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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
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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."
3:03Jenny:
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.
3:24Jenny:
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.
3:56He 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.
4:11talked 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.
4:25I 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."
4:46expensive. For Hungarians, I think it was $1000.
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?
6:10Vanessa:
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.
6:20I don't think you were the last
person I expected to marry.
6:23Dan:
I wasn't that far down the list.
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.
6:57for 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.
7:09I 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.
7:44this is usually never literal.
Speaking of literally.
7:47Vanessa:
It's not the last.
7:48Dan:
Yeah, it's not really the last on...
7:51Dan:
... 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.
8:04let'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.
8:17place 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.
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.
9:12I 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...
10:56Jenny:
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.
12:36Dan:
We all talked the night away.
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,
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