How to Start Speaking with Friends - English Speaking Practice and Small Talk - American & British
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Catching Up: Conversation Starters for Friends 🗨️👫
🎧 Welcome back, High Level Listeners, to another engaging video dedicated to mastering conversation starters in English! Today, we're diving into the heart of catching up with friends and loved ones, perfect for those moments when you want to reconnect and share the latest chapters of your life. If you've been looking to brush up on how to start conversations naturally and correctly, you're in the right place.
🤔 What does "catching up" mean, you ask? It's all about reuniting with someone after some time apart and exchanging updates on all the new happenings in your lives. Whether schedules haven't aligned, vacations have kept you apart, or life has just been overwhelmingly busy, catching up is a cherished opportunity to reconnect and deepen your bonds.
✨ Hosted by Kat and Mark Teacher, this video will offer you 7 essential tips, including easy-to-use sentence structures and questions designed for catching up with friends you haven't seen in a while. Plus, we’ll share natural responses to these questions, helping you to engage in meaningful chats with new friends or strengthen ties with old ones.
📚 In today's lesson, you'll discover:
- Practical conversation starters with friends for catching up.
- How to talk to friends and keep the conversation flowing.
- English videos for improving your speaking and listening skills.
- English learning videos for speaking English fluently and confidently.
- Essential tips for English language learning and English speaking practice.
🔔 Whether you're planning to catch up with a friend over coffee or looking to chat with new friends at a gathering, these conversation starters are tailored to help you navigate social interactions with ease and confidence.
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👉 Ready to enhance your conversational skills and reconnect with friends in English? Press play and let Kat and Mark guide you through the art of catching up.
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I can completely listening all you guys talking about in that video that means my listening is so high now ...I'm very proud with this. And you mentioned that's advanced level...oh nice. My confidence will grow . Now I have to improve my speaking now
Congratulations! For the vast majority of our videos we speak casually and naturally like we do to our english speaking friends and family, so if you can follow along with us then you're doing great!
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20:44 thank you so much teachers.my kind request ,update grammar (model verbs function) details that's very useful for us. This channel is best way to learn English
Thanks very much! Interesting suggestion as well, we'll look into it!
That's a good way for some one learning english very well
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Teachers, thank you soooo much for the video. I know all these phrases but, honestly, i've never understood the difference between them and how to use them. I really appreciate your great work!❤🌷🔥 I can see the mentality of American, English and Russian people. For example, Kat says it's rude to poke into someone's life. If we are talking about friends, it's a quite usual question in Russia: e.g. Anything new with your boyfriend (house, parents,etc) even at the beginning of the conversation? Are such questions unacceptable between friends in your countries or it depends on how close this friend is? Or they are unacceptable only first minutes of your meeting, before you and your friend start to open up?
I guess it depends on how close you are as friends and how badly you need the gossip 😂
If my friend says let’s catch up I have a lot to tell you about ….. (some news something) I would want to know and I would ask my friend about it.
But if it’s just normal friends catching up we might try to be patient and wait til we have our coffees and sit down before we get to the good stuff in the conversation. We really appreciate you and your comments!
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hi how are you .teacher.? i feel like i haven't seen you guys for a long time.but it 's just been a few days actually. i find myself really
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i have been going great lately .a little bit busy .we are making renovation for the house and i have also tried out few recipes . that's really funny . i can't belive that i start to love to make my own bread at home .since i never liked to do it before.
anyway thanks you two and wish you a happy life
This is such a lovely catch up thanks for sharing! Home renovations can take up a lot of time and energy I hope they’re going well and making your own bread sounds quite delicious 😋
I really enjoying and learning lots of things from your today's video. Thank you so much dears.
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Present/past perfect my favorite.Believe me we are lacking these expressions while talking in english.its a vast topic because of both of you seriously and you round it so smooth that at least it's a great help to break an ice berg 😂 for non natives like me 😅😅. I'm clueless how to thank both of you 💐💐 love from Pakistan ❤️🇵🇰 kanwal Rajput 🎉
That is soooo sooo kind of you to say, thank you so much for joining us today! Yes, absolutely, present and past perfect can be difficult to master, it feels so natural but it can be hard to explain in English, thank you so much for joining us today and studying with us! We hope you have a lovely start to the weekend! Happy Friday :)
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Enjoy the conversation thanks keep on
We most certainly plan to! Thanks for watching!
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It is really nice to see you guys !
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I had the versant test yesterday, that test is so difficult 😢 I would like to speak like an native speaker 😢😢 but it has been difficult for me to understand advanced vocabulary and my listening skills are awful 😞
Fingers crossed your test results turn out well! A lot of standardised tests are really demanding and designed to push your English to the limit. Improving your listening comes from surrounding yourself and exposing yourself to the language, especially when you feel mentally fresh and ready to focus on picking out the words. If you have a vocabulary diary that you regularly review, that can make a huge difference to your vocabulary too! Don't give up! Just keep chipping away, it's a long journey
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Hey stranger. I like this expression😂
Glad you enjoyed! 😄
How if "where have you been?" Is it ok to ask with this sentence?
"Where have you been" sounds like I lost you and I couldn't find you! 😄 We often say this to our cats or pets when we couldn't find them.
"[HOW] have you been?" and "[WHAT] have you been up to?" are perfectly normal question though :)
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Very nice video
Thanks very much for joining us!
Hi! What does it mean "catching up with friends"?
catching up with friends
means to see your friends and talk about news and their lives, so you can learn new information about them
thanks for joining, hope that was helpful!
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Sadly we're not able to add any monetizing features on Spotify so it doesn't make sense for us to upload there. But if that changes in the future we definitely would put them on Spotify!
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Boa tarde,vou fazer uma pergunta ok,no mucho,not much ou don't much, qual está escrito corretamente, obrigado.
"Not much" is the correct version here, the other two aren't used. Hope that helps! 🙏
Hello dear teacher, can you please tell me how to download a PDF?
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I'm so happy to have found your channel ❤ Thanks for your tips, they're very helpful. I have a question about today's video. Can we use all these phrases for messages or just for offline meetings? Thanks in advance ❤
You could use all of these phrases, questions and expressions in face-to-face conversations or in text messages - they would be friendly and appropriate in both cases :)
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Dear teachers your lessons are amazing. Will you please elaborate the concept of The where to pronounce The(thaaaa) or the(theeee) hope you understand what I'm trying to ask. You both are amazing. Thanks for the lovely session 🙏
Hello! That's a good question!
The pronunciation of "the" can change depending on the word that follows it. Typically, "the" is pronounced as "thuh" (to rhyme with "duh") before a consonant sound, and as "thee" (to rhyme with "see") before a vowel sound. This helps with the flow of speech. Here are examples:
- "thuh" (rhymes with "duh"): the cat, the book, the movie
- "thee" (rhymes with "see"): the apple, the ocean, the end
Remember, it’s about the sound that follows, not necessarily the letter the next word begins with. For example, "the" before "hour" is pronounced "thee" because "hour" starts with a vowel sound (and why we say "an hour" and not "a hour". Another example is "the (thuh) university", because the starting sound is "yu", not a vowel sound. I hope that makes sense!
Same here's i havent been hanging out these days, because i have been working too much these days.
Hope you can find some time to relax soon!
It was great to finally join your channel. It was my first time but I really loved it.
Welcome to the channel! We're really glad you found us and enjoyed the video! Hopefully see you in another video soon!
Where have you been if someone asked me how would I say
Also, is this a positive question
The question "where have you been" would mean that we didn't know where you were, maybe we were confused or worried about you.
It's not a negative question, it just shows that we care about you.
The answer could also use the Present perfect tense. For example:
- I have been working a lot.
- I have been enjoying some time off work lately.
Or the past simple:
- I was in the supermarket.
- I visited my parents in another city.
Hope that makes sense!
I am from Uzbekistan. Thanks for lessons
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It's a Samsung! 😀
In fact, conversation depends on circumstances.
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Thanks so much for watching and studying with us! We try to give you authentic English as much as possible - sometimes real English is not as complicated as people think!
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I really look forward to listening all of your small talks 👏 catching up with your videos is a real delight.... I share them with all the persons I know who are struggling with learning English ✨so that they can see that it isn't all about grammar. Thanks so much🙏
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Hi, I'm learning English, Could you indicate what is the English level in each video please?
Don't tell me Intermediate o advanced. Please, tell me :
B-1 or B-2 and so on please
Unfortunately this might be hard to do, our videos are aimed at upper intermediate and advanced students because of the speed and unscripted way that we talk. Our vocabulary will range widely between B1 and C2 level depending on the specific topic as well. (Some topics will have more C1-C2 level vocabulary as the phrases are rarer or more specific.) Kat has made some Intermediate (B1 level) videos which you can find here: www.youtube.com/@highlevellistening/playlists
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Amazing video very helpful informative.I meet everyday about 7 native speakers these phrases help me alot in conversation
That's so great to hear! We're very happy to have you join us in class!
Pls recommend any plateform where I can make conversation with native speakers?
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