Advanced English: Can You Understand this Real Conversation? (Topic: 2020)

hello this is jack from tofluency.com

along with kate and we are back with

another conversation where today we're

going to answer your questions for those

people who are watching live we're also

going to talk about life at home

during these times

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youtube okay kate how you doing today

i'm doing just fine how are you all

right yeah yeah just moved into this new

office

it's close to downtown where we live it

might be a bit echoey

but i'm sure it will be fine and yeah

we're going to talk about life living at

home um

and

during the times of lockdown

it's been a while hasn't it

oh it's been it's been quite a while

maybe even almost

a half a year

well it started at the end of march so

oh i mean since we've been talking oh

since we've been talking yeah yeah oh

it's been a while yeah yeah we've been

meaning to do it for

two or three months but we just haven't

haven't found the time have we yes

um our daughter is currently

outside

and um hopefully she's not going to

disturb us but if she does then we can

just go on a quick break

but yeah we want to talk about lockdown

life today and

i'm sure you're going to learn a lot

from this in terms of learning english

because we're going to be using everyday

phrases about living at home

trying to just organize stuff

find schedules etc

um

what's been

the best thing for you

we've not we've not planned this but

what has been the best thing for you in

terms of

being at home over the last three months

or so i think to be honest it's really

hard to describe

one positive thing because i think that

the experience for me

and for a lot of people has been a

little bit of a roller coaster so

there's been different faith even though

nothing has really changed that much and

in terms of um

what we do or don't do with the outside

world at home we went through several

phases we went through i went through a

bread making phase

i went through a meal kit delivery phase

so i would order boxes with recipes and

make different things every night um

and currently i'm in an exercise phase

yeah yeah that's true yeah they've been

different phases

um

and i remember some people talking about

the different phases in terms of

the tiger king was one phase

that was a show on netflix that was

fascinating

and

really

surprising

um a reality tv show yeah which was

that was early on right and yes when we

were at home not going out at all

hardly really meeting anybody

yeah and then

watching

tiger king

we're not gonna watch it

and then we did yeah

um

some people are saying we can't see you

what has happened

um let me know in the chat

um if you can see us and if you can hear

us okay

we'll we'll just continue for now and

we'll start again if there is an issue

but yeah that that was um

one of those things where

we enjoyed the tv our children were

going to bed at a good time of day

and we were having a little bit of a lie

in but

it it seemed like we were ready just to

be at home

and you were making bread

so much bread i forgot about the bread

it was sourdough um bread

and uh yeah it was that i remember those

times because we felt we were

hunkered down

right yeah explain what that means

um well

why don't you because it's it's your

phrase yeah i would say just kind of

like taking shelter

taking shows staying inside yeah it just

means like when you get all your stuff

you need and you stay put you stay home

now yeah kate mentioned a phrase before

wrote a bit of a roller coaster which

means ups and downs yes and that that

was like

well every day was like a roller coaster

at first yeah a little bit yeah

and just to give you some context we're

in north carolina in the us

and

it's been

a lot down i guess since

late march

things have eased up a bit but there are

still quite a lot of restrictions in

place

um

yeah you went through that phase i

i also went through a little bit of a

let's just eat everything we can

and

drinking

a little bit too and having lots of

coffee uh-huh yeah there was there was a

lot of coffee a lot of

a lot of so the city that we live in is

very famous for its beer

specifically craft beer

um and

right when all of this happened a lot of

breweries were really in trouble

because they depended on people coming

to the brewery

and

drinking beer there and so they were

basically trying to

almost give away beer so

we were supporting a local business and

also ordering craft beer

and drinking coffee and it just it was a

very

strange

surreal time yeah but there were there

were definitely silver linings

yeah

and even now it's still a little bit

strange schools are closed or they're

going to be closed

um we have to do virtual learning and

we're trying to work out exactly how

we're going to manage our timetable yes

um

kate has a job i do this

our children are going to be home

nearly 24 hours a day

yes so we're trying to work all that

stuff out um

one thing i think over the last few

weeks has been incredible

what the pool

yes so we joined a local pool

where they restrict access to people um

so it's never that busy

but it's been so much fun to go to the

pool

and our daughter's learned how to swim

yeah she's um three and she's just a

little fish right now

she's like running and jumping in

um doing cannonballs

um

yeah she's just taken to the water and

she's been so determined to work on it

every day so that's been a that's been a

great thing yeah probably a highlight we

also went through a phase of

clearing lots of stuff out the house yes

and getting stuff uh-huh um

yeah we we were very

focused in that time weren't we yeah in

terms of

all right we need to sort out the garage

or garage as you say we need to go

through all of our stuff we need to get

all this stuff done

um

so yeah it's been it's been quite

interesting the phase i'm in now is

really focused on

setting and

hitting goals

and i think you are too

yeah

um so you have a fitness phase

do you want to share what this is well

this is kind of like the

the opposite side of the bread making

and beer drinking

um so um

and the not getting really outside a lot

to move

um so i started doing

pilates yeah with our neighbors so one

thing that's also come out is even

though we're not really going out and

socializing with people we formed a

little pod

with our immediate neighbors who have

kids about the same age

um and so our neighbor and i

decided to try pilates

and oh boy it is

it is every muscle in my body is in pain

right now but in a good way is today day

four today's day four yeah but it's hard

polite is hard it's really hard work

yeah so you're doing that

um i'm in a similar phase as well when

it comes to fitness where i want to work

on fitness

and get strong and

you know eat well

et cetera yeah

the pendulum could swing the other way

and we could be back to making sourdough

and drinking beer in a few weeks but now

we're really enjoying this

and i'm also in a phase of uh

no caffeine

which has been a journey yes so four

weeks ago i gave up caffeine well

two weeks prior to that

we gave up coffee

because we felt we were drinking too

much and it it was it wasn't doing good

things for us

so we gave up coffee yeah we were always

jittery jittery and just felt i felt

anxious because of coffee uh-huh yeah um

but we gave up the coffee

i substituted coffee

for

lots of black tea

so i had six cups seven cups of black

tea a day i was still so tired

because no coffee

and then four weeks ago i gave up coffee

and it was easy just no worries at all

not true you have been napping like a

champion you have been taking a nap

every day well nearly recently i haven't

napped as much

i did nap in the office yesterday

i got recently not as much means like

every day for the past week no once one

day

once in the last seven days

that's

in the day before that too no and the

day before that no yes honestly i've not

been doing it that much but i'm gonna

gather evidence i used the acoustic

panel

as a mattress

acoustic panels as a pillow and then the

blackout curtain is a cover oh my

goodness i was so tired i just had half

an hour i was wondering about that

because you're you're still unpacking

and moving into the space but i could

have sworn that those acoustic panels

were not there before well i put them

there to stop the echo

should i grab one and show it

if you want no no no it's a little bit

we're we're stuck in here we found the

perfect spot uh so yeah we're now in the

phase where we want to hit goals and get

stuff done and

i'm

i'm working on new courses for for you

all

making new videos doing these live

lessons you're doing your fitness and

maybe starting a new job

and working with you too on yeah working

here with to fluency

and yeah i think we've we feel like

there's a fresh start now with the new

office space um

my son is in camp this week so he's he's

doing stuff outdoors

feels fresh again doesn't it

yeah

i mean it's so hard and i'm i'm sure

that almost everywhere in the world has

gone through some kind of

change and we don't know how much of it

is a permanent change and how much of it

is temporary and what new might be ahead

but

it's i mean there's there's a lot of um

a lot of things that are hard right now

but also some really positive changes

perhaps yeah and it depends doesn't it

um

it's going to be really difficult for

families who have two parents working

and then thinking what they're going to

do in terms of school

because the schools aren't going to be

open

and that's going to be a big challenge

for a lot of people

you know a lot of people have lost their

job

um people have got sick obviously as

well

and then

there's just big changes in the world

we'll focus on

some of the bigger changes in terms of

not the dire consequences or dystopian

futures

but because you know we've talked about

it

but not here not here not now not into

fluency

um that's that's what we try not to

think about yeah that's true

uh so i'm looking at some of the

comments as well we're gonna answer some

questions so be sure to leave questions

and

and there's some funny ones here

but

big changes things like

it's very difficult to think about

how a restaurant

is going to survive moving forward

because new york the new york mayor's

just come out and said

all indoor restaurants will be closed

until june 2021

wow and then restaurants aren't going to

be having outdoor space come october

november december yeah through march

so there are all these big changes and

people don't know exactly what's going

to happen things like travel travel is a

big one

and we're looking at vacations but

there are only seven countries that

accept people from the us right now

um

some good countries but you know it's

very restrictive isn't it but there are

big changes what what have you picked up

recently

um in terms of big changes i think

i think that a really big piece of it

that has um

so there's obviously the safety measures

um people

are

can i grab yours

yeah yeah people are wearing masks we

have oh i'm a mask you've the mask yeah

yeah we have masks when we go out this

is jack's mask

matches his eyes

um

very important i picked it up

i feel proud

um so we have we have masks we're

staying apart from people but just the

shift to try to be outside

you know yeah i think that there's a lot

of um

there's a lot of times where we tend to

be inside because it's more

um comfortable comfortable yeah with

heating and air conditioning and now

suddenly we're thinking about how can we

do as much outside as possible

yeah definitely

yes some schools are going outside

completely yeah which is really smart

yeah because we can stay open that way

yeah um

yeah lots of big big changes uh we've

got people saying i'm from barcelona i

can't work without my dose of caffeine

that's esther

i'm i'm still drinking the tea he he

completely quit caffeine but i still am

having tea and dark chocolate but so i

was thinking back

to times of when i might not have had

any caffeine so just to go back in the

caffeine thing

but when i was working i had

tea every day

but i was thinking when i was traveling

i never woke up and thought i need to

get tea or coffee

i don't think i ever had coffee in south

america

you were just

you were just caffeinated on life yeah

well

energized not caffeinated

but i was thinking back to that and i

thought

that's when i had the most energy and i

felt great so but we'll see

some people are saying i look like i'm

from the 1960s

and uh commented on my mustache

uh

yeah

it's just a

temporary thing i think i just so i

shaved the other day and i thought i

wonder what i'll look like with a

mustache you do look a little bit a

little bit like the 1960s

bringing it back

i like it

um

i drink coffee five times a day

are you guys in the us now yes we are um

my sister lives in a coffee producing

state in colombia close to the capital

city

yeah i was in colombia

just

straight after we met

in 2007

see

someone says try mate a drink in uruguay

i will yeah

so yeah

excited about yeah

i mean not for you not for me still has

caffeine but i'm i'm still drinking

here's a question which you prefer soda

um coca-cola pepsi or tea

hmm

soda i mean

well we we don't drink soda do we we

drink um this is not sponsored by

waterloo no but this is sparkling water

and we really like it don't we yeah you

drink a lot of the sparkling water yeah

i mean i think you like that more than

yeah i like i like tea a lot

i think that there's a huge variety of

tea not just black tea but

i like to try different things like chai

and um

traditional tea and herbal tea and

there's just something really i think

comforting

and energizing about the ritual of

making tea and letting it brew and yeah

yeah i've been drinking a lot of

peppermint tea

we got far too much of it well then how

many tea bags of black tea did you get

oh my gosh i ordered

it it might be i ordered it off of um

amazon and it it was a bigger box a

little bit more than i usually would

spend usually i buy a box you know about

that big and so i thought oh well this

will be great um but it turns out it's

like it's big it's a huge box of um

one of my favorite kinds of black tea

which is also the most popular kind of

black tea in the uk where jack is from

is called pg tips

and um

it's

it's not very aromatic like it doesn't

have some of the flavors of like an earl

grey tea

or um a chai tea but it's it's just

basic standard black tea but it's really

strong

and it comes in these little bags that

are shaped like pyramids anyway now i

have like 800 of them so

i'll be alone drinking my tea in my

house did you have coffee in turkey

so i was talking about turkish coffee

yes and it was phenomenal

um

what are your thoughts on or what what

do you think about tattoos

i think we have different thoughts on

this i don't like him

but

do you

i mean i do

and i i don't have any um but i was

thinking about getting one

um and i was thinking about getting like

something from nature

like a tree or some leaves or flowers

um but it just to test it out before i

talk to a tattoo artist

i got these temporary tattoos they're

really nice they're like you know wild

flowers and

branches and so i tried them in

different places and every single time i

saw it instead of being like oh wow i

really want this i was like oh

what is that on me so i figured that i

didn't want it for real but i'm still

considering

yeah

listen yeah we

yeah i i don't think i'll ever get a

tattoo no i don't think you will no

i re

i remember

thinking oh i might get one when i was

really young

but i'm glad i didn't oh my gosh i'm so

glad i didn't get one when i was really

young you might say that if you get one

now

you know

i'm glad i didn't get one when i was 33.

but i also feel like you know something

something natural

i thought you were 33 for a second no i

ruined them

let's see but i mean i i could have

gotten something like a it was very

popular to get chinese characters it was

really popular to get tattoos on your

lower back all the soccer players were

getting

chinese japanese characters here on the

forum

and

yeah i'm glad i didn't do that

me too

um or like cartoon characters or

something like that people are asking if

the government gave masks to citizens

oh boy um

not

no no

no no no

mainly

grocery stores and restaurants will have

them mm-hmm and then you need to wear

one to enter

there

but

yeah you don't you don't get them for

free

there was a stim so we got a stimulus

check here

some people got them yep they're talking

about giving a second one

but it was a one-time check yes four did

everyone get the same amount

it no it depends on how much you earn

up to a certain point

but they're talking about a stimulus

check is a check from the government to

stimulate the economy

and to help people out

people also got um

unemployment benefits as well

some will say masks are

mass our business these days

yeah yeah they are i've seen a lot of

celebrities selling their own

branded masks really yeah maybe we

should get a fluency mask maybe

i'm trying to think i think that i would

want to give it away for free though

well a lot of people donate the money

sure like profits go to

stuff

that makes sense

um

it's quite a lot of stuff here

what about the expression is it cool if

what does that mean

um it's kind of the way that i would

interpret that expression as as asking

for permission yeah like hey is it cool

if i sit here like do i have permission

to sit here

um

yeah it's american

is it cool if i drink your last

sparkling water

no

there we go

it's not cool i'm out of uh herbal tea

yeah so it's not cool with you okay um

let's see do you play soccer so suckers

not happening at the moment

there's no league right now i'm playing

a little bit here and there you are

playing like recreational soccer with a

few friends

but it's not the soccer league

we were three games into our new season

in our new

league new division very competitive oh

yeah jack went up a division he got

promoted two promotions in two years

team captain team captain over here

the key is just to get really good

players on your team

and to make everyone happy with you know

fun stuff yeah

but

yeah we um we've been playing a little

bit just out in the field there were

only four of us on sunday

but it's fun i like it

goals

gotta keep playing

um what do you think about a covered

vaccine how long do you think it will

take to be ready

um

i mean

i don't think it's ever gonna come you

don't think so i

i think that

um it's it's hard to predict and there's

a lot of i feel like it just depends on

what you read

right because because there's a lot of

things that are

promising a lot of things that are

not promising and then a lot of things

that are just kind of could go either

way

really well we won't talk too much about

about vaccines

for some reason i think in a lot of

countries um vaccines are not a

political issue

they're not really

contentious people don't argue about

them but for some reason like vaccines

are

are in the united states we've got some

so many questions we'll try and do them

quickly okay um rapid questions oh and

i'm gonna just phrase a question using

the the correct grammar okay but can i

just answer yes or no have you eaten a

twinkie

no you've never eaten a twinkie no

i haven't my so my mom was very

health-conscious growing up um so we

didn't eat unhealthy food i wouldn't

know what a twinkie would look like

um allah has donated

sck-20

is that south korea

you are great guys keep it up thank you

very much thank you

um

yeah i've never had a twinkie before but

that's like a stereotypical

american

like treats candy bar

um oh yeah

um

i i heard that twinkies will never um

biodegrade

yeah they that could be an urban legend

i think i heard that through the day

actually yeah that they have so many

preservatives in them that they will

just last forever yeah i bet they're

delicious what when they're

out for six months

still tastes good yeah no but i bet they

taste

nice

but

but in that horrible way oh yeah like it

tastes kind of artificial

yeah

um people are saying what's a twinkie

it's just like a

i think it's like a like a pastry almost

that comes in a plastic wrapper and it's

filled with um sugar sugar

sugar

it's a sugar pastry

treat uh-huh yeah what do you think

about the um trilogy between cormier and

uh miocic

this is ufc

i have no idea

no idea

but you don't know what it is or you

don't know what you think i don't know

what i thought i can't remember who won

those the only reason i know call me age

because he's his fight was postponed

against jon jones

but i like ufc do you like it

nope

i love i love but everyone's so

surprised when i say boxing is my second

favorite sport

um people just are really surprised by

that

i'm trying to think of what my favorite

sports would be horse riding probably

um

uh and then pilates oh yeah i don't know

if that's a sport i think it's just pain

right now

are you scared to travel right now

i

i would say yes

but not for the reasons that you might

think

it sounds like you're an undercover

agent

secrets

yes yeah yeah i'm

mainly i'm i would be scared about

traveling in terms of you get to a

country and like lock down

for six months yeah don't come out your

apartment i think i think that that's

the part that scares me is feeling like

um

transportation

rules um yeah the way that you interact

with people is just really uncertain

right now and that there aren't a lot of

alternatives

i read a headline today

so it's a headline

so i don't know much about it but it was

something like only one person

has

got coronavirus from

air travel

i know it's a headline

but mm-hmm you know

maybe

the filter in the air in a way that

kills it i don't know do you mean like

on an airplane on an airplane oh yeah so

i'm not i wouldn't be too worried about

that in a sense but it's more about the

the rules yeah as you say and you know

getting stranded somewhere

having to be in lockdown inside so

someone was here from cambodia i was

going to tell you this and you ran out

the door remember i said i've got

something to say and then

no i can't got to go tell me tomorrow

but it was

the countries where u.s citizens can

travel to

and where they have restrictions so in

cambodia you have to pay a 3 500

deposit

like a coronavirus deposit in case you

get hospitalized i don't know why there

but it's just you pay the deposit

and then you get it back at the end

but there are again there are only i

think 10

10 countries that are allowing us

citizens without any restrictions

and we're we love international travel

so much

well we had tickets booked to go to

europe in july

and um

we thought this is not going to happen

in march

right yeah and they're um they're flying

this the flight again but they canceled

our ticket and now it's really expensive

and we would have to quarantine

quarantine and

you know yeah it just doesn't make any

sense no we don't need to go

no that's it but then family can't see

us either oh my gosh so but not being

able to travel is just making me miss it

so much yeah i'm craving it especially

your sister

might travel to spain for her birthday

and

i would love to go to that's only in

eight weeks

uh lolly lolly thank you for the

donation from france

and we've got questions about movies and

also kids learning english oh yeah um i

think

and also did they reimburse you yeah we

got a refund on the flight

but someone says

um how do you recommend to start

english listening for my child he's six

years old

um so

what i would recommend doing

are two things

um because

six is relatively young

um and so i think that it's really

important to keep it fun and interesting

so

songs are a great way to learn english

and they get stuck in your head so

you're kind of practicing them and

repeating them even if you're not

and then just practicing

like a little phrase together so

you learn a phrase like i don't know

cut the vegetables and then you can

practice it kind of as you do that with

your kid

um and

tv

in english yeah

yeah our children can only watch tv

during the week in spanish yes so we are

giving them spanish lessons yes i mean i

still feel a little bit guilty because

they've gotten to watch a lot more tv

than usual but i'm but they've they

haven't gotten fluent in spanish by any

means but they've really picked up on

like the language the rhythm of the

language and the cadence um and the

intonation they'll start

they will start understanding more

without knowing that they understand it

yeah and that's really important

um i think it's going to be great

yeah now

another question was

uh do you guys have any suggestions on

good movies recently released

or even good old ones

we don't watch a lot of movies do we no

i wish i love movies yeah

we're going to watch hamilton

soon

old movies what about some old movies

that are good for

learning english

for some reason i can only think of like

really violent movies right now like

tarantino

films you don't want to learn english

that way

or maybe they do oh maybe i hope not

um

it's hard isn't it movie recommendations

yeah um

you know what that might be a good one

for us to like take home and think about

and come up with a list um

we'll do a video on movie

recommendations and talk about it yeah

we can do like a little plot synopsis

and

yeah

the only one i can think of is donnie

darko

but that's i don't know if that's a good

movie

she's one of my old favorites

i always think of it when

i think of movies

yeah we haven't watched a lot of movies

recently i actually think uh some

children movies are good because the

language is simplified and it's more

everyday english so we have moana for

example

you know

and also watch movies that you've seen

in your native language then you can

understand what's happening in a general

sense

and then you can

enjoy it yeah and i also think that like

when you're not trying to solve the big

picture questions what's going on what's

happening

um you can really focus on the language

like you know what the situation is and

what they might be saying to each other

um and then you can kind of put it

together yeah yeah

people are saying the office

james bond

yes um the office especially the only

thing about

i think with the office there's a lot

there are a lot of cultural references

and that's i remember

when i was learning spanish and focused

on it

that always

confused me when there were movies and

tv shows with lots of cultural

references because you think you don't

understand what they are like catch

phrases

punch lines

that being said

i think that it's impossible to

try to learn a language in in its native

context you know because

english is also a way to communicate

between people who speak

two different languages in a different

country and so it's not relevant but if

your goal

is to also um

become fluent in english

culturally that's kind of the best way

to do it so some of the jokes might not

make sense but the american office i

think is pretty relatable

and they practice a lot of everyday

phrases you know they're always coming

into the office and saying hello they're

always

planning meetings and so i would

actually say that the office would be a

great one what about

reality tv

um

reality tv yeah

or vlogs i think vlogs are a great way

to learn as well because people talk

about their everyday life and a lot of

them would say just use those simple

phrases like i've just got back from the

coffee shop

and i got this and i got that later i'm

going to see this person and we're going

to do this

and then they have conversations with

people but it's always

it's visual and it's real life stuff so

i think vlogs are a good idea

um

yeah i think it's it's good to do that

never watch reality tv someone says

harry potter forrest gump oh forrest

gump

that that's a great way as well to

understand a specific period of american

history or several

yeah but no like the 60s 70s right

so

because there are a lot of it's in that

backdrop of

vietnam war and

hippie 60s

civil rights movements

um

that's pretty interesting yeah and

forest gump some of it was filmed here

was it yeah i did not know that blue

ridge parkway okay when he's running

oh really and i think also on the

biltmore estate

there's some scene there too

that's interesting

that's a fun bit of trivia i watch i've

seen that so many times

um

let's see

any other questions keep the questions

coming in

yeah we'll go for a few more minutes

um

are you able to practice spanish in your

city esther asks

that's a great question um

not

as much as we used to we could we could

yeah we we absolutely could there's

plenty of spanish speakers we have

friends who are um

spanish

natives natives of spain

um mexico and mexico who we can talk to

um in colombia and colombia we end up

kind of defaulting into english yeah a

lot we normally degree

yeah

and everyone's just speaking english but

i would i would like to

practice more

yeah

someone says i'm a big fan of gaming

and watch all the gaming community

content in english that's the key isn't

it yeah like find the thing that you

like find your niche and then learn in

that because if you're trying to

learn something new and trying to like

something that you don't already like

then it's then it's going to be extra

hard work

yeah i talk about finding stuff that you

find interesting but also stuff that you

can understand

because

you know what it's like if you start

listening to something and you can't

understand anything you just don't do it

so um i like to build up the listening

too so you

listening to the news was a stepping

stone for me to then understand other

things in spanish and then i just

listened to mainly spanish football

podcasts

that's what i'd like to do i need to get

back into that

right now back into something yeah and i

do though i do need to get back into

speaking spanish

yeah

someone says i don't have the chance of

practicing english in my country how can

i improve my speaking

to fluency method

go to tofluency.com

and then um just look at some blog posts

also

if you go to my channel home page

the embed or the pinned video the video

you see at the top

is all about that method

someone asked do you have pancakes at

the moment

i just made pancakes this morning yeah

yeah i i think if if we mean the same

thing by pancakes um yes i made i made

the kids and myself pancakes for

breakfast this morning yeah it's

frustrating because kate makes the small

pancakes

and then i make a giant one and then i

flip it in a pan have you seen me do it

yet no i'm very good at it i'm sure but

the first time the kids were really

impressed

now they just want small pancakes i know

i mean

they are very good yeah

wait till they want tiny

pancakes but that's funny pancakes yeah

we in the uk we have uh pancake day

it's around lent time um and that's when

i remember

a lot pancake day yeah my grandma used

to make them

i used to have six pancakes or more

and it was lemon and sugar oh lemon and

sugar so more like a crepe style pancake

yeah

um well we have pancake day too

it's called everyday yes um

and we usually eat our pancakes with a

little bit of maple syrup yeah drizzle

just drizzled on top just a tiny bit

mm-hmm there's a lot you can do with

pancakes pancakes are good they are

uh someone says i'm learning english by

my own and i love your channel

thank you

what's your favorite foreign accent

i'll hmm it yeah go for it i like

i like russian

mm-hmm i am

i also like french

i guess that yeah french and russian are

the two that i think of what about you

i kind of like all accents

i i know but i do do you have a favorite

one

um

at the moment i've been

in terms of english accents yeah people

speaking with the foreign accent yeah

english i know but um

probably

i'm trying to think i i also like um

french accents and

um

but really and truly

i i like most accents yeah and i think

it's really worth

saying

a lot of people want to reach a stage

oh

battery exhausted

okay so you can hear us but you can't

see us

so at this stage yeah we'll say yeah

wrap it up wrap it up but i just wanted

to say as well

that

it's important to say

if you have a foreign accent it's a good

thing

yeah it sounds so good yeah well also i

mean i think that there is a point where

you want to try to

achieve some of the the sounds so that

you're

you're comprehensible yeah um but also

that by no means are we

um trying to erase

people's identities or the way that they

speak

um because it is

what makes the english language so rich

is that it's

it works well with other languages and

words and

yeah

no it sounds good like when you listen

to foreign accents

it's just really good to listen to you

all right so what we're going to do is

um we'll end it here we're going to make

another lesson soon

what what did we say

movies and tv shows yeah movies and tv

shows we can go through some of our

favorite movies and tv shows we can

bring in some quotes as well and test

each other with it

i think that would be fun yeah but yeah

if you uh if you're new here

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but luckily we still have the audio yeah

so yeah we're just saying bye bye

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um so yeah thank you so much for being

here and we'll speak to you all soon

it's so dark in here

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