what's the difference between as soon as and as long as that's what we're talking about in this video and by the end of this video you're going to know how do you use these two expressions confidently and add them to your vocabulary and having these expressions in your vocabulary are really going to help you sound like an advanced English speaker of course I'm Jennifer from Jeffress English comm and this channel is dedicated to helping you sound like a fluid confident natural English speaker now before we go any further make sure you subscribe and hit that Bell notification so you're notified every time I post a new video now let's dive in with this lesson [Music] what's the difference between as soon as and as long as that's what we're talking about in this video now this video lesson was a request from one of my students was seen and was seen wanted to know what's the difference between these two now in his original question he also wanted to know what's the difference between as will as now was seen as will Oz doesn't exist in English so you can just cross that woman out because that's not an expression but this is an excellent question because as soon as and as long as our really advanced expressions that are going to add some complexity to your speech because these are what we call conjunctions don't worry about that technical term you can simply think of them as expressions that we use to combine ideas so because we're combining ideas we know that our sentence is going to become quite complex and advanced by using these expressions so I'm really excited to teach these to you let's start with as soon as you can think of this as a time reference okay we're talking about time and as soon as you can translate that to immediately after okay immediately after something happens for example call your mother as soon as you get home okay so remember we can think of as soon as as immediately after so immediately after you get home call your mother so imagine you're walking home you open your door you enter your house okay immediately after so the first thing you're going to do when you get home is call your mother call your mother as as you get home now it's important to keep in mind that the structure of this is flexible I can use as soon as to start the sentence and I can say as soon as you get home as soon as you get home call your mother and they mean exactly the same thing another example send me that report as soon as you get the numbers so immediately after you get the numbers what are you going to do you're going to send me the report send me the report as soon as you get the numbers and remember we can switch the sentence structure as well so write in the comments below what would be the alternative way to write this starting with as soon as so pause the video and write that in the comments below to practice did you get it as soon as you get the numbers as soon as you get the numbers send me the report now let's talk about as long as as long as and as soon as are very different the only thing they share is that they both have as and as okay but they're used very differently now with as long as we're offering a condition okay this will make sense with an example sentence so let me give you an example I'll go to the party as long as you give me a ride okay so there's a condition right I will only go to the party if you give me a ride if you don't give me a ride I won't go to the party that's the condition so we use as long as for identifying a condition I'll go to the party as long as you give me a ride now just like with as soon as this sentence structure is flexible as well so think about this hit pause and change the sentence structure so we begin with as long as okay put your answer in the comments below did you get it as long as you give me a ride I'll go to the party another example I'll help you with that report as long as you buy me lunch so my offer to help you is conditional and I'll only help you if what if you buy me lunch right that's the as long as as long as you buy me lunch I'll help you with that report as long as you buy me lunch now again think about changing that sentence structure hit pause and write the alternative sentence structure in the comments below did you get it as long as you buy me lunch I'll help you with that report to summarize we have two great conjunctions as soon as which you can think of immediately after something and we have as long as which is used to offer a condition all right now you know how to use as soon as and as long as confidently now you practice make sure you write one example with the students and one example with as long as in the comments below and then change that to the other sentence structure so you get comfortable with both of them if you found this video helpful please hit the like button share it with your friends and of course subscribe and if you have a question that you would like me to answer for you in an upcoming video just leave it in and tag it with Q&A Friday now before you go make sure you head on over to my website J first English comm and download your free speaking guide in this guide I share six tips on how to speak English fluently and confidently and until next time happy studying alright awesome job today adding these advanced expressions to your vocabulary whoo-whoo don't stop there check out this video and don't forget about this video and make sure you subscribe and until next time happy studying [Music]