DO NOT SAY 'I think...' - say THIS instead - 21 more advanced alternative phrases
'I think' is overused and boring - improve your spoken English with these 21 more advanced alternative phrases for 'I think'. STOP saying 'I think' and say this instead!
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In my view, Lucy is is a great teacher.
Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemning of one's view's an by trying to make it objectified , and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say
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PERFECTION!!
I listen to all your english videos as a non-native speaker to impress an upperclass boss at work, and when I see him I get so flustered nothing comes out of my mouth😮
She is very knowledgeable and cute in her expressions, love it
She says that the " I think " is boring and use the following instead of it 2:19 I'm not going to lie (NGL) 2:55 in all honesty 3:15 in my view 3:49 if you ask me 4:08 as far as I can tell 4:27 to my mind 4:42 as far as I'm concerned 5:13 the way I see things 5:30 as I see things 6:20 it seems to me that 7:08 I believe 7:24 I would say, / I'd say 7:58 I consider ... to be ... 8:18 to me 9:23 from my point of view 9:30 it is my view that/ belief that 10:23 I reckon 11:10 I honestly believe that ... : : : I give up Surmirizing this movie, I think, she is beautifull!!
i think i should thank you.🤔😂 many thanks❤️
I think u are the best
i would say thank you
I think i am already in love
Why u use i think instead of what u type😂
As someone once said " When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something" and I really learn a lot, thank you!
I believe that has been said by his holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
@@sambhotatenzingangschool3902 Kinda sounds like them, indeed.
-Dalai Lama
When i talk it is not uncommon that i learn at the same time, because i make connections while trying to deepen my reasoning, my thoughts to others to be the more accurate.
Talk to get corrected
The best english accent as we can listening. Very clean. And the teacher so beautiful. Very english woman. Congrats for lesson!
I always love English with Lucy ! the best english teacher ever !
Upset with ex Kids: cry Legends: fight Lucy: make a video
To my mind you're the most delicious piece of white chocolate..yummy..yummy
Ultra legends - Revenge
Another funny one
I quit saying "I think" about 8 years ago I replaced it with "Legend has it"
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I'm intrigued
yeap! hahaha...
hahaha good one
biff binford yeah keep churning the tales 🤣🤣🤣
Very well presented and I really enjoyed watching it.❤️
It is really educative and informative lesson. Keep it up Mrs Lucy.
In my point of view you're extremely plentiful English tutor with a highly sense of humour, so congrats for us having a pretty teacher with powerful phonetic abilities
I personally believe this was the cutest example of how to elevate our vocabulary! Well done! And congratulations on your up coming wedding! So exciting!!!
As I see things about her, Lucy is an exceptionally inspiring teacher. Not to mention her beaming n shining n attracting gestures when teaching. To me, Lucy is the most inspiring teacher ever.
Just love it! I had a lot of fun while learning! Thank you very much
“Not gonna lie,” and, “Honestly,” feel redundant to me. I try to avoid giving reason for people to believe I might otherwise be unworthy of their trust. If I’m speaking, I’m telling the truth. I have incorporated phrases such as, “To put it bluntly,” or, “To be frank,” because these words indicate the choice to be more forward or less tactful with my honesty.
For me, "To be frank" is a feels a lot more natural than "Honestly". "Honestly" either feels like you normally aren't honest, like you said, or that you are deeply disappointed in someone else's actions... "Honestly, you couldn't wait for the others to gather around before cutting the cake?"
Yes, *_exactly_* this. The inference being that your *usual* statements may be less than truthful...
To be candid...
Concur. It's one of those phrases that's common these days. So if (American?) English isn't your first language... this will help disguise that. But there are WAY better choices that are more compelling and probably more accurate.
all these phases ( not going to lie, honesty ,to be frank, in my view, to be blunt, it u ask me ) are very confrontational. ppl will be offended and defensive when u talk like that. worst case, you wont have any friends at all.
Can we just take a moment to thank Lucy for writing that juicy story 😂👌❤ and I'll surely be sharing this video with friends!
I believe I'd have been enormously entertained to see Lucy show up & make a scene!
Every example is connected.. Thanks a lot lucy❤️❤️
crystal clear voice and academacian .. u r a great teacher
The storytelling through examples got me so invested in the story that I completely forgot the purpose of the video. I was imagining the scenario of a mean lady who later converted into downright crazy. I must applaud your delivery with a stoic face too for that made me burst with laughter. 😂😂😂 Would love to see more videos of such format. You rock! P.S.- Gonna watch again to remember the 21 substitutes.
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aaaaaw Alka I am soooo glad you liked it!!!
Awesome comment
Absolutely agree with you,the best way of presenting the material 🌹👍
@@EnglishwithLucy Brilliant, Lucy! entertaining, intriguing, informative, educational, and creative...well done!
Good evening! Splendid video as always! For today in my English online class we had to write about our favorite KZhead channel and since your channel is my favorite, I wrote about it. We even watched a few of the alternatives in the begging and in my view it was really nifty for me, my classmates and my teacher. Thank you for the lesson!❤
I do believe that Lucy is still feeling for her ex boyfriend
First time it's getting easier to stay focused to learn english. it's your charm that never let me distracted so thanks for helping me in learning and for your lovely presence 💗
It's quite the opposite in my case, I find it hard to concentrate due to her charm and beauty
& i like her idea about getting the book on tape to listen to the book while reading, because then you'll connect the written spelling with proper pronunciation. love her humor/humour... American = Color Brit English = Colour
Excellent, I love your British accent!
Stop saying "I think", just say "I sink". - Jose Mourinho -
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I feel like I really need to go through this episode again and again! Tons of fun and so informative. Thanks Lucy.
I am currently in the process of writing my first novel, and I am going to use some of these to create my character voice, I have a character who is really Posh and some of these examples really fit her, especially number 7, number 7 really sound how she talk, love the video.
The best video I've seen on this topic hand down. Super useful. Really grateful.
I love the hilarious story that you wove throughout this lesson and as I see it, you did a great job! Congratulations on your upcoming wedding!
Being a foreign language teacher myself, I always enjoy a lot your lessons Lucy! You have and amazingly natural way of teaching. Thank you for your lovely sense of humour and for presenting us with such good ideas and tips. Maria L
Another wonderful lesson! I really enjoyed the story - what a great way to show the phrases in context!
Well done teacher Lucy. I love your teaching.🙏🙏🙏
I love all your teachings! Fun and make it easier for me to understand.
"I consider" and "to me" are my favorite.
Just amazing!!!! Lovely lesson and an extremely APPEALING approach!
The best english teach on KZhead, great great great! Thanks su much
I’m not going to lie, but in all honesty I think that if you ask me I would answer that as far as I’m concerned I believe that I’m guilty of overusing ‘I think’ in my youtube videos :-)
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I believe you are complex 🙄
So creative
so funny :)
From my standpoint, I reckon that you do an absolute marvellous job, being so educational to us all!
Thank you Lucy, you have helped me practice my English skills a lot ❤
I found it. It is very attractive program for me. I will watch it and will pronounce every sentences over and over. Thank you.
I'd say I've never seen such a charming instructor, dear Lucy. I am Sooo happy you exist :-)
Absolutely loved the examples. Turned into such a funny story.😆
also loved my 69th upvote.
@@clerpington_the_fifth I upvoted to 70, but then I removed my like.
@@RobTi this man gets it
NGL, she's one of the best English teachers I encountered.
I've just watched this video and, honestly speaking, I loved this format. I really had a good laugh here, specially at the "sassy" tone 😂 Thanks for this video, Lucy!😊
Dear Lucy, to the best of my knowledge, your examples are quite hilarious!
Lucy you are inspiring millions of people to speak flawless English........ thanks a lot : )
From where I'm sitting your videos look very informative
A lot of thank you Lucy, i learn and develop my language skills through listening
I love how you made it so that the examples, as a whole, tell a story. It kept me engaged. As soon as you said "There are 21 ways....", I was about to book it. But congrats for holding my short attention span for that long.
I what I think you still can not believe your old boyfriend chose someone else over you. It was his loss since he would now be now English major. But, you are now getting married to show that you over him. This I think is not true!
Thank you for your videos! I moved in London 3 months ago but due to Covid-19 and lockdown I still have speaking issues, sometimes when someone talks to me I answer in Italian :-P ... I was used to American English (tanks to TV series and movies) but I immediately realized that British English is very different and I'm always afraid to offend someone when I speak
Better than I knew before very useful.
Thanks for all the info! I use these to share with my ESL students.
"in all honesty" expresses that you normally lie, but not this time
Well said.
yea i got the same feeling. I hate when people say this. The same in German, we have that inflationarily nowadays. "Ehrlich gesagt, [bla bla bla]..." Some people don't even express themselves without such phrases any more... _I think_ it's really annoying. And definitely much more annoying than "I think".
I consider that you are damn right. People using this expression sound stupid
This has always been my thought towards people who use that phrase too.
Johann Watzinger also, I often say ‘I’ll be honest with you.....’ which expresses that I’m usually less than honest
In my view, this lesson is totally useful and helpful!! 😍😍😍
Many thanks to Lucy that I really increased my knowledge for English!
I love her gesture, nice Lulu.
Honestly speaking; your lesson was fantastic and very useful!
Hi Lucy. Thanks so much for this useful video on giving opinions. I'm an English teacher and your lessons are really helpful to me. What I would like to ask you is to realise a video on how to ask somebody's opinion. In fact, as a non native teacher, I need to teach my students something different from 'what do you think of/about... or how do you find ...' but I'm short of ideas. I would really appreciate a video on that topic. Thank you in advance and God bless you.
So much fun)) thank you. Storytelling through the English lesson is a great idea 💡 (Congratulations on your wedding!)
Congrats, very well explanation!
I loved this story filled with comedic wit that had me laughing out loud. It could be the outline for a play or a movie. The narcissist was so authentically portrayed and remained true to character to the end.
As far as l know Lucy's lessons are most precious for me not only because of their linguistic content but most of all because of her, I mean Lucy's, facial expressions. Not those that express general human feelings such as anger, joy, content, discontent, envy, jealousy, liking, love, hatred etc, but these that are linked with typically English way of speaking. A certain smile, a wink, a spouting, a turn of the head and such. Some gesture.... I believe its emphasis tells me more about the English than dozens and dozens other books and videos. Let's not forget that facial expression is a very impotant extralinguistic tool, a key, I would say, to the mastering of a language, and in case of Lucy, to penetrating into the English soul! A phenomenal mimic and body language! Very rare and precious! In my view she is a true English teacher!
Yeah, absolutely true. I'm enjoying every hilarious examples that she made by her mimic and body language.
I agree 100% with you lol.
Yes thanks! Enjoyed so much!
I absolutely enjoyed this video and plan to go back over it again to try to get the most out of the video. Thanks!
Lucy, honestly speaking, this lesson is fantastic...✴✴✴
In my view, Lucy is one of the greatest teacher that dramatically helped me to improve my English speaking skill.
The story made me smile time and again 🤣🤣🤣 Great work there Ms Lucy! Tim
Very usefull Lucy, specially for spanish speaking people like us. Thank you a lot
Im not gonna lie, i wish she was my English teacher..😍
@Nick Carraway ohh you've done that ya ?
Best ever video... I wish, there would be a movie of this wedding you described. 😂🤣
Loved it, thank you!!!
I didn't know learning English could be so pleasant. Thanks 🙏
I'm nut gonna lie that Lucy is such a wonderful english teacher I've ever seen :D
I remember an American teacher asking us whether we knew what "to reckon" stood for and I was the only one who guessed it since I'd learned it from an English friend, then the teacher told us it's used in some of the Southern states.
Great! Thank you! I really enjoyed your lesson!
Love this new format!!
The new format was wonderful, thoroughly enjoyed it. Hope your wedding went well. God bless you!
I hate the expression "I'm not going to lie.". It implies that at other times you just might lie.
... or that others are lying to you.
Yes it has a certain underlying offensive intention. To me it also sounds a bit exaggerated to be used in a casual context. Compareable to make exessive use of superlative or emphasizing of the excitement by generic overstating e.g. "today I have had the very best day of my life because the food at the restaurant I was is soo perfect it has the best food ever. I would die to have it again." It does not appear very british to me or posh at all. But maybe it is a wrong impression I have as a non native speaker.
like every sentence starts with "no offense", they are going to offend me!
@@siclucealucks well said
@@irenebuyi But this one I somehow like. It prepares the collocutor. Almost like: I respect you but you will not going to like what comes next. I will only use it when I feel offended and try to reply polite. Maybe the last step before escalation.
Thanks a lot. It's really helpful.
Excellent& Every single point explain teaching , good congress.
Psychologically if someone is saying, "I'm not going to lie...", the listener will be suspicious of what is being said.
I'm not gonna lie, you just stated what I was reckoning.
It is not about telling a lie here and "I'm not going to lie means "I will be very honest in my opinion."
Agreed. Honestly, or In all honesty has the same effect.
Not really. I'm a native speaker. A high level one who grew up with slang as well as academic and scientific discussions, debates. People don't think that deeply about those words, especially if esed in a casual setting. Maybe in more professional scesarios they come across as insincere.
I think I was robbed VS I'm not gonna lie I was robbed. This said it all . For now stick with I THINK 😂.
In all honesty, i keep watching and learning english here because the teacher is absolutely angelic beautiful 😇 And i honestly confess that the english course here is the one i can focus most through my whole life 😂
Oh jolly good
@@holusholajohn Very Jolly good!!
Thanks Lucy for your useful video
Brilliant format 👏
99% Alternatives For Saying 'I think' 1% Tutorial On how to Ruin your Ex's Wedding
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actually it's not 99:1, it's 50:50 lol 😂
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I'm an American educator.. and you asked if we say, " I reckon" - haha.. no.. unless we want to be be like a Brit!! In my (humble) opinion (IMHO).. is very common for us. Nice video with the story throughout.
Yes,reckon is definitely used in the US most often in southern or ‘country’ speech. Also I believe native Australians use reckon quite a bit. I just want to say I love your videos and they have helped me shave down my southern pronouncement a good bit! Thanks
Yes, reckon*
It's definitely common where I live in Australia. I said it to a friend who lives in Michigan once and they seemed to not understand the word.
Sling Blade is a wonderful film with Billy Bob Thornton (as writer, director and actor), who plays a guy from Arkansas, and many of his sentences start with "I reckon" indeed :) As a non-native speaker that's where I first heard it
Thx for sharing i appreciate it!
When someone says I'm not gonna lie, sounds like a lie already
LOL, YES. This phrases sound wired.
Totally
Hahahahahahah yeah it should be
Agree
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I use also "from my personal experience", "in my perspective" and "if i m not wrong".
Beautifully designed lecture
Amazing, really thanks ❤
As far as I can imagine I" ve been distracted by your beauty and sympathy to follow properly the whole lesson. You are awesome
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'I feel' and 'i believe' makes you seem more emotional than logical.
Yep. Those are the #1 way to spot idiots.
how does I believe make you seem more emotional than not?
@@shirothefish9688 it is tied to faith which is feelings and no logic
tied to, but your faith and belief in things can be as a result of direct experiences or testing. you have faith a chair can hold you because they always have before. that's how i see it
@@shirothefish9688 well that's too bad
I just discovered your channel. This format was quite entertaining! I hope you continue with it.
In my view I'm in love with your teachings 😍
"In all honesty" or "I'm not going to lie" or " to tell you the truth" implies that you are prone to lie but this time I will not. Calling oneself a lier is of no value.
25Alpha TV Yes these expressions have that implication. But I don’t think most speakers interpret things that way because they’re such common phrases. If someone asks you for your opinion about their dress and you say “In all honesty, I don’t like the colour.” they’re not going to think you’re a habitual liar. More likely they’d interpret that as you sharing an honest opinion without trying to upset their feelings.
Very true, in fact people tend to think the opposite in these cases e.g. "I think it's funny", this usually means it's not funny.
@@11manxcat I agree with your reasoning, but if you're in a hot debate, your opponent, many times, will seek out things you say to make silly replies alluding "so then, you DO lie",... Even though they know what you're saying, but they're looking for points to dominate the debate, so in this case, it's better not to give ammunition,.. like the lawyer asking you in court, "Have you stopped beating your wife"?
Just don't say this in a Court Room, to a Police Officer or a Teacher. LOL
25Alpha TV yes, I’ve heard this too...especially on crime shows where they examine body language and wording, and mention interrogated criminals use this phrase ‘in all honesty’ or ‘honestly’.
Lucy, I love your wedding story! 🤣🤣🤣 I actually started reading the comments and had to laugh at some point, so I went back up to leave a like. But then I saw I'd already left one, since I always do l before watching your videos! 💛
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Well, since nobody is perfect, but you generally like the stuff, the right way to like is to press 2 times the like, and 1 time to dislike ))).
Thank you so much it's excellent !
I loved this video thanks for teaching us😊