Cambly English Conversation #23 with A Wonderful Tutor Ryan | English Speaking Practice | Havisha

Where did you and your girlfriend meet? Nice, it looks amazing.

How are the streets like what can you see from the roof, Can you please show

that to me? Yeah, sure. So this is the street. Can you

see? Today morning, you've just started this lesson

just after having a nice bath. Didn't you?

Hello, sir. How are you? I'm good. Thanks. How are you?

I have a frog in my throat. Oh, I'm sorry.

Um and what is your name? Sir, I'm Havisha from India. What is your

name? Oh. Hi, Havisha, my name is Ryan.

Oh, do you know the meaning of your name?

I do. My name means little King.

Oh, nice name. Yeah. What does your name mean?

My name means wealth and prosperity. Oh, cool.

Um and how old are you, Havisha? I'm 11 years old.

All right, very cool. So have you been using oh no go ahead.

Where are you from, sir? Oh, good question. I am from the United

States. The state is called Arizona.

Oh, nice. So, sir, do you like the United States or any other place where you've travelled?

I like the United States, but I also love to travel and right now, I'm

living in Colombia in South America.

Okay, do you like Colombia in South America or the United States? Which one do

you love the most? Oh, good question. But

I think, there are good things and bad things about both places.

Um but I do love Colombia. I've lived here for three years.

Oh, nice. So what are the bad things about the USA?

Or I would say in the United States. I think the bad things about the United

States are that people are more stressed

and um and people in Colombia are more

relaxed.

Oh, nice, seems like opposite. So, sir, what do you do to maintain your health?

um I like to go to the gym

and I also like to practice yoga and I try to eat healthy food most of the time.

Ok.So, sir, what do think is better, going to the gym or doing yoga?

Oh that's difficult I think yoga is better because

it's good for I mean the gym is good for the mind too

but I think yoga is better for the mind and the body.

Oh, but gym is also good for a bit of good for the body, or is it only good for the

mind? No, gym is good for body but then

I think yoga is good for body and mind. Oh, nice.

But I think I think it is all connected like everything is connected so if you

take care of your body your mind feels better.

Yes. Yes, it is.

So, sir, I want to ask you what is the time in your country?

It is 10 35 A.M. Oh, 10 35 a.m. Yeah, what about you?

In my country, there's nine uh it is uh almost nine of nine uh 9:05 PM.

Five past nine pm. Okay, good. So you can say 905.

Oh, thank you, sir. Yeah and what is in your

background? I see some cartoons. Who is that?

Yes, it is some kind of uh it is Lord Krishna. And, sir, in your

background also I can see towels by which I can guess that today morning you've

just started this lesson just after having a nice bath. Didn't you?

No, these are. We did laundry. So we washed the towels.

Oh, nice. Sir, I can see some switches. Are there for your room

or something else? No, these are for the whole house because

I'm upstairs on the roof. So these are the electricity for the whole house. I

can show you if you want to see it. Look, so, here is

the roof. Nice, it looks amazing.

Yeah, it's a pretty nice view. So, there's a, oh, I wanna see the streets like what can

you see from the roof. Can you please show that to me?

Yeah, sure, so this is the street. Can you see? Yes, it looks amazing.

This is Columbia. So, does it look like your neighbourhood or is your

neighborhood very different? Uh it looks like some part of my neighbourhood

it looks a little bit like my neighborhood and there are some things

which are different from the place where I live.

Okay. Uh what city are you from?

I'm from Bangalore of India. Bangalore. Okay.

Do you like your city? Uh, yes, I like it a little bit but I like

my native place a bit more, oh, sorry, more

Oh, what's your native place? It is Jaipur which is in the northern part of India.

Yeah, okay.

um and why do you like Jaipur more?

I like the weather of Jaipur. Actually I go to make. The timing when I visit my native

place that's the most thing which I like. I also like I also like the weather of

Jaipur and apart from that I also like the kind of people and the culture of my

native place. Okay cool and um

do you is is Bangalore you said Jaipur is in

the north right yes is Bangalore in the South yes it is in the south

so is the food very different yes there is food really quite different

from Jaipur and this place where I'm living which is Bangalore

and do you prefer the food from the north

yes I do prefer the food from north because in norht there is more varieties

of food as in South all I know is idli, sambar, Dosa and that's all. Ah, do your

Mom and Dad cook? Yeah, only my mom cooks.

not my dad.

Does your Mom and Dad cook? um

only my mom same. Cut from the same cloth.

Yeah. All right so what's what's your favorite

thing that your mom cooks? The favorite thing that my mom cooks I

think she likes to cook dosa okay but what's your favorite thing that

your mom cooks? My favorite thing that my mom cooks is

uh actually it doesn't my favorite thing actually does not need cooking too much

cooking it just needs some rolling and all that I like CHHAACHH and I also like Dal

bati Chumra. Churma I like but that my mother does not prefer to cook.

oh what was the first one you said? CHHAACHH

CHHAACHH. Can you can you spell it? How do you spell it? Okay, it is sort of buttermilk.

oh is it like sweet?

not like sweet it's a kind of drink oh it's a drink yes

but how do you spell it in your language in my language I spell it as okay I'm

gonna I'm gonna look at this on Google so I can see oh okay

yeah I see it's it's a little like a creamy drink

oh yeah sort of okay all right. Well, Havisha, do you have

any other questions for me? Yes, sir.

As you know I've seen your country is very different I mean the Columbia is

really different but may I ask you that uh what you told

me the Dark Side of um your country the U.S and now can

you please tell me the dark side of this Colombia?

yeah um I would say some of the challenging

things are that Colombia is less organized

so sometimes it's difficult to do things like with the government or with

transportation or maybe if you go to a restaurant

it's very slow because they're not organized

so things like that

oh nice yeah yeah

Yes, sir. Sir, today as it is uh I think 10 a.m on your

in your place can you tell me what is your plan for

the rest of the day sure

um I have some more classes on cambly for the next two or three

hours and then I'm going to have lunch with my girlfriend and her parents

and then I'm going to talk on the phone with one of my best friends who lives in

the United States and so we're going to talk

because we haven't talked in a while oh nice what is the name of your best

friend his name is Nick

oh nice it's a nice name he lives in New York City

oh nice yeah. Have you ever been to New York City?

I have. Nice. So the first time when you met,

you met in New York? weren't you?

no he is from the same state as me from Arizona

and After High School actually he went to

college in Arizona as well um but then after college he moved to

New York oh so your friends from college

from high school actually oh high school yeah

in school also uh what I mean in uh in school also who was your friend best

friend um

my best friend from high school is named Paul and now

he lives in Amsterdam nice where did you

Where did you and your girlfriend meet? We met in Colombia?

oh in Colombia that's nice yeah

but she oh go ahead then you go ahead first

um she is from Canada but her parents are from Colombia

oh right now she's living in as she's living in Colombia how far is her house

from your house? Actually, no, I'm living with her in her parents

house.

This house is her parents' house.

oh nice yeah. So, do you feel it

as comfortable as your home? Um, yeah, I think so I I have been

um we have been a couple for six years and

so I met her parents a long time ago and so I'm very comfortable here

nice ah we're almost out of time havisha it was very nice to meet you and I hope

you have a good weekend and I hope to see you soon