How To Speak Fluent English Like A Native - Follow These Simple Steps

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If you KNOW a lot of English but can’t express yourself FLUENTLY…
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The fastest way to become a confident, automatic SPEAKER is to learn real, conversational English
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in easy, natural steps called The Fluency Bridge.
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This simple system helps you learn SPOKEN English without being overwhelmed by too many
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difficult speakers, words or accents all at the same time, AND develops the HABITS you
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need to speak without hesitation.
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In this video, we’ll now look at TWO of these important steps – learning conversational
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vocabulary and then seeing this vocabulary used in a real conversation between native
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English speakers.
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To see how the COMPLETE Fluency Bridge learning system works, click on the link in the upper
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right of this video.
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Let’s get started!
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Next, to do something on your own two.
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Now, this is one of those English phrases where we have something that we're eliminating
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some of the words to make it sound a bit cooler.
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But also because the other natives we’re speaking with understand what we're talking
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about.
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Now, to do something on your own two, maybe doesn't sound very precise to non-native speakers.
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They think two what?
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Well, the answer is your two feet.
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And this is the idea of being able to stand up and do something yourself.
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So, especially, like, in the conversation, we're talking about men and women.
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And, like, the, the two girls or not girls but the younger women, were speaking to me
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and saying, “Well, like, you know, it's nice if a man can stand on his own two.
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Uh, and this just means, like, it's nice if he can be assertive.
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If he can do something by himself without having to be told or whatever.
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So, this is to, uh, to be able to do something yourself, basically.
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So, to, to, to be able to manage something by yourself.
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To be independent.
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So, you don't need help from other people to do something.
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This is to do something on your own two.
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uh, we also talk about, you know, which, which person does the approach.
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So, like, if a woman looks at a man in a bar, and then it's his job then to walk over.
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Or, does the woman walk over and initiate the conversation, and we talk about this as
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making the first move.
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So, who makes the first move in a situation like that?
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Does a man approach and then make that, you know, make the first move to, to try to talk
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to, talk to the woman?
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To approach, to flirt with her, to initiate that, or does the woman?
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They have, they have to do it on their own two.
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Like, sometimes you know, or like…
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Sure.
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… there has, have been guys, like, I’ve dated where,
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um, I’ll make more of the m, the f…
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Mmm, the first… … the first moves, and…
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… moves.
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… and then….
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Mm-hmm.
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They have, they have to do it on their own two.
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Like, sometimes you know, or like…
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Sure.
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… there has, have been guys, like, I’ve dated where,
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um, I’ll make more of the m, the f…
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Mmm, the first… … the first moves, and…
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… moves.
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… and then….
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Mm-hmm.
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Next, it's a special case.
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A special case.
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Now, a special case, a case just meaning like a legal case or a court case or a criminal
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case.
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This just means a particular situation.
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Uh, but a case, and you'll, you'll hear this word case used in conversational English a
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lot.
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I actually hear Japanese speakers use the, uh, the kind of Japanese version.
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They say case-by-case.
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Uh, but this is from the English expression, it's a case-by-case thing.
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So, maybe one person can't do something, but this other person can do it.
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So we have a rule, but we apply it on a case-by-case basis, a situation-by-situation basis.
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So, maybe when we're talking about something being a special case, it's usually special
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meaning that, uh, it doesn't apply the rule, or the rule doesn't apply to it.
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Or, something where maybe ten people should follow the rule, uh, but this other person
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here, he's an expert.
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So, he's a special case.
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He doesn't need to follow the rules.
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Maybe we're going, we're taking a group of ten people on a skiing trip.
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Uh, and one person is really an expert, so he can go to the top of this very dangerous
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mountain and ski down that by himself.
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He is a special case.
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Everyone else, you have to go with me on, like, the easier mountain, so you don't get
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hurt.
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A special case.
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I think, like, the Bay Area is a, is a pretty, is a pretty special case because there is,
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uh, such a,
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uh, you got so many more men than women out there now.
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So, women have it much better…
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Mm-hmm. … like, dating wise or whatever, than, than
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men do out there.
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I see.
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I think, like, the Bay Area is a, is a pretty, is a pretty special case because there is,
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uh, such a,
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uh, you got so many more men than women out there now.
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So, women have it much better…
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Mm-hmm. … like, dating wise or whatever, than, than
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men do out there.
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I see.
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it’s, uh, going to be with the entertainment business.
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So, they’re very kind of, that’s, that’s what it talks about.
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Like…
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I have a…
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I know.
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When, when was that written?
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Cause I haven’t found…
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That’s a great question.
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… that to be the case out here.
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No…
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uh, going to be with the entertainment business.
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So, they’re very kind of, that’s, that’s what it talks about.
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Like…
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I have a…
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I know.
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When, when was that written?
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Cause I haven’t found…
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That’s a great question.
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… that to be the case out here.
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No…
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Next, you'll hear, way back in the day and the olden days and nowadays.
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Now, the expressions have changed a little bit over time.
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So, if you watch a movie maybe from 20 years ago, people will say, uh, maybe, like, years
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ago or when I was younger or even in the olden days.
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In the olden days, this is kind of, these are older English expressions.
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Uh, but recently you'll hear back in the day.
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Back in the day.
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Back in the day.
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This is something that people use a lot more frequently now, especially younger people.
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And this is just an interesting thing.
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This is why we continue to release a new lesson every month so that we can teach you the new
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vocabulary that's created.
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All these new words and phrases that become popular, and then can explain when they’re
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maybe not so popular anymore.
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But back in the day is very common now, and it just means at some time in the past, you
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know, ten, 20 years ago.
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Usually, it's the, the young…
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Uh, like, the time when the speaker was a child.
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So, if I'm, you know, 35 years old and I say, “Well, back in the day, uh, I went to the,
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like, local candy store and got candy for a, a penny,” or something like that.
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I'm talking about when I was young, or maybe some older time than that if I'm being more
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specific.
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Back in the day.
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But we also talk about nowadays, even though we're just talking about now.
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So, you can say now something, but it sounds a little bit softer and more conversational
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to say nowadays.
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And our final one is to take things for granted.
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To take something for granted.
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This is another great conversational expression, and it just means to not appreciate something
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or to not recognize the value of something, uh, usually until you don't have that anymore.
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So, like, you know, maybe I, I go home from work every day, and my wife is making me a
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really delicious meal.
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And I take it for granted that she's there to cook for me every day.
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So, uh, maybe I, I, I don't thank her as much as I should.
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And then, maybe for a week, she gets really sick.
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So, she can't cook anymore, and then, now I have to cook.
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And I'm not a very good cook at all.
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So, I'm trying to cook, and I'm not very good at it.
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And, you know, trying to help the family.
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Uh, and then I really appreciate, wow, like, my wife did a great thing cooking for me all
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the time.
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So, I'm reminded to say thank you every time she cooks.
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So, I took it for granted, and you can also take someone for granted.
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Take a person for granted.
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And again, this just means you're not appreciating that thing or seeing the value in that.
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Or what if, now what if a guy, like, if a guy walked up to you at the club and he was
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just like, you know, like, my mom would love you.
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What, what would, what would you, would you be, would you be kinda like…
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I would laugh so hard.
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Watch that happen now.
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Yeah.
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Oh.
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Or try that one out.
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Like, come out, like just bring, carry the photo album with you.
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Like, this is me…
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Yeah.
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… when I was…
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Hey, photo… … five, you know?
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… albums are on phones nowadays.
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Oh, it’s, I know.
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Look at me…
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Yeah.
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Just… … with like, a physical, physical pictures
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over here.
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I’m all, I’m old over here.
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That would be even more creepy.
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Well think…
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This is my photo…
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I always think it’s so… … of my mom.
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… funny.
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Like, back in the olden days, not the olden days, but like…
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The olden days.
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… you know, you see in movies, like, a, a cute little grandma or a cute little grandpa
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pulling out their wallet with like…
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Yep, with the… … whole long line of, like…
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All the pictures.
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Yeah.
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People watching this who are young probably don’t even know what I’m talking about
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right now.
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Yep, yep, yep.
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You should show a little picture showing that.
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Well actually…
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Yeah.
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… it’s, it’s, it’s interesting again, you had mentioned something like that.
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Like, when I teach,
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uh, a lot of even just the vocabulary that people have, like, we take it for granted,
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even when you’re younger.
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So you’ll learn something like,
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like hang the phone up.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Now you’re pushing a button on the phone.
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Oh, so you’re not…
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But it’s because… … like hanging it…
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Yeah, so it used to be up on a wall and you…
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Ah. … would actually hang something up.
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Or like…
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Yeah.
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… a, a dial that you would turn on…
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That makes sense.
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So now it’s a switch…
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Oh. … that you, like, flip back and forth or
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push a button.
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But before…
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Yeah.
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… I mean, old televisions, like, you remember an old television?
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It just had
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the power; the power dial was the channel dial…
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah. … as well.
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So, you would turn it on, turn the chann, so we would say turn the channel.
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Well, that’s it for this lesson.
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How do you feel?
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