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Bob"s Short English Lessons

Bob the Canadian

If you want to learn English with short easy-to-understand lessons then you"ve come to the right place. I"m Bob the Canadian and I make videos on Youtube (Just search for "Bob"s Short English Lessons" on Youtube!) as well as podcasts right here to help you learn English. Four times each week I upload a short English lesson with a complete transcript in the description. During these lessons I teach one or two curious phrases from the English language and answer a listener question. Thanks for joining

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Learn the English Phrases "to thin out" and "to...

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2024/08/14

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO THIN OUT and TO SPREAD YOURSELF TOO THINIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to thin out. Now, this has two meanings or two ways that you can use this. One is kind of when you see something thin out and then you can actually thin something out. Let me explain. If you were to go up a mountain, at the bottom of the mountain, there might be trees, but as you go up the mountain, the trees will thin

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4:27

Learn the English Phrases "to deal with" and "a good...

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2024/08/09

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO DEAL WITH and A GOOD DEALIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to deal with. When you need to deal with something, it means you are going to take care of it. You are going to take responsibility for maybe solving something or doing something. Here are two examples. Let's say at school there's some students, a teacher sees some students far away that are misbehaving. I could say, oh,

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4:26

Learn the English Saying "Two can play that game!"...

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2024/08/07

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English saying TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME and the term TWO-FACEDIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English saying, two can play at that game. This is a phrase we use when someone does something, maybe not a nice thing, and you think to yourself, hmm, two can play at that game. And then you do something similar. Let's say you're playing a game of hockey and it's non contact. That's when you're not supposed

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4:22

Learn the English Saying, "It's not the heat, it's...

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2024/08/02

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English saying IT'S NOT THE HEAT, IT'S THE HUMIDITY and the phrase TO BEAT THE HEATIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English saying, it's not the heat, it's the humidity. So it is really, really hot out here in Ontario, Canada right now. The last few days have been over 30 degrees celsius, and today it's going to be over 30 degrees celsius again. And something we kind of say jokingly when it's

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4:39

Learn the English Phrases "to get the wrong idea" and...

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2024/07/31

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO GET THE WRONG IDEA and TO BE IN THE WRONGIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to get the wrong idea. Now, we usually use this to talk about when someone interprets what someone else says or does and they interpret it wrong. And it usually happens in a situation where someone is just being friendly and the other person might get the wrong idea and think that they're interested in them

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4:34

Learn the English Phrases "to clue in" and "to not...

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2024/07/26

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO CLUE IN and TO NOT HAVE A CLUEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to clue in. When you clue into something, it means you've heard some small facts about something and then suddenly you realize something has happened. Jen's at market right now and I'm home today. I think Oscar has finally clued in that Jen has gone. He's checked outside a few times today. He's gone to

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4:39

Learn the English Phrases "the short term" and "the...

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2024/07/24

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases THE SHORT TERM and THE LONG TERMIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase the short term. When we say the short term, we're talking about for the next day or the next few hours or the next week, like a short amount of time between now and a future situation. Sometimes we fix things for the short term. We know that for the short term the fix will last. Maybe you put some tape on a piece of clothing

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4:20

Learn the English Phrases "to go off on someone" and...

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2024/07/19

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO GO OFF ON SOMEONE and TO GO OFFIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to go off on someone. When you go off on someone, it means you get angry. It means you're annoyed with them. They've done something that has really, really annoyed you, and then you are angry. You might even be yelling. Sometimes people have a really mean boss and they're afraid to talk to their boss because their

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4:24

Learn the English Phrases "to feel at home" and...

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2024/07/17

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO FEEL AT HOME and THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOMEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to feel at home. When you go somewhere else, somewhere that's not your home and you really enjoy it. You can describe it by saying that you feel at home. Sometimes when you go and stay at a friend's house, maybe it's just really relaxing and really enjoyable. And you can say, well, when I'm at

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4:27

Learn the English Phrases "to have a reputation" and...

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2024/07/12

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO HAVE A REPUTATION and YOUR REPUTATION PRECEDES YOUIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to have a reputation. When you have a reputation, it means that something about you, one of your character traits is so strong that people think about you when they think about that character trait. Let me try to explain this a little bit better. I think I'm a nice teacher. I think I have a reputation as

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4:22

Learn the English Phrases "all the rage" and "road rage"

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2024/07/10

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases ALL THE RAGE and ROAD RAGEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase all the rage. When something is all the rage, it means everyone is doing it or everyone is wearing it. In my world, people who are my age, it's all the rage to wear dad shoes. I'll put a picture here of what dad shoes look like, but they're all the rage. But something funny happened because now those shoes are also popular

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4:43

Learn the English Phrases "homeward bound" and "a...

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2024/07/06

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases HOMEWARD BOUND and A STRAIGHT SHOTHey, it's been a lot of fun hanging out with Brent. Today's the day where I might be leaving later today. I might be leaving tomorrow morning. I'm gonna be homeward bound. So homeward bound means that you are on your way home. Right, now, so do you think that you're going to stop along the way? It's a twelve hour drive. Maybe you'll get tired and stop halfway. I might

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4:31

Learn the English Phrases "finally done" and "finely...

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2024/06/28

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases FINALLY DONE and FINELY DONEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase finally done. Now, I used this phrase, actually, in yesterday's video. I think I said something like, the school year is finally done. And this simply means that something that you want to be finished has actually finished. And maybe you've been waiting for that for a long time. Maybe you're studying English and

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4:16

Learn the English Phrases "makes sense" and "doesn't...

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2024/06/12

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases MAKES SENSE and DOESN'T MAKE SENSEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase makes sense. When something makes sense, it just means it's logical. If it's something that someone designed, they design it in a logical way. In a way that makes sense. There's a store in North America called Costco. It's a large store and everything there makes sense. The size of the shopping carts

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4:44

Learn the English Phrases "Why the long face?" and...

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2024/06/07

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases WHY THE LONG FACE? and THE LONG WAY HOMEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, why the long face? This is a question you might ask someone if they look sad. Like if their face looks sad, if they look sad, you might say, hey, why the long face? Now, I haven't actually used this question a lot lately, but I did hear an older person use it the other day. So it might be an older phrase. If you see

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4:30

Learn the English Phrases "above and beyond" and...

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2024/06/05

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English saying ABOVE AND BEYOND and BEYOND COMPAREIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase above and beyond. When you go above and beyond, it means you do a really, really good job. If at work, my boss said to me, Bob, can you work on this project? And if I worked on it for like, ten or 12 hours a day, seven days a week, for three weeks, he might say, wow, you really went above and beyond. You did more than I was

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4:18

Learn the English Phrases "to play dirty" and "a...

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2024/05/31

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English expressions phrases TO PLAY DIRTY and A DIRTY LOOKIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to play dirty. When you play a game, maybe you're playing soccer or what most of you call football, or you're playing a board game. If you cheat or if you use tactics that aren't good, we say that you are playing dirty. When you play dirty, it means you cheat at something. I'm going to tell you a

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4:29

Learn the English Saying "No harm, no foul!" and the...

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2024/05/29

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English saying NO HARM, NO FOUL! and the term FOUL LANGUAGEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English saying no harm, no foul. This is a saying we use when we do something that maybe could be bad, but if nothing bad happens, then no foul has occurred. A foul is like a negative thing in life or in a sports game. If you do something wrong, you could get a foul. Let me think of a good example. Let's say I borrowed my

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4:35

Learn the English Phrases "I hear you!" and "I got you!"

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2024/05/24

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English expressions I HEAR YOU and I GOT YOUIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase I hear you. Now, this can simply mean that you can hear someone. But we also use this when we agree with what someone said and we want to let them know that we think the same way as them. So someone might say to you, hey, the boss was really mean to me the other day. You could say, I hear you, man. Yeah, he wasn't in a very good

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4:23

Learn the English Phrases "at this stage" and "stage...

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2024/05/22

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases AT THIS STAGE and STAGE FRIGHTIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase at this stage. Now, this is something you can use to talk about life. You can use it to talk about a project, and you use it to talk about the part that you're in right now. So here's a few examples. At this stage in my life, I'm really enjoying the fact that my kids are older. I liked having little kids, but it's

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