How to use the word 'afraid' and Q&A - Learn English with Simple English Videos

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This week's lesson is a Q&A.
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Question and answer.
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Hey, we're back in our room with interesting things.
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Yes, they come from all over the world, like the questions you've sent us.
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So what's this lesson about?
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We're going to look at a way to say 'go away' - and also how we use the word 'afraid'.
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And we want to tell you about our live classes.
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But first I want to say a huge thank you to our viewers for the captions they've been writing
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A few weeks ago we asked for help.
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We asked our viewers to write captions for our videos in other languages.
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The response was amazing.
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Since then we've had more than 70 or 80 different caption files submitted.
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It's incredible.
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I feel really touched that so many people have been helping us with this.
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People have been so kind and I feel so happy and grateful to them.
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These captions are helping us grow our channel and they're helping learners who need a little
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merci beaucoup to you Cecille, you're a star.
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You're all stars!
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And we also had a caption file from Vietnam but I didn't know who sent it.
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You don't?
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No, sometimes the system doesn't tell us so I hope I didn't miss anyone.
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If I did, please forgive me.
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We're really very grateful.
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And if anyone wants to help, please do.
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I'll put a link to the video here so you can find out more.
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OK, now what about a question.
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Nimky had a question about a video we showed where someone says 'Beat it'.
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Go on now. Beat it.
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Nimky says 'Beat it - what it means?'
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So he means, what does 'Beat it' mean?
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Yeah OK. Nimky it means get out of here.
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Leave me alone.
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Go away.
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It's very direct - an order.
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But I think it's quite an old fashioned expression.
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What do you think, Jay?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I would say just 'Get out of here.'
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That works in British English too.
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And in British English we could say, 'clear off'.
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That's very direct too.
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I would probably say it to someone I was close to but probably not my boss.
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Umm. Would you say 'clear off' in American English, Jay?
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Absolutely not.
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I would just say 'Get out of here'.
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OK, that was a great question Nimky.
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Thank you.
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OK, next question.
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Amit Chakroborty writes I saw most of the people use the sentence 'I'm afraid that...'
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Ah, I think he means I saw many people use the sentence, yeah.
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I'm afraid that.
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But I don't know, what does it exactly mean.
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So what does it mean exactly?
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Could you tell me how I can use this sentence, I'm afraid that...
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Another great question!
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The word afraid has a couple of different meanings in English.
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The first one is to feel fear - to be frightened because you think you might be hurt or something
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bad could happen.
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What kinds of things are people afraid of Jay?
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Umm. Heights, for example.
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When you're high up and look down and feel dizzy.
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Yep, afraid of heights.
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And I'm afraid of spiders.
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Argh!
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And going to the dentists.
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I'm afraid of that.
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I know something else that you're afraid of.
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What's that?
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Mice.
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Help, help!
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What?
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I saw a mouse.
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Where?
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It ran into your office.
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I'm afraid to go in there.
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So we use afraid to say we're frightened of or nervous about something.
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But there's another meaning of afraid, and I think that's what Amit is asking about.
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Yeah, it's a different use of afraid and it's very common.
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If we want to say we're sorry about something we can say 'I'm afraid...
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We use it when we're being polite.
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So, let's look at sales.
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I'm afraid we don't have this month's figures yet.
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Never mind.
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We can use last month's.
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Oh good.
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Last month's were better.
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So 'afraid' is like an apology there.
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Yes, an advance apology because we think we're going to disappoint someone or upset them
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or annoy them.
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It ran into your office.
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I'm afraid to go in there.
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What happened?
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It's gone.
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Well where did it go?
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I'm afraid it went to your office.
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Well, I'm afraid we don't have time for any more questions.
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Ah.
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But come back again and we'll answer some more.
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