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Understand FAST English: Advanced Conversation & Vocabulary Lesson

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Understand FAST English: Advanced Conversation & Vocabulary Lesson

Speak English With Vanessa
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Vanessa: Well, the year is almost over. Have  

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0:00Vanessa: Well, the year is almost over. Have  
0:02you accomplished the English goals that you set  at the beginning of the year? Don't worry. If you  
0:08haven't, today I'm going to help you understand a  fast, real-life English conversation so that you  
0:16can speak better English. Hi, I'm Vanessa from  SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com. And like always,  
0:24I have created a free PDF worksheet for you. But  this one is a little bit different. In this free  
0:31PDF worksheet, you will get the full transcript  of the real-life conversation you're about to see,  
0:38plus all of the vocabulary and sample  sentences, plus a quiz plus Vanessa's  
0:45challenge question so that you never forget  what you've learned. You can click on the  
0:49link in the description to download this free  PDF worksheet today. It is my gift to you.
0:55Well, you are in for a treat. You're about to meet  Jenny. Jenny is a lovely American woman who went  
1:02to the country of Hungary to learn more about her  grandmother's Hungarian heritage. But something  
1:09happened while she was there. Have you ever  watched those cheesy romantic movies where the  
1:14man and woman are walking along on the sidewalk  and then boom, they bump into each other, look  
1:20into each other's eyes, and ah, it's love at first  sight. Well, this really happened to Jenny while  
1:28she was traveling abroad. In this conversation,  you'll hear fast English, you'll hear long  
1:33sentences, you'll hear incomplete sentences.  This is real-life conversational English. Some  
1:39parts will be difficult to understand. Some  parts will be easy to understand. This is a  
1:44good test and I've added full subtitles so that  you can follow along during the conversation.
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2:23right, let's jump into the conversation with  Jenny. She was just telling me how she went  
2:28to Hungary for two weeks and she was about to go  back home to the US when something happened. Well,  
2:37put on your fast English-speaking helmets and  let's watch this clip from the conversation.
2:43Jenny: It was an incredible  
2:45two and a half weeks. And so we were leaving on a  Sunday and on a Friday night, my cousin was like,  
2:51"Jenny, I want to have a farewell party for  you at the bar. Let's go." And I was like,  
2:57"No, I'm just going to stay home. I  don't want to go." My aunt was like,  
3:00"Jenny," in Hungarian. She's like, "You  need to be with the young people. Go, go."
3:03Vanessa: Go.
3:03Jenny: And I was like,  
3:04"Okay. All right." So I went and  that's how I met Adam, my husband.
3:07Vanessa: That's amazing. So  
3:09what was that? What happened when you  walked into the bar and you saw him?
3:12Jenny: Yes. So the last  
3:14place I was expecting was that. I was a little,  I turned up my nose a little bit. Looking back.
3:23Vanessa: Young.
3:24Jenny: And I was like,  
3:24"I don't know anybody." So Adam walks in and I'm  like, "Hold up. Who is this guy? This guy's cute."  
3:30So I go up to him because it's cool to be  from America. Some people find it cool.
3:36Vanessa: Certainly, I've experienced that too as a I  
3:38travel. Like, "Whoa. I met someone from America."  I'm like, "I'm just a normal person, but okay."
3:43Jenny: So I go up to him,  
3:45I'm like, "Hey, I'm Jenny from  America. Nice to meet you."
3:48Vanessa: You should be my friend because I'm from America.
3:50Jenny: Yeah, I was just like super sly, smooth.
3:54Vanessa: That's funny.
3:55Jenny: 
3:56He didn't speak the best of English. So Adam  grew up learning German and so he's trilingual,  
4:02but his English was good, but it wasn't great. So  I probably only understood 50% of what he said.
4:09Vanessa: That's all you needed.
4:09Jenny: Yeah. So we  
4:11talked the night away until 4:00 A.M. and then  we literally spent that day and a half together  
4:16before I left. And I was like, "I'm in love, but  with this guy who lives in Hungary across..."
4:22Vanessa: And we're leaving tomorrow.
4:23Jenny: Yeah,  
4:25I was so sad. It was really sad. So we  left and then I get this message from him  
4:31saying that he was booking tickets  to come see me three weeks later.
4:36Vanessa: That's so beautiful. He just saw you for a day  
4:40and a half and was like, "I'm going to pay money  to travel halfway across the world to see you."
4:45Jenny: And it's  
4:46expensive. For Hungarians, I think it was $1000.
4:50Vanessa: Whoa.
4:50All right, how'd you do? Well, you just heard the  beginning of Jenny's incredible cross-cultural  
4:56love story with her Hungarian husband. There's so  much more that happens in this conversation and  
5:02if you want to find out, well, you have to join  the Fearless Fluency Club. In that conversation,  
5:08we highlighted three key vocabulary phrases that  I want you to be able to use yourself. Let's jump  
5:15into the vocabulary lesson where my husband  Dan and I will explain those three phrases.
5:21Now, usually in the Fearless Fluency  Club we learn about 15 to 17 phrases  
5:27per conversation, but this is just a sample.  
5:30So let's dive in to those three key phrases  so that you can use them yourself. Let's go.
5:36The last something. We are not talking  about a final in a series. Here we're  
5:43talking about something that is unexpected  or an unlikely occurrence. So for example,  
5:50in the conversation with Jenny, she said  that when she went to the bar, it was the  
5:54last place that she expected to meet her future  husband. It was the last place. We could replace  
6:03the word place and say he is the last person I  expected to what? What could we say with that?
6:10Dan: Marry?
6:10Vanessa: Oh, when I met Dan,  
6:13he was the last person I expected  to marry, but we did. It's not true.
6:16Dan: That would mean I  
6:17made a really bad first impression.
6:19Vanessa: Yeah,  
6:20I don't think you were the last  person I expected to marry.
6:23Dan: I wasn't that far down the list.
6:25Vanessa: Yeah,  
6:25so we could use this for really anything. Maybe  for Dan, if he told me one day I'm going to go  
6:32get my PhD in astrophysics, I would be a little  shocked and I might say, "Oh, astrophysics is the  
6:41last subject that I thought you would want  to study." So this is so far from reality,  
6:49it is unexpected. And it's the last subject, the  last person, the last place, the last subject.
6:55Dan: Something very surprising.
6:56Vanessa: Yes, very surprising.
6:57Dan: And I know  
6:57for myself personally, I would've said  the last place I thought I would live  
7:02would be South Carolina. You thought I  was going to say South Korea. Didn't you?
7:07Vanessa: Oh, so when you were growing up.
7:08Dan: I was younger,  
7:09I didn't even know where  South Carolina was on a map.
7:12Vanessa: Maybe you don't either.
7:13Dan: Maybe you don't.  
7:15But anyway. So I could have said the last place  I expected to go to college was South Carolina,  
7:21but that's where I ended up going because I  just visited and I liked the campus and I said,  
7:26"Okay, this place is nice."  And that's where I went.
7:28Vanessa: Yeah. So it's an expectation that's  
7:30surprising. Something unexpected. Oh, Dan actually  went to college in a really unusual place,  
7:37at least for him, in South Carolina. It was  the last place he thought he'd go to college.
7:43Dan: And again,  
7:44this is usually never literal.  Speaking of literally.
7:47Vanessa: It's not the last.
7:48Dan: Yeah, it's not really the last on...
7:51Vanessa: A list.
7:51Dan: ... because sometimes  
7:51that's not even possible to know the last of what.
7:54Vanessa: Yeah, Jenny didn't have a list of places where  
7:57she thought she'd meet her future husband. In the  bar was the last one. Now this is just figurative.
8:02Dan: Yeah, it's a very casual expression.
8:04Vanessa: All right,  
8:04let's watch the clip from the conversation.
8:06Jenny: The last place I  
8:07was expecting was that, I turned up my nose  a little bit. I was a little, looking back.
8:15Vanessa: Young.
8:16Jenny: The last  
8:17place I was expecting was that. The  last place I was expecting was that.
8:22Dan: The next expression  
8:24is to turn up one's nose at something. And this  means snobby. Maybe another expression we use  
8:31is high and mighty. As somebody who thinks they  are better than other people, they turn up their  
8:37nose at them. So somebody might say this, we  usually say this about other people. So I knew  
8:45I didn't like him when he turned up his nose to  the idea of playing board games at our house.
8:52Vanessa: He just wanted  
8:52to go to a fancy restaurant. He  didn't want to come over to the  
8:55house and play games. He turned up  his nose at the idea of board games.
8:59Dan: And this  
9:00implies that this person would rather do  something, like you said, expensive. Although  
9:06it doesn't necessarily have to be expensive,  it just has to be either expensive or cool.
9:11Vanessa: Yeah,  
9:12I just think your idea is lesser, is not as good.
9:16Dan: Little people do that.
9:17Vanessa: Yeah. So it's quite interesting because  
9:19in the conversation with Jenny, she said that she  turned up her nose. She was talking about herself.
9:23Dan: Yeah, she was talking about herself.
9:24Vanessa: I turned up my nose,  
9:26but then she said, "A little bit." So she's  making it a little less strong. She said, "I  
9:30turned up my nose a little bit about meeting  someone at a bar." So she thought that people  
9:37who aren't serious about relationships don't  meet people at bars. And that's kind of true.
9:42If you meet your husband or wife at a bar,  you're pretty lucky. So she was saying,  
9:47I thought that that's not for me. I want to  meet my husband in a better place. But in  
9:56the end it worked out for her. So she was  using that about herself, but she used it  
10:00in a lesser way by saying, "I turned up my  nose a little bit." A little bit at that.
10:06Dan: And I would say,  
10:06that's interesting she said that. I  think it's a little unusual to use  
10:10it from a first-person perspective, to  say, "I turned up my nose at something."
10:15Vanessa: Yeah, usually  
10:15we talk about that with someone else like,  "Oh, I knew that our friendship wouldn't  
10:21last because she just turned up her nose at  every idea that I had. I just wanted to go  
10:27for a walk in the park or drink some tea at  a coffee shop. And she thought that all my  
10:31ideas weren't good enough. She just turned up  her nose at all my ideas." And in that case,  
10:37it's negative. You might be complaining about  someone you met. They turn up their nose. I'm  
10:42better than that. All right, let's watch the  clips that you can see how Jenny used this.
10:46Jenny: The last place I was  
10:48expecting was that I was a little, I turned up my  nose a little bit. I was a little, looking back...
10:56Vanessa: Young.
10:56Jenny: I turned up my  
10:56nose a little bit. I was little... I turned  up my nose a little bit. I was a little...
10:59Vanessa: Next expression  
11:02is to talk the night away. And that means  simply that you are talking all night and  
11:10usually you forgot about time because you're  lost in conversation. We talked the night away.
11:16Dan: It usually implies a good conversation.
11:17Vanessa: Yeah. You could also use this to say we danced the  
11:20night away. Maybe you were at a friend's wedding  and you and your husband just danced the night  
11:28away at the wedding. In the US, we always dance  at weddings or usually, so maybe you had such a  
11:33good time that you're just dancing the night  away and then you realize, oh, it's 2:00 A.M.  
11:38So you were just lost in that moment. Has there  ever been a time when you talked the night away?
11:44Dan: Yes, for sure. With you.
11:46Vanessa: Yeah, all the time.
11:47Dan: Many a time. Especially,  
11:48when we were dating and we were long distance  for a while, so we would often call each other  
11:55and we would talk the night away on the phone.  So yeah, we would spend a very long time and  
12:01not look at the time at all. You would get lost is  something you might say. Get lost in conversation.
12:07Vanessa: Yeah, we were lost in  
12:08conversation. We talked the night away because we  were having a good conversation together. So you  
12:13just forget about time. And that's the way that  Jenny talked about it with her future husband,  
12:19that when they first met each other, they talked  the night away. They had such a good bond and such  
12:23a good connection that they just lost track of  time. They talked the night away. I want to know  
12:29for you, have you ever talked the night  away with anyone. You just got lost.
12:33Dan: And it could be a  
12:33group as well. It doesn't  have to just be two people.
12:36Vanessa: Yeah.
12:36Dan: We all talked the night away.
12:38Vanessa: Yeah,  
12:38we talked the night away and then our  families went home. It's a great way  
12:42to use it. All right, let's watch the  clip so you can see how it was used.
12:45Jenny: So when we talked the night  
12:47away until 4:00 A.M. We literally spent that day  and a half together before I left. And I was like,  
12:54"I'm in love." But we talked the night away until  4:00 A.M. We talked the night away until 4:00 A.M.
12:58Vanessa: So have you ever talked  
13:03the night away with someone? I know that I have,  but it's been a long time. Now that I'm a parent,  
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