![]() “Hi, I recently purchased the goat binder and am the proud papa of 5 beautiful pretty young goats. That’s what we are going to be exploring today. Is it a good cough or a bad cough? A normal cough or a begin-to-be-worried-cough? Goat coughing can be normal and it can be a sign of something just not right in your goat. Click here or visit /newsletter.Your goat coughs. And, the thing that would be the best possible thing would be for you to sign up for my mailing list. You’ll get all sorts of tips and tricks on the English language. Be sure to subscribe and check back often. If you’re new and you want to know more about what kinds of English lessons I do, then click here. If you want to see my absolute most recent video, click here. Fun! And if you want to see other videos I’ve made on slang, learn even more terms, check out this slang playlist. Make up a sentence with one of these slang terms and put it in the comments. Now, the ending T pronunciation can be a True T, goat, or a Stop T, goat. Two positions: jaw drop and lip rounding. But we need a diphthong: a changing sound with two positions. It’s really common to say beh- or bey instead. ![]() But I’ve been teaching English long enough to know that a lot of people have problems with the AY diphthong. Second syllable stress.īae: simple pronunciation. When you’re saying a sequence of letters, it’s always the last letter that gets stressed. ![]() What’s interesting is, bae and goat, we say both of those as words. It’s because it’s slang, and lots of native speakers also don’t know what certain terms mean. It’s not just because you’re a non-native speaker. And if you don’t know what it means, don’t be afraid to ask. Honestly, when you’re in a situation where other people are using slang, that’s really where you’re going to get to know what current slang is, what it means, and how to use it. For example, I would say in general, it’s not a good idea to use slang in a work environment, but maybe you work in a laid-back setting with lots of younger people and they use slang a lot in conversation. Let the people you’re talking with guide the appropriateness of that. When is it appropriate to use slang in general? I guess the main guide that I would use for this is: only use it around people who are also using slang. I’m hungry AF! Only use it around people you’re comfortable swearing around.Īnd actually, that takes me to an important point. So be really careful about how you use it, when you use it, where you use it. Now, even though you’re not saying the cuss word, you’re just saying ‘F’, it is slang that involves a cuss word. But you can add this to pretty much any phrase to show intensity. F consonant, UH as in BUTTER vowel, and the ending K consonant. This stands for ‘as fff.’ F beginning a four-letter word which is probably the worst cuss word in American English, or at least one of them. Now, I need to be careful here because I don’t want to be marked as explicit for using this cuss word. And it looks like we even have some actual real goats.Īnd finally, AF. Happy Birthday GOAT! Greatest of all time. Looks like most of them have to do with sports, doesn’t it? This person says ‘2 GOATS’, greatest of all time. I said in my last video, a great way to get context for the meaning of slang is to go to Instagram. Unless you think a goat is the greatest animal of all time, then the meaning is related. Of course the word ‘goat’, not in all caps is also an animal. The absolute best, the absolute best at something. A phrase where we have a phrase with four words beginning with G, O, A, T. Someone who really loves pizza might say that. And from what I understand, now anything can be bae. But, what often happens with slang is a term will evolve. So this would be your boyfriend or girlfriend, your significant other. So ‘bae’ comes from a phrase with three words that start with B, A, and E. Back to slang.Īn acronym is an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words. I’ll be covering all sorts of topics in learning English and spoken English. And there will be new podcasts once a week. The podcast is called the Rachel’s English podcast. Hint: not all the time.īefore we get started, I wanted to let you know that I just released a new episode on my brand new podcast and it is also on slang. In this video, we’re also going to talk about when it’s appropriate to use slang. ![]() What do they mean? How should you use them? Today we’re looking at slang that use acronyms, like GOAT and BAE. Welcome to the Summer of Slang, where every video in July and August we go over American slang terms and meanings. YouTube blocked? Click here to see the video. See the whole Summer of Slang series here: Listen to the new podcast on slang: Īnd be sure to subscribe to the new podcast! Learn American English slang, the acronyms bae, GOAT, and AF.
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