Speak With Me: English Speaking Practice

have been hard. Do you want to talk about it?" If I said this to you, would you go,

"Yes. Maybe. I don't know"? Well, don't worry. Today, I'm going to help you talk about your

feelings in English. This is not the easiest thing to do in your native language either,

but I want to help you level up your English-speaking skills and not just talk

about the same basic boring topics, but about complex and important topics as well. Hi, I'm

Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com. And like always, I have created a free PDF worksheet where

you can learn all of today's important vocabulary questions, definitions, sample sentences,

and you can see the sample conversation so that you can practice using what you've learned today.

You can click on the link in the description to download this free PDF worksheet today.

All right, before we get started, I have to say something. If you want to get closer with your

friends and family, you need to be vulnerable with them. This is something that I struggle with. So

this lesson is for me and it's for you. This means that you need to talk about difficult things,

about your feelings, try to get deeper in your relationship with them. So in today's lesson,

we're going to start by talking about how you can express your feelings, especially

negative feelings. Because I feel like in some cultures, we often try to glaze over difficult

feelings. Maybe you had a really hard time and you say, "Well, but I'm doing better now." Well,

sometimes it's important to talk about those difficult feelings. I want to give you the words

to say that in English. And then in the second part of this vocabulary lesson, you are going to

learn how to respond when one of your friends or family members talks about their feelings.

Because the reciprocal part is that you need to be able to be open to hearing when your friends

and family are vulnerable with you. What should you say to them? How can you encourage them to

continue sharing their feelings with you? And you can seem empathetic and kind. Well,

in this lesson, I will also help give you the words so that you can respond

kindly to your friends and family. And finally, at the end of this lesson,

you're going to have a chance to practice speaking with me about your feelings. So

pay attention. It's going to be your turn soon. Let's get started by talking about some important

vocabulary where you are going to talk about your feelings. Let's imagine that you've been going

through a hard time. You've been working really hard at your job and you thought that you would

get the promotion that you really wanted, and then it turns out someone else got the promotion.

This is really disappointing and you feel like it's not a good idea to keep it inside. You want

to talk to someone about it. So you call your best friend and you say this, "Hey, can we talk? Hey,

can we talk about something?" This is a good way to introduce talking about a difficult feeling

that you have, especially if you don't really feel comfortable talking about difficult feelings,

you're kind of getting their permission. Is this something that's okay to ask you about? "Hey,

can we talk about something?" And if they're a good friend, of course they'll say, "Yeah,

what's going on?" So let me give you some next expressions you can say. You might say,

"I just need to vent." Do you know what a vent is? This is a vent in your car.

That's where all the air comes out and it blows out without much filter or blockages.

So when you need to vent, that means that you are just going to share everything that comes out. I