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Explain your idea: 30 English phrases for a brainstorm

30 phrases4 topicsevery phrase with momentsfrom 80 videos

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From “Setting it up”

Phrase 1 of 5

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How to Raise Successful Kids -- Without Over-Parenting | Julie Lythcott-Haims | TED

Said in 413 lines across 237 videos

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This pack has 30 phrases that Talk picked to set up an idea, make it clear and sum it up, in 4 topics. Every one comes with moments from real videos, so you hear each phrase the way people say it at work and beyond.

All 30 phrases in Explain your idea, by topic

It starts with phrases like first of all, here's the thing and the problem is, each said in real videos. Its moments come from videos such as “The Crisis in Cosmology” and “Do we see reality as it is?”.

Tap any phrase to hear it and play its moments from real videos.

Setting it up

10 phrases · 01/04
  1. first of allphrase3 momentsin 237 videos
  2. here's the thingphrase3 momentsin 158 videos
  3. the problem isphrase3 momentsin 186 videos
  4. the idea isphrase3 momentsin 90 videos
  5. on top of thatphrase3 momentsin 95 videos
  6. what if wephrase3 momentsin 54 videos
  7. the big picturephrase3 momentsin 30 videos
  8. the reason isphrase3 momentsin 37 videos
  9. walk you throughphrase3 momentsin 18 videos
  10. the way I see itphrase1 momentin 8 videos

Making it clear

8 phrases · 02/04
  1. in other wordsphrase3 momentsin 152 videos
  2. which meansphrase3 momentsin 425 videos
  3. the point isphrase3 momentsin 81 videos
  4. the key isphrase3 momentsin 56 videos
  5. what I mean isphrase3 momentsin 46 videos
  6. step by stepphrase3 momentsin 29 videos
  7. to put it simplyphrase3 momentsin 29 videos
  8. does that make sensephrase3 momentsin 15 videos

Giving an example

5 phrases · 03/04
  1. for examplephrase3 momentsin 777 videos
  2. let's sayphrase3 momentsin 168 videos
  3. it's kind of likephrase3 momentsin 94 videos
  4. think of it asphrase3 momentsin 49 videos
  5. let me give you an examplephrase3 momentsin 27 videos

Summing up

7 phrases · 04/04
  1. the main thingphrase3 momentsin 113 videos
  2. at the end of the dayphrase3 momentsin 80 videos
  3. last but not leastphrase3 momentsin 34 videos
  4. the bottom linephrase3 momentsin 33 videos
  5. to summarisephrase3 momentsin 26 videos
  6. in a nutshellphrase3 momentsin 14 videos
  7. long story shortphrase1 momentin 16 videos

Where the phrases in Explain your idea come from

Phrases
Picked by Talk.
How Talk picked them
We drafted 35 phrases for explaining an idea (setting it up, making it clear, giving an example and summing up), plus the other ways people say them (contractions, British and American forms), counted how many of Talk's spoken videos say each one, and kept those heard in at least three lines across two or more videos, with at least one clear moment.
What Talk changed
Grouped into 4 topics, with the forms Talk looks for in captions, how many Talk videos say each phrase and up to three video moments. This list is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Meanings
From Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Princeton WordNet, used under the WordNet licence. WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

How to practice with Explain your idea

  1. Try any phraseTap a phrase to hear it and play its moments from real videos. No account needed.
  2. Start the packPick 5, 10 or 20 new phrases a day. Talk adds them to your daily review, after the ones you have due.
  3. Keep what you needKeep a phrase to practice it, or mark one you already know. A kept phrase comes back over the days ahead, with another of its moments.
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Do I need an account to use Explain your idea?

No. You can read every phrase, hear it and play its moments without signing in. A free account is only for starting a pack: Talk then adds 5, 10 or 20 of its phrases a day to your review and keeps your progress.

How did Talk pick the phrases in Explain your idea?

We drafted 35 phrases for explaining an idea (setting it up, making it clear, giving an example and summing up), plus the other ways people say them (contractions, British and American forms), counted how many of Talk's spoken videos say each one, and kept those heard in at least three lines across two or more videos, with at least one clear moment.

Where do the phrases in Explain your idea come from?

Talk picked them. We drafted 35 phrases for explaining an idea (setting it up, making it clear, giving an example and summing up), plus the other ways people say them (contractions, British and American forms), counted how many of Talk's spoken videos say each one, and kept those heard in at least three lines across two or more videos, with at least one clear moment. The list is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How were the moments in Explain your idea picked?

Each moment is one caption line from a video in Talk's catalog where the phrase is said. A phrase gets up to three, each from a different video, and a moment is dropped when its line no longer matches the video's captions. All 30 phrases in this pack have at least one moment, 28 have all three.

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