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Speaker 1: I'm glad you're still studying English. I'm gonna guess that

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you have already heard my last podcast about linking sounds.

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What did you say, not yet? Huh? You're not gonna

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do that anymore, are you?

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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 In. 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 eight sixty six,

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using already, still yet and anymore. Hello and welcome and

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thanks for joining me for another episode of the Happy

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English Podcast. Today, I want to talk about four small

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but powerful words that can totally change the feeling of

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your sentence. I'm talking about already, still yet and any more.

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These are super common in casual conversation, but I've noticed

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a lot of English learners mix them up or aren't

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exactly sure when to use them. So today we're going

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to clear all that up with natural examples and easy explanations.

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Let's get the ball rolling with already. We use already

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to talk about something that happened sooner than expected, or

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just to say that something has happened before now already

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usually goes in the middle of a sentence or at

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the end, and we use already mostly with the present perfect,

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like I've already eaten. That means I ate before now.

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And maybe you didn't know or expect that, or don't

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call Sarah, she's already gone home. She's gone, she left.

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It happened earlier than we thought. Here's another one. Wow,

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you already did your homework. That sentence has some surprise

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in it, like wow, that was fast. And here's an

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American English tip. In everyday conversational American English, we tend

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to use already with the simple past, like are you hungry? No,

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I already ate now. I know that a lot of

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fans of British English may be surprised or even bothered

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by that, but hey, don't shoot the messenger. I didn't

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invent that style of speaking. I'm just telling you about it. Oh,

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you already knew that? Nice So yeah, already has that

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surprised or early feeling baked into it. Now, let's talk

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about still still means something is continuing. It started in

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the past and is happening now, Like this, are you

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still working at the bookshop? This means you started working before,

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and I'm asking if you continue working now or I

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still don't understand this math problem. That means I didn't

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understand it before, and even now you know nothing's changed,

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it's still confusing. By the way, the difference between still

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and since or four is when we use still, we

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don't know when it started, Like Jack still lives in Brooklyn,

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we don't know when he moved there. When we use still,

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If you want to know when, then you can use

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since or four, like Jack's been living in Brooklyn for

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five years since twenty twenty. Okay, here's one last example

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for you with still, I had a student tell me

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the other day, I still get nervous when I speak English,

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and that's totally normal. But hey, if you're listening to

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this podcast, you're improving every day, promise. So remember still

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is for something that hasn't stopped. Next up is yet?

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Yet is one of those tricky ones. We use yet

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to ask if something has happened, or to say that

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it hasn't happened but we expect it. Usually we use

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yet in questions and negative sentences, especially with the present

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perfect like have you eaten yet? Simple question? I want

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to know if it's already happened, or has Katie finished

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her project yet? We're expecting the action to be done

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and we're checking in negative sentences, I haven't seen that

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movie yet not yet, but I probably will. Or Tom

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hasn't called me yet, We're still waiting for that phone call.

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You can almost feel that sense of expectation in these

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sentences like not now, but maybe soon and again. In

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American English, it's pretty common to hear yet used with

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the simple past, like did you eat yet? Or I

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didn't finish my homework yet. By the way, if you're

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taking an exam like toek or Ai Alts, you may

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come across yet in the middle of a sentence like

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I haven't yet found a good pizza shop in my neighborhood.

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This placement of yet is used in more formal situations,

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like formal conversations or in writing, like I might ask

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you if you have seen that yet, and you could

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say I haven't yet learned that grammar. You see, I'm

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not just about casual English, okay, finally we have anymore

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now Now anymore is usually used in negative sentences, and

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it means that's something used to be true, but it's

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not true now, like I don't live in New York anymore.

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That was true in the past, but not now. Or

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Wendy doesn't eat meat anymore. She went vegan. Maybe she

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used to eat meat all the time, but not anymore.

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One of my friends told me recently, I don't use

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Facebook anymore, and honestly, me too. I'm not so enthusiastic

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about using social media anymore. So again, anymore is for

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saying this thing used to happen, but it doesn't happen. Now.

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Here's a quick recap of what we talked about today.

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Let me give you a little story to tie it

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all together. I used to live in New York, but

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I don't live if they are anymore. I moved to

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Japan this year. I'm still getting used to the food,

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but I've already learned to love ramen. And I haven't

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tried not do yet, but maybe soon not do. Fermented

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soybeans boom. One story. Four keywords, all natural and real. Well,

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thanks as always for hanging out with me today and

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until next time, keep learning, keep practicing, and keep it cool,

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and remember the best way to remember English like this

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and any other word or phrase in English is to

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take that word or phrase write it in a sentence

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that's true for you or true in your world, and

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then memorize your sentences. And remember to check out my

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