Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IT'S BEEN A BLAST and I HAD A BLAST- In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the phrase, it's been a blast. I am Bob the Canadian, and I call myself Bob the Canadian, because I'm Bob and I'm Can, and I'm, and I'm Canadian. I just wanted to pretend I was you for a second.- Who am I then?- You're just some little small YouTuber named Brent.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/joinIf you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by clicking the "Support Now" button below.If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian- Oh yeah. I'm just, I'm Brent. So anyways, it's been a blast.- Yeah, it's been a blast. And I would like to talk about my time here, as it's been a blast. That's another way to say you have had a lot of fun. We got a lot of work done.- We did. We had fun.- But when you're having fun, it doesn't feel like work.- Exactly. Is there another phrase I should teach?- Yes, but it's upside down.- Or are you Bob? Let me see if I can do this. I also wanted to teach you the phrase, I had a blast! Which means the same thing as, it's been a blast, but we think it's used equally as much. So I would say the same thing. I had a blast or it's been a blast. Both work. It's been a fun two days. I think we maybe packed too much in to two days. Maybe we worked too much and we should have played more. Although, you know, if you only have two days to get stuff done, you might as well get stuff done. As I said to Brent earlier, you're going home at some point. Let's get as many things done for everyone out there as we possibly can, so.- Can I teach a third phrase? This is the first time.- Yeah, absolutely.- Yeah, you go.- This has never been done before. Okay. And it has nothing to do with blast, but I don't want to overstay my welcome.- Ah, yes.- So if you overstay your welcome, that means you've been invited somewhere, but you stay longer than the host wants you to stay.- Yeah. I do that to people sometimes.- I don't wanna overstay my welcome. I wanna still get out while Bob likes me.- Yeah and I do still like him. It's no problem. Should we review?- Sure.- So you're gonna do, it's been a blast.- All right. We just learned it's been a blast. It's another way to say that you've had a lot of fun.- And I did the phrase, I had a blast, which is just a kind of a more personal way to say that you had a lot of fun. So we had a blast. I had a blast. It's been a blast. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from two videos ago. So I'm gonna stand a little closer to Brent, 'cause the comment has to go on the screen somewhere, but he's gonna read it.- Okay. Can I pretend I'm Bob the Canadian again?- Yeah, go ahead.- I'll say it with a Canadian accent, which is kind of like my accent. So this comment is from Mohd Ags, and he says, this lesson looked kind of familiar to me because Brent, my man, it's another way to say a good friend, Brent, my man, once did an English lesson at a used car lot. And I'm leaving this comment to thank him. But also I'm thinking ahead of time here, because I know you two are going to meet very soon.- Yeah, so this is from a few days ago.- So if you're planning on doing a Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases UP AND AROUND and TO GO AROUND IN CIRCLESIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase up and around. This is a phrase that we use after someone has maybe been sick or in the hospital, maybe they've had surgery, and when they are starting to feel better, eventually, they will be up and around. So you might say to someone, "Oh, so Uncle Joe was in the hospital. How long before he'll be up and around?" It's similar to saying, "When will he be back on his feet?" That's another English phrase. So if you know someone who was in the hospital or someone who was just sick for a while, you could inquire and say, "When will they be up and around?" When will they be feeling better enough to walk around and start to do things?WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to go around in circles. Now, there's many variations on this. You can run around in circles, you can go around in circles but it basically means that you're talking about something and you're never reaching a conclusion. You're just going around in circles. So maybe someone at work suggests that you do something a different way and someone else disagrees and everyone talks about it for an hour. Eventually you might say, "Hey, we need to stop going around in circles. We're not solving anything here. We need to come up with a solution as soon as possible."So to review, up and around means to be feeling better. It's similar to being back on your feet. If you're sick, then eventually, you will be up and around and feeling better. And to go around in circles means to discuss something meaninglessly for a long time and to get a little bit frustrated.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is in my pocket. By the way, I'm using a different microphone so I can back way up here and you should be able to still hear me as easily as if I was standing right up here by my phone. We'll see when I go back in whether that worked. This comment is from Ünsal. "Hi, in one part of the video, you say, 'Jen and I hope that our van lasts a long time.' What other verb or verbs can be used instead of the verb last in this sentence? Thank you so much. You're welcome." My reply, that's the only way I can think of saying it. Often when you buy something, you hope it lasts a long time.So yeah, I bought a new microphone. Part of it is here. The other part is stuck to my phone. I can't show you that part but I hope this microphone lasts a long time. Thanks Ünsal for the comment by the way. I hope that this microphone lasts a long time.I hope that my van lasts a long time. This is a 2008 Uplander, I think it is. I hope it lasts a long time, but we'll see. It's not on its last legs yet. It still seems to be working quite well. And then my red van over there, it's a 2012 Dodge Caravan. I hope it lasts a long time too. We'll see though. You can see I lost another hubcap. I'm a little annoyed by that, that I lost that hubcap.Sorry, I'm not sure where I was going there. Oh, I was going to walk this way. It rained last night. It rained a lot. So we've gotten, let's see, 10 centimeters of rain, four inches of rain over the last two days. That's a lot of rain. That's way too much rain. There's water everywhere but I wanted to show you the problem we have because of this guy. Walter decided that the rain gauge would be a great thing to chew on. So our rain gauge only goes up to 2.5 inches or six centimeters now. So we had to ask the neighbor how much rain they got sSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A NICE SET OF WHEELS and ALL SETIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “a nice set of wheels”. Sometimes we even say “a new set of wheels”, and this simply means a car or another type of vehicle. Sometimes you drive a car and eventually you need to buy a new one, and so you might say to someone, I need a new set of wheels. You can see I'm in front of a car dealership. I thought this would be a great place to teach this phrase. You might say to someone, I need a new set of wheels, and then you might go buy that new car. And then when your friend sees it, they might say, Oh, that is a nice set of wheels. So again, we often almost always use the word nice or new with this phrase. Either you need to get a new set of wheels or someone sees the car you bought and says, Wow, nice set of wheels.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase “all set”. When you're all set, it simply means you're ready. This morning, I was getting ready to bring one of my kids to work, and so I got my camera and I got my phrases and I got my comment. And then when my kids said, Are you ready to go? I said, I'm all set. This simply means that I was ready. I had everything I needed in order to leave the house and be able to do an English lesson out here in front of this car dealership.So to review, here we go. “A nice set of wheels” or “a new set of wheels” refers to a car or other vehicle, a van or truck that's really nice. Jen And I hope that our van lasts a long time. We hope that both our vans last a long time because we're not ready to buy another set of wheels anytime soon. And the phrase “all set” simply means to be ready. It's important in the morning that you are all set before you leave for school or before you leave for work. It's a nice feeling when you're all set and you're prepared and ready to do something.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Mohamed. You have a good yard to start beekeeping. Why don't you do that? It is just a suggestion. And my response? There are only so many things that we have time for in a day. Maybe someday if one of our kids wants to help farm with us when they are older, they can take up beekeeping.So yeah, we do have a nice property for beekeeping. If you think about it, there are lots of flowers on our property, so that's one cool thing. The other thing is there's lots of room for the bees to roam, so they would certainly have a great home. But again, there's only so much you can do in a day. There's only so much time in the day and at the end of the day we don't have enough time to have bees. So beekeeping is something that maybe one of our kids will do in the future.So let me give you a better view here. This is what we call a car dealership in Canada. I usually don't buy my cars from a car dealership. Usually you come to a car dealership if you want to buy a brand new car. And as you know, I usually buy used cars. I usually buy cars used from one of my local mechanics. They usually have a few cars for sale in front of the garage where they fix cars. But I was driving by this the other day and I thought this would be a great place to make an English lesson about the phrase a nice set of wheels. So there's definitely a lot of really nice cars in this parking lot.I think this car here oh, this is actually a used car. It's a 2016. I think this car here would be a little small for Jen and I. I think we always we always buy vehicles that will hold all of our kids. It's important, I tSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases ON TOP OF THAT and TO TOP IT ALL OFFIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "On top of that". This is a phrase we use when we're talking about something that's in addition to something else. I could say this, "That I have to renew my license, and on top of that, I have to renew my license plates." So I've mentioned one thing and then I've mentioned another thing that I have to do. I could say this as well, "I have to go to market today, and on top of that, I have to go and pick up one of my kids later." So it's when you're talking about one thing and then there's another thing that also needs to happen. So, I have to make this video, and on top of that, I have to go in and edit the video.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, "To top it all off." This is similar but this is the phrase we use just before mentioning the last thing, usually a bad thing. Here's a really good example. I could say this, "I was driving home with my car and I got a flat tire, and then after I got it fixed, to top it all off, I ended up running out of gas." So, I mentioned one thing, and then a really bad final thing. You could say this, you could say, "I'm scheduled to take an English test. And when I went to take the English test, I failed the test. And to top it all off, I'm not allowed to take the test again for three months." I don't know why that would be but maybe there's some sort of restriction. So, it's when you mention something that's kind of bad after mentioning something else that's a little bit bad.So to review, when you say, "On top of that" you're adding to a list of things that you're doing. You know, I have to make this video, and on top of that, I have to go to market today. So I'm mentioning two things I need to do, neither positive or negative. But when we use the phrase "To top it all off" we're usually talking about one negative thing that happened at the end of some other bad things. You know, I went to work today and students were really mean to me, and to top it all off, my family was mean to me when I came home. By the way, neither of those things actually happened.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. I do have my comment today, not like the other day when I was doing the lesson at the spur of the moment. Here we go from Dmitry. "Hey Mr. Bob, thanks for the lesson. By the way, can we use squeeze in, in terms of taking a seat between two people that sit really tight? I hope you understand what I meant. Have a great day." And my response, yes, you can. That is another way to use it. Sometimes on the bus you have to squeeze in between two people. Great example, Dmitry . So, this is from the previous lesson where I talked about squeeze in and squeeze out, and those are both... Sorry, and that was another good additional meaning of squeeze in.So, as you can see, I'm back at home and I'm making a video at home for a change. I have been making videos out and about. I will do more of those as I am out and about a lot right now, but today is, kind of, a little bit of a crazy day. I make this video on a Thursday, it's also market day. So it feels... It's also the day where I speak with my French speaking partner. So, I feel like I'm squeezing in a lot of stuff today. If I could use the phrase again. So, it's kind of silly that I make this video today. It does fit. I mean, I'm not rushed or anything like that, but I think maybe I should make this video late in the day on Wednesday, because on Wednesdays I have lots of time right now.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO SQUEEZE IN and TO SQUEEZE OUTIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “to squeeze in”. Right now I am squeezing in an English lesson. I have just finished bringing one of my kids to work and I finished going for a walk. I actually ran a little bit too. And I have just a minute or two before I have to be somewhere else, so I thought I would squeeze in an English lesson. When you say “squeeze in”, it means you do something in that little bit of time between when one thing ends and something else begins. Sometimes you just have a little bit of time and you can squeeze in an English lesson. Maybe you can squeeze in a level on Duolingo. Sometimes I do that because I'm trying to redo the French tree on Duolingo, so I try to squeeze it in. So to squeeze in to kind of do something between two other things.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianAnd the other phrase I wanted to teach you is the phrase “to squeeze out” when you squeeze something out. It's the same as squeezing something, but obviously something comes out. If you have an orange, you can squeeze out the juice. When you have a tube of toothpaste, you can squeeze out the toothpaste. So “to squeeze out”, to have stuff come out of something.So to review when you squeeze something in, it means you do it between one thing and another. And it usually implies that you don't have a lot of time to do it. I have just enough time to squeeze in an English lesson. And to squeeze out means to, you know, press on something so whatever is inside comes out.So anyways, I don't have my papers with me. You might have noticed that. And I don't have a comment with me either, because I'm squeezing this lesson in kind of spur of the moment. I was here, I had a little bit of time. I didn't bring my paper with and I didn't bring a comment with. So let me say a few things. Number one, I love it when you guys leave comments. I'm happy that now I have time to respond to most, if not all of them. That is something I like to do, but as the school year was busy last spring, that was getting harder and harder to do. So I'm happy that I can do that again.So what am I doing? I'm at my local park. As I said, I brought one of my kids to work. I went for a walk / run. Sometimes I run a little bit now. It's hard on this 52 year old body, but I do do it.Oh, did I just reveal something? Maybe I did.Anyways, I was here going for a walk / run and I had my new phone with me. So my old phone died. My old phone, the battery started to grow and the case started to get bigger. Not very nice at all. Very dangerous as well. My son said, “Dad, that could start a fire! Make sure that it's not heating up. Don't charge it any more. And you need to get a new phone.” So I got a new phone. I thought I could get my phone fixed, but they could fix it at the repair shop, but they can't get the battery for it. So I bought a new phone. So this is me trying out my new phone as well to see how well it works.It's not windy out here, but it's very, very sunny. So I'm curious to see how well this phone does recording a video with me just walking around at my local park. I hope it does a good job. I hope when I get home I'm happy. I don't have like something to hold the phone on. That's why you... when I switch, you see my hand kind of come in on the camera lens there a little bit. So if I do use this phone for making the videos on this channel, I might actually go home. I do have a little like phone holder with a handle that I could use, so maybe I'll do that.Anyways. WhatSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases JUST HAPPEN TO and IT HAPPENS TO THE BEST OF USIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “just happen to”. This is something you say if you just happen to have something. I'm having trouble thinking about how to describe this term without using this term. Let me give you some examples and that might help. Let's say you said, hey, I need to open this box. Do you have a knife? I could say, hey, I just happen to have one, reach into my pocket and pull out a small jackknife. Let's say that you were walking and it started to rain and you said, Oh, no, we're going to get wet. I could say, Oh, don't worry, I just happen to have an umbrella. So anyways, when you use this phrase, it's like kind of you need something and it's a surprise that you have it or someone else happens to have it. You just happen to have what somebody needs.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is: “It happens to the best of us.” So when something bad happens to someone, let's say someone twists their ankle and they feel dumb because it was their own fault, they they turned really fast while walking. In order to make them feel better about it you might say, Hey, it happens to the best of us. Basically saying, you're not silly. It's not a dumb thing that happened to you. It could have happened to anybody. It happens to the best of us.So to review, when you just happen to have something or you just happen to... Yeah. When you just happen to have something, it's like someone needed something and you're like, Hey, I just happen to have one right here. And when you say, “It happens to the best of us”, you're simply saying that if something silly or bad or dumb happens to you, don't don't worry about it. Don't feel bad. It happens to everybody. It's just something that's normal when you're a human being.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Tara or Tara. I have never thought that grapes can be grown in Canada. I thought the climate is too cold out there. Beautiful scenery. It reminds me of Crimea with all the vineyards. Thanks for the lesson. And my response: There are three places in Canada where you can grow grapes. I just happen to live close to one of them. So thank you, Tara, for that comment.Yeah, there's another grape growing area out in the province of British Columbia, and there is a grape growing area in eastern Canada, I think in the province of Nova Scotia. And there's one in Ontario, and I just happen to live close to it.Anyways, I'm in a small Ontario town right now. I'm actually parked in the parking lot of what's the grocery store in this town. It's called No Frills. It's the kind of grocery store where the food is really cheap. When you say no frills in English, it means that there's nothing extra, there's nothing special. They don't have. I think you even have to, like, put a quarter into the handle of the shopping cart in order to use a shopping cart so that you make sure you remember to bring it back.What else is here? Just a couple of small stores, a little cafe. Across the road, though. There's a small bakery and those... that bakery makes really good donuts. Sorry, I was already starting the sentence. Those donuts from that bakery are amazing. They're very, very tasty. They make them in an old, traditional Dutch way. I think the people who started the bakery were originally from Holland, so it is a really nice place to get donuts. In fact, I think I might get donuts there to celebrate my birthday. Or maybe I already diSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO NOT SIT WELL WITH and SIT BACK AND ENJOY!In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “to not sit well with”. And we almost always use this... I think we always use this in the negative. When something doesn't sit well with you, it means you don't like it. Maybe your boss says that you have to work Saturday and that just doesn't sit well with you. That means that you're not excited about working on Saturday. You're kind of a little bit annoyed even. Sometimes the government will make a new law, and the law does not sit well with people. People get angry and they protest because they don't like the new law. So when something does not sit well with you, it means you don't like it. You're not happy about it and you're kind of annoyed about it.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase “to sit back and enjoy”, or this is actually the imperative form, “Sit back and enjoy!” I guess I'm telling you what to do when I say it this way. Sometimes when you're at an event, people will say, Hey, sit back and enjoy. When you sit, you relax. When you sit back, you relax even more. So if there was a nice chair, I could sit in that chair and I could sit back and enjoy a TV show. I could sit back and enjoy a YouTube video, I could put some headphones on and just sit back and enjoy some music.So to review, “to not sit well with” when something doesn't sit well with you, it means you don't like it. You don't like it at all. And if someone says sit back and enjoy, they mean that it's time for you to relax and just enjoy life a little bit or enjoy whatever's happening in that moment.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Denis. Bob, do you pay your friends from France for speaking practice? And my response, I have a friend who is learning and practicing English. We spend 30 minutes speaking French and then 30 minutes speaking English. It is a great exchange. We've been doing it for over three years.So no, I do not pay for my French practice lessons, my speaking practice lessons, and it is wonderful - probably the best way to get some experience, to get some practice speaking a language is to find someone who wants to learn your language. I have an advantage because many people in the world want to learn English and many people in the world want to learn French. So I kind of trade. I trade my English speaking skills for my friend's French speaking skills, and we help each other. It also helps a lot because we're both teachers and specifically we're both teachers of languages, so we know how to teach each other well. And we started talking during the pandemic and we've continued since then.So where am I today? I'm in a vineyard. I don't know if I've ever shown you this, but in the area where I live. So if you look behind me, there is a big what's called an escarpment. And then on the other side of me, sorry, there was a fly on me there, a deer fly, far in the distance is the lake. And what happens in this area is that it's a certain temperature. It's always a little warmer than the rest of the area I live in. So they can grow grapes in this area.If we look over here, let spin you around, you'll see that there are vines in the vineyard and they are growing lots and lots of grapes. I think these grapes are for wine. I don't know if I ever told you that. Close to my house. There's something called wine country. And so here I am out in wine country. Why am I here? One of my kids has a job near here, so I thought this would Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases NO NEED TO and TO NEED TO GOIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, No need to. This is just a quick way to start a sentence that we would normally start by saying, “There is no need to.” But often in English, in spoken English, we'll say “No need to...” instead. Maybe you're going to a party and you say, Hey, should I bring some food? The person might respond and say, No need to bring food. There will be lots. Maybe... Let me think of another example. Let's say my brother was coming over to help me do some weeding. The weeds are growing really fast here on the farm. If it rained or if it's raining, I might text him and say, No need to come over today. It's too wet to work outside. So again, it's just a short form of the phrase, “There is no need to... ” or “There's no need to...” but often in spoken English or when we text, Sorry, the geese are honking. We say, “No need to...” just to shorten things up a bit.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase Sorry, there's something crawling on me. There's lots of bugs too, is the phrase, “to need to go”. Now, this can simply mean that you have to do something. You can say, I need to go to the store. But the meaning I wanted to teach you today is the meaning that refers to having to go to the bathroom. Let's say you really need to go pee. You might say to someone, Can we stop the car at the next rest stop because I need to go. When we were driving, when we were younger and our kids were younger, sometimes one of our kids in the back of the van would say, Can we stop? I need to go. And what they meant is that they needed to go to the bathroom. So it's a very nice way of saying that you need to use the washroom or you need to go to the bathroom.So to review, “No need to...” simply means, “There is no need to... ” No need to watch this video twice, if you understand it the first time. And the phrase, “to need to go” can simply mean that you have to go somewhere. But we also use it to mean that you need to go to the bathroom.Hey, let's look at a comment from I'm not sure why I did that little dance. I think that's what little kids do when they need to go, anyways. Let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Brenno. Hi, Bob. Thanks as usual. We always have more than enough knowledge with you to go around. Enough said. Have a good weekend. My response? Thanks. You too. Yes, Brenno, I hope you have a good week. And that was an excellent use of both phrases from the previous video. Good job.Well, hey, I don't have a lot to talk about today. I am out here. It's a nice sunny day. You'll see that in a moment as I walk into the sun. I got up really early. I went for a walk. The only thing I would say is I have actually started to be a little bit bored. This is the fourth day of my summer vacation. And I mentioned to Jen the other day that somewhere around four or 5:00, all of a sudden, I was a little bit bored.It's rare for me to be bored. So that was something new and it's a good thing. When I'm bored then new ideas come to me. When I'm bored, I start to think of new ways to teach English in particular. And I have some ideas that I've been mulling over in my head for ways that I can make new videos or little posts I can do on my community tab and those kinds of things. So yes. Bob, the Canadian, after months of being a little bit too busy, was actually bored for just a little bit.But I won't be bored later today because it is actually market day. We're loading the red van, Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases ENOUGH SAID! and ENOUGH TO GO AROUNDIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, Enough said. This is a phrase we use when we're done talking about something, and it's time to actually do the work or do something. When Jen and I talk about what we're going to work on, on the farm each day in the morning. Eventually one of us might say, okay, enough said. Let's get to work. It can also be something you say towards the end of an argument. Maybe you're having an argument with someone and you finally just say, Look, enough said. I don't think we're going to agree on this. So it simply means that the time for talking is over in that situation. And it's time to either do the work or maybe just stop talking about what you're talking about. Enough said.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase enough to go around. So this simply means that you have as much as you need so everyone gets something. When I go to a party, sometimes I bring food and when I get there, they might say, Oh, you didn't need to bring food. We had enough to go around. So it means the same as enough, but it also implies that you are sharing. My sister's having a birthday in a few weeks and she said she's having a party and we should come over. And I said, Should we bring some food with us? And she said, No, no, I'll have enough to go around. This simply means that she's going to buy all the food. She's going to prepare it. We do not need to bring anything because there will be enough to go around. Again, it just means the same as enough. But it also means that you are sharing with more than one person.Anyways, to review when you say enough said, it means that the discussion is over or it's time to get to work. And when you say there is enough to go around, it means that you have enough so everyone gets something. If you buy 12 donuts and there are 12 people, you have enough to go around.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Irina. Thank you dear teacher, Bob, for your amazing lessons. Have a great day. And my response? Thank you. I hope you have a great day, too.So I wanted to use that comment because I do pick all different types of comments and sometimes I do like to just pick the one that says thank you and have a good day and I like to focus on the “Have a good day!” part of it. It's nice when people say, Have a good day. It's nice when people are positive. So thank you Irina for that comment. Thank you for being a positive person. I appreciate that. That is what teaching English for me is all about, me being positive and people who are watching the lessons also being very positive about life. There's no reason to be annoyed about anything. It's good to just be happy.Having said that, I was going to do the lesson today on the phrase Enough already! and Enough is enough! because it's been raining here a lot and I'm at the point where I want to say enough is enough. We have received since Let me see, the last video you watched was last Friday. Since last Friday, we have received three and a half inches of rain. That's a lot of rain. That's too much rain. I was outside saying enough is enough. I was yelling at the sky this morning. Not really, but kind of in a joking way. But it has just been raining and raining and raining. I think now the sun might come out in a little bit.Let me check my time here. Oh, I have 30 seconds. The sun might come out in a little bit and that would be really nice. We like the soil can't take this much rSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO SEE FOR YOURSELF and TO BE FULL OF YOURSELFIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "to see for yourself". When you need to see for yourself it means someone has told you something and you might believe them or you might doubt them, but you want to try or experience what they've told you for your yourself. You want to do it. If someone said to me, "Hey, skydiving is the most exciting thing you could do in life." I would say, "You know, I'm going to have to see for myself." Of course, I have to change yourself to myself because I'm talking about me. I would say I'm going to have to see for myself. That means that I want to do it. I want to go and do that activity so I can form my own opinion of it. Maybe someone says to you, "Hey, you should go see the latest "Spider-Man" movie. It's the best Spider-Man" movie ever!" You might say, "Hey, you know what? I'll go, but I'm going to have to see for myself." I want to experience the movie and then I'll decide if it's the best one.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, "to be full of yourself". When we say that you are full of yourself we mean that the person we are talking to is arrogant. If I was to say, and I'm gonna switch from your self to myself and himself, but if I was to say "I am the best YouTuber in the whole world," you would say, "You know, Bob's really full of himself." So yes, I have to change the yourself to himself, basically meaning Bob's really arrogant. He's not the best YouTuber in the whole world. By the way, I don't think that at all. I am not full of myself. Yeah, I had to change the yourself to myself. Sorry, I do have to flip these phrases around so they make sense.So to review, to see for yourself means that you want to do something yourself in order to determine whether you think it is a certain way or not. And to be full of yourself simply means to think you're the most amazing person. It means to be really, really arrogant.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from, I believe it just says user. I liked it better when I could see the names, but the comment is, "You can check the weather forecast on your phone, although sometimes it may not be accurate." In my response, "Yes, you have to look at your phone and the horizon and then you'll get a better sense of what is coming."So we do rely on weather forecasts here, and you're right often they are wrong, but usually they're somewhat accurate. Accurate enough for us to prepare if we think it's going to rain. But sometimes it's simply better to look at the horizon. Now, interestingly enough, if you look at the horizon here I'm not sure how well you can see it, but we are now under a smoke alert again, a smoke advisory. So it is smokey here again, there are fires to the north of us and the wind is coming from the north, so you can smell a campfire smell in the air. And we're told not to do vigorous activity outside right now. So I'll be at market later today. I'll just try not to sell flowers vigorously. But we do have to sell the flowers, so hopefully the smoke is not too bad.And by the way, I used the word alert and Noriko and Aleksey were talking about the word alert in the comments from the last video. You can get an alert on your phone and it can mean the same as a notification. But right now there is a smoke alert right now. They're sometimes are weather alerts and those are a little more serious. There's a fly on the lens. Okay, Mr. Fly, don't land on the lens. I'm trying tSupport the show