Everyday English Conversation
The real phrases people use to greet, order, ask, disagree and tell a story, for anyone who knows the grammar and still freezes.
You studied English for years and you still go quiet when someone says "Hey, how's it going?". This course is twelve short lessons of the language that actually gets used: greetings, cafés, shops, directions, polite requests, opinions, phone calls and telling a story about your day. Every lesson gives you eight to twelve useful phrases inside a real dialogue, shows you what sounds too formal and what sounds rude, and drills them until they come out without thinking.
By the end you can
- Start, keep and end a short conversation with someone you just met
- Order, shop, ask for directions and make an appointment on the phone
- Ask for things politely, and agree or disagree without sounding rude
- Say you didn't understand, and tell a short story about your day
Starting a conversation
- Greetings and small talk
Answer "How's it going?" the way people really do, return the question, and keep a one-minute chat alive with safe topics.
- Introducing yourself and asking about others
Introduce yourself in one natural line, answer the three questions everyone asks (name, where you're from, what you do), and ask them back.
- Keeping it going
Stop conversations dying after two lines: react to what you hear, echo the key word, and ask an open follow-up question.
Everyday situations
- At a café or restaurant
Order with "Could I get…", handle "For here or to go?", ask for the check, and deal with offers and paying without literal تعارف.
- Shopping and paying
Browse without pressure, ask for another size or color, try things on, pay, and return something that doesn't fit.
- Directions and getting around
Stop a stranger politely, ask the way, actually understand the answer, and use buses, the metro and taxis with a few fixed questions.
Sounding natural
- Polite requests and softeners
Ask for things without sounding like a boss: Could you, Would you mind, I was wondering if, and the small words that soften everything.
- Contractions, fillers and rhythm
Understand fast speech and stop sounding like a textbook: contractions, the gonna/wanna you hear but never write, and the small words that buy you thinking time.
- Opinions: agreeing and disagreeing politely
Say what you think, agree properly ("I am agree" is not English), and disagree in a way that keeps the conversation friendly.
When things get hard
- When you don't understand
Stop nodding and smiling. Ask the one question that fixes the exact problem: say it again, what does that word mean, or so you mean…?
- On the phone and making appointments
Make a phone call without panicking: say who you are, book an appointment, spell your name, and confirm the day and time before you hang up.
- Telling a short story about your day
Turn "How was your day?" into a real answer: simple past, First / Then / After that / In the end, and a whole conversation that uses everything in this course.
Keep it, don't just read it
Pathwise brings each idea back just before you'd forget it, with a quick question. Free on Android and on the web, in English and Persian.