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How to Shout Out Others.
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What can you say if you want to commend someone for an outstanding performance?
Find out four phrases today to shout out a friend or coworker and find out who won our live Allers English Olympics event.
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Hello, Aubrey. I want to give a shout out to you, my coworker and friend Aubrey, for being such an amazing podcast host.
Thanks Jessica. I love a shout out.
We often shout out. You guys are listeners.
We love when you review and leave comments.
We want to shout you out.
That's a rare that I get a shout out.
Thanks. Today, guys, we are talking about how to talk up others, which is a great phrase to talk someone up means to say good things about them.
And guys, you can use these phrases and this skill in any conversation because we want to be positive about others as much as we can to friends, to coworkers, family, anyone.
Exactly. You want those you know to think well of the other people that you know and like.
Right. So you're wanting to talk up friends, co-workers, your partner, and what a great way to connect.
I love when people are positive when they talk up those they know, give them a shout out for something interesting that happened to them.
Just create such a positive connection.
Yeah, totally. All right, guys.
So we are teaching you this vocabulary because we had the All-Ears English Olympics last week and it was so fun.
And we are going to do more of these live free events guys.
So we are going to teach you this amazingly positive vocab while announcing the winners of the All-Ears English Olympics.
Exactly. We're so grateful to everyone who showed up.
It was such a fun event. Everyone represented their country in the All-Ears English Olympics.
So we are going to shout out the winners and the countries who won and teach you four amazing phrases for talking up the people in your life or giving them a shout out.
Okay, super awesome. All right, Aubrey, I am going to start announcing the winners.
Okay, we'll take turns.
Okay. So first in third place, bronze medal.
There was a four-way tie here.
I ran Ecuador, Indonesia, and Brazil.
Four-way tie for bronze.
Amazing. I'm clapping.
I'm clapping. Well done.
All of you. And I will share silver.
We had a tie between China and Germany.
So congratulations taking home the silver medal.
You guys, I am so delighted with the Global All-Ears English Community.
You can tell by the countries that we're announcing.
And these aren't the only countries.
These are the winners, right?
So many more countries were represented by people here.
It was so amazing. Okay, without further ado, gold goes to Poland.
And I want to give a huge shout out to Tomek and Max who did a great job of representing Poland.
Yes, congratulations on taking home that gold medal.
This was our first All-Ears English Olympics.
It was so fun. We loved getting to know a lot of you, hearing from you.
And we'll definitely be doing more events like this.
We hope to see you there.
It's so fun to be able to get to know our community.
Yeah, guys, hit follow right now so you don't miss the news of our next live event.
Okay, let's get to the vocabulary.
So the first phrase at which we've already mentioned is shout out.
So this could be a noun, give a shout out, or it could be used as a phrasal verb, right?
I want to shout out so and so for verbi and G or for noun, right?
So what's an example of using shout out?
Now, for example, I want to shout out All-Ears English fans from Poland for being so quick to answer the questions, right?
This we often give shout outs podcasts, but I hear this in a work context as well, business English.
My partner was just letting me know about someone who gave him a shout out at work in a meeting, which was very exciting for him.
It's awesome. So this we see this all over in lots of different contexts.
Yes, I love it. This is used a lot.
All right, here's another example, guys.
Let's give us shout out to Ivy from China, who helped her country get the silver.
I love being able to shout out specific listeners.
And I really hope you guys are listening.
Yes, I know me too. I hope you guys hear this and these amazing shout outs because it was so fun getting to know you guys.
Now one thing to keep in mind, don't confuse this with the phrase shout at.
Very different, right?
That's me. Different. One or scream at someone if you get it's the shout at someone.
Yes. So small difference and preposition, they're huge difference in meaning.
So don't confuse those.
All right. What's our next phrase, Aubrey?
Yes. So that someone did a stellar or outstanding job.
This means amazing, but they're a little more formal, a little more interesting.
You could definitely use them at work or even in your daily life to share that someone did a really good job on something.
I feel like these are more appropriate for the workplace.
Like I, because it's more of a formal job responsibility task that I'm describing, right?
Like I wouldn't say, you know, my son James did an outstanding job with the dishes last night.
Like I don't think I would say that.
You know, I'm sarcastic.
I know you don't. It does sound sarcastic.
So I would, I would reserve this for more formal tasks, right?
So we could say like Aubrey did an outstanding job hosting the Olympics or Lindsay did a stellar job sharing the history of all ears English in that event.
Yes, for sure. And there are times like maybe you're volunteering, maybe maybe you're hosting a fundraiser because that's a little more formal, almost like a work situation, then it would be perfect to anyone on your team who had done a great job, whether it's you sending an email or a text to say you did an outstanding job or a stellar job because it is a little more
of a formal situation. Totally.
Now we have, we have a little email here to share real fast, Aubrey.
What is this? Yes. Okay.
So this is from Mosin who was at all ears English Olympics and sent us an amazing email.
I'm going to share it here.
He said, I'm writing you this message in regards to today's all ears English Olympics.
An amazing event. I really loved it.
We got to compete with people from around the world.
We were given time to introduce ourselves and more importantly, we had this opportunity to see you and thank you all in person.
So all in all, it was an absolutely remarkable event.
Many thanks to you and Jessica for hosting this event.
By the way, I'm Mosin, Asani, your loyal listener coming all the way from the beautiful country of Iran.
Today I got bronze at your event.
And as a result, I was wondering if you could announce my name on one of your upcoming pygaz.
Absolutely. Of course.
Giving you a shout out, Mosin.
Thank you for coming. Oh my gosh.
I was just, I am still feeling so many warm feelings from that event.
You guys, oh, thank you for coming.
Okay. We have two more amazing phrases for you guys before we finish up today.
Here is a more complete sentence.
Right. I just have to say how adjective blank was.
Like I just have to say how incredible Mosin was.
I just have to say how enthusiastic that email was.
So it's a longer phrase, but very flexibly used.
Yes. And you can use any adjective here.
Right. I just have to say how vocal you were in the meeting.
I loved it. Thank you for participating.
Whatever adjective you want to share, whatever happened, you can stick that in.
This is a great phrase. All right.
So the last word today, guys, commend.
This is a very formal verb.
All right. So this is when we are praising somebody or something formally.
So for example, I'd like to commend the whole all ears English team like Gaspar who's been with the company the longest for the stellar work they do.
So there's a little shout out to Gaspar, our amazing genius editor.
So yes, this is a very formal word though.
So I wouldn't use it in daily life, but any sort of speech or formal praise, you want to give in front of a manager, coworker, client, commend is a very high level verb.
Yes, I agree. Shout out to Gaspar.
And this is an impressive word work, especially you can use it, but that same kind of situation if you have organized maybe a school fundraiser and you want to commend anyone who put in extra work.
This is a perfect word. It's very anyone who said they want to commend me.
I would feel so good about that.
I know. I would be so happy about that.
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Awesome. Thanks, guys.
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