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okay welcome to the first ever english danny  channel live stream i'm dr don and this is the  

first time we've done this so uh there may be some  problems maybe some technical issues but we're uh  

working it out on the job we're doing it live here  let's talk about what we're doing here on this  

first live stream for the english danny channel i  have four segments planned today i have a segment  

on a quick thinking father i have a segment  on prince philip's funeral i have a segment on  

this day in history and then at the end i have  a q a segment so this is a segment where viewers  

can post questions or comments and any reasonable  and responsible question or comment will be  

read and addressed on the air if we get it in  time so if you have any questions or comments  

please leave them for us now and we'll  address them in segment four all right well  

let's get started with our first segment  so on our first segment we have a video  

um a viral video showing a uh it says a  quick thinking father who's uh rescues his  

son from almost a certain disaster  um and if you look at the video um  

the the story that i saw on it says dad's quick  reflexes save sun from out of control car and uh  

we can take a look at uh the video and um learn  some english actually from this video well first  

of all uh what are what are quick or fast reflexes  uh well you'll see that in operation in this video  

reflexes means uh your reactions your physical  reactions to something and if you react quickly to  

something you say you have quick or fast reflexes  um and then in the video if you hit play on the  

video we could start going through it uh you could  see the the father's quick reflexes in action

and uh also in the video it calls it says it's  an out of control car uh out of control means  

um it let you could see the car moving now  that's out of control and there's the father's  

quick reflexes you could see be scoop up his uh  his son and pull him out of the way so the car  

that's what out of control means uh you can see it  backing up rapidly crashing in uh that's exactly  

what uh that's exactly what out of control means  and quick reflexes that's what that means as well  

the uh the footage that um you see there  is what's called surveillance footage  

surveillance footage means footage that's captured  by a camera that's just put in place there  

a camera that's just uh it's just a static camera  looking at one thing um that uh footage that we  

just saw the video we just saw is an example of  surveillance footage and that's what that phrase  

means and another uh phrase um or word that you  can learn from this is abruptly in the story  

it says the car abrupt abruptly starts moving  backwards and abruptly means quickly suddenly  

without any warning or without any sign that uh  that it might be happening so that's what happens  

there the car abruptly starts going backwards  in a way that no one would expect and it's only  

the father's quick reflexes that allows him to  scoop up his son and move out of the car's way  

and another word or phrase is presence of mind  so in the story they say the father showed  

good presence of mind presence of mind means  that you're aware of what's going on and you're  

able to respond to what's going on very quickly  and very directly so great awareness or presence  

of mind is what the father shows when he sees the  car abruptly moving backwards and reacts to it  

okay so that's another useful phrase there  and then uh one of the comments on this story  

says uh the father and his son were at the  wrong place at the wrong time wrong place  

wrong time that's another phrase that sometimes  gets used a kind of a slang phrase in english  

there's two different ways of saying it there's  wrong place wrong time meaning uh you're in a a  

bad normally the place will be fine but because  of the situation and because of the timing of it  

you're at the wrong place at the wrong time  meaning something bad could happen and then  

there's another way of saying it right place right  time which is the opposite sense which means uh oh  

it was just the perfect situation both the place  and the time worked perfectly well for whatever  

it is we wanted to do but that video was a case  of being at the wrong place at the wrong time  

and another comment i saw in the story  said oh the father and his son had  

a close shave a close shave that's an interesting  also slang phrase in english and it means a narrow  

escape or uh came close to uh something  happening it could be something good or it  

could be something bad usually it's something  bad and close shave it comes from the idea of  

shaving your face a close shave means you got all  the hair off your hair your face is very smooth  

because you removed everything so if you have  a close shave with something you came so close  

that you couldn't even feel the distance of a  hair so that idea of having a close shave means  

to come in very close contact with something  without quite touching it so it means for  

something bad almost to happen so the father and  his son had a close shave with a bad situation  

but as it was nothing bad happened they  they just stepped out of the way so that's  

a case where we would say that's a close shave  close shave with uh injury or maybe even death  

in that video because the car was coming very  fast okay so that's our first segment let's  

like take a look at our second segment the second  segment today is on prince philip's funeral and  

this was something covered all over the world  on the bbc has a picture from the funeral  

which we'll have up in a second but let's talk  for just a second about well who was prince philip  

why was this an important event so this was an  important event this week prince philip was the  

husband of queen elizabeth who is i think the  longest reigning monarch in british history now  

prince philip was married to queen elizabeth  for 73 years and he died on april 9th he was  

99 years old and it was just two months before his  100th birthday and then this picture you could see  

the four children of prince philip and queen  elizabeth on the far left in the picture that's  

their old oldest son prince charles who is the  heir to the the throne of england and then behind  

him is uh prince andrew i think and then over  to the right the woman in front on the right  

that's uh the prince philip and queen elizabeth's  daughter anne and then behind her is their fourth  

child and their youngest son and i think it's his  name is prince edward so that's the royal family  

there uh there for their father's funeral  prince philip was actually born in greece  

and he moved to uh to england when he was 18 years  old and he uh courted a young prince elizabeth and  

then married her and uh was married to her for 73  years and he was not he's not british by birth but  

he did speak uh english uh very well he was  educated partly in france partly in england  

and the reason why he's prince philip and not  king philip is he was just married to the queen so  

the way it works in england is you don't  get to be styled king or queen just  

necessarily because you're married to the  monarch and in phillips case uh he was uh  

not of royal birth but he was elevated to uh uh  prince uh and he was called the queen's consort  

meaning her her husband basically and he was  british he became a naturalized british subject  

i think he was in the british army for a while  and so there's a lot of things you can learn about  

british culture and then maybe a little  bit about english from this event  

it says in the story that a moment of silence  was observed partly because the funeral had to  

be very understated because of the coronavirus  situation a moment of silence this is a common  

sort of way of recognizing a solemn event everyone  shares a moment or minute of silence together as a  

way of recognizing some important event usually  the funeral or death of someone important  

and another phrase that you can learn in the  story it says that prince philip was laid to rest  

uh says prince philip funeral duke of edinburgh  he was also duke of edinburgh laid to rest so  

laid to rest is a very uh it's a very fancy or  uh elevated way of saying that someone was buried  

okay so buried is kind of uh blunt a very blunt  way of saying it and then laid to rest is a more  

pleasant way of saying it um so it's a way of  saying that a dead person was buried as you  

could say they were laid to rest and obviously  since this was the prince of uh the prince of uh  

great britain um and the the consort of the queen  bbc is going to say he was laid to rest they're  

not going to say he was he was buried that's a  little that would be a little kind of too blunt  

for this situation and um let's see okay so let's  now talk a lot uh think about our third segment  

let's move on to our third segment third segment  is about this date in history and i'm going to  

talk about two days so two different days and  the reason i'm talking about two different days  

is because this live stream is broadcast  around the world and in some places it will be  

april 17th and in other places it will be april  18th so let's actually talk about uh this date in  

history april 17th and this date in history april  18th let's start with the the earlier one first  

so what happened on april 17th well one event one  important event happened in 1970. on april 17 1970  

the apollo 13 lunar spacecraft returned safely to  earth and why was this important well right after  

its launch and it launched on i believe april 11  of that year they experienced a severe malfunction  

severe malfunction what is a malfunction that  means for some technical problem some device  

to go bad or or to break down and in their case  it was an oxygen tank that exploded on their  

spacecraft meaning that these three astronauts  on board the spacecraft were left 200 000 miles  

away from earth without their expected supply of  oxygen or their expected supply of electricity  

or without their expected supply of fuel so many  things were damaged on the spacecraft because  

of this malfunction because of this accident that  happened and this put them in a severe logistical  

problem and there's another good word is  logistics or logistical logistics means planning  

or organization so this is actually  a term that's used a lot in business  

business logistics means organizing when things  will be sent where and how they will be sent  

or how something will be manufactured what are  the steps of its manufacturing all of that kind of  

planning work is included under the term logistics  and in the case of the apollo 13 they had a  

logistical problem of how can we get them using  the fuel they have and the oxygen they have how  

can we get them back to earth safely because they  were already moving very very fast away from earth  

and uh they didn't have enough fuel to just turn  around and come back so they had to they had to do  

a lot of little things that had never been done  before uh they had to do little uh uh they had  

to use the repulsor rockets in different ways what  they did was they made a slingshot around the moon  

they slung shot around the moon and they came back  to earth and they were able to do it safely and on  

april 17th 1970 they safely landed on earth and  this event was portrayed in a hollywood movie  

called apollo 13 in which uh it shows exactly  what happened that was a dramatic recreation  

of those events okay so there we go and well  what about april 18th so that's our second  

date in history april 18th well on april 18th  1906 an event that was important in american  

history happened and that event was the great  earthquake the great san francisco earthquake  

1906 san francisco an earthquake which  measured around 8.0 on the richter scale  

and if you don't know what the richter scale  is that is a scale a system for measuring the  

intensity of earthquakes and other seismic events  other events involving the shaking of the earth or  

movement of the earth and 8.0 is quite high  so at 8.0 earthquake that was quite severe  

and as a result of that earthquake 3 000 people  died and not only that many buildings in san  

francisco were destroyed i think at the end of uh  at the end it was 30 000 buildings were destroyed  

by the earthquake and not just the earthquake  but fires were created so as a result of the  

destruction fires broke out and the fires  were so severe that uh that some buildings  

had to be blown up uh to create a firewall  to prevent the fire from moving any further  

so and a lot of people were trapped by  the by the fires and they had to bring in  

the u.s army and firefighters from all over  the country to help battle the the blaze  

and 20 000 people had to be rescued from the fires  so the u.s navy had to send its ships in to rescue  

20 000 people uh who were trapped by fires so  this great san francisco earthquake happened um  

and that just killed 3 000 uh 3 000 people  and destroyed 30 000 buildings including  

most of the homes in san francisco and most of  the uh central business district of the city  

so if you go to san francisco today there  are very few buildings that are older than  

1906 because of the great san francisco earthquake  that event that happened on this date in 1906.  

now i have one more uh segment  today and that is a uh that's the  

q a segment so here's our segment where we  respond to questions and comments from viewers  

like you now first we have a  comment or question that was left on  

i think it was on the facebook page or may have  been our uh youtube channel i'm not sure exactly  

which but someone asked about the difference  between saying that something is predominantly  

uh true or something is usually true what's the  difference between predominantly and usually and  

that's an interesting question so so here is uh  one way to think about the difference between  

those two words there is some overlap between the  two words so there's some some some sense in which  

the words are distinct but some sense in  which there is some overlap in meaning  

and so there are some situations where  you could use either word but usually  

usually is a word that is almost entirely about  frequency meaning how how often you do something  

how frequently you do something so for example  you could say uh i usually wake up at nine o'clock  

i usually wake up at nine o'clock  you would not say i predominantly  

wake up at nine o'clock you could but that would  be very unusual because this is a question about  

frequency uh predominantly um is about is about  it's equivalent in meaning to mainly or for the  

most part so you would use predominantly in  a situation where i could say something like  

uh the people in my town are predominantly  koreans meaning they're mainly koreans mostly  

they are koreans so you could say predominantly  that's that's a more uh advanced uh level word  

uh than let's say mainly or mostly but it has a  similar meaning to those i wouldn't say usually  

in that case it would be because that's that's  about what's mostly the case or mainly the case  

that's not about frequency so that's  the difference between those two words  

usually it's about frequency i usually wake up at  nine i usually go to bed at 10 and predominantly  

is a is equivalent uh in meaning to mainly  or mostly all right so do we have any other  

examples and so we're waiting for some other  examples i'll talk a little bit more about  

um well there is overlap between those two words  so sometimes they can mean uh they can be used  

uh the same ah so we've got a high welcome from  ibad khan uh welcome to you as well how are you  

doing where are you from and then uh i'm not gonna  try to i'm not going to try to pronounce that but  

uh neymar from peru says hi he's from peru  welcome so uh so it's good to hear people  

matt lindell says hi guys hi to you as well matt  hope you're doing well uh glad to meet you too  

all right so it's good to get some viewer  feedback here uh always nice to respond to people  

let's see hi what does portrayed mean portrayed  uh is a way of of meaning shown someone is shown  

in some way they are portrayed in such a  way so you could say for example um or you  

could even it could also mean played played in  the sense of acted by so in the movie lincoln  

the american president abraham  lincoln is portrayed by the actor  

daniel day lewis he portrays abraham lincoln  that means he plays or shows abraham lincoln  

so he portrays him and you could  also say in a very famous portrait of  

george washington that's in the uh white house  um the president the first president of the u.s  

george washington is portrayed standing uh in  front of the capitol portrayed he's shown okay so  

that's an example of how you would use portrayed  or shown and you could see that the word portrayed  

has some similarities with the word portrait and  a portrait is a picture right a portrait is a it  

could be a drawing of somebody or a painting  of someone um so that's another way of saying  

uh shone alissa marie's totally blind i hope not  and uh but says hello and hello to you as well  

good to hear from you primarily primarily  what about primarily primarily mostly  

primarily is also has a sense of oh lolly lolly  i've heard of lolly lolly welcome from france  

bonjour and suleiman says thanks so  much thanks so much to you as well  

very good to hear from you hi from  bittorrents good to hear from you  

uh oh ibad khan is in pakistan okay welcome  welcome from pakistan andronico says hello from  

chile welcome to you from chile and it welcomes  from uh morocco okay so we're getting all over the  

world uh viewers from all over the place pakistan  chile morocco peru france this is great alexander  

lipanenko says hello okay this is great it's good  to hear from all of you uh what is the phrase the  

fact of the matter well the fact of the matter  this is kind of a um this is kind of a cliche term  

um but uh actually there's two related terms  there's matter of fact if something is a matter of  

fact uh it is um it is uh true right it is a uh it  is a matter of fact but if something is the fact  

of the matter um that's another way of saying um  it's i guess the truth of the case um it is the um  

it is the uh the the facts the facts of  the matter um yeah the truth is probably  

the best way of defining it um you can see how  the truth is a much shorter way of saying that  

but the fact of the matter is uh is  just a phrase that people use as well  

and so if i wanted to say something like uh uh  well the fact of the matter is um uh that uh this  

person is guilty so i could say that in a in a  trial and it sounds a little bit more dramatic to  

say it that way the fact of the matter is this man  is guilty uh we saw we got a welcome from ukraine  

that's really good too good to hear from people  from uh from all over the world that's fantastic  

ghana okay great okay jack says hello from uh from  ghana and another person from uh from pakistan do  

i know this country yes i've met uh in uh in one  of my jobs overseas um i had a friend who was a  

he was a volunteer worker from pakistan so i've  met some people from pakistan in my travels

good to hear from you let's see any other good  questions or or comments i'll try to answer  

answer any good reasonable questions or comments  from people where are you from that's always good  

i'm from the united states as you know or maybe  you don't know if this is the first time watching  

maybe you don't know that yet uh oh you can  you might have questions about something that i  

talked about in one of the segments you can ask  me that as well some of them i might have to look  

up but uh others i'll uh i might be able to answer  on the fly on the fly that's another uh phrase and  

it means to do something um on the spur of the  moment on to do something in the moment while  

it's happening without any planning or preparation  you do it on the fly you would say meaning you're  

already moving you're already on the go you're  already going yeah on the fly that's a phrase  

that i use quite a bit because that's often  how i do things when i'm teaching figure out or  

work out are they interchangeable um yes they are  interchangeable they're pretty similar in meaning  

i i would use them almost uh interchangeably is  there a difference well is uh figure out is um

figure out the the if there's a difference uh  figure out suggests that you realized something  

ah i figured it out uh maybe it just came to  you or maybe uh you rested for a little bit  

and then and then your mind sort of did it work  something out or work it out does suggest that  

you did some effort so if you work something  out or work out something that that does that  

usually implies maybe a little more effort  so that's probably the biggest difference  

so if uh you could use them but there again  there's overlap between them there's some  

overlap between them there's cases where you could  use either one and people would understand what  

you meant uh but i'm gonna work out the problem  that means i might have to think about it a bit  

i'll figure out the problem means the answer  might just come to me or it could also mean i  

might have to work it out we got a greetings  from jacob in india welcome to you too sir uh  

difference between bribe and corruption okay so  corruption is a state corruption is a situation  

so um a bribe is a specific act so and it's  specifically the act of i'm going to give money  

to an official let's say it's a government  official but it doesn't it's not necessarily  

always a government official it could be business  but let's say let's let's use a government i  

if i get i tell this government official my  company uh will provide 10 million dollars for  

your re-election campaign if you make this law  that can benefit us that's a bribe and if the  

pr and if the if the official accepts that bribe  he's engaged in corruption that's the difference  

okay so the bribe is my offer there's a  quid pro quo i give this and you give that  

that's the bribe corruption is when it's accepted  corruption is when the bribe has been taken um  

and when there's a when there's a condition  in which bribes are often accepted we can say  

that a lot of corruption exists in a certain  situation right so a place where corruption  

exists is a place where bribes almost certainly  exist and sometimes corruption becomes so extent  

that the bribes aren't even direct it just  sort of happens unspoken without people even  

saying it right because sometimes you don't have  to say things to let people know what you want  

what about for that matter like i  don't smoke or drink for that matter  

in that in that case you're saying i don't smoke  and for that matter meaning in addition also  

i also don't drink okay so that's the sense  of the for that matter in this case so i  

don't smoke and i'd also don't drink for that  matter uh so you could uh it's a way of uh  

indicating that you don't do something else or uh  would it always be used in a negative sense i'm  

not sure about that i'd have to think about that  one uh to be completely sure remember i'm doing  

this on the fly so uh so i some some of them  i might have to think about a little bit more  

to give a most precise answer but just looking  at it off the top of my head i would say  

uh the differences or the the meaning of that is  uh is that it's in addition from south africa i'm  

honored by being recognized you sir we need you  so much well i'm i'm honored by your watching  

our videos i really appreciate that thank you very  much uh thank you for watching uh we've got some  

co-workers here from south africa so it's good  to hear it's good to hear from you uh down there  

uh please can you uh i missed that one i went  by too quickly uh can you explain modal verbs  

for us well that's a big question uh i might  have to we might have to do a video on that  

uh to go into more detail modal verbs is a very  big topic um that uh that can take some time to  

really get into what are modal verbs uh that that  that that's not something i can answer in just a  

few minutes on a live stream we'd have to go into  detail on that but modal verbs just the quick  

version of that is verbs like might could and  would verbs that are expressing a situation other  

than something is the case right i ran you know  running happened you know i was running uh i'm i  

am running now i will run these are just facts you  know things that happened or didn't but if i said  

i might run okay now we're getting into a modal  situation we're getting into a situation where  

it's not just a fact anymore because it might  happen if i ran okay so now that's a hypothetical  

we're getting into a more of a modal situation so  that's that's the quickest way of explaining uh  

what a modal verb is it's a verb that's expressing  an idea other than um just what's going on  

hey and if you want to know more about modal verbs  you can check out our video on this exact topic so  

sarah has a verb as a verb sarah has a video on  modal verbs should ought and must those are three  

common modal verbs should you watch it yes you  should you ought to watch it you must watch it  

okay and can can be a secondhand  experience watching live news and travel  

vlogs you can have yeah second-hand experiences  by doing that right a second-hand experience  

so first-hand means direct you did it  second-hand means from uh from another person  

so something it's first-hand it's direct something  that's second hand it's indirect it's from another  

person uh so if i um here's another case of using  second hand i have first hand information uh that  

that bob is quitting bob told me so that's  first-hand information he told me that's  

direct first-hand information i have second-hand  information that bob is quitting bob told fred  

who told me that's secondhand i heard it from fred  who heard it from bob so there's your difference  

between first hand and secondhand and obviously  firsthand is a little more reliable a little  

more solid but if the second hand sor if the first  hand if the second hand source is reliable is good  

then it it's good so if fred it doesn't  doesn't lie if fred doesn't spread rumors  

if fred is a friend of bob's that's good  information too and so if you're watching  

travel vlogs and it's a good channel that's a good  second-hand source you can get good information

so we got some more uh people saying hello  very good i'd say that sort out and figure  

out are interchangeable they are they are very  interchangeable um yeah sort out i think sort  

out seems more like um it seems more british  english than me uh uh we do say that in the u.s  

but uh but uh i i know my british friends are more  likely to say things like you need to sort it out  

sorry for that bad accent but don't say  things you need to sort it out or it's sorted  

and then we don't say that quite as  much but yes sword out could be uh  

could be interchangeable with figure out i  would agree with that haggling and bargain  

um what's the difference between haggling  and bargain okay so haggling is the process  

um now let's let's say bargaining haggling  and bargaining those two are pretty similar  

so if they're um um if uh if i'm let's say i  want to buy let's say i'm in the the the grand  

bazaar in istanbul and i want to buy a rug and the  guy says well the rug is a hundred turkish lira  

and i say well that's too much uh how about  i'll give you 50 turkish lira and he says  

i can't sell it for less than 90. and i say well  i can go 55. now we're haggling we could even say  

we're bargaining okay because i'm trying to get  a lower price and he's trying to get the highest  

possible price so we're trying to come to some  arrangement on what i will pay for this rug and  

you could use haggling or bargaining kind of  interchangeably haggling has more of a sense  

of the struggle of it uh to me there's more of an  emotional sense of there's a battle going on and  

then bargaining is more of a neutral sense of it's  just a negotiation and then haggling is more of  

a sense of an emotional uh as well as an economic  interchange where i'm really trying to get a deal  

he's really trying to uh to get a deal as well  so i would say haggling has more of an emotional  

connotation than bargain bargaining does and just  the word bargain not using it as a uh not using  

it as a verb but using it as a noun a bargain is  a deal a bargain is a a good deal a good price  

so if somebody says hey i bought that rug and i  only paid 50 turkish lira for it so we might say  

that's a good bargain that's a bargain okay so  there's your difference you wouldn't say that's  

a haggle that wouldn't that wouldn't really make  sense but you could say that's a bargain that  

would make sense um that's a haggle haggle as a  noun really refers to the combat the discussion  

to try to get the best deal so some people  like haggling some people don't like haggling  

i'm not a big fan of haggling i'm not very good  at it but i am a fan of a bargain i like to get a  

good bargain all right we got a thanks good thanks  to you as well for listening uh hi from madagascar  

that's great madagascar as an interesting country  a very interesting history uh i've actually read  

a book on uh a queen of madagascar ravallona i  think ravalanova i think i might be pronouncing  

it wrong but she was from the 19th century so very  interesting uh ruler of madagascar a long time ago  

so i know a little bit about the country let's  see do we have any other questions or comments  

these are really good and it's very good to  get this kind of feedback from from you guys  

let's see from pakistan which wish to learn  more about english well the good news is  

the english danny channel is a great place to go  we have more videos that you can watch to learn  

more about english and i hope to have more  live streams like this coming up every week  

where you can do that is it except acceptable  to spend say i spent a great time rather than  

i had a great time i came across this on common  grammatical mistakes in an exam well uh i would  

not say that i would not say i spent a great  time i would definitely say i had a great time  

um i would just say i spent time i spent some  time doing it that's fine you could say i spent  

time doing it but you wouldn't say i spent a  great time and part of the reason for it is um  

because uh time is one of those words it's kind of  like if you know the difference between count and  

non-count nouns and i believe we have an english  danny channel video on that which explains some  

of the difference there um saying a great time  seems a little weird because time is one of those  

kind of a non-count noun where it sounds a little  awkward to a native speaker to say i spent a great  

time but you can say i spent time just generally  but had a great time is what you would say there i  

had a great time that's that makes sense um what  is negotiation well negotiation is a discussion  

between two people uh to try to come to some kind  of arrangement some kind of agreement the most  

uh the most common kind of negotiation that  i often think of is a business negotiation uh  

but another kind of negotiation is just sales uh  so you go to a shop if i go to a shop and i say  

i'd like to buy um that rug um and the the the  seller says you can have it for a hundred lira  

and i say i'll pay 50. we're in a negotiate that's  we're in we're haggling or you could say we're in  

a negotiation we're negotiating so we're in a  negotiation that's the noun we're negotiating  

that's the verb negotiate means to discuss  something with someone to try to come to  

an agreement can we use while with the past  perfect um i think so can you think of an example  

sentence uh that you're trying to uh trying to  use there um and i'll try to see if that works in  

the specific case that you're thinking of um  so um there you there may be something specific  

that you're thinking of um so i'll try to  address that uh if i can so past perfect um

usually you can um okay so um so past  perfect you're gonna talk about something uh  

something that uh had been done um

um yeah i think so here's an example you could  say while i was doing this uh live stream  

uh a new video had just been posted to the english  danny channel i don't know that that's true but i  

think i could say that uh so you can use it well  you can use while while something was happening  

happening something else had  already happened so even while

he was speaking the other person had already  finished his test yeah so you're you're saying  

that something had been completed while  something was going on so yeah that you can  

do that yeah i think you could do that so let's  see anything else please do it's really helpful  

what's the opposite of hungry full the opposite  of hungry would be full or the opposite of hungary  

if i wanted to be if i wanted if i wanted to  make a joke i could say is austria because uh  

hungary uh h-u-n-g-a-r-y is a country in  europe and it used to be joined with austria  

as a an empire called the empire of  austria-hungary so but hungary i think  

you mean in the sense of i need to eat so i think  the opposite of hungry is full opposite hungry is  

full what's the difference between trade and  business um so trade uh um trade is more of a  

give and take between people um and then business  is just a general word for anything being done um  

so let me see actually trade has other  meanings though um so uh trade so trade um  

when you're trading you're buying and selling um  uh but well here i'll give you an example so um uh  

when when ford makes a car right they're not  engaged in trade but they are engaged in business  

right they're just making the car right they're  engaged in business they're building a product  

and then later they'll sell that product yes and  they will get involved in trade and when they need  

the parts to make the car they're going to engage  in trade because they're going to buy those the  

parts they need from people that supply them  you know like they're going to need rubber for  

the tires they're going to need metal for the the  body they're going to need glass for the windows  

and the the front windshield so they'll engage  in trade in order to carry on their business  

so yeah business uh trade is a part of business  is a way of thinking about it so business  

will include trade but include other things  there's other activities like just purchasing uh  

it'll also involve negotiations it'll also  involve advertising like so if there's an  

advertising company so an advertising company are  they really engaged in trade no they're not buying  

and selling what they're doing is they're making  an advertisement okay but then they may engage in  

a little trade when they sell their advertisement  uh or offer it to a a tv channel say for example  

but the making of the ad or the making of  advertising that's that's a part of business  

right so that's really the difference there um  what are my qualifications my qualifications  

i have a uh i have a master's and a  phd in english language and literature  

uh from a university in the united states so those  are my qualifications and then i've been teaching  

i also have some experienced qualifications i've  taught at american universities for about seven or  

eight years and i've taught overseas at overseas  universities for this is now my eighth year uh  

teaching overseas so about 15 years university  teaching experience teaching everything from uh uh  

literature courses to negotiation courses  business business english uh and just english  

grammar and english speaking and conversation uh  so i've taught a lot of um taught a lot of people  

including native speakers and not any native  speakers about the english language uh please  

a deal a bargain the same thing a deal and  a bargain yeah again this is a case where  

there's going to be a lot of overlap there  that's a deal that's a bargain a lot of times  

you're going to want to say that those are  just about the same so would you say that  

something is a deal or is a bargain  well the thing is you could also say  

i'm more likely to say that something is a  good or a bad deal you could say something's  

a good bargain or a bad bargain but it's more  common to say something like i got a good deal

to mean a bargain so a bargain already implies  that it was probably good whereas a deal is more  

neutral so you would say good deal to specify  no it was a really good deal now deal can mean  

good but sometimes you might specify specifically  by saying no no it was a good deal or it was a bad  

deal i made a deal but it was a bad deal  i didn't i didn't i didn't win out of it  

so uh um yeah that's i think there's  there's a there's the difference there  

even though again there's a lot of overlap  with those two words deal and bargain  

let's see how am i i'm good how  are you i hope you're doing well  

let's see uh how to speak english like a native  well uh i think one of the k it's difficult to do  

but uh the key is a lot of listening and a lot  of practice uh so you should listen uh to people  

speaking in english um and uh and practice  it when you can you know one way that you can  

you can do it as well uh is uh you can also  practice sing singing things and learning some  

english songs and singing them because that  can also help you a bit too i've noticed that  

that sometimes that's more fun to learn the  lyrics of a song and then you also learn the  

sort of the meaning and the feeling of the  words because there's an emotion in the song  

so that might be something that can help you  out if you're finding if you're having trouble  

is get a song that you like in english and learn  how to sing it uh that might help you am i using  

per se correctly now per se is a latin phrase it  comes from the latin language which we borrowed  

into english we're not dating per se uh yeah so  uh yes that is correct uh it's just that we hang  

out uh and get to know each other more so yes you  are using that correctly that is the meaning of  

it uh but you could probably tell that uh and it  looks like per c right but it's usually pronounced  

uh per se per se means by itself or in itself so  we're not dating we're not uh dating per se you  

know we're not we're not dating by itself you know  if you in the literal meaning of that word we're  

just hanging out that's all we're doing so you  could use it that way yep so yeah that's a that's  

a a phrase that we borrowed from from latin what  is the name given to the time difference between  

the nationals well i'm not sure exactly what you  mean by that um the time difference between um  

who for example um because there's different  meanings for different time differences  

we have time zones so for example in the united  states there's the eastern so if you live in new  

york or washington dc you're in the eastern time  zone and then if you live in california you're in  

the western time zone and that would be a name  given to that difference but you could also say  

there's the international date line  and people on one side of it are  

on one day like for example april 17th and people  on the other side of veteran the next day say  

april 18th how can i remove spelling mistakes  okay so what uh the way to get better at spelling  

is to read a lot uh i tell even native speakers  this because native speakers often make mistakes  

learning how to spell in english is very difficult  uh the the spelling of english is very strange  

because the reason why it's strange is because  the sounds of words changes quicker than spelling  

changes and so a lot of spelling of words reflects  the way that words were pronounced 400 years ago  

so the pronunciation has changed but  the spelling has remained the same  

and i i can't explain all the reasons for that  but but that's why that is and so some words are  

difficult for native speakers to to understand  the way to get better at spelling spelling is to  

read a lot the more you read your mind will start  to recognize wait a minute that just looks wrong  

and so you will just instinctively recognize  that's not the right spelling because you will  

have seen the word spelled correctly many times  so read a lot and read uh read high-level things  

so don't read just like a newspaper here or an  internet article there but read published books  

meaning that an editor has corrected the spelling  very well and read like literature or philosophy  

or something you enjoy history something that you  like because if you like it you're more likely to  

do it and read a bunch of things and the more you  are exposed to english words the better you will  

get at spelling in the covet context water jab  a jab is a shot so an injection a jab so they  

a jab means to stab something and so just like  they're stabbing you in the arm with the needle  

they're injecting you you could say it's a jab and  that that used to be uh predominantly they would  

say that in british english but we've adopted  it now in the u.s i hear even americans and  

canadians referring to jabs now so um the covet  is such an international situation that this  

word has gotten spread around more so yeah  can flat out mean downright yes it can  

yes it can uh that is flat out wrong that is  downright wrong um uh you could say that um  

it can and there can be overlap between  the two you are flat out correct

per day per and uh and by per day uh by day  day by day um yeah so what is the difference um  

between those um i have to think about that one um  for a second so per diem is another use of per so

well one difference is that

bi has other meanings that per doesn't so per  is four each for each so per day for each day  

but buy also has the means of by means  of using something so i came here by car  

you couldn't say i came here per car that  wouldn't make sense because per doesn't  

mean by means of it only means four each so  uh so you could say here uh you could say  

but you could in the cases where buy does mean  for each you could use per or buy interchangeably  

so i do this day by day i do this per day  take one per day that makes sense you can  

say that again and tell me about it um are these  synonymous in feeling yeah they just about are  

it just has a feeling of just a general agreement  a general sort of yes i i i agree with that  

uh feeling yes they they basically are  i mean you can get into some technical  

differences but uh yeah tell me about it yeah has  the same sort of feeling like look at that again  

tell me about it uh let's let's let's look at what  a difference might be tell me about it might be  

more for a negative thing right ah boss is  terrible oh yeah tell me about it he is terrible  

you could say that again you you could you could  use that um but uh but usually you don't want them  

to say that again because the boss might hear  you you don't want him to hear and so tell me  

about it it's a little bit better for agreeing  with a negative sentiment whereas you can say  

that again you could do that but it's a little  better to use for positive statements only disgust  

disgust i do pronounce it that way disgust he um  and that does sound like disgust disgust disgust i  

feel nothing but disgust we discussed it yesterday  do you hear a difference i'm not sure that there's  

a big difference there the way i pronounce those  words um maybe a little bit but yeah he turned  

away from the uh from from the the site with  disgust we discussed discussed it there's more  

of a d i guess in the discuss discussed uh version  all right these are really good questions we've  

gone for a long time here so i'm going to wrap  up our live stream in a few minutes here thank  

you everyone for watching i really appreciate  everybody tuning in today this has been great  

and i hope it's been helpful for you and we'll  see you next week all right see you next time