How to make GREAT Small Talk | English Conversation Practice

49 thoughts on “How to make GREAT Small Talk | English Conversation Practice”

1. Hello. I am so sorry that your channel is no more avaliable fully: there is only a possibility to find some videos using YouTube search, but the straight link to the channel doesn't work anymore – the error 404 is shown. I hope this issue is to be fixed in a while, becuause you promised all the videos are to stay avaliable as they are. Hope your new project is doing well. Best regards!

2. Hi hello Emma I'm Aristona I always watching your vedio every day im born in pilipines my English is not good and my fluent and grammar too and need some support or tutor on my private lesson im really interested cause I'm looking job better one day im 58 years old and im staying in Australia almost 28 years from now but my English is not really good

3. Not cool when you slide ads in between…

4. Thank you so much for this a wonderful video.

   Next tow weeks, I am going to have the speaking test, I hope this will help me.

5. I love doing small talk, please

6. Did you visit Kerala in South India. Iam from Kerala

7. Sometimes a small talk reminds me of an interrogation.

8. Thank you, great lesson 👍🏼

9. 4:39 work questions
   5:52 life questions
   8:22 travel questions
   10:15 weather questions

10. Bruh hurry up and get to the questions man

11. I'm trying to get me and my girl to go to Paris but I'm a little unsure I'll do research on the travel guide

12. If only I could focus on the content 😂❤😮

13. For some reason, I'm still extremely uncomfortable asking people questions about their lives. That makes small talk incredibly difficult for me.
    I'm almost 40 years old though and I'm sick of being like this and I'd like to make friends

14. It’s called small talk for a reason, it’s just small! Maybe it’s the Australian way? Prefer Socratic questioning but people get a bit intimidated. Small talk is pointless. This lady is Australian, not sure brits would sympathise

15. Lingoda means 'the di*k' in my language

16. You are gorgeous

17. I have learned a lot with this videos….!!! Thank you so much for Your effort

18. Bucket List Destinations: Greece, Liberia, the moon, Iowa

19. Thanks for the good tips. Sorry to be so direct, but you are so beautiful that I lose focus on what you are saying. Have a lovely day.

20. i have i guess 3 problems with a lot of these questions, and questions similar to them that people ask.

    first and most simply, as others have said, i just don’t care what the answer is. it really doesn’t concern me what you’re doing this weekend unless it somehow involves me.

    second is that a lot of things people consider small talk questions are not things i want to answer about myself from some person i just met or don’t already know well, so i won’t ask those questions to others because i would consider it invasive if they asked me. for example, i would never in a million years ask a random neighbor where they work. why? well first, see #1, but second, if they asked me that question, my immediate reaction would be to think, what business is it of yours? why do you care? what are you going to do with this information? and it’s even worse because it almost never stops at the first question. once they have that information, they then want you to elaborate further. no thank you. it’s really not your business to know where i work, where i live, what i have, about my family, or similar. it just comes across as invasive and in some cases creepy. i had a coworker once just casually ask to know where my mother lives. what are you possibly going to do with that info? why do you need that? so, i just don’t ask people questions like this because i wouldn’t want it asked of me.

    lastly, some of these questions presume a certain amount of privilege that you just cannot presume other people have. up until a couple of months ago i was working 65-70 hours a week at two jobs (legal assistance and medical reception) and living out of my car because the cost of living in my area is so outrageously high. so questions like where i live and what i do in my “spare time” ended up just being extremely awkward and uncomfortable. what am i doing on the weekend? i don’t have a weekend. i work 7 days a week. what neighborhood do i live in? wherever i can park for the night. i still have a friend in this same position. after it happened to me, i came to find out there are more than you’d think. similarly, questions about travel- “i just got back from France, have you ever been?”… that person may never be able to afford dreaming of traveling anywhere let alone having actually been. unless you already know for 100% certain that the individual is in a similar economic class to yourself, this is not a great question to ask. and don’t presume that because you work with them, they must enjoy the same quality of life that you do. again, i was living in my car for almost a year and none of my coworkers had any idea. questions about how your holidays went can be uncomfortable for some people too. the holidays are difficult for a lot of people for a variety of reasons. maybe because they couldn’t afford to buy gifts for their family. maybe because they don’t have any family to celebrate with. maybe because this is their first holiday without their mother, father, husband, wife, grandmother, etc. You can end up doing nothing but upsetting the person by bringing it up. i just wouldn’t ask.

    in summary, a lot of questions people think are fair game for “small talk”, i would consider not small talk. weather is small talk. that’s fine. personal interview type questions are not small talk in my view, i don’t want them asked of me, and i never ask them of other people. i figure if they want me to have that information about them, they will volunteer it.

21. Oh very beautifull are you, waw.

22. Bonne vidéo ! Personnellement, je conseille le livre "CONVERSATION & RÉPARTIE", de Nathan Stone. Y a tout ce qu'il faut savoir, c'est clair, très complet, pas de discours superflu, le top. Tous ceux à qui je l'ai conseillé en sont très contents ! C'est un indispensable.

23. "Have you ever been bitten by a bee?"
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24. hey emmaaaaa from NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNaples… Italy 😉

25. What do you mean “are you from here?” Means do you grew up here or do you live nearby?

26. You are amazing !!!! Thank you.

27. It is always superb listening to you! I appreciate all your guidance. We loved it.

28. 12:13 I love you ❤

29. Wow, so many of these questions are rude and intrusive.

30. So much good energy in this video 🎉

31. Category six: football

32. Me who uses weather app when someone new is around me🙂

33. Stunning woman indeed…

34. Watching this i couldn’t think of anything worse just avoid eye contact at all cost

35. This only works in western countries. In Asia, the small talk is either a addressing down by elders or an announcement by peers of how great their life is.

36. Pro tip: the actual questions don’t start until 4 minutes into the video.
    All these questions are cringeworthy, probably because I just don’t like small talk.

37. Come to Uruguay!

38. Starts at 4:15m

39. Interrogation as opposed to conversation.

40. Problem with small talk, just mover to Wisconsin!

41. No thank you. I'll remain the awkward guy who only does meaningful conversation.

42. I will always say "it's a beautiful day today isn't it?" No matter the weather. The day is ALWAYS beautiful, don't let harmless external circumstances affect the beauty of your day!

43. Have you ever made a video that isn't moronic?😁

44. thank god im a virgo, hate small talk dont want to socialise with people I hope to never see again

45. Your energy is incredible. thank you so much for your video.

46. I"d just stand there and stare at you.

47. I'm a native english speaker, but I have a hard time speaking to pretty ladies, this seems helpful

48. 6:57 – i was distracted and not paying attention to the video and that scared the hell out of me

49. Emma, I would have a hard time talking to a girl as pretty as you.

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