I use these words EVERY DAY: Advanced English Vocabulary Lesso

Would you like to use real-life English phrases that real people use every day, not that old textbook stuff? If the answer is yes, you're in the right place. Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com, and here on my YouTube channel, you will learn real-life English, the way that real people speak in the real world. And today you are going to learn 10 common phrases that I use every day in my daily life, and you can too. But before we learn these 10 phrases, you need to know something. You can listen and watch vocabulary lessons all day in English, and you will never remember it unless you use it yourself. So today I have something special for you. Like usual, I have created a free PDF worksheet for you that includes all of today's important vocabulary, but I want you to be able to use today's vocabulary yourself. So hidden inside that free PDF worksheet, there is a link. This is a free link. You can just click on it, and you will be able to download an audio where you can speak out loud with me. We will be repeating these sentences that you hear today in this lesson out loud together. You will be able to use your own voice in English, repeating my pronunciation, repeating my sentence structure, and that way you can use it yourself. The key to never forgetting. So how can you get this free PDF worksheet plus bonus speaking practice? Just click on the link in the description, enter your name and email address, and voila, just like that, it will land in your email inbox. And do you want to know something cool? You never need to sign up for my free PDF worksheets again. I will automatically send them to you every single Friday in your email inbox. You just sign up once, and you never need to sign up again. So click on the link in the description to get today's free PDF worksheet plus bonus speaking practice, and it will be my gift to you. Let's get started with our 10 important phrases that I use every day. Plus there is a bonus phrase at the end that includes a very important difference between American English and British English. I made this mistake with British English many years ago, and I don't want you to make that mistake. So wait till the end of this lesson, and I will tell you exactly how to avoid the mistake that I made. Everyday English phrase number one is inside out. This shirt that you have probably seen me wear in my English lessons is inside out. This is a fixed phrase, and you will never hear it any other way. So it is a great one to memorize. This shirt is inside out. Now this was a phrase that I used in my recent video where I was showing you the laundry and folding clothes. So what we're going to do is you're going to see the original clip from that conversation and how I used it. This is another way that will help you remember it because you are seeing it in various contexts. And then of course, I hope you will be repeating these sentences with me in the free downloadable audio as well. So let's see the original clip so that you can see how inside out was used. Let's watch. First, if a shirt is inside out like this one was, I have to turn it right side out. Isn't that kind of a strange expression? Everyday expression number two is, what do I do now? I need to turn this shirt right side out. Right side out. Both of these phrases use the word out. Inside out and right side out. This is a great fixed phrase to use and you can turn any piece of clothing right side out. You can even turn a pillowcase right side out. When I make my bed, I turn the pillowcase right side out before putting it on my pillow. All right, let's watch how that was used in the original context. Usually for my kids, because they're small, they're young, they can turn their clothes right side out. But I think if I do it while I'm doing the laundry, it kind of saves some hassle. English phrase that I use every day, number three, is comfy, comfy. This sweater is so comfy, I wear it almost every day in the fall. It's true. I was wearing it before I filmed this lesson. And what does the word comfy mean? You can probably guess. It is a shortened version of the word comfortable. Notice the pronunciation of this full word. Com-for-ble, com-for-ble. But good news, we often shorten this word and just say comfy, comfy. So lots of things can be comfy. Clothes can be comfy. Maybe even a house can be comfy. If it is a comfortable place to relax and spend time, oh, what a comfy house you have. This is simply a shortened way to say comfortable. All right, let's see how I used it in that original context. These are really comfortable pants and my oldest son refuses to wear anything else except for sweatpants. Whatever, I don't really care. It's comfy. English phrase that I use every day, number four, is to clean up a mess. I use this one probably 10 times a day. And here we're talking about when something is spilled on the ground. What do you need to do? Well, you need to clean up a mess. And for me, as a mother, I need to clean up a lot of messes, but I also need to teach my children to clean up their own messes. When they spill something, they need to learn to clean up their own messes. So you see there's a little bit of grammatical flexibility here. We could say clean up a mess or I need to clean up my mess. You need to clean up your own mess. It's true. All right, let's see how this was used in the original context. I use it sometimes to dry dishes or clean up messes. I have a lot of messes around my house. Someone is always spilling something. Important everyday English phrase, number five, is father figure. Now when I talked about this in the original context, it was in a little bit of a joke, but when we use this in everyday life, we're talking about an important man who was a role model for you. This is not your real father. This is someone who is like a father to you. You looked up to them. So for a lot of people, it might be your basketball coach, your baseball coach, or maybe a teacher in your life. There is not a specific father figure in my life beside my real father, but I want to give you an example about my current life. My husband, Dan, is like a father figure for some of his students. Some of his students don't have a father who is present in their life. So my husband, Dan, is an important male role model for them. Whether or not they realize it at the moment, he is someone who they look up to and someone who is an important man in their life. He is a father figure to many of his students. All right, let's see how this was used in the original context, and I used it a bit like a joke. It's on a t-shirt. So if you want to get the full context for that, you're welcome to watch the original video where I folded the laundry and talked about it along the way. All right, let's watch. Oh, you have to see this shirt. This is one of Dan's t-shirts that I got him. It says, it's not a dad bod, it's a father figure. Important everyday English phrase number six is in charge of. I love learning phrases like this because when you learn them together, it's easier than remembering grammatical rules like, when do I use of prepositions? What are the rules? No, you just remember the full phrase, in charge of. I am in charge of folding the laundry in my house. Next week, my children will be in charge of checking my neighbor's mail because my neighbors will be on vacation. It is their job to check her mail, so they are in charge of the mail. All right, let's see how this was originally used in the context of doing chores at home and we'll see. Let's watch. Now, Dan, my husband, he is in charge of dishes. So he does dishes every night and I do laundry every couple days. Important everyday English phrase number seven is kind of a long one, so stick with me. It is to get in the habit of doing something. To get in the habit of doing something. For you, you are learning English and I want you to get in the habit of learning English every day. What does that mean? It means you need to have the habit, you need to have the daily routine of waking up and listening to English music, listening to an English podcast while you're driving to work, watching my English lessons while you're having a coffee break. This is the routine of English and notice the grammatical structure here. When you get in the habit of learning English, that last part needs to have an ing word. Learning English. I want to get into the habit of walking every day after dinner. I want to get in the habit of learning English every day. Make sure that you have that final part grammatically correct. All right, let's watch how this was used in the original context. I know it's not good for energy and for the environment, but we use them all the time and I think when you get in the habit of using a dryer, it's hard to break that habit, right? Important everyday phrase number eight is to look back fondly. The key word here is fondly. This means with some happiness, maybe some nostalgia, it's a little bit bittersweet because we're thinking about a good time in the past. We're looking back fondly on something that happened. So let me give you a little situation of something that often happens in my house. When my mother-in-law comes to visit my house and my kids are making a mess, as I talked about before, and maybe it is the third or fourth mess that they have made that day. I might be a little frustrated. Now I have to clean up another mess. What can I do? And she says, I remember when my kids did that. Let me help you. So here she is looking back fondly on something that was probably difficult at the moment. It's difficult to constantly be cleaning up messes for children, but when you are a grandparent, you can think about the past in kind of a more happy way, possibly. It's not that it's not a happy life at the moment, but sometimes those difficult times don't seem too happy, right? So my mother-in-law can look back fondly on all of the things that she had to do in order to raise her kids, and we can do that as well. We can look back fondly on our childhood, and in the future, maybe we'll look back fondly on today. Who knows? All right. Well, let's see how this was used in the original context. Sometimes kids find the strangest things to have fun with, so I leave it. And I'm sure someday when my kids are grown, I'll look back fondly on those silly things. All right. What have we got left? All right. We're almost at our bonus word. It is coming soon, but first let's get to number nine, the ninth important daily life English expression that we use all the time, and that is ideally. So here we have the root word ideal. This is almost talking about perfection. Is perfection possible? Absolutely not. But when we are making plans or dreams, we sometimes think about perfection. This is what I would love to have happen. So for me, in my house, ideally, I will have dinner prepared before my children come home from school. This way, when they're at home, I can just spend time with them, and I don't need to think about cooking. Do you think this really happens? Not very often. That's a lot of prep work. It's a lot of organization, and sometimes I just don't feel like it. So I use the word ideally. In my dream world, this would happen. Ideally, I would be totally prepared when my children come home, and I could just spend time with them. I wouldn't need to be cooking. But this is kind of in a dream world, an ideal world, this perfect world that we don't live in. It's just an ideal. All right. Let's see how this phrase was used in the original context. And I want to remind you that you can use every single one of these words in the bonus audio. You'll be repeating sentences with me so that you'll not only hear me and see that original context, but you'll be able to speak out loud and solidify these words in your mind so that you can use them when you're speaking and having an English conversation. So make sure that you download that PDF worksheet plus the bonus audio so that you never forget these words. Ideally, you will never forget them. All right. Let's watch the original context. This is my husband's colored shirt, so I would call that a short sleeve colored shirt. And it gets hung up in the closet, ideally. So I will put it on the couch. Our 10th important daily life, everyday English expression is to do chores. What is doing chores? Well, this simply means that you are doing those mundane, not fun, usually, tasks that help keep your life going. It might be cooking a meal. It might mean doing the dishes. It might mean going to the post office. It might mean mowing the lawn. These are things that are necessary. They are kind of the structure of our lives, usually, because they happen every day. And these are the things that are necessary, but not always fun. Over the summer, we recently implemented a deep cleaning Saturday with my whole family, and we tried to trick our children into thinking that chores are fun. So we gave everyone a chore to do, and we all do the chores together. This is a way of keeping motivated, but also making it feel like we are a team, we're working together. Kids can do chores. Adults have to do chores, but sometimes it's more fun when we just do chores together. So let's see how this was used in the original context, and I hope you will feel a little more motivated to do chores in your own life. Let's watch. And I think in general, just helping kids learn chores is good, but if you are a parent and you have ever tried to teach children how to do chores, you will know that it is 10 times the amount of effort. Oh, I have so many unmatched socks. Are you ready for our bonus important everyday phrase? It is the word fancy. Now in American English and in British English, this means something elegant or expensive. I have a fancy necklace that I like to wear when I go to a nice restaurant. Okay, that's a fancy necklace. Or maybe you could say, I only want to go to fancy restaurants when I go on a date. I will never go to a simple, inexpensive restaurant on a date. Well, that's a little bit difficult, maybe. But here we're talking about something that's expensive. This is the same in the UK and in the US, but I want you to pay attention and do not make this mistake because in British English, if you are in the UK, let's say you go to London and you're visiting some friends in London and they invite you to a fancy dress party. What do you think that means? I thought it meant you wear a really nice, expensive dress, you get to wear sparkly earrings. Nope. This means that it is a costume party, almost like a Halloween party. Can you imagine how embarrassed I was when I showed up at the party dressed in a really nice dress, my hair all fancy, and everyone else was dressed like a bear, like a clown. What? Vanessa, what are you dressed as, a princess? So don't make this mistake. In the UK, in England, a fancy dress party is not related to the word fancy, like we were talking about, a fancy restaurant. Instead, it's a costume party. This term doesn't really exist in the US. We would just say a costume party or maybe a Halloween party if it's around October 31st. So now you know. All right, let's see how the word fancy was used in the original context so that you never forget it. Let's watch. In the end, I would rather save the time. I don't have fancy clothes. Maybe that's it. If I had fancy clothes, then I would take more care to separate them, but I don't. Well congratulations, you just learned 10 plus one bonus important everyday English expressions in context. What's the next step? Well, the next step is to download the free PDF worksheet and you'll get that bonus downloadable audio, this speaking practice that will help you to never forget these phrases ever again. You will shadow with my voice, speak out loud so that when you go into a real English conversation, you will be absolutely prepared to express yourself wonderfully. To get the free PDF worksheet, just click on the link in the description, enter your name and email address, and voila, just like that, the PDF worksheet will land in your email inbox. It is my gift to you. And now I have a question for you. In the comments, I want to know, in your ideal life, would you wear comfy clothes or fancy clothes every day? Let me know in the comments. I can't wait to see what you have to say. And thank you so much for learning English with me. I'll see you again next Friday for a new lesson here on my YouTube channel. Bye. But wait, do you want more? I recommend watching this video next. This is the original video that included over 50 important daily life English expressions that you will learn while I am simply folding the laundry. You're invited to my house. Go watch that video and find out.