Hangátirat Automatikusan generált
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Good morning.
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Pleased to meet you.
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My name is Peter.
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I'm quite complex, and I take on more serious topics
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in a direct way.
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Or we can do it like this.
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Hi. What's up?
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I'm Josh.
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I'm laid back and sociable.
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When I express myself.
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I tend to use emotions.
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Today. We're going to talk about ways of communication, specifically
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formal and informal language.
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It's a when you start writing something, you should always
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ask yourself three questions.
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What is my audience or who is my audience?
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What is the best way to communicate my message on
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Dhe? Which style of language should I use?
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Answering these questions will help you to write Ah, nde.
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They will help you to know which sounds use.
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But what is the difference between formal and informal language?
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For example, would you wear a short on a T
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shirt on your wedding day?
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Sometimes when we use to informal language, it can leave
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a bad impression.
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Let's take a look at this job application.
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So here we have a simple version.
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Hello, madam.
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Pleased to see the application form attached below.
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Thanks, Josh.
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Now this may be sounds a bit too informal, but
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let's see, How can we change this?
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For example, Dear madam.
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Pleased to see the application form attached below on instead
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of thanks, Josh.
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Maybe we can put you're sincerely.
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Now let's examine a job application that is written here.
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Hello, madam.
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Pleased to see the application form attached below.
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Thanks, Josh.
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Now, what is wrong with this application?
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Letter first.
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Hello. If we can change too.
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Yeah, and second is the way we finish this latter.
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Thanks. Sounds too informal.
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So instead of fans, we can say yours sincerely.
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Now it looks good and serious.
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So let's repeat again some of the characteristics of formal
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language. It is serious.
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It has impersonal term on dhe.
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It is used for academic writing.
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Ah, nde when we talk of academic writing, women reports,
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articles, lectures or emails to professors.
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But don't forget job applications as well.
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Now let's check out the qualities off.
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Informal language.
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Well, informal language is chatting.
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It is also having a personal turn on.
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We mostly use it for emails to friends, on dhe
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letters to family and stuff like that.
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Why? Because it is friendlier.
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Now, before we give another example of formal language, I
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just want to say four things that are characteristics of
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formal language that you need to take in consideration when
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writing informal language.
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Those characteristics are choice of vocabulary abbreviations, passive language and
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longer and more complex sentences.
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Here we have two letters for a job application.
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Let's try to analyze what are the differences and how
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can we use those differences in order to be better
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at doing the same thing?
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First, let's focus on choice of vocabulary.
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So when writing form informal language, we need to choose
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our vocabulary nicely.
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That means that we cannot use slams off words that
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we use in everyday language.
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So right here in this letter, there are three moments
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where I would definitely want to choose the way how
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that person express themselves, for example right now or found
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out or get in touch thes air, not the words
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if you want to use in a formal letter.
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So, for example, instead of right now, you can say
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currently on instead of getting touch, we can say I
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look forward to hearing from you.
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The next thing is abbreviations.
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So in this situation, we don't want to shorten in
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a situation of a formal letter.
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We don't want to shorten any words.
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We want to put them as long as they are.
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So, for example, here we have I've been and union
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these air all abbreviations that we don't want to use
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in our formal letter.
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So instead of that, it can sound more like university
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on. I have been also informal language.
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We will try to use as bad as also in
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a more formal way of expressing ourselves.
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We don't want to use active sentences as often because
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they will put us in the main aspect off.
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Love, love, love.
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Also in a formal language.
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We don't want to use active sentences as often as
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passive sentences.
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So, for example, here we have they promoted me or
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I was promoted.
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So obviously we will use more often The passive version,
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which is I was promoted.
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And one of the last characteristics of formal language is
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longer and more complex sentences.
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So in that example, having said that also another example
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off formal language is longer and more complex sentences.
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Having said that, please check out this example says I
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work hard on dhe.
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I am friendly.
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Well, we can say the same thing, but in a
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more complex way, which would look better for our job.
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Employer on that is, I am hardworking and I work
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well in a team.
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It sounds nicer, isn't it?
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And last but not least, let's try to remember again
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formal language we use for people that we don't know.
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And we want to leave a good and serious impression
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on, on the other hand, informal language we use with
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people that we know.
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We use it with our friends, with our families, on
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also with our colleagues.
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But be careful about that.