00:00Hi everybody, my name is Alisha and today we're going to be talking about the top 25
00:03English phrases, so let's get started.
00:06The first phrase is hello.
00:07Hello, of course, is used as a greeting.
00:10You can greet your friends, you can greet your co-workers, your family with this phrase
00:13just by saying hello, hey, hi, what's up, hello, sup, yo.
00:18Pretty much any time of day you can use hello, hello.
00:21The next phrase is good morning.
00:23Good morning is used as a greeting in the morning.
00:25You can kind of feel when morning ends for you.
00:28Good morning is nice and polite.
00:30Or even just morning with your close friends or close co-workers.
00:34The next phrase is good night.
00:35Good night is fine.
00:36We don't use this to greet other people, we use it when we're saying goodbye to other
00:41people at night.
00:41Family members, particularly mothers and fathers, to say good night to their children before
00:45they put them to bed.
00:46You can say it to your friend in a text message or in an email if you've been talking for
00:50a
00:50while.
00:51Good night.
00:51So the next word to talk about is goodbye.
00:54Use it when you say goodbye to your friends, when you leave your friends.
00:57Goodbye.
00:57Bye.
00:58Of course.
00:59Take care.
01:00Have a nice day.
01:01Peace out.
01:02That's another way to say goodbye.
01:04Okay, the next phrase is I'm plus your name.
01:06Of course, this is a way to introduce yourself.
01:08You can use I'm, in my case, Alicia.
01:10I'm Alicia to introduce yourself in any situation.
01:13New friend.
01:13I'm Alicia.
01:14Okay, the next phrase is what's your name.
01:17What's your name is used to ask someone else what their name is.
01:20So what is your name sounds a bit… try to use what's your name.
01:24If you forget someone's name, you can say sorry, what's your name?
01:27Or sorry, what's your name again?
01:29Next phrase is nice to meet you.
01:31Nice to meet you.
01:32Anytime you meet someone new.
01:33Nice to meet you is fine.
01:35Good to meet you is a little more casual.
01:37Great to meet you sounds very excited.
01:39Pleasure to meet you sounds like maybe a formal situation or a business context.
01:43Okay, the next phrase is how are you?
01:46How are you?
01:47It's just a friendly way to check in with the other person.
01:51You can use it with friends, your family, your co-workers, maybe even your boss to a certain degree.
01:56How are ya?
01:57How you doin'?
01:59The next phrase is I'm fine, thanks, and you?
02:01If you saw English in three minutes, we talked a lot about this phrase.
02:04Instead of I'm fine, thank you, and you, say I'm good, thanks.
02:08How are you?
02:09Just shorten it and make it a little bit more natural.
02:11How are you?
02:12Good.
02:13How are you?
02:14Great.
02:14How are you?
02:15Not so good.
02:16How are you?
02:17Okay, and so on.
02:18So when someone says how are you, offer I usually say I'm good.
02:22This week I blah blah blah, give some information about what you've been up to.
02:26Maybe a hobby, something that you did recently, an event, something interesting you saw, whatever.
02:31People want to make that connection with you and it's a good chance for you to continue speaking.
02:35The next word is please.
02:37Please is a polite phrase used when you want something from someone else.
02:41You can use this as a response when someone offers you something, like in a restaurant, for example.
02:46Would you like more water?
02:46Would you like something to drink?
02:48Oh, please.
02:48The next phrase is thank you.
02:50Thank you is used to express your appreciation.
02:52You can use thank you with everybody.
02:55The next phrase is you're welcome.
02:56You're welcome.
02:57When someone says thank you, you can say you're welcome.
03:01No biggie.
03:01I use no biggie as in no biggie is short for no big problem.
03:05The next word is yes.
03:07Yes, of course.
03:08Yes means is any positive expression.
03:12Someone asks you a question and the answer is a positive answer.
03:15You say yes, yep, uh-huh, yeah, oui.
03:19No.
03:20Next, I'm guessing I know it.
03:22Yep.
03:22The next word is no.
03:24No is a negative response to something when you have to give a negative answer.
03:28So, as you can probably guess, the long form of no is negative.
03:33I like to use nope.
03:34It's very, very casual.
03:36Not gonna happen.
03:37My parents would use that with me.
03:38To soften that a little bit, if you want to show a negative response to something, like,
03:43let's go out for dinner tonight.
03:44What do you want to do?
03:45Like, do you want to go out?
03:47Not really.
03:49No, I don't think so.
03:50To soften it.
03:52The next word is okay.
03:53Okay.
03:54This word comes from copy editors.
03:57Okay.
03:58When they had to check a manuscript, they had to label the manuscript all clear.
04:03A-C.
04:04But because they were copy editors and they have a very, very sick sense of humor,
04:07they thought they would mark it okay for all clear.
04:10To make a joke.
04:11Because O and K do not start all and clear.
04:14But it caught on.
04:16Among everybody in the world.
04:18Anyway, okay is used to agree with somebody else.
04:22Well, it can be used actually to express a positive or kind of a slight negative, I feel.
04:27Transitioning in your conversation.
04:28You can say, okay, now we're going to talk about blah, blah, blah.
04:32Okay.
04:32The next phrase is excuse me.
04:34Excuse me, it's used to get someone's attention in English when you don't know the other person.
04:40For example, in a store, a supermarket, maybe a stranger on the street, you need to ask directions.
04:44You can use excuse me.
04:46You can use excuse me in the supermarket.
04:48Excuse me, can you tell me where the hot sauce is?
04:50If you've done something rude in public, you can use excuse me.
04:54I personally do not do rude things in public ever.
04:57I'm sorry is the next word we're going to talk about.
04:59I'm sorry is used to apologize.
05:00When you have made a mistake or someone you know has made a mistake and you're connected to it,
05:05or you just feel bad, you can use I'm sorry.
05:07You made a mistake at work.
05:08I'm sorry.
05:10You forgot to feed your cat.
05:12I'm sorry.
05:13Sorry about that.
05:14You bump someone next to you.
05:16Oh, sorry.
05:16What time is it is the next phrase when you need to check what time it is.
05:20What time is it?
05:21When you ask someone else what time it is, maybe you say this to yourself too.
05:25Check your watch.
05:26Check your phone.
05:26Check a clock.
05:27Pretty straightforward phrase.
05:28There aren't really any short versions, so that's an easy one.
05:32Where is the plus a location.
05:34So you can use this for a building or a store.
05:37We're not going to use this where is the for a place, a city name or a state name or
05:43a country name.
05:43To do that you would need to remove the.
05:46But where is the bank?
05:47Where is the post office?
05:48You can use this to ask directions, to ask for help in your house or at work.
05:52Where is the copy machine?
05:54Where is the file I need?
05:56Where is the blah blah blah?
05:58Where is the bathroom is perhaps a very important question to know.
06:01The next one is may I use the restroom?
06:03May I use the restroom is a polite and soft expression that you can use if you need to use
06:08the toilet,
06:09you need to use the washroom.
06:10When you're at someone's house for the very first time,
06:13when you're in a place that is new to you, you can ask may I use the restroom.
06:17More casually, can I go to the bathroom?
06:19To be very polite you can say may I go to the bathroom.
06:22The next phrase is I would like to order something.
06:25You can use this at a restaurant probably or in any situation where you need to place an order.
06:30I'd like a pizza.
06:31I'd like a beer.
06:34Can I get the check please?
06:36This will be used at a restaurant.
06:37When you've finished your meal and it's time to go, can I get the check please?
06:40In a very very casual situation, you can just say check please.
06:44That's fine.
06:45The next phrase is see you soon.
06:46See you soon is used with friends and family members perhaps.
06:49When you expect to see them again soon after saying goodbye to them.
06:53This is used at the end of the conversation, you're going separate directions.
06:56See you soon.
06:57See ya is also good or just see you.
06:59To make it a little more formal you can say I'll see you again soon.
07:03Make a full sentence out of it that way.
07:04The next phrase is see you later.
07:06See you later is very similar to see you soon but the point is with see you later is that
07:10you're probably going to meet that person again later on in the same day.
07:14The last phrase is really.
07:16Really is a very useful word because you can use it to show you are interested in a conversation
07:20with upward intonation.
07:21Really?
07:22Really?
07:23Tell me more.
07:23Or to show that you're not so interested in the conversation with downward intonation.
07:28Really?
07:28So there are many other words that you can use similar to really in this way like seriously
07:33or oh, oh and so on.
07:36So it's a really good practice for your intonation.
07:38So those are 25 very common words and phrases in English.
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