Speaker 1: I'm so glad I called up my buddy Ed the
other day. He's a friend of mine from high school,
and last week, out of the blue, he hit me
up in a text message. I've been meaning to get
in touch with him for a while and it was
so great to have the chance to catch up with him.
Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from
New York City, and here's your English teacher, Michael.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael
here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.
And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven ninety four.
Fraseal verbs and other communication phrases. You know, using fraser
verbs is a great way to make your English convert
stations sound more natural. That's why today I want to
introduce a couple of phrasal verbs and other expressions that
you can use when you talk about communicating with other people.
A basic communication tool these days is the phone. And
when you phone someone, you call them or you call
them up. I called up my cousin yesterday to see
how he was doing. And you might be wondering what's
the difference between call and call up. I think in
American English we tend to use call up when the
person you want to talk to is a familiar person,
like I called up my buddy ed to see if
he wanted to have lunch tomorrow. On the other hand,
I think we tend to use call when it's not
a familiar person, like if you go out side in
the morning and you find your car was stolen, you
might want to call the police. I don't think we
would use call up in that situation. Call up is
more for casual situations. And speaking of casual situations, you
can also hit someone up or hit up someone like
I'll be home all day tomorrow, so you can hit
me up anytime, or when you travel, you can say
something like my flight arrives at two o'clock, so i'll
hit you up once I get to the hotel. I'll
hit you up. By the way. In slang, when you
hit someone up, you're asking them for something, and usually
that's involving money, like it's been more than two years
since I started working at this company, i think it's
time for me to hit my boss up for a raise.
When you haven't been in contact with someone for a while,
you need to get in touch with them. Get in
touch with someone means to contact somebody, and usually somebody
that you haven't spoken to in a while. My buddy
Steven moved to Florida a year and a half ago,
and I was finally able to get in touch with him.
Joe plays in a band and he's always on the road.
He's a hard guy to get in touch with. And
once you do get in touch with someone, it's time
to exchange information about what's been happening in your lives,
and when you do that, you catch up with them.
Catch Up means to exchange information with someone who you
haven't spoken to in a while. When you catch up,
you hear what's new with them, and they hear what's
new with you. I had lunch with one of my
high school friends at the Dinery yesterday and we had
so much fun catching up. It was great to catch
up with him, and during lunch he told me that
he was in the process of trying to buy a
new house, so I told him to keep me posted
about that situation. Keep someone posted means to make sure
that they are informed with the latest information about something.
When you keep someone posted, you're letting them know how
the situation is going. There's a good possibility that my
friend Paul is actually going to be able to buy
that house, So once he finds out for sure, he's
gonna ca keep me posted. Keep in mind, the best
way to remember vocabulary like this and any other word
or phrase in English is to take that word or phrase,
write it in a sentence that's true for you or
true in your world, and then memorize your sentences. Did
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