Learn English with Robin | 60 Easy English Lessons for Beginners

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Hello everyone.
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I'm Robin.
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And Welcome to this video.
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This is a very long video.
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Because it is a collection of many of my English lessons over the years.
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You can find all kinds of English videos in this one large video.
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You can find videos about learning
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basic English
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conversation, vocabulary
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slang, idioms
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pronunciation
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There are some business videos.
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There's all kinds of content to help you to improve your English.
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So check out these videos.
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If you have any questions or comments,
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just let me know in the comment section below.
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of give me a shout on Facebook.
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Alright?
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Let's get started.
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Hello everyone. My name is Robin.
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And this video we’re gonna talk about very common, important, useful slang
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sucks!
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Okay?
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You must know it.
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It is so common.
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You probably already heard it in American TV or movies.
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Alright?
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Now suck or sucks is not a bad word
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but it is slang and it is little bit rude or impolite
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so you should only use it with your friends. Ok?
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Be carefully using suck or sucks.
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Be carefully using suck or sucks.
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Let’s look at the grammar.
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Now the grammar is the most students make mistake using it. Okay?
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So you have to follow this
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I suck You suck We suck They suck
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Alright?
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She sucks He sucks It sucks X sucks
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What’s x?
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Well x is maybe someone’s name… like Steve sucks.
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or some book. This books sucks. Alright?
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So we have to follow this grammar.
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You know it is a verb.
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These are the rules for using a verb
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Never say, “they sucks”. Okay?
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Some of my students, "They sucks".
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It sounds very strange. Okay? Don't do that.
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She suck. She suck.
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oh, don't do that. that is terrible. Okay?
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They suck. She sucks.
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Okay. Be very clear and careful with the grammar.
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Please.
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Alright. Lets look at the meaning of suck.
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There are two main meanings
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The first one. You're not good at something. Okay?
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You're not good at doing something. You're terrible.
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And in my example here. "I suck at math." "I suck at math."
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So...this means very simply I'm terrible at math
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Okay. I suck at math
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So after suck you probably want ‘at’.
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This means not good at this subject.
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I suck at math.
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So remember the grammar.
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I suck. I suck.
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The next one, "He sucks at French".
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He sucks. Okay?
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So he sucks at French.
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He sucks at French.
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Okay? He's not good at french.
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Okay. So you're not good at something. You suck.
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The other meaning… you don't like something.
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Okay, your very disappointed .
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You don't like something.
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This movie sucks.
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Okay?
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This movie... this movie we would put under the x category.
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This movie sucks.
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This movie sucks.
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This movie is terrible.
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This sucks.
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It sucks.
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Okay?
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Many ways to express you don't like the movie.
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Homework sucks.
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Of course. Homework sucks.
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I hate homework.
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I don't like homework.
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Homework sucks.
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Alright that's the two meanings of sucks.
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Alright you gotta be very careful using ‘suck’ or ‘sucks’.
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Follow the grammar.
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It's a very good to use. Very useful.
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Lets look at some examples right now.
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Alright, here are the example.
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The first one,
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"You suck at playing basketball. You're terrible"
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"You suck at playing basketball. You're terrible"
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The next example.
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"This food sucks! Do you have some other food?"
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"This food sucks! Do you have some other food?"
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The next example.
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"My new iPhone sucks! It has too many problems."
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"My new iPhone sucks! It has too many problems."
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The next example.
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"Your car sucks! It is dirty and old."
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"Your car sucks! It is dirty and old."
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The next example.
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"My job sucks! I will quit soon."
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"My job sucks! I will quit soon."
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And a last example.
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"This restaurant sucks! Let's go somewhere else."
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"This restaurant sucks! Let's go somewhere else."
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Okay. So I hope you have an excellent understanding of how to use suck or sucks.
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Make sure you know the grammar.
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And I just want to talk about that again because so many my students say it wrong.
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They wanna express something is bad so they say, "this suck".
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"Oh this suck!"
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Okay...
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This is so wrong and you sound silly. Okay?
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You sound stupid when you use wrong grammar with this slang.
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So you gotta be careful.
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This has to be 'sucks'.
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This sucks.
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This sucks.
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That "s" is so important. Okay?
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Don't forget it
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And you want to insult someone and you want to say a bad thing to someone and you say "you sucks".
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Okay if you say "you sucks" to me, I'm not angry.
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I'm laughing. Okay because it is so funny.
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Because you're using wrong grammar.
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You sucks. That's funny.
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It has to be "you suck". Okay?
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So if you want to say something bad to someone, "you suck".
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And they're going to be very angry.
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If you say, "you sucks", they're laughing at your grammar. Okay?
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Be careful with this grammar.
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It’s a good slang word to use. You must know it. Okay?
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So good luck and i hope you learned a lot in this video.
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