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🇧🇷
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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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 😀
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!
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!
Hi, Ben! Recently started watching your videos and it really grips me! Here are my examples: 1. The news in every newspaper really lets me down, but I just keep on whiling away with something that buoys me up to stave off from being down. 2. Concerning the current political situation, we need not to pipe down our thoughts and claw back the peaceful sky above our heads.
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
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
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
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 😇👍
Before my FCE exam I watched you videos in order to prepare myself and I really think they helped me especially for the speaking part. Thank you so much and I will definitely prepare myself with your videos apart from the other lessons for my advanced exam
"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 !!!
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
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!
I whiled away the weekend cycling and frequenting a few cafés in town. My friend had had a row with her girlfriend, so I tried to buoy him up. If I couldn't have told him to pipe down, I wouldn't understand the exam rules. She just piped up with an awful idea, to fly two weeks on holiday. By the way, I have been learning a lot from your videos.I feel quite confident while I’m speaking English. Thank you Mimoza
Your always helpful videos buoy me up to keep going in this endless journey of learning English. Today I'm willing not to stave off phrasal verbs, which scare me quite a bit 😅. So from now on, I'm going to while away my time trying to use them as much as I can. Please, Ben, pipe up and give me your feeback about my weird way of using them in this comment 😊. And since I'm afraid they didn't work as effectivily as I'd like, I'll have to claw back my pride to go forward with this topic!!! Thanks a million!! 🤗🤗
first of a all thank you for an interesting lesson while away phrase concerned we have a swedish verb Vila and it means rest in english we also use the noun Vilopaus which means a short break to rest from an effort or work.
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).
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! 🙂
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
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 ?
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?
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
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"
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
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'"
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.
@@tothepointenglishwithben. They are prepositional verbs : they are the sum of two meanings, the meaning of the verb + that of the preposition. Prepositional verbs are therefore quite self-explanatory. 'to buoy' = to help - 'up' = stay on the surface. Phrasal verbs have a meaning of their own that cannot be infered from the meanings of the verb and preposition. A good example is 'take off', noone can ever guess the meaning of that phrasal verb.
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.
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. 👏
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.
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.
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
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?
