How to Talk about Secrets in English!

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Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson
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where I'm going to talk about secrets.
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Now, I'm not going to reveal
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any of my deep, dark secrets.
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I don't really have any, but
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I'm going to talk about secrets.
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Secrets are things that you know
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that you don't tell anyone else.
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It might be something you know and one other person knows
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and the two of you don't tell anyone else about it.
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So welcome to this English lesson about secrets.
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So when we're talking about secrets, generally we
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use the phrase to keep a secret.
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When you keep a secret, it means you
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know something and you don't tell anyone else.
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You could also say that you have a secret.
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I have several secrets, I'm not going to tell
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you what they are, but I have several
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secrets that only I know about.
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So when you talk about secrets, the most common
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phrase you use is that you keep a secret.
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In fact, you might ask someone, you might say
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to someone, hey, can you keep a secret?
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And then if they say yes and you trust
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them, you might tell them what your secret is.
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So when you have a secret, you keep that secret.
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The other day, I don't know why,
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I was watching a video on YouTube
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about furniture that has secret compartments.
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A secret compartment is a place inside of a
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desk or a dresser where if you know exactly
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how to open it, there's a little place you
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can store things that no one else knows about.
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A secret compartment.
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It was a fascinating video.
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I'll see if I can find it back
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and link it in the description below.
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I do not own anything that
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has a secret compartment in it.
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Sometimes I wish I had a place
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at home where I could hide things.
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Like I don't know what I would hide exactly.
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I don't have a lot of things to hide. Money,
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maybe? I could hide it in a secret compartment
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and then only I would know where it is.
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I'm watching a show right now called The Winter King.
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It's a retelling of the stories of King Arthur
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and all of these people in the olden times,
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they live in these really old castles and
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I wonder if there are any secret passageways.
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A secret passageway is a hallway or a place
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where you can go in a building that of
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course, only you know about because it's secret.
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I think a lot of old castles had secret passageways.
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The other thing I was
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thinking about is secret hideouts.
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A secret hideout is a place
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where usually someone like Batman lives.
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He has his Bat Cave.
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It's his secret hideout.
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It's a place that only he knows about and of
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course, his butler, I can't remember his name right now.
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Is his butler named Arthur?
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Just like King Arthur?
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Maybe I should check that later.
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I could be wrong.
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Anyways, a secret hideout is a place where you can
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hide so that other people don't know where you are.
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And a secret passageway is like a little place you can
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go in a building that no one else knows about.
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Speaking of Batman, Batman has a secret identity.
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His real name is Bruce Wayne.
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I don't know if you knew that, but
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when you have a secret identity, it means
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that no one knows who Batman really is.
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Batman's secret identity is Bruce Wayne.
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Superman, by the way, has a secret identity as well.
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His secret identity is Clark Kent.
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So this place behind me used to be a pizza shop.
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You used to be able to go there
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and order pizza, and it was really yummy.
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I'm not sure why they went out of business, but
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I think when they were in business, their pizza tasted
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really good because they used a secret ingredient.
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A secret ingredient is something you put into
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food that you don't tell someone. A certain
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spice or maybe something like a special kind
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of tomato sauce or tomato paste.
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It's an ingredient that no one else knows about, and
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it gives your food a really, really yummy taste.
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So this place used to make really good pizza.
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I think the reason they made good pizza was because
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they had a secret ingredient that no one knew about.
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So a couple of weeks ago, it was Valentine's day.
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And Valentine's Day is a day when if you are with
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somebody, if you have a partner, you give them gifts.
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But if you aren't with someone,
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maybe you have a secret admirer.
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Those are some loud squeaky brakes. Did you hear that?
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Let's have a look at this squeaky truck here.
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That's the squeaky brake truck right there.
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Anyways, if you don't have someone that you're
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with, maybe you have a secret admirer.
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A secret admirer is someone who likes
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you, who is interested in you romantically.
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Maybe you are someone's secret admirer.
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Maybe there's someone at work that you really like
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and you haven't told them or asked them out.
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You would then be their secret admirer.
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And sometimes secret admirers send gifts, although it's not
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as common anymore because it's a little strange to
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get a gift from someone who you don't know
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is interested in you in that way.
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But if you have someone who likes you
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and you don't know who it is, you
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would call that person a secret admirer.
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So sometimes in some towns and cities, not
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my town, it's a really nice town.
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But in some towns and cities, people do things that are
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illegal and they like to do those things in secret.
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When you do something in secret, it means you
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do it where no one else can see you.
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Maybe they do it in a
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little alley behind the buildings.
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Maybe they wait till it's dark and they
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do it on the outskirts of town, somewhere
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in secret where someone can't see them.
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So the phrase in secret means to simply do
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something in a place where only you and the
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other person or people who are there know about
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the place and what you're doing.
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So I'm actually surprised that no
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one's honked at me yet.
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Usually when I record videos in public, someone
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honks at some point just to be funny.
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But anyways, let me talk about the last
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term I was going to teach you today.
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It's the term top secret.
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If you watch movies where there are spies, often
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they are doing something that is top secret.
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Top secret is a term that governments use
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to describe something that only the people in
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power are supposed to know about.
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So if you watch things like The Mission Impossible movies
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or other movies where people are spying on other people,
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often they are on a top secret mission, a mission
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that no one is supposed to know about.
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So I'm going to end off with this phrase today,
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and it's the phrase your secret is safe with me.
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If you said to me, hey Bob, can you keep a secret?
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I would probably reply and say, yes,
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your secret is safe with me.
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If I say that to you, it means you can
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tell me your secret and I won't tell anyone else.
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I promise.
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Hey, thanks for watching this
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English lesson about secrets.
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I hope you enjoyed it.
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