Fala aí

I believe in you or I believe you?

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It’s a sort of natural approach for most English learners to translate directly from Portuguese.

One mistake is the use of “believe in”, as “acreditar em” when making comments like, “I was late for work because the traffic was terrible, but I don’t think my boss believed in me.”; or if someone says something that surprises you the response to your surprise is, “You don’t believe in me?!”

In English “to believe something/someone” and “to believe in something/someone” have different meanings. For example, if your teenage daughter comes home at 3 a.m. smelling of alcohol and tells you she was at a friend’s house “just watching movies”, you would say, “I don’t believe you!”

When you “believe someone” it means you accept that what this person is saying is true. In the above situation, your daughter is not telling the truth, so you don’t believe her.

When you “believe in someone” it means you accept the existence of or recognize the value of that person. So, if you don’t believe in your daughter, or son, or whomever, then you simply don’t recognize that this person exists. He or she means nothing to you, holds no value for you.

So “believe in somebody/something” is a phrasal verb, and is used:
1 to be sure that someone or something exists:
Do you believe in God?
2 to say that something is effective or right:
I don’t believe in these diets.
3 to say that you trust someone and are confident that they will be successful:
Believe in yourself, or you’ll never succeed.

Got it? So believe me: I believe in each one of you! 😉

Hurray!

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Hur·ray interjection

Hurray is defined as an alternative spelling of hurrah, which is a cheer used to express happiness, joy, triumph, approval, etc.: a shout used as in cheering.

When you win the lottery, this is an example of a time when you might yell hurray!

They have reason to shout

They have a good reason to shout hurray!

Let’s go!

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Let’s /lets/ is the short form of ‘let us’, used especially to make suggestions:
Let’s go!

Use let’s to make a suggestion about something you and someone else could do together.

Let’s… is a fairly firm way to suggest something, and is usually used when you think the other person will agree:

• Let’s go somewhere different tonight!

• Let’s start by introducing ourselves!!

Do not forget the apostrophe:

• Let’s go (NOT Lets go)!!

To make a negative suggestion, do not say ‘let’s don’t’. Use let’s not:

• Let’s not tell anyone about this.

• Let’s not go out tonight.

Speakers of British English also sometimes say don’t let’s:

• Don’t let’s argue.

Okay! Let’s learn something new every day! 😉

Hurray! I made it!

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Those who know me well, know what I mean! Hehe…”I made it through the winter!”

So what does “made it” mean?

you made it
or I made it
or we made it

Meaning

  • used to indicate that a person succeeded at something or to indicate completion of a task
  • used to indicate someone’s victory
  • used to indicate someone’s arrival

Example Sentences

  1. “It is so amazing that you made it because we heard that it was a very difficult task.”
  2. “Hey, you made it! I thought you were out of town all summer?”
  3. “I heard that you made a whole week without a single drop of alcohol. Isn’t that great?”
  4. “I’m so glad that you made it! I really didn’t think you would come.”
  5. “Hey Dan, you made it! That is such incredible news.”
  6. “I spent the entire day wondering if you would make it and then suddenly I realized that he would be busy as it was a working day.”
  7. “Jason looked forward to spending time with his dad after a year but he didn’t seem quite sure if his dad would make it.”
  8. “I still look at my parents after 25 years of marriage and wonder how they made it so far.”
  9. “I knew you would make it and I believed in you since the very first day we met.”
  10. “It makes me proud to say that you made it into the university on your first attempt.”
  11. That was a really tough job but together we made it now.
  12. Oh man, I didn’t want to cross the river, but finally, I made it.

Other Common Sentences

You did it.
You arrived.

I made or I’ve made it?

I made it is used with a reference to a specific time, often implicitly now or today. For example, one would say “I made it” after climbing to the peak of a mountain, or when saying “I made it as a professional swimmer on 2 January 1982 when I won the gold medal”.

I have made it is used without a specific reference to time. Thus, it means the event happened at some point in the past but the speaker isn’t being explicit about time. For example, “I have made it as a professional swimmer,” means the speaker succeeded in becoming a professional swimmer but isn’t being specific about the time that he succeeded. You are telling someone that, in the grand scheme of your life, you have done something.

It’s a very subtle difference. Here are some more examples:

Today I challenged myself to run a mile, and I made it.

I have always wanted to swim across the river, and now I’ve made it.

Theidioms.com

https://www.talkenglish.com/lessondetails.aspx?ALID=1073

https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/48310/i-made-it-vs-ive-made-it

Are you “on schedule”?

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I have already talked about the word schedule, but let’s refresh your memory and add a few more things.

Schedule – noun: ˈʃedjuːl, ˈske- $ ˈskedʒʊl, – dʒəl 

1 a plan of what someone is going to do and when they are going to do it:

a production schedule 

hectic/tight (= very busy) schedule

How can he fit everything into this busy schedule?

2 a list of the times when events are planned to happen, for example, the times when classes happen or when buses, etc. leave and arrive (UK timetable):

The class schedule is available on the website.

a bus schedule

a schedule of talks at the convention

3 a formal list of something, for example prices

a schedule of postal charges

a schedule of business expenses

Now, things can happen:

on schedule

at the expected or planned time/at the right time, not early or late:

The bus arrived on schedule.

We are on schedule to meet our targets.

Her first baby arrived right on schedule.

according to schedule

at the time or in the way that was planned:

If everything goes according to schedule, work will be complete in December.

Everything went according to schedule.

ahead of schedule

early, before the planned time:

The meeting finished ahead of schedule.

If things continue to run ahead of schedule, construction could be finished two months early.

behind schedule

to do less work than you planned to do by a particular point in time:

We are already two months behind schedule.

The project started six months late and continued to fall behind schedule.

run behind schedule

1 to arrive and/or leave later than the time that is expected, after the planned time:

The trains are running behind schedule.

2  to do something or happen later than planned or expected or to take longer than planned or expected: 

The doctor’s appointments are running behind schedule today.

 The doctor is running behind schedule today.

The project is running behind schedule.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/schedule

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/schedule

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/run%20behind%20schedule