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I really, really recommend it. Today's episode is about verbs you can use to sound more natural in your day-to-day. These are just some verbs that have come up recently in my life, and I thought they were cool, so I wrote them down for you. There's nothing more to it. These are verbs you're probably not using, but if you are, then hey, you're killing it. So let's get into it. You are listening to episode 135 of English with Dane. Hit it.
Okay, we have officially started the show, so let's get into this list of verbs. First on the list is to ramble, spelled R-A-M-B-L-E. To ramble means to talk a lot or to write a lot, usually in a confused or inconsequential way. We all know someone at work or have a friend who rambles. You can also say to ramble on. He was rambling on about his breakup, and I just wanted to get a coffee before the meeting. Be careful, don't say rumble with a U, different verb. This one is to ramble or ramble on.
Next up we have to dart. Yes, dart. Dart as in dardo. To dart means to run or go somewhere quickly, as if to say dardear. She darted across the street, for example. The dog darted across the yard. Now that I think about it, we use it with across a lot. To dart across, dart across town, dart across the street, dart across the room. Hmm. Interesting. You can also use shoot, shoot across, or dash too, to dash across. To dash also means to move quickly.
Dash is what the little kid is called in The Incredibles, by the way, because he's super fast. Then we have to drag, spelled D-R-A-G. To drag means to pull someone or something, tir de alguien o algo, forcibly, roughly, or with difficulty. So arrastrar in Spanish. Yeah, you can drag something across the floor, literally, but I'm talking more about the figurative use. They dragged me to the bar. I had fun, but my friends dragged me there.
When used as a noun, como sustantivo, it can mean a boring or tiring person or thing too. If your job is a drag, it's boring or tiring. Oh, don't bring him, no le traigas, don't bring him, he's a drag, right? He's boring or annoying too. Next up we have to barge in. Barge is spelled B-A-R-G-E. I used this one yesterday and thought it was a cool one to bring up here on the show. To barge in means to suddenly or rudely interrupt or disturb someone or something.
If you're talking to someone, for example, and someone randomly comes and interrupts your conversation in a rude way, they are barging into your conversation. If someone enters a room without thinking about the people inside and just starts being loud, they are barging in. You can't just barge in here. Then we have a really interesting one to size up. Size up, spelled S-I-Z-E, as in tamaño.
To size someone or something up means to observe in order to get some information, to see what they're about, how they react, etc. A good way to think about it is when you see animals in the wild looking at each other to see who is bigger, to see who would win in a fight, to see if they are a threat when I menasa. You might see stupid dudes at the gym doing this. We don't only use it in this context, of course. A speaker can size up an audience, a teacher can size up a class.
Really, we use it to say that you are forming a judgment of the size of a situation. See if you can work that into a conversation. Well, that stands for all of these verbs. Don't stress out and try to fit them all, but poco a poco. Next time someone interrupts you or walks into a room or situation being loud and annoying, think, hmm, they just barged in. Next time someone crosses the street quickly, think, hey, they just darted across the street.
Next time you meet someone who is boring, think, oh, they are a drag. Or if your friends are making you go out with them, think, oh, they're dragging me to the club. If when you're at the club, a guy is looking at you all weird, think, hey, he's sizing me up. If your friend from work won't stop talking, think, man, he is rambling on today, and so on and so forth. It's important to identify those moments and make that connection to the verb in your head.
No pasa nada if you didn't get to use the verb or whatever. The victory is identifying the moment and thinking of the verb, one step at a time. All right, that's it for this episode of English with Dane. Thank you for listening. I hope you enjoyed it, and more importantly, I hoped you learned something. Don't forget to follow English with Dane on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
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