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Speaker 1: I worked a lot this week. I think I was

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at work like sixty five hours altogether. So when I

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was done last night, I was like so tired. I

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fell asleep on the sofa with my clothes on, and

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when I woke up, it was like already light outside

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and the birds were singing. Even though it was like

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five am. I was wide awake. Welcome to another Happy

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English podcast, coming to you from New York City, and

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here's your English teacher, Michael al Rye. Thank you, Jan,

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and thanks everyone. It's Michael here from Happy English and

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I help people speak English better. And this is Happy

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English Podcast, Episode eight twenty conversational like hello and welcome,

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thanks for joining me for another episode of the Happy

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English Podcast. I'm your English teacher Michael, and I'm so

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glad you've decided to tune in and check it out.

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Today we're gonna look at another common word in English,

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and that word is like now, you're probably thinking, oh,

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that's a basic word. I already know that, and I'm

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sure you do. You probably like listening to this podcast,

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which means you like to learn English. You know, like

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talks about your preferences, but in casual conversational English, like

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is used in a number of interesting ways, and I'd

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like to show you that today. Using like in these

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ways will make your English conversation sound more natural. Okay,

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First of all, you can use like to mean around

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or about when you mention a number like someone's age, time, distance,

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and so on. You can say things like I think

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the new boss is like fifty years old. And you'll

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notice how I said that. I put a pause between

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like and the number. The new boss is like fifty

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years old. It's like twenty two degrees outside today, what

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a nice day. When I went to the vet this week,

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I found out that max weighs like thirteen kilograms. So

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like modifies a number, and like also modifies words such

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as a little so or two in an adjective phrase

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to emphasize and draw the listener's attention to that phrase.

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For example, you can say I was like so tired

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last night that I fell asleep with my clothes on.

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Notice here, too, there's a pause after like, hey is

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tom okay? He seems like a little quiet today. That

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pause is essential for the meaning to be understood. And

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in a similar way, we use like before a verb

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to emphasize and draw the listener's attention to that verb.

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This like is also usually followed by a brief pause.

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Here are some examples. Don't you like love the pizza here?

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It's so good? Ugh, I'm tired. I think I'm gonna

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like go home and taken now up before dinner. You

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know what, It's just my opinion, but I think the

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new salesman in the company like talks too much. And

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again remember the pause after like next up. I'm sure

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that you've learned to use the verb say when you

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report what someone has said. For example, the boss said

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Jack was late for work, And I'm also sure that

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you learned to use the verb ask when you report

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another person's question, like the boss asked Jack why he

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was late. Well, in conversational American English, we use the

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phrase was like to mean said or asked when we

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tell someone about a conversation we had and we want

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to quote that conversation. This is a casual way to

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talk to someone about what was said in another conversation.

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When I saw my friend Paul yesterday, it looked like

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he was in a hurry. I was like, where are

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you going? And he was like, I'm late for a meeting.

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So I was like what happened? And he was like

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I'd overslept, and then I was like, good luck, man.

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That guy is always late for everything. He'll probably be

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late for his own funeral someday. Keep in mind the

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best way to remember English like this and any other

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word or phrase in English, is to take that word

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or phrase, write it in a sentence that's true for

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you or true in your world, and then memory your

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