Learn English Fluency with FRIENDS | TV shows to learn English

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what are you eating there joe oh no it's

a spicy

paste on a donut

well i'm seeing this girl who likes

spicy food but i can't handle it

so i'm trying to build up my tolerance

to have food before i date in

ah 30 minutes

how exactly is that helping well i don't

like spicy food

but i do like donuts one thing cancels

out the other

good one joe could you be any more of a

genius

good channeler i have to go out and why

is joey putting my korean hot sauce on a

donut

oh he's just building up his tolerance

to spicy foods

whatever is ross here oh yes he's

sitting next to me

he's coming by to pick up my tennis

racket but i have to go to work can you

give it to him when he gets here

why is he taking yours i gave him mine

last week really

that's weird he told me he just broke

his yesterday

hot joey

come on hey man hey chandler

have you uh see monica no why

you want to borrow something

no all right ooh donuts

is that extra jam yep can i uh

oh definitely oh

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remember how chandler asked that

question on a donut

he didn't use a question word like who

what why

when but it was a question and did you

hear the intonation

on a donut it goes up at the end

listen to it copy it practice it use it

in your next conversation

oh you're brazilian again actively

practicing your listening skills

passively improves your speaking skills

okay but how can you improve your

english if you don't have a teacher an

english-speaking friend

you're just you watching netflix

well we're gonna learn in the same way

that babies learn english

the natural way okay joey is talking

about spicy food

but he doesn't want to keep repeating

the same word

spicy i'm seeing this girl who likes

spicy food

but i can't handle it so i'm trying to

build up my tolerance to have food

first he said spicy food then he said

hot food

so already we know those are synonyms

we can catch synonyms for words and

build our vocabulary that way

and and we're learning which

word which expression is best used

depending on the context for example

when joey says

hut we can see and understand that it's

more common to say hot when we talk

about

the feeling of the food or in this case

the reaction to it and spicy

that's more common just to talk about

the type

of food it is it's sweet food savory

food salty food

spicy food blah blah blah so this is

something to focus on

next time you're watching movies and tv

focus on the synonyms but also focus

on which words we're more likely to use

in which situations okay but how do i

watch a show or a movie if i

only understand like 50 to 70 percent

movies and tv there for you to enjoy

not to study with and pay attention to

every single word i don't pay attention

to a hundred percent of what i'm

watching

you probably don't pay attention to

every word

in what you watch in your language but

yes

if you're curious about a new word or a

new expression that you've just heard

for example so i'm trying to build up my

tolerance to have food

some people might watch that clip and be

like tolerance tolerance

i know that word it's similar in my

language

but what does this expression mean build

my tolerance

huh again we look at the context

he's eating spicy food and we know that

spicy food is painful

we know that joey is rubbish with hot

food but he wants to

at least get used to it so so

from that context we can infer

that to build your tolerance to

something

probably means i don't know suffer less

from it or increase my ability to

endure something painful or difficult or

hard something like that okay now what

well if you have an english teacher

or an english-speaking friend they can

confirm the meaning

but we also have to remember it and add

it to our vocabulary

so what do we do now make your own

example

using that expression make it something

relevant to your life

that probably you're going to use in the

future

for example for me uh i want to build my

tolerance

to beer no seriously one beer and i'm

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for example remember when joey said this

well i don't like spicy food but i do

like donuts

this might seem weird at first i do like

donuts

shouldn't it just be i like donuts

well this is something we do in english

when we really want to emphasize a point

for example i really do love you so much

we add the extra do before the verb and

it adds emphasis

or to contradict a negative point for

example

joey was comparing something he doesn't

like

with something he does like i don't like

this

but i do like this

or if someone said you don't love me

you can contradict that statement and

reply like this

no no no you're wrong i do love you now

of course

this might not be as easy or obvious

in every case with every new piece of

grammar that you hear

and sometimes yeah you're gonna need a

teacher or an english-speaking friend

to clarify or to confirm the meaning

what you think it means but often

we can learn new grammar just from the

context

all right fine but now what then

you gotta practice it again make an

example make it relevant to your life

and try to use it in a future

conversation

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actually mate

i did do my homework yeah side note

you can use that do for emphasis

in the past tense too so let me know

down below

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