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Speaker 1: I get it. You got here because you want to

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get something new in English. You're getting more and more

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interested in improving your English. I'm sure you'll totally get

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this lesson. Let's dive in.

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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: Alrighty, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael here

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from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven seventy eight.

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Eight Meanings of Get. Today, we're gonna be tackling a

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word that seems super simple, but it's actually one of

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the trickiest words in English, really is. And that word

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is get. Get. I mean, we use get all the time,

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and it's got so many different meanings and nuances. So

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let's explore all the different ways that you can use

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get in English. By the end of this podcast lesson,

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you're going to be using get just like a native speaker.

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First of all, we use get to mean receive, like

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if someone gives you a birthday present, you get a present.

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When you open your inbox in the morning, you might

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get a bunch of emails. The key here is that

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someone else is doing the action that results in you

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getting something. Get means receive, and get can also be

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you to talk about obtaining or achieving something. In this case,

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it's more about your effort. You're putting in the work.

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You're doing something to get something, and there's a nuance

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that you got that because of overcoming some kind of

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obstacle to get that thing, Like you studied hard and

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you got a good grade on your test. Or you

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might get a new job after having a successful job interview,

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or maybe you might finally get eight hours of sleep

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after a long week. Now that's an achievement. You get

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an email because of someone else's effort, and you get

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a new job because of your effort, something new came

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to you. You got it, which brings us to the

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third meaning of get, which is by get is a

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casual way to say by like I got a new

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pair of shoes, or I got a new book, I

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got a new coffee maker, or I got groceries at Costco.

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Using get like this is informal everyday English. Now let's

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move on to some more abstract meanings. Get can also

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mean understanding or comprehending something like when you're trying to

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learn a new concept and it finally clicks you get it,

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or maybe someone's trying to explain something to you but

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you just can't wrap your head around it. You don't

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get it. Do you get what I mean? Here? Get

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means understand and asking someone do you get it? Is

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much more friendly than asking them do you understand? So

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the next time you explain something to someone, you can

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ask them like do you get what I mean? Or

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do you get it? Casual and friendly? Get it all right?

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So now let's get moving, I mean literally, let's get moving.

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Because get can also be used to talk about transportation.

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Get means to catch or travel by some kind of transportation,

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like oh, look, it's raining, why don't we get an

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uber or Kim gets the seven h nine train to

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the city every morning, and I know we thinking, oh, Michael,

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can we use catch? Yes, you can. You can catch

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a train or get a train. It's the same meaning.

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And since we're talking about moving, if you get a train,

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you're probably doing that because you want to arrive somewhere,

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and you can use get once more to mean arrive,

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like I got to work early this morning. We use

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get to talk about the destination, so you can say

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I need to get to the airport by eight pm,

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or we got to the party late. So get two

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means arrive. That's handy, isn't it. Just remember one exception,

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which is when you're talking about getting home, you never

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say I need to get to home. You get home. Remember,

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home is used as an adverb with verbs of motion.

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You go home, you arrive home, you stay home, and

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you get home. So what time did you get home

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last night? Next, let's talk about changes, because get also

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has the meaning of become here. Get shows a change

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or progression and is usually followed by an adjective, like

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in the Fall, it gets dark outside earlier and earlier,

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or I got bored during the meeting when the boss

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was babbling. Did you know that a baby elephant gets

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big very quickly? Let me see what time is it?

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Oh it's one thirty, No wonder, I'm getting hung and

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I'm getting excited. Because next up is our final meaning

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of get for today. Get means fetch, which is an

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old fashioned word meaning to go somewhere, to pick up

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something and come right back, like I was watching TV

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and got a drink during the commercial. Get means go

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and come back. I'm gonna get the kids from school,

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and it's usually a quick trip. Like when I was

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a kid, my mom would ask me to get the mail,

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just to walk outside the door to the mailbox. Ah,

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those were the days before the mailbox was full of

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junk mail. Keep in mind, the best way to remember

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vocabulary like this and any other world word or phrase

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in English is to take that word or phrase, write

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

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in your world, and then memorize your sentences. By the way,

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