Thank you for the origin part! I'm a Polish native speaker. When I was in high school, my English teacher used to quote some words, supposedly having the same origin between Polish and English, which sound implausible to me at that time to be true. Now, seeing and hearing the Proto-Germanic 'hwilo', a perfect in-between word for English 'a while' and the Polish equivalent 'chwila', my recently discovered passion for linguistics, etymology and European language flourishes again ;) Your amazing work is amazing!
Hi , Ben ! Thank you for this ! I think the explanation of the origin of phrasal verbs is really useful also for remembering the phrasal verbs themselves . " with the phrasal verbs is fundamental to understand the context " or something like that you told us in another video , do you remember ? I agree with that . Thanks again!
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You've just given me a fascinating visualization of quite difficult to remember phrasal verbs and I've remembered them without any difficulties! You're a perfect teacher, many thanks!
Buoy up ___ to encourage somebody. Stave off__ to avoid something bad or unpleasant from happening. While away__ pass your time pleasantly and doing some leisurely activity, chill away. Pipe down__ be silent or let others do their own stuff. Claw back___ to regain something (such as money or power) back..... Literally take back with great affort.
I've been focused on english for 8 months studying by myself and now I'm able of writing texts easily specially about my routine. I don't have any goals for while, i just do it because i like to spend my time learning new stuffs at home. Who knows in a few years i get better in this extraordinary language. See you next one, please keep sharing your tips to us🇧🇷
Interestingly I’ve always tried to guess the origins of every single phrasal verb as well as idiom I saw, even if it doesn’t make any sense. That is what helping me to remember them so much better 😀
These are all great, and I agree that it will be easier for learners to remember them when the number of new items in the video is not too many and when the origins and photos are shared to help the information stick. 👏
It was an exceptional lesson and thanks, Ben!! for it and we would like to see or learn about collocation what are they if you could give us some ideas on it, that would be so great, thanks in advance and I love every single lesson of you with that note your personality make it way more understandable, cheers 😇👍
Hi! I just wanted to thank you so much for your videos. I got the results for my C1 Advanced today and I got 204 points. It wouldn't have been possible without your videos.
Hello, Ben! Thank you for amazing and really useful video. I also want to say that I very like whiling away my time watching you. There are other examples: my parents frequently buoy me up when I have some troubles. I always try to stave off arguments with my friends. He suddenly piped down when his mother came into the room. It's meaningless to try to claw back the time
Sometimes I think the backbone of the English language is just one Verb plus one Adverb (phrasal verbs) and the rest just fodder... 🍭 Great Video, anyway
any other native English speakers ever just watch ESL videos? I don’t know why I find it fascinating what non native speakers find difficult or advanced about our language
Honestly, I think you should welcome people and name the channel, and let the floating caption bubble to do the rest. In fact, you are doing exactly what a mocking picturesque character from Family Guy is doing. "I am Cory from Cory world"
I`d like english ti keep its nature and doesn`t become too much influenced from the AmE, or too simplifyed. Such depicting of the origin of thr idioms is very useful. Thank you!
this man who had many money difficulties tried to claw back his money I ofen while away reading or watching my phone when coming back from school the teacher tried to pipe down the class but no one listened to him I ate some sugar to stave hypoglicemia getting my C1 advanced certification would buoy me up
When we were discussing how to stave off the offense and claw back our lost territory in the war, no one spoke up. All of us had thought this meeting was a fiasco until he came through and piped up with a top notch idea. That really buoyed us up and the we whiled away the rest of the afternoon chatting. Does these sentences make sense and grammatically correct?
Hi Ben... I've just watched you lesson and the word "hwilo" related to "while" rang the bell.. I'm Polish, and we have word "chwila" ( khveelah) and it acctualy means : a moment, a short perion of time ...so... it's possible it has the same German origin:)
It seems like the three phrasal verbs : to cheer up, to perk up and to buoy up all seem to mean more or less "to make happier". Are there any differences between these three ?
Thank you very much for the video, Ben! Your lessons have been buoying me up since I found your channel. Right now I should be writing my course paper, but I prefer whiling away with some educational videos, ahaha😅 I won't stave off it, but still I'm enjoying this kinda productive procrastination
"The teacher told the class to pipe down..." but they ignored him because they didn't know the meaning of that phrasal verb (neither did I) !!! THX BEN !!!
Hello Ben, I do enjoy your vids, Thx so much. One question plz, most of my customers are from USA (I'm a licensed tour guide in Paris), do you think that those English phrasal verbs are perfectly understandable by them averagely (the qst is also applicable for your other videos and ofc, I do not underestimate american language but it is sometimes slightly different) Or are they typically very "British" expressions? Thx in advanced for your answer. Cheers AH
Today is the 52s day of war, war which kills peaceful population every day. I pray every day to stave off this terrified bloodshed. We ask/pipe up west leaders to close sky. We pray to pipe down of missiles. We demand PEACE, every time we buoy everybody up, we hope that our victory will soon. I aware, we will have to do a lot for clawing back. But then, I`m sure, we can while away our peaceful life.
Regarding how to read the Old English word 'hwile', I'm not English but I'm familiar with old Germanic language's so... People began to read i as 'ai' a few centuries ago, before people pronounced it just like we do it now with 'ee' for instance in 'see'. So you can pronounce it as 'hweel' or something like this. Nevertheless it's a word with a rich history. In the 4th century there was a Germanic nation called Goth, they lived near Greece and left the Gothic Bible. It's a very beautiful manuscript everyone has to google it. In the Gothic Bible we can find a word 'hvila' that points out a very short moment. And later this word was accepted by a group of dialects that became Ukrainian now. In Ukrainian there is nearly the same word meaning minute (hvylyna).
It took me two years two claw back the money I had lost in gambling. I wrote my assignment in English for the first time, and my teacher's encouragement buoyed me (using up is unnecessary). Our professor tried to pipe down the students with shouting, but it didn't work.
The Brits are responsible for a lot of language. I'm now checking the origins of words from my childhood. We used "flat leaver" as a person that left our group hanging out for a better deal elsewhere. We never knew it came from the British word "flat" for apartment. In Brooklyn a lot fo the street language came from other places.
I'd buoyed up when I realized it was too late to stake off our relationship. I had piped up to break up. I clawed back my freedom now I can while away. I have to watch again the video to see if I get the verbs right. Thanks for the video
Thank you, Ben. I always struggling to remember more than five words/phrases/phrasal verbs from the English educational videos. This format is awesome for me.
such explaination is numerous buoy up me,now during back while away showing movies and pipe up talking with my family.i'm learning unforgetten phrase something claw back now
For the introduction, I'd drop the "with Ben" part. So just "this is 'to the point English', I'm Ben", or even "I'm Ben, this is 'to the point English'"
I was stressed about an english certification but your video buoyed me up a bit! To stave off using a basic vocabulary, I should getting used to use those phrasal verbs. I need to claw back a complex vocabulary. I hope everyone watching this video will improve his or her english level! And don't forget to while away from times to times!
Thank you for your videos! I didn't know most of these. I think you're right about the amount of new vocabulary learnt at once. I'll have to get back to you on that and see if I can claw back the knowledge I'll highly likely lose haha
What an excellent video! I found ’to while away’ especially interesting because in Polish, which I’m currently studying, ’chwila’ means a while, which is very close to that hwile/hwilo. In Polish ’ch’ is pronounced as ’h’. Always fascinating to find these kinds of links between languages that are otherwise very far apart. For example there is a word in Polish ’wihajster’ which you call an object that you don’t know what to call. And it comes straight from German ’wie heißt er?’ = what’s his name?
I'm Polish and I have to say, that I was stunned, that Polish "chwila" and English "while", must have the same origin. I haven't noticed before, how similar those two words are. And "wihajster"! Now, when you pointed out that it comes from German it's obvious. It's such a weird, bizzare word, but it never came to my mind, that it's derived from "wie heisst er" (and I used to learn German). Thank you Ben, for not only improving my English, but also teaching some Polish words etymology! 🙂
I have a question. What is the name of the second word that comes after the verb? Is it called Preposition, Conjunction or adverb? And the second question is: Prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs, are they all called particles?
@@tothepointenglishwithben. Oke, the second word in a phrasal verb is a preposition or an adverb and they are both called particle. But i find it hard to understand what particle exactly is. Are all prepositions and adverbs particles?
Thank you for the origin part! I'm a Polish native speaker. When I was in high school, my English teacher used to quote some words, supposedly having the same origin between Polish and English, which sound implausible to me at that time to be true. Now, seeing and hearing the Proto-Germanic 'hwilo', a perfect in-between word for English 'a while' and the Polish equivalent 'chwila', my recently discovered passion for linguistics, etymology and European language flourishes again ;) Your amazing work is amazing!
Thanks!
Hi I from Poland too, bud my English Is not that good like you 😔
Oh, I love etymology as well! So interesting!
Hi , Ben ! Thank you for this ! I think the explanation of the origin of phrasal verbs is really useful also for remembering the phrasal verbs themselves . " with the phrasal verbs is fundamental to understand the context " or something like that you told us in another video , do you remember ? I agree with that . Thanks again!
Yes, I remember! Context is everything
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I couldn't add agree more!
@@tothepointenglishwithben. , me neither. 😀
You've just given me a fascinating visualization of quite difficult to remember phrasal verbs and I've remembered them without any difficulties! You're a perfect teacher, many thanks!
😃👍
Buoy up ___ to encourage somebody.
Stave off__ to avoid something bad or unpleasant from happening.
While away__ pass your time pleasantly and doing some leisurely activity, chill away.
Pipe down__ be silent or let others do their own stuff.
Claw back___ to regain something (such as money or power) back..... Literally take back with great affort.
I've been focused on english for 8 months studying by myself and now I'm able of writing texts easily specially about my routine. I don't have any goals for while, i just do it because i like to spend my time learning new stuffs at home. Who knows in a few years i get better in this extraordinary language. See you next one, please keep sharing your tips to us🇧🇷
By yourself, How you do it? What is the method?
@@user-jj6yc8pb1c i just read and repeat every word like a native speaker.. i don't have partner to practice unfortunately
I've been enjoying and learning bunches with your videos Ben! Thank you for the fantastic content!!
Glad you like them! 👍
Interestingly I’ve always tried to guess the origins of every single phrasal verb as well as idiom I saw, even if it doesn’t make any sense. That is what helping me to remember them so much better 😀
👍
These are all great, and I agree that it will be easier for learners to remember them when the number of new items in the video is not too many and when the origins and photos are shared to help the information stick. 👏
Annoying introduction? No, it's not, I love the "I'm Ben" part!
😆 Ok then 👍
It was an exceptional lesson and thanks, Ben!! for it and we would like to see or learn about collocation what are they if you could give us some ideas on it, that would be so great, thanks in advance and I love every single lesson of you with that note your personality make it way more understandable, cheers 😇👍
Im a native speaker and I have never even heard of some of these lol these r really advanced
Pipe down - It'sa me, Mario!
Stave off stop or delay something : to stave off defeated by the opponets Westham need to rebuild the squad.
Hi! I just wanted to thank you so much for your videos. I got the results for my C1 Advanced today and I got 204 points. It wouldn't have been possible without your videos.
Congrats!
Congratulations! I'm glad my videos helped a little but you passed the exam thanks to your efforts 👍
And one more to add to my 'Best of English learning' playlist. Don't stop, one more at that level every week please ;-)
I'll do my best!
Thanks! We can't learn enough phrasal verbs. Love the explanation about the origins and the examples.
Hello, Ben! Thank you for amazing and really useful video. I also want to say that I very like whiling away my time watching you. There are other examples: my parents frequently buoy me up when I have some troubles. I always try to stave off arguments with my friends. He suddenly piped down when his mother came into the room. It's meaningless to try to claw back the time
Excellent!
Thank you teacher Ben I will use the words in my real exam I hope I'll get target score I believe☺️
Fascinating phrasal verbs! Thanks so much, Sir, for always posting this useful video. Kudos!🎉
Sometimes I think the backbone of the English language is just one Verb plus one Adverb (phrasal verbs) and the rest just fodder... 🍭 Great Video, anyway
any other native English speakers ever just watch ESL videos? I don’t know why I find it fascinating what non native speakers find difficult or advanced about our language
Honestly, I think you should welcome people and name the channel, and let the floating caption bubble to do the rest. In fact, you are doing exactly what a mocking picturesque character from Family Guy is doing. "I am Cory from Cory world"
Thanks for this vidéo. Phrasal verbs are a difficult part of énglish language.
After I had neglected my English it took long period to claw back my grammar skills
Whenever my friend get annoyed ,i start buoy him up by cracking jokes .
Is this sentence right or wrong ? Please let me know dear sir🙏🏿🙏🏿
I`d like english ti keep its nature and doesn`t become too much influenced from the AmE, or too simplifyed. Such depicting of the origin of thr idioms is very useful. Thank you!
Thank you!
in Swedish, vila means to rest, and in German, verweilen means to stay in a rather relaxed way for a period of time.
I love your explanation and it’s buoyed me up to take IELTS test soon, thank you Ben!
Great!
Il
buoy is pronunced the same as boy, the opposite of girl 🗿🗿🗿
this man who had many money difficulties tried to claw back his money
I ofen while away reading or watching my phone when coming back from school
the teacher tried to pipe down the class but no one listened to him
I ate some sugar to stave hypoglicemia
getting my C1 advanced certification would buoy me up
Hi Ben, thanks for your advice very useful, Great.
What will be the phrasel verb for stopping something good from happening ( out of jealousy or something
Brillant! Other videos with words origin! please...
When we were discussing how to stave off the offense and claw back our lost territory in the war, no one spoke up. All of us had thought this meeting was a fiasco until he came through and piped up with a top notch idea. That really buoyed us up and the we whiled away the rest of the afternoon chatting. Does these sentences make sense and grammatically correct?
Thank you so much♥️
Definitely respect 💯
👍
Dou you teach English privately?
Paula was unhappy crying a lot seeing her sadness I buoy her up
Hi Ben... I've just watched you lesson and the word "hwilo" related to "while" rang the bell.. I'm Polish, and we have word "chwila" ( khveelah) and it acctualy means : a moment, a short perion of time ...so... it's possible it has the same German origin:)
Yes, I imagine it's from the same origin. Interesting
Learning English with you always buoys me up 😊
Excellent channel! Very useful, thank you!!!
It seems like the three phrasal verbs : to cheer up, to perk up and to buoy up all seem to mean more or less "to make happier". Are there any differences between these three ?
4:49, oh, it sound eerily similiar to polish "chwila"-short period of time
#1, #3, and #5, I've heard and read less than five times in my life lol
Thank you, Ben! You have great ❤video !
could you say the past form of these phrasals in next vids?
Thank you very much for the video, Ben! Your lessons have been buoying me up since I found your channel. Right now I should be writing my course paper, but I prefer whiling away with some educational videos, ahaha😅 I won't stave off it, but still I'm enjoying this kinda productive procrastination
😃👍
I always stave off my friend to procrastinate in their life
great content ♥️ one of the best teachers ..thank you so much
Thank you!
and you will have wasted a lot of time ajajajajaja you are right
Fantastic video, more of these please!
And no matter what your job here is over the top of line.
Excellent video as usual Ben! You are right, I'm sure the origins help us to remember the meaning 🥰 Thank you so much!
You're welcome 🙂
What a wonderful word, to while away! 😍
Isn't it just!
"The teacher told the class to pipe down..." but they ignored him because they didn't know the meaning of that phrasal verb (neither did I) !!! THX BEN !!!
😆
Hello Ben, I do enjoy your vids, Thx so much. One question plz, most of my customers are from USA (I'm a licensed tour guide in Paris), do you think that those English phrasal verbs are perfectly understandable by them averagely (the qst is also applicable for your other videos and ofc, I do not underestimate american language but it is sometimes slightly different) Or are they typically very "British" expressions? Thx in advanced for your answer. Cheers AH
People from the US should know and understand the vocabulary in my videos
Today is the 52s day of war, war which kills peaceful population every day. I pray every day to stave off this terrified bloodshed. We ask/pipe up west leaders to close sky. We pray to pipe down of missiles. We demand PEACE, every time we buoy everybody up, we hope that our victory will soon. I aware, we will have to do a lot for clawing back. But then, I`m sure, we can while away our peaceful life.
🇺🇦❤️🕊️
Hi, Ben! Good job. Cheers.
Could you tell me about your academic background and where your accent is from? I appreciate it very much. Thanks.
See my latest video 🙂
Regarding how to read the Old English word 'hwile', I'm not English but I'm familiar with old Germanic language's so... People began to read i as 'ai' a few centuries ago, before people pronounced it just like we do it now with 'ee' for instance in 'see'. So you can pronounce it as 'hweel' or something like this.
Nevertheless it's a word with a rich history. In the 4th century there was a Germanic nation called Goth, they lived near Greece and left the Gothic Bible. It's a very beautiful manuscript everyone has to google it. In the Gothic Bible we can find a word 'hvila' that points out a very short moment.
And later this word was accepted by a group of dialects that became Ukrainian now. In Ukrainian there is nearly the same word meaning minute (hvylyna).
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing
Super useful
Thank you so much
It took me two years two claw back the money I had lost in gambling.
I wrote my assignment in English for the first time, and my teacher's encouragement buoyed me (using up is unnecessary).
Our professor tried to pipe down the students with shouting, but it didn't work.
👏
Hello, Ben! Thank you for this video. It buoyed me up and staved off wasted time in another video with 100 advanced phrasaI verbs :)
😆👍
Hello! :) About an origin of the word "while" - in polish we've got a word "chwila" which means literally "while".
From the same origin, undoubtedly 👍
The Brits are responsible for a lot of language. I'm now checking the origins of words from my childhood. We used "flat leaver" as a person that left our group hanging out for a better deal elsewhere. We never knew it came from the British word "flat" for apartment. In Brooklyn a lot fo the street language came from other places.
Very interesting
Stave off=ward off, repel. Keep at bay
I'd buoyed up when I realized it was too late to stake off our relationship. I had piped up to break up. I clawed back my freedom now I can while away. I have to watch again the video to see if I get the verbs right. Thanks for the video
No it's stave off not stake off
It surprised me when you said "working at the weekend", I thought "working on/during the weekend" was the only correct option
"On the weekend" is used in American English
Less is not more when you’re on a diet!
My team doesnt usually buoy me up.
Please do more videos about very advanced vocabulary
I will 😊
You are amazing 🙌🙌💛💛💛
Last year we went to Goa for while away
I even knew “while away” 🥳
Great work! Thank you ;3
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Ben that was brillant ❤ I will remember the PV more easily now as I know the origins. Thank you ❤
Great!
Thank you, Ben. I always struggling to remember more than five words/phrases/phrasal verbs from the English educational videos. This format is awesome for me.
How can I put there three likes?)
Anyway, three likes are not enough!
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such explaination is numerous buoy up me,now during back while away showing movies and pipe up talking with my family.i'm learning unforgetten phrase something claw back now
Thanks for this video. Sometimes is difficult to find Advanced English topics/classes.
Hi teacher! It is very important to know the origin of the words. It's a way to remember them...thanks!!
My regards from Argentina..
Thanks a lot,teacher
For the introduction, I'd drop the "with Ben" part. So just "this is 'to the point English', I'm Ben", or even "I'm Ben, this is 'to the point English'"
I loooveeee this!!!!! More phrasal verbs with their origins pleeeeaaaassseeee!!!!!!! Origins help sooooo much!!! You do an amazing Job!
I'll make another one soon! 🙂
@@tothepointenglishwithben. Thank you :)
I was stressed about an english certification but your video buoyed me up a bit! To stave off using a basic vocabulary, I should getting used to use those phrasal verbs. I need to claw back a complex vocabulary. I hope everyone watching this video will improve his or her english level! And don't forget to while away from times to times!
Nicely done! 👏🏾
Really ace .thank you
How interesting! I adore phrasal verbs and their origin. I didn't know these 5. Thank you
Thank you for your videos! I didn't know most of these. I think you're right about the amount of new vocabulary learnt at once. I'll have to get back to you on that and see if I can claw back the knowledge I'll highly likely lose haha
Very bored verbs 🤣🤣
Do you mean "boring"?
@@tothepointenglishwithben. Oh yeah... Excellent teacher..
I know all these "phrasal verbs" but I never heard the expression "phrasal verb".
I like your detailed explanation of each verb.
The origin is really really helpful, thank you, teacher
You're welcome 🙂
What an excellent video! I found ’to while away’ especially interesting because in Polish, which I’m currently studying, ’chwila’ means a while, which is very close to that hwile/hwilo. In Polish ’ch’ is pronounced as ’h’. Always fascinating to find these kinds of links between languages that are otherwise very far apart. For example there is a word in Polish ’wihajster’ which you call an object that you don’t know what to call. And it comes straight from German ’wie heißt er?’ = what’s his name?
I'm Polish and I have to say, that I was stunned, that Polish "chwila" and English "while", must have the same origin. I haven't noticed before, how similar those two words are.
And "wihajster"! Now, when you pointed out that it comes from German it's obvious. It's such a weird, bizzare word, but it never came to my mind, that it's derived from "wie heisst er" (and I used to learn German).
Thank you Ben, for not only improving my English, but also teaching some Polish words etymology! 🙂
Ha! Very interesting 🙂
That's like the English word "watchamacallit" 😃
Hey dear! Many thanks. Super video!
Glad you liked it 🙂
The explain of phrase verb is very help full for me, thanks😘😘😘
I have a question.
What is the name of the second word that comes after the verb? Is it called Preposition, Conjunction or adverb?
And the second question is: Prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs, are they all called particles?
The second word in a phrasal verb is called a particle. A particle (in this context) is a preposition or an adverb
@@tothepointenglishwithben. Oke, the second word in a phrasal verb is a preposition or an adverb and they are both called particle.
But i find it hard to understand what particle exactly is. Are all prepositions and adverbs particles?
Thank you, Ben!
Thank you, Ben!
I hope you can find out some synonym words relate to those phrases. Thank you very much, Mr. Ben
He told me to pipe down
Stave off= delay
Have just found this channel. Seems interesting 😃
Very good 👍