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We don't really need the language part and you're gonna ask everyone so we want to generalize it to all people, brothers and sisters. Can you teach me more English brothers and sisters? And the answer is yes we can. All right let's continue on. Sleepwalkers here so we can start officially. Palavi. Hello Palavi. I see your name everywhere. Good for you Palavi. Anyway good to see you Palavi. I know who you are. I see you everywhere. Michelle. I see Michelle is very active on YouTube. My other channel. Good for you Michelle. I see you're doing those quizzes. Anyone else here? Mr. Whale. Hello Mr. Whale. Farida. Hello. Otika's here. Dia. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry if I mispronounce your name. Marine. Hello. Good to see you again. Oh Farida got the notification from my channel. Great. Good for you. And Dia. Yeah. Yeah. Please the mean the word. Okay well I'll help her out here with this. So this is from Dia. Yeah. Please the meaning of the word pitch with examples. Now Dia I want to help you but you I usually I usually tell my students I am not a dictionary. Okay. So what that means is I usually don't answer questions of what does this word mean because you can go to the dictionary and see that. Now what I do do Dia is you bring in example sentences of so you go to the dictionary and you try to learn the word you bring in example sentences and I will fix those I will help you understand and fix those example sentences but I don't I don't do dictionary with the live streams because you know in the past so many people what does this word mean what does this word mean and so I decided okay you have to help me help you you try to learn the word bring in some example sentences and I'll tell you if you're right or wrong and Dia I don't mean to disappoint you but that's the way we have to do it. Laila has you know let's just stick with this Laila so oh why do we have purple that's just black I've heard an American guy says I've heard an American guy say we would say say is it wrong although an American guy oh so the you're asking I've heard an American guy say um I don't know the rule but it should be say so if we substitute he an American guy is a he I've heard I think this is the problem here I've heard if I said an American guy says an American guy says blah blah blah but when we say I've heard an American guy say so uh I don't know the rule there must be a real rule but when you're I have heard say sorry that's a good question I right I just don't know uh I cannot answer you exact the exact rule but I know what you're talking about so what Laila is talking about maybe someone here knows the rule now when we say I've heard an American guy say something say let's just put a word there hello I've heard an American guy say hello so she's asking why do we say because we you know he says an American guy says we should the third person singular here we should you says but in this case I've heard an American guy say we don't be says maybe I just I know the I just can't think sorry Laila you're too advanced for me sleep walker is going to make my how do we change a default I have come across a grammar structure had better all right let's like a look you let's you'd better go there so I know that's a special form which tense are these kinds of sentences future tense uh yeah you I'm not a grammar teacher so I don't want to I don't usually teach a grammar I just I'll just teach the sentence form you had better go there that's your suggestion or advice and let me spell that correct so any sentence beginning with you'd better just think of that as someone's giving advice you'd better something something it is it is talking about that person's future activity because it could be talking about right now you'd better eat that right now so I don't want to label it with you know what what tense is that I don't know the name of the exact tense but just think of it don't worry about it that way just know what it's giving advice you'd better do this uh but it's a very useful grammar what's the name of that grammar it doesn't tell me the exact name of that grammar point it's just they say it's just the first suggestion the name doesn't matter just how you use it okay uh lay less is I'm gonna go back a bit to sleepwalkers just make sure you guys saw that I don't know if you saw it you'd better go there suggestion or advice you know that's lay this question in a bit so you'd better go there you'd you'd better study English suggestion or advice someone's giving that advice uh it's not we we shouldn't really think of that as a it's future or present tense because it's just you're giving the advice right now so it could be about now or the future ongoing forever all right I'm fresh off the boat when do native speakers use this expression well it's kind of a negatives expression so we wouldn't really say you wouldn't really say it to yourself because it's negative so I might say he's fresh off the boat that's going to mean he's new to the country let's get my let's fix my grammar so uh is this common yes should you know it yeah if it's you might hear it again so if I say you know maybe I met my job and we got a new worker and I might say to my friends or my co-workers he's fresh off the boat and that's negative that's not a good thing to say I am saying he's new to the country and when like an immigrant a new immigrant to the country like he came it doesn't matter if he came by boat or airplane we just say he's fresh off the boat you cannot change it he's fresh off the airplane if he comes by airplane or she or whoever comes to the country they're new we always just use the expression he's he's fresh off the boat which is he's very new to the country and it's usually negative it's not it's not a nice thing to say and because people who are new to the country you know sometimes they don't know how things work and they make mistakes and you know they're awkward and uncomfortable so he's fresh off the boat so let's give it the example dialogue did you meet the new worker yes he is very slow he's fresh off the boat means he's new to the country all right so I don't want anyone here to use it it's not a good thing to say but you might hear it in a movie or some readings all right I gotta move on justina hello tika okay nowadays I lost my motivation in learning English what do I do to keep myself to stay motivated to study English it has been two days I'm feeling lazy to do my assignments excuse me do your assignments uh you know you don't you don't have to study English every day of course I'm your teacher I want you to study English every day but you don't have to study English every day you can take a break for a few days and you know sometimes we get lazy and tired and we just want to do nothing even me sometimes just take a break but come back always come back we're always here we always want to help you improve your English don't give up do your assignments be diligent tika oh yeah has an example here's an example I was pitch dark okay it the weather was pitch dark and rainy so it the weather was pitch dark okay in this sentence pitch is an adjective to describe dark so pitch dark drag dark I don't want to capitalize pitch dark so this pitch we want to emphasize dark and what would this mean with it would be really really dark so in this case good word you should know it pitch dark really really dark pitch black really really black we usually use it only only for dark and black I would not say pitch white pitch red pitch blue no we use it for dark and black it's just one of those words we emphasize dark or black pitch black we want to say it so thank you dear for bringing that that's one way to use pitch pitch has many meanings I'm not going to teach all the meanings right now unless you have an example sentence oh so tika continues with her we got tika drama today it needs to be done that's your assignments very soon yet I procrastinate I procrastinate in doing it I procrastinate doing it I procrastinate I think what you say I procrastinate in doing it so good word procrastinate and delay you know you have to do something she has to do her assignments but she's delay delay delay I don't want to do it now I'll do it tomorrow I'll do it day after tomorrow delay delay very late so procrastinate tika I believe in you tika I think you have you're diligent and you you know you can procrastinate on something but don't be late okay you can delay it a little bit but don't be late layla is there any specific idiom or phrase to express in case time goes fast well yes we say time flies that would probably be the most common idiom to express time goes fast time flies time flies fly but because time is it time flies all right we got pilavi here one is pilavi say hi sir sir just call me robin let's fix up this english what's to do what's to do to speak like english native speakers well I'm going to change your question here because the grammar is a little awkward I'm going to change it to a how question how do I speak how do I speak like english native speakers or can we become english native speakers well or can we yeah we uh well these are two different questions let's split them up how do I speak like english native speakers well everyone asks me every day of my life that question and what is my answer today well pilavi the truth is unless you live in an english speaking country you're probably not going to talk like a native speaker but you nobody here needs to talk like a native speaker I I talk like a Canadian native speaker but I do not talk like an american native speaker or a British native speaker I don't need to talk like them I just need to uh and to be a native speaker usually we consider a native speaker someone who is born in an english speaking country but you don't need to be a native speaker but you know fluent is the key word so fluent or upper advanced these are these you know native speakers a native speaker if you're born in an english speaking country or you went to that english speaking country when you're very young you can probably be a native speaker but that's not important what you want is fluent is which is still 100 percent understanding of the language uh yeah you can be fluent pilavi but that's going to take a lot of work that's going to take daily study for hours hours every day do you need to be fluent I know you want to be fluent do you need to be fluent well I don't know what your career goals are but you know I think for business english if you're working at a company that does business in english upper advanced is enough or middle advanced that's enough for business english so unless you're planning to move to an english speaking country you don't really need fluent or native speaker level that's not going to help you so uh for work upper advanced is enough well there's never enough english you just keep studying but uh I don't know pilavi what are your goals uh hey elissa I was going to say long time no see but that would be a crude joke so unintentional joke so I'm not going to say it although I just said it and leila rubs it in your face she says hi elissa nice to see you again uh ferrita what does break down and break something down again bring me some example sentences for you ferrita I'll help you up elissa ask which one's correct I already met him or I've already met him are they even the same they're the same there's a slight technical difference but uh they're the same unless you're unless you're taking a test but don't I don't worry about it uh earlier today I tried to do the quiz of used to and is used to on show english online let's take a look the link is not working now let's go to youtube my other channel show english I just released this video uh about an hour ago used to used to there's the video let's go to the link click uh-huh it's not working all right I'll fix that I'll fix that link uh why is there an error sometimes there's errors sometimes there's errors sleepwalker or sleepwalker can we say I used to use it better let's put it up on the white board can we say I used to use it or I better just to say I used it I used it before uh oh interesting question you guys got some difficult questions today and I'm and I'm the teacher so I gotta answer these right I'm the professional can't disappear um I think the used to is more you know I got a good answer I used to is more for uh an activity I I used to use it yeah like how can I say this if we're talking about a hammer the simple tool a hammer nothing interesting about a hammer it's just one item you would probably say I used a hammer before you'd use this I used a hammer before you wouldn't say I used to use it because uh you still use it right you might use it in the future so when I say I used a hammer before that means in the past I have an experience using a hammer means I have that experience I have that knowledge I used a hammer before and I might use it again in the future I'm just trying to tell people I have that experience I used to use it we wouldn't use that for a hammer we would use that I used to use what would you use I used to use uh belt for my pants okay so this means yeah in the past I use the belt for my pants but I don't anymore okay so I used to something I did in the past but I don't anymore I use the hammer I have that experience and yeah I can do it again in the future hope that helps let's move on to the next actually trying to fix that Pallavi thank you uh probably my website this is from Dewey every student has motivation to learn English they want to go to abroad for study and exam not everybody but my motivation only well I want to help my kids study English every day yep everyone needs motivation helping the kids that's good motivation could you please simple fly what simplify why there is a me pronoun after used to in the following sentence oh I understand why yes she used uh that is not the question you need to cap copy the question okay oh that's question she's used to me helping her uh let's if I change it like that I'm used to him giving me money I'm used to her she's used to Robin helping her they're used to me helping them all right so she's used to me helping her I'm used to him giving me money she's used to Robin helping her they're used to me helping them uh that's how we can structure she's used to this is the activity me helping her him giving me money uh Robin helping her so we can use it in that way right I think I fix the used to quiz used to let's see if I like that let's see if the quiz is working yeah quiz should be working now I fixed that all right let's move on next question I teach physics naturally mr. whale is quite impressive if you teach physics physics I cannot teach teacher oh la what is teacher this is wrong or correct we're right or wrong which color do you like so which color I'll use American spelling you use British spelling that's okay which color do you like uh maybe I have I have two items I have nothing I have no items to compare I don't here no I have nothing here well you have two items and one you know maybe here I'll use my cell phone case now this is a black case and maybe there's a white case and you would ask the clerk might ask you which color do you like do you like the black or do you like the white and you would say uh just I like black which which color do you like I like black Alyssa do you rec oh Alyssa uh Alyssa do you recommend clubhouse for improving our speaking skills now long ago uh teacher sherry recommended me to join clubhouse and at that time I tried this was about a year ago I tried to join clubhouse but it was only for apple phones now I maybe they have for android phones I don't know but I didn't join it I didn't check it I don't know Alyssa it's up to you to experiment test it see if you like it I really don't know anything about it has anyone used the clubhouse app maybe someone else here can give a review of that app good or bad lay that says nowadays I have a big fish to fry but I feel time flies is it correct it is correct it is correct but uh don't string and a lot of students do that they learn a lot of idioms and then in in their in their sentences they put a lot of idioms and we say string string here don't string idioms together means one idiom connected to another idiom so in your sentence uh you say I have a big fish to fry which is an idiom but I feel time flies which is another idiom and native speakers might do that but I would say for you don't don't string idioms together which means one sentence one idiom try not to put two idioms or three idioms or more in in a sentence one sentence one idiom is enough so trying to make sentences of just idioms not so good don't string together it is correct though it just doesn't sound uh natural yeah how to measure my fluency is there something specific oh well let's fix your yes dear how to how to measure my fluency is there something specific that I can use to measure my fluency yes dear the best english test in the world and the best and only way to accurately measure your fluency is to talk to a native speaker there is no written test there is no online test to measure fluency you got to talk to a native speaker have a conversation with a native speaker how much do you understand how much do they understand that is the true test and the true measure of your fluency so if you can talk to a native speaker and you understand 100% and they understand you 100% then I would say you're fluent if there's some problems and you will know oh I have a problem listening to that native speaker or that native speaker doesn't understand my pronunciation you're going to know right away your problems there is no online test that can do that the best and only true measure is talk to native speakers leila I believe in my ability so I work hard on my english to reach upper advanced level I don't know how much time I need well maybe you're already upper advanced leila have you ever thought about that uh he is a low key person he is a restrained person do those sentences mean the same all right he let's fix it up he is a low key person he is a restrained person do they mean the same they could but they're a little different so low key kind of means yeah that that person is quiet not so active low key is calm quiet not so active he is restrained that person also could be calm quiet not so active so that person can be acting the same way but the reasons are different low key person means naturally that person is calm quiet not so active naturally he is restrained means maybe that per that person is actually very talkative and active but they are trying very hard to stay calm and quiet so yeah I could describe the person but their motivation to be calm and quiet might be a little different restrained so low key is more natural and restrained that person is working hard to stay quiet but on some levels yes they do kind of mean the same thing so if someone is restrained uh yeah let's see depends on the context but yeah they could mean the same depends on the context not always though case by case uh leila I'm puzzled about the meaning of rent and hire I'll rent him my house for one year yeah he hired two men to fix his car uh could you simplify them well I think you know rent is pay weekly or monthly to use something these are dictionary words hire pay someone for a job so going back to your sentences uh you can't say I'll hire him my house for one year that doesn't work because that's not related to the job and you can't say he rented two men because we don't rent people you this is a job so we have to hire for a job and I'm going to check the dictionary let's check good old Oxford let's just check hire and yeah you know the dictionary is clear on that leila you should be able to get that to give somebody a job you hire and rent I'm picking on leila an amount of money that you regularly regularly pay so you can use a house room you can use some item or thing I hope that clears it up all right it's Farida what does she say rent and hire whenever I watch your live stream I'm usually doing the chores while I'm all ears and concentrating on your lesson okay all ears there's an idiom all ears means I'm listening I mean all ears okay she is used to me helping her leila I'm glad you brought that question Leila me helping her uh who's Leila again well who could you please let me know what is the difference between remind Robin for learning this live remind Robin about remind Robin in I don't know remind someone remind remind for no I don't think we use remind for remind Robin about and remind Robin for well let's make so remind Robin about his class starting and I might say if I'm using time I might use in 10 minutes remind Robin now about his class starting soon remind Robin in 10 minutes so this in would be used for time and about is the topic Robin remind Robin for I don't know Robin for do you have a sentence you didn't give me full sentences so it's hard for me to know Farida I love pink Zacharia clubhouse is useful good to know should I download you know should I download clubhouse IELTS will not measure uh Zacharia IELTS is a measuring tool but IELTS you know IELTS academic is kind of test making sure that you are at a high listening and reading and speaking level so you can survive at a university or a job so it is a good tool it you know we need we need measuring tools and IELTS is a measuring tool but it's not the best tool there are many problems with IELTS of course a native speaker is always the best tool but I think if you study for IELTS it really pushes you to increase your level of English so all of you if you really want to reach that next level of English IELTS can push you to that level but of course I have talked to a lot of people who have studied IELTS got good scores on IELTS but actually they're not their English fluency is not really good just they you know you don't get into the trap of studying for the IELTS mastering the IELTS but actually your general English is not so good you know IELTS is a tool to help your general English don't just focus on IELTS okay Leila I read I read you I'm reading the comments but I'm not going to reply to every comments but I'll get the question here it's important to note that none of the lines and marks I made thus far are actually intended to be seen by a viewer does thus far in this case means so far yeah so she's asking about this thus far good expression it's important to note that none of the lines and marks I made thus far so yeah so far or even until now similar similar as these let's put that red red is bad so let's put it as green let's change that to black and why am I spending so much time fixing this sentence so does thus far in this case mean so far yeah so it's important to note that none of the lines and marks I made thus far it's important to note that none of the lines and marks I made so far it's important to note that none of the lines and marks I made until now all of those mean the same thing leap walker wow that's interesting to know such little nuances man sleep walker you got a good vocabulary about the adjectives said hello justina what's the meaning of play by ear uh that's the wrong so we got a lot of idiom talk tonight um idioms let's let's give a few more extra minutes on talking about idioms now I don't recommend anybody study idioms directly because I don't know why English students think oh I gotta I gotta know idioms to master English and idioms are like the last thing the last thing you want to study about English I know it's fun to study English but actually idioms don't really make you fluent they don't really uh help you pass tests they you don't need to say them it's just a and usually idioms are spoken by old people old people like to use a lot of idioms uh the older in English younger people will use more slang and the older people will use more idioms so I usually you know don't don't worry about idioms guys of course there are some very very common idioms you should know but stuff by play by ear no and the problem with idioms is they have to be perfect when they are spoken uh you cannot change a word so let's use this one play so play by ears so this student justina wrote it down wrong you already wrote it down wrong uh you didn't you you know if you're gonna ask if you're gonna learn the idiom and you're gonna ask about it you should try to type it out correctly so the idiom is play it by ear it usually means the uh musical instrument uh it can so when someone is playing the piano and they play it by ear uh that means they they I guess they they have to read the sheet music the music they got to read it but if they play it by ear they're not reading any sheet music they're just playing it uh because they memorized the the notes and how to play it so they play it by ear just by listening so play it just by listening not reading sheet music okay that's usually where we might use it but uh we can use it in other cases not related to music so play it by ear means not really prepare something like that or plan just we'll do it we'll do something as we as we as we go along we will do something so I would have to know where did you see this idiom to really help you uh but it's not not play it by ears play it by ear okay higher rent uh okay well higher higher rent uh when will that mean the same I can hire a taxi I can rent a car I can hire uh oh here's a good one I can hire a driver I can rent a driver here I'll use this one so some cases they might be the same it might be the same uh or very similar so I can hire it for my car I can hire a driver which means I give someone a job to drive my car or I can rent the driver I can give them a job more temporarily actually both of these in this case very similar very similar so some cases higher and rent might be very similar and you might have been confused about something about that but 99.9% of the time higher and rent just mean the dictionary terms who is it Layla oh la no problem nowadays I watch many videos on youtube only for fun after that I leave comments yes you always leave a comment the good thing those native speakers who who are are owners of the channels or are owners of the channel under our owners of the channels how many channels do you go to understand me and reply not replay reply to me all right that's a good point uh uh leave comments on youtube channels to practice your english I think it's a very positive way to you know when you visit a youtube channel you watch the video and you practice leaving your comment in english and if that person replies they understand you success I think it's a good way good practice Layla I think continue doing that uh for my channels I often get comments in other languages when I get comments in other languages I'm a little bit disappointed because I have an english channel and I you know you know some of the cons I usually translate the comments and some of them are good video and I'm like did they need to write that in their language you know I think they could write that in english so uh my advice to everyone here is if you leave a comment don't don't write it in your language write it in english all right ola's gone davie james hello to get any questions and Zachariah there we go good question here do you rent a house to someone or let it to them I think it's the same thing it says let's see if there's a difference difference for the most part it's the same I always use rent but yeah I've heard let it out so same thing if I sign up in a if I sign up in a course to learn something online can I say I've just attended the class or do you need a situation instead of attend no I attended or I went to the class I just went to class I just attended the class both of those are okay hushan ask him to stay if he came or comes if he comes ask him to stay uh let's say stay for dinner if he comes that's not a question ask him to stay for dinner if he comes mr well thank you all right I think uh we're gonna finish up in a minute or so uh thanks guys for your questions today I hope uh I hoped I helped you with your english I improved it a little bit I'll be back again next week hopefully I'm starting to cough some good questions today and did my best I'm not perfect but you know it's hard to answer questions immediately without preparation but hopefully we we uh we got the right answers um oh sleepwalker I joined the class yeah that's another one sleepwalker my assistant teacher sleepwalker uh I went to class I just I joined the class yeah thank you assistant teacher sleepwalker I joined the class I just went to the I went to class I just attended class I joined the class there's probably more I I'm tired now so I can't really think of them uh okay could you tell me the the days you teach in a week uh it's up here Sundays 1330 GMT UTC so you know I don't know your country but you check uh Greenwich Mean Time that's usually London time what time is it in London it should be 1330 in London and then that's the time I teach you every Sunday um all right thanks guys I'm getting sleepy it's what time is it here 11 30 p.m. I'll see you again next week thanks a lot