5 Lovely English Proverbs

hello and welcome back to english with

Lucy today I want to talk to you about

programs but do you know what proverbs

our programs are usually short level

sentences that natives will use in

conversation without even realizing it

they often offer good arguably arguably

good life advice today I'm going to talk

to you about five proverbs and their

meaning and what we would use them the

first probe that I'd like to talk to you

about is the grass is always greener

this means that you shouldn't be jealous

of what other people may have or may

appear to have because they could also

be looking at what you have and feeling

jealous as well so quite literally this

is probably talking about a neighbor

looking at his neighbor's garden and

thinking his grass is greener that my

grass but it could just be his point of

view his neighbor may be looking in his

garden and thinking oh god his grass is

greener than mine so basically means

don't be jealous because it might not be

what it seems the next proverb is don't

judge a book by it's cover

this is another proverb that teaches us

that things are not always as they seem

the probe tells us to not judge someone

by their appearance or the way they

dress or just generally how they look or

act a really old dirty book could have

an amazing story to tell inside or a

really beautiful book could be really

boring inside and so this proverb is

talking about books but relating it to

people

somebody might have a mohawk and

lots of scary makeup and spikes all over

them but they might also have a kitten

fan page or Instagram you never know so

don't judge a book by it's cover the

next proverb is when in Rome do as the

Romans do

and this means that when you are

visiting somewhere you should try and

act as a local person is considered

respectful and polite i love this one it

means that when you travel you need to

adapt to the culture whether that's

covering your skin or adapting to their

meal times I think it's really important

to respect and adapt to culture a lot of

people could learn from that one

actually the next proverb is practice

makes perfect and this one sort of

speaks for itself

you're not going to pick up a violin and

play like velde you need to practice the

more you practice the closer you are to

achieving perfection and the same goes

for your English practice makes perfect

the last proverb is actually my personal

favorite and it's about determination it

is where there's a will there's a way

it means that if you want to do

something enough then you will find a

way of doing it

nothing is impossible there is always a

way I used to say this one to myself a

lot because when i started the English

with Lucy youtube channel i had no idea

how to work a camera a funny story is

that my dad let me a small amount of

money to buy a camera and a tripod so i

bought the boat secondhand and when they

arrived they didn't work so I found out

the company and I said look you've sent

me the camera you've sent me the tripod

but it's not feeling anything and they

told me that I haven't bought a lens but

I went from not knowing anything about

cameras photography video production

anything to being able to make videos

three times a week and every time I come

across a problem whether it be with

filming lighting editing noise

a lot of obstacles in my way I always

say to myself well as well as a way if

you want to do this Lucy you will find a

way of doing it so I hope that motivated

to a little bit right guys that's it for

today's lesson

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