Podcast: Either one or the other

How's it going? No podcast Inglês Online de hoje eu falo sobre algumas formas comuns de usar a palavra 'Either'.

Transcrição

Hello, everyone, how are you doing? This is Ana Luiza with another episode of our Inglês Online Podcast. And today we have a quick episode. I want to get right into it. It's something that is really, really useful and very common in the language and the reason I want to focus on it... Ok, so let me tell you what I am talking about: I'm talking about the word "either". Either, which is also pronounced 'AITHER' and sometimes E-I-T-H-E-R.

Ok, and the reason I want to focus on the word either is that it is really common in the language. People use it all the time; it's a really good word. It's not difficult and if you've done English classes before, if you've gone to English school and if you've gone as far as... I don't know, maybe pre-intermediate or definitely intermediate, either is there. It's there in your books, but that doesn't mean that students come out of English school being fluent on how to use either, ok?... I'll be honest with you... This is a word that even Brazilians who have gone a bit far, you know, in English schools with classes... They are not using this word naturally, and I think everyone should. So, that's why I'm focusing today on a couple of different ways that we use either... Really, really common ways. So, I'm not going through all the possibilities with the word either, but just on a couple of really common ways that we use either every day in the English language, ok?

Listen up!

First one: your friend says... I like dogs. And you say: I like dogs too. You know, we both like dogs, you like dogs, I like dogs too... And then your other friend says: I don't like cats. And you know what? You don't like cats either, so you say: I don't like cats either. So, what's the difference there? I like dogs, I like dogs too. I don't like cats, I don't like cats either. When you are being positive, when you are saying that you do something or that you are something or that you like something, and you are going to agree with that person, you use 'too'. Now, when the person is saying that they are not something or they are not doing something or they didn't do something or they didn't like something and you are going to agree with them, you use 'either'. And obviously, again, you can say 'AITHER'. It's just that 'EITHER'... It's the way that I say it.

Let's have a look at this. I don't like cucumbers. Oh... my friend Mary doesn't like cucumbers either. You know, my cousin Tony, he can't sing. Oh... I can't sing either. My friend Tina... She doesn't like cooking in the afternoon. I don't know why, but she doesn't like cooking in the afternoon... she only cooks in the morning and at night. Yeah, she doesn't like cooking in the afternoon. She watches TV all afternoon. Oh... that's a coincidence, I don't like cooking in the afternoon either, ok? You know my neighbour Candace? She doesn't like the colour green. Oh... What do you know? I don't like the color green either. Well... you know, my dad. He doesn't like to work sitting down. He only works standing up. He doesn't like to work sitting down. Huh... Wow, what a coincidence, I don't like to work sitting down either, cool? So, someone doesn't like cucumbers, I don't like cucumbers either. Another person can't sing, oh... I can't sing either. Someone else doesn't like cooking in the afternoon. Wow, I don't like cooking in the afternoon either. That person doesn't like the colour green. I don't like the colour green either. So and so doesn't like to work sitting down. I don't like to work sitting down either. Are we cool? Cool!

Moving on.

Ok, here's the other way, you guys. This is so common. So let's say you only have a choice of two things, ok? You only have two alternatives for whatever, ok? Whatever.