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Speaker 1: I'm so glad I called up my buddy Ed the

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other day. He's a friend of mine from high school,

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and last week, out of the blue, he hit me

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up in a text message. I've been meaning to get

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in touch with him for a while and it was

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so great to have the chance to catch up with him.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City, and here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven ninety four.

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Fraseal verbs and other communication phrases. You know, using fraser

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verbs is a great way to make your English convert

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stations sound more natural. That's why today I want to

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introduce a couple of phrasal verbs and other expressions that

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you can use when you talk about communicating with other people.

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A basic communication tool these days is the phone. And

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when you phone someone, you call them or you call

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them up. I called up my cousin yesterday to see

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how he was doing. And you might be wondering what's

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the difference between call and call up. I think in

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American English we tend to use call up when the

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person you want to talk to is a familiar person,

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like I called up my buddy ed to see if

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he wanted to have lunch tomorrow. On the other hand,

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I think we tend to use call when it's not

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a familiar person, like if you go out side in

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the morning and you find your car was stolen, you

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might want to call the police. I don't think we

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would use call up in that situation. Call up is

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more for casual situations. And speaking of casual situations, you

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can also hit someone up or hit up someone like

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I'll be home all day tomorrow, so you can hit

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me up anytime, or when you travel, you can say

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something like my flight arrives at two o'clock, so i'll

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hit you up once I get to the hotel. I'll

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hit you up. By the way. In slang, when you

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hit someone up, you're asking them for something, and usually

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that's involving money, like it's been more than two years

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since I started working at this company, i think it's

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time for me to hit my boss up for a raise.

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When you haven't been in contact with someone for a while,

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you need to get in touch with them. Get in

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touch with someone means to contact somebody, and usually somebody

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that you haven't spoken to in a while. My buddy

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Steven moved to Florida a year and a half ago,

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and I was finally able to get in touch with him.

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Joe plays in a band and he's always on the road.

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He's a hard guy to get in touch with. And

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once you do get in touch with someone, it's time

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to exchange information about what's been happening in your lives,

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and when you do that, you catch up with them.

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Catch Up means to exchange information with someone who you

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haven't spoken to in a while. When you catch up,

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you hear what's new with them, and they hear what's

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new with you. I had lunch with one of my

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high school friends at the Dinery yesterday and we had

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so much fun catching up. It was great to catch

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up with him, and during lunch he told me that

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he was in the process of trying to buy a

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new house, so I told him to keep me posted

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about that situation. Keep someone posted means to make sure

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that they are informed with the latest information about something.

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When you keep someone posted, you're letting them know how

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the situation is going. There's a good possibility that my

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friend Paul is actually going to be able to buy

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that house, So once he finds out for sure, he's

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gonna ca keep me posted. Keep in mind, the best

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way to remember vocabulary like this and any other word

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or phrase in English is to take that word or phrase,

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write it in a sentence that's true for you or

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true in your world, and then memorize your sentences. Did

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