My name is Steve Ford and my Youtube channel is PrivateEnglishPortal

Today I have three great questions from Lucas and Carlos from Brazil

and a mystery woman from country X!

Let's listen to Lucas's question first

Lucas, only grammarians and someone who wants to make a point of being correct or posh

use whom and the only example that I know of is when writing a formal letter

Who is supposed to be the subject and whom the object

If you don't have to write some high level English test like the Cambridge or Michigan proficiency tests,

or don't need to speak textbook English for whatever else, don't worry about it.

Some University profs might nail you for it, but I wouldn't give it too much thought.

Know that the majority of English speakers simply DON'T use it.

Next up is mystery woman from country X

Good question. If you can find a movie that you would like to watch more than once

I'd suggest you watch it the first time with the subtitles on

to compare the pronunciation of the words being spoken with the subtitles

as they can be different

You can get some tricky omissions, all the time in fact, of consonants and contractions

all linked together for example

So slowly we can hear and we can everything clearly

then faster using the contraction for will

many English learners are afraid to use I'll, you'll, she'll, we'll etc.

but this is totally normal in spoken English.

The last one links the consonants and vowels together

an, no "d", I'll, let+you becomes letchyou, letchya

So mystery woman, keep in mind that linking the words together is fundamental

to understanding how native speakers talk fast and to see it in action

compare the subtitles with what is being said by the actors

an extremely formal greeting is How do you do?

now we answer the same way we ask, it's like an echo

this happens in many languages

often the greeting and the answer are he same thing

extremely formal English

Ist it used? Not much!

When you leave you can say

In class and at some jobs you can change those to something more informal by saying

Usually you'll use it with the person's name

street talk

These are common greetings you'll hear in the streets

Many of them fall into the category of cool

and can be heard in rap and hip hop

Well everybody that's it for me! I enjoyed teaching you today and look forward

to Learn English Live 17. Catch you later!