Conversational English - How to Generalize

“Overall“, “basically“, “on the whole“... Watch and learn a wide variety of expressions to discuss issues in general. Watch this lesson to improve your English in professional and academic situations. Then take the quiz: TRANSCRIPT: Hi. My name is Rebecca, and in today's lesson, I'm going to show you a number of words and expressions that you can use when you want to generalize about something, when you want to speak about something in general. Okay? So let's look at them. They're very useful when you're discussing an issue with someone, or if you're writing an essay, or a paper about something. You can certainly use these transition kind of words and these expressions. Here we go. Okay. So, here's the first one: “Overall,“ okay? You can also practice pronouncing them after me, if you like. “Overall,“, “Generally,“, &quo