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0:01 You're out at dinner with a group of friends or meeting a new group of people, and perhaps you're on a very complicated 0:10 topic and you want to express your opinion confidently. 0:16 Of course, you might simply say I think, But what if I told you? 0:21 There are many more ways to say this with a lot more confidence and we have a way that shows other that you others that you really believe it. I'm your host, Oliver, and 0:33 welcome back to the Easy English Podcast. 0:37 And today we are going to take a look at exactly that. 0:43 Expressing yourself in a better way than simply saying, I think you might have a brilliant thought or a brilliant insight. 0:54 But when you start it with, I think that suddenly your point might feel a little bit smaller and perhaps less important. 1:04 And that phrase can make it sound a little bit more like a guess rather than something that you're certain or confident about. I think that the phrase I think 1:16 is quite a protective phrase. It's a phrase that we use because it's comfortable and one that we can use easily without 1:28 coming up with other more confident phrases. 1:32 We can use it quickly without having to think about it, for lack of a better phrase. Don't get me wrong, I think is 1:39 not a bad phrase at all, but I want to help you to expand your vocabulary and your ability to express your opinions. 1:49 As always, I want to look at some key vocabulary for today's topic that you are going to listen for in today's episode. 1:58 If you're new here, I will read the piece of new vocabulary. 2:02 I'll give you the definition and I want you to try to hear it and understand it during the topic. The first phrase today is to 2:12 assert. To assert and to assert is to state a belief or fact confidently and clearly. 2:22 So, for example, it's important to assert your opinion on important topics. So especially on topics that 2:31 mean something to you, you want to, you know, assert your position and defend your beliefs. 2:37 Our second word for today is conviction. 2:41 Conviction is an excellent word, and it means a firmly held belief or opinion. So you might assert your opinion 2:52 about your convictions. Our third word today is subtlety. Subtlety. 2:58 And subtlety means the quality of being delicate or precise, being accurate, right? And it's often a small but 3:07 important detail. That's what a subtlety is. 3:10 Of course, the world isn't black and white. 3:13 There is a lot of subtlety in the details on topics. 3:18 You know, often we think of debates or arguments as right or wrong, one side or the other, but there is a lot of subtlety. 3:27 Our fourth word for today is hedge. 3:32 Hedge and hedge means to limit a statement to avoid commitment or risk. So we might say stop hedging and 3:41 tell me what you really feel about it. 3:44 So it's kind of if you're not saying directly what you mean, you're maybe not going as far as you should with your point, you're hedging. And our final piece of key 3:55 vocabulary is gravitas. Gravitas. 3:59 What is gravitas? Gravitas is dignity, seriousness, or weight in someone's personality. 4:06 That sounds complicated, but to Simply put it, it's kind of about respect when someone is speaking. 4:13 So if you have gravitas when you speak, you command respect. 4:19 People will listen to you because what you're saying has importance. Quite hard words today. 4:26 And as always, we have vocabulary flip cards for every episode, as well as full transcripts on the Easy English Patreon. So if you want to support the 4:38 show a little bit extra, you can click the link in the description below and go over and join the Patreon. 4:48 Thank you to all my Patreon supporters. 4:51 It really helps with the show. And if you're new and you would like to hear episodes of Easy English every week, make sure that you're following or subscribed. 5:01 If you're on Spotify, click on to Easy English Podcast, hit follow and hit the little bell icon the notifications to make 5:11 sure that you're notified about a new episode every single week. 5:17 It also helps to grow the show. Let's get back to our main episode. Most of us think that the phrase 5:24 I think is a social habit. Most of us use the phrase, I think, as a social habit. We want to be polite and avoid 5:36 sounding arrogant, and we use it to hedge our statements so to commit less to make them less intense. 5:45 And we do this so that if someone disagrees we can say, well it was just a thought. However, constantly using I 5:54 think can really lower your speaking gravitas, Your social gravitas. When you're stating opinions and what you believe, it makes you sound like you're still 6:05 searching for the answer. Maybe you're still looking for what your opinion is rather than what you are sharing that you you believe. And of course, if you have 6:17 beliefs, if you have convictions and things that you want to share, you shouldn't be apologizing for having it or you shouldn't be hedging that opinion. 6:30 But of course, with sensitive topics, with maybe things that you genuinely are not sure about using I think makes sense 6:39 because it is your thoughts. It's not necessarily your beliefs. But when we look at conversations, maybe more controversial conversations or 6:48 debates, why do some people naturally lead conversations more than others? And most of the time it's due to 6:57 language. When people use direct language, they tend to speak without phrases like I think, and your 7:06 brain and other listeners pick this up a little bit differently. They take it confidently and you tend to look up to that person a little bit more. 7:16 And this is part of the certainty effect. 7:20 And this is where people are drawn or they're attracted to people generally who project confidence. 7:28 And you can look at almost any very good public speaker or excellent public speaker and you'll tend to see that they 7:36 don't really use a phrase such as I think they speak often with conviction, with belief, with more certainty. 7:47 And it's more about how they project. 7:50 It's not that they won't admit that they're wrong. 7:52 It's not that they won't have open discussion. 7:55 It's more that they speak with confidence. 7:58 And in a world full of maybe or perhaps a person that often projects, that expresses their view in a confident manner, 8:09 really draws attention and it really appears very confident. 8:13 You don't need to be the loudest. 8:15 You don't need to project the most, but you do just need to have an maybe an aura, we could say, of confidence in what you say. And when you start to speak like 8:26 that, you also start to become more confident also. 8:30 So we've talked a little bit about, you know, about the why, so about why people don't use, I think those sort of very high 8:40 level speakers. We've talked a little bit about, you know, why I think is sometimes useful as well. 8:47 You know, if you're not certain about something, if you're not wanting to express complete confidence, of course the phrase is useful. But what about other 8:57 alternatives? If you want to speak with a little bit more expression about the fact that you believe or you know something, I'm going to break down three different 9:08 options, different kind of angles at this approach and explain them to you. And I'm going to give you some 9:16 direct phrases that you can use as well after this episode. 9:20 The first approach is the observation approach. 9:24 So if you see something, if you can observe something, maybe a trend or facts that you see before you, instead of saying I 9:35 think, you know, let's take the weather as an example. 9:38 Instead of saying I think it's going to rain, you might say it appears or it looks like it's going to rain. 9:47 From what I can see, it's going to rain. 9:49 You're expressing that from the evidence that's there, from the facts that are there, it looks like it's going to rain. 9:57 Or instead of saying I think that he's unhappy, again, you can say it looks like he's unhappy. 10:05 It seems that he is unhappy. From what I can see, he is unhappy. These are direct observations of 10:16 what you see and there's something very solid about that, very factual. There is more conviction that you see this, that you observe this. 10:28 It is more analytical. You aren't simply guessing what you what you're thinking, you are reporting on what you see. 10:38 The second category that I would like you to think about is the perspective category. So when you have your own 10:46 perspective, so perhaps we say to you something is bad or to you something is good. Instead of saying, for example, 10:57 I think that the movie was bad, you could say from the perspective, right? You could say from my 11:04 perspective, I didn't like the movie because giving reason or my take away from this was and then what you thought about the 11:16 movie or the way I way the way I see it, the movie lacked subtlety. It wasn't subtle. 11:24 So it's giving things from your perspective rather than a thought. Now let's take a third category. 11:32 Perhaps you really do believe something or you you know it, you believe it. It's a deep belief. 11:40 Now, why would you devalue that by saying, I think of course you want to express that you believe it. 11:48 And here are some phrases that you could say about that. 11:52 Instead of saying, let's say we're planning a trip and I've done so much research and I really think that we should take 11:59 a trip to Japan. For example, I might say to my wife, instead of saying I think we should go to Japan, I could 12:08 say I'm convinced that Japan is the best choice for a trip for us. So I'm convinced that the next 12:18 phrase I'm inclined to believe that. 12:22 Or simply I believe that Japan is the best location for our trip. Or if you want to be really 12:29 certain, I know that I know that Japan would be the best location for our next trip. So in short, those were three 12:39 different approaches that you can take instead of, I think, and I do believe that those are probably much stronger options. 12:48 I'm guilty as well of using. I think a lot of native speakers are. So this episode is not just targeted at language learners because in general, we're all 13:00 guilty sometimes of not expressing ourselves confidently enough on our beliefs, our values, and the things that we 13:09 want to get across to people. OK, coming up, we're going to review a little bit. We're going to do some comprehension checks. But next, I want to take a look 13:18 at our listener spotlight for this week, one of my favorite segments of the episodes and where I ask you questions and I 13:28 read your answers. Now, last week's episode was all about accents. We were talking about how there 13:35 is a global accent developing for English, a global English if you will. And I asked you what type of 13:44 accent you're learning. So to tell me a little bit about your struggles or learning process with accents. 13:53 So I had a great comment. It was from I hope I say the name right Chi and they said do you know the Disney film Sleeping Beauty? I have heard of this. 14:04 I was attracted to Maleficent voice power and polite sarcasm when I was a kid. I still love her now, and one 14:15 day I saw a video about Disney villains all having British accents, and since then I've always been particular about the 14:26 British accent. Wow, that's an excellent explanation of your approach to learning accents. 14:33 And I think that is a really funny story and it's quite a cool reason as to why you're studying or learning with a British accent. So keep it up. 14:42 That is a very cool reason to learn it. 14:45 A great comment from Asia as well. 14:48 And Asia said, hi Oliver, I like your accent and I listen to your podcast regularly. Thank you Asia, I really appreciate it. Your topics are really great. 14:59 For me, English is a tool, so I want to be understandable. 15:05 I don't imitate any accent, I focus on correct pronunciation. 15:11 I think learning about the IPA is useful. 15:17 It is very helpful knowledge when we come across a new word. 15:22 Excellent comment. I really think that your approach is correct here, that you're studying on pronunciation rather than accents, so being able to read words correctly 15:34 rather than trying to imitate or copy another accent. 15:39 Excellent comment Asia, and thank you for your kind words as well. Another great comment from Reggie and they said I usually listen to British English and 15:50 American English, so I think that my accent has been influenced by them. Right now I don't care too much about having a perfect accent because when I went to the US, 16:01 people told me your accent is good, there's no problem. 16:06 Since then, I've become much more confident about my English accent. Recently I've also been chatting with ChatGPT and I often use Google Translate, so I think my 16:17 accent may be influenced by AI and translation tools. 16:22 Oh that's interesting. I haven't heard that point before about AI and translation tools, but it makes sense if you're using them a lot. Of course, you may be influenced 16:33 by them, but I think that as long as you're getting lots of real speech as well, that's not a problem. 16:40 Sounding a little bit like AI maybe might make accents a bit more robotic, but I do think they are becoming much more natural and clear. So if anything, you're probably 16:51 making your accent quite clear. Excellent comment. 16:55 Thank you so much for for responding. 16:58 OK, so our next question for next week that I want you to try and answer is of course about, I think it's about expressing your 17:08 opinions. And what I want you to do is I want you to share one opinion using a phrase other than I 17:17 think it can be about a hobby, a book, a movie, a lifestyle choice, any type of opinion. You can share it, but don't use 17:28 the phrase. I think give it a go in the comments. And I will read some of these in next week's episode. This is a great chance to 17:38 practice, so please give it a try. 17:41 OK, so as we've learned today, you really don't need a PhD, you don't need a degree, you don't need very fancy high level of 17:51 English to speak with aphority and confidence to express yourself as if you know what you're talking about. 18:02 Aphority is always a choice that you make with your words. 18:06 The same with confidence. The two come together by removing, I think, and replacing it with more confident vocabulary. You're telling people, you're 18:16 telling others, that your thoughts and your beliefs and your opinions have value and you have confidence in them to express them. So make sure to try it in a 18:26 simple conversation with a friend. 18:29 You might be surprised at how much more they will listen to you. Let's check how much you understood today's topic. I have a few questions for you 18:40 for to be precise, and I'm going to read them. 18:43 I'm going to pause slightly and I want you to pause the recording and try to answer, and then I will read you the answer. 18:50 Question one. Why do people often use, I think in social situations? So people often use it as a 19:00 safety net. It's a simple, familiar, easy phrase. We also use it because it means if people disagree, we have given less conviction or less 19:11 certainty about what we're expressing. 19:14 Question two. What does it mean to have gravitas? When we have gravitas, it means we have weight or respect to our words from others. 19:24 People listen to you. Question 3 What is the benefit of using from my perspective instead of? 19:32 I think the benefit here is that it suggests that your opinion is from your own experience and observation rather than just a 19:42 random thought or feeling. Question 4. 19:46 What is the certainty effect? The certainty effect is when people are more attracted or drawn to to people who are more certain they speak with more confidence. 19:57 OK, so that's it for today's episode. 19:59 I hope you learned some new words. 20:02 Remember, if you want to support the show that little bit further, get bonus content, transcripts and flip cards. 20:10 Make sure to sign up and support on the Easy English Patreon. 20:15 The link is in the description below. 20:18 Thank you so much for listening, thank you for following the show and for raining us five stars. I will see you on the next 20:26 episode of Easy English. Goodbye and have a lovely rest of your week.
دربارهی این قسمت Bonus Episodes & Full Transcript PDFs, Vocabulary Flipcards Every Week on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/englishwitholiver Want to know how to speak English confidently in any situation? Many intermediate learners use the phrase "I think" too often, which can make your English sound weak or hesitant. In this episode of the Easy English Podcast, we explore advanced English vocabulary and high-status phrases to help you command gravitas and authority. We discuss the psychology of social certainty and provide practical alternatives to help you stop hedging your opinions. Improve your English speaking skills and learn how to assert your ideas with conviction in 2026.