REAL ENGLISH CONVERSATION | Learn Real English From Real English Conversations Episode 1

Hey today, I'm going to help you sound more like a native English

speaker in order to do that, you must have natural English conversations.

So today I'm going to show you two real English conversations

between two native English speakers.

I'm going to break down the conversations, explain the words and expressions

that were used and help you finally have a real English conversation.

Like a native English speaker.

Are you ready?

Well, then I'm teacher, Tiffani let's jump right in.

All right.

So the first English conversation that we're going to look at

was actually a conversation I had with my good friend Chanel.

Now we started off the conversation like this.

I said, Chanel, how is communication changing between people Chanel responded.

So first off.

Communication is not happening at all.

Now let me pause really quickly, because maybe you've never

heard this expression first off.

Maybe it's not in one of your English books.

So let me explain in English.

We use this a lot when we are first starting a conversation

and we have multiple ideas or.

So really quickly, let me show you the meaning of this expression.

First off you see this meaning is used for introducing the first of a series

of things that you are going to say.

So my friend Chanel, after I asked her a question, she said, oh, TIF, first off,

Hey, I'm about to tell you my main point.

This is the first in a series of things that I'd like to see.

In English, we say first off, one more time after me for

pronunciation practice first off.

Excellent.

All right, now let's look at this example sentence.

Here we go.

First off.

I want to tell you how much I like your work.

Make sense.

Hey, the first one.

First, Hey, to start, I'd like to say.dot dot.

So in English conversations, we use this very often.

My friend said first off, and then she continued her statement.

So again, we have first off in our conversation.

Now our conversation continued, I listening to Chanel responded, right.

But I want to give you this tip really quick.

You see, she started off by saying first off and it let me know that

even though she had other points, this was her strongest point or opinion.

When you put emphasis on a specific point, it lets the other person know

that they need to listen more intense.

This shows that you have thought about your response and it

reveals your English fluency.

So again, this is why this expression is so important.

When you let someone know, Hey, I have quite a few ideas in my head,

but this first one it's important.

They are ready to listen to you even more.

So we continued our conversation and I said, At all now look again at what

Chanel said, she said, so first off communication is not happening at all.

This is her opinion.

And I asked her a question.

I said at all, now this is what happens when you're having a conversation.

You know, sometimes you don't want to ask someone to repeat themselves, right?

You feel a little shy, a little embarrassed because you're in English.

But look during this conversation, I'm a native English speaker.

My friend is a native English speaker, and I asked her to clarify at all.

So in English, when we do this during the conversation, when we

repeat what someone has just said, it means that it's almost unbelievable.

For example, let's say you and me, that's right.

You and me, we are going to go out to eat, right?

And I say, Hey, what do you want to eat?

And you say, Hmm, teacher, Tiffani, I really love Indian food.

And I say, Indian food.

Now I asked you a question, I repeated what you said, because

it was almost unbelievable.

Why, as you know, Indian food is my favorite food.

So now I'm shocked that you also like Indian food.

So again, you can do the same thing during an English conversation.

Don't be shy to ask someone to repeat themselves.

And if they say something that is shocking or almost unbelieving, All

you have to do is repeat what they said with a question mark, like I did here.

So after I said at all Chanel responded, Nope.

In my opinion, it really doesn't happen.

She doesn't think communication really happens well between people nowadays.

Then I said, wow, can you dive into that idea a little bit?

Now, maybe this is an expression you haven't heard before.

Dive into, I'm basically asking Chanel to give me some more details to explain her

idea or her opinion a little bit more.

And let me give you this tip, why I asked her right.

Dive into your point a little bit more.

This let Chanel know that I was curious about what she did.

Remember that English fluency is not just about speaking.

Listening is also an important skill to master in order to

be a fluent English speaker.

So when there is something that catches your attention,

ask the person to explain it.

It's totally okay.

To ask the person to explain a little bit more.

You want to understand their point.

All right.

So I said, Hm, can you dive into that a little bit more?

So that's exactly what she did.

She dove into it and Chanel said, You know, TIFF, usually we don't have time.

So we just ask people to text us the information we say, email me

the information, or I'll see it online somewhere, for example.

Oh, Tiffani went to Korea.

I found that out on Facebook.

We didn't talk about you going to Korea.

So yes, I have definitely seen the shift in the way we communicate.

There's not as much actual back and forth face to face conversation.

Now I want to show you something before I explain those expressions.

Did you notice what happened when Chanel responded?

Remember in our previous lesson, if you haven't watched it, watch

the previous YouTube lesson.

I taught the three, the simple rule of threes in Chanel's response.

She naturally started to give a real life example.

This is why looking at real English conversations will help you

speak English with more fluency.

Look at how she responded.

Chanel immediately said we email information.

We text people and sometimes we see things online, three examples, and then

she immediately went into a situation.

Tiffani went to Korea.

I saw that on Facebook.

That was a real example.

So again, with English fluency, you have to add things from real life.

And that's exactly what happened in this real English conversation.

Now, there were a few things that Chanel said at the end

that I want to explain to you.

You see, at the end, she said, shift and back and forth.

So, let me explain to you what these two expressions actually mean.

We already had first off, I explained that one to you.

Let's look at shift now shift after me, pronunciation shift.

Excellent.

Last time shift.

Very good.

Now this just means referring to an idea and opinion or things of that nature.

It means to change.

There was a shift.

In the opinion, there was a shift in something.

So we say a change, but she used the word shift.

Now I want to show you an example sentence using this word.

Here we go.

Society's attitudes toward women have shifted enormously over the last century.

I'm going to say it one more time.

Society's attitudes toward women.

Have shifted enormously over the last century, I could change the

word shifted and put the word change.

Women have changed enormously over the last century.

So you see similar meaning to the word change, but it's another very useful word

to use in a real English conversation.

Now another thing that she said that was also very useful, she said

back and forth, back and forth.

Now, remember I've taught you.

I taught you in a previous lesson about the conversation.

English conversations are kind of like a tennis match.

I hit the ball to you.

You receive it, you send it back.

We go back and forth back.

That represents two fluent English speakers.

So back and forth, it's actually an argument or discussion in

which two or more people alternate in sharing their perspectives.

I said, Chanel, what do you think?

She gave me her opinion.

I said, wow, can you dive into that a little bit deeper?

We went back and forth.

This is back and forth.

And it happens all the time in English conversation.

Now, let me show you an example sentence that you can use this expression in there,

having a real back and forth up there.

Can you hear them yelling once again, they're having a

real back and forth up there.

Can you hear them yelling again?

I'm just saying, Hey, they're upstairs having a heated discussion or an

argument they're going back and forth.

Kind of makes sense, right?

Again, think about tenants.

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All right, guys.

So again, I want you to practice this back and forth so that you

can master it and speak English like a native English speaker.

Now let's go to the next conversation again.

This conversation, same topic, my friend Chanel, and I were talking

about communication and I'm breaking it down so that you can see.

Just how native English speakers have real conversations.

So our dialogue continued conversation.

Number two.

Now this time I also started the conversation and I asked her,

I said, Chanel, what are your thoughts on talking to strangers?

Now just very quickly to make sure you know, what a stranger is.

A stranger is someone you don't know someone on the street.

Someone you've never met before we say stranger in English.

So I asked her, what are your thoughts on talking to strangers?

She never responded.

So I don't really think it's good to talk to strangers.

That's her opinion.

Now I know some of the older people like those in their late

sixties or early seventies.

They will talk to any and everybody she's giving an example.

It doesn't matter what you're doing.

You could be smoking on the side of the street.

They'll stop you and talk to you.

What just happened?

Remember I taught you last week in a natural English conversation.

When you're giving a fluent English response, you must either give

details, reasons or examples.

And Chanel naturally went right into.

An example.

She said, yeah, I don't think it's okay to talk to strangers.

However, people in their sixties and seventies they'll talk to anybody.

She talks about half your smoking on the street.

They'll stop you and talk to you.

Think you can visualize what she's saying again, supporting her opinion.

Right?

So again, how did I respond to her idea?

Now?

You notice though really quickly she said any and everybody, I

want to explain that to you.

This is something you won't see in an English book and the, and everybody,

but it's something that native English speakers use when we're having natural

and real English conversations.

So in the end, everybody here.

This is kind of a slang term or informal expression.

And it emphasizes that all types of people are included.

Not excluding anyone.

Hey, any, and everybody can come here.

For example, any and everyone.

Can study using my English lessons.

I hope you guys love them right in the end, everybody.

And stay till the end for story time, because I'm going to tell you about

one of my friends and how any, and everybody connects to my friends.

So stay tuned.

All right.

So let me show you an example sentence.

Here we go.

My friend talks to any and everybody, this is a true statement.

I have a friend that we'll talk to in me and.

Means she will talk to anyone.

All right.

So in English, after me, we say in the end, everybody.

Excellent.

Last time.

Any end, everybody.

Good job.

Good job.

All right.

So let's keep going with the conversation again.

Chanel told me that, Hey, you know, older people will talk to any and everybody.

So how did I respond?

Well before, excuse me, let me give you this English tip real quick.

Notice how Chanel immediately went into a real example.

I mentioned that this is something again, that happens in

natural English conversations.

You make your point and then immediately support it with either

an example, reason or detail.

I just wanted to emphasize that 0.1 more time.

All right, here we go guys.

Come on.

All right, so we have this one right here.

How did I respond?

Wow.

That is so true.

They talked to you and you know that you have no other choice, but to answer

out of respect, what happened this time?

And forth, back and forth, back and forth what Chanel said.

I understood it.

I agree with it all.

That's so true.

And I responded, my response was related to what she said.

So how did Chanel respond after I said that, then Chanel said he, yup.

And that's why they do it.

But to go back to your question as for me and my house or for me and my family,

We do not talk to strangers because there are some crazy people in this world.

How about you?

You see now she sent the ball, the tennis ball back to my court.

She gave her opinion.

Then she summarized.

You noticed how at the end, she said her opinion.

Once again, at the beginning, she said, I don't think it's good to talk

to strangers, even though old people.

My household, we won't do it.

So it's always good.

When you're giving an answer to sandwich it, your opinion

support, and then your opinion.

Again, this is something that happened naturally in this conversation.

Then she said, TIFF, how about you?

So how did I respond after she put the ball in my court?

I said, okay, I see exactly where you are coming from.

Hold on to you.

What does that mean?

I see exactly where you are coming from.

Let me explain.

Don't worry.

It's not as hard as it seems.

Let me explain.

So see where you're coming from to see where someone is coming from.

It just means that you understand.

Why that person has a particular opinion often, although you

do not have that opinion.

For example, I am a vegetarian, I love food, but I don't eat meat.

And I also am basically a vegan.

I don't eat cheese.

Now.

I have friends who love me.

And that's okay.

So they'll tell me, Tiffani girl, this steak is amazing and they'll

tell me all the seasonings that were put in the steak and all the flavors.

I don't eat meat, but I can say, Hey, Hey, I see what you're coming from.

I know it's probably delicious.

It's not for me, but I can see where you're coming from.

I see that you have that particular opinion and I understand.

It may not be my opinion, but I see where you're coming from.

Kind of makes sense.

Right.

All right.

So let me show you an example sentence.

Here we go.

Here's an example sentence.

I would have taken the dog to the vet, but I could see where they were coming from.

So maybe somebody told us individual don't take the dog to the vet.

It's not that serious.

All you have to do is give your dog this medicine and he'll be okay.

So I would have taken the dog, but I could see where they were coming from.

I didn't agree.

Totally.

But I could see, I could understand this is a very, very commonly

used English expression, even in natural English conversation.

So not just in.

In natural English conversations.

So once again, let's look and see what Chanel said.

Excuse me, what I said.

Cause I used it one more time.

Here we go.

So again, I said, okay, I see exactly where you are coming from.

So my opinion is a bit split.

It means it has two sides.

On one hand, I am aware of the fact that talking to strangers can be dangerous

because of the world that we live.

But on the other hand, people are losing communication skills

due to improving technology.

Now, wait a minute.

I said something on one hand.

Why did I say on one hand, whoa, stay with me.

How many hands do you have?

You have two hands, right?

You have a left and a right hand.

You may be watching it and it's flipped for you.

But my left and my right hand, two different hands.

So I can say on one hand, one opinion dot, dot dot, but on the other hand,

second opinion.dot dot visuals, kind of help you understand, but let me show you

exactly how to understand this expression.

On one hand, it's used to introduce a statement that is followed by another

contrasting or opposite statement, which is typically introduced.

On the other hand.

So on one hand.dot dot, but on the other hand.dot dot make sense.

All right.

Let me show you an example.

Sentence really quickly.

Here's the example sentence right here.

On one hand, I really ought to support my team.

On the other hand, I don't have the time to attend all the games.

Two opposing opinions.

I should support them.

I can't support them because I don't have time.

So in English we say on one hand may sense, right?

Again, natural English expression that comes out in real English conversation.

So let's go again, back to the conversation, right?

We have back to the conversation.

I wanted to show you that one again.

Here we go.

So again, continuing.

In the past, you could sit down next to a stranger and have a full-on conversation

about the weather that doesn't happen as often now, because it's hard to gauge.

If someone is a good person or a bad person.

Now I want to pause really quickly because I'm giving my opinion, but I

use another expression and another one.

We used to have full on conversations, but now we can't gauge if someone

is good or bad again, I'm giving supports for my answer, for my opinion.

But what does full on actually mean?

Here we go full on means it's used to describe things or activities

that have all the characteristics of their type or are done in the

strongest or most extreme way possible.

I said a full on conversation.

That means we're going deep.

We're talking for a long time.

It's a really good back and forth.

We're going back and forth in this conversation.

That's a full on conversation.

And that's what I was saying in the past, man.

We used to have really full on conversations.

Now let me show you any the other examples and then using this expression.

He wanted to do a full on documentary, but he wanted it to span over a long time.

So he wanted to do everything.

He wanted to include everything that's normally in a full documentary.

What happened in the beginning and the middle and the end of a person's life

or whatever he was actually following for the documentary we say full on.

So for pronunciation after me, Oh on.

Excellent.

All right.

So we have full on and I said a full on conversation, but I said, nowadays,

it's hard to gauge if a person is good or bad, what does the word gauge mean?

It means to estimate or determine the magnitude amount or volume of something.

It means to make a judgment about something.

Usually people's feelings.

Watch,

can you gauge if I'm upset or how.

You can say, ah, it's a little hard to gauge what teacher Tiffani is feeling,

but I think she's not happy right now.

Now I was just acting, you know, that I'm happy all the time.

All right.

So we say gage in English.

Let me give you an example sentence.

Here we go.

Here's the.

It's hard to gauge what he is really thinking.

It's hard to determine what he is really thinking.

Makes sense.

Right.

All right.

Good.

So let's go back to my opinion again.

I said, Hm, that doesn't happen as often.

Now these conversations, because it's hard to gauge.

If someone is a good person or a bad person, people are becoming

much more isolated or to them.

So for that reason alone, I think it's okay to talk to

strangers in certain situations.

So again, we'd had this great back and forth.

She gave her opinion.

Then she asked me, Hey, TIFF, how about you?

I gave my opinion and I supported it.

Right.

And then at the very end, I restated my point.

So there are so many things in this lesson that I want you to practice and to.

Remember, we learned lots of words and vocab expressions, but I want

you to remember always support your answers, always go back and forth.

And when you start with your opinion, give supports, and then end with your opinion.

Once again, I really hope you enjoyed this episode of real English conversations.

I hope it helps you master English conversations and finally

start sounding like a native.

Speaker and speaking English fluently.

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I hope you all have a wonderful day, a wonderful week, but as

always remember to speak English.

You still there, you know what time it is?

It's story time.

I said it's story time.

Alright.

So remember, during the lesson I taught you all the expressions.

In me and everybody.

And I promised you that during story time, I would tell you about one of my friends

and how Emmy and everybody relates to her.

So when I was in South Korea, this was during my last two years in South

Korea, maybe last two or three years in South Korea, one of my closest

friends from college, she also came to Korea and she was an English

teacher, a missionary English teacher.

My friend, myself and three, actually three other friends and

then one of their boyfriends.

So it, where there were two couples and then my best friend and I, so

we all decided to go on a vacation together on vacation together.

We wanted to, excuse me, I'll get some water.

We wanted to rent an RV and RV.

So an RV is kind of like a mobile home, like a home on wheels.

It's a vehicle that had.

A bathroom, a shower, a kitchen, everything inside bedrooms and everything.

So we all decided to go to the beach and the beach actually had

mobile homes right at the beach.

So we were so excited, right?

We've all been working hard and we were ready to go on this trip.

So we all traveled the three hours by train to get to the beach we got there.

We were planning to be there for about four days, three nights and four days.

So we got to the mobile home.

Now you have six adults, right?

In this small area, we were all very close.

So we weren't worried about having any, you know, arguments or anything.

We were all very close.

So, and my best friend and I had been friends since college.

So no one was worried.

So my, one of the couples, they actually were married.

So we said, Hey, you guys can have a large room.

You guys are married.

The other couple, they were just dating.

So they bunked in the same room with myself and my best friend with me.

So everything was going well.

We were having a good time.

The food was good.

My best friend likes to cook.

I like to cook.

My other friend likes to cook, so it was great.

We'd watch movies together.

And it was really a time for us all to bond.

We had a wonderful time one night, uh, late at night, uh, we decided to go

out on the beach and we had fireworks.

I mean, it was great even now thinking about it.

I'm realizing how much fun.

So on the day, I think the day before we left, we had to leave

the next morning we decided, Hey, let's just chill on the beach this

afternoon for like two or three hours.

Just chill, relax, talk, have some snacks.

All of a sudden.

Okay.

That's cool.

But my best friend from college.

She is a very outgoing person.

She's a very, she's the epitome of an extrovert.

If you look in the dictionary, you'll see her picture.

She's really an extrovert.

She loves people like you all would love her.

So we get to the beach, you know, just, uh, maybe about a two minute

walk from our mobile home and we're setting out our blankets

and everything and my best friend.

Then she, she then asked one our other friend's boyfriend.

Don't you want to go do something?

And he was like, what do you mean?

And she asked us guys don't you want to do something?

And we said, well, we are doing something.

We're going to sit on the beach and just talk and bond and have a good time.

She said, no, but I don't want it to sit on the beach.

Like, we're on vacation.

I want to do something.

So we said, Hey, um, we just want to sit on the beach.

Now I know her very well.

And I knew what she was asking.

She did not just want to sit on the beach because she was going to be bored.

So she said, And I said, okay.

And my other friends looked at me, they said, TIFF.

I said, she's fine.

She's fine.

She just wants to go explore.

So we sat on the beach for like two or three hours and she

was gone for that entire time.

So right when we were about to go back to the mobile home, we see her walking toward

us and she has this big smile on her face.

And she said, oh my goodness guys.

I went over there.

I went around the beach and down there, and there were so many people and I

was just hanging out with them and we were talking, laughing and joking,

and apparently they were having some party outside, just the beach party.

And I could tell by the look on her face that she had the best time of her life.

So my other friend looked at me and said to me, She really

had the best time of her life.

I said, listen, she can talk to any and everybody.

So I know that she was not shy and that she had an awesome time.

She said, well, you're right, TIFF.

She had never, my friend had never seen my other friend in that situation where she

just wanted to go and be around people.

So we had a great time.

It was interesting when she left us, when we were all by.

But I said, listen, this is the beauty of different personalities.

Some people just like to stay with the group.

And some people like to be within me and every body.

So maybe that's what you are like, maybe that's your personality.

You just want to explore and meet new people.

That's cool.

Or maybe you're like us.

You just want to relax, spend time with your clothes.

Both are a, okay.

All right, guys.

I hope you enjoyed this story and thank you again for watching this lesson.

Remember to practice.

Remember you can speak English and I am your teacher to help you along the way.

I'll see you next time.