Learn the English Phrases NOWHERE TO BE FOUND and IN PLAIN SIGHT

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In this English lesson
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I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,
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nowhere to be found.
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When something is nowhere to be found,
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it means you can't find it.
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I'm not sure why we don't just say that we can't find it,
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but we often will say that it's nowhere to be found.
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Sometimes when I'm leaving for work, I can't find my keys.
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I look in every room in the house and I say to Jen,
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"Jen, my keys are nowhere to be found.
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Have you seen them?"
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So it's simply a way of describing something
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that you can't find.
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I also use this phrase quite a bit
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when I'm looking for the remote control
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when I want to watch TV.
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I'll say to my kids, "Guys, the remote control
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is nowhere to be found, who used it last
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and where did you put it?"
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So when you say that something is nowhere to be found,
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it means that you can't find it.
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And you could use this with a person as well.
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Like if someone disappeared,
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you could say that they are nowhere to be found.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the phrase in plain sight.
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Sometimes when my keys are nowhere to be found,
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when I do eventually find them,
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they're usually somewhere in plain sight.
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They're usually just laying on my desk, beside my computer
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or just laying on the kitchen table.
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When something is in plain sight,
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it means that it's not hidden, it's not hard to find,
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it's right there where you are looking.
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So often when I lose my keys,
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which does happen once in a while by the way,
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when I do find them, they are just laying somewhere
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in plain sight.
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Usually the kitchen table, sometimes by my desk.
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It's rare that I actually lose my keys permanently.
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Although that did happen once in my life.
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And I had to get new keys for everything.
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That was not enjoyable.
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Anyways, to review,
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when you say that something is nowhere to be found,
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it simply means that it's lost.
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And when you say that something is in plain sight,
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it means that it's laying somewhere
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and it's completely obvious, if you walk by,
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you would just see it.
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Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Renald.
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And Renald says, "I'm 59 years old
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and I think it's never too late to learn new languages.
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And it's very good to keep my brain healthy."
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My response was this, "That's a great point, Renald.
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For sure, learning a language helps keep the mind sharp.
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I plan to learn another language someday,
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other than French and English for that very reason."
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So thanks Renald for that comment.
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And that was from the lesson yesterday or two days ago
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where I talked about saying it's never too late
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to start learning English, or it's never too late
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to start something new.
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So Renald makes a good point though.
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When you learn a language, especially later in life,
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it's really good for your brain.
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It helps keep your brain sharp.
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If you only do the things that you always do
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and you never try something new,
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that's not good for your brain.
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It's really good for your brain to do new things
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all the time.
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So what's my plan?
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As Renald said, he's 59 years old,
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I think when I'm that old in about 10 or 11 years,
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I'm not gonna tell you exactly,
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I would love to start learning a third language,
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maybe even a fourth language,
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but I don't want to get too far ahead of myself.
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I certainly think that when I'm that age,
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I hope that I will be working a little bit less
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and I hope that I will have some time to do something
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like learn a new language.
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What language? I'm not sure.
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Maybe Spanish, maybe Chinese, maybe German, maybe Arabic.
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I don't know.
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I'll figure it out when I get there.
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At this point in time though, all I can say
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is that I'm too busy to learn another language.
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Anyways, I hope this lesson helped you quite a bit.
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I'm running out of things to talk about.
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So I'll mention one more time,
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for those of you that know
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there used to be a big tree over here.
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It fell over.
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The men who own this piece of land,
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it's two brothers, they're older and retired,
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they are actually slowly chopping the tree up for firewood.
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So that tree will keep someone very warm this winter,
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or maybe even next winter.
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