Do people ever just make you so mad that
you have to go and tell someone about it
letting this anger out is called: venting
and we all need to do it sometimes but
what happens if the only people you have
to vent to are English speakers and
English is not your first language? well
you've come to the right place because
in this video you're going to learn
expressions to vent in American English
and also some expressions you can use to
show sympathy and understanding when
someone is venting to you. so before we
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be releasing in this series. now are you
ready to get started? in the video you're
going to see three different scenarios
while you're watching the scenario look
for the expression in the orange bubble
at the top of the screen and see if you
can guess what the expression means
based on the context of the situation
then after you watch the dialogue we're
going to talk about what each expression
means and practice how to pronounce it
even better than a native are you. ready
to get started? our first expression is
going to be rubbed me the wrong way. how
come you never want to hang out with Ana
anymore well you know ever since she
became a vegan she's been making a lot
of weird comments like the other day I
was in the middle of eating my lunch and
she came over and called me a predator
like I have no problem with her being a
vegan but her attitude about it just
rubs me the wrong way
oh yeah she's taking that vegan thing
really seriously. could you figure it out
rubbed me the wrong way means that I
didn't like something or it upset me in
some way it does not mean that it made
you super angry it just means that
something just was a little bit
upsetting or that you kind of didn't
like something. rubbed me the wrong way
rubbed me the wrong way the .... syllable
in "rubbed" is stressed rubbed me the wrong
way
rubbed me the wrong way
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so what's the deal with Sammy
why is he been carrying around a camera
looking creepy this week?? Oh for real
that thing is so creepy
I mean how dare you walk around all day
taking pictures of people without even
asking? uh I know it's so creepy
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could you figure it out? what's the deal
with means that you want to know more
about something usually when someone
uses this phrase it's because they want
to know more about something they're
unhappy about. for example you could say
what's the deal with my cellphone bill
it's too high or what's the deal with
the new Google policy why is it blocked
at work. what's the deal with, what's the
deal with, for real, for real, could you
figure out what that meant? for real can
have two different meanings: one of them
is I agree and the other one is true. so
when someone is venting to you and you
agree with what they're saying you can
say, for real. you can also ask someone
are you for real? which means are you
telling the truth? so let's practice
pronouncing "for real" "for real" reduces so
that the R sound in "for" and the R sound
in "real" combined into one R sound. for
real, for real. are you for real? are you
for real? great job.
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when you say something like how dare you
or how dare she
or how dare he, it means how could they
possibly think of doing that. should be
something so ridiculous and so upsetting
that you can't even believe that they
would think about doing it
how dare she take my parking spot
how dare she get in front of me in line
how dare she called my boyfriend. dare
how dare she. did you see that Karen
spelled my name wrong again on that
email this morning? oh yeah I saw that
that's ridiculous. why does she keep
doing that? I know I mean it's not rocket
science it's felt exactly how it sounds
yeah here yeah I wouldn't say anything
to her though you know the last time
someone told her she made a mistake she
made them work every Saturday for a
month oh my god really?? that's so petty
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could you figure it out? it's not rocket
science means something is not hard to
figure out. in other words it doesn't
take a rocket science to figure out a
situation. it's not rocket science it's
not rocket science
make sure when you're saying that phrase
that you pull your tongue back and that
you push your lips forward for the /r/
sound in rocket. let's practice it
together with the correct word stress
it's not rocket science it's not rocket
science
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I hear you is a way to say I understand
you and I sympathize with what you're
saying I hear you (ya) the you at the end of
this phrase is reduced to /ya/ with a
sound so let's practice the phrase
together and make sure that you say that
you as /yuh/. I hear yuh I hear yuh. I hear
yuh.
great job. Petty means making something
small seem way more important than it
actually is
for example if you're late to work one
minute and your boss yells at you and
tells you that you're fired, you could
say that is petty. petty has a flap T
sound meaning your tongue should go like
this in the middle of the word, petty
petty, petty, great job. so now that you've
learned all of these new phrases I have
a question for you some people think
that when their neighbors are too noisy
they should call the police
other people think that calling the
police when your neighbors are noisy is
petty. what do you think? is it petty to
call the police on noisy neighbors? tell
us your opinion in the comments below we
love to read all of your comments and
hear about all of your opinions and I
will respond with feedback on your
English in the comments section. looking
forward to hearing from you
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to speak
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