Clapingo English Conversation #29 with Divyam Jain | English Speaking Practice | Havisha Rathore

they're also cut from the same cloth

so

they also think that life is not a bed

of roses we should do our best and leave

the rest good but i i really like that

you have

uh you know so many vocabulary words

with you and you're not scared to use it

i love your confidence i love that you

have so much to talk about it's always

fun to have a conversation with such a

learner

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hello

hello sir

good evening how are you

good evening i'm as fit as a fiddle

nice it's nice to hear that um

is that how i'm supposed to pronounce

your name

yes

okay i wish i think your network looks a

bit unstable your video is frozen i

can't see you clearly

is it okay now

um i don't see any difference

okay

so i think it's some network issue but

for me

you are clearly visible

can you see me more

yes i can see you move your hands like

okay cool

is it possible to switch from maybe

wi-fi to mobile data or something like

that

maybe a different network

yes let me ask

can you pass it

yeah

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uh is any improvement now

unfortunately no what we'll do is we'll

continue the session because we don't

want to waste any more time

uh hopefully

the

video

sorts itself out okay

yes

right just to clarify again

yes it is

thanks

your name is also unique

yes so um

my name is vivian as you already know

i'll be taking a session for today do

you have any questions before we start

the session the topic is astrology

no not yet

okay is this a topic that interests you

yes a bit

so what about astrology do you love

i love that astrology talks about the

stars and it predicts future so that we

can have an idea that it can be like

this because we are not sure life is not

a bed of roses our action will decide

our achievements not astrology so we can

just get an idea what kind of

nakshatra astrology we have we can get

idea type

good okay

true

and all

yes that's true so by the sounds of it

you have someone around you who believes

in astrology

yes i have someone in my acquaintance

who believes in astrology

so tell me about that person why you

disagree with them what sort of

conversations do you guys have about

astrology

yes

i have a person who

uh

who believes in astrology almost

everyone

in my family believes in astral

astrology but like me

they all their opinion is also like me

and it's similar to me it's just like

they're also cut from the same cloth

so

they also think that life is not a bed

of roses we should do our best and leave

the rest

yeah that's true i think our efforts uh

have the biggest influence on the result

itself

uh luck or as a lot of people say the

stars aligning

have very little to do with the result

of anything that we try to achieve right

yes

right so do you remember any terminology

that people use when they're talking

about astrology

so what is the meaning of terminology

um

like

if i say

okay let's say i'm talking about

airlines or aviation industry okay

then the terminology instead of saying

plane i would say aircraft

instead of saying

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you know

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you know terminology basically means the

legal or the official language or

vocabulary used in any particular

segment industry

right so when it comes to astrology some

things we say uh

that our official terminologies are

like i said stars aligning

uh we say um

you know in hindi we say

do you know hindi a little bit

i know in the hindi is my mother tongue

okay cool then you must have heard of

this sentence where people keep saying

or something

yeah

it must be luck your luck

yes it is that yes so um so you don't

know any like terminology related to

astrology things people say to

um

you know that okay

you know how people say karma

people say um

what other words can we use

what words i use when talking about

astrology that's the simplest way of

saying terminology

yes

can you think of any words

um

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how about

after the stars align um

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i can't remember any but yes i have to

think a bit

written in the stars

that people

turn the stars and

and in hindi also people use

all they use yeah that looks good so

we'll do one thing for the rest of the

session try to use as many terms as you

can remember okay

okay

awesome now have you ever heard of

palmistry

pharmacy no

it's quite self-explanatory can you

guess what it is

related to star

if you split the word in two parts you

will be able to guess

could you repeat the word once

palmistry

palmistry oh yes i remember it now it

was in the dark it was in the document

identifying um

your product or predicting your future

uh by

your palms lines in your pockets

some people read your uh lines and then

they predict that your lifeline is going

to be so long your love life your money

the money you have in your life is going

to be etc etc so do you think that is

true do you think you believe in that

i don't think so

a little bit

oh you do

and that reminds me of a hint sight

in it

once

once

my one of my

relationships

in one of my acquaintance someone was

looking in our palms and predicting our

future

that yeah you will become a doctor you

will become this

predicted that i'll become a doctor but

now my perception has changed i don't

want to be a doctor

i want to be something else

what do you want to do

i grow up i would like to be a good

human being that is my first thing and

the other thing is um to help people i

would like to become an is indianapolis

wow

nice so yeah those are your priorities

your priorities are being a nice or a

good human being

and then helping everyone by becoming an

ias

yes

nice these are some good goals nice

hopefully we can help you achieve that

much sooner

yes i do hope so

all right um earlier you used a word

inside something like that can you

repeat it

hint sight

yeah can you tell me what you were

trying to say what what why you use that

word

i was trying to say that i remembered

something it was in the past

right

so

the word you're looking for is hindsight

okay

h-i-n-d-s-i-g-h-t

yes it's not hind pins is the

pronunciation for like hindu hindustan

right what we are trying to say is hind

you know i think

you

do you eat non-vegetarian food

i am a vegetarian

okay do you have a pet or anything like

that because

um

yeah go ahead

no i don't have any pets

but yes

please i have a cow as a pet

oh cow perfect that's what i was trying

to say so uh have you ever heard of the

term raw hind

rind

no something like that i'm not sure what

the technical term is but it basically

means um

the back of a cow

so uh when you like i have a dog so

there are lots of straights or bones

that are made from hind

okay so cowhide bullheim whatever so

basically it means bones or some sort of

not flesh but i only know about the

bones part but uh hindsight okay let me

just clarify hindsight means

the lesson you learn

when you're looking back at the story

okay i'll give you an example

um

right before my final 12th grade exam

okay

let's say the exam is on monday

on the night before

i partied with my friends and i was

binge watching movies and i didn't get

enough sleep and because of that i was

really sleepy in my exam and i didn't

get

good marks i only got 50 or 40

okay

all of this has happened

now that i look back at that story this

is how i will use hindsight i'll say in

hindsight i shouldn't have party that

night

okay so hindsight is a lesson you've

learned from the past i want you to

google what hindsight means and what the

proper use of it is

okay

okay

good but i really like that you have

um you know so many vocabulary words

with you and you're not scared to use it

i love your confidence i love that you

have so much to talk about it's always

fun to have a conversation with such a

learner um i wish i wanted to tell

what you would like me to help you with

we have five minutes left and i want to

help you troubleshoot any problem you

are facing

no i have no problem yet to ask you

all right so you you you're fluently

talking i don't see many mistakes and

whatever mistakes you made i have

corrected them already okay

okay all right now we won't talk about

astrology i think it's a boring topic uh

we'll talk about something else so can

you come up with a topic

any general uh you know

maybe some sort of news that is trending

anything related to bollywood hollywood

anything you are interested in

i would not prefer talking to trending

items because i don't watch movies i'm

not interested in

and moreover even if i wish to i cannot

watch tv

so what are your interests reading books

uh reading books i like to first of all

of course uh i'm in sixth standard so

there is a lot of work to me

so i don't i will not have any free hand

to

do all those things and just

sorry just one second you can say it

like this don't say work to me say

because i'm in my six i am

i have my place full that is the idiom

we use okay that means you have a lot of

work on your hands

okay on your hands not hand

okay so you can say because i'm in my

stick my plate is full and i have a lot

of things

on my hands

and i'm constantly trying to

finish that work and then when i barely

get one or two hours a day this is what

i do with my day you can say it like

that okay

yes

i hope the corrections aren't a problem

yes they are not at all

okay good good all right so you can

continue the story sorry for

interrupting you

no problem

and uh

that's all whenever i barely get one or

two hours

just do my painting work

and i don't have any pending work but

the homework

is there i went to school a burden of

homework came a bag of homework filled

in my bag and moreover my bag is also

heavy

and then do all that homework and then

i have to go to bed that's all which is

my daily routine i guess mostly yeah i

remember as a kid we had such heavy bags

and i was a lazy kid okay so you know

how you have to go through your diary

and see what sort of subjects you have

for the next day and get the books right

i used to always forget that and i used

to get so many remarks and one day i

just decided you know what i'm going to

carry all my books every day

just so no one can say that

i have forgotten anything so my back

used to be so heavy my parents used to

scold me they used to tell me this is

not good for your back this is not good

for your health you'll get tired but i

was too lazy and i'm like you know it's

fine i'll carry it okay

for me

it's not for me it's fine for me also it

is very lazy

to do all those work i don't want to do

any of those any of those works

you can say i am lazy as well

i am lazy as well but

but

if i have a flashback

i can remember the when i feel

um when i feel very shy or there'll be a

butterfly in my stomach i'll be

i will just insulted when madame writes

in the diary that homework not completed

this is not good that will be

insult for me

so better

instead of that

cool at least you're enjoying your work

right

a little bit

that's okay i'll keep your secret let's

talk over something

all right um

why don't you tell me what your goals

are for the next six months

for the next six months

ah

after the next six months up almost the

year must be

a little bit almost finished so

i may be in seventh standard so as well

my short term plan is to study well and

get good marks and that's all i'll do on

those six months

what about

finding new interests or developing a

new hobby like painting or maybe

learning an instrument have you ever

thought about that i don't want to dance

no not dance i said learning an

instrument but these are just examples

i'm sure your studio is to try something

right horse riding

um

you know

i'm interesting videos for youtube

i'm interested in spirituality so i

would only like to advance in

spirituality to be true to be honest but

with that i want to

improve my marks and all especially

maths

okay so do you have any plans to visit

any spiritual place in the next six

months

maybe in your winter vacation

my

my winter vacations are of 10 days and

the ball is not in my court the ball is

totally in my mother's court so she and

he will decide and she has

she um she's

it's a very

very heavy task to pack up all that

thing so that um

it it doesn't get

your name on my phone yet

three o'clock in the morning

we've been going and going

back and forth cause we don't know

better and i thought we'd be different

and we were on to some good [ __ ] we keep

dancing with the devil but he doesn't

have her back