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hi i'm vanessa from speak english with

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vanessa calm do you want to make your

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english more natural of course let's

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talk about it of course you want to

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speak english naturally no one wants to

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speak english like a textbook but maybe

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you're like me and you're impatient you

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want to learn now fast without waving I

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want to learn how to play the piano now

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I want to learn how to speak all the

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languages in the world

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now maybe you want to speak English

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naturally now but unfortunately these

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things take time

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as they say anything worthwhile takes

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time but today I have a little secret

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I'd like to share with you four English

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hacks that will help you to speak more

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natural English right now a hack is kind

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of like a shortcut an easier faster way

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to do something and these four words

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that we're gonna talk about right now

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are things that will help your English

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to sound more natural immediately

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without having to study tons of lists or

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books you'll just change these four

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words and boom your English will sound

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much more natural let's start with the

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first one the first one is changing the

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word receive to the word get you might

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have noticed that there are a ton of

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expressions with the word get in English

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in fact I made a video about some of

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those top expressions up here you can

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check out that video if you'd like but

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if you would like to sound more natural

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and more conversational I recommend

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saying get instead of receive I received

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your email I got your email you can use

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this in maybe business conversations or

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in a business email sometimes I use it

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in emails when I want to be more formal

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but really most of the time you can use

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get you can change

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I received your text message - I got

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your text message I received your

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package in the mail I got your package

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in the mail when you use got or get in

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these situations it's just gonna sound

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so much more comfortable

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and more common in daily conversation

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all right let's go to the second hack my

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second suggestion for helping you to

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sound more natural right now is to

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change prefer to I would rather now

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native speakers do use the word prefer

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but it's more common to say I'd rather

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when you're talking about something

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that's your preference so let's take a

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look at a quick example if someone asks

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you do you want to listen to Queen you

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might say no I prefer to listen to quiet

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music when I'm studying or you can make

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it even more natural and say no I'd

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rather listen to quiet music right now I

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would rather listen to quiet music right

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now I'd rather or I would rather let's

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imagine that your coworker is trying to

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plan a meeting and they ask you can you

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have a meeting tomorrow afternoon you

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could say well I prefer to do work in

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the morning or even better you could say

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I'd rather do work in the morning I'd

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rather have a meeting in the morning I

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would rather and then you can state your

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preference it sounds great all right

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let's go to the third one the third hack

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is changing many to a lot or a lot of

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you probably learned many much in your

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elementary school textbooks but today

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I'm here to tell you if you change it to

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a lot of you're gonna sound amazingly

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natural so let's take a look at a quick

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example you might say I ate many cookies

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okay it's grammatically fine but if you

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want to sound even more natural you

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could say I ate a lot of cookies I ate a

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lot of cookies and you can change this

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pronunciation to be linked together and

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say I ate a lot of cookies I ate a lot

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of cookies I hate a lot of cookies

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yesterday and now I don't feel so well

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we just talked about many but I want to

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let you know that with the word much

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much is often used in negative

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situations you can use both much or you

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could use a lot of both of these are

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commonly used so you might say there

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isn't much coffee left there isn't

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much coffee or you could say there isn't

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a lot of coffee left here we have a

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negative sentence isn't is is not so you

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could say there isn't much coffee left

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or there isn't a lot of coffee left and

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both of these are perfectly natural the

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fourth and final hack to help your

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English sound more natural right now is

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changing the word very to the word

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really the only time that I use the word

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very is if I'm emphasizing it kind of in

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a funny way very loud like that so let's

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take a look at a quick example you might

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say the concert was very loud okay

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grammatically it's fine but if you want

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to be even more natural you could say

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the concert was really loud the concert

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was really loud and it was too loud for

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me I had to go it was really loud for me

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I might say very only if I was saying

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the sentence like this the concert was

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very loud kind of emphasizing that word

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almost in a comedic way or strange way

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so I recommend using the word really in

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these situations let's take a look at a

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couple other examples you could say I

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haven't been to the beach in a very long

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time no problem it's fine but you don't

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want just fine you want amazing right so

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let's say I haven't been to the beach in

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a really long time we're just changing

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very with really beautiful and now it's

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your turn

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I want you to use all four of these

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English hacks to speak more naturally

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right now my question is would you

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rather get a lot of really fresh warm

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cookies or a lot of really expensive

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glasses of wine hmm what's your

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preference can you use all of these

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expressions in your answer write a

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comment below and I'll try to give you

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some feedback and help you as much as I

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can

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thanks so much for learning with me and

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I'll see you again next Friday for a new

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lesson here on my youtube channel vite

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thanks so much

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bye