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Hello, Aubrey. How you doing today?
I'm great. How are you, Lindsey?
I am feeling excellent.
Excellent. We're getting into talking about achievements today.
Is that right? Yeah. Do you ever have trouble sharing achievements with people?
I do, because there's a lot that I think about, of course.
I think about the vibe in that moment.
What have people said so far in that conversation?
You need the right setup for it.
I think sometimes. Otherwise, you can feel like you're bragging.
And we don't want this, but with close friends with associates, we do want to be able to share exciting achievements or just anything that exciting that happens to us.
But imagine, Lindsey, if you started telling me about an exciting achievement, and I just gave you nothing, right?
Stonebase, no exciting response.
I can't imagine. I can't imagine.
I can't imagine. I would definitely quam up and feel like, what's going on with her?
It's very strange the way she didn't respond to that.
Right? That's a lot of when someone shares with you something exciting.
It's important how you react, right?
Yes. And you might even accidentally not react correctly if you're thinking about vocabulary grammar.
What do I say next? You might accidentally break the connection.
So we're sharing some really important vocabulary today to help you react in an appropriate and encouraging way when someone shares something exciting with you.
Yes, I love it. We are getting into this today.
Where should we start with this topic today?
I mean, where does this come from?
And what's the context today, Aubrey?
Yeah, this was actually inspired by our B1 course.
In Module 3, it's called Great Achievements.
It's helping you learn how to share exciting achievements.
Yeah. Some of the vocabulary we taught were interjections like staying right on when someone tells you is so native and natural to respond that way when someone tells you something exciting.
Yeah, and I remember this particular interview, as you guys know, in all of our courses, we use the connection method, which means we go out and we get natural conversation with native speakers.
We record it. We bring it back to the course.
And this particular interview, I believe it was the one where I was interviewing the artist in San Francisco.
Yeah, exactly. And he was in his studio.
And I do remember him saying that right on, right on.
It sounded very San Francisco to me, too.
Yeah, very good. Yeah, it's very much the US, right?
But we're going to share four interjections you can use like right on.
That's one of them. Because when someone's telling you something exciting and you interject with something super encouraging like this, you are giving them such a strong signal that you are interested.
You're proud of them. You're excited for them.
And that is such a strong connection builder.
Yeah, this is connection right here.
We do need we're human beings.
We need that encouragement to keep going.
Maybe share a little more.
This person cares that you've achieved something.
And that's the key right there.
That's exactly right. Hopefully our listeners should definitely stay on the episode today.
Why? What's coming up at the end?
Yes, this is exciting, guys.
Stay tuned because at the end of the episode, we're going to give you a special offer that will give you a chance to practice today's vocabulary in real conversations.
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All right, Aubrey, let's get into showing our listeners the key vocab they need.
What is the first again coming back to what we mentioned earlier?
What is it? Yeah, the first one is right on.
So for each of these, we're going to do a mini role play.
So you can see how to interject, which is sort of like interrupting with just something small that's encouraging.
And I like this one because like I said, when he said it, it just felt very serious.
It just felt very California.
But now, so in my mind, in the 90s, this was something that only Californians said, right on, right?
It felt kind of surferey.
But now I feel like it's kind of gone mainstream.
Yeah, it's really been adopted.
I think because it's so positive and encouraging.
Yeah, it really is. There's nothing but positivity here.
So should we do a role play?
Yeah, let's hear it. I wanted tennis tournament this weekend, right on.
I hadn't played in a while, so I wasn't sure how I'd do.
Oh, was it singles or doubles?
Nice. And then you ask a follow up question.
And that's a nice connection moment, nice pivot, right?
And the question too, the bonus.
Yeah. Well, exactly in imagine you're telling me you want a tennis tournament.
That's very exciting. If I don't say anything, if I'm not encouraging, or if I just smile and wait for you to give more information, there is, as soon as you share something and achievement or something exciting, you are looking for the cues from the person you're talking to.
Are they interested? Are they okay that I'm sharing this something that's maybe a little bit braggie?
Yeah, it's like right before you share, and right after you share, you're kind of hyper-volulable, right?
To the outside. And you need to give the right cues as the person receiving that information to support the speaker.
Because you've taken a chance, you've taken a little chance, right?
Unless you're just kind of totally unaware of social cues.
And that's a different thing, right?
But even if you are a soon as there's that flag of someone telling you something they're excited about, any kind of achievement, you can now know, okay, this is my cue to interject with one of today's phrases, to show encouragement, to show I'm interested.
Love it. Okay, so next one is awesome.
I would warn not to be too overusing of this one.
Right, you don't want to say any of these all the time.
That's part of why we're giving you four different ones.
You could use all four of these throughout a conversation, just to share that you think something's great, right?
Let's do another role play to show how this might look.
I'll start us out. I got that job I interviewed for.
Awesome. I'm excited. It seems like a great company.
All right, and you can really, as our listeners, I know that I use awesome a lot.
So this is more a warning to myself.
I'm trying to remind yourself, don't say this all the time.
It's true, we do sort of have these language habits where you might find yourself using the same interjection over and over.
Today's episode will be even more helpful for you to give you a few more options to use.
For sure. And you can really, though, with awesome, you can really put your breath behind it.
Awesome. Oh my gosh, that's amazing.
You could feel that extra layer of energy if you feel that it's appropriate in the moments.
In fact, you have to be careful because this is used sarcastically.
You don't want to say like awesome.
Right. That would be very different.
No matter how you say it, you need to have that expressiveness in your voice to make it clear that you are excited for them.
Or, yeah, I mean, I think that you don't have to have the breath that I put into awesome, right?
You could say awesome, right?
But if you say awesome, or how you did it was better, I like that if it sounded more sarcastic.
Oh, super sarcastic. Awesome.
Right. I'm drawing it out adding that sarcastically.
But we know in context for this particular role play, that's not the case.
We're not being sarcastic.
That could be another of the things that are going on.
So, the other tone is excited, right?
Awesome. Yes. I like the next one.
Wow, cool. I say this a lot, I think, right?
This is a common interjection for me, too.
You know, they say something excited.
I'm like, oh, wow, cool.
Yeah, 100%, very common.
Let's do a role play. So, here we go.
I found some photos of my great grandmother in the attic.
I'd only seen one photo of her before these.
Wow, cool. Yeah, I'm super excited.
That's kind of cool. Kind of a cool feeling.
Digging through family photos.
If you have only seen one photo and you find this treasure trove of old photos in an attic, that would be super exciting.
100%, 100%. So, another option, right?
We're just listing off for you guys the options.
Exactly. So many things.
Cool. And this does help you switch it up.
And something to note, in our notes here, we have a comma after wow.
So, why? What if we say, wow, cool.
Wow, cool. Right. No, there needs to be a little pause there.
A short pause. Wow, because you're also wanting to emphasize the wow.
Again, you don't want to sound as sarcastic if you say, like, wow, cool.
Oh, no. That's really different.
That's really different.
That's really exciting in our tone.
Yes. It's really kind of fully embracing both words in your delivery of that and a little pause is going to do it.
Also, if you don't pause, if the whole thing sounds monotone, it's going to be hard to understand you.
Wow, cool. No. That's not.
You still sound enthusiastic and positive, but I can't quite make it out.
Yes. It's amazing how important tone is for all of these because the goal is to let them know that you are excited and your tone will really convey that, not just the words, because a lot of these are used sarcastically.
So make sure to feel excitement, be sincere, and that will come out in your tone.
Definitely. There's a lot of joy in life if we can take part in others joy.
We study this in when I study meditation and Buddhism.
We study this concept of taking joy in others joy.
It's a real thing that creates a lot of happiness.
Absolutely. Absolutely.
Yeah. Okay. Last one. I say the select too.
I say, oh, nice. Yes. Also really good and very important, the tone of voice.
The tone, the intonation, the pause.
Oh, nice. Right. Let's do a little role play.
I'll start us. I got a shout out at work today.
Oh, nice. It was nice. It feels good to be appreciated.
It was nice. And that's another episode for another day, but the way you punched the was, and then you repeated that same word.
Yeah, it was nice. Yeah.
Oh, nice. It was nice. Yeah.
Right. We're building on each other's mood on the emotion.
It's real. This really is such a strong connection skill.
Instead of breaking that connection by either not responding or responding with a weird tone, yes, instead, we're building on the excitement that's being given to us.
And I really think these phrases today, these four phrases are going to really fill in the gaps for our listeners if they've just had textbook English for a long time.
These will fill in the gaps and bring you to connection, right?
Yes. And you're going to need to practice these interjections.
It's not enough to have a list of them and then go into a conversation and you need to practice the tone.
You need to practice jumping in when someone says something exciting with one of these interjections.
So it's true. It's true.
Well, it's true that it's practiced.
But it's really cool because in the last year or so, we've added so many different ways to finally practice, practice with us, practice with other students, practice by connecting.
So there are literally four different ways we can connect in practice.
We now do weekly open conversation club, which you host Aubrey, where students come together, connect with each other and practice and break out rooms, right?
Yes, this is a perfect opportunity to use this vocabulary.
You have it there already.
Someone shares something exciting, interesting, and achievement.
Use one of these interjections.
It's such a perfect practice to build confidence before you have those in-person interactions.
Yeah. And I love how often with OCC, I think students tend to stay late and connect together.
I know for a fluency party, which is the next way our students now get to practice once a month, that's hosted by two members of the podcasting team.
Aubrey, you and I are doing that on Monday.
And if you're in the courses, you do get invited, right?
Exactly. And like you said, students often stay late.
There's no time limit to these rooms.
So you can stay and continue practice speaking as long as anyone's there to chat.
Yeah. And then if you're in personal coach levels of many of our plans, you do get invited to a weekly Q&A where you can come and ask questions about your course, technical questions, whatever it is that comes up, you ask that question.
Yes. And available to everyone in any of our courses is this amazing supportive community where you can also ask questions, chat about anything in English practice you're writing, and get to know the people that you'll be seeing at Open Conversation Club, Influency Parties.
Yeah. That community has really been vibing lately.
Don't you think I've been going back up for people are responding to each other, commenting, sharing bucket lists and dreams, and why are we here?
What are we doing? We're learning English to connect to reach our goals.
I love it. I love it. I love it too.
It's amazing. There are so many awesome people in there supporting each other as we all learn English together.
It's so great. And one way for our listeners to get invited to some of these, you know, speaking opportunities is to join our B1 fluency course this week.
Why should they join this week, Aubrey?
Yes. Well, we have a special offer that ends September 1st at midnight.
So we are going to give you guys a savings of $89.
You can get the B1 fluency course, which the vocab from today was inspired from interviews in this course that are so interesting with native English speakers.
Plus a bonus course, right?
Lindsay? Yes. Plus a free bonus, the 10 most magnetic words in English, which is a $39 value.
It gets thrown into your package for free.
So you get that free bonus course.
And you will get all of this for $149 in the basic plan.
And if you choose the personal coach plan, you save even more.
Okay. So you can save up to $100 depending on the plan you choose.
A lot of savings this week.
But Aubrey, again, when does the deal end?
We have to make sure we mark our calendars too.
Exactly. Right? It ends at midnight on September 1st.
So get in now, guys, go to allersenglish.com slash B1.
So letter B number one. You got to go check that out right now.
Don't delay. Go do it because otherwise you may forget, right?
Life gets busy. As soon as you get off this podcast, you're going to be at work or you know, be home and then life moves forward.
But if you take the moment to sign up now, you will not regret it, right?
Yes. This is your chance to get into our community to come to all of the speaking practice that we have, get to know us, the hosts of allersenglish and all of the students in all of our courses.
Yeah. So good. Aubrey, what's our takeaway for today?
Where shall we leave our listeners?
Yes. Interjections are so important.
They serve many purposes, such a great connection skill to show that encouragement when someone goes, gets a little vulnerable, like you said, Lindsay, and you want to encourage them that you are there to support them and be excited for their achievement.
Yeah, I think a huge connection skill is understanding when people are feeling vulnerable.
Like what is, you know, before they've shared this after the show, like you need to care for people, especially in those moments.
And that leads to connection.
And now our listeners do have the skills for it.
I love it. And you can get more in that B1 course, guys.
So allersenglish.com slash B1, we will see you at the next life speaking event.
Yes. Awesome. Works. I did to see you there.
All right, Aubrey, you have a good day.
You too. Thanks, Lindsay.
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