If you have never seen me before if this is your first time here, let me introduce myself

My name is Gabby Wallace and I am an English teacher

From the United States with over 17 years of experience

And a master's degree in teaching English as a second language

I love learning languages and I speak Portuguese

Spanish and a little French and a little Japanese

Anyway, I'm here to help you to speak English like a natural which means like a native speaker

The way that people really speak English

Conversationally in the real world

So it's time to close your textbook and watch this lesson

Today we're talking about five words that you're probably not

Using correctly five words that you can stop using or perhaps change the word that you're using to

Express what you really want to say?

So if that sounds interesting and you'd like to improve the way you speak English today

Then let's begin

Just before I share these five

important words that you need to stop using I

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Okay, let's begin with the first of five words that you really need to stop using

the first word may come as a surprise its

teacher

So it may come as a surprise

Because the word teacher is not a bad word to use but we don't use it in the same way

in American English as you may use it in

Your language. I noticed that a lot of my English students. Call me teacher and

we don't do that in the United States when students want to address their teacher or

Their professor they use the teacher's name. So it's more appropriate to say

Gabi or

Miss Wallace or professor Wallace?

since I

Have been a university professor. I'm used to being called professor Wallace

or when I teach more

casual English

Conversational classes I'm used to being called Gabby. So please call me and

Your other teachers at least your English teachers by their names

It's always safe to ask your teacher

What should I call you? Do you want me to call you teacher or?

Gabby or Miss Wallace or

Professor Wallace, it's always a good idea to ask if you're not sure

number two the word

must

You are probably over using this word because English textbooks teach you to use must

for

important situations a textbook might say you must

study English or you must turn off the lights before you go to sleep, but

Native English speakers don't use must as often as your textbook would lead you to believe in

fact the only

situation when I use must is

not to talk about

important

commands or important actions I

use must when I want to share a

logical guess

for

example I

See people out in the street are wearing coats. It must be cold outside

so I'm making a logical guess and that is how

Native English speakers use the modal verb

must

Most often when we want to say something is very important

Like I'm making an important suggestion then we use should

And I know what your textbook says, that should is

Less strong. It's weaker than must and must is when you want to really show something is very important

but the reality is

Trust me on this one that native speakers. Do not use the modal verb a must like they used to and

even less common is

Mustn't in the negative. This is very very old

Archaic English that is not used anymore

Sure, there's always going to be someone who

Comments and says, but I use must I here mustn't used all the time. That's fine

but my reality as a native English speaker with over 17 years of experience teaching English and living in

English-speaking countries is that people do not use must?

like your textbook tells you so trust me on this one and

Mustn't is gonna make you sound like you're 80 years old. So you mustn't use mustn't please don't do it

third

don't say

Goodnight when you actually mean good evening

Don't use good night as a greeting we can use good night to say. Goodbye

for example

If you went to dinner with your friends and you're leaving the restaurant and you're going your separate ways

You could say have a good night or good nights

But good night is most commonly used when you're just about to go to sleep maybe

with your family and you're living in the same house and you're going to go to your bedroom get in bed and

Sleep you would say goodnight. So if you want to greet people at nighttime, it's better to say good evening

This is a little formal but people do say good evening

We don't say good night to greet each other. It's only to say goodbye

to finalize a

Conversation we have two more words that you really should not use and actually number four is two words. So

Thanks. God is a huge mistake

That you all do quite a lot and we don't say. Thanks God

This is a phrase we use. Thank God

To express some kind of relief. Oh

Thank god

It's not raining. I can go outside without my umbrella, but we never say thanks God

This is for when you want to directly

thank someone like

Thanks to you

We are studying English together or thanks to YouTube. We are studying English together

Similarly, we wouldn't say thanks you we say thank you. So we say thank God

so just remember no s

similarly number five our final word that I see a lot of you having trouble with making this mistake with is

advice never say

advices because advice is a non countable noun and we're never going to make it plural so

Thank you for your advice

I

Really appreciate your advice

Could you give me some advice? Is this a nice t-shirt? Should I wear this t-shirt again? Thank you for your fashion advice

So that's just an example of how you could use the word advice. It's never ever

Going to be in the plural, so just to recap

Don't call your teacher teacher

Don't overuse must use it more for logical guesses. Don't use goodnight to greet people and

Don't use

Thanks. God only thank God and

Advice only in the singular because it's a non-count noun. So I hope that this was helpful

And I think that if you make these changes your English is going to improve a lot

don't get down or feel sad if you were making these mistakes because everyday

We're learning how to improve our English little by little I'm a language learner, too

And I know what it feels like to make mistakes

I would like you to stop feeling bad about making mistakes and start looking at mistakes as a good opportunity to

learn

So today is a great day to make a mistake and we'll learn from it

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