English, baby!

one-on-one

Date: Nov 08 2007

Quote

1. Quote - Listen to the quote and guess what the slang means.

“It’s an ongoing dialogue about what living means. It’s not like a one-on-one dialogue. It’s more what you feel back from them.”

Musician Bruce Springsteen on the 30-year relationship between him and his fans. (Rolling Stone)

Definition

1. Definition - Study the definition.

one person speaking to or playing against another

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

If you want to talk to someone alone, you say you’d like to speak him or her one-on-one. Or if a teacher gives you some special help after class you can say you got some one-on-one advice. When you’re talking about talking, one-on-one means a conversation between two people with no one else around.

Bruce Springsteen views his career as a convertsation with his fans. But the conversation is not one-on-one. Springsteen is one, but his fans are many and they do not speak with one voice. Springsteen gets a general feeling from his fans and responds to them based on that. It’s a lot less direct than a one-on-one conversation.

Examples

1. Examples - Hear some example sentences.

“You think you’re good at basketball? Let’s see. Let’s have a game of one on one.”

“I need to talk to you one-on-one about some serious issues.”

Winners

1. Winners - See who guessed the slang definition correctly.

	it's something private and individual....only two persons can be involved in such a process or dialogue tete-a-tete, face-to-face, hand-to-hand by Ol'ka
	interaction between two persons. One-one-one coaching or one-on-one training are the opposite of coaching a group or training a class. One-on-one training is a customized training for one person.In this case we have just the trainer and one trainee by demsy
	i guess the means is only two person--one and another together! by Whisky_Dut
	one person face to face confronting another person. by babyxiao
	one-on-one dialogue means between only you and one other person by Red-Onyx
	two persons talking by anna1
	a Conversation between two person personally by Adi Putra
	between 2 persons by pauldorsa
	i guess dat "one-on-one" means, in this particular case, a conversation between only 2 people, u telling me ur ideas and i telling u mine by m@nuelm@d
	one person to one person. by rascal22
	one person opposite other person by nostsaber
	one-on-one is when two persons talk....just them two,without anyone else to add anything. by swedishbabe
	between two people,involving only two of them. by Hyrma
	It mean being direct communication or exchange between two people or when someone works with only one other person by fullmooninthenight
	1 to 1, a person with another by kiojohn
	directly between two people by smilekhj
	it means it is between two people only by ammarfd
	between only two people by INNOVATIVE PIONEER

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DaeNg

Thailand

Only you and I not another to do something together.

peyman1athlete

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

very useful lesson.thanks english baby.

chelinitz

Chile

Good tip!!

fnidou

Morocco

it’s not my favorite lesson

kareenakocchar

India

Hey, thats a really nice way to make your child learn her english lessons!! when you have hindi as your language, your child dont get hold of the english that much!! I generally make sure she watches english cartoon movies!! I have heard this site called hushbabies, where there a number of board books to buy for!! I recently got her pictorial dictionary , and she is totally loving them and learning quite a few things!! you can check out more here-

http://www.hushbabies.com/category/books-cds-picture-books.html