Learn the English Phrases TO HAVE A TASTE FOR and TO DO SOMETHING TASTEFULLY

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you
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learn the English phrase to have a taste for.
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When you have a taste for something,
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it means that you like it.
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And it can mean food.
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It can be used when talking about food, let's say
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that I used to only eat standard North American food,
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like hamburgers and hot dogs and pizza,
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but I'm starting to have a taste for Indian food.
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Maybe I've started eating Indian food.
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And I really like it.
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I'm starting to have a taste for it.
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You can also use this about other things besides food.
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Maybe you've been in charge of something.
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Maybe you were elected mayor of your town
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and now you have a taste for power.
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You liked being in charge of other people
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and now you have a taste for it.
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So when you have a taste for something
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it means that you've experienced it.
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You like it.
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And you want more of it.
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Whether it's food or something like power.
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The other phrase I want it to teach you today
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is the phrase to do something tastefully.
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When you do something tastefully, you do it
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in a way that is very pleasing
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for people, in a way that doesn't offend people.
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Sometimes when people decorate for, let's say a wedding,
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they want to decorate tastefully.
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They want to decorate tastefully,
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so that people enjoy the decorations.
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They enjoy what everything looks like.
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You don't want to decorate a place
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in a way that offends people or annoys people.
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You want to do it tastefully.
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You want to do it in a way when, so that when
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people look at it, they're like, this looks really cool.
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This looks really nice.
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There's nothing offensive about how this has been done.
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Hopefully I explained that well.
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I tried to do my videos tastefully.
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I don't know if you've noticed that.
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I try to make sure I don't say things
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or do things that annoy people.
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I try to make the videos as tasteful as possible.
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I try to do them tastefully.
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So to review, when you have a taste for something
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it means you like it.
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You like doing it.
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It's enjoyable for you.
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You have experienced it and you want more of it.
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And when you do something tastefully
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it means you do it in a way that pleases people.
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When they look at it, when they hear it, when they see it
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they just enjoy what you have done.
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But Hey, let's look
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at a comment from a previous video, I thought for a second
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there it fell out of my pocket.
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Did you see me go like this?
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It's in my back pocket.
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It was in my right pocket, not my left one.
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This is from Ðhin.
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And the comment is this.
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While I was watching your video
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my mum gave me a heads up that the water was going to boil.
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I often do something else when cooking.
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So, and then thanks for the lesson, Bob.
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And my response is this a watched pot, never boils.
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This is an old English phrase
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that my mum used to say when I was waiting for something.
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So thanks Ðhin for that comment.
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And yes, that is a phrase.
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When I was a kid,
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sometimes I would be waiting for something.
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Sometimes I would be waiting for a delivery truck to come
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or waiting for something to arrive that I wanted.
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And my mom would always say, Hey, Bob
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a watched pot, never boils.
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And what she meant by that was that when you're waiting
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for something, it takes longer for it to actually happen.
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We, we say this to our kids now, jokingly
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we say a watched toaster never pops
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up because sometimes our kids are waiting
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for the toaster to pop up and it can take a very long time.
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Hey, so I did buy a little, a thing
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a little quick release thing so
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that I can take my camera off of the tripod easily.
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I'll try to walk around a bit.
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I was told to make sure
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that I don't move the camera too quickly
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and that I allow people to see what's
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beside me by turning it slightly.
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So I'll try to do that.
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I think Julia asked in the last video
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what this tree was called.
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I actually don't know.
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It is simply a flowering tree.
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It's not a fruit tree that bears fruit,
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but it is some type of fruit tree.
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It might be a flowering cherry tree or a flowering.
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Yeah, actually I don't know.
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I should have asked Jen
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I'll put it in the first comment below.
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I'll find out what the name of the tree is.
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Anyways. See you in a couple
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of days with another short English lesson.
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