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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack help out a listener who is anxious about having an accent when speaking English.

Dear Xochitl and Jack,

I recently moved to an English-speaking country to pursue my studies, and while I'm confident in my academic English, I find it challenging to engage in casual conversations with native speakers. I often feel self-conscious about my accent and worry that I might not be understood clearly. How can I overcome this fear and improve my spoken English in informal settings?

Sincerely,

Accent Anxieties

Transcript:

00:00:00

Jack

Hey A-Z listeners, this is Jack here.

00:00:03

Jack

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00:00:23

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00:00:42

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00:00:44

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00:00:52

Jack

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00:00:55

Jack

Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are.

00:01:03

Jack

Doing a dear social and Jack episode where one of our listeners has written or sent us an e-mail.

00:01:12

Jack

With some kind of problem that they need help with and it is something language related and so.

00:01:18

Jack

Uh, and I know I know what you're going to say already, because I've read this before, so I can kind of predict what your answer is going to be social. But I I like I you've said this before and I I like it so much. I I hope you say it again. So here's the here's the letter. Here's Social and Jack.

00:01:36

Jack

I recently moved to an English speaking country to pursue to pursue my studies.

00:01:43

Jack

And while I'm confident in my academic English, I find it challenging to engage in casual conversation with native speakers. I often feel self-conscious about my accent and worry that I might not be understood clearly.

00:02:01

Jack

How can I overcome this fear and improve my spoken English in informal settings? Sincerely.

00:02:10

Jack

Accent anxieties.

00:02:13

Xochitl

Alright, acts and anxiety. Well, I think the fear that you're having is really valid. It's really normal. I think anyone who learns a new language feels this way. I know I certainly did when I moved to Korea. I'm going to tell you.

00:02:28

Xochitl

The way that you're going to see the most improvement.

00:02:32

Xochitl

Is jumping head first just nose diving into that fear?

00:02:39

Xochitl

And trying your hardest anyway. Yes, there will be uncomfortable and awkward moments where people don't understand what you're saying. Yes, sometimes people might correct you, some people might be jerks and make fun of your accents. I had people laugh at me in Korea to my face.

00:02:55

Xochitl

Yeah, it stings a little bit, but how many languages could they speak fluently so you know, most of the time, any. Yeah. Most of the time, people who can speak two languages fluently are not going to be the same people laughing in your face because they can appreciate how difficult it is to learn a second language. And they're going to be respectful.

00:03:02

발표자

Yeah.

00:03:02

Jack

Yeah, yeah.

00:03:15

Xochitl

About it.

00:03:16

Jack

And what? What does your mom say about people that speak two languages?

00:03:21

Jack

Do you remember? Ohh you forgot. Ohh OK. God love. I'll never forget this because your mom, your your mom said like what? The only thing that means is when when you have an accent it just means that you can speak two languages.

00:03:22

Xochitl

I forgot Jack.

00:03:34

Xochitl

And.

00:03:37

Xochitl

Right, right. That's true.

00:03:38

Jack

You know that's, that's all it means. Like if you have an accent and you're speaking English with an accent, it just means you speak multiple languages. You're you're smart, you're, you know, more than the the people you're talking to, you know.

00:03:46

Xochitl

Right. And that's part of.

00:03:50

Xochitl

Right, so don't be ashamed. Just.

00:03:53

Xochitl

Just launch in there and I don't hold back. I know it can be daunting. I know it can be embarrassing, but you'll never learn if you don't try. And I see this with my mom and her sisters. I see that. I think my mom.

00:04:08

Xochitl

All her sisters and her moved to the US around the same time and started learning English around the same time. But my mom? Really.

00:04:18

Xochitl

Kind of launched into using it. She didn't really care what people said. She wasn't embarrassed if people made fun of her accent or said they couldn't understand her. And I think that that's what led her to develop her English the best because she wasn't bothered by the comments or the people making fun of her. And in Korea, it stung me a little when people made fun of my accent.

00:04:40

Xochitl

Laughed at me.

00:04:43

Xochitl

And then I shook it off and I was like, hey, I'm trying my best here so that I have nothing to be embarrassed about. So don't hold back.

00:04:51

Jack

I think it's interesting that you're, you know, of your, your mom and her sisters, not everyone developed at the same rate because I'm assuming, you know, and this is.

00:05:03

Jack

Uh.

00:05:04

Jack

I think this.

00:05:05

Jack

Is a correct assumption.

00:05:06

Jack

It's not. They're all equal, and they're all of equal intelligence. You know? They're, they're all you know, they're, they're they're cognitively very, you know, healthy or whatever. And there there's no, there's no. The issue is not it's not that it's it's an attitude.

00:05:10

Xochitl

Yes. Yeah, I would say yes, yeah.

00:05:20

발표자

Thanks.

00:05:24

Jack

Issue almost. You know what I mean? It's like this. Yeah. Sorry, go ahead.

00:05:28

Xochitl

Oh, go ahead. I was just gonna say her two sisters are are are more shy than she is. And one of them even took formal English lessons far longer than my mom did and got, like, a.

00:05:42

Xochitl

Some kind of I don't want to say in a degree, but she does. She passed some kind of course.

00:05:48

발표자

Hmm.

00:05:49

Xochitl

Still, if you compare her English and my mom's English, my mom's English is far superior, and it really can't come down to my mom uses it every day. My mom incorporates new words every day. My mom isn't, like, scared or shy to engage with people in English, and my mom never says I can't do it. And her two other sisters sometimes have a attitude of like.

00:06:10

Xochitl

Ohh I can. I don't know if I can. They like more. You know, my mom has a very can do attitude. She's very straightforward. Yeah, lady and I really think believing yourself and having that confidence it will lead you to be better in the long run.

00:06:24

Jack

This is gonna sound cheesy and cringy, but my basketball coach had a a.

00:06:31

Jack

An expression of a banner that had this expression up hanging in the gym when I was in high school and he said attitude, not aptitude, determines your altitude. And I always remember that, you know, and I think it's very true.

00:06:44

Xochitl

Right.

00:06:50

Jack

And sometimes we think, oh, I'm not smart enough. Ohh, it's I'm not good at languages. I'm not this. I'm not that. It's those are just excuses. It's like what you're really talking about.

00:07:01

Jack

Is fear you're afraid?

00:07:03

Jack

And if you can just put that fear aside and face your fear you, you'd be surprised just what you can accomplish, you know, and I think that we're and that I think that's universally true for everything, not just language learning, but just like learning anything.

00:07:03

Xochitl

Right.

00:07:21

Jack

In general is that I think everybody has to start with the kind of incompetent.

00:07:27

Jack

Level. You know when you're first learning a language you're like I'm incompetent, but as you just keep fighting and fighting and fighting and and working hard, you become competent and and it's it's, you know it it it does feel like a.

00:07:32

발표자

Right.

00:07:43

Jack

Sometimes impossible journey I I think learning a language is kind of like climbing.

00:07:49

Jack

I don't know Mount Everest or something. You know? You can't. You can't look at the peak. You can't just be like, hey, I just want to jump up to that peak there and then pop back down. You know, it's like, no, you gotta go to base camp one base camp, two base camp three. You gotta go. You know, you've gotta go through all the stages.

00:07:52

발표자

Right.

00:08:09

Jack

First, before you get to the where you want to be, so I think I think anxiety accent anxieties is just feeling a little bit overwhelmed, but it sounds like he or she is already so far down the road.

00:08:26

Jack

Obviously, don't even think about the accent thing like you're fine.

00:08:26

Xochitl

Right.

00:08:29

Xochitl

Right, yeah. Don't be embarrassed. You're already doing really well in academic English, which is one of the hardest things. Pat yourself on the back and don't be afraid to.

00:08:39

Xochitl

You know, just put yourself out there because I guarantee that those students that you're learning with, I mean, you're learning in a foreign language.

00:08:47

Xochitl

So you pat yourself on the back for that because that's something I wouldn't.

00:08:52

Xochitl

Want to do?

00:08:53

Jack

It's like doing it with like two hands tied behind your back, you know?

00:08:57

발표자

Yes.

00:08:57

Jack

It's.

00:08:57

Jack

Like and I'll I'll like, I'll. I'll, I'll tell you what I'm from Minnesota.

00:08:59

Xochitl

It's hard.

00:09:04

Jack

And I didn't even know I had an accent until I moved to California and everybody started making fun of the way that I spoke English. So even as a native speaker, my own accent, I had to change it because I was. So I'm. And now if I had more confidence, if I had had more confidence as a young person.

00:09:24

Jack

I probably would have just kept my accent, but the Midwest accent is very specific as social knows what I'm talking about because she's from the Midwest as well.

00:09:27

Xochitl

Mm-hmm.

00:09:35

Jack

And when I moved to California, I would say really weird things like that. My pronunciation was really strange and people would be like, where are you from? Are you from, you know, are you from Minnesota? Are you from Wisconsin or something? And and I I thought I was saying it normally, you know. And then I I realized that I wasn't. And so I even worked on my own.

00:09:58

Jack

Accent as a you know, as an American to have a more kind of generic American accent. So this is, you know, don't don't worry about it, you'll be fine.

00:10:09

Xochitl

Yeah. Don't sweat yourself. You'll be OK anyway, if you have any questions, make sure you leave them down below or any comments at A-Z. Englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at AZ englishpodcast@gmail.com and make sure make sure to join who we chat and WhatsApp Group so you can talk to Jack Knight directly. We'll see you guys next.

00:10:27

Xochitl

Time. Bye bye.

00:10:28

Jack

Bye bye.

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about why it's still important for adults to learn a new language.

Transcript:

00:00:00

Jack

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00:00:03

Jack

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Jack

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00:00:56

Jack

Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are doing a topic talk and the topic of today's conversation is why you are never too old to learn a language and such a I just went online and did a little bit of research.

00:01:18

Jack

And I found five pretty interesting reasons why you're never too old to learn a language, and the first one is about near neuroplasticity.

00:01:29

Xochitl

Oh, interesting.

00:01:30

Jack

And so yeah, and it's it's it says here while it's true that children often have an easier time picking up languages due to their brains, high level of neuroplasticity, which means ability to adapt and change, adults can still learn new languages.

00:01:50

Jack

Effectively, research has shown that the adult brain remains capable of forming new neural connections.

00:01:58

Jack

Actions and adapting to new linguistic challenges, albeit at a different pace than children, so it's not like we have zero ability to learn a language and and build new neural pathways, but it's not the same as when we're like in the the critical age when you know.

00:02:18

Jack

Whatever that might be, five to three years old.

00:02:21

Jack

You know, I don't know. Thirteen years old or whatever, so yeah.

00:02:25

발표자

Right, right.

00:02:26

Xochitl

Yeah. OK. I think that's very interesting. I've heard before on theories that if you learn two or more languages as a balanced bilingual from childhood that you're also more able to pick up new languages. But even if you hadn't, even if you are monolingual.

00:02:44

Xochitl

And you never learned more than one language growing up. I think research shows that adults, it's it's beginning to show at an increasing weight that adults still retain quite a bit of neuroplasticity. Right, so I think.

00:03:02

Xochitl

Yeah, that just gives you every more reason to have faith that you can learn another language and a lot of the world has light up on us because they have learned two or more languages.

00:03:15

Xochitl

From a young age so.

00:03:17

Jack

Yeah. And this one kind of dovetails nicely. It connects with the one later, which is cognitive benefits. You know, like the like, holding off dementia and stuff like that is creating new neural pathways in your brain, you know, so neurons are making new connections.

00:03:28

발표자

Yep.

00:03:36

Jack

This is a good thing, like it's a it's a good practice. It's like exercise for your brain, you know, it's like working out your brain. So yeah, definitely a good thing. And I also I wanted to say one more thing about what you said about bilingual children.

00:03:44

Xochitl

Right.

00:03:56

Jack

Cause my daughter is a a balanced bilingual just like you.

00:04:00

Jack

Bar and I think there's something that children learn early that that we don't, that I didn't learn till I was older and that is that language is arbitrary and what arbitrary means is there's no reason for anything to be called anything like trees.

00:04:20

Jack

Just the sound that we decided as English speakers to mean tree.

00:04:23

발표자

This can happen.

00:04:27

Jack

But it means nothing to Spanish speaker, you know.

00:04:27

Xochitl

Right.

00:04:31

Xochitl

It might even mean something else, like if a one word might mean something completely different in another language.

00:04:37

Jack

Exactly, exactly. Those are called false cognates. I believe you know when they they don't line, they sound the same, but they're totally unrelated.

00:04:47

Jack

UM, and I think that, uh, you learned, you know, when you were young, you're like ohh table is table and table is also the Spanish word for table is Mesa.

00:04:58

Jack

If I'm not mistaken.

00:04:59

Jack

Yeah. So you've got you've got 2 words and you're like, oh, OK, so things can have multiple names depending on their.

00:05:06

Xochitl

Right.

00:05:07

Jack

Cultural significance.

00:05:09

Jack

And you learned that just probably before you even knew you learned it. You you knew that. And my daughter.

00:05:14

Xochitl

Right. That was a fact of life, basically. Like, you don't really think that too much.

00:05:17

Jack

Yeah.

00:05:19

Jack

Yeah. And in my little tiny English speaking world, where I'm a monolingual person, I probably was like, you know, a teenager when I had that epiphany. And I'm like, ohh you, the world is not all table is not just the universal term for, you know table it was it was always it's always been a table since the beginning of time.

00:05:35

Xochitl

Right.

00:05:39

Jack

You know, so you you just don't. You don't get that epiphany that that realization until until.

00:05:40

Xochitl

Right.

00:05:48

Jack

Number two, life experience, this one. I'll just read the first sentence. Adults bring a wealth of life experience to the language learning process. So how? What do you think about that? Like, just like life experience.

00:06:03

Xochitl

I think life experience can help you in any way, because if you already have practice studying other things like in university or high school, then you probably already know how to study.

00:06:16

Xochitl

Me and that helps a lot. Like you gave a tip in an earlier episode about writing things down and how that helps retain information and for example, things like flash cards. You'll have all those tools at your disposal and you'll be way more organized. So I think that will definitely help. And it's also something to look forward to in the sense that it'll open your life experiences.

00:06:37

Xochitl

Too.

00:06:38

Xochitl

Like you'll have way more experiences and be able to appreciate cultures at a different level. If you speak another language fluently.

00:06:47

Jack

I I see it as like this, like beautiful secret skeleton key to an entire entirely new world. Like you. You put it in. You open that door and it's like the Wizard of Oz. Like you walking into another world that you can understand.

00:06:57

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:07:07

Jack

You know, without that, without the language, you're missing just so much. It's so it's so it's so dull and and dreary and and you you can't really appreciate.

00:07:19

Jack

I'm speaking no, you go ahead. You go ahead.

00:07:20

Xochitl

It's like an.

00:07:20

Xochitl

Apple, sorry, good.

00:07:23

Xochitl

I'm just gonna say it's like when you go to the grocery store in the US, there's like a wax cap on the apples. Like there's a thin wax on it, and then you can wash it in hot water and melt it away. And the apple tastes way better. That's like the language. Like, you can see the culture and appreciate it to some extent. But that whole flavorful life of a culture that you can appreciate with language is locked away.

00:07:45

Xochitl

Underneath that wax.

00:07:46

발표자

Yeah.

00:07:47

Jack

That's that's exactly right. There you go. Perfect metaphor. So yeah, life experience, learning a language #3 diverse learning resources. So access to information and knowledge that you might not have had available to you in.

00:08:07

Jack

Without being able to speak that second language, that new language.

00:08:11

Xochitl

Yeah, yeah, I definitely agree. That's another thing I see a lot with, like migrants or actually I see it a lot with my family.

00:08:20

Xochitl

They my mom speaks good English. My aunts, English is is kind of mediocre and she struggles with. It's like a whole world in the US that's locked away from her as far as the resources and being able to navigate certain things on her own because her English lacks.

00:08:39

Xochitl

And so.

00:08:41

Xochitl

That's not really her fault. It's very hard to work a full time job and learn a new language when you move to a new country at the same time, I really struggle with that.

00:08:48

Jack

Sure.

00:08:49

Xochitl

In Korea, you.

00:08:50

Xochitl

Know, but again, it does really hinder you from being able to navigate things independently. The way that you would in your home country.

00:09:00

Jack

Now you gave us some really good examples a while back in in older in older episodes about like remedies.

00:09:09

발표자

This.

00:09:10

Jack

Your mom has these, like, certain remedies from her region of Mexico where she grew up and like, there would be no without without your momma's. You know, as a, as a gateway to that information and your mom and your and your grandparents.

00:09:30

Jack

That information, that knowledge.

00:09:31

Jack

Would be totally locked away from.

00:09:33

Jack

You, you know, and you said like ohh, when you have a stomach ache, your mom would make a certain herbal potion, you know, kind of.

00:09:34

발표자

Right.

00:09:43

Jack

Thing or whatever.

00:09:43

Xochitl

Yeah, yeah.

00:09:44

Jack

Sorry, potion sounds more magical, but it's not feature. Yeah, something like that. Yeah, and I think that that wisdom, there's, like a lot of wisdom that is locked into language.

00:09:46

Xochitl

No, you're fine with the concoction. Uh. A mixture. Yeah, yeah.

00:09:58

Jack

And and without it you there's just no way you you have access to any of those things so.

00:09:58

발표자

Yeah.

00:10:04

Jack

So yeah, that's that's a beautiful aspect of the of learning another language #4 we touched on already, but the cognitive benefits in adults, there's reducing the risk of developing dementia or delaying the onset of dementia is is is a.

00:10:25

Jack

Is a benefit of learning a second law.

00:10:28

Jack

Which so yeah. So I mean, even if you're just looking, it's it's almost like to me, like, you know, if you're like, oh, I gotta hit the gym, I better. I better do, like P90X or something like that. It's like, well, I gotta hit the mental gym. I'm going to learn Spanish. I'm going to learn French.

00:10:29

Xochitl

Right.

00:10:29

Xochitl

You work.

00:10:46

Xochitl

Right can do some verb conjugation, yeah.

00:10:50

Jack

Yeah, exactly.

00:10:52

Jack

Those are your push-ups, you know, for everything. Yeah. Yeah. Your pull-ups are your, you know, the grammar, your verb tenses or whatever, you know. But yeah, I. So I think for cognitive benefits, definitely it's worth it. And the last one is cultural enrichment. Learning a new language opens the door.

00:11:12

Jack

To experience an.

00:11:14

Jack

Experiencing and understanding different cultures more deeply and so.

00:11:19

Jack

Would you agree with?

00:11:20

Jack

That I think you've already touched on that before.

00:11:21

Xochitl

Yeah, we have touched on that and I would agree. And as you said about like for example, the whole herbal medicinal part, if I didn't speak any Spanish, I would be completely locked out of that or, for example, my boyfriend speaks Zapotec, he would like, I wouldn't have been able to talk with my grandparents and learn all their wisdom if I didn't speak Spanish, he wouldn't have been able to talk with his grandparents if he didn't speak Salpa tech.

00:11:44

Xochitl

And so it's like a whole other world that you would have been completely excluded from in a way. And I do see the effect.

00:11:53

Xochitl

Of like Latinos that grew up in the US that don't speak Spanish or don't speak some kind of language that connects them to the culture because really we're we're an indigenous culture as well they have.

00:12:06

Xochitl

It's just there's like a wall there. So that's why I think, yeah, I agree, there's a lot of culture locked into language.

00:12:13

Jack

Absolutely, absolutely. It's where the wisdom is locked in the language. I I think you can try to explain to the, you know, you could try to explain some of these things in English, but they're going to lose. You're going to lose a lot in the translation.

00:12:30

Jack

And so you know, getting it in from the original source is really important. All right, that's our. Those are our five, yeah.

00:12:40

Xochitl

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about fillers English speakers often use.

English language fillers are words or phrases that people use in speech to fill pauses or gaps in conversation. Here are some common ones:

Um / Uh: Used to indicate hesitation or to fill a pause while thinking.

Well: Often used to introduce a statement, express agreement, or to indicate that you're considering something.

So: Frequently used to transition between topics or to start a new thought.

You know: Used to seek validation from the listener or to emphasize a point.

Like: Often used as a filler word, especially among younger speakers, to pause or emphasize a point.

I mean: Used to clarify or rephrase a statement.

Actually: Used to add emphasis or correction to a statement.

Basically: Often used to simplify or summarize a complex idea.

Well, you see: Used to begin an explanation or to introduce reasoning.

In a way / In a sense: Used to qualify or add nuance to a statement.

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack explain the meanings of several phrasal verbs using the verb "push."

Push around: This phrasal verb means to treat someone in a bossy or unfair manner, often by using one's authority or physical strength. For example:

"The new manager likes to push around junior staff members to assert her authority."

"Don't let him push you around like that; stand up for yourself!"

Push for: This phrasal verb means to advocate for or strongly support something, often in a determined or persistent manner. For example:

"The environmental activists are pushing for stricter regulations on pollution."

"The union is pushing for better working conditions for its members."

Push through: This phrasal verb means to overcome obstacles or resistance in order to achieve something, often by using determination or force. For example:

"Despite facing numerous challenges, she managed to push through and complete her project on time."

"We need to push through these difficult times together and come out stronger on the other side."

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack explain the meanings of several expressions which use the word "dead."

Dead on: This phrase means exactly accurate or precise. For example:

"You were dead on with your prediction about the outcome of the game."

"Her aim was dead on, hitting the target every time."

Dead to rights: This expression refers to being caught red-handed or being unmistakably guilty of something. For example:

"The thief was caught dead to rights with the stolen goods in his possession."

"She was caught cheating on the exam, caught dead to rights by the teacher."

Dead as a doornail: This phrase is used to emphasize that something is completely lifeless or inactive. For example:

"After the accident, the engine was dead as a doornail."

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack share their teenage celebrity crushes!

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00:00:01

Jack

Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are doing a topic talk and we're talking about celebrity crushes that you had when you were a kid. OK and social, just for our audiences understanding what is a crush.

00:00:22

Jack

Again, if you have a crush on someone.

00:00:25

Xochitl

A crush is like when you really, really like someone. Kind of like an intense infatuation.

00:00:31

Xochitl

But it's not really based on anything real like like a real connection with that person. It's a lot of what you project on that person, and it's usually based on, like either appearance or small like personality traits that you've acquired through seeing them act or whatever, that you kind of imagined for this person.

00:00:44

발표자

Right.

00:00:50

Jack

And so you you.

00:00:51

Jack

You know, often like, like high school kids will. You'll have a crush on a girl in your class or a guy in your class, but you don't really know that person. You just. But. But it's like, almost like an intense feeling of love. Like it's not real.

00:00:59

발표자

MHM.

00:01:04

Jack

Love. But it's just like it feels like you're you're your chest is being crushed because you're you're so you. Your feelings are so strong for this person. Like they're perfect, you know? Ohh the perfect person. But really in reality you don't know them at all. And they could be awful, you know, so.

00:01:24

발표자

Great.

00:01:25

Jack

Yeah, that's. So we have a thing called celebrity crushes because there's, you know, we're we're surrounded by celebrities all the.

00:01:32

Jack

Time and sometimes we will develop. You know that feeling of like, again, that crush feeling. It's like it's not love or it's not real love, but it's like attraction to a person who you feel like is your soul mate your perfect person, you know.

00:01:47

발표자

Right.

00:01:52

Jack

Like Ohh that's that's my ideal, you know person.

00:01:57

Jack

And so when you were like young, when you're a kid who were your celebrity crushes, like who, who were you, who did you crush on when you were?

00:02:10

Xochitl

Oh boy.

00:02:12

Xochitl

My biggest one was Justin.

00:02:16

Xochitl

Sure.

00:02:17

Jack

Ohh, I was gonna say Justin Timberlake.

00:02:20

Xochitl

No, I I he was too old, I think for my. Yeah, cause. Yeah, Justin Bieber was like my he was a couple years older, like few years. He's a few years older than me, I think. Yeah. And so he was a big celebrity crush of mine when I was probably like, 14 or 30 when I was 13, he was like.

00:02:22

Jack

Yeah, he's like a grandfather.

00:02:39

Xochitl

16 probably and uh.

00:02:41

Jack

Can I ask you a question? So did you have Bieber fever?

00:02:42

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:02:46

Xochitl

God. Yeah, I did. Uh, I thought it was too good to have Beaver fever, but I wasn't. And I didn't like him at the same time that every, like everyone else, already liked him. And I was, like, holding out. And then I saw this interview where he was really nice to this little girl, and it was like I thought it was so cute.

00:03:04

Xochitl

UM.

00:03:06

Jack

And that was before all the facial tattoos and the like neck tattoos.

00:03:09

Xochitl

Yeah, it was. We went kind of crazy and, you know, had a meltdown because he was like he was transitioning from child star to adult star. And I thought he was just so cute. And I had, like, a people bought me, like gifts for my birthday. Like, they bought me both of his.

00:03:12

Jack

Yeah.

00:03:18

발표자

Yeah, yeah.

00:03:27

Xochitl

Like CD's that he had at the time, a lunch box with his face on it.

00:03:32

Xochitl

And I had a huge poster that my sister bought me on my bedroom wall.

00:03:37

Jack

Nice.

00:03:39

Xochitl

And so that was a big that was like one of my first big celebrity crushes. Jack, you go with one of yours and we'll just go back and forth here. How about?

00:03:49

Jack

OK, again, my OK, I'm 47 years old, so you have to understand these all that my celebrity crushes all come from like the late 80s to early 90s. OK, when I was like 12 or 13 years old because I was born in 1977, so.

00:04:07

Jack

Uh, my. My first uh, I don't know. I'm trying to think of, like, my celebrity crush.

00:04:15

Jack

I think maybe one of the one of my first ones was the actress Elizabeth Shue.

00:04:22

Jack

UM, and you probably don't know who she is, right? Elizabeth Shue was in a movie called The Karate Kid.

00:04:23

Xochitl

I.

00:04:30

Jack

And.

00:04:31

Xochitl

Oh my God. She was Daniel's girlfriend.

00:04:33

Jack

Daniel's girlfriend. Yes, yes, I thought she was so.

00:04:35

Xochitl

I do know cause I saw that my mom made me watch. My mom's a Gen. Xer and she made us watch the karate.

00:04:40

Xochitl

Kid, when we were kids, which I liked a lot, so yeah.

00:04:41

Jack

Yeah, it's a classic. You gotta watch it. The Karate Kid is, uh, yeah, it's a classic movie. And Elizabeth Shue was the love interest in there. She had a Daniel had a crush on her. They she had an ex-boyfriend who was a bully.

00:04:57

Jack

And, UM, yeah, it was. Uh, she she was, you know, absolutely, you know, the epitome of, like, the perfect high school girlfriend, you know, bubbly, charming, cute, you know.

00:05:12

Xochitl

You're all next door style.

00:05:14

Jack

Girl next door. Yeah, she was. She was very. She was kind, you know, she wasn't stuck up. She. Yeah. Yeah, so.

00:05:22

Jack

Elizabeth Shue was was one of my first celebrity crushes.

00:05:26

Xochitl

Have you seen a Cobra Kai?

00:05:28

Jack

Yeah, I've watched that. I saw a couple of seasons of that show. I enjoyed it.

00:05:33

Xochitl

You much more because she shows back up.

00:05:35

Xochitl

At some point.

00:05:36

Jack

Yeah, she did show up in that one. Yeah. And that, you know, now she's 50, you know, something years old, 55 years old or whatever, but.

00:05:47

Jack

Yeah. So you know, that was one of my celebrity crushes. I'm sure I'm, it's me and about a million other Gen. X, you know, men my age, maybe 10s of millions who would put her on the list. Yeah. Yeah.

00:06:04

Jack

What's your #2?

00:06:04

Xochitl

Right.

00:06:06

Xochitl

My #2 High School Musical when everyone was crushing on Zac Efron, I was crushing on Corbin Bleu.

00:06:14

Jack

Corporate blue. Who's that? Which one is that?

00:06:16

Xochitl

That's his friend. Uh, I don't know, cause I only watched High School Musical one time, but.

00:06:23

Xochitl

He's like I'm trying to find a picture of him to show you guys here.

00:06:27

Xochitl

He was this guy.

00:06:29

Jack

But Corbin Bleu is his real name. Or is that his the name of OK?

00:06:32

Xochitl

Yeah, that's his real name. This is Corbin book. Can you see him here? There you go.

00:06:36

Jack

Ohh yeah, yeah, yeah. OK. He's got like kind of.

00:06:38

Jack

Yeah.

00:06:39

Jack

Big hair, yeah.

00:06:40

Xochitl

Curly hair and yeah, he was my I had he. I thought he was really cute and I did not understand the hype over Zach Efron. I felt like Zac Efron's eyes didn't match the rest of his face and he was orange looking and sorry that got Bron.

00:06:55

Xochitl

Those were like my observations, and I thought Corbin Blue was just the cutest, so that was.

00:07:01

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:07:02

Jack

OK. OK, interesting. Alright. Alright, I'm.

00:07:05

Xochitl

I almost always like never was like a huge fan of the main character. I always liked the second guy like in Harry Potter.

00:07:13

Jack

You like the goof like goofy best friend. You know guy? Yeah.

00:07:16

Xochitl

Yeah, like in Harry Potter. I always liked Ron Weasley over Harry.

00:07:20

Jack

Ohh OK yeah, yeah.

00:07:21

Xochitl

It's like that was just my thing. I.

00:07:23

Xochitl

Don't know why.

00:07:24

Jack

No.

00:07:25

Jack

Well, Harry short, you know, in real life he's a pretty short guy.

00:07:28

Xochitl

Isn't Rupert Grint also short, though?

00:07:31

Jack

Probably, yeah. These might be taller than Harry though, yeah?

00:07:32

Xochitl

Yeah, I think he's too. I just thought he was cuter than he.

00:07:35

Jack

They're all tiny little yeah.

00:07:38

Xochitl

They're all short people, yeah.

00:07:39

Jack

Yeah, yeah.

00:07:42

Jack

UM alright, my my second one is I used to watch this show again when I was like, you know, 12 or 13 called saved by the bell. It was a sitcom.

00:07:57

Jack

And but it was like a. It was like a a kids sitcom. It was different. It would. It was on Saturday mornings instead of like, you know, Thursday evening saved by the bell. And it was it took place in the high school, and there was a again, this is like a a side character.

00:08:09

발표자

Hmm.

00:08:16

Jack

UM named Lisa Turtle was her name, but her real name is Lark Voorhees, the actress and I had a a huge crush on on her and she was like.

00:08:31

Jack

The character. Do you have you ever heard?

00:08:33

Jack

Of the character Screech.

00:08:35

Jack

Screech the the nerd? No. OK, but you have no idea what I'm talking about right now. OK, so it doesn't matter. No, none of our students know what I'm talking about. Saved by the bell. Uh, Lisa, turtle. And that's her. Her real name is Lark Voorhees, the actress. And so I had a huge.

00:08:40

Xochitl

No, I'm 25.

00:08:54

Jack

Crush on her.

00:08:55

Jack

Yeah.

00:08:55

Xochitl

Lark is a cool name for a woman. It's a real name Mark.

00:08:57

Jack

That is a cool name, I know.

00:09:00

Jack

Maybe the only way it would be cooler is to do like skylark.

00:09:05

Jack

That's is that cooler?

00:09:06

Xochitl

I've seen Skyler as a name, but I like lark better. I think. I think that's cooler. Like lark George.

00:09:11

Jack

What about skylark?

00:09:15

Xochitl

I think it's like trying too hard. I think Laura Voorhees sounds like you're like a cool like in a punk rock band or so, you know, like a drunk band. You know what I mean? I like it. Yeah. Alright. My third one was when I was like a little bit older. So it's like, so I'm a little embarrassed, but I think I was like 18 or 19. So I was still a.

00:09:20

Jack

Yeah. Yeah, OK. OK. OK, yeah, that's good.

00:09:25

발표자

Like.

00:09:32

Xochitl

Teenager so in Guk.

00:09:36

Jack

Ohh.

00:09:37

Xochitl

The Korean uh actor and singer.

00:09:42

Xochitl

And I saw him in a music video by K will called. Please don't. And he was really cute. Like I just thought, Oh my God, he's so cute. And I started, like, looking up what other stuff he was in besides his music video. And he was in some K drama.

00:09:57

Xochitl

And.

00:09:58

Xochitl

But he had his own music and stuff, and so I would like, listen to his music videos. He has a really nice voice.

00:10:04

Jack

Is that why you came to Korea? Because you got into, like population.

00:10:06

Xochitl

No, no, no, no, no, no, I was not. No, that's so embarrassing. No, I wasn't a huge K pop person. I like solo artists like like IU selling the.

00:10:08

Jack

You didn't come to meet him in person.

00:10:20

Jack

Or rain something like that. B yeah.

00:10:23

Xochitl

I don't really know rain or be that might have been like a little before my, but sawing OK will IU. I was a huge fan of them.

00:10:33

Xochitl

And the whole reason I really got into Korea was actually a YouTuber called Tonon Mukadam. I was looking up how.

00:10:39

Xochitl

To.

00:10:40

Xochitl

Teach abroad in uh. Just teaching abroad in general, I think, and her channel came up about teaching abroad in Korea. And then like the benefits are so.

00:10:50

Xochitl

Much.

00:10:51

Xochitl

Better and easier, I feel like than a lot of other English.

00:10:54

Xochitl

Yes, all countries. So that's how I.

00:10:55

Jack

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:10:58

Xochitl

Yeah, but selling Google was a huge celebrity crush of mine. So what's your last one, Jack?

00:11:03

Jack

OK, OK.

00:11:05

Jack

My last one is, uh, the singer. This one was she was very popular when I was in high school, maybe.

00:11:13

Jack

10th grade or 9th grade or something? Uh. Jewel.

00:11:18

Jack

Do you know jewel?

00:11:19

Xochitl

No.

00:11:20

Jack

You've never heard of.

00:11:22

Xochitl

I've never heard of her. I really have never heard of.

00:11:24

Jack

Her. So I'm so old. All right, Jewel, is she? She she's a guitarist, singer-songwriter. She her first single. Who will save your soul.

00:11:41

Jack

Is, you know, has probably 20 million downloads on on uh, YouTube.

00:11:48

Jack

She's just a very, very talented singer and I think it's just her beauty and her talent was, you know, just, you know, I've had a crush on her because I think there's something about that combination of like.

00:12:08

Jack

Umm.

00:12:09

Jack

Attractive beauty and also talent and ability to sing and write music. It was to me like, you know, he's perfect, you know, like Oh my goodness. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't just about physical, you know, appearance. It was like ohh man. You know she's smart.

00:12:18

Xochitl

Like, Oh my gosh, yeah.

00:12:20

Xochitl

Right, like a triple Emmys thing.

00:12:29

Jack

Beautiful. And she can write music and sing and perform and has a great voice.

00:12:33

Jack

So you know, I mean, I'm sure that like lots of my parents, generations had crushes on like Joni Mitchell or, you know, Emmy Lou Harris or other, you know, you know Diana Ross or whatever. But yeah, for my generation, it was jewel and.

00:12:45

발표자

Hmm.

00:12:54

Jack

You you have no idea what I'm talking about.

00:12:56

Xochitl

I'm going to have to look up after this, I'll send you send me like a YouTube.

00:12:58

Jack

Yes.

00:13:00

Xochitl

Tube of one of her songs of dual songs.

00:13:03

Jack

You should go down to jewel. You should go down to jewel rabbit hole. You might actually like her cause you're you're like the singer guitar player guitar writer. You know, singer-songwriter yourself. Yeah, you would. Yeah.

00:13:06

Xochitl

I will. I will.

00:13:10

Xochitl

Yeah, I think it's probably like, yeah. And I'll send you like a song, good song, and then we can trade, yeah.

00:13:19

Jack

OK. Yeah. Then we'll compare notes next week. Yeah, OK.

00:13:22

Xochitl

Yeah, sounds good.

00:13:24

Xochitl

All right, listeners, well, you have to let us know who your celebrity crushes were. I'd love to hear about celebrity crushes from around the world. I'll leave us a comment down below at A-Z. Englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at at ozenglishpodcast@gmail.com and make sure to join our community of students in our WhatsApp and WeChat groups.

00:13:43

Xochitl

And we'll see you guys next time. Bye bye.

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack explain the meaning of several phrasal verbs which use the word punch.

Punch in: To enter data or information by pressing keys on a keyboard or keypad, often used in the context of clocking in at work.

Example: "Don't forget to punch in when you arrive at the office."

Punch out: To exit a time clock or record one's departure from work by pressing a button or card.

Example: "I'll punch out at 5:00 and then we can grab dinner."

Punch up: To improve or enhance something, often by adding more energy, excitement, or impact.

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl tests Jack's knowledge of common texting acronyms.

Transcript:

00:00:00

Jack

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00:00:03

Jack

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00:00:52

Jack

Now let's get on with the show.

00:00:55

Jack

Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are under the vocabulary spotlight.

00:01:05

Jack

And social is going to test me on my knowledge of testing accurate and I'm sorry texting.

00:01:15

Xochitl

Excellent.

00:01:16

Jack

Acronyms like like.

00:01:17

Jack

Text.

00:01:18

Jack

Texting words or whatever I guess. Or texting language.

00:01:20

Xochitl

Yes, finally explaining in a way, it's like you just you don't use the whole phrase or the whole words. You just use like a few letters to represent the word. So that's like what it is.

00:01:32

Jack

Exactly, yeah.

00:01:35

Xochitl

And I have a six here so.

00:01:38

Xochitl

So let's get started. I'm ready to tear you up because you really got me with the Canadian one was that Aussie one wasn't a total failure, the Canadian one.

00:01:39

Xochitl

OK.

00:01:46

Jack

No, you did better on the Aussie one than you did with the Canadian slang, which is kind of surprising.

00:01:51

Xochitl

I know and.

00:01:52

Xochitl

Canadian and I've been to Canada and I don't even have any like Austin friends and I have Canadian friends as messy, but.

00:01:58

Jack

We share a border with Canada, you know.

00:02:01

Xochitl

And I have a a close Canadian friend or a couple maybe, and I don't have like any Aussie friends I can think of, but I just ruined. I just ruined the Canadian one.

00:02:10

Jack

Well, I'll give a I'll.

00:02:11

Jack

Give a shout out to teacher Paul Paul the the the grammar detective.

00:02:17

Jack

If you don't know his uh YouTube channel, check it out. For sure. The grammar detective best grammar teacher on the Internet. He sent me a message about that episode and said basically those Canadian terms are very like rural. You know, they're not. It's like.

00:02:35

Jack

OK.

00:02:37

Jack

And even most Canadian people don't use those terms. It's very much.

00:02:41

Jack

Like like hillbillies you know? Kind of like, yeah, people that live in the countryside might.

00:02:47

Xochitl

Without in the sticks as you say.

00:02:49

Jack

In the sticks, right? Yeah. Hillbillies is not a the right way to say that, but.

00:02:55

Xochitl

I think in sticks isn't either, but in the sticks are just a term we use for people who.

00:02:59

Xochitl

Live out in the country.

00:03:00

Jack

Yeah.

00:03:02

Jack

Country folk, you know, country people that are not, you know, maybe college educated, you know, high school educated only use those kinds of terms.

00:03:12

Jack

And it's it's not very they're not very common in in regular.

00:03:17

Jack

Right. But actually it's not actually.

00:03:17

Xochitl

Speech in Sydney.

00:03:19

Xochitl

Has to do with the level of education. I think it's more just like it's kind of like colloquial language, like it's a regional dialect kind of thing, right? Oh, yeah.

00:03:29

Jack

Yeah, yeah, yeah, very, very. You know, the central Canada, very rural farm farmers and things like that, so.

00:03:40

Jack

Don't feel bad about that one. The Ozzy slaying is much more common. I think throughout the whole country, I would say from from, just from knowing Australian people that grew up in cities, they use a lot of those terms, all the.

00:03:52

Xochitl

Time so you know.

00:03:55

Xochitl

All right. Well, that makes me feel better and I'm ready to rip you up with these.

00:04:02

Xochitl

I, YK, YK what does that stand for?

00:04:08

Jack

IYKYK.

00:04:10

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:04:13

Jack

I, YK, YK.

00:04:18

Jack

Wait, you.

00:04:21

Jack

No, I I'm.

00:04:25

Jack

I'm keeping.

00:04:27

Xochitl

Thank you. I like it.

00:04:27

Xochitl

IYYK.

00:04:34

Jack

I'm your.

00:04:38

Xochitl

Kind.

00:04:40

Jack

OK, like bad, this is bad. You give up your.

00:04:44

Jack

I don't. I'm gonna say uncle on this one. I have no idea. I'm. I give up.

00:04:49

Xochitl

Great. If you know you know.

00:04:52

Jack

Ohh if you know you know what? When? What's the context for using that? Like give me give me like an example.

00:04:54

발표자

No.

00:05:00

Xochitl

Here's an example. Let's say that.

00:05:04

Xochitl

I use a specific product for people with curly hair and I post a picture of it online and say oh, this is the goat which remember is like the greatest one of all time. It's a IYKYK if you know, you know. So if you use this product or if you also have curly hair, you know.

00:05:15

Jack

Yeah. The best. Yeah, yeah.

00:05:24

Xochitl

If you know you know.

00:05:26

Jack

OK.

00:05:28

Jack

Or like.

00:05:29

Jack

It sounds like another example like if you don't know well now you know.

00:05:34

Jack

That's uh from a song, OK?

00:05:34

발표자

No.

00:05:35

Xochitl

Like, yeah, if you know, you know, with is like, you're talking to people who also know. So like your audience. So like or let's say you post a picture of like slide chicken from a local place, but it looks a really certain way. And you're like, this is the best fried chicken in Atlanta if you know, you.

00:05:38

Jack

Now.

00:05:52

Xochitl

No.

00:05:53

Jack

Ohh, so you're you're in the secret club basically.

00:05:56

Xochitl

Kinda. Yeah. Yeah, you're.

00:05:57

Jack

OK, OK.

00:05:58

Jack

In the Super pub you're talking to other people, no?

00:05:59

Jack

If you're in the secret club, you know. Yeah. You know. You. OK OK. If you know, you know, and then you show a picture of, like a club, you know, like a the sign on the on the on the the dance club or something. And if you don't know.

00:06:13

Jack

You're not. You're not in the group. You're you're kind of.

00:06:15

Xochitl

Right. You're talking to other people who know if you know, you know, your audience is the other.

00:06:20

Xochitl

Oh no. And then everyone's, like, laugh reacting and go. Yeah, that's the best. And everyone who doesn't know doesn't know. So.

00:06:26

Jack

Yeah, they're like, what's that? Tell me about that. Like, sorry, secret, you know.

00:06:31

Xochitl

Mm-hmm. Alright, Jack. And next one, BFR, BFR.

00:06:31

Xochitl

OK.

00:06:39

Jack

But PSR best friends forever. Really.

00:06:45

Xochitl

No.

00:06:49

Jack

Use my.

00:06:49

Jack

I mean, that's a big guess. That's a good guess.

00:06:50

Jack

That's my VFR, my best friend for forever. Really my best friend forever, really.

00:06:57

Xochitl

Well, I would have that. That's good. I mean, I probably would have said best friend for real or something like that.

00:07:02

Xochitl

But that but.

00:07:04

Xochitl

That's not what it means though. It means be for freaking real.

00:07:09

Jack

Ohh be for freaking.

00:07:10

Xochitl

So it's like if someone says.

00:07:11

Xochitl

OK.

00:07:15

Xochitl

You know, I'm trying to think of a good example.

00:07:17

Jack

Like, stop, stop being fake. Stop, you know.

00:07:21

Xochitl

Not playing play G for real, you know, be real.

00:07:22

Jack

Stop playing.

00:07:24

Jack

Be for freaking real. Yeah, be honest. Like be be be real. Yeah. Be be for real. Yeah.

00:07:29

Xochitl

Right, these are freaking real. But so for our listeners, I would say just use either BFR to mean be for real or.

00:07:40

Xochitl

If you're using BFR, make sure it's like pure or whatever, because freaking can be replaced by a curse word. Yeah, so you don't want to send to your professor B for freaking real. You know what I mean? That's not what your boss hey B for freaking real man, that is not appropriate, but.

00:07:46

Jack

Yeah, that's more.

00:07:57

Jack

Yeah, cause freaking is not the word. There's another word that starts with F that's a much more we we don't use that in the ABC English podcast because we are we're we're child friendly here on the on the.

00:08:07

Xochitl

I'm sorry, right?

00:08:10

Xochitl

Gray.

00:08:10

Jack

The podcast. But yeah, it's beautiful.

00:08:12

Xochitl

Also, be even be for real is kind of like uh, like a call out. So you don't want to use it.

00:08:17

Xochitl

With anyone but you.

00:08:18

Jack

Yeah, I would.

00:08:18

Jack

Only use it with like you know like friends and yeah, for real.

00:08:21

Xochitl

Your friends or your peers, or someone that you like hate in a petty way and it's like not that serious. Like, yeah, so be for real, be for freaking real. Alright, next 1LB S.

00:08:27

Jack

Yeah.

00:08:31

Jack

No.

00:08:37

Xochitl

Ohh yes.

00:08:41

Xochitl

I think I got a Jack on this. I'm I'm proud.

00:08:43

Jack

I'm getting. I'm getting smoked here. This is terrible. OB S.

00:08:51

Jack

Latter Day Saints.

00:08:56

Xochitl

That was terrible. No laughing but serious.

00:09:01

Jack

Ohh that what does that mean now? Why am I laughing but serious?

00:09:01

Xochitl

Laughing.

00:09:03

Jack

So then it will.

00:09:07

Xochitl

UM, let's say you're like, uh, oh man, your boss in Korea was terrible. And I'm I'm saying laughing but serious. Like I'm. I'm curious about it, but it's so bad. It's funny at this point.

00:09:20

Jack

So it's like I don't know what whether to laugh or cry, so I'm just going to laugh like that.

00:09:25

Xochitl

A little bit or like or you say.

00:09:31

Xochitl

Uh, I use this with one of my friends a lot, but let's say she's like, oh, man, that restaurant was terrible. And I'm like, I know that made me sick laughing but serious. Like, I'm kind of joking about it, but I'm for real. Like I'm being honest. So that was terrible. You know what? I.

00:09:46

Jack

Yeah, I can. I can.

00:09:46

Xochitl

Mean. I'm not kidding.

00:09:47

Jack

Chuckle about it, but it really did make me angry, you know, like, I'm serious about it.

00:09:52

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:09:54

Xochitl

Right, like uh, I'm joking, but I. But it's true. Like I'm making a joke out of a real situation kind of laughing, but.

00:10:01

Jack

OK, OK.

00:10:02

Xochitl

Yeah. So that makes sense.

00:10:04

Xochitl

OK, TNT L.

00:10:09

Xochitl

2.

00:10:13

Xochitl

Too, too nice to learn, too, too too.

00:10:19

Xochitl

290 to to to to limbo 2.

00:10:25

Jack

That was bad. Oh my God.

00:10:27

Xochitl

That's the worst. Two too. Too late No2 TN.

00:10:33

Xochitl

Yeah, yeah.

00:10:34

Xochitl

Too, too nice.

00:10:37

Xochitl

2.

00:10:43

Jack

Lie too nice to lie. She's TNT L She's too nice to lie.

00:10:48

Xochitl

Does not make any sense. No. Trying not to laugh.

00:10:52

발표자

Ohh God.

00:10:54

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:10:54

Jack

It's so easy. What? What happened to me?

00:10:56

Xochitl

I was. I was in. I think you just over. I was going to tell you. You definitely were overcomplicating it for yourself. Like, say you had the principles you send your your friend a message. Like man I owe to the principal's office. And I was in a lot of trouble.

00:11:08

Xochitl

But I was TNT L trying not to laugh because, like, maybe you pulled the prank and now you're getting scolded and you're trying to laugh about it.

00:11:15

Jack

OK. OK. Yeah. Yeah. So for example, something like UM.

00:11:23

Jack

You know my my roommate, my roommate spilled a a Diet Coke on his lap.

00:11:24

Jack

Oh man, did you see that girl?

00:11:30

Jack

Top.

00:11:31

Jack

And I'm sitting here in the living room, NTL, trying not to laugh you.

00:11:33

Jack

It's funny.

00:11:37

Jack

Know something like that.

00:11:39

Xochitl

Yeah. Or like, say, someone falls, you know, in a funny way. And you're like, man, I was worried about them. So I was TNT L trying not to laugh because it was funny after all.

00:11:47

Jack

Because if you laugh, it's going to make them feel bad. But you're just like you're you're holding it in. You're biting your lip.

00:11:52

Xochitl

Or you don't want to look like a jerk. You know what I mean? But you're hoping it.

00:11:55

Xochitl

Didn't cause it was funny, yeah.

00:11:59

Xochitl

Yeah. Alright, YANK.

00:12:06

Xochitl

OK.

00:12:10

Jack

Who?

00:12:12

Xochitl

Ynk.

00:12:13

Jack

Why? Why, why? OK. Sorry, sorry.

00:12:19

Xochitl

Y&K.

00:12:21

Xochitl

You're not.

00:12:28

Jack

This is just a total fail. I'm such a fail. I'm so I'm so I'm so I'm so embarrassed that like my age is is just showing so obviously here.

00:12:31

Jack

In the Canada episode I got back, I got back.

00:12:43

Jack

I'm having good time though.

00:12:45

Jack

What year did join this TNT L?

00:12:50

Jack

I'm not even trying at this place.

00:12:51

Jack

He's not even TTL. Yeah, she's NT NTL.

00:12:56

Xochitl

Not not the last.

00:12:57

Jack

Let's see. I've got no idea. I I know what Y2K was, but that happened in 2000. So before you were born.

00:13:04

Xochitl

Like he was after I was born. Yeah. You never know. You never know.

00:13:09

Jack

You never know, yeah.

00:13:11

Xochitl

No.

00:13:13

Jack

Is. Is Julie coming to the party? Ohh. You never know. She might show up, right?

00:13:20

Jack

Would would that work?

00:13:21

Jack

I think he well.

00:13:22

Xochitl

A little, maybe more like a.

00:13:24

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:13:26

Xochitl

Man, I don't think I'm going to get into Harvard. And your friends like YNK. You never know you could.

00:13:33

Xochitl

You know anything is possible. You never know.

00:13:34

Xochitl

You.

00:13:37

Jack

Yeah, yeah. Bob isn't gonna ask me to the prom.

00:13:42

Jack

Y&K. You never know. Yeah, OK.

00:13:43

Xochitl

1.

00:13:46

Xochitl

Yeah, alright. I'm gonna throw you a bone here. I think you'll know this one and it's going to be extradited.

00:13:48

Xochitl

Thanks.

00:13:52

Jack

Is it lol? I mean if it's lol then I can get it I think right?

00:13:54

Jack

No.

00:13:58

Xochitl

IMHO.

00:14:01

Jack

Ohh I know this one. I know this one I.

00:14:07

Jack

What is it IMHO?

00:14:11

Jack

UM means uh.

00:14:14

Jack

IMHO I failed this test.

00:14:17

Jack

In my honest opinion, I failed this test.

00:14:22

Xochitl

Ohh, so close Jack so close in my humble opinion.

00:14:27

Jack

Ah, is that what you need? Humble. No.

00:14:30

Jack

Yes, this is my humble opinion.

00:14:34

Xochitl

What?

00:14:35

Jack

Why do I?

00:14:36

Jack

Why did I always think it was in?

00:14:37

Jack

My honest opinion.

00:14:38

Xochitl

I guess they weren't. Either way, in my honest opinion, and well, it works either way, but yeah, it's.

00:14:40

Jack

Yeah.

00:14:43

Jack

But it makes more.

00:14:44

Jack

Sense to say, in my humble opinion.

00:14:46

Jack

Like cause it makes you like more. It makes you humble. Like it's better like you know, instead of just being honest, yeah.

00:14:50

Xochitl

Yeah, I'd say in my, yeah, it's more like, you know, I'm not saying this is 100% right, but this is just my humble opinion.

00:14:59

Jack

It's more protective of your of your.

00:14:59

Xochitl

So that's why.

00:15:02

Jack

Like, yeah, it's more protective of you. Like, if you're saying, in my honest opinion, blah, blah, blah, then you're wrong.

00:15:08

Jack

You might look.

00:15:08

Xochitl

Like more of a jerk also. But like in my humble opinion is like this is just what I'm humbly offering as my opinion. But I'm not saying I'm it's right or wrong either way, yeah.

00:15:18

Jack

OK, OK. I get half point half credit for that one.

00:15:19

Jack

But I think they.

00:15:22

Xochitl

Yeah, you get half credit, alright, listeners, if you enjoyed watching me destroy Jack this time around, finally I got my venture. Then leave a comment down below. It really helps us with visibility at A-Z englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail. We love listening to listen your emails at azspodcast@gmail.com or join the WeChat.

00:15:42

Xochitl

Those groups to talk to Jack and I directly and we'll see you next time. Bye.

00:15:47

Jack

Bye bye. LOL!

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack describe their dream homes.

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00:00:00

Jack

Hey A-Z listeners, this is Jack here.

00:00:03

Jack

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Jack

Now let's get on with the show.

00:00:56

Jack

Welcome to the agency English podcast. My name is Jack, and I'm here with my co-host, social. And today we are doing a topic talk and the topic is, what does your dream home look like? So social describe your dream home.

00:01:15

Xochitl

Well, I really like this one because I had my dream home picture for a while.

00:01:18

Xochitl

Now, but it would ideally be on a big plot of land, like a big land plot of land, because I don't really want to have any like close by neighbors or anything. So I do want to be on a big plot of land and it would be, I think there'd be two sections would be like 1 main home and then one like little home in the back.

00:01:28

Jack

Hmm.

00:01:39

Jack

Like a guest home.

00:01:39

Xochitl

But.

00:01:40

Xochitl

Yeah. The guest home. Yeah. The guest house. So the main home would be two floors. Uh, I really. I thought two floors with no basement. I never really thought about the basement aspect, but it would be. You would like, walk in. There would be a little place to, like, take your shoes off.

00:01:52

Jack

OK.

00:02:00

Xochitl

And then it'd be like the living room and the dining room. Then it'd be the kitchen, and then it'd be like stairs to the second floor. And then there'd be a guest room right here.

00:02:11

Xochitl

After that and then there'd be a big open space type room in the back where you could with like a whole panel of windows in the back. So you could like do art or music or anything back there.

00:02:23

Jack

Ohh, like a flex room like like whatever it you could make it whatever you want it to be.

00:02:29

Xochitl

Right. Yeah. It's just like a huge open space, like running the whole back length of the.

00:02:30

Jack

OK.

00:02:33

Xochitl

House.

00:02:36

Xochitl

And then upstairs it would be like a bedroom.

00:02:41

Xochitl

And the back bathroom upstairs. Ohh, the guest bedroom would also have bathroom downstairs and then it would be like a.

00:02:50

Xochitl

Up front balcony type of area with a small.

00:02:56

Xochitl

Like landing after the stairs and then two rooms between that front balcony and the UM bedroom bathroom situation. And I guess one of them would be like a spare room and the other one would be like a music room or Art Room or something like that. So.

00:03:12

Jack

OK. Is there a city approval in this House?

00:03:13

Xochitl

And.

00:03:16

Xochitl

The backroom has, like, uh, the back house I think would have like a little like a pond or something nice. And then like pond or something. And then.

00:03:24

Jack

Oh, OK.

00:03:27

Jack

Not swimming in there a koi pond. OK, it's more of a beauty. Looking beautiful being, you know, peaceful. Not not a, not a party house. This is like a peaceful house, OK.

00:03:29

Xochitl

No.

00:03:34

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:03:37

Xochitl

No.

00:03:38

Xochitl

Yes, a people house and then it would have like it would be a little.

00:03:43

Xochitl

Just like a little guest house, like a one story. Cottage looking guest house.

00:03:49

Jack

Yeah, we call this the mother-in-law suite sometimes.

00:03:52

Xochitl

Yes, that's really what it would be for actually. So that like if I get married and their parents want to stay or my parents.

00:03:58

Xochitl

Want to stay?

00:03:59

Xochitl

Or my my parents get sick or their parents get sick, they can stay back there.

00:04:03

Jack

Yeah.

00:04:04

Xochitl

Do like a small house.

00:04:06

Xochitl

Separate from the main house.

00:04:07

Jack

It's got like a little kitchen in it and it's got, you know, it's on the bathroom and it's on like.

00:04:11

Jack

Living room and but small.

00:04:12

Xochitl

And it's on bedroom. Yeah, but it's kind of a small. Yeah. Like a mother-in-law suite. That's exactly what it would be. And and I want it to be like.

00:04:18

Jack

OK.

00:04:22

Xochitl

Cake.

00:04:24

Xochitl

Colonial Mexican style like us.

00:04:26

Jack

I was going to ask you that is this modern? Is this like, uh, a ranch house? OK, so yeah.

00:04:30

Xochitl

It's an ocean, yeah.

00:04:34

Xochitl

We're going to send us at home, so it's kind of like.

00:04:35

발표자

For morning.

00:04:40

Xochitl

Inside the lot of the floors would be.

00:04:43

Xochitl

Like clay tile, red clay tile and like.

00:04:48

Xochitl

UM.

00:04:50

Xochitl

It have a lot of windows and have the arches that colonial thousand homes have and it be built.

00:04:56

Jack

I'm thinking a lot of like pastel colors or something like that.

00:05:00

Xochitl

No, no, actually it would be a lot of like uh jewel tones. So it'd be like kind of a clay kind of, uh, what's that color?

00:05:05

Jack

Oh, OK, yeah.

00:05:10

Jack

Mosaics, like mosaics kind of stuff.

00:05:12

Xochitl

Yeah, and how difficult you slipped again, it said orange terracotta.

00:05:18

Xochitl

Like terracotta color wars and then the bedroom would be like an emerald green and the bathroom would be kind of a jade green color. And then the guest bedroom would probably be like a pastel kind of lavender or lilac color. But other than that, the kitchen would be like yellow and it would have, like, mosaic.

00:05:18

Jack

That's your problem, yeah.

00:05:25

Jack

OK.

00:05:38

Xochitl

And.

00:05:39

Xochitl

Yeah, it'd be full of a lot of like jewel tone kind of colors.

00:05:44

Jack

Yeah, I kind of get the the feeling I can kind of understand what you're talking about because I watched a movie called Frieda about the Frida Kahlo the the an artist and they had like, this amazing house that they lived and painted in. And I'm kind of thinking like that those.

00:05:54

Xochitl

Ah.

00:05:56

발표자

Yes.

00:06:03

Jack

Colors. I think there it was a very bold kind of.

00:06:09

Jack

House with the home, but maybe yours is a little bit more subtle, like it's not quite as loud.

00:06:10

Xochitl

Home.

00:06:15

발표자

I think that would be.

00:06:16

Xochitl

A little traditional kind of like what food you grew up in in the movie, but the courtyard and stuff like that maybe. But yeah, it would have some bright kind of jewel tones, kind of like a a lot of vintage style.

00:06:21

Jack

Mm-hmm.

00:06:23

Jack

Yeah.

00:06:30

Xochitl

Well.

00:06:31

Xochitl

Hard to explain, but that would be my ideal home and it would be a relaxing home. No swimming pool. I think the biggest things I'd want is like a home theater type of situation.

00:06:41

Jack

Yeah, yeah.

00:06:42

Xochitl

I never use swimming pools or anything, but I would like a big bathtub because we have a swimming pool in the house I grew up in and like I barely ever, no one, barely.

00:06:50

Xochitl

Ever uses a pool, so like.

00:06:51

Jack

This is the. This is exactly what happens to everybody that.

00:06:55

Jack

Has a pool.

00:06:56

Jack

Is that you think you're going to use it every day and you use it like if if I add it up like all the time that I spent in that pool in my life, it was probably like 4 hours, you know?

00:07:08

Xochitl

Yeah. And then like when you're a kid, you use it probably more, but as soon as you grow into, like the teenage years, you don't use it as much and then everyone else wants to use your pool.

00:07:19

Xochitl

And there's always people like trying to use your pool. That's literally what it's like to have a house with the pool. It's like there's always other people asking if they can come over and use your pool.

00:07:20

Jack

Honey.

00:07:29

Jack

Here's a hint to our listeners out there if you have. If you get a pool, everybody's going to want to use your pool, and if you buy a truck, everybody's going to ask you to help them move. So don't buy a truck and don't get a pool. Just don't do it. It's not worth it.

00:07:41

Xochitl

Yes. Yeah.

00:07:47

Xochitl

He usually just never use a pool. I think a home theater is something I would use much more than like a pool.

00:07:52

Jack

Yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe a hot tub. Actually, I would use a hot tub. Yeah.

00:07:55

Xochitl

Yeah, like a Jacuzzi kind of situation. Or, like a hot tub or just a nice big bath. Like for me, like, the bathroom would be kind of jade tile colored like jade colored tile and the bathroom. The tub would be the same color and it'd be pretty big. So you could just really chill in a tub. Like it's a hot tub.

00:08:14

Xochitl

Something, but because I even I'm short and tiny and in the homes in the US.

00:08:16

Jack

Yeah.

00:08:21

Xochitl

Like I still most of my body sticks out of the tub when I'm taking a, you know?

00:08:25

Xochitl

What I mean like it's?

00:08:25

Jack

I I'm 6 foot eight. I'm 2 meters tall. I haven't taken a bath in since I was a child. You know? It's it's not a thing, you know? Yeah, it's pointless. Yeah.

00:08:28

발표자

Yeah.

00:08:34

Xochitl

Right.

00:08:37

Xochitl

Violent.

00:08:38

Xochitl

All right, Jack, what would your dream home look like? I'm curious.

00:08:43

Jack

OK, well mine is more in like a modern kind of like modern styles, you know, new architecture, modern.

00:08:51

Jack

UM, uh. But it's still it's still, you know, nothing crazy but like, uh, I'm thinking like a like a two-story house. I like that.

00:09:04

Jack

I do. After you know, we just talked about hating pools. I want a pool with a hot tub attached to it in the backyard.

00:09:10

발표자

Cool.

00:09:13

Xochitl

Back, Oh my gosh. The amount of upkeep that my dad is always doing on the pool too. It's such a pain.

00:09:19

Jack

I just figure like if I can buy my dream home, I can pay someone to to deal with my pool.

00:09:20

발표자

Say.

00:09:25

Jack

I'll just be a cool guy.

00:09:25

Xochitl

OK. I'll be real with you. Like you like Gen. X and boomers. Like you'd rather just do it yourself than pay like in the reality of it, you're like, oh, I can do that.

00:09:26

Jack

Yeah, he can come.

00:09:38

Jack

The chemicals and all that sort of stuff. I'm like, you know, you got to get it just right. Like it if it's wrong, you can burn your, you know, your eyes with the chlorine in the pool. It can, you know, can cause problems.

00:09:49

Xochitl

Yeah. Or you could get with your headache spill muriatic acid on yourself and burn your like limb off so.

00:09:55

Jack

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta be really careful. So I think I would just pay. This is this, by the way. This is like in Florida. So this is like you.

00:10:03

Jack

A warm climate. So. So we're in Florida. It's kind of like a modern style house. It's not not like a colonial or a, you know, traditional home or anything. It's just a, a kind of modern style and.

00:10:04

발표자

Ah.

00:10:23

Jack

Yeah, it's got two stories. There's a pool in the back with, like, a a cage. What? They call it a cage in Florida, but it's actually like a net that covers the whole back area. So no bugs can.

00:10:32

발표자

Hmm.

00:10:35

Jack

And then.

00:10:36

Jack

And there's a barbecue and a bar and a hot tub. And like tiki torches. And, you know, like, it's got the whole, like, you know, hanging out in the back by the pool vibe. You can hang out at night or you can have a pool party during the day.

00:10:36

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:10:57

Jack

And so maybe there's like, a a pool table out there because it's kind of like indoor outdoor. So it's covered, but it's not covered.

00:11:07

Xochitl

Hmm.

00:11:08

Jack

I know this is the most Gen. X description of that.

00:11:11

Xochitl

You know, it's just crazy to me because it's like you actually are thinking of a luxury home. And I realized how simple minds sounded. And it's just funny because between our generations, there's a huge gap where, like my generation, doesn't even own property. So for me, like, thinking like, that's like a luxury home. Like what I thought of. And then what you're talking about is, like, a real luxury home.

00:11:30

Xochitl

That didn't even cross my mind.

00:11:32

Jack

I know this is like a my dream home is like is is like a a real home. Like they sell these homes, you know it's it's not even I'm not even using my imagination.

00:11:38

Xochitl

Right.

00:11:43

Jack

You know, I don't really care about like the I. I guess what we what I want is like high uh high ceilings with arches inside. So definitely in like Spanish style. I love Spanish tile like it's Spanish tile. Roof is really cool in that like you terracotta.

00:12:02

Jack

Color that you're talking about. I like that. And I like big arches because I'm really tall. So when I, you know, go through my house, I don't want to be, like, ducking my head down.

00:12:14

Xochitl

Right. You want like high ceilings and stuff.

00:12:16

Jack

Yeah, I want really high ceilings. I've actually, I don't even care about the 2nd floor. I'm OK with like, a a ranch style home where it's just like a one story.

00:12:27

발표자

Hmm.

00:12:28

Jack

As long as there's like, you know, a master bedroom with a with its own bathroom and then access to the pool outside and then like a nice big open kitchen with like, a Big Island, we call the island is like a a big kitchen table type thing.

00:12:46

Jack

Like it's not a table, but do you know what I?

00:12:48

Jack

Mean like uh?

00:12:49

Xochitl

Yeah, we have one in my home and in Kentucky, while my parents home, it's like in the middle of the kitchen and it's like a table, kind of. But it's like part of the.

00:13:01

Jack

You don't really eat there at the island. You can. I mean, you could put, like stools and eat at the island, but it's not a dining room, you guys.

00:13:01

Xochitl

Can't move it.

00:13:06

Xochitl

We do eat. We. Yeah, we used to eat at the island. Like it was a dining room because it.

00:13:12

Xochitl

Was just the most.

00:13:12

Xochitl

Convenient. So it's like high schools on it and we would just all eat at the island.

00:13:13

Jack

Yeah, that's true.

00:13:18

Jack

That's what we have to we have an iron and we put high stools in there. We eat there like a kitchen table. So I guess it is actually.

00:13:25

Xochitl

Like people do, you have too high on?

00:13:28

Jack

And now that I think about it, yeah, I I do the same thing.

00:13:34

Jack

That and I.

00:13:35

Jack

Would I like a nice big living room with a huge TV like a big, you know, projector TV or something like that? Where?

00:13:41

Xochitl

Yes, I want a big TV.

00:13:43

Jack

Yeah, I would like a movie theater, but I don't need it. I don't need, like, a proper movie theater. You know, some people build, like, a movie theater in their house with, like, theater chairs. Yeah.

00:13:51

Xochitl

That's ridiculous to me. Well.

00:13:54

Jack

That's just like a it's it's a.

00:13:58

Jack

Godly rich person thing, you know.

00:13:58

Xochitl

Too much?

00:14:00

발표자

Yeah.

00:14:01

Xochitl

Please say.

00:14:03

Jack

Yeah, but I I. But I I want like, a Big L sofa. Like a really big one. So that like.

00:14:09

Xochitl

Ohh yeah, those comfortable ones. Sorry, go ahead.

00:14:12

Jack

Yeah, big fluffy ones where I can, like, lie down on one and my wife can lie down on the other and we don't have to. Like, over intersect. You know, like we.

00:14:22

Xochitl

Hey.

00:14:23

Jack

Yeah.

00:14:24

Xochitl

They're both like comfortable.

00:14:25

Jack

Yeah. Yeah. So we're, you know, you're sitting at.

00:14:27

Xochitl

Both like sleep on this cell sofa, yeah.

00:14:29

Jack

Exactly. So as we watch Netflix, we just drift off and fall asleep because we're getting old.

00:14:37

Xochitl

And like the couch, she's just as comfortable as the bed. Yeah, that that's not.

00:14:40

Jack

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, half the time you sleep on the couch anyway, like you don't you just spend half the time there.

00:14:47

Xochitl

Right.

00:14:49

Jack

Uh, yeah. So, you know my my, that's my dream home. You know, I would love to.

00:14:55

Jack

To just have a big, comfortable, nice house where lots of people can come over and we can enjoy our time together, barbecue and the by the pool, maybe play a game of billiards in my billiards table. That's kind of in the outside. Like the the pool area is kind of like has is covered with the roof.

00:15:11

Xochitl

MHM.

00:15:15

Jack

So it's like indoor outdoor. It's kind of like.

00:15:18

Jack

Between.

00:15:19

Xochitl

Ah, OK.

00:15:20

Jack

Yeah, yeah. And then there's like a little bar there, but I don't drink. But, you know, my friends do. So I can, like, mix cocktails.

00:15:27

Xochitl

You have cocktails too, and you can have mocktails for yourself.

00:15:30

Jack

Yeah, yeah, I could have mocktails. Yeah, I can. Just juice and, you know, soda and spritzer and all that stuff. Yeah. So that that's my that's my dream home.

00:15:42

Jack

I feel like as we describe this, we we need to provide blueprints, you know, in the description.

00:15:47

Xochitl

I know next episode we'll like, do a little drawing or like I can take a I can make one in The Sims and take a screenshot of it. I was like, yeah. So yeah, I get you a lot of my.

00:15:56

Jack

Yeah, yeah.

00:15:58

Jack

That's a good idea.

00:16:02

Xochitl

Rooms like the rooms I'm thinking of would be taken up by like.

00:16:05

Xochitl

Of these, like, I'd have a sewing room, an Art Room, a music room and like, maybe a gym, so I wouldn't have to go to the gym. I could just do it in my home.

00:16:13

Jack

Ohh yeah and I.

00:16:14

Jack

Totally forgot my man cave, one of the rooms.

00:16:19

Jack

Yeah.

00:16:19

Xochitl

You did very good.

00:16:21

Jack

I know because I'm such a I'm such a Gen. Exer I need a I need a podcasting room, you know? So it's like it's got my desk and my all my computer and all my stuff so I can do recording.

00:16:24

Xochitl

That's.

00:16:25

Xochitl

Jerk.

00:16:33

Jack

And play music and my guitars. And you know, all the stuff that my wife hates, I can put it all in one room and then you know that that's like my secret, you know, spot where I I can go and, you know, just play play my guitar, record podcasts.

00:16:53

Jack

Do all that all that kind of work.

00:16:55

Jack

That I love.

00:16:55

Jack

To do so, I got to have my man cave. We call it, and for our listeners out there, Man Cave is kind of like a a a joke. It's like a bear cave, you know, like a cave where a bear.

00:17:07

Jack

Lives, we call it a man cave, which is basically like a room where it has all the men, things that men would love, you know? But I think it's a little bit.

00:17:19

Jack

Sexist to to call it a man cave because I think women enjoy playing music and having their own space. You know, I I but but that's the name.

00:17:28

Xochitl

Right.

00:17:31

Xochitl

These are hobby where there's like a better name for it.

00:17:33

Jack

Yeah, Hobby Room is a much more politically correct name to use. I like that one.

00:17:38

Xochitl

Yeah, but a man cave is something that people used to say it. It was kind of back in the days. It was kind of like a like a.

00:17:46

Xochitl

Jerky kind of thing because it was like you have your beer in there and you're like tacky stuff that your wife doesn't let you have in the main area and like, so it's kind of like in a place only for the guys to hang out and whatnot.

00:17:55

Jack

Yeah.

00:18:01

Jack

Watch football, drink beer and play darts and do that kind of.

00:18:05

Jack

Stuff I I think.

00:18:07

Jack

You know a long time ago they used to call it a den.

00:18:11

Jack

But a den was much more sophisticated, right? Like a den.

00:18:15

Xochitl

Space where it's kind of like a living room but more private, like a living room like people will come visit you and they can sit in your living room and your den was like more where you had your TV and your like space and stuff.

00:18:27

Xochitl

But it was like a fan.

00:18:28

Jack

You know.

00:18:28

Xochitl

Like room, sort of.

00:18:31

Jack

Yeah. Yeah. Or even, like, a father's den. Even way back in the 50s was like, where your, like, your dad's off?

00:18:37

발표자

This.

00:18:38

Jack

Is like like my father's den, you know? And it's like the you. You don't go there, you just. It's got the leather, the sofa, chair and cigar smoking cigars and, you know, reading books and stuff like that or smoking a pipe or whatever. But.

00:18:38

Xochitl

Alright.

00:18:54

Xochitl

I would definitely have an office still.

00:18:56

Jack

Yeah, I think in office that's probably the best way to call it, just just call it an office or a hobby room. I think those are.

00:19:03

Jack

Best descriptors, yeah.

00:19:06

Xochitl

Alright, listener as well if you liked and enjoyed this episode, make sure you leave a comment down below at A-Z englishpodcast.com shoot us a message or an e-mail at AZ englishpodcast@gmail.com and join our we chat WhatsApp groups to talk to Jack and I directly. We would love to hear what your dream home would look like and maybe next week.

00:19:25

Xochitl

We will show you guys a little blueprint of what our dream homes look like. See you guys next time. Bye bye.

00:19:31

Jack

Bye bye.

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00:00:00

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00:00:55

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Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and today we are and I'm with my co-host social of course. And we are in the culture corner and we're talking about what do you do when you meet the parents of your, of your boyfriend or girlfriend for the first time, you know?

00:01:14

Jack

What's the what kind of etiquette do you like behavior? Should you display? What? What should you do? What shouldn't you do so social? Do you have like a list of dos and don'ts?

00:01:24

Jack

For for our our listeners out there who may be like meeting their significant others parents for the first time.

00:01:33

Xochitl

Yeah, I know. I we just had an episode talking about how you can dress like a slob anywhere in America, but a first date and also meeting a parent. Parents are two occasions where I would.

00:01:39

Jack

Yes.

00:01:44

Xochitl

Never do that.

00:01:46

Xochitl

So you want to go and kind of business casual attire, which means a nice dress shirt usually, or a polo. Or it could be a crisp, a clean looking solid color, no logos, no designs well fitted T-shirt and then neutral.

00:01:54

Jack

Yes.

00:02:06

Xochitl

Done.

00:02:07

Xochitl

And a pair of either nice clean, no tears, jeans or a pair of slacks. Kind of casual khaki, black, neutral tone slacks. And you can wear, you know, a pair of clean, crisp white sneakers or some casual dress shoes. Don't.

00:02:19

Jack

Yeah.

00:02:26

Xochitl

Go in as a man wearing like rocks or like sandals. And and if you're a woman, just go in a nice.

00:02:37

Xochitl

Kind of also neutral toned or it can be.

00:02:42

Xochitl

Pattern and it doesn't really have to be a neutral tone, but just kind of a tasteful dress. Nothing too crazy, nothing too extravagant.

00:02:51

Xochitl

Might wear something neutral, might wear something in a light pink or blue or something like that, but just a simple casual floral dress with a little cardigan is and your footwear is also more relaxed. You can wear a pair of clean tennis shoes like white, crisp tennis shoes, a pair of.

00:03:01

Jack

Yeah.

00:03:11

Xochitl

Little sandals if it's hot anything, but just make sure you look presentable.

00:03:18

Xochitl

And that's a big one for.

00:03:21

Xochitl

Looks duos.

00:03:23

Jack

And I'm going to say most of the time we we have an expression. Don't don't judge a book by its cover, but in this situation your, the, your boyfriend or girlfriend's parents are definitely.

00:03:38

Jack

Judging the book by its cover, so make your cover look good.

00:03:40

Xochitl

Yes.

00:03:44

Xochitl

Yeah, want to look.

00:03:44

Jack

Because you are being judged.

00:03:47

Xochitl

Yeah, you want to look presentable. You want to look clean. Clean cut is the phrase we use really often in the US, which means somebody who is, they're, well, shaved, their hair grew.

00:03:57

발표자 3

No.

00:03:57

Jack

Look like me right now is.

00:03:59

Xochitl

Yeah, don't have this crazy beard. Or like, if you're a woman like, you know, do your hair nicely. You don't have it, like, looking really disheveled, show up, clean, fresh, showered, looking simple, easy makeup for women and.

00:04:14

Xochitl

And just keep it really, really simple. Don't over complicate it, but just look nice. And then for other does for cultural and social does, I would say they're gonna ask you questions about yourself. So be prepared to answer questions like what your major in college is what you do for work.

00:04:35

Xochitl

How long you've been working there, questions about what your parents do. They might ask you, oh, you know, what does your dad do? What did your?

00:04:41

Jack

And you what are your ambitions? What are your goals? Yeah.

00:04:45

Xochitl

Yeah. One of your inventions, it's kind of old fashioned to be like. What are your intentions with my daughter back in the day, people did that. But and now I think you can be relaxed. They know that if.

00:04:50

Jack

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well.

00:04:59

Xochitl

You're bringing someone to meet the parents is usually a serious relationship in the US and and so.

00:05:06

Xochitl

You know, don't be too intimidated. Get to know them. Ask them questions about themselves too. What do they do for?

00:05:12

Xochitl

Work and and humor them. They're probably going to tell embarrassing stories about your significant other or show you embarrassing pictures. Just kind of chuckle along. Be a good sport.

00:05:24

Xochitl

Don't get into politics. Don't get into religion.

00:05:27

Jack

Yeah, no politics, no religion for sure. Yeah, avoid that.

00:05:29

Xochitl

Never. Never. If they try to beat you. Like if you're from a different religion or other politics and they try to bait you into a conversation, which means they try to say something to upset you.

00:05:41

Xochitl

Just ignore it and change the subject.

00:05:44

Xochitl

If they keep trying to do it, look at your SO.

00:05:46

발표자

Like.

00:05:48

Jack

Yeah. Get Me Out. Help me out there. Yes.

00:05:49

Xochitl

That, yeah, you don't have any, you know, reason to stay if you're being disrespected. And I know it.

00:05:55

Jack

Right.

00:05:55

Xochitl

Could be but.

00:05:56

Xochitl

Also keep an open mind because a lot of times.

00:05:59

Xochitl

People are going to be meeting you with the best intentions and they're not going to do anything to be intentionally rude, but because you're from two different cultures, they might accidentally offend you. So just keep a an open mind and if you find anything weird or offensive, just ask your significant other about it later.

00:06:15

Jack

Yeah. And go see, listen to our other podcast about table manners, because all those table manners apply.

00:06:22

Jack

You know, again, no slurping, no burping, you know, no chewing loudly with your mouth open, no cursing. Don't swear. Watch your language. OK, some people.

00:06:22

Xochitl

Please.

00:06:34

Xochitl

It's OK to accept a drink because a lot of times they'll offer you a drink. It's OK to say yes if they offer you to drink, but don't get drunk. You know, this is like a one drink of.

00:06:43

Jack

Don't get drunk. Yeah.

00:06:45

Xochitl

There maybe a 2 drink. I would say one just stick to 1 drink. You know you won't get drunk and just stick to that.

00:06:52

Jack

Yeah. And you and most likely you drove there. So you know you, you know, drinking and driving is you know it it might be a test like you know ohh is this person going to drink and drive with my daughter in the car or my you know that that could be another another thing so you know there there could be traps.

00:07:13

Jack

Set for you.

00:07:14

발표자 3

That.

00:07:15

Jack

Don't fall into these traps, you know.

00:07:15

발표자 3

Yeah.

00:07:18

Xochitl

Right. I think it's OK to accept one drink, especially if it will be a while before.

00:07:21

Xochitl

You drive, I think.

00:07:21

Jack

Yeah, yeah, yeah, one like you said. One, it's a one drink affair. It's not a party. It's not a party. It's not a cagar. Yeah.

00:07:25

발표자 3

The one in one? Yeah. Instead of. Don't get lost. Don't.

00:07:34

Xochitl

Compliment do do compliment their home. Say oh you have such a nice home. Bring a gift if you know they drink. You can bring a bottle of wine or you can bring some flowers for them.

00:07:44

Xochitl

Mom, those are two gifts that usually go over well, or you can bring something from your home country, like traditional candy, something like that. So.

00:07:54

Jack

Yeah. Don't show up empty handed. That's terrible. Bring a gift. Yes, that's a good point.

00:07:58

Xochitl

It's a bad match.

00:08:01

Xochitl

And gift and.

00:08:05

Xochitl

Uh.

00:08:07

Xochitl

I guess that's pretty much it. Do a firm handshake. This is if you're a man. This is a really big thing in US culture. When Father offers a hand for a handshake, it has. You have to do a firm handshake. Don't give him a death grip like you're trying to rip his hand off, but don't give him this limp, weak handshake. They won't make a firm handshake.

00:08:12

Jack

Yeah.

00:08:25

Jack

Yeah, we call that the dead fish where your hand is like a dead fish, you know? No, you gotta. You gotta squeeze back. You gotta give a firm handshake back. That's uh, that's important. Yeah.

00:08:26

발표자 3

Thing.

00:08:28

발표자 3

But.

00:08:35

발표자 3

Right.

00:08:38

Xochitl

And if you don't drink, UM, it's OK to say no. Like, if you are a person who doesn't drink and they are free to drink, it's it's OK to be like, Oh no, thanks. I don't drink. That's fine. And if you have any kind of restrictions of your diet because of your religion or your culture or your allergies or whatever, it may be, make sure to let them know ahead of time if you're going to be eating there. So, like, tell your significant other so they can.

00:09:02

Xochitl

Inform their family.

00:09:04

Xochitl

And then you won't have to worry.

00:09:07

Jack

Yeah. Don't let the mom prepare a a huge meal of pulled pork and then you show up and go ohh. By the way, I'm vegan. It's like that should have been told to her a long time before. So.

00:09:14

Xochitl

Right.

00:09:18

Xochitl

Yeah, or I'm Muslim or something. And then they're like, oh, my gosh, I'm so sorry. And they're embarrassed. You can watch that if you've ever seen twilight the movie, you can watch the scene where she meets Edward.

00:09:20

Jack

Yeah.

00:09:31

Xochitl

Family for the first time. And then she eats before going because she knows they don't eat because they're vampires and they're making this big Italian meal for her and then everyone gets angry. So yeah, just avoid. That's a great example of how to meet the parents because she dresses nicely and they're trying to be polite and everything. So just kind of.

00:09:52

Xochitl

Go with that.

00:09:54

Xochitl

No, not too much PDA.

00:09:57

Xochitl

It's kind, it's inappropriate, so please first time.

00:10:00

Jack

Maybe holding hands about, that's about it. That's the most you do, yeah.

00:10:02

Xochitl

Yeah, holding hands is even like that's that's that's a good level to keep. Only at that you know.

00:10:09

Jack

That's the highest level. Yeah, holding hands.

00:10:11

Xochitl

That's the highest level.

00:10:15

Xochitl

Yeah. And again, just just take it as an opportunity to get to know them. If there's a serious relationship, you'll probably be seeing a lot of their families. So you want to get to know them and complement, Slattery gets everyone places you want to flatter the mother. That's the easiest route.

00:10:28

Jack

Yeah, this is this. Food is amazing. This is delicious. Thank you so much. You know? Yeah.

00:10:29

발표자 3

So.

00:10:34

Xochitl

Have such?

00:10:34

Xochitl

A beautiful home. This food is amazing. You.

00:10:37

Xochitl

Look so young.

00:10:39

Jack

Yeah, you don't wanna. You don't wanna. You don't want to. You don't want to pack it on too thick there or whatever. But.

00:10:40

발표자 3

Look at.

00:10:46

Xochitl

You don't want to be too obvious, like if the lady looks 80, then don't say wow. You look so young. But if she actually looks young, like if she's 15, she looks 35. She's gonna be over the moon to hear that. You know, so don't do the cheesy line. The man walks and he goes. Oh, are you your sister? Please.

00:10:48

발표자

Yeah.

00:10:56

Jack

Yeah.

00:11:06

Xochitl

Don't do that. That's so cheesy.

00:11:06

Jack

Yeah, don't do that. Yeah, that one.

00:11:12

Xochitl

And yeah, just you know, compliment her on her home, her food. Uh, thank them for their generosity at the end.

00:11:19

Xochitl

Of.

00:11:19

Xochitl

The night? Yeah. And try not to overstay your welcome. Be that a reasonable hour.

00:11:25

Jack

That's usually not a problem usually. Usually you want to get out of there as soon as you possibly can, yeah.

00:11:28

발표자 3

There's still.

00:11:31

Xochitl

Yes, you smell good, right? But you know, so, yeah, I think those are the big meeting, the parents dues and don'ts. If it, how does meeting the parents go in your cultures? I'm really curious to know because in the US, once it's a serious relationship.

00:11:46

Xochitl

That's when we progress to meeting the parents. I know in other cultures you might meet them right off the bat. The parents might actually meet each other, and then you'll meet your significant other later. You might not meet the parents at all until the wedding. It just depends on the culture. So we're very interested to know, leave us a comment down below at AZ englishpodcast.com. Shoot us an e-mail at AZ English.

00:12:06

Xochitl

Podcast@gmail.com.

00:12:08

Xochitl

And join the WeChat. What's the group? So you can talk to Jack and I directly and see you guys next.

00:12:12

Xochitl

Time. Bye bye.

00:12:14

Jack

Bye.

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00:00:00

Jack

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00:00:55

Jack

Welcome to the 80s English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my Co social. And today we are talking about what cartoons did you watch when you were a kid. And we'll try to keep it at like 3. I think 3 each if we can. And so I grew up. I was a kid in the 80s and in the 80s.

00:01:10

Xochitl

Yes.

00:01:16

Jack

There was this thing called Saturday morning cartoons and every kid.

00:01:23

Jack

Couldn't wait to wake up on Saturday morning and watch Saturday morning cartoons. This is because this is before the Internet, right? I mean, we're talking 5 channels on the television and the whole Saturday morning is just for you. Yeah, just cartoons.

00:01:41

Xochitl

Cartoons.

00:01:44

Jack

So.

00:01:45

Jack

The ones that I watched the first one that I watched was, uh, Transformers. I loved Transformers. Yeah, and now you can watch those movies, those ridiculous.

00:01:54

Xochitl

Interesting.

00:01:58

Xochitl

Those came out like when I was a kid. Ish. Those transformed? Yeah, I.

00:02:01

Jack

Yeah, right. And I I remember having the toys in the 80s and watching the original cartoon in the 80s, and it was great. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee and all the all the main characters. But that was that was a.

00:02:21

Jack

A A definite staple when I.

00:02:24

Jack

As a kid, uh, another one that I watched was GI Joe. My brother and I loved GI Joe. And GI Joe is now a famous movie series as well because they take all these 80s cartoons and they turn them into, you know, big blockbuster movies.

00:02:42

Xochitl

Movies, real action, live action things. Yeah. So now I understand that live action isn't new because I I was like, why are they turning all these Disney classics that I watched when I was a kid into live action? And now I see that life actions that I saw when I was.

00:02:56

Xochitl

Growing up were things that were cartoons when you were a kid, so it's not a new thing.

00:02:59

Jack

Yeah, right. You you're saying the copy of the copy of the copy? You know what I mean? Like you're.

00:03:04

Xochitl

Right, yeah.

00:03:06

Jack

Yeah, because all the all the directors and the writers were were kids that were my age. Watching these these Saturday morning cartoons going, these would make great movies. I can't wait to grow up and make this into a movie, which is funny because people that are watching those movies have no idea that those used to be cartoons.

00:03:27

Xochitl

Right, it's weird.

00:03:28

Jack

Yeah, it's, it's weird.

00:03:30

Jack

Uh #3. I used to watch uh Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

00:03:35

Jack

Which is yeah.

00:03:35

Xochitl

Ohh, let's let's.

00:03:37

Xochitl

Do a thing. When I was a kid.

00:03:38

Jack

Yeah.

00:03:40

Jack

And you know, I was choosing. I was trying to decide between that and dungeons and Dragons because I love the Dungeons and Dragons.

00:03:47

Xochitl

No dungeons and Dragons was a cartoon.

00:03:49

Jack

Yeah. Yeah, it was a. It was like a game and it's it was a cartoon.

00:03:54

Jack

There was also a show called.

00:03:58

Jack

The the gummy bears? No. Is it? Yeah. The gummy bears. Yeah.

00:04:02

Xochitl

Care bears the care bears.

00:04:04

Jack

No, no, no. The gummy bears they used what they called the gummy bears. Wait.

00:04:09

Xochitl

Are you sure it's not the care bears?

00:04:12

Jack

No, it's the gummy bear. They were like, they would. They would drink this like gummy bear potion and then they would jump around. And I used to watch that show all.

00:04:15

발표자

Through Google.

00:04:21

Jack

Time The Smurfs, OK.

00:04:24

Xochitl

Oh yeah, adventures of the gummy bears. Oh, this looks cute. It's on Disney. Plus, I'm gonna watch it later.

00:04:26

Jack

Yeah.

00:04:30

Jack

Yeah, it's it was. It was the.

00:04:32

Xochitl

The Smurfs. My aunt is like around your age. My youngest aunt, and she watched The Smurfs. And because she's short, people called her.

00:04:43

Xochitl

Smurfette.

00:04:43

Jack

You rather Smurf Smurf at? Yeah. Yeah, I'm. I'm kind of look like Papa Smurf these days with my beard. I've. I've got a beanie and a white beard.

00:04:44

Xochitl

With that, there's not much.

00:04:49

Xochitl

You do and your beanie. You just need, like a white beanie. You just publisher for Halloween. That would be so cute. And your wife can be Smurf that. Yeah, that's good.

00:04:56

Jack

Yeah, I should.

00:04:59

Jack

Yeah.

00:05:01

Jack

So you know I want I, that's my generation, right? The Smurfs, the gummy bears. I used to watch Uncle Scrooge. Like the adventures of Scrooge Mcduck. You know, like those kind of Disney ones. Yeah, all that stuff, you know.

00:05:13

Xochitl

Oh yeah.

00:05:16

Xochitl

By the time I was a kid, a lot of these have been made into life live actions like.

00:05:20

Xochitl

Performers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Smurfs had also been made into live action, so that happened. I didn't like them. I liked the cartoon ones when I was a kid, the most iconic cartoon of all time for my generation has to be sponge Bob Square pants.

00:05:26

Jack

Yes.

00:05:38

Jack

Yeah, yeah. And I used to watch that because my daughter, that's my daughter's, is 15 now. She watched Sponge Bob when she was young, and I watched it in Korean, which is really funny because I was learning. So in Korean, it's like nemu baggy, spongy Bob Nemu baggy, spongy Bob.

00:05:39

Xochitl

Yes.

00:05:44

Xochitl

Right.

00:05:48

Xochitl

Yes.

00:05:51

발표자

Oh.

00:05:58

Xochitl

Uh.

00:05:59

Jack

Sponge Bob.

00:06:02

Jack

Nate Chingu, my friend. Do you know so something like that? I don't know. I can't remember exactly. Yeah.

00:06:06

Xochitl

And then that's funny. Yeah. So Sponge Bob is the definitely one of the number one most iconic cartoons we saw as a kid. #2. I really like scooby-doo. They've done, like different ones for every generation. But when I was a kid, they had one. And I loved scooby-doo.

00:06:16

발표자

Yeah.

00:06:24

Xochitl

That was the one I saw the most, scooby-doo.

00:06:26

Jack

That's funny because I watched the old one, the original one I.

00:06:30

Jack

Was a huge.

00:06:30

Jack

Scooby-doo fan as well. I watched. Yeah.

00:06:33

Xochitl

Yeah, I love scooby-doo, I.

00:06:35

Xochitl

Think I might have.

00:06:35

Xochitl

Seen that ohh Gee one because my mom is a Gen. Exer and I believe she would. She popped in the the OG ones actually because we had them on like VH. So that must have been her old VHS or something.

00:06:44

Jack

Yeah.

00:06:51

Jack

The real the the real old ones are the best ones because they're they've got Casey Kasem as as shaggy with his voice.

00:06:59

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:06:59

Jack

You know.

00:07:00

Xochitl

Yeah, yoinks. Yeah. So that SpongeBob, scooby-doo, and I was thinking of another one that when we were talking about them.

00:07:04

Jack

Yeah, that kind of thing.

00:07:14

Xochitl

And I was like, oh, that'd be a great one to bring up. And I was, like, blanking on it now because I wasn't allowed to watch a lot of cartoons.

00:07:22

Jack

Mm-hmm.

00:07:23

Xochitl

So but I remember.

00:07:24

Jack

Was it like uh, not Ren and Stimpy or Phineas? Phineas and Ferb were the ones that my daughter used to watch a lot.

00:07:28

Xochitl

No, I will not understand mine.

00:07:32

Xochitl

I didn't like minions for that much. I did it did. I was a kid when it came out and I I was around the age, but I didn't really like it too much.

00:07:41

Jack

OK.

00:07:43

Xochitl

Ah yeah, it looks like another 2000s cartoon. Come on, sponge Bob. scooby-doo. I watched some international ones like Shaman King, which was like an anime, and that would come on Saturday mornings. And I also watched someone that like some like The Simpsons, which is.

00:07:56

Xochitl

Classic and still run.

00:07:57

Jack

Ohh Simpsons is great. Yeah, but that's not a Saturday morning cartoon. Really. That's more of a.

00:08:01

Xochitl

No, that's like a more of a adult. It's it, it's an, it's like a PG13. It's not a super inappropriate or anything. It's not like.

00:08:08

Jack

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's just, it's just the humor is definitely for adults. Like kids, kids might might find it cute, but they they're not gonna understand the judge. No.

00:08:12

Xochitl

Yes. Yeah.

00:08:15

Xochitl

Yeah, they don't understand the full the humor. They definitely don't. So also SpongeBob is the same way when you see it as an adult, you're like, wait stuff, I'm.

00:08:24

Jack

Yeah, SpongeBob is is made for the kids, won't get the the the subtle jokes, but it, you know, keep the parents interested while they're taking their kids to go watch the, you know, movie, SpongeBob or.

00:08:29

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:08:36

Jack

Watching it on TV, parents can enjoy it too, because it's just bizarre and strange.

00:08:42

Xochitl

Yeah, I yeah, I think that was one of the staples of, I mean, I think that was mainly the things I watched. Dooby Doo, SpongeBob. I obviously saw the Disney Classics as a kid, like the movies.

00:08:54

Jack

MHM.

00:08:55

Xochitl

That they kind of turned to live action and there were some weird cartoons that I remember. There was one that I don't remember anymore. That was like she was a robot teenager robot.

00:09:10

Xochitl

And those she had these like, pigtails. And she was like blue and white. And I just, I don't even remember what it's called anymore. But I did watch quite a bit of that when I was a kid, and it was kind of.

00:09:21

Jack

I I used to watch the my parents generations cartoons. The Flintstones, the Jetsons.

00:09:28

Xochitl

Ohh I did see the Flintstones as well. I saw the Flintstones and the Jetsons. I've I've seen both of those. Those are such classic American cartoons that I feel like every generation I've seen them because.

00:09:38

Jack

And what is the Jetsons? Is like 2015 or something? It's like, not even?

00:09:43

Jack

It's not, it's.

00:09:43

Xochitl

Right, yes. It's like we've already surpassed it here. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. So we for surpassed the year that it aired on. Yeah. But yeah, I think those are the big ones. Phineas and Ferb was one that I did watch sometimes.

00:09:45

Jack

Like 2002 or something.

00:10:00

Xochitl

And I think that's pretty much it. I was in a big cartoon watch when my mom claimed it was like ohh, I watched some Arthur.

00:10:07

Xochitl

Yeah, that was more like my sister's age though, like.

00:10:10

Jack

Ohh yeah, what about Rugrats? Did you watch that one?

00:10:12

Xochitl

Oh my God, I love.

00:10:13

Xochitl

Rugrats and all grown up, they like Rugrats, was like at its tail end when I was a little kid. And so when I was kind of a little bit older, they had all grown up, which was the Rugrats. When they were all older.

00:10:27

Jack

Ohh OK. I never got into it. My daughter watched a little bit of it, but not much so.

00:10:28

Xochitl

Yeah. And so.

00:10:29

Xochitl

Watch that.

00:10:33

Xochitl

Yeah, I really like. Yeah, I yeah, I I like the the Nickelodeon shows quite a bit.

00:10:37

Jack

What about Doug? Did you ever watch Doug?

00:10:41

Xochitl

No, I think that was a little, yeah, I don't remember. I didn't. I didn't watch Doug. I watched one called like teachers PET where the dog is smarter than the kid.

00:10:53

Xochitl

Everything else.

00:10:53

Jack

What about Rick and Morty? Rick and Morty? Are you a fan?

00:10:55

Xochitl

Oh yeah, that's more like adult one, though, right? And Leanne Lee Pepper and pepper. And that's what it was called. She was a redhead with, like, glasses. Pepper ran or Pepper ran or something. And I saw that one.

00:10:59

Jack

Yeah.

00:11:11

Xochitl

Yeah, I don't know. Those are kind of all ones that were kind of more in my generation. They're making live actions out of a lot of them.

00:11:17

Xochitl

Now.

00:11:17

Xochitl

Like the Disney Classics, and they turn a lot of the Disney Classic movies into series. When I was a kid.

00:11:18

Jack

Yeah.

00:11:22

Xochitl

So they have.

00:11:23

Xochitl

Like a little and stitch series or like a.

00:11:28

Xochitl

Aladdin series and they had different things like that that you could watch when I.

00:11:31

Xochitl

Was a kid.

00:11:32

Jack

Yeah, there's still milk in that and making money after that, franchises.

00:11:36

Xochitl

I know because now they're making the live actions and Danas and then it's just bad and then a a really famous one. When I was a kid was Shrek.

00:11:46

Jack

Ohh sure. Yeah. Big time. Yeah, love it. First one is great. Yeah.

00:11:47

Xochitl

Yeah, I love Shrek. I still watch.

00:11:50

Xochitl

For this like.

00:11:51

Xochitl

Yeah, my 24th birthday. I was like, I want to watch Chuck one and my dad complained and I said.

00:12:01

Xochitl

And I just popped on Shrek for my 24th birthday and that's what we watched. So.

00:12:07

Jack

That's great.

00:12:08

Xochitl

And I would say my generation was like getting international already. So I watched a lot of cartoons like thought I am on Studio Ghibli, like the movies, like Spirited Away Howls with all of those.

00:12:18

Jack

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give yeah, sure.

00:12:20

Xochitl

Things.

00:12:23

Xochitl

Yeah, I would say my generation saw like content from all around the globe a lot already.

00:12:31

Jack

Yeah, because of the Internet, yeah.

00:12:33

Xochitl

That's what I was thinking of. Adventure Time. Adventure Time was super popular.

00:12:37

Jack

Ohh yeah, I my daughter loved that show. It was so weird. It's the weirdest show ever.

00:12:42

Xochitl

It is weird. I just started watching it and it's so weird. It's like I remember thinking it was when I was a kid. That's so weird and kids like normally don't really pick up the same way because the world is weird to them. And I still thought it was weird when I was a kid.

00:12:51

Jack

Yeah.

00:12:59

Xochitl

Yes, I didn't see.

00:12:59

Jack

Yeah. No, it's it's a. It's a bizarre, bizarre show. It's almost. I almost wouldn't let my daughter watch it because it was so strange.

00:13:00

Xochitl

It.

00:13:00

Xochitl

But I.

00:13:08

Xochitl

Some stuff.

00:13:08

Jack

But then I was like, well, it's not.

00:13:11

Xochitl

That's it. So go ahead.

00:13:12

Jack

Like this? It's not dirty or anything, it's just weird.

00:13:16

Xochitl

Yeah, it's some of it is kind of like mildly inappropriate, like the ice king, like.

00:13:16

Jack

Just now.

00:13:22

Xochitl

Locks the princesses up or whatever and present. I mean, that's the kind of stuff that you've seen all throughout history of. Like what kids content is, but it is just kind of a weird. It's a weird show, but yeah, it is weird. Yeah.

00:13:31

Jack

Yes.

00:13:38

Xochitl

That was a big one. All right, well, if you guys have specific cartoons that you saw as kids, I would really like to hear about that. If you saw any of the cartoons.

00:13:47

Xochitl

We're talking about.

00:13:49

Xochitl

I'm interested in hearing about that too. Leave us a comment down below at A-Z, englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at at ozenglishpodcast@gmail.com and join the meeting and WhatsApp groups.

00:13:59

Xochitl

In conversation and we'll see you guys next time.

00:14:01

Xochitl

Bye bye.

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00:00:00

Jack

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00:00:55

Jack

Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and today we are and I'm with my co-host social of course. And we are in the culture corner and we're talking about what do you do when you meet the parents of your, of your boyfriend or girlfriend for the first time, you know?

00:01:14

Jack

What's the what kind of etiquette do you like behavior? Should you display? What? What should you do? What shouldn't you do so social? Do you have like a list of dos and don'ts?

00:01:24

Jack

For for our our listeners out there who may be like meeting their significant others parents for the first time.

00:01:33

Xochitl

Yeah, I know. I we just had an episode talking about how you can dress like a slob anywhere in America, but a first date and also meeting a parent. Parents are two occasions where I would.

00:01:39

Jack

Yes.

00:01:44

Xochitl

Never do that.

00:01:46

Xochitl

So you want to go and kind of business casual attire, which means a nice dress shirt usually, or a polo. Or it could be a crisp, a clean looking solid color, no logos, no designs well fitted T-shirt and then neutral.

00:01:54

Jack

Yes.

00:02:06

Xochitl

Done.

00:02:07

Xochitl

And a pair of either nice clean, no tears, jeans or a pair of slacks. Kind of casual khaki, black, neutral tone slacks. And you can wear, you know, a pair of clean, crisp white sneakers or some casual dress shoes. Don't.

00:02:19

Jack

Yeah.

00:02:26

Xochitl

Go in as a man wearing like rocks or like sandals. And and if you're a woman, just go in a nice.

00:02:37

Xochitl

Kind of also neutral toned or it can be.

00:02:42

Xochitl

Pattern and it doesn't really have to be a neutral tone, but just kind of a tasteful dress. Nothing too crazy, nothing too extravagant.

00:02:51

Xochitl

Might wear something neutral, might wear something in a light pink or blue or something like that, but just a simple casual floral dress with a little cardigan is and your footwear is also more relaxed. You can wear a pair of clean tennis shoes like white, crisp tennis shoes, a pair of.

00:03:01

Jack

Yeah.

00:03:11

Xochitl

Little sandals if it's hot anything, but just make sure you look presentable.

00:03:18

Xochitl

And that's a big one for.

00:03:21

Xochitl

Looks duos.

00:03:23

Jack

And I'm going to say most of the time we we have an expression. Don't don't judge a book by its cover, but in this situation your, the, your boyfriend or girlfriend's parents are definitely.

00:03:38

Jack

Judging the book by its cover, so make your cover look good.

00:03:40

Xochitl

Yes.

00:03:44

Xochitl

Yeah, want to look.

00:03:44

Jack

Because you are being judged.

00:03:47

Xochitl

Yeah, you want to look presentable. You want to look clean. Clean cut is the phrase we use really often in the US, which means somebody who is, they're, well, shaved, their hair grew.

00:03:57

발표자 3

No.

00:03:57

Jack

Look like me right now is.

00:03:59

Xochitl

Yeah, don't have this crazy beard. Or like, if you're a woman like, you know, do your hair nicely. You don't have it, like, looking really disheveled, show up, clean, fresh, showered, looking simple, easy makeup for women and.

00:04:14

Xochitl

And just keep it really, really simple. Don't over complicate it, but just look nice. And then for other does for cultural and social does, I would say they're gonna ask you questions about yourself. So be prepared to answer questions like what your major in college is what you do for work.

00:04:35

Xochitl

How long you've been working there, questions about what your parents do. They might ask you, oh, you know, what does your dad do? What did your?

00:04:41

Jack

And you what are your ambitions? What are your goals? Yeah.

00:04:45

Xochitl

Yeah. One of your inventions, it's kind of old fashioned to be like. What are your intentions with my daughter back in the day, people did that. But and now I think you can be relaxed. They know that if.

00:04:50

Jack

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well.

00:04:59

Xochitl

You're bringing someone to meet the parents is usually a serious relationship in the US and and so.

00:05:06

Xochitl

You know, don't be too intimidated. Get to know them. Ask them questions about themselves too. What do they do for?

00:05:12

Xochitl

Work and and humor them. They're probably going to tell embarrassing stories about your significant other or show you embarrassing pictures. Just kind of chuckle along. Be a good sport.

00:05:24

Xochitl

Don't get into politics. Don't get into religion.

00:05:27

Jack

Yeah, no politics, no religion for sure. Yeah, avoid that.

00:05:29

Xochitl

Never. Never. If they try to beat you. Like if you're from a different religion or other politics and they try to bait you into a conversation, which means they try to say something to upset you.

00:05:41

Xochitl

Just ignore it and change the subject.

00:05:44

Xochitl

If they keep trying to do it, look at your SO.

00:05:46

발표자

Like.

00:05:48

Jack

Yeah. Get Me Out. Help me out there. Yes.

00:05:49

Xochitl

That, yeah, you don't have any, you know, reason to stay if you're being disrespected. And I know it.

00:05:55

Jack

Right.

00:05:55

Xochitl

Could be but.

00:05:56

Xochitl

Also keep an open mind because a lot of times.

00:05:59

Xochitl

People are going to be meeting you with the best intentions and they're not going to do anything to be intentionally rude, but because you're from two different cultures, they might accidentally offend you. So just keep a an open mind and if you find anything weird or offensive, just ask your significant other about it later.

00:06:15

Jack

Yeah. And go see, listen to our other podcast about table manners, because all those table manners apply.

00:06:22

Jack

You know, again, no slurping, no burping, you know, no chewing loudly with your mouth open, no cursing. Don't swear. Watch your language. OK, some people.

00:06:22

Xochitl

Please.

00:06:34

Xochitl

It's OK to accept a drink because a lot of times they'll offer you a drink. It's OK to say yes if they offer you to drink, but don't get drunk. You know, this is like a one drink of.

00:06:43

Jack

Don't get drunk. Yeah.

00:06:45

Xochitl

There maybe a 2 drink. I would say one just stick to 1 drink. You know you won't get drunk and just stick to that.

00:06:52

Jack

Yeah. And you and most likely you drove there. So you know you, you know, drinking and driving is you know it it might be a test like you know ohh is this person going to drink and drive with my daughter in the car or my you know that that could be another another thing so you know there there could be traps.

00:07:13

Jack

Set for you.

00:07:14

발표자 3

That.

00:07:15

Jack

Don't fall into these traps, you know.

00:07:15

발표자 3

Yeah.

00:07:18

Xochitl

Right. I think it's OK to accept one drink, especially if it will be a while before.

00:07:21

Xochitl

You drive, I think.

00:07:21

Jack

Yeah, yeah, yeah, one like you said. One, it's a one drink affair. It's not a party. It's not a party. It's not a cagar. Yeah.

00:07:25

발표자 3

The one in one? Yeah. Instead of. Don't get lost. Don't.

00:07:34

Xochitl

Compliment do do compliment their home. Say oh you have such a nice home. Bring a gift if you know they drink. You can bring a bottle of wine or you can bring some flowers for them.

00:07:44

Xochitl

Mom, those are two gifts that usually go over well, or you can bring something from your home country, like traditional candy, something like that. So.

00:07:54

Jack

Yeah. Don't show up empty handed. That's terrible. Bring a gift. Yes, that's a good point.

00:07:58

Xochitl

It's a bad match.

00:08:01

Xochitl

And gift and.

00:08:05

Xochitl

Uh.

00:08:07

Xochitl

I guess that's pretty much it. Do a firm handshake. This is if you're a man. This is a really big thing in US culture. When Father offers a hand for a handshake, it has. You have to do a firm handshake. Don't give him a death grip like you're trying to rip his hand off, but don't give him this limp, weak handshake. They won't make a firm handshake.

00:08:12

Jack

Yeah.

00:08:25

Jack

Yeah, we call that the dead fish where your hand is like a dead fish, you know? No, you gotta. You gotta squeeze back. You gotta give a firm handshake back. That's uh, that's important. Yeah.

00:08:26

발표자 3

Thing.

00:08:28

발표자 3

But.

00:08:35

발표자 3

Right.

00:08:38

Xochitl

And if you don't drink, UM, it's OK to say no. Like, if you are a person who doesn't drink and they are free to drink, it's it's OK to be like, Oh no, thanks. I don't drink. That's fine. And if you have any kind of restrictions of your diet because of your religion or your culture or your allergies or whatever, it may be, make sure to let them know ahead of time if you're going to be eating there. So, like, tell your significant other so they can.

00:09:02

Xochitl

Inform their family.

00:09:04

Xochitl

And then you won't have to worry.

00:09:07

Jack

Yeah. Don't let the mom prepare a a huge meal of pulled pork and then you show up and go ohh. By the way, I'm vegan. It's like that should have been told to her a long time before. So.

00:09:14

Xochitl

Right.

00:09:18

Xochitl

Yeah, or I'm Muslim or something. And then they're like, oh, my gosh, I'm so sorry. And they're embarrassed. You can watch that if you've ever seen twilight the movie, you can watch the scene where she meets Edward.

00:09:20

Jack

Yeah.

00:09:31

Xochitl

Family for the first time. And then she eats before going because she knows they don't eat because they're vampires and they're making this big Italian meal for her and then everyone gets angry. So yeah, just avoid. That's a great example of how to meet the parents because she dresses nicely and they're trying to be polite and everything. So just kind of.

00:09:52

Xochitl

Go with that.

00:09:54

Xochitl

No, not too much PDA.

00:09:57

Xochitl

It's kind, it's inappropriate, so please first time.

00:10:00

Jack

Maybe holding hands about, that's about it. That's the most you do, yeah.

00:10:02

Xochitl

Yeah, holding hands is even like that's that's that's a good level to keep. Only at that you know.

00:10:09

Jack

That's the highest level. Yeah, holding hands.

00:10:11

Xochitl

That's the highest level.

00:10:15

Xochitl

Yeah. And again, just just take it as an opportunity to get to know them. If there's a serious relationship, you'll probably be seeing a lot of their families. So you want to get to know them and complement, Slattery gets everyone places you want to flatter the mother. That's the easiest route.

00:10:28

Jack

Yeah, this is this. Food is amazing. This is delicious. Thank you so much. You know? Yeah.

00:10:29

발표자 3

So.

00:10:34

Xochitl

Have such?

00:10:34

Xochitl

A beautiful home. This food is amazing. You.

00:10:37

Xochitl

Look so young.

00:10:39

Jack

Yeah, you don't wanna. You don't wanna. You don't want to. You don't want to pack it on too thick there or whatever. But.

00:10:40

발표자 3

Look at.

00:10:46

Xochitl

You don't want to be too obvious, like if the lady looks 80, then don't say wow. You look so young. But if she actually looks young, like if she's 15, she looks 35. She's gonna be over the moon to hear that. You know, so don't do the cheesy line. The man walks and he goes. Oh, are you your sister? Please.

00:10:48

발표자

Yeah.

00:10:56

Jack

Yeah.

00:11:06

Xochitl

Don't do that. That's so cheesy.

00:11:06

Jack

Yeah, don't do that. Yeah, that one.

00:11:12

Xochitl

And yeah, just you know, compliment her on her home, her food. Uh, thank them for their generosity at the end.

00:11:19

Xochitl

Of.

00:11:19

Xochitl

The night? Yeah. And try not to overstay your welcome. Be that a reasonable hour.

00:11:25

Jack

That's usually not a problem usually. Usually you want to get out of there as soon as you possibly can, yeah.

00:11:28

발표자 3

There's still.

00:11:31

Xochitl

Yes, you smell good, right? But you know, so, yeah, I think those are the big meeting, the parents dues and don'ts. If it, how does meeting the parents go in your cultures? I'm really curious to know because in the US, once it's a serious relationship.

00:11:46

Xochitl

That's when we progress to meeting the parents. I know in other cultures you might meet them right off the bat. The parents might actually meet each other, and then you'll meet your significant other later. You might not meet the parents at all until the wedding. It just depends on the culture. So we're very interested to know, leave us a comment down below at AZ englishpodcast.com. Shoot us an e-mail at AZ English.

00:12:06

Xochitl

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00:12:08

Xochitl

And join the WeChat. What's the group? So you can talk to Jack and I directly and see you guys next.

00:12:12

Xochitl

Time. Bye bye.

00:12:14

Jack

Bye.

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