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Alex • 1-Beginner• slang• vocabulary Texting slang – jk, idk, ttyl, cya, tmi, np, k Want to understand what your English friends are texting you? Here’s a helpful lesson that teaches you some common text language. For more text language, watch Ronnie’s texting slang lesson. Related Lessons Describe people in English with animal adjectives & idioms: sheepish, sluggish, fishy… Driving in English: Car & Road Vocabulary Speaking English – Pregnancy & Having a Baby How to succeed in your JOB INTERVIEW: Behavioral Questions English Listening Practice: Improve your vocabulary! Alex English Phrasal Verbs You Need to Survive…the Zombie Apocalypse! Idioms in English – Parts of the Body English Vocabulary – GET English Grammar – 5 Ways to Use Infinitives Why “Just Watch English Movies” Doesn’t Work Quiz

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Test your understanding of the English lesson by answering these questions. You will get the answers and your score at the end of the quiz. The movie was really terrible... jk.just kidding.just joking.just kid.jack kidder.Call me later, k?can you?kidding?okay?won't you?Uh, please stop talking. tmi.too many igloos.too much information.too much explanation.too much implication.Gotta go. ttyl.talk to you lately.this time you're lucky.talk to you later.talk to yellow lights.k, cya.okay, see you.okay, later.okay, see me.okay, see ja.npnear petrol.no problem.no party.no pandas.idksee you later.Indian dance club.talk to you tomorrow.I don't know. Next Question LEAVE A COMMENT

183 COMMENTS

Marvellous!!!!!!!! Really enjoyable!!! My pleasure!!!!!!!!! 7/7 is so nice. Many tx.

fatiima8

i like tmi!

diana35

:-bd

legonia

It was really, very nice, thanks

jai

Tks teacher ALEX, you’re so kind!Very nice lesson. Lily from Brazil

Eliete

tmi hahaha jk

falcon00

all useful word thank you

asaher2011

Great lesson

zevictormed

etau.excellent teacher as usual.

azza

Idk whether to tell you Alex, but you’re really good teacher. You gave me tmi, and now on that way extended my vocabulary. If you don’t reply to my message, np, I’ll understand. Jk, ttyl, k? :)

Merlin

Thank for your lesson. cya :)

lbunrith

I did´nt like this lesson. OH! Sorry! JK. hehehehehe

Valldecy

i like it. TY

mochamadsoleh04

I just want to say thanks Alex, great lesson. cya.

Efrain

verey good you’re aggood teacher & we need more expretion

hebaragab

I really like this lesson, and the teacher is amazing

Dianne

really very nice thank you teacher alex

lion africa

very good thanks Alex cya.

imejia60

Great lesson Alex. Cya

Jose

To Alex and Valen ,thank you . You are wonderful.

Mustapha

its very fun

sara

It’s really easy and funny to understand it. Thanks

mikebryant2807

4/7

pouh87

interesting the lesson !!! , cya

Luis

Very interesting lesson, I have never heard about it. I think that Cya should be Syo

sergiobrauna

What does means “Yo”? I heard it in some rap music.

alexdiaz73

It’s just an interjection, like “hey” or “yeah”.

engVid Moderator

Thanks. Really enjoyable!!!!

Irina

Very useful lesson. Could u plz make a lesson in “Word families “, such as : family – familiar – unfamiliar – familiarity. By using this way, I think it will be easy to memorize lots of words. thanks.

Abeer

Nice lesson…I like the way u teach

Tamara

It’s very useful! Thanks alot!

Lisan Komachi

Thanks very much, i got a great knowledge from you, you r great.

abadhussain12

Thanks. cya

juancapsico

wonderful !!!!!!!!!!!

leo lizard

I like it thanks!!!

blums56

thank you , a nice lesson, it’s really useful,cya :)

Star

Thanks a lot.It’s really a good lesson. cya.

Abdullah Arif

really very beautiful lesson thanks teacher:)

ALi kadhim

I love that languague!!! it could be brazilian native languague.

piancci

I agree. Should be.

marciosms

thanks you’re excellent

nabilbalo20

very new fr me >>>

shuraimatiq

Thank you:)

kasiek

Good

iskswati

Sorry, why i’m wrong…explane to me.

travaglio01

Dear Sir,

Thank you very much, it’s a good lesson

Thank you Ramu.

rampek

amazing:)

niveen25

Websiet really very beautiful and teacher very good Mervat

Mervat

thank you good lesson

alsir2012

I want make sentences for my kid learning classIV.How can I get those sentences as I provide the word?

Abhijit Roy

Thank you, it’s a really good lesson

Angi

Hi Mr Alex . i ve watched ur lectures over more than 220 and feel proud of being ya student who grabbed couple of knowledge and information . The more i seek knowledge , the more i benefit . Well i have something not relating to this site but something that can be catogarize as “other” . Well i guess u must have heard of the world famous Canadian popsinger known as Justin Bieber . Can ya tell me where he lives or give me his address so i be in contact with him all time as ur living in Canada so u must be well aware of his address bye if ya dont mind plz!!

chunanamotana

I personally like to have the address of Stephen Harper…

milly

And here’s Stephen Harper’s contact information: http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/contact.asp

engVid Moderator

:D I DON’T BELIEVE IT!!! I was only joking!!! But thanks anyway!!!

milly

Try his Twitter, Facebook or Tinychat — links here: http://j.mp/A3JyT0 Best of luck…

engVid Moderator

Fast and effective communication is a good way to save time.

Fabio

uhmmm,Cya…. lol

obaidullah00

Thank U ,good lesson

faigkerimov

thank u

steeve829

sir i want to improve my spelling mistake in english. plz help. me for these mistake i am fail in english subject plz tell me what i should do.

lia

sir u will not help me.

lia

i want to take the test, but button “quiz” doesnt work, somebody help me please. thks

haydar007

Please update your browser.

engVid

thanks lesson is awesome post more vedio on texting slang …………….

KAM GILL

thank you. could you teach me how to use shall and will?

rajitha

Lesso is WEll prepared!!!!!!!!

Ahmed

Hey Alex!! Hi! Can you tell me how much is important to use new words vocabulary in compositions??? IS it good to use new words???or not Plz Reply……!!!!

Ahmed

i like it.

awol

Like it!! TYSM- thank you so much :)

arash

thank you

bulgaa

Alex, thank you

Iko

thx

akramou

k, np idk tmi ttyl cya pd jk

rogolfopar

Hai… What is correct meaning of ‘out of’? ‘Build a palace entirely out of chocolate’.. Does it mean that build a palace without chocolate or with chocolate?

dileeptp

I got 7\7 thnx Alex

raghodah

I didn’t like this lessons ..JK ! :D I loved it

do96rotka

great lesson, thank u :)

retno dwi mp

I hate this lesson. JK! Thank you one more time Alex and

leandrocae

6/7. np. I enjoyed this lesson

Hanan

i wanna kno what iz the meaning of 2 wards i heard alot smh _hmu

bosycat99

I really appreciated this topic cya!!

Lima

7/7. I’m very happy. your lessons are very helpful.

ceyhunkarimov

gr8 teaching??? lik it …….

tenzing rabga

Its very deadly and I like it

saravana

it’s almost 2 a.m. and I’m still watching your videos. ENGVID staff you’re doing a great job. I love all of you!!!! many thanks..

Sergei

very interesting,Thx a lot :)

ia23

thanks

ia23

tanks

ia23

easy memorize it :P thanks you teacher alex ..

Louis chan

alex!!! you are great!!!!

gordi

zzzzz. jk

jaime

thank you very much it also helped me some words like ttyl,np and tmi!

ibrahim magale

thank you so much!

jiye

woooooooooooooooo. thanks

husna

Dear Alex, Thks, may i know what is the tax languagenof “TOMORROW” THK A.

Ramzan Hosen Bhuia

it was asick lesson

hadier

Mam.a ton thanks for your lessons..could you be kind enough to teach me about the pronunciation of letters ‘c’ and ‘j’? like,they are pronounced very differently. As in,for example:1)Nachos(pronounced as -ch) 2)Camera/Arctic(pronounced as -k) 3)Jos (pronounced as -Joy ) 4)Jose (pronounced as -Osay)

mikhil

Pretty awesome!!

jxdones

Hi,Alex YOU are brilliant thank you

noor

Thank you!!!

Tural

How interesting!

gvantsa

I really like you and Rebecca… I think you are both soooooooooo gifted… very good teachers!!!! salute!!!

Yuu En Mee

Very useful lesson especially if you make use of programs as Skype or Facebook. Thanks Alex

yar123

www. engvid.com is the best website where I can practice. Thanks a lot I love canada

benjaminstudent

I really like it. May you make some more lesson about texting slang for us? tx. Vân from Vietnam.

Vân

Thank you Alex. Thank you engvid.God bless you all!

dkwg4j

Alex ! what a great lesson …… On the other hand, it´d be ah-mazing if u came up with a idk how to put it …like “laughing text speak”

Cheers …..

Julian

nice lesson thanks

rabbani

thanks a lot.it was enjoyable.some more would be excellent.

mostafa jafari

A very useful lesson,thank you.

buthynah

Excellent!

chudika19

very good movies

moez

very good thanks.

mansoureh

that is very useful ,thanks

jiaocuihua

Thank you ^_^

muudkung

ALEX YOU ARE THE MAN, TK FOR THIS CLASS

mghc618

7\7 Thank you :)

reqah

Thanks

sid

wooow that was so very bad-ass! well done man

warsame

ty! (thank you) :D

indigo1207

thanks my best teacher alex i wanna you be successful in your life you helped me in english and also i wanna improve my english by this web site thanks this was agood lesson for me and other thanks alot

zaher

your the best teacher alex this lesson was very intresting thanks iam zaher mohsini

zaher

hi alex your the best thanks iam zaher mohsini

zaher

And again score 100 :D

aida29

100 ! Weeeeeeeeeee :D Upeee

jimmysaenz90

hey teacher thanks alot i am just confused of using who . whom and whose can u please help me of how can i use these words or if there is a video illustrating the usages of these word plz write it down ????

sarahmahmoud

I have mo words! I like it too much, thank you!

Suzan

wonderful lesson

charoule

Thanks for all of the comments, guys! I really appreciate them! Happy Holidays to all of you!

Alex

Thank u that was very useful.

mohd-safi1

It made my concept clean and clear…

engvivid85

I really liked this lesson, perfect! I learnt a lot. thanks. cya,k

luizproficional

Hi Alex We use LOL that means “Lots of laugh”. Thank you.

zana

Alex, thank you for this lesson. I have just one question. Can I write cu instead of cya or isn’t it very normal?

evgeniya28

Very helpful lesoons!I appreciate your working!!!!

petrywka1992

Thanks sir

firrizadam17

Thx u so much :)

yihe

that’s wonderful thx so much

bismark

I, really, don’t like your classes! jk…

JUMMA

Really, I am fond of your lessons, and this is just as piece of cake .

Ammar Naqa

i think evry american teenager has ths bulit in lol ily

dannibot

Thank you Alex about your video’s prepositions (at,on,in)

aliabdullah

My nickname is JK, an abreviation of my name, but i didn’t know that JK is a slang that means “just kidding”. It’s very good to know it.

JKAlbuquerque

Thank you Alex, this is excellent.Really appreciated.

manoj72133

When I was younger I am used to text using too much abbreviations. But know I try to write as accurately as possible. Very interesting!

tiagojuarez

Good work Alex.

Loren

Thanks got 100%.

Abdul Qayum

What a boring lesson, jk ;) Thanks a lot Alex :)

tumadzik

thanks so much :) now much more easier for me to talk with my friends ^^

ThanhThuy1912

Awesome..like it

nada.nemo

Thank you very much!

Iamhere.

Thanks mr.Alex and i like more text language

aliimat

tks Alex, very good class

manosoares

LOVE IT :D

Star Above

TKS and BRGDS.

Chessman

7/7. ttyl

ann ann

Hi i have a question how use scare,afraid ,fear? please thanks

Nury t

very good

moacy

thanks Alex!

alex1999

It was k. Thanks.

challenge41

Thanks you so much

Marta Lopez

These are very interesting. I didn’t know that but now I got it. Thank you Alex!

Young Kyung Lee

I like this lesson, thanks!!!

Minhaj Alam

It is very interesting lesson teacher!

Nsengiyumva J.M.V

I think that “CYA” is a bit strange… Why don’t you use “CU” or “CUL” for “See You Later”? Maybe, you can be the first to do it ;-)

andeasy

I have only knew idk, great lesson!

alice009

nice video Alex!!

DylaCR

I got 7/7! Thanks Alex! Good lesson!

robi75

I had 7/7! Thank you so much Alex! You’re agood teacher

dragonsvip123

Thank you

kheireddine007

10/10 thanks for teach us Alex

HYGOR SOUZA

Thank you very much!

Jonathas Wilhem

7 correct out of 7. cya ttyl k :D

Tammyjang1

thanks too much

slah

Hello dear my teacher! Hope you’re doing well! I’ve a question for you: 1. How to download the videos which are available in this web site? thanks!

Nazir Ahmadi

Sorry, our videos are only on YouTube!

engVid Moderator

Hello! Teacher, I’d like to know how to read mathematical symbols? your sincerely: Nazir hussain

Nazir Ahmadi

Thank you so much SIR

Mohammadullah Mohammadullah

Great lesson

Mohammadullah Mohammadullah

I got 6 correct out of 7

younesmohamad

Just an FYI (For you information); depending on the context, cya could also mean “cover your a** (butt)”

SANSd20

thank you for this great lesson

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