I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com. Let's speak fast English. Let's talk about it.
Let's imagine the scene. You have had a long, hard day at work. So you come home,
sit down on the couch, you're ready to relax and watch the new English TV show
or movie that you've been waiting to watch. You turn on the TV and, oh my goodness,
they're talking so fast. Can other people actually understand this? Is there some kind of secret?
Do they know something that you don't know? Well, today, you are going to learn what makes American
English fast, so that you can understand fast English and speak like an American yourself.
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download for today's lesson. You will find all of the pronunciation points, sample sentences,
and you can answer Vanessa's Challenge Question at the end of the worksheet. Make sure you click
on the link and the description to download it now. In today's lesson, you will see my most
popular videos about how to speak fast English, so that you can speak fast too. Let's watch.
Today we're going to talk about the 10 most important sentences in English, at least according
to me. And because you use these sentences a lot, all the time in daily conversation, it's a great
opportunity to practice using them naturally, and pronouncing them correctly. So if you say
them three or four times each day, you want to make sure that you're pronouncing them correctly,
and that's what we're going to do today. Your challenge today is to try to imitate and repeat
exactly what I say. I don't care if you are on the train. If you're at work and your boss is looking
at you. I don't care where you are, it's your job to speak out loud, because if I say them,
it's okay, but I already know how to say them. So it's your job to practice and to use those
pronunciation muscles to the fullest. All right, let's start with the first sentence. "Hey,
how's it goin'? Pretty good." This is our first sentence today. "Hey, how's it going?" And the
most common response, which is, "Pretty good." So let's break down this expression. Hey, pretty
clear. Can you repeat that with me? Hey. Then the next part, "How's it goin'?" Here in the middle,
it sounds like a Z sound. "How's it... How's it goin'?" With the word going, we're going to cut
off the G at the end, so make sure you say goin'. Can you say this all together with me? Try to
imitate with me. Ready? Hey, how's it goin'? Hey, how's it goin'? I'm going to pause in just
a moment after we practice the reply. The reply is, "Pretty good." Pretty good. Now if you want
to sound like an American, the word pretty, even though it has Ts, it's going to sound like a D
sound. So try to say it with me. Pretty. Pretty. Pretty. And then that final word. Good. Good. Make
sure that your lips are kind of out a little bit. Good. Good. Can we put it all together? Pretty
good. Pretty good. Okay. Let's try to imitate this full sentence together and the reply,
and then I'm going to pause so that you can say it yourself out loud, no matter where you are.
All right, let's say it together. Hey, how's it goin'? Pretty good. Hey,
how's it goin'? Pretty good. All right. I'm going to pause and it's your turn. Go ahead.
Great work. Let's go on to the second sentence. The second sentence is, "Do you want to go?" Do
you want to go? And you might say this when you want to invite someone to an event or maybe to
your house, or if you want to tell them to go to a restaurant with you. And it's a great expression
for someone who you just met, if you want to continue spending time with them. So let's
break down the pronunciation for this common question. Do you want to go? Do wanna go? Why
does the first two words sound like "Joo?" Do you becomes Joo, kind of a J, J sound. Joo. And then
what about wanna go? Wanna go. Want to go are all of the words, but you're going to combine,
want and to, to become wanna. Wanna. This is really common and conversational
English. So let's try to say this full question together. "Do you wanna go? Do you wanna go? Do
you wanna go? Do you wanna go? All right, try to imitate this with me. Are you ready? Do you
wanna go? Do you wanna go? Do you wanna go to the park? Do you wanna go to the restaurant? Okay,
I'm going to pause and I want you to say this by yourself. Go ahead.
Great work. Let's go onto the third sentence. The third and fourth sentence are, "I'm not
sure," and, "I don't know." These both mean the same thing, but the first one, I'm not sure, is
a little more casual. And you might use this more in daily conversation. So if you say it quickly,
it sounds like, I'm no' sure. I'm no' sure. I'm no' sure. Let's break this down. Listen carefully,
especially to that second word, not, I'm no' sure. I'm not sure. Do you hear T, the
T sound? I'm no' sure. Not really. Often in daily conversation in fast English,
the T at the end of words is cut off. So your tongue is going to be at the top of
your mouth, almost going to make the T sound, but there's no air that comes out. So let's practice
saying this, especially with that T stuck at the top of your mouth. Can you do it with me? I'm no'
sure. I'm no' sure. I'm no'. No'. No'. All right. Let's focus on that last word. Sure. Sure. Sure.
Do you see my lips here? Can you say it with me? Sure. Sure. Can we say this all together? I'm
no' sure. I'm no' sure. I'm no' sure. Okay. I'm going to pause. And now it's your turn. Go ahead.
Great work. Let's go on to the fourth sentence. The fourth sentence as I just mentioned, is "I
don't know." I don't know. And there are a lot of different ways you can pronounce this. So let's
start with maybe the most clear and then working down to the least clear. So let's start with,
I don' know. I don' know. Do you notice that that T in the contraction don't, is similar to not in
the previous sentence. That T, your tongue is at the top of your mouth, but you're not letting the
air come out to finish T, that T sound. So it's going to sound like, I don', don' know. If you
can see inside my mouth at the moment, you'll see that my tongue is stopped up there. Don'.
Don'. But I'm not saying don't. I don't know. Usually that T in negative contractions is cut
out. If you'd like to see the natural pronunciation for 81 contractions,
I made a video. You can watch it up here. I hope that that will be useful to you. But let's say
this in the most clear way. I don' know. Can you imitate that with me? I don' know. I don' know.
I don' know. Okay, let's go to the next one, which is a little less clear. You could say,
I dunno. I dunno. I dunno. It kind of sounds like D-U-N-N-O. Dunno. I dunno. I dunno. And
you would use this in familiar situations. I don't recommend using this to your boss or maybe
in a work situation, just because it's really relaxed. So you need to be in a really relaxed
environment. But you could say, I don't know. Do you know how many people are in your city? I
don't know. I don't know. I don't know. All right. There is a couple more ways that you can pronounce
this. So let's go to another one that is even less clear. Let's take that same pronunciation and cut
out the D sound. I 'unno. I 'unno. I 'unno. Can you say that slowly with me? I 'unno. It sounds
weird when you're saying it slowly, but don't worry, when you say it quickly it's perfectly
natural. I 'unno. I 'unno. I unno. There's no D sound here. I don't know. Like the previous two,
instead, you're just cutting that out. I 'unno. Okay, let's go onto the last one.
And it is the least clear. But native speakers will definitely understand what you're saying.
In this final way to pronounce, I don't know. You're really going to be cutting out all of the
words, and you're just going to be leaving some sounds and some intonation. So you're
going to say, "Uh uh uh." Uh uh uh. It seems really strange to just say this by itself. But
trust me, native speakers say this a lot. So I'm going to say it slowly, and I want you to try to
imitate my intonation. Imagine that you're kind of riding this wave of intonation, and you're going
to say it exactly with me. And then I'm going to pause, and we're going to practice these
clear and unclear pronunciations together. All right, Are you ready? Can you imitate with me?
Uh uh uh. Uh uh uh. Uh uh uh. Let's say someone asks you,
"How long has Vanessa been teaching online?" And if you respond with, "Uh uh uh." It means that
maybe you don't really care about the answer. It's not something that's important to you.
If you said, "I don't know." It really just means you don't have that information. But if you said,
"Uh uh uh," it's so relaxed that it means I don't really care. So you could use this in
another situation that maybe isn't rude, make sure that you're in a really casual,
comfortable situation. If someone asked you, "Oh, I'm trying to make this dish. Do you know how many
eggs I should put in?" You could say, "Uh uh uh, maybe look it up." Uh uh uh. Uh uh uh. Look it up.
Because you're with your family or your friends, and it's something that's not so important.
But if someone asks you something really important, maybe something emotional or
sentimental, or especially something for your work, that's really important. Don't
say uh uh uh, because it's too relaxed. So this is for really casual situations,
and I'm certain that you're going to hear this in TV shows and movies. So let's take a moment to try
to pronounce, I don't know, in these casual, comfortable ways. I want you to choose which
one you'd like to say. I don' know. I dunno, I 'unno, or uh uh uh. You can choose which one
you'd like to imitate. I'm going to pause and give you a moment to say it yourself. Go ahead.
Great work. Let's go on to the next one. Our fifth sentence is about the weather,
because it's really common in almost every country and every culture to have small talk about the
weather. And it's really true in the US. We have small talk about the weather all the time. When I
was taking a walk the other day, my neighbor was sitting on his front porch and he said,
"Oh, it's a hot one today, huh?" And I said, "Yep, sure is." So let's practice this sentence
together to talk about the weather. You can change the word hot for cold, rainy, snowy,
whatever you'd like. But let's practice with hot and cold because those are the most common.
So let's say this sentence together. It's a ho' one today. It's a ho' one today. It's a
ho' one today. Or it's a cold one today. It's a cold one today. What does one mean? Why are
we saying one here? Well, it just means day. It's a hot day today. But we use this in daily
conversation a lot. So I wanted to make sure that you are familiar with this sentence, and you can
use this when you're talking about the weather to sound more like a native speaker. So let's slow it
down and practice that pronunciation word by word. It's a ho' one today. Did you notice something
about the word hot? What happened to that final letter? Well, we have a theme here. It's gone.
Your tongue is at the top of your mouth. You're going to say hot, but instead of letting the air
through, your tongue just sticks there. So let's say it together and make sure that you say the
word ho' correctly. It's ho' one today. Today. Today. Do you notice what's happening with this
final word? It's T-O-D-A-Y. But do you hear today? Today. You might hear this in maybe
an audio that goes with your textbook. Today is a lovely day. But in daily conversation,
we hardly ever pronounce this full word. Instead, you're going to cut out that O sound and just say,
t'day, t'day. Just make that T sound to day. T'day. T'day. T'day. Can you say
that final word with me? T'day. T'day. T'day. Okay. Let's say this full sentence together,
and I hope that you can use it in your daily conversations when you're having some small talk
about the weather. It's a hot one today. It's a hot one today. It's a hot one today. All right,
your turn. Go ahead. I want you to say it yourself out loud. Go ahead.
Great work. Let's go on to the next one. The sixth most important or most used sentence in English,
according to me, is, "You gotta try it." You gotta try it. This is something that is commonly used
when someone is suggesting something, or maybe they're telling you about a new restaurant,
or a new drink, or some experience that they've had, and they want you to also do it. They might
say, "Oh, you gotta try it." You gotta try it. And this word, gotta is really common in daily
conversation, but it's a reduction of a couple other verbs. So the full sentence could be, "You
have got to try it." But have got to is reduced to gotta. In fact, I have a full pronunciation lesson
for this word, got to, havta, wanna, all of these kind of reductions. You can check out the link up
here to get some more detailed pronunciation for that word and also how to use it.
But let's talk about this sentence. You gotta try it. You gotta. Gotta. Do you
notice that the middle of this word doesn't sound like gotta? Gotta with a T. Instead,
it sounds like a D. This is going to be similar to the word we talked about earlier.
Pretty. Pretty good. Do you remember that from number one? Pretty good. Pretty good. Here,
it's going to sound like godda. Godda. Godda. Just add a D in the middle, especially if you
want to sound like an American English speaker. That's what we do. We add D's in the middle of
words all the time. So try to say those first two words with me. You gotta. You gotta. You gotta.
All right. Let's say this full sentence. You godda try it. You godda try it.
Do you hear it with that T pronounced at the end? Well, now you are an expert at Ts at the end of
sentences, and you know that that T is cut short. So let's try to say that together. Gotta try i'.
You can see my tongue at the top of my mouth. It's just stop there. There's no air coming
out. So let's say that full sentence together and remember to say, godda and i', i', i'. Are
you ready? You godda try i'. You godda try i'. You godda try i'. All right. It's your turn. Go ahead.
Excellent work. Let's go onto the next one. The seventh most common, most important, most useful
expression, according to me is, "Thanks. I appreciate it." Thanks. I appreciate it.
There's a couple different ways to pronounce this, whether it's clear or a little bit less clear, but
let's start with the first word. Thanks. Thanks. Make sure that when you say the TH your tongue
is between your teeth and you're also feeling a little stream of air coming out. Thanks. Thanks.
Thanks. We use this word all the time, and you can use it by itself. But if you want to really show
your appreciation, you can add another sentence. Thanks, I appreciate it. I appreciate it.
Let's focus on that second part quickly. I appreciate. Appreciate. Can you say that word
with me? Appreciate. Appreciate. Am I saying appreciate? Nope. Here, the Ts cut out again.
I appreciate i'. I'. Oh, another T is gone. All those T are gone. Having a vacation, having a
good time together. They're not in this sentence. So make sure that there's not air coming out of
your mouth finishing that T sound. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. This is the most clear way.
I appreciate it. Because you're saying the first part of that word. Appreciate it. Appreciate it.
Can we say this full part together clearly before we go onto the relaxed one? Thanks, I appreciate
it. Thanks, I appreciate it. I hope you can repeat with me really quick. Thanks, I appreciate it. All
right. Let's go onto the relaxed version. Let's imagine that someone does something pretty simple,
like open the door for you. You're carrying a lot of groceries, and someone in front of you decides
to be kind and holds the door open for you. You can say, Thanks, Appreciate it. Appreciate it.
What happened to, I appreciate it. Well, those parts of the sentence are just gone, so you're
going to just start with the P sound. Appreciate. Appreciate it. So you can say this all together,
try to imitate it with me. Thanks, appreciate it. Appreciate it. Let's say it together. Thanks,
appreciate it. Thanks, appreciate it. All right. I want to pause and I want to let you try to
say this all together. Try to say it in that relaxed way. Thanks, appreciate it. Go ahead.
Excellent work. Let's go onto the next one. The eighth sentence is a response to "Thanks,
I appreciate it." If you are the one holding the door for someone else and someone says to you,
"Oh, thanks, appreciate it." What can you say in return? You don't want to just stand there and go.
It's a little bit awkward. So one of the most common sentences that you could say is,
"No problem. No problem. No problem. You could say, "You're welcome." But it's a little bit
strong maybe for this simple act of kindness. If you dropped your groceries and someone helped you
to pick them up, you could say, "Oh, thanks so much, I appreciate it." "You're welcome." That's
fine, because it's a little bit more effort. But one of the most common things to say is,
no problem. No problem. So let's break this down. No problem. Problem. Problem. Let's focus on the
middle of that word problem. Problem. Here, your lips are just kind of smacking together a little
bit, bl, blem. That B and L together is the focus of this word. You want to make sure that you're
pronouncing it correctly. So let's practice the word problem. Blem. Blem. Blem. It looks a little
bit funny, but don't worry about it. I hope that you're on the train right now, and everyone around
you is think, "Why is that guy saying, problem, problem, problem?" You are improving your English,
so who cares what they think? Let's say this together. No problem. Blem. Blem. No problem. No
problem. No problem. All right, I'm going to pause and I want you to say it by yourself. Go ahead.
Great work. Let's go on the next one. The ninth and the 10th expression are common ways to say
goodbye. At the beginning of this lesson, we started with number one, some common introduction,
some common ways to say hello, and then some common expressions used in conversation,
and now we're finishing up the conversation. So you might say, "See you later." See you
later. This is the clearest way to say it. See you later. See you later. Let's practice this slowly
and go word by word. See you, you later, later. Later. Here we have another T that's changed to
a D. You don't say later. See you later. Americans would never say that. So let's
practice changing the T to a D. See you later. See you later. See you later. See you later. Later.
Later. I hope you can pronounce that with me. Now, let's go on to a little more relaxed and
maybe a more common version, especially because see you later, is just a casual way to say
goodbye. So you're most likely already going to be in a familiar situation. Let's change you to,
ya. See ya later. See ya later. That final word is the same later, but the middle word,
you, which is clearly pronounced, changes to ya. See ya later. See ya later. Can you say
that with me? See ya later. See ya later. See ya later. See ya later. See ya later.
Okay, I'm going to pause and I want you to say this yourself. Go ahead.
Great work. Let's go into the final expression. The 10th most common,
most useful, most important expression is, "Let's go." Let's go. Let's go. Maybe someone asks you,
"Do you want to go?" Do you want to go? One of our earlier sentences, and then you talk
a little bit and you say, "Hey, let's go. I want to eat. Let's go to that restaurant you mentioned.
Let's go to the movies." Let's go. Let's go. So let's say this slowly together. I want you
to imitate my voice. Try to say it slowly and clearly with me, and then we'll speed it up.
Let's go. Let's go. When you say the T in the middle of the word let's,
your tongue is just tapping the top of your mouth. Let's. Let's. It's stopping up there
and then going to the S sound. Let's go. Let's go. Can you say that with me? Let's go. Let's go.
Let's go. All right. I'm going to pause and I want you to say it by yourself. Go ahead.
Excellent work. You used those pronunciation muscles. You imitated 10 valuable, important
common sentences in English. I hope that you'll use these sentences again and again,
so that you can really sound like a native speaker and also pronounce them like a native speaker.
Today we're going to practice the most important introduction sentences in English,
at least according to me. Because you're going to say these natural sentences again and again
in daily conversation, this is a great opportunity to practice pronouncing them
correctly each time that you use them. Number one, "Hi, I'm Vanessa. What's your name?"
Ooh. Of course, you're not going to say, Vanessa,
you're going to say your name. But let's slow this down so that you can say it naturally. Hi,
I'm, plus your name. Hi, I'm Vanessa. What's, make sure that you say that Ts here. What's your name?
What's happening with the word your here? Notice my lips when I say your compared to
yer. It's a little bit different. It kind of sounds like Y-E-R. This is the most natural
fast pronunciation for the word your. So let's say that quickly. What's your name? What's your
name? What's your name? Hi, I'm Vanessa. What's your name? I'm kind of emphasizing, "What's your
name?" Because I just said mine, so I want to know now what's your name. Hi, I'm Vanessa. What's your
name? Now I'm going to pause and I want you to fill in your name and I want you to say this
sentence out loud. Practice speaking. Are you ready? Hi, I'm... What's your name? Go ahead.
Excellent work. Let's go onto the second sentence. Sentence number two,
"Nice to meet you." Nice to meet you. Lots is going on in this seemingly simple sentence.
Let's start at the beginning. Nice. Say it with me. Nice to meet. To meet. Here, the word to is
being reduced to simply t', just the sound t'. The vowel O is gone. So we're going to link together
t'mee'. T'mee'. But do you hear that final T sound on the word t'meet? Not really. Instead,
your tongue is going to be at the top of your mouth, ready to make the T sound, but no air
comes out. So we're going to say t'mee'. My tongue is stopped at the top of my mouth. T'mee'. T'mee
you. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Can you say that out loud with me? Nice to meet you. Nice
to meet you. I'm going to pause and I want you to say it by yourself. Nice to meet you. Go ahead.
Excellent work. Let's go onto the third one. Sentence number three,
"I'm from the US and you?" You're probably not from the US if you're watching this. So
you can fill in the name of your country. I'm from Mexico and you? I'm from India,
and you? Let's break down this pronunciation. I'm from. F-R-O-M. Sounds like a U here, from.
I'm from, plus your country. And then you want to reciprocate and ask the other person, "And you?"
Did I say, "And you?" In this situation, the D is cut off. It's gone. It's on vacation
somewhere. So we're just going to say an'. An' you? An' you? An' you? Where are you
from? An' you? Let's say this all together. I'm from the US, and you? I'm from the US,
and you? I'm going to pause. I want you to fill in your country and say it out loud. Go ahead.
Great work. Let's go to the next one. When you first meet someone,
it's common to talk about your surroundings. Maybe you're both at the grocery store or you're
both at a friend's birthday party. You have this in common, so you're going to talk about
it. Let's imagine that you go to another country and you're talking with someone and they ask you,
"How long have you been here?" You might say, "I've been here for two weeks." I've been here
for two weeks. I've been here for two weeks. You can also substitute if you're at a university
or maybe if you're at a job. I've worked here for two weeks. I've studied here for two years.
You could change that verb, but we're just going to stick with, I've been here for two weeks. Let's
break this down. I've been. This sounds like a short, I, B-I-N. Bin. I've been here fer.
Why does for change to fur? I don't know, but that's what happens. So this is going
to sound like F-E-R, fer. Kind of sounds like the fur of an animal, which is F-U-R,
but same pronunciation, fer two weeks. I've been here for two weeks. I've been here for two years.
I've been here for five minutes. I've been here for two weeks. Let's say that quickly one time,
and then I'm going to pause so that you can say it yourself. I've been here for two weeks. Go ahead.
Great work. Let's go on to the next one. Common introduction number five is, "What do you do?"
This is asking, what's your job? This is the most common way to ask what someone's job is. What do
you do? What do you do? What do you do? A lot of this is linked together, kind of mumbled together.
So I want to help you pronounce it in the same way. What do you? What do you? Can you say that
with me? Wha' do you? Wha' do you? The T in what is cut out, and instead, it's replaced by the word
do, which is linked together. Wha' do you do? Notice my lips aren't really moving much
here. What do you do? What do you do? Inside my mouth, my tongue is moving, but on the outside,
what do you do? What do you do? It's not moving that much. So I want you to say this with me.
Let's go slowly and then we'll speed it up. What do you do? What do you do? What do you do? What
do you do? What do you do? What do you do? What do you do? All right, it's your turn. Go ahead.
Excellent work. Let's go onto the next one. The sixth sentence is, "I'm a designer. I work for
the marketing department." If you don't know how to describe your job or what your job title is,
you can check out this video I made 100 job titles. Hopefully, it will help you to be
able to describe your job in these introduction situations. You could say, I'm a designer I work
for, we're using that same pronunciation again, F-E-R. I work for the marketing department.
Make sure that if you use this reduction fer, you're speaking a little bit quickly,
you're linking things together. If you said, I work for the, it's a little bit weird. You
need to link it together if you're going to use that reduction, because the point of a reduction
is to reduce your speech to make it faster. So let's say that together. I'm a designer.
I work for the marketing department. I work for the marketing department. You can link those two
words together. Work for. Work for the marketing department. I work for the marketing department.
I'm a designer. I work for the marketing department. All right, it's your turn. Go ahead.
Great work. Let's go to the next one. The seventh introduction is for when you have a mutual friend.
Let's imagine that you're walking down the street and you see your friend James. And James is
walking with someone else, and he introduces that person to you. So you start to have a
conversation with that person. You could ask them, "So how do you know James?" This just means
where did you meet? Do you work together? Are you his brother? What's the situation? And this is
pretty common. Maybe you're at a party and you're just making small talk with people. If that person
who's hosting the party is James, everyone at the party knows James. So it's a good question to
ask. So how do you know James? Great. You're just kind of figuring out each other's relationships.
Let's pronounce this together. So it's a good way to introduce a new topic. So how do you know
James? This is similar to what do you do, that kind of lazy, not moving your lips very much type
of pronunciation. So how do you know James? So how do you know James? How do you know James? Can
you say that with me? So how do you know James? How do you know James? So how do you know James?
I'll say that one more time and then I'm going to pause so that
you can say it yourself. So how do you know James? Go ahead. It's your turn.
Great work. Let's go to the next one. In continuing with this same idea, this person,
who knows James might say, "Oh, we used to work together." We used to work together. Used to often
gets reduced to usta. We used to work together. We used to work together. Let's break down this
sentence. We used to work. This is a lovely word, it has an O, but it sounds like W-E-R-K, work
together. Together. It almost sounds like ta, T-A together. Together. We used to. We used to
work together. We used to work together. And when you link used to stuff together,
that means that you're reducing and you're sounding more natural. So let's say this
full sentence, and then I'm going to pause so that you can say it yourself. We used to work
together. We used to work together. We used to work together. Go ahead, it's your turn.
Excellent work. Let's go to the next one. The ninth introduction or common expression
that's used the first time you meet someone is, "I don't want to hold you up." I don't
want to hold you up. This is probably what you would say at the end of that quick conversation
together when you first meet someone. And it means, "Oh, I see that you probably have
something else that you want to do." Maybe you want to go grocery shopping and you see each
other at the grocery store. Or maybe you're trying to talk to the host of the party,
James, and you just quickly had a quick conversation. So now you want to let that
other person leave the conversation and continue what they were doing previously.
So you might say, "I don't wanna hold you up." This doesn't mean hold you physically, but here,
let's break down this sentence. I don't. Hmm, the T here is cut out. Your tongue is going
to be at the top of your mouth, but you're not going to let the air through. I don't
wanna hold you up. Want to is linked together and makes wanna. I don't wanna hold you up.
Great. Let's say this all together. I don't wanna hold you up. I don't wanna hold you up. I
don't wanna hold you up. It's your turn. Say it yourself. I don't wanna hold you up. Go ahead.
Thanks so much. Great work. Let's go to the next one, and the final expression that's often used
the first time you meet someone is, "Maybe see you around sometime." Maybe see you 'round some time.
What does this mean? It means that maybe you'll never see this person again,
or maybe you will. I don't know. But it's just kind of a polite way instead of saying,
"Okay, let's make plans to see each other on Saturday 5:00." No, you're just saying,
"Okay, it was nice to see you. Maybe see you again sometime." So you might say,
maybe see you 'round sometime. What's happening with the word around?
Well, we're cutting off the first letter. We're cutting off the last letter. And we're
just saying the middle part, 'roun'. 'Roun'. This means around town or just somewhere in general.
This is the common reduction. When we're speaking quickly, you'll probably hear people say this in
movies or TV shows or in conversations. And now you can say it too. Let's say it all together.
Maybe see you around sometime. Maybe see you around sometime. Maybe see you around sometime.
Maybe see you around sometime. All right. I'm going to pause and it's your turn. Go ahead.
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