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This is an all English bonus episode live webcast. Jeez Louise, How to express surprise with slang in English.

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Welcome to the All Ears English podcast downloaded more than 150 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection, with your American hosts. Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl coming to you from Colorado and New York City U. S a and to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to all ears.

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English dot com forward slash subscribe and today's bonus episode.

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You'll get a sneak peek of what you'll learn in the upcoming Web class. Listen in to find out how to sign up today.

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Hey, Michelle, what's going on? Hey, Lindsay. Hey, Lindsay, I'm good, I'm good. How are you? Excellent, excellent. So excited about the upcoming webcast. Oh my gosh. I am excited about it, too. Yeah. So, guys, today we're going to talk to you about this Web class that we have coming up. And I just love the topic. I think it's going to be super useful for our listeners.

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Lindsay, what is the topic?

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Oh, my God, you're right, Michelle. This topic is what everyone wants to learn and be able to do, right? It's about slang, guys.

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So annoying. Yes. Yes. I mean, the first thing we want you guys to do right now is go over and sign up. Our Web classes are getting they're filling up, right? They're starting. A lot more people are starting to sign up. So you need to sign up and show up on time. Michelle, where can they go to sign up?

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Go to all ears, English, dotcom slang. That's L.A. and G. And it's January 20th and January twenty third. OK. And also make sure that you show up on time, but really drop a few minutes early because we do this pre party.

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Yes. And we get to know everybody and we kind of have like a little chat going on and it's fun to kind of warm up before we get into the Web class. So definitely get there early. And remember, guys, this is not being recorded. Right? So after it's over, right. It's it's over. So you have two opportunities. January 25th and January twenty third. And I will be hosting this Web class with Aubury, the two of us.

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So we're excited. So cool. I'm so excited for this is going to be fantastic. Good.

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So why is it so important to learn slang, Michelle. Oh my gosh.

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What slang is really so important to, you know, getting more native and English.

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Right. So slang is used all the time. And, you know, it really kind of gets you to that point where you really impress people. You really are using your language to connect with people. And slang is kind of cool because it it changes over time. So showing you're up to date with a certain slang term can be really important for connection, totally agree. And make sure that we don't sound like a textbook. Right. Michelle? Oh, I want to sound like a textbook.

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Exactly. Guys, this is not boring textbook English, right? It's how people really speak. Right. So it's not going to be stuff that you find in your textbook. So on this Web class, we are going to teach you some slang. Some of them, you know, you may have heard a couple of them before, but we're also going to give you new slang terms, OK?

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And we're going to really talk about really dive into slang, right. So when should you use it? When should you not use it? Who should you use it with? Right. And maybe, you know, you can use some slang with one person and others living with another person. And so it's going to give you more of an idea of how to use these words. Right. That maybe maybe even if you know a word, we're going to explain.

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Right. How do you use it and when can you use it? So it's very, very critical. OK, so would you say in this Web class it's about using slang to build your personality or like express your personality? Would you say that's the overall theme? Yeah.

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To express your personality and really just like having that smart sense.

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Right, getting the sense and the natural feel of when you can use it, who you can use it with. Right. Because that's really part of it. Like, you don't want to you don't want to use a word that really people use more with, like kids and you don't want to grandma saying, you know, you want to and we'll talk about like formal and informal, like, can slang ever be formal?

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Is it informal only? And, you know, that's that's really kind of really taking a deep dive into slang on this Web class.

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I love it. So right time. Right place when it comes to slang. But today, Michelle, are we going to show our listen and give them a little sneak peek, just a little tiny taste of what they might learn in the Web class to get them started?

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Yes, absolutely.

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So today we are going to work on the Web class. We're going to talk about like a few themes of different slang terms you can use. OK, right. So one of these is talking about when you show you're surprised, right, to express surprise.

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Oh, so, Lindsay, what's one thing that you might use to express a Prius?

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I think this term is making a comeback nowadays. Like, I feel like it was common when I was a kid and now I'm hearing it more and more the expression, holy cow, holy cow.

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Yeah, it is.

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I'm hearing a come back with it as well. So this is just showing your surprise. Like I could say, holy cow, your haircut is incredible. Exactly. It's funny how certain phrases and slang terms make comebacks or they don't or they just become really old and outdated.

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But this one has made a comeback in twenty, twenty one. I love it. Yeah.

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Yeah, exactly. And then the next one is just oh my gosh. Which you may have heard before, but like I said on the class, we're going to dive deeper into it.

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Right. So. Oh my gosh.

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Is used all the time right. Oh definitely. And I think people, you know, use it as a replacement instead of saying, oh my. God, right, probably right. That's how it started, but now it's just common, right? Oh, my gosh, I can't believe you're really here. It's been forever.

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Well, exactly. I love it. I love it. I love it. And OK, just because you guys are on this special bonus episode, we're going to give you a few more. Now, these are some extras, some bonus, some bonuses for the bonus.

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Are we talking about Seinfeld today show?

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We are. So so the next one to express surprise that we're talking about today is get out of here or simply just get out.

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Right.

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Is this something that Elaine used to say all the time on Seinfeld? Yes. Yes. Do you remember that?

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Well, I don't I don't I don't think I was religious as religious about Seinfeld as you were recall. But I would always catch it on TV like a rerun when the TV was on. But I didn't sit down and try to watch it. So let me let me just clarify. Did Illinois say get out or get out of here? Oh, she said get out, OK.

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Her thing was when she was really surprised, she would scream, get out and she would push the person and sometimes they would fall or they would be some sort of crazy thing that would happen.

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But it was hysterical that she had to go get out like she was shocked. So you can either say get out or you can say get out of here.

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Yeah, I love it.

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I love it. That's so good. Yeah, that is it's I think that might be a little bit dated the 90s in the 90s. Get out. But it still works. You know what I mean.

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It's still I feel like I still say that. You know what, I'm kind of stuck in the 90s. I, you know, arguido. I'm like, have you guys heard of this new show, Friends? Do you guys know about this new artist, Britney Spears?

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You need to update things a little bit. You need a line freshening update. Let's do a role play for our listeners. Right. All right. Let's do it. All right.

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So, Michelle, I passed all my med school exams. Get out of here. Congrats.

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That's awesome. So I'm giving you news. You could also say when you're surprised about something, right? It's news. It's something that's surprising. Get out of here. I love that.

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Exactly. I love it. Or what's the next one, Lindsay? All right. So let's move the couch over. Whoa, no.

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Next. Sorry, sorry, sorry. That was a roleplay.

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All right. So the phrase is whoa there.

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Yeah. This one, I think is more modern. Yeah.

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Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Whoa there. It's like, you know, it can be used in a few different ways.

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But one way is to express surprise right there like we were talking about Silenzi.

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You want to give it a little, a little go here. Yeah. So let's move the couch over. Whoa there. Oh my gosh that bug is huge. OK, so what just happened here. Let's give our listeners the back story of why I said whoa there.

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OK, so we're imagining in this situation Lindsay and I are moving our furniture. Yeah. And you move the couch and to your surprise, there's a big bug, OK? And so you say, well, they're right. And they're actually funny enough, I didn't even think about this, but then I said, oh, my gosh, which is one of our other terms. Oh, that's so funny.

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That shows you how natural these are. Yeah.

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Because I didn't even realize I was using that. So. Yeah. Well there you're expressing surprise about seeing that bug. OK, got it.

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Got it. So and that could. Yeah. Whoa. There could be used in a few other context too. Let's show them one other example.

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All right. Here we go. OK, so I'll get there on Monday.

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Whoa there. I thought we talked about Tuesday. Oh, all right. Tuesday.

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OK, so what I mean here is that I mean that you're being overeager.

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You're being too like two on top of it. Yeah, right. Right, right, right.

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Too fast too. Like speedy. Yeah. It's almost like. Oh, slow down. Slow down. Exactly. Exactly right. Right. It makes me think of like a horse like whoa there. Yeah. And of course I'll add on a fun little bonus, a bonus on top of the bonus on top of the machine. My gosh.

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I remember when I was in high school people would always say, well they're killer.

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Oh yeah.

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And that's even more so to this idea of saying someone is really overeager, really amped up and they're really trying to get something done. Whoa, they're killer. Slow down. Relax.

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I love that. I love that. OK, awesome.

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So now we have one more and this is, I think, my favorite one because it's hilarious.

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OK, what is it, Jeez Louise. Oh my gosh. I guarantee this is not being taught in any textbook anywhere in the world. Guys, this is real English, OK? What does this mean?

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Well, this I mean, it's also to show surprise. It can also show, you know, that maybe you're a little bit frustrated, right? Yeah. It's very old fashioned sounding. It's always funny when something rhymes. I think that has the certain attitude to it. So, Jeez Louise, it sounds kind of funny. And so it definitely shows your personality if you use Jeez Louise.

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Yeah. Like frustration, confusion, surprise about something like something happened and it shouldn't have happened.

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And it's not very serious. Right. It's kind of kind of lighthearted, wouldn't you say?

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Oh, yeah, definitely.

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Yeah. I don't think you would use it in like a. A very serious way it would it's too it's too it's too fun just to fun sounding to be serious, like it would just not fit the situation. And it rhymes.

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And it sounds funny when you say it, so, yeah, it couldn't be very dead serious if something terrible happened. It's lighter.

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So let's give him an example, Michel. All right. Here we go. OK, I'll just open up this bottle and.

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Oh, Jeez Louise, this is tough. I'll help you. Yeah.

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So, yeah, that could be you know, you're wondering why do they make these bottles so hard to open? All right. So you're saying, Jeez Louise, this is hard to open. It could be. Guys, this phrase is diverse, right?

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Oh, yeah. Right, right. Exactly. Because it's a surprise, but also could be frustrated. Right. So sometimes, you know, it's like very layered. Right. It's not only like one kind of context. I love it.

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So, Michelle, I think we do have a little bit of time for a role play. What do you think? I mean, I know our listeners love role plays. To sum up our episodes, should we do it? Let's do it.

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So in this role play we are setting up for a picnic.

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OK, nice. I like it. All right. So go ahead, Michelle. All right. Here we go. Holy cow. We have a lot of food. Oh, my gosh. Geez, you're right. Too much even. Whoa, there.

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Can we get this huge stain off the blanket?

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Yikes. Jeez Louise. What is that? I think I spilled wine on it the last picnic I had.

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Get out of here. You got a lot of picnics. Yes. I love it.

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Let's flip this blanket over. Sounds good. OK. Do you like to go on picnics in New York? Michelle, do you like to do that in the summer? I like to you know though.

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But now because I have a walking child, I haven't tried it yet because there would be no sitting down, it would just be running.

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So unfortunately, I haven't been on a picnic in a while. Linda, do you like to go on picnics?

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I do. I always used to like to do that in New York, in Central Park, because I live near Central Park for a year and I would go to the park on a Sunday or even just take coffee and a newspaper in the morning. Just do that. Yeah, I love picnics.

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That's the best. Oh my God. Just to sit in the park. Oh my gosh. I love that.

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So simple pleasures of life. It definitely is one of those. All right, Delinda's. Let's go through. So I said, holy cow, we have a lot of food. So expressing my surprise.

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Whoa, you know, and then I am like, this is important for connection, guys. I'm marrying you. I'm saying, oh, my gosh, geez, you're right. That's so important that I have met your surprise with my own expression of surprise.

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Right. Right, right, right. Exactly. It's just really kind of enhancing the situation. Exactly. And we're connecting through that.

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Right. Because imagine if you said nothing or if you didn't express surprise or if you just said, why is that staying there?

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That would be kind of rude and you wouldn't have that connection moment, right?

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I would kind of wonder, like I would I would feel like I was like left hanging, you know, that, you know, like. Yeah, like, oh, yeah, OK. I don't know.

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It just would be weird.

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Like, it seems like such a like a simple thing to be analyzing here, but it's actually not.

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It's very important. It's very important. OK, and then let's keep going.

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So you said whoa there. Yeah.

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Because I'm surprised this is the surprising way, you know, I'm like, well they're like and because I've just seen a huge stain on the nikolaenko. Yeah.

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Maybe you're a little embarrassed by the stain, right? That could be your surprise.

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You're embarrassed that you want to do something about it. You're saying, let's stop. Let's do something about this. Right.

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Right, right, right. And then you say, yikes. Which is a which is a bonus for a bonus for a bonus. OK, which is like it's like, oh gosh. You know, kind of situation.

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Yeah. And I said, yikes, jeez Louise, what is that? And again, we've said that this phrase guys is very diverse. You can use it in a number of times situations. So go for that one.

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And then definitely and then I say I talk about spilling wine. And then you said, get out of here. You go on a lot of picnics. It's like you didn't know that I was such a professional picnic. Right.

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So you've given me some kind of news. And this would be really common if someone gives you some news, right? Yeah.

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Something happened, some world event, maybe some kind of piece of gossip, something about common friend. You have mutual friend. Someone got engaged maybe. Right. Get out of here. I didn't know that they got engaged. OK, right, right, right, right, right.

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I love it. Yeah. So and then we just decide to flip the blanket over.

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Have you ever done that Lindsay has ever had like a good solution. Exactly. That's the that's the trick. Yeah. Until your next picnic and then you have wine stains on both sides of the boat. So. All right, Michelle, where can they go to sign up for this?

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If you guys enjoy this episode, this is just a mini piece, a sampling of what the Web class will be like. It's a first Web class of the year.

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It's exciting. And this is the year you guys are going to learn to use slang to really express that personality. OK, awesome.

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Yes. So you can sign up at all is English dotcom slang. That's SLA and G, and that is January 20th and January twenty third. And I will be there with. And we are excited to see you there for the pre party and the class, so exciting. Can't wait for it, guys. All the English dot com forward slash slang and we will see you guys there.

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All right, Michelle, thanks for hanging out today. All right.

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Jeez Louise. Lindsay, this was fun to watch. It was. Talk to you soon. Bye bye.

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