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Spoken English Course Part 1

Date: Feb 24 2011

Author: andylu2

Lesson

This is part 1 of my daily Online Spoken English Course. I want to take some of my day to give you something that you can actually learn from. Learning (and remembering) one useful thing every day will really help your speaking over a couple of months. I hope you enjoy this and please click "like" so that I know it's helping people and I'm not wasting my time.

Today's first lesson is how to use the phrase: "Sleep on it"

I was watching on of my favorite American TV shows and one friend said to another, "sleep on it". It's used quite often in spoken English. I was watching the show with a non native speaker and they asked me what it meant. I figured may a lot of people are in the same situation so I wanted to explain it.

It means "think seriously about it before you make a decision". The idea is that if you have an important decision to make, sometimes it's best to wait until your emotions settle down and make the decision the next day. If you go to sleep and make your final decision tomorrow, it means that you "slept on it".

One person might say in real life:

"I'm not sure which university I want to go to. There are a lot of good options and it's a huge decision for me. I think I'm going to sleep on it for about a week before I decide".

Please comment or click "like" if you want me to write more lessons like this. I want to help you become more like a native speaker. See you tomorrow for another lesson....

If you want a great program, I highly recommend this

Online Spoken English Course (I've seen a lot and this is the best)

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Jungmi

South Korea

Wow, I just checked back here for day 1. It's great to see you have so many followers for these lessons. You really deserve it. They are truly awesome! Thanks.<!~~-Session data~~->

freddd

France

it killed me

nreddy

India

Guys, This is really Wonderful, I beleive it helps to improve my communication alot . Thanks much for adding the phrases..Keep it up..

asma85

Algeria

i liked it and thanks so much

andylu2

Canada

Hey guys,

Thanks again for the "moral support". I don't know if any of you have written stuff online but it's certainly a great feeling to know that people are reading your work. Sometimes it's easy to forget that we are all real people with real emotions and real lives. So again, thanks!

yeshan

Philippines

To Andylu2,

It's good to see you give assistance. Keep doing it. :)

yeshan

Philippines

I liked your lesson. This is a good way to improve my communication skills in a daily basis. Keep writing for more …

Mohamed Habib

Egypt

Very impressive!

andylu2

Canada

Hi Blue Crystal.

You've definitely got the meaning. Let me help a bit with the sentence.

"It's a terrible idea to make a decision while your blood is boiling. I think you should sleep on it and decide in the morning because you won't be so emotional then."

Jungmi

South Korea

Hey Andy,

I followed all your lessons and advice and I really notice myself learning these useful phrases. Also, your writing style is really interesting and helps me remember stuff easy. Before, I would forget a lot of what I tried to study

andylu2

Canada

Hi Ajmira,

Thanks for your support!

Ajmira

Bangladesh

Thanks

andylu2

Canada

Hey Liton,

Thanks for your thoughtful words. I've gotta feeling you will like this course too. I hope you keep following it and let me know what you think.

Liton

Bangladesh

After around two years I've signed in e-baby and have just found this. I have gone through the first lesson and can easily anticipate that this is gonna be a very nice and useful course.

Thanks a bunch Andylu. God bless you.

andylu2

Canada

Hey Matrix,

Thanks for sharing. It's a great feeling when you see something you learn in real life. Then you KNOW it's useful and it totally helps you remember. I have this experience a lot when I'm learning Chinese. I always try to teach phrases that I think you will find in real life and it's great to hear that you heard it already!

RUBA

Jordan

i like it :)

sleep on it ….. in my country we prey (esteghara prey) then sleep, next day we make the decision. :)

thank u sir

andylu2

Canada

That's awesome. Once you start using this stuff in your own life you know that you've really learned it well.

Jungmi

South Korea

I just wanted to tell you that I've read over all of your lessons a few times and am starting to use them in my daily vocabulary. They are really great