Phrases That Give You ✨Personality✨ in English

✨ Phrases That Give You Personality in English ✨

Welcome to Mind Life In English, hosted by Profe Lao.

In this episode, you'll discover powerful English phrases that make your conversations sound more natural, expressive, and full of personality. Many English learners focus on grammar and vocabulary, but native speakers often use unique phrases and expressions to show confidence, emotions, opinions, humor, and individuality.

Whether you're speaking with friends, colleagues, clients, or participating in everyday conversations, these personality-rich phrases can help you sound more engaging and memorable. You'll learn practical expressions that are commonly used in real-life situations, allowing you to communicate more naturally and confidently in English.

This episode is perfect for English learners who want to move beyond basic communication and develop a more authentic speaking style. By understanding and practicing these phrases, you'll improve your fluency, speaking confidence, listening skills, and overall communication ability.

Tune in and start using English in a way that truly reflects your personality. The more you practice these expressions, the more natural and confident your English will become.

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Hello everyone. Welcome. Welcome to my classroom. Settle in. Everyone find a seat. Sit down. Jimmy, don't sit on the beanbag chair. That's Joey's turn. Okay. Everybody got their seat. No pushing. All right. Class has begun. Pay attention. Listen. Welcome to another fabulous video with me, Lau. Today I'm here to teach you some common, very common emblematic, you could say, emblematic phrases of my generation. I am the first year of Generation Z. I was born in 1997. But people who are in their 30s and younger than me, even teenagers, are using these phrases like, this is just young American English. This, these are phrases that give you personality, these are phrases that give you comedic effect. You can use these phrases to be funny. You can use these phrases to just like have good native speaker, normal, natural conversation. Like this is just for developing your English, American English personality and feeling more comfortable talking and talking about different things and not being so gosh darn boring. Sorry, that was the child version. No, what I'm trying to say is you don't want to be so goddamn boring. All right. Who wants to be boring? Not me. So let's go through this list. All right. I'm going to be giving you my commentary as I do, as I always do. I'm going to be telling you about my personal experience, you know, how I would use these phrases, some related phrases. I'm going to be giving you context. It's going to be everything that you need. I'm going to be hitting all of the targets. I'm going to be checking all of the boxes. This is the recipe to sound more like a native speaker in 2026. Okay? You don't want to sound like a textbook. You don't want to sound like someone's grandma. No offense to the grandmas. We love grandmas for their accents and their strange idioms. They are funny in their own way. We appreciate a grandma. My grandma's funny. She'd be coming up with stuff that's really funny. But in this video, that's not what we're looking at. We're looking at realistic modern English stuff. Okay? So are we ready? Let's go. The first thing, you probably already know this, but I need to teach it anyways. It's very important. The word anyway. It could also be anyways, okay? No grammar police allowed in my videos. I don't care. We don't care about the grammar police, the grammar Nazis, native speakers, most of us don't care. You can say anyway, you can say anyways with an S. Doesn't matter. Either one. This is a word that we use all the time to transition, to get back to the original topic, the original point. Or just to kind of indicate that that's a whole nother rabbit hole that we don't want to go down right now. That's for another day, right? So you're for example, you're talking about something, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then you start to get off on another tangent. Like you go off on a tangent, you go off on the side, side quest. You go off on like a side journey, a side topic, you get sidetracked. There's a lot of ways of saying that, but you know, you go off on a tangent, you get sidetracked, you digress, you start talking about something else, and then you want to like get back to it. You're like, okay, that topic, that's for another day. That's another that's a whole other story. I don't want to get into that right now. We're talking about this. Let's get back to the to the main point. So a way to just get back on track in the conversation, just get right back to the point. You can just say, anyway, so anyways, anyway, so yeah, anyway, so anyway, anyway, so um basically what I was saying is that anyway, well, yeah, whatever. Anyway, so what I was saying is that, yeah, okay, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, like there's not one perfect way of doing it. It could be, you know, different ways. What you say before and after doesn't really matter. It's just kind of a way to kind of pivot, to kind of transition in the conversation and and to or to get back to the original thing, or just to kind of express that you don't really want to talk about that side topic, right? Like, anyways, so you know, it's just it's a great, great common thing that we all use. I mean, I've been using this since I was a kid. This is not even a new thing. This is not a new thing at all, but this is a thing that we love and we will forever use. I think I don't think it's gonna die. I think we've been using this for a long time. I think we're gonna keep using it. We love anyway, anyways. Um, it's just it's something that I find myself missing when I speak other other languages. Like I find that I miss that, and I have to find another way of expressing that because in English is just so uh it's just so satisfying. Like anyway, so yeah. Even I noticed that some people who speak like Spanglish, like Spanish speakers who who know English, they'll often be speaking Spanish, and then they'll say, anyway, and you know, because it's such a nice word in English, it's such a nice word, it's so useful. Okay, next one. By the way, um, if uh if you don't know what I'm saying at any particular moment, if you miss a word or words and you don't know the words that I'm saying and you want to check, honestly, to be completely honest with you guys, to be completely transparent, because I don't do sponsors and stuff, I don't make enough money in the with these videos from these videos in order to spend a lot of time editing in all the phrases that I say. Okay. I'd love to do that. I can't do it because it's just it's too much, it's too time consuming, and I don't make enough for that. So if you want to know what I'm saying at any particular moment, just turn on the captions. Turn on the captions on the video, and then you can go back and see what I said. The captions are pretty accurate, so yeah, and I speak clear enough that yeah, I think the captions will catch it most of the time. Or you can always leave a comment, what did you say at this moment, and put the put the timestamp, put the the exact time so I can go check. But try with the captions first because nine out of ten times the captions are gonna be right. So, so yeah, so if you don't know what I said, use the captions. Please, thank you. All right, the next one, you can say, I'm in my blank era. You can fill in the blank with whatever you want. I use this to say, I'm in my city girl era. I'm in my city girl era. What is an era? An era is like a time period, like a phase, like a time of your life. So I'm it I say that I'm in my city girl era because I've spent most of my life living in the countryside. And right now, the past couple years, past few years, I've been mostly staying in cities, mostly living in big cities. So I say I'm in my city girl era. I'm a city girl right now. I'm in my era of city girl life. I'm in my city girl era, but you can say that for anything. Also, by the way, a lot of the phrases that I'm teaching in this video, the key is to not take it too seriously. And if you use them in random situations where it might not even like seem like it makes sense, but it kind of makes sense, it's even funnier. So a lot of times we use these phrases just for comedic effect, not even to express something. Sometimes we use it because it's the best way of expressing something, but sometimes we use these phrases in random situations just because it's funny, just because it's funny. So that's the most important lesson to take away from this video is to not take any of it too seriously. Like in general, if you want to have a super authentic American English modern native speaker personality, don't take anything seriously. Don't take shit seriously. Okay. Like whether we're talking about the fact that we exaggerate everything, you know, I've said this before in videos. We love to say, I hate this, I love this, this sucks, this is amazing, this is the best thing ever, this is the worst, this is the worst thing ever. We love to exaggerate. We love to exaggerate, right? And it's most of the time, like a lot of our speaking is exaggeration. It's it's to express a point, like there is some truth in there, but it is heavily exaggerated most of the time. Like a lot of times. I mean, think about how often we say literally, and we're not even talking about literal stuff all the time. Like we're not even using it correctly. It doesn't matter. It's the vibe, right? So a lot of modern English is just like based off vibes. It's just based off like uh comedy and vibes that we want to um express, and it's not meant to be taken super literally or seriously, ironically. Don't take literally literally, because this is just this is just the way it is. You might not like it, you might disagree with it, you might think that English is trash now, whatever. All I can say is it's easier to learn, it's easier for students to learn, it's simplified, it's fun, it's funny, you know, we're laughing all the time, it's great, and it's good. It's like nowadays a lot of modern English has like more sass and attitude and like and more personality, and it's good. Sassiness is something that is not just for feminine people, it's also for men. I love a man with sass. I love a man who who doesn't speak so boring, you know, a man who's got a little bit of sass in his speaking. Like, you know, like it's just about having fun with life, having fun with language and not taking things so seriously. You know, we like a little bit of a little bit of banter, a little bit of teasing. Sometimes we like to call people out, call them out, like put them on the spot, like you know, for their behavior, whatever, but like in a lighthearted, fun way. You know, don't take it too seriously. Just just uh enjoy it. Enjoy it and have fun with it. All right. So that was a little side tangent. So, anyways, back to the video. Okay, so yes, you're in your blank era. Maybe you're eating a lot of chocolate right now. You're saying these days you're eating a lot of chocolate. You could say, I'm in my chocolate era. Yeah, she's in her chocolate era right now. She's in her chocolate era, she's eating a lot of chocolate. I don't know. It could be for anything, like anything. Just like what what you've been doing a lot lately. You're in that era of your life, you're in that phase of your life. All right, next one. This one's funny. Um, as one does. So, you know, you say something crazy, some strange behavior, whatever, like I ate a whole lemon as one does, you know, like he just ate a whole lemon as one does. It this is definitely for comedic effects because it's like it's crazy to eat a whole lemon. So you're acting like, oh, this is just normal behavior, like as one does, you know, like as someone normally does, right? Like, you know, when you when you wake up in the morning and you and you eat a whole lemon as one does, and then you get ready for the day, like this is this is funny, right? It's funny. We're just pretending that weird behavior is normal, uh, strange behavior is normal. So you could just say, like, as one does, you know, like it's just, you know, it's a funny thing. Um, another one that's not on this list that I thought of is um there are many, there are many that are coming to my head, but um you can say, I've as I've always said, or like I've and I've always said that about something crazy, right? Like somebody could say, like, it's been really dry lately. It looks like you know the squirrels are not getting enough water, they look dehydrated. You could say, like, yeah, and there's you know, one thing I've always said, like, and I've always said that, that we need to be giving more water to the squirrels. Like something it it it can be like a total, it's a total joke. Like it's not something that you've always said, but you used to say, you know, something I've always I've always said that. Like, so a lot of times in modern American English, we like to just basically completely completely lie, but it's not a lie because we we know that it's a lie, like it's a joke, right? Like it's just um pretending that we said something that we didn't, or what it's like you know what I mean? It's it's not meant to be taken literally. And you gotta be careful with this, because if you come from a culture or a language or like where you know there's not a lot of sarcasm, there's not a lot of irony, there's not a lot of um things that people say that are just completely not true, and you have to be able to know that based on the context. And then on top of that, you're learning the language for the first time, English. It might be a little difficult, it might be a little strange to understand, but um, you have to kind of be able to read between the lines with modern English, like you have to be able to detect a lot of sarcasm and irony because we use that a lot. Um, so that's just one example. Another thing you can say is um if there's one thing about me, and then you could say anything, you know, if there's one thing about me, I am always out there giving water to the squirrels. Like I am always out there, you know, I am I am waking up in the morning and starting my day eating a whole lemon. If there's one thing about me, I am starting my day eating a lemon every day. Like I'm eating a lemon, I eat a lemon every morning. There's one thing about me, I am the lemon girl. Like this is just, you know, it's just humor. It's just a joke, okay? It's not some of the stuff I'm gonna be teaching you is like comedy, not to be taken seriously. Some of it is more like, you know, just normal stuff that we say all the time. It's not necessarily for comedy, like the anyways thing. Um, so yeah, just it's just a random mix of stuff, okay? I can't the truth is I can make many videos about this topic because there's a lot of stuff. I'm just teaching just giving you a little bit of a taste, a little taste of like Generation Z, maybe young millennial uh American English type vibes, okay? Also another very emblematic, very, very super symbolic, not symbolic, that's the wrong word, but emblematic, like represent representative, like another big representative thing. Representative, representative I god, I don't even know. Another thing that represents American English, like modern American English super well, that you might hate, you might hate this, but this is simple. It's very simple and easy for English students to learn, to adopt. And it is responding to things, anything, with one word, one word responses. Okay. And what you what you might not realize is that in English, you can say a lot with one word. Like you can express what you need to express with one word, or like two words, one or two words. So a lot of responses are like one or two words, right? So literally one of them is right. So so so someone can say anything, like the weather's been crazy lately. Lately, the weather's been insane. The weather's been so crazy lately, and you can say, right? It's just like a way of like agreeing with them, you know, like right. This is not even a new thing. Well, this is like we've been doing this for a long time, but um, but yeah, very common nowadays. Uh so they say anything, you know, state a fact, state, state something, make a make a statement, and you're just like, right, right? Like, this is super good. Like this ice cream is so good, right? Yeah, it's just like a way of agreeing. Um, yeah, another one-word response or two-word response. We like to say like that's crazy, or that's wild. Wild is just like another way of saying crazy. Um, you know, in in modern English, wild also means like, you know, the the literal like nature, wild animals and wild forest and stuff like that. But it also just means crazy. Um, so yeah, you can say like that's crazy, that's wild. Um, this isn't new. Like we said this when we were kids, our parents said this, but it's definitely a lot more common now. Like like my generation took this and ran with it. So a lot of the stuff we use nowadays, it's not even it's not even like any new words that or anything necessarily new that we didn't have in our childhood. Some of it is, but a lot of it's not. It's just stuff that we decided to slightly alter or or use even more or use in even more context. So yeah. So a lot of times our response to things is just that's crazy, that's wild. And like I said before, it's dramatic, it's exaggeration. It doesn't have to be something that's actually crazy or wild. It doesn't have to be crazy. You could just say, you know, it's just a little bit crazy. It's just like a little bit crazy. You could say, like, that's crazy, you know, whoa, that's crazy, that's wild. That's wild, you know. Like if somebody said something uh as a strange response, or you could be like, that's crazy, that's a crazy thing to say, that's a wild thing to say, you know, if if their response was just like a little bit weird or a little bit unexpected or a little bit off, you know. Another thing we say in English all the time, and I'm here to tell you is not rude, is what? And yes, we use this like when we didn't hear you. Like a lot of times we'll just be like, what, what? That that's the what when we don't hear you, right? Like what? What? What? What? What'd you say? What'd you say? You know, it's kind of that what like an innocent what? An innocent what? But you can also use what, um, especially uh wait what like that with weight, um, when you're just like trying to process and comprehend what the person just said and you like it you think it's maybe crazy, or you're like, What did I just hear? Oh my god, you know, like as a reaction, like you heard it, but you're like, What the hell did I just hear? You can go, you can go, wait, what? You know, if somebody says something or you know, it doesn't even have to be like they said something crazy. It could just be like you kind of got lost in the conversation, or you kind of got like uh little distracted, or you kind of like, or I don't know, they just said something like unexpected or what whatever. Like it could be for many different things, just like wait what? You just it's like you want clarification or you just want to express that you think this is like you're like whoa, like this is unexpected or crazy or whatever. So there's a lot of different little contexts that you can use these phrases in, but but yeah, but the phrase is wait what? And you and you gotta say it like that. You gotta you'll be like, wait what? Because if you don't say it in the right way, it it might not be understood as the same way, you know? Like, wait what? Wait what? No, I mean I guess it's okay. Like it doesn't have to be exactly the same, but um but the kind of uh rhythm has to be the same. Like you can't say like, wait what, wait what? You like you have to say, wait what? You know what I mean? Like you you have to do kind of the right speed of the words, the w the right the right like rhythm and stuff, you know what I mean? You know what I mean? It's I don't know how to explain this, but like try to imitate native speakers, is what I'm saying. Not just say the words however, but actually like the tone, the intonation, the rhythm. Another super common thing for me and my generation, I mean, I say this all the time. Um, if somebody offers you something, like like here, you want a water, like, hey, you want a water, you you want something to drink, or like here, you want this, or like you want something to eat, you're hungry. I don't know, I don't know. Like anything. Like they they offer you something. You can say, I'm good, or I'm fine, I'm fine, thanks, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, thanks, I'm good. This is so common in English. I find myself saying this in Spanish, and I don't even know if I should be saying this in Spanish, but I do it anyways because my brain is so wired that way. So a lot of times in Spanish, people ask me if I want something, and I'll be like, estoy bien, gracias. Like I'll be like, I'm fine, thanks, I'm good, thanks. And I don't even know if they say that. I don't even care. My English brain is so wired that way, it's it's like it's literally my personality. At this point, it is my personality. I cannot escape it. It's like I can't rewire my brain. That is my personality. You know, you ask me if I want something, and I'm gonna tell you, I'm good, like I'm fine without that thing. Like I don't need that thing, I'm good. Like I'm good just the way I am right now. I'm not hungry, I'm not thirsty, I don't need anything else. Um, because yeah, you could be like, no thanks, but I feel like no thanks doesn't provide any kind of like explanation. Like, or it's like, I feel like no thanks could even be a little bit like suspicious. Like, well, why? I feel like I'm good or I'm fine is like, I don't know. I just feel like it's better. It just makes sense in my brain. I just feel like it's better. I can't explain this. This is just this is just modern English personality. It's this modern English way of thinking. I can't explain it, but it's just the way my brain is wired, and I'm trying to teach you how my brain is wired so you can try to think like this, you can try to wire your English brain like this, you know, to help you with your English, right? To be more like a native speaker. Okay. So, so yeah, I'm good, I'm fine. Um, yeah. Ironically, a lot of people when they learn English, right, in school, in English schools, um, like you watching this video, maybe you were taught in school that when someone says, How are you? you say, I'm fine, thanks. Well, I've said this a million times on my channel. That is wrong. In American English, that is wrong. We don't say that. We don't say that in American English anymore. I don't know. Maybe they did in the past. Maybe the British do. I don't know. But nowadays in American English we don't say that. Okay. Ironically, we use I'm fine in the other situation that I'm talking about when someone offers you something. When someone offers you something, you can say, I'm fine, thanks. It's a way to say no, thank you. Like we use I'm fine to say like no thanks. Not to say like I'm doing well today, thank you. Like ironically, we use I'm fine for that other context for for politely turning down an offer, right? Turning it down, like saying no, saying no. Um that's a phrase of herb for you. Turn down. Turn down is like to s to to say no to something. So we use it for that. We also use I'm fine. Um if somebody, if if the context is like maybe you're not okay, like maybe you hurt yourself, you could say like I'm fine, I'm fine. It's like, you know, if you fell and they're like, Are you okay? You could say, Yeah, I'm okay, or I'm fine. Okay, so we use I'm fine, we we use I'm fine in English, but we use it for other contexts, not for how are you? We don't use it for greetings, we don't use it for how are you today context. Okay, so remember that you don't have to remove I'm fine from your brain completely. Well, you could, you could remove it from your brain completely, and you could just say, I'm good, I'm good. You could say, like, I'm good, thanks. If someone offers you something, I'm good, thanks. Or you could say, uh, like if if someone's like, Are you okay? Like if you fell, you can say, I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm yeah. But so you don't have you you can completely remove I'm fine from your vocabulary, like you don't need it, but we do use it. We do use it, we just don't use it in the context that people learn it in English class when they are learning English for the first time. Okay. Important to know that if you didn't know that. So I already talked about literally. Uh, we say that a lot. I'm literally so tired, I'm literally so hungry right now, I am starving, whatever. So you're gonna hear literally. Um, a lot of times, literally is used like just for emphasis, just to be like, you know, like sometimes when people write comments in my on my videos, and it's like something that I said in the video, or it's something I already I already explained or whatever. You know, I sometimes I have the urge to be like, I literally already said that. Like I literally said that uh like in the beginning of the video. I literally said that. Like sometimes I have the urge, but I usually hold off, I usually like don't do that. I resist the urge to to respond that way because I feel like it's a little bit rude, so I try not to do that. Um, but sometimes we just like to use it for emphasis. Um, but we use literally a lot in positive ways as well. Like, I'm literally so happy that you're here. Like it could be used in any way, right? It's just emphasis. Um, it's the same thing with swears, right? Bad words. I hate saying that. They're not bad words because you can use them in positive ways and negative ways, right? You can say like F you or you can say that's a F and big tree. That's a fucking big tree. Like that's not a negative thing, that's not a bad thing, right? So there's not like inherently bad words most of the time. Like most words, not every word, but most words you can use like um in a positive way or a negative way or whatever. So yeah, remember that. Another one I really love um is no because why? No, because why? You can say this when like anything is just like crazy, confusing. You're like, what the hell? You know, like no, because why is gas five dollars again? No, because why is it so expensive? No, because why in literally anything, like anything you want to complain about or anything that's just like why? You know, like anything that you just like why about, you know, anything that's just like oh, why? You can say, no, because why? And that's this is a very my generation thing, and I love it. I love it. It's so satisfying to say, and it's something that you can't even say in Spanish because the word because and the word why are the same basically in Spanish. So you can't you can't even say that in certain languages, uh and in Portuguese and stuff, but you can say it in English, you know. You say, no, because why? No, because why? Why? Because why? So yeah, you can say, no, because why is it raining? It was sunny like two seconds ago. No, because why is it raining again? It rained all night. Why no, because why is it still raining? Like, yeah, anything, anything you're just like why say no because why? Another one that's kind of like that that we like to use a lot is not me, blah, blah, blah. Not me making the same mistake I made yesterday. Not me doing this again, not me eating this again, not me. And it's just a way of like talking about yourself, kind of poking fun at yourself, like making fun of yourself, like teasing yourself, laughing at yourself. This is a very good thing to do, by the way. Very good thing to like, you know, tease yourself, laugh at yourself, you know, don't take yourself so seriously a lot of times. Like, you could just use it for anything. There's not, there's not strict rules on these phrases, like I said, you know, you can use them at random times. Like, not me turning on my camera and forgetting to press play and record myself. Thank God that's not true. The red light is on, but not me like filming 20, 30 minutes of my video and realizing my camera's off. If that really happened, I would react a lot stronger than that because I'd be pissed. I'd be so pissed, I'd be so mad. But you know, just for an example, like not me, blah blah blah doing something, you know, literally anything. Like literally anything that you that you do or did or are doing, you can say, not me doing this thing, not me eating this for the third time today, like whatever. Um, so yeah, we like to say stuff like that. We like like Gen Z, like my generation, we have these phrases where we start it with no or not. Like no because why? Not me, blah, blah, blah. Um, and I don't know. We just I don't know what this came from. I don't know what the origins are of this, but we like it, we use it, and it's satisfying to say. It's satisfying so you don't have to use it. You don't have to use any of the stuff I'm teaching in this video, but it's just for you to know and you can practice it and you can feel your your inner like native English personality and sassiness come out, and it's fun, it's fun, you know. And I don't care if you're a man, I don't care if you're a woman, I don't care who you are, I don't care if you're 55, 60, 70 years old, like this is fun, and you know, you can have fun with it. Don't take it so serious. Another thing we like to say is that someone is doing the most or doing too much. And it's just kind of a dramatic way of saying, like, yeah, you're you're you're you're overreacting or you're doing too much, literally, like you're doing too much or you're reacting too much, or like anything, you know. Like, like, you know, maybe if your mom wakes up at six in six in the morning, six in the morning on Saturday morning and like starts cleaning the whole house and making a ton of mu uh a ton of noise and blasting music, you could say, like, why is she doing the most right now? Why is why like mom, you're doing too much. You're doing the most. Like, stop it. Like, sit down and be quiet. It's six in the morning. Um, yeah. But it could be for like even like a non-physical example, like someone is just like um freaking out about something or like, you know, reacting to something, you know, you could just say you're doing you're you're doing too much. Yeah, I don't know. My generation, we have a very like chill approach to life. We have a very like relaxed, chill approach. Um, we we're just kind of born into an era where so much stuff is messed up, so much stuff is fucked. And uh, you know, most of it's not our fault, but we were just born into it and we have to deal with it. And whether we're talking about the, you know, the economy and the you know, the rigged cost of living, it's all out of whack and disproportional, the fact that we can work 60 hours a week and still be struggling financially because the system is fucked, um, the environment is messed up, the, you know, like just so much stuff is messed up. We just were born into this and we're just like, man, like like we have all these modern day comforts, you know, but at the same time, there's so many problems, and we're not getting rewarded for our effort. No matter how much effort we put in, like we're not getting paid enough. We're not um, you know, we're not getting like a decent quality of life. You know, like our grandparents, they put in the same amount of effort and got back way more, right? They they got like a house and a car and a you know, and we like for us, it's like so much harder because the fight the economy, the financial system is is rigged now. It's like the you know, it's more disproportionate. And so I don't know, there's a lot of reasons, like socioeconomic reasons of why essentially uh and also just growing up like yeah, very comfy, but at the same time like realizing that as adults that you know no matter how hard we work, like it's still gonna be a struggle. So we just kind of like have this attitude of like, well, whatever then, like whatever. Like just I'm just gonna enjoy my life and I'm not gonna like be a slave to this bull crap to this like um system that's rigged anyways. It's rigged, like it's it's uh designed for failure essentially. So I'm just like whatever. I'm just not gonna take shit seriously. I'm just gonna like, you know, have a very chill approach to life and way of being and way of talking, and and yeah. So that's just kind of the vibe. Like we watched our parents like freak out about little things, like, you know, we watch like we watched them, you know, and our grandparents just like take everything so seriously all the time and be so like angry and quick to yell and blah blah blah. Like, and we're just like done with it. We're just like fuck you. We're just like fuck off. Like, and we just wanna be chilling, like we just want to chill, we just want to enjoy life and uh you know, just not take it so seriously. Like, you know, we're all gonna die one day. Like that doesn't mean like don't try to be a good person, like don't try to like absolutely 100% try to be a good ethical person in this world. Like I'm vegan, like I don't believe that we should exploit animals like in any way. Like I I'm all for being a good ethical person and putting in effort. Like I'm all for putting in effort to being a good person and putting out good in the world, but at the same time, you gotta just like chill out about some things. Like you gotta, you know, what you can control, like great, but there's a lot of you know, do it, but there's a lot of things that we can't control and just like, you know, let it be. And also a lot of the toxic behavior cycles that we watched our grandparents and parents uh be in, we realize that that actually doesn't lead to good outcomes. Um, so we're like trying to change that and whatever. Obviously, I'm generalizing right now, but the point is is that we just we have a very chill approach to life, and you can see that in our speaking, in our in our language, in our you know, just our way of being. So, um, so you know, speaking of that, like another thing that we like to say is like I can. I can't, like I can't right now. Like I simply cannot. I can't. Like, like I can't with that. I can't. It's like I can't handle that. Like I don't want but it's it's not l it's not so literal and serious. It's just like, oh my god. It's like, oh my god, it's like it's like that's crazy. Like I can't, like it's like it's a little bit too much. It's too much. You know, it's we just have this um kind of like dismissive personality of like, you know, like I'm in my lane, I'm trying to enjoy life, you know, if something is being too much of a nuisance, like boy bye. Like, boy bye, like get out, you know, like we're also the generation who needs um how do I say this? Uh like maybe the most like independent, I guess, like the the who who needs the least from like um I don't know what I'm saying. Never mind, scratch that, scratch that. I don't know what I'm saying. By the way, independence is not a great thing. I'm not trying to glorify independence. There's a lot of problems with with the illusion of independence because it's not really independent, it's like still dependent on the system, even if you're not dependent on a person in your life. But um, anyways, I'm getting off on a side tangent right now. I don't really want to talk about that actually. So I don't know, I don't know what I'm saying there. But the point is is we we just have this personality of like just um, you know, protect my peace, protect my peace. And if something is just like unnecessarily causing problems and it's not there's no point to it, it's not productive, it's not like you know, it's not adding to my life, it's not, it's not educating me, it's just taking away from me, then like get rid of it, right? Get rid of it. Like, yeah. Our tolerance for toxic relationships and everything just completely is is is going down. It's just, you know, it goes down, I think, with each generation. We're just like, you know, fuck that. Um I think we're we're more likely to cut people off. This is a good phrasal verb, cut people off or cut people out of our life. Um, you know, if somebody is being an asshole and somebody, you know, you have to earn respect. And if somebody is um not treating us with respect, then we're not gonna treat them with respect. And if they're not adding to our life, they're just taking away from our life. You know, it doesn't matter if we're related by blood, it doesn't matter, you know, it doesn't matter. We don't, we don't, you know, children don't owe parents anything. Children don't owe, you know, you don't owe your family anything. Like, you know, if they're not gonna respect you, you don't have to respect them. And we like, I think our generation is accepting this more and more than previous generations. And so, yeah, we just we don't have tolerance for for bull crap, for disrespect. And it's like, you know, if you want to be in our life, you gotta respect us. You got you know, so yeah. Anyways, I think it's a fantastic thing. I think it's a great, super great, healthy thing. And if it bothers you, if it if that bothers you or if that triggers you, it's probably because you're one of those people that we would cut out of our life. It's probably because you're one of those people who is disrespectful, you know. Like if something like that triggers you, maybe it's because you're on the wrong side of it. I don't know. All right. Another thing that is extremely, extremely common with um modern English, these, you know, younger generations is it's giving. This is such a great phrase. You can use this for for everything, like for anything. You can say like it's it's just a way to to express the energy or the vibe that something has or something is putting off, something is giving, literally giving. So you can say like, oh, you like these new glasses I got? It's giving like studious um pupil. It's giving like English teacher, it's giving um teacher, student, it's giving like I spend every night in the library, I'm a good student, it's giving whatever. Like it's just the vibe that it gives off, like the kind of image, the kind of you know, you know what I mean, the kind of uh persona, the kind of character energy, whatever. Like it's giving, it's giving like if Barbie was a student, because it's pink, you know. I don't know. But yeah, you could say it for anything, anything. Uh it's giving, blah, blah, blah. That's a great one. Oh, I like this one. Another one on the list is that's so valid. We love this word valid. Um, I think it's great. I think it's good. We like to uh validate people and what they think, and we like to agree with them, and so we say like that's so valid, like that's so true. Uh sometimes we just say true or real. Sometimes someone says something and we just say like real or true, true, or like that's valid, that's so valid. It's like you can also say like same if you relate to that, if you feel the same or think the same, like same, or you have the same experience, you know. Like, oh my god, I'm I'm like addicted to like fries. Oh my god, same. You don't have to say, oh my god, you can say same. Um, yeah, we just have a lot of these short ways of agreeing with somebody, validating what someone says, agreeing with them. Um, another one here on the list is I respect that. So you might not agree, you don't have to agree, but like you can just, you know, you respect their opinion. You can say, I respect that. It's like a polite way of disagreeing. I respect that. I respect that. I said this in another video, but we love to say honestly or to be honest. Like to be honest, blah blah blah. Honestly, blah blah blah. It's a great thing we love to say. Honestly, to be honest, um, actually, like, it's actually not that big of a deal. Like, it's actually not a pro like actually is a great way to say like in reality, you know. I also say that too. I say in reality, but but actually is the most common one we use all the time. It's nothing new, it's nothing new, but it's good to know. It's good to practice, like like No, because actually these make me look so cute. No, because actually I look like a teacher with these on. You see how I just combined a couple phrases there? No, because actually. Yeah. Um, so there's a million more, you know, there's a ton, a ton of phrases and things you could say, like a there's so much Gen Z slang, there's so much stuff. Um, another one that's on this list that I really like is uh that's not it, or that ain't it. Ain't it's just, you know, it's another word in English that has many different meanings, but uh you can say that's not it, or that ain't it. That's not it is like uh or this isn't it. You there's like you can change it. It can be in different forms, like this isn't it, or that isn't it, or that's not it, or this isn't it. Like you you can change it, but essentially it's saying like this is not the move. That's another one. This is not the move, this is not this is not the the correct action, this is not the right thing to do, this is not the solution, this is not the good thing to do, this is not what you should do, this is not the thing that we should be doing, like this is not it. This is not it. Like, you know, like like if you see a video on the internet of like some misogynistic dude talking about how um, you know, how to treat women, you know, in a misogynistic way, you can comment and be like, this isn't it. Like this is not it. Like this is not uh like that's not that's not what we should be aiming for. That's not what we should be striving for, this isn't it, that's not it. Mm-hmm. No, that's not that's not the thing, right? That's not the that's not the goal, right? That's not the goal. This isn't it, this isn't it. This it's not not the thing, not the goal. You get what I'm saying? Yeah, that's another one I love. There's so many, okay? I'm just going through this list, there's so many, so many, so many. I just wanted to give you in this video like a taste, a feel, a little bit of a a taste or a feel for for um, you know, modern American English and some some phrases and things that you can practice, you know, to to kind of get more in the personality of American English. And it's not just about the phrases from this list, it's also about all of the commentary that I provide in my videos, talking about all kinds of different things and related phrases and sentences and situations and explanations about everything. Oh, we're dramatic. You know, like like I talk for almost an hour about just a lot of different things. And it's just to give you like a general vibe, a general experience. I can't teach you like if you just learn these 30 phrases, you will sound like a native speaker. Just these 30 phrases. Why? Because there's so many more. Like there's infinite phrase. There's so many, it's not just 30, right? There's more than 30. Um, because English is so vast, language is so vast. But what I can do is I can sit down and talk to you for 45 minutes about a general topic, a general idea, a general vibe, and I can just say everything that pops into my head. And this is practice for you for not just listening to someone speaking the English that you're trying to learn, but also it's content for you. to repeat, to practice your speaking, to you know, say what I say, to pause the video and and repeat after me, to to imitate me, right? This is this these videos that I make are for so many things. They're not just for you to learn phrases, but also to practice your speaking, practice your speaking, practice your listening, practice everything. Like this is it. This is an all in one video. It's it's everything in one. What more do you need? What more could you want? Like what more is there? There is no more than this. There is nothing more, it doesn't get more realistic than this. It doesn't get more authentic. It doesn't get more complete. Like where are you going to find an English lesson that's more complete than this? I know it's messy and it's chaotic and it's you know it's not perfectly organized and whatever, but that's life and that's language. That's literally what language is so anyways that was my little rant you see you see anyways I I I use that a lot in my videos, right? Anyways that was my little rant about my little rant. It's like when you talk passionately about something, you know, you rant about something. A little rant. It can be a thing or a verb. Thing verb. A rant you can rant yeah so anyways that was my little rant about um what the hell my videos are supposed to be if you don't understand. But if you watch to the end you probably love them and understand already. So just really for those people I guess. I don't know. At this point, you know I just get rambling and I don't like to stop because I have a hard I have separation anxiety and I have a hard time saying goodbye. I have a hard time once I turn on the camera I have a hard time turning it off. All right but I'm going to turn it off now. I hope you have a fabulous day I hope this helped you get in the feel get in the vibes of modern American English personality and uh yeah I hope that you're you're feeling the vibes and I hope that you are inspired. And um yeah another thing you can do is you can watch like you can watch TV shows about young people TV shows about young people or movies about young people in American English. That's another thing remember it's scripted it's scripted so it's not totally totally totally totally totally realistic in like exactly how it would be in real life because it's it's literally a script um that they have memorized. And also sometimes the audio quality in shows and movies is really bad and you need to put on subtitles don't feel bad about that because movies and shows are very difficult sometimes and hard to hear. So even native speakers put on subtitles sometimes so like don't worry about that. Use the subtitles it's fine but you can see you can get a feel for how young people might might talk. But it's once again it's not as realistic as like in real life but it is it's something it's something it's somewhat realistic right somewhat somewhat um yeah so like for example um I don't know if you watch um I don't know if you have like HBO Max or I don't know what you have Hulu I don't know if you use any of that stuff. I don't watch a lot of TV shows or movies. I actually didn't have any subscriptions but I recently subscribed for one month. I'm gonna cancel it I think after a month but I just subscribed one month to HBO Max um because I wanted to watch um I wanted to watch this new TV show that came out that everybody's talking about um I'm laughing because I'm like should I announce what it is or not? It's very sexual and explicit but yeah it's called Heated Rivalry. Everybody's talking about it it's like about gay men and it's very very there's a lot of sex scenes and stuff so if you don't like that don't watch it. But um I was curious because everybody's talking about it so I wanted to watch that and also there's a new season of a show called Euphoria that's coming out that's about like young people doing stupid shit. And it's stupid but there's good there's usually good music in those shows and um the I like the costumes and the makeup and the I think the girls are very like I just like the the vibes and the aesthetic of those kind of shows. The dialogue is usually stupid the the actions everything like the show is stupid but the I like the aesthetic I like the the vibes sometimes. So yeah I'm probably gonna watch there's a new season that comes out on uh like Sunday or something. So uh I think April 12th I don't know I don't know when I'm gonna post this video. But anyways so you can look for um TV shows, movies, you know, about young people as well. But honestly my videos is where you're gonna get the best like complete explanation of all this stuff and you're gonna get right to the right to the point of like mine is like an actual lesson. It's an actual lesson so you know it's it's there's nothing like that, right? You know, it's not the same as watching a TV show or whatever. So anyways Jesus I said I was gonna stop rambling and it's like five minutes have gone by and I'm still rambling. Okay. Love ya see you later bye bye