Name: 英語講師Nick P Lesson (311) WowとWhoaの違い (English Tutor Nick P Lesson (311) The Difference Between Wow and Whoa)
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 311.

Today the lesson is the difference between wow and whoa.

Okay . The first thing to look at which always surprised me is that sometimes students of ESL have

A lot of times.... and the biggest problem is usually with wow, they often pronounce

So students will be reading and WHOA will be there and they will read it as wow.

Wow is WOW, So remember wow has that sort of an Ow sound at he end.

And whoa has more of an oh sound like in Oh boy !. So the first thing to really note is

to make sure you clearly know the difference in pronunciation, WOW is wow and WHOA is whoa.

The interjection wow is used to show that someone is very surprised , impressed, or

Remember an interjection that is like when you just suddenly say something or you say something that interrupts

That's an interjection,. so that's where is is some similarity between whoa and wow. actually,

whoa has a lot of meanings that is very different from wow.

But there is one meaning that is similar and is sometimes when they both mean surprise.

But you can kind of look and see where there is some difference.

So again, let's get back to the note here.

The interjection wow is used to show someone is very surprised, impressed, or extremely

So you can see right away that wow again tends to be a little bit more positive.

If we use wow as a verb. This is another important difference

If we use wow as a verb, it means to greatly impress.

Like you could say her performance wowed me.

The original meaning of whoa is a command to a horse to stop or slow down.

Obviously if it is used in that way it is always whoa.

A cowboy is holding is holding the reins.

Whoa . Whoa . Tying to tell the horse to either slow down or come to a complete stop.

So that is also important because that is kind of translates over to one of the uses

One of the main uses of whoa is to tell people to do something more slowly or stop.

We often tell people to speak more slowly.

Like if somebody was speaking very quickly.

Too quickly, you couldn't understand them.

Speak slower so I can understand you clearly.

Whoa can also be used to express surprise.

, interest , alarm , especially followed by a strong reaction.

Surprise is the one we are going to get to.

This is why I think students get confused is because there is a little similarity.

Alarm is probably more just with whoa, especially when some thing is threatening or scary, you

are probably a little more likely to use whoa.

Whoa tends to be a little more negative.especially followed by a strong reaction.

Yeah like if some one was possibly threatening you.

Whoa what are you doing ? We wouldn't say wow what are you doing ? In a way like you

Or a person is aggressive or threating you.

You wouldn't say wow like how nice of you.

Sometimes we might often used it to back off a little bit too.

Which is basically similar to the idea of stop.

Although this is not a hard-and=fast rule.

That means that it is not a hundred percent.

Many people often feel wow is more often used in positive situations that is what I mentioned

Now you can find some examples where you can say that is not one hundred percent true.

Yeah, but in general probably 70 or 80 % of the time it is kind of true.

You know, especially if you are excited about something.

You can say Wow ! you did it, We probably wouldn't say whoa you did it.

We probably wouldn't say whoa this is delicious.

We are a little more likely t say wow in this sort of situation.

Yeah you are much more likely to say wow than whoa you bought me a present.

No . Whoa you bought me a present like...No.

Here are some situations in whoa is probably more common.

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