THE 9 LINKING WORDS NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS REALLY USE || Connecting words used in real English

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Linking words in English are important!
Linking words (also known as connectors or connecting words) are extremely useful for English learners to add to their vocabulary because they help us to express our ideas more clearly and form longer, more advanced sentences.
However, in real spoken English, native speakers don't use most of the linking words that many teachers (and exercise books) teach in traditional English classes.
So, in this video I list the nine linking words that native English speakers really use in real English on a day to day basis.
More formal linking words are useful (and I'll make a video on those soon) but it's important to differenciate between which words are common in formal, written English and which are common in more colloquial, spoken English.
Ben Gill
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Good for me, I've already known these linking words but sometimes kinda confusing. It's my 9th year of learning english. Great video & I guess I'll have to watch your video to get some new vocabs I don't know. Greeting from Indonesia.

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Thank you, Ben!

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Glad to hear that! Thanks 🙂

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Your video is so informative.

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thanks a lot ! very useful

[@markdonovan1540]

This is a great video to simplify the learning of connectives. I'm a native speaker and I can confirm that these are very commonly used linking words. I must admit, one of them I tend to use a lot though...

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Thanks, Mark.

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Very clear! Thanks !

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Thanks

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This video is very useful for us students. Thanks so teacher for this lesson...

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

You're welcome... I'm glad you found it useful!

[@ema.303]

9 common linkers and because or but though , enough instead of , so also,like

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Great stuff, Ben!

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Thanks Roberto!

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I like so much your videos ! You have a clear accent . I can understand everything! My native language is Spanish!!!

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Thanks Ben... useful insights. :))

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You're welcome 🙂

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Great video Ben!

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Thanks Zdenek!

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Brilliant!

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Glad you liked it 🙂

[@franciscopontesvelasco4315]

You are right, I seldom use the linking though, I got used to using although, even though but never though

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Excellent!

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Thanks, Luis 🙂

[@alfred1243]

"Like" is more than a linker among younger crowd, particularly girls, as it seems. They, like, sprinkle, like, you know, like almost every other word with "like" :)

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Yes, it's a filler

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I know 'kiss' this way: Keep IT Super Simple :) love the lesson Ben :)

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You're welcome... glad you found it useful! 🙂

[@snoopy1970]

A video for gerunds would be great. Or verbs that are followed by a gerund

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Love the Spanish accent Ben😉

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[@dheerajsinghnagdali]

Could you make more videos on connectors?

[@saeid9800]

This video is useful for spoken English, but I think those who taught other linking words had formal writing in mind. If possible, could you do a video on more formal counterparts particularly the ones that are less known such as in that, as such, inasmuch as, albeit, as, regardless of, and the like.

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I loved it

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Great! Glad I could help 😃

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Good day. Just recently discovered your chanel. Love it! Preparing for CAE now. Could you please make a video on formal and informal linkers . For example, in this video you mentioned a linker so. What kind of writing is it appropriate for, formal or informal? Thanks in advance!

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

I'll see what I can do 🙂

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[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

That's great...you're very welcome! (and your teacher's cool 😁)

[@sylviaze]

Though scares me a lot and therefore i avoid this word. Let's see your explanation and i hooe it will help me :)

[@aram5642]

Would you kindly record a video on: so that, so to, so as to, in order to, to?

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You're right but for an exam they are really useful. Unfortunately, real English is not so important for passing an exam.

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[@yiyang6142]

In an linking together?

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Sorry, I don't understand your question.

[@yiyang6142]

@@tothepointenglishwithben. how to say “IN AN accident” linking them together

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Ok, you're referring to connected speech. It's difficult to explain here, but it's something like "i na naccident"

[@yiyang6142]

@@tothepointenglishwithben. I feel my tongue is telling me it’s awkward linking them altogether lol

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@@tothepointenglishwithben. could you make a video explicitly explaining this sort of linking , I would much appreciate :)

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We went to the moon and we discovered the Earth. You can't see your own language before you learn another.

[@aram5642]

Another linker I find very useful is 'moreover'