Dear Gideon. Within 1 month I watched all of your 121 videos that you have released in 6 years and I thank you very much for your work. Good luck to you!

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Dear Alexander, I try to respond to as many comments as possible. It's difficult though because I get so many these days. However, when I saw your message that you'd watched all the videos I thought I would take a moment to thank you. I hope you learnt a lot and you'll continue watching - we have a more coming up soon. Best wishes.

I'm guessing you didn't have many Slavic students if completely omitting 'a/an' and 'the' didn't make the list :D

@AndreiBerezin

Жыл бұрын

Yeah cuz we know those little particles are completely unnecessary

@PauloPereira-jj4jv

Жыл бұрын

@@AndreiBerezin ... so YOU are the ones who "decide" what is or what is not necessary...? 😂

@AndreiBerezin

Жыл бұрын

@@PauloPereira-jj4jv for damn sure!

@jamesmcinnis208

Жыл бұрын

Speakers of any language with no articles find it really difficult to use them when speaking English.

@AndreiBerezin

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesmcinnis208 yes, definitely, and the main reason is we cant just figure out what the hell they're in there for. They have no function, can be easily dropped, and nothing gonna change.

As a native English speaker who enjoys studying other languages, I enjoy seeing my own language from the eyes of a non native English speaker. Of course, since I study other languages sometimes, I enjoy watching videos like this for learners of Spanish or French.

Thk u very much! Your tip with 'after' is priceless!!!

As a native English speaker from the U.S., "I met a guy named Jim" doesn't sound unnatural at all to me. I think this is a difference of dialect, as using the word "called" in its place would sound very strange to a native speaker from the U.S. Though, you can only use "named when referring to actual names of people or pets. We use "called" in every other situation. For example "We saw a movie CALLED Guardians of the Galaxy".

@oldpolishguy253

3 жыл бұрын

Very true. It is very odd sounding to me when 'named' is replaced with 'called' and referring to a proper name rather than a nickname or more 'colorful' reference. You can call someone anything, but a name is name.

great stuff! The double negative is a really common mistake. I hear this from my students in class almost every day, so I know it's important. I also made a video dealing with this issue.

Thank you for a valuable lesson and an excellent delivery! Keep up the good work.

Have anyone said that you are one of the best teacher ever?

Thank you so much for good and clear explanation with interesting examples and useful tricks to remember the rules! That's very helpful.

I love your lessons, sir! Thank you so much!

Gideon, You’re an amazing teacher. Love to watch your videos. Much obliged. 🙂👍

Gideon, merci bien. You the man.

Thanks a lot it is Loud and Clear!

Excellent! I'll say "thanks a lot" in all the languages I know. Let's start: "Спасибо большое!", "Merci beaucoup!", "Thanks a lot!", "Grazie mille!", "Köszönöm szépen!"

@yahyaakaaboune7062

4 жыл бұрын

شكرا

@verymozart

4 жыл бұрын

Ok but in Italian that would be better translated with molte grazie, even if it's the same meaning

@michielvdvlies3315

4 жыл бұрын

in dutch its different dankuwel

I like your shirt ; gives you a very distinctive and professional air.

@educationalbro9670

4 жыл бұрын

I have one

For example, when someone says, "he said to me" could be when telling a story. "Told me" could also be a demand, so using "said to me" creates a more dramatic effect

great lesson . thank you so much

I am not going to stop watching your wonderful videos as they are a delight to watch. Thanks

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

I always knew you were someone of impeccable taste

@hilalahmad7286

4 жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV Thanks.

You should make a podcast dudes. It's so good. God bless you

Je retrouve pas mal de mes fautes. Merci pour la vidéo, je la trouve plus facile à comprendre que les autres

Thank you for clarifying.. I always make mistakes especially when I use all and every

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was useful

A very nice lesson to sip and and continue to sip in generous mouthfuls, thanks Gideon

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Don't get drunk

Thanks for all your support sir...you are the reason for loving English...

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching

I proud of your teaching guy!

Good evening sir, improve my English spoken day by day thanks and you are so amazing online English teaching

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for being amazing.

Thanks boss

Thanks for the lesson, mister

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment mister

Sir a great honor to you I can now speak English fluently because, of you sir I am very thankful to you sir.

Saying something along the line of ‘should/would/could of’ can mess up a lot of people and is something people considered incorrect.

Wow! The best lesson I have ever seen! Tonight I playing pool tournament but when I come back I’ll study it deeply. Thank you very much

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

I hope you won the pool tournament.

@gabrielemontini5240

4 жыл бұрын

LetThemTalkTV I lost the final...😭😭😭 But I played well so...it’s half win...

Your content is the best.

Another word that pops into my mind is the word 'police' which is plural in English but singular in other languages, Paul, Belgium.

Thank you again for your videos.

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comments

Thanks for this, sir, I learned something new....

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it.

Excellent 👌

Oh thanks, we need to hear that....

Спасибо большое 😊

Your body language is really awesome 👏👍

A useful video. Many thanks teacher

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

A useful comment. Thanks

I value this channel very much though there's one thing really difficult to bear. These ' vocal brakes' between subtopics and in the intro - the volume suddenly turns up which is really unpleasant especially if one listens to the channel in the early morning or late evening just for relaxation. As I know it's a good practice to have everything in the similar volume. Improves the overall user experience significantly :) Thank you for your videos and presenting all the topics in a nice, funny but still professional manner. :)

@elfaed11

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree👍👌

THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR INVALUABLE WISDOM WITH ME. A TEACHER LIKE YOU DESERVES THE HIGHEST REWARD IN THIS WORLD. YOU KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO SHAPE A TENDER MIND FULL OF POSITIVITY !!!!!!! THANK YOU HONORABLE TEACHER !!!!!! I am unbelievably grateful to see you back !!!!!!!!!!

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

I'm happy to share what little knowledge I have. Thank you so much once again.

@monicas.701

4 жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV Teaching requires DEDICATION and PASSION.... And you have those in abundance..... THANKS FOR ALL THAT YOU DO AND FOR MAKING LEARNING FUN !!!! A huge hug , sweetheart !!!!!!!

"You cannot follow 'say' with a direct object." I think you've confused transitive and ditransitive again! You cannot follow 'say' with a dative (indirect) object. The direct object is what often follows 'say'. Sometimes that's a noun, or sometimes that's a literal phrase, which takes special syntax: I gave him a fiver, so he said the password quietly to me. I told him he was crazy, whereupon he said, "I could tell you what you should do with that apple, but you wouldn't do it." Note the comma that comes before the phrase. It is a peculiarity that, when a employing a phrase as nouns, a comma separates it from either a preceding verb or a postpositive phrase-but in that case it can be overridden by another punctuation mark "When we went," he said, "to Scarborough, we all had a lovely time" "Bollocks!" he said angrily. "Friday," said he, "is when we drink Scotch."

@svenjahnsen3381

Жыл бұрын

Sorry but you are talking gibberish.

Thanks for your awesome videos! You said, "I _will be_ at my country house for the next week". Is this an exception to rule #2 in this video (Fixed future plans)? And can I say, "I'm staying at my country house _for_ the next week"?

Not native, but in my opinion, "Remember" is clearly intransitive AND transitive, depending on the context. I noticed the "usally" in the bottom but i think that could mislead some people. Correct me if i'm wrong but aren't there many cases where " remember " is used as a transitive verb ? > "Do you remember her ?" > "I remember that we used to go and see them..." > "Don't you remember that ?"

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, you are right. It was a mistake. I wanted to say that it's often confused with remind "please remind me", not "please remember me". But REMEMBER can certainly be transitive. Apologies, I was trying to keep the video brief but by doing so left out some important information.

@amii665

4 жыл бұрын

LetThemTalkTV, Sir, I think remind is the causative form of “remember” meaning: make someone remember someone/something.

On a more serious note: I’ve seen many a nonnative speakers having difficulties with prepositions. Like saying, “the package arrived on time”, instead of saying, “the package arrived in time.”

@sky75691

Жыл бұрын

arrival on time or in time are both legitimate but have different meanings. For example if the train is due at 17.00 and your connection is at 17.30 then arrival on time is arrival at 17.00. Arrival at 17.10 is arrival in time (as long as you still have time enough to make your 17.30 connection that is.) but not on time.

@uffa00001

Жыл бұрын

@@sky75691 Yes, but the general difficulty with prepositions remains: different from (different to) is one case in point.

you are the best teacher for me. ethiopia

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Greetings to you in Ethiopia.

👍 you are the best teacher. I like watching your videos.

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

You are the best. Thanks

Thank you!

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Everybody likes this guy. He knows all.

Every people ever described has a unique culture. So there... 'Remember' is not intransitive; it DOES take an object, you rememeber /something/ It does, however, not take an indirect object

Thank you ❤

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

You are fantastic. I am an English teacher in Brazil.

the clip in the beginning had me snorting. :,D lovely!

you used "r" sound in "I saw a film." can you explain why is that? I've only heard British people using it but I might be wrong. Love your channel by the way!

Seeing your class makes me wonder how many news you have been creating here ... perfect for me. Me growing up in English. It's a rich language and so is your look... thank you very much Gideon

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers, many thanks for your comment.

My favorite teacher 😃

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

My favourite......student?

I know teachers and actors have a lot in common. Teachers are just the lower paid version. I am (was) one of them, back when I lived in Europe. Today I'm scripting video clips, editing and sounding them (lol). Language was not my subject of expertise - economics was! Well, it is far more economical to use an old typewriter, but scripting, I must say the train does not move! Usually every time you type a letter the train moved a bit to the left - to make space for the next letter. After a while you had to reset the train with a lever all the way to the left, by pushing it right - for the next row. Yep, I learned typing on those weird things. You are very good in explaining - which every teacher should be. Most are not. Thanks for the "octopus", did not know it's NOT a word rooted in Latin. You see, listening to some You Tube teachers (wannabees) you develop "fungi" in your brain.

Gideon, could you please comment on this: when I was at school I was taught "There are two common pronunciations of "either": British /ˈaɪðər/ and American /ˈiːðər/ and "neither": British /ˈnaɪðər/ and American /ˈniːðər/" Now I find out many British pronounce it 'the American way' but now I read: While Americans are more or less consistent in this regard, the Brits seem to be freely using both. In fact, from what I can tell, "either this or that" is more often in the first form, whereas "me either" is in the second. Is there any kind of an informal rule in the modern British English with regard to this?

I like your videos! Thank you :3

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

I like your comment. Thanks

Very nice video 🇪🇹

Nice

I'm an American native speaker, and I've never used "called" for a person. It sounds like I'm talking about a dog or something. Using called in this way sounds too much like foreign languages. Is using called like that a British thing?

Hello. How should I pronounce words such as map, France, cat, man, jab, bath? Can I always say [a:] not [ae]?

Namaste GURUJI..🙏🙏🙏!!!

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Namaste

You're the best

What is the name of the film you used in this video.

In my opinion "named" is for real names, "called" is for nicknames, pets and objects. For example: A guy named John vs. A guy called Moose.

Great to see you Gideon sir you are so sweet 👍🤗🤗

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Sweet?

As a francophone from Quebec, I prefer "not bad" with a positive uplifting tone than "I just washed my socks."

Hi Gideon. About the second mistake. Is it correct to say: I will be having dinner with Jim next Friday? Or I should necessarily say: I am having dinner with Jim next Friday?. Are the two sentences right. Thank you on advance

In English we don't say 'every people', and that just goes to show that every nation and every people has its own linguistic quirks ;D

Do kids still make sandcastles on the beach? 🤔 I feel like I haven’t seen any in ages. Sorry, this is out of topic but it is 4am, my insomnia has kicked in and you got me thinking!

You of 'all people' say that we can't say 'all people' LoL ;-) I love your videos - they are brilliant :-)

Say and tell is a very common mistake in India. 90% of Indian people are confused . Number 3 is my every day mistake. Thanks to have corrected.

Oof. You meant that remember is transitive but almost never ditransitive, but remind is ditransitive. For "remember", the thing remembered is the accusative object-and you proceeded to give two examples: one grammatically and semantically transitive, and the other semantically transitive with a grammatical twist. "visiting Stonehenge when I was a kid" is a noun phrase, and it is the direct object of "remember" in your first example. The case of "remember when [X]" is interesting, since it is a once-transitive use that got elided, "Do you remember (the times) when we used to make sandcastles on the beach?" Now we can omit "the times", which turns the noun phrase into, syntactically, an adverbial phrase-but it is semantically a noun phrase. You can tell that because this is a valid sentence which means something entirely different: "Every time you and I played together, I would remember the time as toddlers we got lost on the beach. In our teens, when we used to make sandcastles on the beach, did you remember?". Remind, however, is ditransitive: it takes a dative object and an accusative object.

EVERY PEOPLE has a right to self-determination.

13:52 why is there "a future" instead of "the future"?

In causal British English, "informations" can be treated as a contraction form of "pieces of information"

@sky75691

Жыл бұрын

It cannot, information has no s form plural. Not even in casual British (or any other) English.

Sir, Pardon me If I’m wrong but I think when you said “when” as a relative pronoun, you really meant relative Adverb by that (little slip of tongue and nothing else, certainly-relative pronoun being more common of the two). Because Sir I couldn’t find any noun/noun phrase as the antecedent for the word “when” to be a relative pronoun. Instead, in the sentence “I don’t know when he will arrive” the antecedent of when is “know” which is a verb, not a noun.

@81wwwolf

4 жыл бұрын

Amit Kumar when is a subordinating conjunction

@amii665

4 жыл бұрын

Mansour Vahedi, That’s true, but it’s also a relative adverb. You can look up “when” into the Oxford Dictionary of English, which Google uses for definitions. When “when” is used as subordinate conjunction it introduces the subordinate clause, but lacks any antecedent. Whereas when it’s used as a relative adverb it has an antecedent and without it the sentence would be incomplete in the context. Whereas even if you remove subordinate clause introduced with ‘when’, you still have the main clause.

@81wwwolf

4 жыл бұрын

@@amii665 I see your point. I was under the impression that when was also a relative pronoun and all it's perhaps the fault of the grammar books I've read so far. As far as I can remember, they called where a relative pronoun, which is problematic since it's not exactly a the subject or the object of the clause. It's the place at/in/on/to/etc which something happened. I guess it's the prepositional meaning that turns it into a relative pronoun. Thanks for that! I learnt something new.

@amii665

4 жыл бұрын

Mansour Vahedi, It’s not your fault at all. This ‘relative thing’ is really elusive. I, myself, often get confused and have to refer back to my textbook. Although my textbook (a book by Wren and Martin) is a classic, but I feel the need to learn grammar with a more modern approach. I have planned to read some recently published books by Cambridge and Oxford Universities but for now, unfortunately, I’m unable to find time for that and I deeply regret that.

@uffa00001

Жыл бұрын

This thing, considering "when" a "relative pronoun", is something that several Brits do and it is probably due to some mistake which slipped in some widespread grammar in the past and remains drilled into the minds. I think the correct term to see it is a relative adverb. That's the way most Italians grammars would describe "quando". It's and adverb that can work as a conjunction to link a relative subordinate. In my understanding, when there is a pronoun one is always able to rephrase using the attribute, the name, or the entire period instead of the pronoun. If I say: "I saw Mary and I gave her the book", I can always say, though inelegantly, "I saw Mary and I gave Mary her book". "I heard of your success, which made me quite happy" "I heard of your success, your success made me quite happy". With when, I don't see how we can substitute an adverb of time with a noun, or to say it better, which is the noun that would be substituted by the adverb of time, IMHO.

Surrealist Gideon 😄 Thanks for such a useful lesson! I have a doubt: which sentence is correct between "I haven't either read 50 Shades or watched the film" "I haven't either read 50 Shades nor watched the film" ? Or maybe "I have neither read 50 Shades nor watched the film" ? By the way, should I?

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Last one is correct. "I have neither read ......nor". or you could say. "I haven't read 50 shades of Grey and I haven't seen the film either."

@mamymimma

4 жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV Thank you so much

'Remember' can be transitive though.

As I have been studying American English for 30 years, it's important to me to learn British expressions etc.

Sir Pl clarify whether the following sentence is grammatically correct .: The book is meant to assist the students in their learning of language, which is an acquired one. ( This has been taken from the introduction to a badly written text book used in Kerala University for UG students. The comma is there in the original sentence)

@josephcote6120

4 жыл бұрын

That does sound strange. If I were to write that it would probably be: "Learning a language is an acquired skill; this book is meant to assist students learning that skill."

Shadow and shade are wrong too here. Shade is the place where you can protect yourself from the sun. Shadow is the moveable shade of something or someone.

👍🏻

We have a creative teacher here but not more than me :)

My name is Christian G. Sarino im 25 yrs old im from brgy: May iba Teresa Rizal proud to say that school graduated and i used to work in Euroasia marble&granite and i am installer which is instalatiin of tile's marbles and granite in last 2014 to 2018, and this kind of job I'll been experience how to talk someone or clients to convince them to buy your products and tell them the good quality of products and the benefits that will received from it, and also i experience of some job which is rushing and you need to finished it before the deadline and i find the easiest way to finished all of it without any delay and finally i did it. But i decided to resign because some of our PIC or Project In Changed was didn't handling properly and sometimes they didn't give updates scheduled of work and overtime for me i think, there's a problem in our company that time and also lack of salary and growths work. after that i work in DMCI company and im proud to say i am helper of painters but that good things is i learned how to paint in just a month its because my eagerness to learned neq things like this. Then after few months i been challenge because my painters was filed of live in one month to go to province for his married , and im the only one who in charge in that section, and there's a lot of unit was came in and that time i did my pretty best to do and finished it and i make my boss impressed and im also actives in sports like basketball and i enjoyed to participate with my team and coworkers to do some activities to get better results and got an accomplishment that's it. Hello good evening sir. Can i ask you about my answer into tell me something about your self if is there have a chance if im gonna answer like this , because i want to walk at call center and i dont have any experience in the call center but i want to be part of it. Could you please check my answer thank you, have a good night.

Can you clarify please, what about people who write, 'Dear All' in their emails?

I personally start liking your typing machine ..

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Sold to the highest bidder.

@mujtaba_voice5140

4 жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV nice reply sir....

Remember is transitive. I remember that. Do you remember me? Remind means "cause to remember". Please remind me about it.

3:38 TRAFFIC 😆

If you want to count information - use bits > you cannot follow "say" with a direct object "say a word" - isn't "a word" a direct object? > if you want to sound like a native speaker just use "called" oh, yes, "I was called after my grandad" ;)

2:20 "luggages" doesn't exist. 4:26 "or ... or" doesn't exist.

Is it grammatically correct when, at 5:51, you say: "... to protect you against the sun..."? I always say " protect from sth. or so." instead of "protect against".

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

I guess you're right. In written English "protect from the sun" sounds more elegant though informally, especially in spoken English I think you can get away with "protect you against...." (I hope so).

Dear Gideon, what is the difference between "thru" and "through"? Thank you :)

@mikoajem675

4 жыл бұрын

I think there is no such a word as "thru", it's probably just a very informal slang word.

@user-kc8xh9qs6d

4 жыл бұрын

First one is just a "simplified" spelling of second

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Thru is not a word except when it's sometimes put at the end of an old American movie "released thru United Artists". I've never seen it anywhere else.

@capuano3d

4 жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV drive thru

@wacens1

4 жыл бұрын

Why don't you start using a good dictionary? There are many of them online for free. I recommend Longman Advanced learner dictionary.

Should i also use "Give him the book once he arrives" insted of "Give him the book when he arrives"?

@piezocuttlefish

3 жыл бұрын

Your version is quite correct, as is "Give him the book upon his arrival.". The [when] version is the least literary (most likely to be spoken), the [upon] version seems like it is mostly likely to be read, and the [once] version is somewhere between.

@subjectfrank

3 жыл бұрын

@@piezocuttlefish thanks a lot for your help my friend. now i understand which one to use in which situation.

Hello teacher. About uncountable word I have a doubt with the word Advice, is it possible to say "let me give you an advice"

@DerEchteBold

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not a teacher but I'm pretty sure it's not correct, the common thing to say would be "... some advice". He probably won't have the time to answer questions on all his older videos, so I decided to go out on a limb and give some advice ; ) All the Best

@antoniethamazzola4560

4 жыл бұрын

@@DerEchteBold thanks a lot for your information and consideration :)

@laurawolfe154

4 жыл бұрын

"An advice" is wrong, but you could say "A piece of advice."

@antoniethamazzola4560

4 жыл бұрын

@@laurawolfe154 thank you.

Is plural 'researches' definitely incorrect?? Should I only use' research projects' instead? Thx

@josephcote6120

4 жыл бұрын

The only place "researches" is OK is as a verb. "He researches uncommon diseases." As a noun, always "research." "His research is about uncommon diseases." "Research projects" sounds fine as a plural too. "His many research projects include uncommon diseases" But you could say "His research includes uncommon diseases."

@wpo4003

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you :-)

You say that remember is an intransitive verb. Does it mean it's incorrect to say "do you remember me ?"

do you know the title of that old movie ?

@LetThemTalkTV

4 жыл бұрын

Pygmallion. I do recommend it. You can find it on KZread as it's in public domain (which is why I could use it).

@przemekx4182

4 жыл бұрын

thank you for reply....