HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH THE RIGHT WAY

Hey, in today's lesson, I'm going to teach you how to speak English the right way.

That's right.

I'm going to help you sound like me, a native English speaker.

Are you ready?

Well, then I'm teacher Tiffani.

Let's jump right in.

All right.

Here's the very first situation.

We see this woman sitting on her sofa looking for a movie, but if you had to

describe the situation like a native English speaker, what would you say?

Well, the very first thing you could say is this.

I saw that she was scrolling through the videos on her tablet.

Now this expression, scrolling through on the video, you saw that

she was doing this with her hand.

Maybe you do the same thing with your cell phone.

When you're looking through images or through pictures, you

are actually scrolling through.

So after.

Scrolling through.

Excellent.

Very good.

So again, you can describe this situation by saying, I saw that she

was scrolling through the videos on her tablet, or you could say this, she's

debating which movie she should watch.

Again, she's debating, she's thinking about, ah, maybe I should

watch this movie, ah, may, maybe this movie or maybe this show.

She's debating trying to figure out which option would be the best option.

So after me debating.

Excellent.

So again, you could describe the situation by saying she's debating

which movie she should watch today.

Or you could say this, the woman is trying to decide which show

she wants to binge watch today.

Now, this is something that I love again, I'll say it binge watch.

Excellent.

Now, this is a term that we use binge or binging something.

For example, I love watching Korean dramas.

You know that I speak Korean for my Korean students and eo, and I love

watching Korean dramas on Netflix.

Maybe you do too, but sometimes I can't hold.

I can't stop myself, and instead of just watching one episode, I want

to watch each and every episode in one sitting while binging.

That means to watch everything at one time.

You sit down, you get some popcorn, you get some food, and

you watch the show back to back.

Each episode.

In English, we say binging or binge watch.

So again, in describing this situation, we could say, and you could say

the woman is trying to decide which show she wants to binge watch.

Makes sense, right?

Okay.

Now there's another way you can describe the same situation again, helping

you understand how you can actually speak like a native English speaker.

Here we go.

You could say none of the movie titles caught her attention.

Now say this again.

Caught her attention.

Now this is an expression that we as native English speakers, All the time.

And if you wanna sound like a native English speaker, you need to

also start using this expression.

So what does it mean?

Caught her attention?

To catch someone's attention.

For example, right now I have your attention.

Hey, yeah.

You're watching me, right?

You're listening to this lesson.

You're watching this lesson.

So I have your attention, but I have to make sure the

lesson is interesting, right?

And informative in order to catch and hold your attention.

So catching someone's attention, meaning it means to have something interesting,

present, something interesting that holds someone's attention, that causes

someone to be interested in it, right?

None of the movies she kept scrolling through because they

weren't catching her attention.

Make sense?

All right, now watch this.

The same situation.

You can also say, she finally found a show that looked intriguing after me.

Looked intriguing.

Yes.

Very good.

Now intriguing just means something.

Wow.

Very interesting.

Mm.

I think I want to know just a little bit more about this.

That's what intriguing means.

It causes you to be interested to want to know more about it.

So as the woman was going through and scrolling through the movie

title, She finally found a show that looked intriguing.

So that first situation, now you can describe it using five sentences.

Five example sentences that native English speakers use in real life.

So you can speak English the right way, but what about this situation?

This is a different situation.

We have a young man here, and if we wanted to speak English and

describe this the right way we could.

The young man was contemplating his next move again, the young man was

contemplating thinking about thinking deeply, trying to decide his next move.

Again, look at the video, look at the situation.

He's thinking hard.

His hands are moving.

Mm, what should I do next?

The young man was contemplating his next.

What about this though?

We could also say, ah, he couldn't make up his mind about the job offer.

Remember, we're talking about speaking English the right way, like a native

English speaker, and for this situation, you could also say he couldn't make

up his mind about the job offer Now.

The expression make up your mind.

It literally just refers to making a decision, making a choice, choosing

something, saying, Hey, I got this.

This is my decision.

I'm done making up your mind.

Imagine, okay, you all know that I love good food, right?

Imagine you go to a Mexican restaurant, wooey, all my Mexican student.

You know, I love Mexican food, and you walk into the restaurant and

there are so many different options.

Things look so good.

There are burritos, they're tacos, and you just can't choose one.

You just can't make up your mind because you want everything.

You caught it.

Right.

Again, make up your mind just means to make a decision or to

make a choice, to choose something.

And that's what we're saying about this individual.

He can't make up his.

We could also say this though.

Ah, he was feeling a bit overwhelmed because he had so many options.

He was feeling a bit overwhelmed.

Again, a little stressed, right?

You, you're a little bit overwhelmed.

Ah, I, I can't figure out what, what to do.

I, I don't know if I should go left or go right.

I, I'm a little stressed.

I, I, it's too much for me.

I am over.

When things feel like they're too much for you to handle, when you feel stressed,

you can say, I feel a bit overwhelmed.

Again, an expression and words that native English speakers use

speaking English the right way.

So you can say he was feeling a bit overwhelmed, or you could say this.

His boss told him that it was a pressing.

So he was trying to figure out the best solution.

Now, this is a very important expression that Native English

speakers use, right pressing matter.

I want you to imagine this, right?

If you're watching this, um, I wanna show you visually.

If you're listening to it, don't worry.

Follow along.

Imagine your hands.

Putting them together and then pushing.

You're literally pressing against each other, right?

The top hand and the bottom hand.

Right?

Right in the left hand are pressing against each other, right?

So when we say a pressing matter, it means something that is putting

pressure on you or on the company or on your team, something that is super I.

Meaning, Hey, we have to stop everything else because this is the most important.

It's putting pressure on us.

We have to get it done.

There's a deadline.

It's super important.

There's a pressing matter.

Again, putting pressure on you, on your team, or on your company.

In English, we say oppressing matter.

Hey.

Listen, this is a pressing matter, so I need you to stop

everything else that you're doing.

Make sense?

All right, so again, looking at this situation, his boss told him

that it was a pressing matter.

Look at this individual, look at his eyes, look at his hands.

It's like he's really trying to figure out a.

Make sense.

Now, there's another way you can describe this situation.

In English.

You could say, I could see that he was racking his brain trying to figure out

what caused the problem now racking his brain, again, this is just, this is an

idiom and it just means really thinking.

Thinking hard, trying to find a solution.

You're really focused, okay, wait a minute.

If I do this, this will happen.

Okay?

But if I do that, this will happen.

And again, you're trying to figure something out, trying to find a solution.

In English, we say you are racking your brain makes sense, right?

So again, this individual, he is trying to figure something.

We can say he's racking his brain thinking very hard, thinking very

deeply, trying to figure something out.

Now, what about this situation?

Again, learning how to speak English the right way.

Situation number three.

We have two young men.

They look like they're in their twenties and they are just jumping, looking like

they're having a wonderful time jumping in the water, but how can you speak

English the right way about the situ?

Well first you could say the ice cold water sent chills up

his spine when he jumped in.

Now, another expression we use all the time in English

sending chills up your spine.

Now your spine refers to your backbone, right?

Your back, the spine, right?

And I want you to imagine something, something.

Scares you, right?

And you feel like the hairs on your body kind of bing, right?

Or all of a sudden you feel like these chills going through your body

when you get scared or when something happens that shocks you, right?

We say it sends chills up your spine, like that sudden feeling.

So when these young men jumped into the water and they realized it was ice

cold, all of a sudden it was like, ah.

Oh my goodness, the water is freezing.

It sent chills up his spine.

But what about this, we can describe the situation like this.

The two boys wanted to cool off, so they jumped right into the water.

Now, cooling off, that just means, woo.

Oh my goodness.

You're feeling hot and because you're hot, you want.

Cool down or cool off.

And in this situation, the boys want to cool off.

Hey, it's hot outside.

It's summertime.

Let's jump into the water and we can cool off.

We won't be hot anymore.

Or we could say this.

They jumped in as if they didn't have a care in the world.

Now, having a care in the world, it means a, everything's okay.

I'm not worried about a thing.

So when someone doesn't have a care in the world, it just means

they aren't worried about anything.

So if someone says, Hey, how are you?

How have you been?

You can say, you know what, I don't have a care in the world.

Everything is gravy.

You remember that one?

That's slang.

Everything is gravy.

Just means everything's good.

So we can say the same thing about these individuals, these

young men jumping into the.

Or we could say he let out a loud shriek as he jumped into the water.

Now a shriek is just a loud, like a scream, right?

Like, ah, right.

a little loud for you.

Don't worry.

You can say shriek.

Shriek just means a scream.

Again, you're speaking English and using the right way.

Using English the right way, right?

Describing this situation.

You could also say this.

The boys realized how strong the current was when they jumped into the water.

Now the current, right?

When we say the current, I want you to imagine not jumping

into a swimming pool, right?

But remember in the situation, the boys were jumping literally into

what looks like a river, right?

And when they jumped into the river, when you have natural bodies of.

Underneath the water's moving.

Look at the water.

If you're watching this, the water is moving.

Even before they jumped in, the water was turning right?

That's because underneath the water is pushing forward or backward.

Again, we refer to that movement as the current, the flow of the water, right?

In English, we say the current and sometimes the current can be

nice and slow, not too strong.

While, other times it can be extremely strong and it can push you and

force you to move a certain way.

So again, the boys realized how strong the current was when

they jumped into the water.

We see the current was extremely strong.

But what about this situation?

This situation is also very interesting.

Look at this beautiful.

Now again, in trying to speak English the right way, how would a native

English speaker describe the situation?

Well, first we would say the two love birds looked amazing on their wedding day.

Now love birds after me.

Love birds.

Yes.

Good.

I love it.

Now we just say a couple that's extremely in love.

We call them love birds.

Very simple, right?

Maybe you and your husband, or you and your wife, or you and your girlfriend, or

you and your boyfriend, your love birds, ooh, you absolutely love him, right?

We'd say you are love birds.

So to describe the situation, we would say the two love birds looked

amazing on their wedding day.

Or we could say this, they looked like two peas in a pot.

Now this is an idiom, two peas in a pot.

Think about the food.

We have green peas in America, and I'm sure you might have

it in your country as well.

And peas come in, what is called a pot.

They're next to each other and they're grouped together, right?

So when we say two individuals look like two peas in a pod, it

means they look like they are.

To be together.

Two peas in a pod just like this man and this woman.

They look like two peas in a.

Or we could describe the situation like this.

His love for her was written all over his face.

Ooh.

You could tell how much this man loved her.

It was written all over his face.

Another idiom.

That just means by looking at you.

I can tell.

Ooh, I can tell how you feel by looking at you because your

facial expression says it.

His love for her was written all over his face.

Or you could say, listen, no one could deny how much they loved each other.

Deny.

Deny.

Now, this just means no one could say anything otherwise.

No one could say Uhuh.

Nope.

They don't love each other.

No one could deny why?

Because it was a fact.

You can't disagree with this?

Deny No, that's not true.

You can't disagree with this.

They love each other.

Look at them.

They're so in love no one could disagree with.

No one could deny how much they loved each other.

And finally, what about this?

If you're describing this situation using English the right way, they

gazed longingly into each other's eyes.

Ooh.

Gazed longingly.

I'm gonna show you what this looks like, and again, I'll explain it for

those listening to the audio version.

Gazing means to look at someone or to look at something and not look

at anything else, for example, Right now I'm gazing at you.

Mm.

You're beautiful.

Mm.

You are handsome.

I am looking at you right now.

I am gazing right now.

Gazing longingly.

It means you're looking at the individual and there's a sense of desire like, oh

man, I wish I could be with him, or I wish I could be with that individual.

Gazing again, looking at something for a long period of time and just

staring at it and then longingly with a sense of desire and hope.

Gazing longingly makes sense, right?

So again, the man and the woman, they gazed, longingly into each other's eyes.

Now that makes sense, right?

Again, you're learning how to speak English the right way,

like a native English speaker.

But if you have this situation right here, Ooh, I love this.

A family eating together, smiling it.

It might be Sunday morning, but how can you speak English the

right way about this situation?

You can say they were.

To throw down . Now I wanna teach you a little bit of slang.

Hey, you gotta speak like a native English speaker.

So again, in this situation, they're eating together, right?

They're making their plates.

So what does throw down actually mean?

Well, throw down means you are about to eat your food, consume

all of your food, and complet.

Eat everything in front of you.

It means you see there's a good meal and you are about to woo.

Eat that meal and be happy you are about to throw down.

So for example, on Thanksgiving Day, my mom mm, made an amazing meal.

Delicious.

So I made my plate and woo, that thing was, it looks.

And I said, I am about to throw down, meaning I am about to consume

and eat everything on this plate.

Makes sense, right?

Again, it's slang, but it's good for you to know.

Here we go.

So again, they were about to throw down, or you could say this,

everyone was looking forward to diving into the delicious meal.

Diving into, now I want you to think about swimming, right?

You dive into the water, right When you dive, you go directly into the water.

So when we say dive into a meal, we're saying you are gonna be

focused and going directly into that meal, focusing on that meal.

Not anything else.

Just eating that meal.

Diving into, and again, you can tell that they were about to dive into,

to go right into the delicious.

But you could also say this, the children loved to eat their

grandmother's scrumptious food.

Again, you're learning how to speak English the right way, using the right

expressions, idioms, and words and expressions that English speakers use.

Native English speakers.

So what does this word scrumptious actually?

Scrumptious just means extremely delicious.

Your mom's food, maybe your dad's food.

Think about your favorite food.

Mm.

Just thinking about it makes your mouth water scrumptious.

Extremely delicious.

So, The children love to eat their grandmother's scrumptious food.

Or you could say this, the little girl said that she was

going to devour all of her food.

Again, we're describing the same situation using English the right way.

So what does devour mean?

Devour literally means to dive in, to throw down, to consume

everything I am about to devour.

This cake.

I'm about to eat each and every part of this cake.

In English, we say devour.

Excellent.

So again, describing this, they were going to devour the food.

The little girl was going to devour all of her food.

But what about this to describe the situation, you could say the woman was

trying to serve her husband, some of the.

To serve her husband.

Now, this might be done in your culture as well, where the woman serves her husband.

Depending on where you're from.

Many cultures have it set up to where the woman serves the man.

Serving just means you prepare something and you give it to

the person, you serve them.

Hey, I'll do it for you here.

Right serve someone.

So again, the woman was trying to serve her husband some of the fruit.

Now again, in today's lesson, you learned how to speak English the right

way, about five different situations.

I hope you enjoyed the lesson and I hope to talk to you in the next one.

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You still there ? You know what time it is.

Ain't nothing changed it's story.

I said it's story done . Alright.

So what I wanna do is tell you a story.

Some of you might know this story.

It's something that happened to me when I first went to South Korea, but I'm

also going to use some of the words and expressions that you learned today.

So you know that I love good food, right?

But prior to going to South Korea, I had never tasted any type of Korean.

Now I love Korean food, but I didn't know what Korean food

was when I first went to Korea.

So I remember landing in South Korea.

The airport was absolutely beautiful, right?

I got picked up by our, uh, representative from the institute

that I was going to be working at, and so we are all in the car, in the

van actually driving to the institute.

We're all meeting each other.

We're we're new missionaries, new English teachers, and we were excited, right?

But we were also quite hungry.

because it had been a long flight.

So we arrived at the institute and it was nighttime, so we just got a snack, right?

We didn't get a full meal, but the next day we woke up and we

went through our training, right?

We went through our training, they gave us breakfast, and we were all

looking forward to lunch because we knew lunch was going to be nice

because we were all super hungry.

We were going to devour the food, right?

We were gonna throw down, so lunchtime.

and we went to the cafeteria area and you could tell it was written

all over our faces that we were looking forward to a good meal.

So we walked up to the area where we were supposed to get our food.

Now remember, we hadn't had Korean food before, right?

We only knew the food of our individual countries, and many of us were Americans.

There were some British individuals and some South Africans.

So I remember walking up to the front of the area with my plate in my.

and I saw things that I recognized, but I also saw things that I didn't recognize.

And at that point, I wasn't necessarily ready to try something

new because I was starving, right?

So I said, okay, let me get the things that I know.

So I got different things that I knew, and then I saw what I thought.

Was pasta.

I said, oh yes, I am about to throw down.

So I loaded my plate with what I thought was pasta, right?

I put it on my plate and then I added some other vegetables and some

other things that they had there.

So I sat down at the table with the other missionaries and other English

teachers that had come and you know, we said prayer, I'm a Christian,

and we said prayer, and I mean, literally my mouth was watering.

So I took my.

And I started eating some of the vegetables.

Everything was seasoned very well.

Koreans can cook really well, and then I said, oh baby, oh baby, this pasta.

Cause it had this special sauce on it.

So I took my fork and I stuck it into the pasta and I said, wait a minute.

This pasta's a little bit thicker than I'm used to.

I said, but it's okay.

I'm.

and I stuck it in what I thought was pasta.

And I put it in my mouth and I started chewing.

I said, mm, no . I didn't say it out loud, but I said, this is not pasta.

You see, in actuality it was the folky, right?

Um, the folky is rice cake, basically.

It's kind of like rice cake.

It's like a rice that is put in a certain form, right?

And it's extremely chewy.

Now just to.

Americans in general, we are not used to extremely chewy

things on our dinner plates.

We have, of course, candy, but there aren't too many things in in our food

categories that include chewy food, right?

They're in cute chewy, right?

They're not really chewy, and I didn't wanna offend anyone,

so I continued to eat it.

I didn't spit.

But I said, I was talking to myself.

I said, what I won't be doing is eating any more of this.

This is not pasta.

I thought it was pasta, but it wasn't.

So I said, I won't be eating this again.

Fast forward 10 years, four years, three years.

. The folky became one of my favorite Korean dishes, in the beginning because it was

something that I was not familiar with.

I thought it was pasta and it wasn't, but because it was something I wasn't familiar

with, I said, no, I don't want it anymore.

But living in Korea for almost 10 years and eating it more and

more, all of a sudden it started to become one of my favorite Korean.

What's the message as you are learning English?

Sometimes you're going to learn something or see something that you

think is too difficult, too hard, and, and you don't wanna keep going.

Don't stop.

Keep moving forward, keep trying, keep reviewing, keep studying and

what will happen to you will be the same thing that happened to.

Not only will you start liking what you're learning, your English

will improve and you'll be much better than you were before.

Hope you enjoyed this story and maybe you also tried something, some

type of food that you weren't, uh, really fond of in the beginning,

but in the end, you loved it.

Let us know in the comment section.

I'll talk to you in the next lesson.