Learn the English Phrases HARD TO FOLLOW and TO FOLLOW IN SOMEONE'S FOOTSTEPS

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn
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the English phrase "hard to follow."
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Hard to follow simply means
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that something is hard to understand
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or it's hard to keep track of what's happening
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when you're watching something or reading something
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or when someone is talking to you.
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Hopefully, when you watch my videos,
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they're not hard to follow.
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Hopefully, they are easy to understand.
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I know sometimes when you watch an English movie
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or English TV show, it might be hard to follow.
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You might have to pause and rewind
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and maybe turn the subtitles on every once in a while,
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because sometimes people just speak too quickly
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and it's hard to follow.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is "to follow in someone's footsteps."
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When you follow in someone's footsteps,
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it means you do the same thing as they do.
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Usually this is between generations,
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like when children do the same job as their mom or dad,
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we say that they are following in their footsteps.
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Often, this happens on farms.
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Often, farms are taken over by the next generation.
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Sometimes the son or daughter of a farmer
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will follow in their parents' footsteps
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and they will do the same thing as their parents.
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They will also become farmers.
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So to review, not sure I explained this one good enough,
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but when something is hard to follow,
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it's simply hard to understand.
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Again, I really hope my videos aren't too hard to follow.
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I hope they are easy for you to understand.
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And when you follow in someone's footsteps,
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it usually means that you do the same thing
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as an older family member.
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Sometimes grandkids will follow
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in the footsteps of their grandparents.
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Maybe their grandfather was a mechanic
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and one of the grandkids has decided
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to become a mechanic as well.
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We would say that they are going to follow
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in their grandfather's footsteps.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from, I think, Yellow DQ 1989.
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And the comment is this.
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"You just need a Clarkson's Lamborghini tractor."
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And my response was, "That would be amazing.
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I love that show. So fun to watch."
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So what Yellow is talking about is a show on Amazon Prime
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called "Clarkson's Farm."
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"Clarkson's Farm" stars Jeremy Clarkson.
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He was a presenter on "Top Gear" and "The Grand Tour,"
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an automotive show, for a very long time.
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I think he still does "The Grand Tour"
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but he also has a little show now called "Clarkson's Farm"
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where he farms in England and he has a tractor
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that's made by Lamborghini.
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A very cool tractor.
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I'm assuming it's made
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by some of my Italian friends in Italy.
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And he is just learning how to be a farmer on his big farm.
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Maybe I should have a Lamborghini tractor.
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I'm not sure if you can see my tractor down there.
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My big tractor is also broken.
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I have two broken tractors right now.
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My small tractor and my big one.
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So hopefully the repairman comes to fix my big tractor.
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It's down there in the field. It's really little.
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Maybe I'll try to zoom in on it when I edit this video.
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Hopefully the repair person,
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hopefully the tractor mechanic comes today
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and he's able to fix that one.
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The tire on my other tractor is still not repaired.
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I have to go get that later today.
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Hopefully, within a couple of days,
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both my tractors are working again, but it's not a rush.
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I'm not in a hurry because the sky is dark again
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and you probably can't tell,
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but it's actually starting to spit right now.
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When it's spitting,
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there's just tiny, tiny drops of rain coming down.
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So looks like another rainy day.
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You can't do a lot of tractor work on a rainy day anyways,
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but hopefully I get the tire fixed on my little tractor
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so I can hook a chain up to my big tractor
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and bring it up to the farm yard to get fixed.
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See you in a couple of days
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with another small English lesson.
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Bye.
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