This is an All Ears English Podcast episode 2309. Jump from B2 to C1 with these phrasal verbs.
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Are you afraid of heights? Today, get the subtle difference between the phrasal verbs jump off and jump from, so that you can tell your stories with finesse in English.
Hey, Aubrey, how's it going today? How are you, Lindsay? Good, but I have a burning question for you here. You ready? OK, let's hear it. Have you ever gone cliff jumping? Oh, yes. I used to go a lot as a teenager. You are crazy. What's the highest you've jumped from?
Probably about 30 feet, which I'm sure a lot of people have jumped from higher, but for me, that was very high. It was scary. And we were foolish teenagers and we hadn't like checked the water to make sure there weren't rocks. So I remember being scared about that too. Like, what if I hit a rock, but I also didn't want to be the lame one that's like, can I go down and check the depth of the water? Oh my gosh, exactly. Right. So it's kind of a peer pressure thing a little bit, right? You just kind of go along with it.
Oh, you guys will notice we use this phrasal verb jump from like, oh, let's say I assume jumped from got a great question about phrasal verbs jump from jump off that we are going to answer today. Phrasal verbs are tricky. Yeah.
are one of the things, especially the tougher phrasal verbs, these are the things that move you from the B2 to the C1 level. And I have a feeling, Aubrey, a lot of our listeners are thinking about making that move up into C1. What do you think? Absolutely. We just launched our C1 fluency course.
So if you want to get in there it's all yours English dot com slash c1 i agree those of you who are listening your understanding eighty ninety percent of what we're saying you are ready to move to that c1 level exactly and not to mention that now when you're in our courses i mean we've just launched even more new ways to connect and practice we just launched a chat corner.
Right? Where students can talk to each other and practice and chat. We are launching student-run speaking groups. We have fluency parties, open conversation club, weekly Q&A. I mean, it's just piling up, Aubrey. The ways our students can speak, but only if they're in our courses.
Exactly. We want to host and create all of these events for you guys to practice speaking. We know sometimes it's hard to find speaking partners. It's hard to get that speaking practice. So when you are a student in one of our courses, we are creating these opportunities for you. You got it. So go to allersenglish.com slash C1. You can still get that course. It's brand new. You want to get in now. So, Aubrey, would you read Matteo's question for us?
Yes, he said, hey, there, what's the difference between off versus from, like jump from versus jump off? Thank you so much. Love the show. Mattias. Nice. Excellent. Exciting. Great question. Unfortunately, we have some bad news for Mattias, which I already emailed him back on that. Unfortunately, with prepositions in English, with these phrasal verbs, the meaning is not consistent for one preposition. When it's added to a verb, it's different for every phrasal verb, right?
I mean, language is not any kind of mathematical equation or a memorization exercise, right? We're done with memorizing things in English. We are into learning in context here, right? Right. So when you add from, for example, the phrasal verbs made from came from, jump from, these all have very different meanings. You can't tell from the actual words what they're going to mean. A lot of phrasal verbs are idiomatic.
Mm hmm. Oh my gosh. Well, we're going to get into it. Don't panic, guys. That's the bad news. But the rest of the episode is the good news, good news, because we're going to make it very clear what the differences are between these two phrasal verbs here. But first, Aubrey, I do want to call out one of our amazing listeners, Mo in Michigan 21 is the username from Japan who left us a five star review just a few days ago on October 21st. Aubrey, how do you feel when you read these reviews?
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Okay. Absolutely. Love it. Yes. Okay. We're ready, Aubrey. Let's dive in. Yeah. So we're going to dive into these two metesus about jump from and jump off. So first, let's start with jump off. These are different, but it is pretty subtle. Jump off is you are leaping from a platform of some kind. So the destination is not as important as the place you're leaving. For example, he jumped off the roof.
Okay. Yes. Say that one more time. The destination is not as important as the place you're leaving. Is that what exactly? When we say jump off, it's more like, what are we leaving? What are we jumping off of? Right? So these are pretty subtle. These, the difference, this is one way to remember when you would use jump off instead of jump from. It's you're not at all focused about what you're jumping to. It's more about what you're leaving. What are you jumping off?
Okay, so jump off and that object, whatever that is. So he jumped off the roof. Or I don't dare jump off that cliff. It's too high.
Exactly. So this is interesting. And then if there's no platform, we would say jump out instead, right? He jumped out of the tree. You would never say you jumped off a tree because there's no platform. This is really an interesting, actually had to Google these like, what is wide? And then, okay, it's all about the platform when we're jumping off about the platform. Okay. Yeah. Any other sample sentences here that would help?
Yeah. So, and then for a jump out, she jumped out of the dark, right? We wouldn't say she jumped off the dark. There's no platform here. So we're jumping out of things where there's no platform and then the cat jumped off the roof, right? She jumped off the third floor. Who knows, right? Anything where there's a platform, we would say someone jumps off that platform. Got it. Okay. So jump off plus platform. Right. Exactly. What you want to think about is,
This now we're going to move to jump from. We use from when we are still jumping off something, but it's more about what you're jumping onto. You're jumping off something else. Okay. So it's a subtle difference, but the meaning is slightly different, right? So for example, the squirrel jumped from branch to branch. So it's about the squirrel's journey across these branches. It's not about where he came from, what platform he came from.
So you could say, the squirrel jumped off the branch because then we're not at all concerned about where he's going. But if we're talking about he's moving to something else, we'll say from branch to branch. We also use this metaphorically a lot. We've jumped from topic to topic a lot during this conversation. Yes, which is what usually happens in normal conversations. We do tend to jump around a lot. And there's another one. Jump around.
We will go into that one tonight. I know there are some with every preposition. There's a different meaning, right? But at the top of the episode, Lindsay asked me, what's the highest I've jumped from? And this is an interesting use of jumped from where we're talking about the height, right? But it's still sort of about the destination. You've jumped from a cliff, but we're thinking like you've jumped from a cliff into the water. So we use jumped from whenever
the destination matters. Okay. Is there going to be a part two of this episode, Aubrey? Yes, glad you asked on the Business English podcast. I'm planning a follow up with a lot of the phrasal verbs we use with jump in business at work. Jump at, jump out at and jump on. We use these a lot at work when we're talking about things that we notice, things that draw our interest. So be sure to hit follow on the Business English podcast so that you don't miss part two.
Oh, I'm excited for that one. Well, let's dive into a role play Aubrey. And here we are at your house. All right. Do you want to start us out? All right. Oh, I didn't know you have a cat. Yep. This is Sammy. He likes to jump from the chairs to the couch. What's the highest he jumps from?
Oh, he jumped off our armoire and that's about 10 feet high. Oh, wow. I bet he'd jump off the roof if he got stuck up there. I'm asking, is he going to jump on to me? Like, exactly. We'll try to figure out what does me do. Exactly. Right. I don't actually have a cat, but it's interesting when we're thinking about jump off, jump from that it's pretty specific situations, right? So I'm like, this is going to be easier to talk about a cat often when we're talking about something jumping from thing to thing, jump off.
maybe children jumping from your furniture animals. This is when we talk about it the most really. I love it. So let's break this down. So I said, oh, I didn't know you have a cat. And you said, yep, this is Sammy. He likes to jump from the chairs to the couch. Exactly. And I could have said, oh, he likes to jump off the chairs. He likes to jump onto the chairs. But when I'm talking about the destination from one place to the next, then would say jump from, he likes to jump from the chairs.
and just go back to the example of the monkey, right? Was it a monkey or a chipmunk or something? Or a squirrel. Oh, squirrel, okay. My mind is a monkey from branch to branch. From branch to branch. It's like a journey, right? Jumping from here to there. Yes. And then you said, what's the highest you jumps from? So when we're talking about the height, then we're using from as well, I said, and then I said, we jumped off our more.
Wow. It's about 10 feet high. Cats can jump down pretty well and be fine. It's true. It's amazing. There's land on their feet. No, it's amazing. I know. I know. I know. And then you said, I bet he'd jump off the roof if he got stuck up there, right? Absolutely. Have you ever jumped off a roof, Lindsay?
Can't say I have I'll bring you to that too. Are we a lot of your past year? I know there was a lot of snow. There were big snow drifts. So in the winter, we would jump off the roof into the snow drift. That's fun. Yeah. But I also had to, our roof wasn't that high. It was a single story and we would play this game where we would throw a ball over the roof and sometimes it would get stuck behind the chimney. So we would have to climb up there and then jump off the roof after.
Oh, that's so funny. I'm surprised I didn't break more limbs as a child. I know. You're lucky. You got away with a lot as a kid. Wow.
So this is interesting. We actually did an episode not long ago about phrasal verbs 2107 right here on Ollie's English. Check out these English phrasal verbs. We have talked about phrasal verbs a lot because just like you said, Lindsay, these are really a way to up level your English level, to move from B2 to C1. Often native English speakers won't use the regular verb, but they get more creative and more informal with phrasal verbs.
Yes, I love that. You got to master these phrasal verbs really when you get to that C1 level. It's the time to make sure we know them. We're integrating them smoothly into our conversations to convey the meaning. We want to really say exactly what we want to say. There's a lot of cases where there's no other word except for that phrasal verb to convey exactly what you're trying to say.
Yes, exactly, especially where a lot of them are idiomatic. You can't tell from the actual words what suddenly it means something totally different, right? Yes. We want you guys to know that, you know, the difference between jump off, jump on, to use it to sound more native and natural. They are subtle nuances often between these phrasal verbs.
Yeah, but these are the differences. Once you learn these, if you're at the right level, guys, commit to this because once you learn, it will build your confidence. Right? And that's how we move up into that C1 level. So Aubrey, thanks for being on and telling us your stories of jumping off tall things. Yeah, no problems. Right. We'll see you on the next episode. Have a good one. Awesome. Thanks, Lindsay. See you next time. Bye. Bye.
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