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Speaker 1: I was much too tired to go to the gym today.

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To be honest, I guess I'm too bored with that gym.

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The equipment is too old and there are too many

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people working out there. Wait a minute, maybe I'm just

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much too grumpy.

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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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This is Happy English Podcast Episode eight thirty two. Too

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Much and Much Too. Hello and welcome. Thanks for joining

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me for another episode of the Happy English Podcast. I'm

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your English tea Michael, and I'm glad you're here because

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today we're gonna talk about a few tiny little words

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that pack a punch in English. Too much, too and

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too much. They may sound simple, but these words can

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really help you express how you feel about a situation,

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especially when things just aren't right. So let's jump into

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it now. First up is the word two two two

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two to We use two to talk about situations where

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there is more of something than we want or need.

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It's often used when we're not happy about something, when

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we're complaining a little. Let's say it's freezing outside. You

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could say it's very cold today, and that's fine. That

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just means it's pretty cold. But if you say it's

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too cold today, that's different. That means it's really cold

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and you're not happy about it. You wish it were warmer.

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That's the feeling behind too. Here are a few more

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like that, I can't go to the gym I'm too tired,

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or Emily didn't want to go because it was too far,

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or maybe your friend painted their room dark purple and

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you're just not feeling it it's too dark. See. Each

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one shows a kind of complaint or discomfort, and we

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can use two with adverbs those words that describe how

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something is done, like the new teacher speaks too quickly,

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or the snow melted too slowly. It's the same feeling.

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Something is happening in a way that's not good for you. Now,

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if you really really want to emphasize your feeling like

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this isn't just bad, it's really bad, we use much

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too so it's much too far or much too slowly,

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or much too expensive, like I wanted to buy those

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sneakers but they were much too expensive, or traffic is

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moving much too slowly this morning. It adds a little drama,

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you know. Okay, now let's talk about too much and

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too many. These are a little different now because we're

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talking about quantity. We say too much with things we

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can't count, like milk, or time, or noise or rain.

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Stuff like that, there's too much noise in here, or

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we have too much time before the flight. On the

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other hand, we say too many with countable things, things

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you can count one by one, like emails, people or snowstorms.

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I got too many emails today, or there were too

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many snowstorms last winter. Too many emails? Do people really

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use email these days? Oh, and here's a little bonus.

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You might hear someone say he's too much or that

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was too much. In this case, it doesn't mean anything negative. Actually,

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it's usually positive or playful. It means something was really

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funny or a bit over the top, like your friend

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tells the funniest story at the party and you laugh

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and say you're too much, or you watch a crazy

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scene in a movie and go, wow, that was too much.

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So just remember two followed by an adjective or an

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adverb means you're not happy with a situation. Like too

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loud or too fast, and much too makes that feeling stronger.

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It's much too hot today. Too much or too many

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is about quantity more than you want, like too much

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noise or too many people at the gym. And finally,

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your too much can be a fun and playful way

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to react to something hilarious or outrageous. All right, that's

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it for today's podcast English lesson. I hope this helped

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you get a better sense of how to use too much,

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too and too much in real life. Try using them today.

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And hey, if you hear someone say you're too much,

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just take it as a compliment. And by the way,

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the best way to remember English like this and any

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other word or phrase in English, is to take that

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

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for you or true in your world, and then memorize

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