What are the senses in English?

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I've never been this tall in my life.
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Hi.
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James from engVid.
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Today, we will learn about the senses.
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We will learn about a famous artist called Picasso, and he will help teach us about touch,
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smell, seeing, hearing, and tasting.
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Why these are important?
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I know you're not a basic student.
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You probably know these words, but what I want to do today is to show you how we take
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these words and we integrate, which means put together, these words in our language
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to have a higher meaning.
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So, we'll go over the basics, and then we'll go further than that.
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Are you ready?
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Let's begin.
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Okay.
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I'm going to start off with taste.
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Okay?
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Taste with your tongue.
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When we talk about taste, we can talk about food.
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We taste food.
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You put it in your mouth.
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Now, when you put it in your mouth, you get the beginning of the taste of the food.
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After a little while, you get what we call more taste, fuller body.
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But this is interesting because what it helps us to understand is the beginning of understanding.
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When you get a taste of something, you begin to understand it, just like when you put it
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on your tongue, you get a small piece of what the rest will be like.
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Okay?
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Is that good?
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You like that?
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So, taste leads us to beginning to understand.
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Here's the best part.
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After you begin to understand and you have a sophisticated or elevated understanding,
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we lead to what's called class.
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Prince Charles and the Queen have class because they understand things the rest of us don't.
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They are higher, you'll see.
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Yes.
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So, they're not at the beginning of understanding with a taste.
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They have class and are superior.
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Yes?
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So, when you say someone has class, it means they have a very deep understanding.
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They're no longer at here.
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So, sometimes we say, "They have a lot of taste."
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Good class.
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Like that?
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So, we go from beginning to deep in the same word, taste.
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What's the next one?
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Touch.
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Touch.
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Well, touch.
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Touch is, you know, ding, ding, ding, ding.
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I'm sure right now you're doing this, okay, because I'm trying to touch you.
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Yeah?
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It's like 3D.
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Yeah?
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3D movie.
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Special effects.
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Touch means contact.
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When you touch something, contact means the two come together.
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Touch.
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Yeah?
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So, when we go from this, we can go up to two different things.
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Many Canadians or English speakers say, "Stay in touch.", "Keep in touch."
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And you're saying, "Why do you say 'keep in touch'?"
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Remember contact?
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It means the relationship we have, I want to keep together.
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I want us to stay together.
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So, we will keep in touch, sometimes by mail, snail mail for you young folks, or email,
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right?
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Email people or face each other, FaceTime, yeah?
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The other thing we talk about contact is feeling.
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When I say something touched me, it touched my heart.
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It means it came from deep feeling.
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So, when you watch a little girl with a, you know, sitting there with a little dress on,
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and the sun is out, and a puppy comes up, and it has a flower in its mouth, and it looks
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at the girl, and the girl looks down, and your eye starts to water, and you say, "That
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touched my heart."
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See, it touched my heart.
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It made me feel something, so that's a touching moment.
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Or, "I was touched by what you did for me.
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I felt it in my heart."
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So, we've done taste, we've done touch.
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What's the next thing?
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Well, let's look, or can you see where I'm going with this?
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Can you see?
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Smart.
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Can you see where I'm going?
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We're going to look at see.
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When we see something, we use our eyes, right?
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We talked about touching, right?
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We touched, sorry, touching, we talked about tasting, but when we see, if you look over
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here, see, we use our eyes to see.
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We see, with our eyes, pictures and movies, okay?
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Now, you look at pictures.
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What does that mean?
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When we look at it, we're actually searching for information.
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I look at a picture for it to tell me what it is and what I'm looking for, but we can
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also use the word see, or when we say see, look for information.
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So, we go from see to look for information, but you can also look at the emotion on someone's
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face.
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"He looked pained," pained, it's like, that's constipation, watch.
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Don't try it at home.
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It's not good.
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Constipation means you cannot go to the bathroom, you cannot go to the toilet.
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So he had a pained expression, if he looked pained, or he looked excited, all right?
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We're talking about the look or the emotion on a person's face, yeah?
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Next, we can look at different types of seeing.
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We talked about look, look for information, all right?
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Okay, did you see it on the Internet?
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We can talk about looks, the types of looking.
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So there's staring, this is staring, I'm still staring, see that, blink, stare, okay?
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We can glare.
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If you don't like this, watch Mexican soap operas, they're very good at this, "I am Don
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Diego."
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Mexican soap operas, very good, or Bollywood, they do it well as well, okay?
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There's a glance, sorry, glance, Americans and Canadians say, "I glanced at it."
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What that means is to look quickly at something, whoop, I'm finished, see, whoop, I'm finished,
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there, I glanced at you.
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So if somebody says, "I'll glance at your work," it means I'm not going to read every
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word, no, I'm not, I'm going to look, one, two, three, four, I'm finished, I glanced
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at it.
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And it means I quickly looked at something, right?
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Or if I glance at you, I look quickly and look away quickly.
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Instead of stare, I'm not like glare, which is angry eyes, okay?
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Now also, when I say, "I see what you're saying," I mean understand, I understand you.
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Remember we talked about taste as the beginning of understanding because it's on your tongue?
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When you look at something enough, you really understand it, so you get a clear picture.
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So you say, "It's clear, easy for me to understand," or I go, "I see what you mean, I actually
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do see a picture in my head."
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Do you like that?
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Good, because we have two more to do.
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So I said we have two more, so let's take off.
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So we had these ones, looking and staring, but you don't always look and stare.
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Sometimes you -- do you smell that?
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Do you smell what the rock's cooking?
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If you're from the '90s, you know it's a wrestler, but we're not talking about the rock.
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We're going to talk about scent, sniff, and bad.
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When something smells, it gives off a scent.
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Humans give off scents, food gives off scents, flowers give off scents, and your cologne
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or hopefully you're wearing some deodorant, that gives off a scent, which means a smell,
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usually a pleasant smell.
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So if I like your scent, I like your cologne.
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All animals have scents, which means individual body smell.
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Humans have a scent.
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Trust me, don't have a shower for two to three days, go someplace, they'll tell you.
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You have a scent, a very strong scent, but they'll change the word to odor.
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So when somebody says, "That is a nice scent," it means you smell well or you smell good.
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You have an odor, usually bad, that's an odor, okay?
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Sniff.
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Well, how do you know something smells?
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You do this.
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So I'm smelling this.
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Don't smell that, it's good.
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Sniff means to take in a little bit of air to get a taste, remember?
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A taste, beginning understanding of what something is.
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So what does that smell?
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Sniffing, you will find out because you'll get some air that will give you the smell.
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Now sometimes we talk about smell as in something smells bad.
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Remember we said bad smell for food or for people, right, dead fish?
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Watch out for dead fish, okay?
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I'm just saying that.
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Figure it out.
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You'll learn when you learn more English, okay?
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Watch out for dead fish.
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Anything that smells bad, we say that smells bad.
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But because of that, we don't like it.
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When we say something smells bad, we can talk about situations.
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I'll give you an example.
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You come to my house and I say, "Okay, here's what we do.
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You're going to leave me $1,000, okay?
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You're going to leave me $1,000 on this table here.
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You leave it on the table.
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Then what you're going to do is you're going to leave, you see, you're going to leave and
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you're going to come back in two weeks.
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And in two weeks, that money will then become $2,000, just like that.
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I guarantee it.
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Now you just go and leave the money, okay?"
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Well here's what's going to happen.
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Your friend will go, "Okay."
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If you've got Mr. E, "Mr. E's not here.
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Now he is.
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Mr. E is here to save the day."
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He'll go, "James, this smells like a bad situation.
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I don't think we should leave the money."
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Because he's saying, "I don't like it.
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Like I don't like the smell of bad fish."
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Understand?
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So situation's smelling bad.
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Now finally, we're going to go to hearing.
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Dumbo, big ears, hearing.
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Hearing, right?
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With your ears.
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"Listen to me when I'm speaking.
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When I say that, I mean I want you to focus, because if you listen now, I will go over
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this very quickly and you'll understand all of this, okay?
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So you need to focus."
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Or in that case, when I say, "Listen to me, pay attention."
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Interestingly enough, the word "understand" comes up again.
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I'll finally explain "understand" in two seconds.
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When I say, "Listen", I'm trying to say, "Try to understand.
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I don't think you understand now.
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I want you to try.
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So you need to listen and focus, pay attention, and try."
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That's why we say, "Listen to me."
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But here's something really interesting.
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If we go from hearing and we go just to hear for sound, boom, that's a sound.
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You weren't focused and not paying attention because you didn't know I was going to do
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that.
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But you heard the sound.
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It's usually unexpected, like, boom, didn't expect that either.
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That's just the sound.
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Or traffic.
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If you hear the cars, you're hearing sound.
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You're not focused.
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There's things coming out.
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But when we use the word "hear", we also use it to say, "I do understand."
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Notice this is different.
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"Listen" tells you to focus so you can try to understand.
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When I hear you, I do understand.
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I don't need to focus.
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I have sympathy.
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We are the same.
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I understand completely.
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Now, if you look here, we have "understand" for "listen".
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We have "understand" for "look".
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We have "understand" for "taste", beginning, middle, and end.
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Why?
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Because we use our senses, which is what we're studying, to understand the world.
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We get a beginning of it, we can try to, which is the middle, and then we fully understand
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and get a picture.
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Do you get the picture?
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Does this look like it's right to you?
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Does it seem right?
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Do you hear what I'm saying?
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If you do, you're just getting the smallest taste of English, but it tastes good, yeah?
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It doesn't smell bad.
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It tastes good.
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And what I want you to do, though, to get more of a taste is this, because you're just
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beginning to get a taste of it.
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Go to www.engvid.com, where you can go and learn more of the lessons, other lessons we
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have for you.
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And we like to keep contact with you, so we want you to stay in touch.
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You can go there and do our quizzes, and go and leave comments.
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It's a fantastic way.
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It'll touch your heart, right, leaving you feel good when you're done, right?
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Okay, so I'm done.
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I've talked too much.
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This is a long lesson.
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I see you get the picture now.
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You understand what I'm saying, right?
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I hear you're saying it's time to go, so I'm going to take off, and I'm looking forward
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to you staying in contact and coming to the website.
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Ciao.
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