Learn the English Phrases AS GOOD AS NEW and BRAND NEW - An English Lesson with Subtitles

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So I always buy used vehicles.
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I have never bought a new vehicle
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because I find that if you take your time
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and if you spend a lot of time looking and researching
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and trying to find a good used vehicle,
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it is as good as new.
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If you buy a vehicle that has very, very few kilometers
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on it, if you buy a vehicle that has very little rust
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or no rust, and if you buy a vehicle that was taken care of
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by the previous owner, it's as good as new.
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So the English phrase, "As good as new,"
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means exactly what it sounds like.
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It's when you buy something that is used
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but it's in such good shape, it's in such good condition,
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that it is as good as new.
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So I do this with vehicles, I don't do this with computers.
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I usually buy my computers new
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and I buy my vehicles used because used vehicles,
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for me, are as good as new.
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So this question came up once in one of my English lessons,
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"Why do we have the phrase, 'Brand new,' in English?"
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So I can say, I always buy my computers brand new.
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I like to buy a brand new computer every couple of years.
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And why don't we just say, "New?"
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Well, it's because something's new, it's new for awhile.
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So when I buy a computer, for about a month or two
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after I buy it, I tell my brother or I tell my sister
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that I bought a new computer.
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But if you buy a new shirt,
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and it's the first time you are wearing that shirt
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and someone says, "Hey, is that a new shirt?"
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You could say, "Yeah, it's brand new."
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And it kinda means like it's the very first time
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that you're wearing it.
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It doesn't have to mean that,
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but certainly brand new means that you bought something new
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and you bought it fairly recently.
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So I don't buy a lot of things, like clothing, very often
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but when I do I'm always happy
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to have something that's brand new.
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