Clapingo English Conversation #3 with Megha Nayak | English Speaking Practice

i must compliment you that

you are a very confident girl and second

is that you are very vocal about your

opinions what you like what you don't

like right so you communicate that very

confidently and the third thing is your

body language even adults uh fail to

communicate using body language like the

way you do the hand gestures the

expressions

and everything so you're fantastic

hello

hi

your name is harvey shah right

yes

how do you pronounce how do i pronounce

your name properly it's harish or

harvesta

havisha

havisha okay that's a lovely name can

you tell me what it means

it means goddess lakshmi

oh wow so

prosperity right

yes

yawning

my name

is and megha means a cloud

okay

nice name

thank you where are you from hawisha

i'm from i'm from right sorry your

question is not clear can i tell my

current location or my native place

you can tell me both

my native place is jaipur in rajasthan

and my current location is karnataka of

bangalore of karnataka

oh then you have to give me a virtual

high five because i am also talking to

you from karnataka bangalore right now

oh that's great

i know right

yeah what is your native place

uh i belong to this place called as

manglu which is also in karnataka it's a

coastal area

okay that's great yeah yeah have you

ever been to any of the coastal places

in karnataka

no not yet

yeah so you can try going there you know

during the winters not during summers

because it's going to be extremely hot

and humid during those times you can

definitely enjoy during the winters

okay

what is the meaning of humid

human means uh it makes you sweat a lot

the kind of weather where you sweat and

perspire a lot

right that's humidity

okay all right

foreign

you're most welcome so uh have your

schools reopen has your school reopened

no my school is about to close they have

not it has not reopened it has opened

but it is about to close because of

summer holidays summer vacation

okay okay i get it are you excited for

the summer holidays are you all geared

for it yeah

so what are your plans for the summer

vacations would you be traveling to

jaipur or you have any other agenda on

your mind

well i don't know whether we'll be

traveling or jaipur or somewhere but i

know we will be traveling places

in karnataka only like milk

river

yeah that's the star my mother told me

that's for sure

lucky you lucky girl

okay so have a great vacation um so do

you have any siblings

yes i have two siblings

my brother and one is my sister

and are you the middle child

no i am the eldest

you're the eldest okay so the rest are

younger to you all right

so uh in the summer vacations do you

enjoy playing with them or do you like

to do your own thing

i will i think i'll enjoy to play with

them

what games do you guys play

we play hide and seek

and they like indoor games but not chess

and all right

and they make houses full of pillows and

my sister will become my host and

okay so you guys create your own games

yeah that's right

okay so quite a creative bunch you guys

are

yeah thanks

thanks

you're most welcome avisha so uh today's

session material it is about shopping

would you like to continue talking about

shopping or do you want to talk about

something else

people continue to talk about shopping

okay so i would love to know do you

enjoy shopping

yes i love shopping

okay what do you like to shop for

clothes and

sorry can you please repeat the last

thing i couldn't hear

you the last thing that i'm telling with

all i like to shop for clothes

jewelry

and like jewelry like hair bands and

dogs

and

idols and idols and new things

all wonderful

so you have varied interests not just

one

yeah okay so hair bands uh yeah please

go on

but i do not like to shop for food

because there will be nothing just

window shopping and i do not like to

and that window shopping will also not

be

good because just put food

daily

life yeah so are you a dessert person in

general when it comes to food do you

have a sweet tooth

meat

probably you do what do you like to have

cakes pastries muffins or indian

desserts what do you like to eat

i like to eat sweet dishes like um

payday and

daily and ladoos

the traditional indian desserts

yeah in my in my rajasthan the dal

bhatti channel is famous i like choorma

the most

it has a very mild sweetness to it right

it's not very sweet it's like mildly

sweet but very delicious yeah

yeah that's a special kitchen

yes so uh in my locality earlier before

the pandemic there was a restaurant

rajasthani restaurant where i had tried

this dal bhatti churma they had served

with you know ghee on top and it was so

delicious

yeah i also love

love green i put um

minimum two spoons of ghee or one spoon

great great job great going

okay so uh earlier when you said what

about what are the things that you like

shopping for you said i like jewelry

like hair bands right hair bands and

belts and these kind of things they are

called as accessories okay not jewelries

accessories

right right so once you're all dressed

up you have to accessorize your look

right so hair bands even jewelry these

are all called as accessories okay

okay

you're welcome and i see a very

beautiful uh wallpaper behind you

of a cute little calf and i think that's

lord krishna only right so is it painted

or is it a wallpaper

it's a wallpaper

who chose it

my mother when we were

very

small my mother bought two wallpapers

one was of this krishna only but a big

one

playing a flute and i think some flowers

falling and this one

and then the other is this one we chose

our favorite my sister shows this one

which is at the back

uh yeah the one towards that side yeah

there it is okay but um i chose that big

one

which is larger than this one

yeah

okay wonderful i think i would like to

extend my compliments to your mom

because she has great taste

okay thanks but what is the meaning of

compliments

compliments when you are praising

somebody when you are saying nice things

about somebody for example i can say

that havisha you're such a confident

girl right so that's a compliment i'm

praising you yeah so that's the meaning

of a compliment

okay

all right

actually there are two meanings to it

first meaning is the c-o-m-p-l-i-m-e-n-t

that means to praise somebody then there

is another word called complement which

means to match with something that is

p-l-e-m-e-n-t

for example the curtains are

complementing the color of the wall

which means they are matching they are

like made for each other so two meanings

are there

okay

repeat the spelling of the other another

meaning which means matching

it is c-o-m p-l-e-m-e-n-t

okay thanks okay you're welcome so the i

is replaced with an e that's all that's

the only difference

okay

okay great so uh what school do you go

to ahavisha

i go to kvdo

all right and what are your favorite

subjects

social science

oh wow what do you like history

geography economics what do you like the

most

i like mapper

the last part but not too complicated

yeah but not too complicated

uh okay are you good

yeah sorry there was a bit of a lag can

you please repeat it

yeah i told i love social science

because of the map but but not

complicated map but and um and i like

the

maps there yeah

okay so

wonderful i'm happy are you good at

drawing the maps

no not at all

all right no worries but you do enjoy

the subject right that's what matters

the most okay great yeah what is your

favorite subject

my favorite subject in school i had one

favorite subject and that was english it

has always been a passion for me so

english was my most favorite subject

yeah so only i see her speaking

very nicely

so are you my dear you are also speaking

really well and i'm so impressed by your

confidence and speaking skills

thank you very much

so uh whenever you're in school or in

your neighborhood when you

interact with other children of your age

or others in general which language do

you communicate in is it english or some

other language

sometimes english or sometimes hindi or

generally i don't communicate

okay you're very shy is it

yeah or moreover i do not like the

topics that you simply that what

happened in your birthday what happened

this what happened that i decided and i

don't like those types of topics okay

what do you like to talk about tell me

about your topics of interest

my my topics of interest you can say

something about spirituality or

spirituality or something about

imagination like without that audit

everything

became squeezed in the tiny land

yeah

someone was tiny who was strong and this

went on

that day i like to talk

wow so something that's a lot more

creative

yeah

okay so you know there's a word for it

it's called as hypothetical hypo hypo

t-h-e-t-i-c-a-l hypothetical okay so it

means talking about situations that

don't exist in real life or that have

not yet happened okay it's not fact it's

just imagination so it's called as

hypothetical

okay thanks again

you're welcome here

right so you like to talk about

something that challenges your

imagination your creativity you enjoy

that huh

yeah i like hypothetical things

okay wonderful i'm so happy and do you

like to watch animated films

no i don't watch films

okay okay so you find them to be boring

is that the reason

most of them are not of my age and those

who are off my age are simply

here and their films that i do not like

get it no problem that's good the lesser

time you spend on screen the better it

is for you yeah

yeah

spend less

yeah that's very good and even in my

home when i was your age

i had very strict screen timing like tv

i was allowed to watch it for you know

half an hour or 40 minutes maximum and

that too with my parents there and all

that during the weekends i got a little

more concession i was allowed to watch

it for a little longer

but apart from that my parents were very

strict

like no watching too much tv you have to

read you have to do your homework first

so i had all these links

oh but my parents were

not too strict they were

my brother was born and he would not let

me watch a second

oh

do you guys fight for the remote even

now now do you fight for it

oh how can we fight for the remote my

mother and father will always take

him that uh please give me the remote by

this he thinks himself very strong so we

say that he if keisha puts this thing he

will become mean so he puts that thing

which we want and we'll start beating

black breathing

but we have so

we are being beaten up

okay okay so a lot of acting going on

there huh

yeah just like happening stage

okay wonderful so it must be fun to grow

up with siblings once you grow up you

look back on these memories and you

laugh trust me

okay my mother also says you should try

to diary when you grow up you will love

it but i don't have an interest in dry

writing

oh yeah that's depends that varies from

person to person so even i've never

enjoyed writing diaries or anything

because i'm very scared what if somebody

reads it right so that's my biggest fear

so that's why i don't write

oh but i don't like the perfect trust

ah no problem no problem there are other

ways you can uh read you can listen to

english you can speak so you can

communicate openly so there are many

different ways yeah

yeah

okay so havisha i must compliment you

that

you are a very confident girl and second

is that you are very vocal about your

opinions what you like what you don't

like right so you communicate that very

confidently

and the third thing is your body

language even adults uh fail to

communicate using body language like the

way you do the hand gestures the

expressions

and everything so you're fantastic uh

read a lot the only recommendation that

i would like to give you is that do you

like to read comic books

no i like doing

i like to read official books but

they're my father but reading them i get

find lots of a bag of words i ask them

and understand it once but i do not

learn them

no problem you'll remember it eventually

like if you keep rereading it right so i

would recommend a small change you can

start reading comic books also based on

spirituality there is one publication

it's called as a chitrakata okay so they

uh have a lot of books on different

different topics like comic books with

illustrations and dialogues on how to

you know talk and everything so try to

read something from that and trust me

you'll enjoy it

thanks for your insights

most welcome and i had a wonderful time

talking to you if you have any questions

we have two more minutes before it auto

cuts please let me know if you have any

questions or queries

no i do not

okay all right it was such a pleasure

interacting with you and i look forward

to seeing you again and take care

thank you very much you're most welcome

bye