American English With Brent

During this livestream, I answer viewers questions about learning English, but try to stress the importance of celebrating your small successes in English learning. The theme of today's lesson is to celebrate those little successes you have in learning English. Don't always wait for the big ones. I think you'll have more fun if you do.  To view the original video: https://youtu.be/eHdMRTmgvFk 🇺🇸  🇬🇧  Follow this link for bonus credits from Italki after your first purchase: https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1355613&u=2346050&m=70611&urllink=&afftrack=    🔷  Follow me on Instagram for mini-mini lessons: https://www.instagram.com/americanenglishwiththisguy/    🔷 To become a member, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakDTg9dhhAsr3WmHyJDa-g/join    🔷  Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/americanenglishwiththisguy    🔷 A playlist with helpful videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZJxW7kBsjp8Gb9KQErGa3Kbvu_LptPT-

In this English lesson, I explain how American vote for a United States presidents. It is pretty complicated because we don't directly elect our president. There is something in between the votes and the president, and that's called the electoral college. Large states like California have many electoral college votes, 55. Small states like mine only have four, but the popular vote really doesn't matter. Hillary Clinton actually got more votes in 2016, but Donald Trump because president because he won the electoral college votes. I also talk about how blue states are Democratic states and how red states are Republican states.   🇺🇸  🇬🇧  Follow this link for bonus credits from Italki for online English lessons after your first purchase: https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1355613&u=2346050&m=70611&urllink=&afftrack=  🔷  Follow me on Instagram for mini-mini lessons: https://www.instagram.com/americanenglishwiththisguy/  🔷 To become a member, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakDTg9dhhAsr3WmHyJDa-g/join  🔷  Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/americanenglishwiththisguy

Basically, Ibrahim from Egypt shared a list of weird, wacky English words, and I explain them. Words like malarkey, discombobulated, thingamajig, whatchamacallit, whippersnapper, and discombobulated.   7 WACKIEST WORDS IN ENGLISH | ENGLISH LESSON WITH A REAL ENGLISH TEACHER  https://youtu.be/fe5OaYVOOIs 🔷  Follow me on Instagram for mini-mini lessons: https://www.instagram.com/americanenglishwiththisguy/   🔷 To become a member, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakDTg9dhhAsr3WmHyJDa-g/join   🔷  Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/americanenglishwiththisguy

I've been an English teacher in the United States for about 20 years, and for one hour, I will take your questions about learning English and American culture.    🇺🇸  🇬🇧  Follow this link for bonus credits from Italki after your first purchase: https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1355613&u=2346050&m=70611&urllink=&afftrack=   🔷  Follow me on Instagram for mini-mini lessons: https://www.instagram.com/americanenglishwiththisguy/   🔷 To become a member, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakDTg9dhhAsr3WmHyJDa-g/join   🔷  Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/americanenglishwiththisguy   🔷 A playlist with helpful videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZJxW7kBsjp8Gb9KQErGa3Kbvu_LptPT-

I'm sorry. I was not on a trail in New Hampshire when I made this video. I was at my house. 😀 Americans say "sorry" all the time. In this slow English lesson, I explain some of the reasons Americans might say "sorry" and there are some reasons you might not realize. We don't just say "sorry" in English when something is our fault, we also say "sorry" when we hope things will get better for you, like, if you are going through a difficult time. I hope you learn a little something from this English lesson in slow, clear English.    🇺🇸  🇬🇧  Follow this link for bonus credits from Italki for online English lessons after your first purchase: https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1355613&u=2346050&m=70611&urllink=&afftrack=   🔷 Link to YouTube video: https://youtu.be/umwTsI18KyQ 🔷  Follow me on Instagram for mini-mini lessons: https://www.instagram.com/americanenglishwiththisguy/   🔷 To become a member, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakDTg9dhhAsr3WmHyJDa-g/join   🔷  Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/americanenglishwiththisguy

In this English lesson, I explain how Americans celebrate Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day. In recent years, the name of this three day weekend or long weekend has become pretty controversial. Some Americans believe that Christopher Columbus is a great man of history and should be celebrated. Other Americans believe that the people who were here before Christopher Columbus “discovered America” or arrived in America should be the ones remembered or celebrated during this second weekend in October. Some English vocabulary words I explain are: “air quotes,” indigenous, long weekend, three day weekend, and British holiday vs, American holiday. I would love to hear your comments about what you think this weekend should be called in the United States. 🇺🇸  🇬🇧  Follow this link for bonus credits from Italki for online English lessons: https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1355613&u=2346050&m=70611&urllink=&afftrack=   🔷  Follow me on Instagram for mini-mini lessons: https://www.instagram.com/americanenglishwiththisguy/   🔷 To become a member, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakDTg9dhhAsr3WmHyJDa-g/join   🔷  Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/americanenglishwiththisguy

In this English lesson, I explain how Americans use the term, "Excuse me." It turns out there are about seven ways we use "Excuse me." I also talk about the English terms, "grocery store aisle," "I beg your pardon," and "excuse YOU."  1. Americans say "excuse me" when our body makes a sound or "bodily functions" 2. Americans say "excuse me" to get somebody's attention 3. Americans say "excuse me"  when someone is in our way 4. Americans say "excuse me" when we leave the room 5. Americans say "excuse me" when you can't believe something just happened 6. Americans say "excuse me" when we accidently bump into someone 7. Americans say "excuse me"  when we didn't hear what a person said   🇺🇸  🇬🇧  Follow this link for bonus credits from Italki for online English lessons:  https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1355613&u=2346050&m=70611&urllink=&afftrack=   🔷  Follow me on Instagram for mini-mini lessons: https://www.instagram.com/americanenglishwiththisguy/   🔷 To become a member, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakDTg9dhhAsr3WmHyJDa-g/join   🔷  Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/americanenglishwiththisguy

Episode 116.  So crazy that we are already on episode 116 after doing the podcast for only about 10 months. I hope these episodes are helping you achieve you goals in learning English. I have heard from so many of you and it's not nice to hear that what I'm doing might be helping you all over the world. It's truly humbling. It's great to hear from so many listeners, and the podcast is growing. I can't thank you enough.  🇺🇸  🇬🇧  Follow this link for bonus credits from Italki after your first purchase: https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1355613&u=2346050&m=70611&urllink=&afftrack=   🔷  Follow me on Instagram for mini-mini lessons: https://www.instagram.com/americanenglishwiththisguy/   🔷 To become a member, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakDTg9dhhAsr3WmHyJDa-g/join   🔷  Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/americanenglishwiththisguy

Link to the video: https://youtu.be/WjBSvJ8ckQc LEARN ENGLISH PHRASES WITH “CURVE”. Yasen from Iraqi Kurdistan asked a great question about "flattening the curve" and "life throwing a curveball."   A huge shoutout to all the members. I was able to buy a new GoPro. I shot the video on it, but need to work out some of the color settings. A few parts of the video were darker than I like, but other than that it was pretty fun to use.     🔷  Follow me on Instagram for mini-mini lessons: https://www.instagram.com/americanenglishwiththisguy/ 🔷 Link for bonus credits on iTalki: https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1355613&u=2346050&m=70611&urllink=&afftrack=

In this short English lesson, I talk about the biggest news story in the US, President Trump testing positive for COVID-19, in slow, clear, easy to understand English. I also talk about how you could politely describe someone who is overweight, and I teach you how to estimate someone’s age in English. 🇺🇸  🇬🇧  Follow this link for bonus credits from Italki for online English lessons after your first purchase: https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1355613&u=2346050&m=70611&urllink=&afftrack=   🔷  Follow me on Instagram for mini-mini lessons: https://www.instagram.com/americanenglishwiththisguy/   🔷 To become a member, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakDTg9dhhAsr3WmHyJDa-g/join   🔷  Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/americanenglishwiththisguy