When English speakers speak quickly it can be difficult to understand what they are saying. And sometimes English speakers use shortened words and phrases in writing too.
Here are some popular English neologisms (short slang words):
The letter R can be pronounced in a few different ways. It can be confusing and difficult to understand how to pronounce the letter R because different English speakers from different places who speak with different accents might pronounce it differently.
In this video we review the pronunciation of the words:
road
ride
rug
red
rural
urban
drawer
plural
rarely
temperature
library
choir
regularly
Sometimes it's difficult to say what you are thinking in a foreign language. I've studied other languages and I understand how hard it is to clearly communicate your thoughts, ideas, feelings, and opinions.
Here are a few phrases that will make it easier for you to really tell people what you think, so that they understand you and you don't sound rude.
1. If you ask me ...
2. As far as I can tell ...
3. As far as I'm concerned ...
4. I feel like / that ...
5. Honestly, ...
6. Personally, ...
7. It's my belief that ...
8. To me ...
9. I reckon ...
10. I can't lie ...
11. In all honesty, ...
12. From my point of view ...
13. In my opinion ...
14. The way I see it ...
15. It seems to me that ...
16. I honestly believe that ...
17. I would say that ...
18. I consider it to be ...
Now let's practice using these phrases in real situations!
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Kris Amerikos: Hey everybody my name is Kris Amerikos and welcome to another video. This video is about another advanced topic and the topic today is more is less
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Kris Amerikos: Probably you've heard people say the phrase less is more. And this can be very confusing because most people think that it's not true.
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Kris Amerikos: Right, it doesn't really make sense when we say less is more. If you have less than, how can you also have more right there opposites. But in today's video I'm going to explain how more
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Kris Amerikos: Is really less and how that affects us when we're learning English teaching English, and most importantly, speaking and communicating in English. So first of all, let's look at what people usually believe
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Kris Amerikos: We can call this conventional wisdom and conventional wisdom tells us that this phrase less is more is not really true. It's
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Kris Amerikos: Just a catchy phrase it...
A lot of people who study English make mistakes when using infinitives and gerunds.
And it's understandable why they do - it's difficult!
The rule is that we should say "not" before the infinitive or gerund to make it negative.
An easy way to follow this rule is by remembering the famous phrase by Shakespeare:
"to be or not to be".
Here is a lesson about using infinitives and gerunds:
Here is a lesson presented to a live audience about infinitives and gerunds:
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Kris Amerikos: Hey everybody, I'm Kris Amerikos and welcome to another video before we jump into this video I have to give you a warning.
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Kris Amerikos: In this video I'm going to be using the term native speaker a lot, and I'm going to explain why I use this term and why other people use this term.
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Kris Amerikos: And I just want you to know that you'll need to watch all the way to the end of the video to really understand what this video is about. So let's jump right in.
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Kris Amerikos: First of all, why do people use this term native speaker for the last hundred plus years, people have been using the term native speaker to try to sell things
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Kris Amerikos: And it's not only about English. Although today, most people think that this is related to English language learning
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Kris Amerikos: It's an issue that has been attached to other languages in the past as well. And it's...
This video is about different accents in English.
In this video you will hear native speakers from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. First, the teachers introduce themselves. Then, they each pronounce the same words as the other teachers so you can hear the differences in their pronunciation.
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