might be.
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It's usually there's an age difference.
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And it's a lot of time first love.
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So girl has a crush on her piano teacher because he's, you know, really cool guy.
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Plays amazing music.
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Has long hair, funky glasses, you know, and he's a real, real cool individual.
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So she's got a bit of a crush on him, it will pass because that's what happens with crushes,
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they last for a certain period of time.
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And then after a while, they disappear.
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Okay, so to have a crush on somebody to be attracted, but it's not necessarily something
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that's going to be returned.
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Okay.
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So it's usually usually in one direction only.
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Number six, when somebody makes your toes curl up.
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Yeah.
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So just, you know, when they kiss you, you feel this tingle throughout your body, you
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feel an amazing sensation.
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So that can be an understanding that it's not just a friendly kiss.
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It's a romantic kiss or a kiss with great feeling that makes your toes curl.
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So your feet curl up at the edges and you feel, Whoa, all sorts of shivery and goosebumps
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all over your body.
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So a nice feeling of the first love.
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And the next one, number seven.
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If somebody asks you, Well, how much do you love me?
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You keep telling me that you love me.
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How much do you love me?
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I love you to the moon and back.
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Wow, that's far, that's a long long distance.
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Yes.
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I love you to the moon and back.
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So somebody's trying to express in words how they feel about a particular boy, or girl,
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or woman, or man in their life.
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And this is their way of saying, Yes, I love you in so many different ways.
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And I love you forever.
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I love you to the moon and back.
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We can also say I love you to bits.
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This is a very good British English expression.
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I love you to bits.
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Which means nothing in particular.
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It doesn't have any particular meaning.
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But I think it really does refer to every bit of you.
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It doesn't matter what we're talking about.
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Your hair, your look, your smile, your ears, your toes, your fingers.
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I love you to bits.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Okay, so number eight.
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And this is a an expression where usually would be between friends talking about other
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friends.
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Or between parents talking about their kids.
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So when we use this expression, he or she has got it bad.
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Okay.
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So it means that they are really, really deeply in love.
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I haven't seen Jonathan like this for a long, long time.
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I mean, he's had lots of girlfriends through university in the last couple of years, but
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I've never seen him behave like this with a girl.
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He's really got it bad.
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So when he's got it bad means he's deeply in love.
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Yeah, perhaps this is the one we've all been waiting.
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For the time when Jonathan announced that he was going to get married, perhaps this
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is it.
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Yeah, we'll just have to wait.
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He seems to have it really bad.
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So he's deeply in love with this particular person.
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When we're in love, we have a great feeling of satisfaction.
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And when we're in love, we feel as if there can be no problems in the in the world.
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And we often use the expression walking on air.
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So walking on air, seems to imply that our feet don't touch the ground, we've got that
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little bit of a bounce in our step, no problems that we can see.
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We're just floating, floating on air, walking on air.
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So it gives this impression of complete relaxation, total happiness with what we've got and what
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we found.
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Or the person with whom we have found that particular love.
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So to be walking on air.
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A more informal way to reflect that we are in love with somebody when we say they've
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got the hots for somebody.
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And when they've got the hots for somebody, it means, Yeah, they're really attracted to
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them.
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So boys and girls in the school canteen can be talking about one of the guys in the class
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who's got the hots for another girl in another class.
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So he's got the hots for some of the girls on the volleyball team.
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Or the...
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He's got the hots for the girl who's gone to the other school that they meet from time
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to time.
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So when you're talking about somebody having the hots for somebody, it means really passionately
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in love or they feel that they are passionately in love at the time.
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And so, passion is about hot blooded individuals.
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So when you've got the hots for somebody, it's really an exciting time in your life.
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We can also have our eye on somebody.
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Not quite reflecting the same sort of passion as having the hots for somebody.
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But when you have your eye on somebody, it means you've identified somebody literally,
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who you think is interesting or you think is attractive, or you think that you'd like
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to get to meet.
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Yeah, so we can be talking about Claire.
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And the parents are saying, Yeah, I think she's got an eye on somebody because she's
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been buying a bit of makeup recently.
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She has taken more care about her clothes.
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You know, she used to wear those very loose clothes that I didn't like, but she seems
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to be taking more care about the style.
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She seems to be going to bed earlier and also spending lots and lots of time texting somebody.
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And when I ask, I always get, No, it's ok.
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None of your business.
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So Claire has obviously got her eye on somebody.
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Or perhaps she has had her eye on somebody for a long time.
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And now she's getting more interested or he is getting more interested in her.
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So she's taken a bit of extra special care on her appearance, and spending long nights
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in her room, texting and texting and texting.
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And you can hear that ping, ping ping of the mobile phone.
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Okay, so have your eye on somebody.
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Now, we can win somebody's heart.
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Yeah.
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So how do we win somebody's heart?
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Well, perhaps we have had our eye on somebody for a long time.
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But our love is, as they call it, unrequited.
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It's not returned.
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And we're not quite sure what we have to do to try and make the other person interested
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in us.
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Maybe we have to do something gallant.
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Maybe we have to do something Superman like.
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Or we have to try and impress the other person so that they will take an interest in us.
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So that's what we mean by to try to win somebody's heart.
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And of course, Valentine's Day in the period around Valentine's Day is an ideal opportunity
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for that people used to send anonymous notes or anonymous cards and with a little bit of
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poetry, or some lines with guess who so they might be able to try and work out who exactly
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it is or was who's trying to win their heart.
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Okay, so this is all the little tricks around Valentine's Day.
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You do some act of gallantry and before you know it, you've won her over.
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You've won somebody's heart.
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So to win someone's heart is to get them to feel the same way about you as you do about
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them.
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Okay.
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And then we have to be crazy about somebody.
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Well, we at the very beginning we mentioned to be mad about someone so this is something
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similar.
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To be crazy about someone just means nothing else is on your mind.
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Yeah.
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So everything you do everything you write, everything you talk about in particular is
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about that particular person.
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Him or her.
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And you drive other people crazy talking about it when they are with you.
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For God's sake, stop.
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Or would you just go and do something?
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Ring him or write to her.
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Or meet her or do something but you're, you're driving us all crazy.
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So she or he is crazy about someone.
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Okay.
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And then finally, we have this expression which you find in song I think by John Paul
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Young, called Love is in the air.
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Love is in the air, every sight and every sound.
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Love is in the air.
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Yep, so love is in the air.
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So when love is in the air.
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Well, of course this is the period of, as I said, St Valentine's Day, and love is all
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around us.
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Love is in the air and people have that great feeling.
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They want to go out with each other for a very quiet evening.
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They would like to get that nice bunch of roses or flowers.
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Or they just want to get a simple card with a little bit of chocolate.
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Some little reflection, some little idea, some little gesture that means somebody is
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thinking about them that particular time.
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So love is in the air very, very famous song, as I said, by I think John Paul Young.
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And it's all goes back to the late 1970s, if I'm correct maybe 79-80.
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Something like that.
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So if you don't know the song, you should look it up on Spotify.
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Really, really good to have in the car at this time of the year.
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Really something good to... to listen to something that will lift your heart and lift your spirits
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Okay, so there we have 14 particular ways to say I love you.
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Or to talk about love in this season of love as the Americans say.
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The season of love.
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So hopefully you... you enjoy this season of love, the love theme that we have for our
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particular lesson today.
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Our advanced English lesson 14 different ways to say I love you.
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Okay, so well, thank you indeed.
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I won't say I love you, but thank you indeed for all of you... your attention for watching
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this particular video.
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Okay, so this is Harry.
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Thank you for watching for listening.
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Enjoy Valentine's and join me again soon.
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