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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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alpha girl

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

Thanks

Jessica*joe

China

thanks a lot! its quite useful for me

lara1990

Iraq

THANK U….I LIKE IT…

sj1

Pakistan

awwiiee…its justt amazinngg nd quite helpful..:)

Best1

Israel

thank you very much

its realy a good lesson

i liked it

husam_28

Saudi Arabia

this is a very helpful lesson and it is very useful

chanchan01

Viet Nam

thanks for this helpful lesson

andylu2

Canada

Thanks again everyone for your support

Arsenal only

United Arab Emirates

I think that this very important for improve my self

jbfa

Saudi Arabia

thank you sooo much

lynn629

China

this is the frist time i know this phrase, it's really very useful to improve my english thanx anyway

andylu2

Canada

Hey Quynhanh26.

No problem. I will be making a lot more lessons. I'm just about to write about day 8 now. I'm also going to start a free English learning blog that will be pretty interesting and useful I think.

quynhanh262

Viet Nam

Thank you so much for your help. This lesson is very useful and hope that you can make a lot of lessons in the future.

andylu2

Canada

Thanks for the comment carlos. I'll be sure to keep making more lessons.

carlosjh288

United States

thanks so much for your help

andylu2

Canada

No Problem Jenny, glad you like it.

I hope you check out all my other lessons too and let me know what you think..

jennycc

China

thx,it's useful.

andylu2

Canada

Hi everyone,

Sorry I didn't get a chance to thank each of you individually but I really appreciate all of your support and I do take the time to read every comment.