Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Vocabulary

what’s more – on top of this / also / furthermore

sth just came to me / popped into my mind 

joking around / kidding around / I’m just joking with you / I’m kidding with you / I’m just being silly / I’m just mucking around / I’m just playing / I’m just messing around / I’m not being serious at all

a mistake i did – a mistake I made 

customer – sb who pays a company for sth
client – professional relationship involving money

i should be silent – i shouldn’t talk / I can’t talk
eg. but I can’t talk because Italian is even worse

discriminate – to treat sb differently based on a difference you know (often negative)

determine – decide

differentiate – to know and see the difference

until now – sounds like the situation changed now
eg. I didn’t know that until now = I didn’t know before, but now I do know
so far – the situation now, which may change
eg. Jesse and I have had 9 classes so far = maybe later we will have more

I see / I got it / I get it / I understand 
I know = I already knew that

Sorry, I didn’t quite catch that / Sorry I don’t know what you mean … what did you just say? / what do you mean exactly? / Could you repeat that?

what was that? say again? come again? 

honest / true
eg. he is an honest person
eg2. what he said is true

they turned to you

Grammar

steal / stole / stolen 
speak / spoke / spoken

arrived to mine – arrived at mine

Pronunciation

definitely – def fin net lee

turnover – soft r

private – pr”eye” vet

behavior – bee hay vyur

situation – sit you ay shen

prepare – soft r 

position – poz ZI shen 

her – soft r 

colleagues – COL leegz

audio – or dee yo

not good – soft “d” / “noh gooh”

thief – “theef”

image
imagine

can talk – cantalk 
can’t talk – can talk