Name: 聽起來更像美國人的常用表達方式 (Common Expressions to Sound More American)
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Today, I am going to teach you some very American expressions that's coming up.

What's up everyone? Welcome to interactive English,

to 不定詞

which is the place you want to be to practice and improve your English skills.

And the way we're going to do that today is I am going to teach you some

expressions that are very common in the US and these expressions may be used in

other English speaking countries as well,

but some of them are very specific to the US and as we go through them,

I will let you know which ones those are.

So let's begin with our first expression.

And that is it's, it's one of my favorite expressions. It's very easy.

It's just one word. And that is whatever. Now, as a pronoun,

And people might say something like, well, you can do whatever you want.

You can say whatever you want in those comments down below,

No, I mean you're in good shape and you can eat whatever you want.

Tell you what. You play whatever you want.

But we can also use this word as an informal exclamation to show a reluctance to

continue talking or to, to continue having a discussion.

And it kind of just shows a bit of indifference. Like,

you know, I don't care. It doesn't matter to me.

So when I think about the word being used like this,

I think about people having an emotional conversation,

maybe even an argument and one person just doesn't want to talk about it

anymore. They may just say, you know what, whatever I'm done talking, whatever,

Believe what would you want to believe? I don't even care. Whatever.

You want to mount it on the left or the right or the middle?

The next expression is one that I use a lot.

I like using this expression and it is informal and it's just my bad.

they are acknowledging that that they made a mistake,

they did something wrong and it's not really a really,

really horrible mistake because then I think you want to be a little more

apologetic. But if it's just something small and you're know, oh, okay,

Often I think it's used quite frequently in sports.

When you're having a competition and you play on a team and somebody makes a

mistake and they'll just say, oh, okay, my bad. You will see this in basketball,

soccer, football, and any team sport, somebody makes a mistake. They may,

they may point to themselves and say, you know, Oh yeah, my bad.

which is more of an idiom and that is to lose touch with someone and when you

lose touch with somebody, it means that you just,

you stop communicating with them. And I think common,

it happens especially over a long period of time that we,

but then we lose touch as the years go on and on and on and you just,

you're just not communicating with people.

I hope that we never lose touch and that you are constantly writing to me and

communicating with me and, and we always stay in touch,

which would be the opposite. That means you keep communicating.

but if you don't want to stay in touch with me, whatever, I'm just kidding.

My bad. I, I really,  I don't want to lose touch with all of you.

You know, after high school you just kind of lose touch

Then we have an expression, which is, is definitely very American.

It's part of the United States and that is to plead the fifth.

Now when somebody says, you know, Oh, I plead the fifth,

then they may say it informally and you might hear this on TV and movies,

but what it really means is that it's talking about the Fifth Amendment and in

the u s constitution, the Fifth Amendment means that you,

you don't have to talk about something because you don't want to incriminate

Let me explain that in case it doesn't make sense that say that you are witness

but you yourself also did something a bit wrong and they call you to testify

against this other person. They say, oh, can I,

but you don't want to talk about it because you also did something a little

wrong. You might say, you know, I plead the fifth.

I don't want to talk about this situation because basically I'm going to be

admitting to a crime as well that I committed, so I'm going to plead the fifth.

That's a little civics lesson for you, but this expression,

it can also be used in situations outside of that context said,

even if you're talking to your husband or wife about something and you,

you don't want to be completely honest about a situation because maybe you did

something wrong. You can say, ah, you know, I, I plead the fifth.

Could I plead the fifth? The fifth is just used to protect yourself.

I'm pleading the fifth. Just try to keep your secrets. I dare you.

Please tell me that you haven't planned anything big tonight.

On your birthday. Sorry, but I plead the fifth.

Then we have an expression which is commonly confused.

And that expression is, I couldn't care less. So if somebody says, you know, I,

I couldn't care less. It just means that the,

the amount of concern that they have about something could not be less.

This is the least thing that they could possibly be concerned about.

I think this is used in kind of the heat of the moment when you're,

you're talking about uh, something and you want to tell this person, look,

I don't care. I couldn't care less, but people will confuse it and they say,

well, I could care less. And that means kind of, you know,

there are many other things that you could care less about and that's not what

you want to say. So keep that in mind. Don't confuse it with, I could care less.

I couldn't care less. That's the one you want. Stick with that.

You just want more money for yourself. Don't you? Couldn't care less.

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