How to Start Speaking with Friends - English Speaking Practice and Small Talk - American & British

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Catching Up: Conversation Starters for Friends 🗨️👫
🎧 Welcome back, High Level Listeners, to another engaging video dedicated to mastering conversation starters in English! Today, we're diving into the heart of catching up with friends and loved ones, perfect for those moments when you want to reconnect and share the latest chapters of your life. If you've been looking to brush up on how to start conversations naturally and correctly, you're in the right place.
🤔 What does "catching up" mean, you ask? It's all about reuniting with someone after some time apart and exchanging updates on all the new happenings in your lives. Whether schedules haven't aligned, vacations have kept you apart, or life has just been overwhelmingly busy, catching up is a cherished opportunity to reconnect and deepen your bonds.
✨ Hosted by Kat and Mark Teacher, this video will offer you 7 essential tips, including easy-to-use sentence structures and questions designed for catching up with friends you haven't seen in a while. Plus, we’ll share natural responses to these questions, helping you to engage in meaningful chats with new friends or strengthen ties with old ones.
📚 In today's lesson, you'll discover:
- Practical conversation starters with friends for catching up.
- How to talk to friends and keep the conversation flowing.
- English videos for improving your speaking and listening skills.
- English learning videos for speaking English fluently and confidently.
- Essential tips for English language learning and English speaking practice.
🔔 Whether you're planning to catch up with a friend over coffee or looking to chat with new friends at a gathering, these conversation starters are tailored to help you navigate social interactions with ease and confidence.
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👉 Ready to enhance your conversational skills and reconnect with friends in English? Press play and let Kat and Mark guide you through the art of catching up.
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Hello! That's a good question! The pronunciation of "the" can change depending on the word that follows it. Typically, "the" is pronounced as "thuh" (to rhyme with "duh") before a consonant sound, and as "thee" (to rhyme with "see") before a vowel sound. This helps with the flow of speech. Here are examples: - "thuh" (rhymes with "duh"): the cat, the book, the movie - "thee" (rhymes with "see"): the apple, the ocean, the end Remember, it’s about the sound that follows, not necessarily the letter the next word begins with. For example, "the" before "hour" is pronounced "thee" because "hour" starts with a vowel sound (and why we say "an hour" and not "a hour". Another example is "the (thuh) university", because the starting sound is "yu", not a vowel sound. I hope that makes sense!

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Teachers, thank you soooo much for the video. I know all these phrases but, honestly, i've never understood the difference between them and how to use them. I really appreciate your great work!❤🌷🔥 I can see the mentality of American, English and Russian people. For example, Kat says it's rude to poke into someone's life. If we are talking about friends, it's a quite usual question in Russia: e.g. Anything new with your boyfriend (house, parents,etc) even at the beginning of the conversation? Are such questions unacceptable between friends in your countries or it depends on how close this friend is? Or they are unacceptable only first minutes of your meeting, before you and your friend start to open up?

[@highlevellistening]

I guess it depends on how close you are as friends and how badly you need the gossip 😂 If my friend says let’s catch up I have a lot to tell you about ….. (some news something) I would want to know and I would ask my friend about it. But if it’s just normal friends catching up we might try to be patient and wait til we have our coffees and sit down before we get to the good stuff in the conversation. We really appreciate you and your comments!

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This is such a lovely catch up thanks for sharing! Home renovations can take up a lot of time and energy I hope they’re going well and making your own bread sounds quite delicious 😋

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I had the versant test yesterday, that test is so difficult 😢 I would like to speak like an native speaker 😢😢 but it has been difficult for me to understand advanced vocabulary and my listening skills are awful 😞

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Fingers crossed your test results turn out well! A lot of standardised tests are really demanding and designed to push your English to the limit. Improving your listening comes from surrounding yourself and exposing yourself to the language, especially when you feel mentally fresh and ready to focus on picking out the words. If you have a vocabulary diary that you regularly review, that can make a huge difference to your vocabulary too! Don't give up! Just keep chipping away, it's a long journey

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Hi, I'm learning English, Could you indicate what is the English level in each video please? Don't tell me Intermediate o advanced. Please, tell me : B-1 or B-2 and so on please

[@highlevellistening]

Unfortunately this might be hard to do, our videos are aimed at upper intermediate and advanced students because of the speed and unscripted way that we talk. Our vocabulary will range widely between B1 and C2 level depending on the specific topic as well. (Some topics will have more C1-C2 level vocabulary as the phrases are rarer or more specific.) Kat has made some Intermediate (B1 level) videos which you can find here: www.youtube.com/@highlevellistening/playlists

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"Not much" is the correct version here, the other two aren't used. Hope that helps! 🙏

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Hi! What does it mean "catching up with friends"?

[@highlevellistening]

catching up with friends means to see your friends and talk about news and their lives, so you can learn new information about them thanks for joining, hope that was helpful!

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