Let s Master English Podcast Episode 7

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1 Let s Master English Podcast Episode 7 Hello everybody, you're listening to Let's Master English and my name is Coach Shane. Welcome to podcast number 7, our 7 th episode, I'm so happy that you have downloaded the podcast and that you re listening. Our goal is to help you master English. Now remember these podcasts are pretty long, so you don t have to listen to the entire podcast at one setting, you can listen a little now, and a little bit later, and just have fun with it. Also don t forget thanks to your friends, other podcast listeners, like Bettina, and Jyoti, and Quy, and all the others, we have a dictation of the podcasts. And you can find those transcripts on our website, that s It s a great place to get the transcripts and you can also, of course, download the podcast there. Now last week, I introduced the Russian fans, there were so many, likes lots of the 5 stars, thank you so much on itunes and I said I would introduce other countries today. However, Andrey from Russia said, you must introduce me, or I will kill you. I don t think he said that I will kill you, but you know, he is got that slightly Russian English accent and he sounds seriously, he is a little bit scary to me, so I must introduce Andrey and what I m going to do today: First of all, thank you to everybody who gave me a rating on itunes and today I m going to read 3 different countries. I m gonna say it fast, so I want you to listen carefully. In Russia, we have Yarimer, the teacher s voice is really incredible, the intonations, jokes, stories make me smile. It s the most enjoyable and useful podcast I ever heard. Thank you! From Mike Shat, this podcast will really help people to improve their English listening skills. Yes that s what I want. Thank you. And from Andrey, Andrey Boyd, I want to speak too much about this podcast, I only say that I got ipad only to listen to it. Andrey bought ipad to listen to the podcast. My goodness, Apple loves to you and so do I. but seriously, this is very interesting and useful podcast and I m glad to have the ability to listen to it. Thank you very much, Coach Shane, and please don t forget to mention me in your next episode. It s done, Andrey. Andrey continues. For those of you who don t know about Shane s other channels, I recommend you to join his Daily Dictation channel, e-cubed channel and if you have really seriously attentions about your English, I strongly recommend you to subscribe to the DDM community which it s a brilliant way to improve your English so much that s your wonder how it s possible. You don t believe me, just do it and judge yourself. Andrey, thank you so much, my channels can be found on YouTube. Then we have Easy HHHH1966, Thanks a lot, and very good podcast, thanks a lot, looking forward to every new part. Thank you very much, Yuchi Now I m going to switch countries, and this is Italy. Hum And may I have introduced this person before, but I m gonna do it again. Fantastic and magic! And this podcast is very interesting and well structured. Listening is never boring, it s a great and funny way to learn lots of new words and expressions. It s absolutely recommended for those who want not only to improve their listening skills, but also discover something about culture. The section of English learning advice is really pressures, I m enthusiast about this new podcast, and I hope Coach Shane will go on with it, Margherita. Thank you very much, Margherita. From Congratulations! This is very interesting podcast I ve never heard boring and others are focus very much on common expressions. That s very important in learning in English. Ciao from a young Italian student. From Maci MM, thank you. From Rogo, is it Rogo or Roge 70? It is very interesting and useful to improve my English knowledge and to practice, not only listening, also pronunciation recommended. Thank you. And to Luca Ferrari, oh, I love the Ferrari car, Keep making podcasts. I listen to them every morning while I m driving to the university. Thank you Luca, and I should also mention Luca and Margi and Andrey, our all DDM members. So thank you very much.

2 And I want to introduce one more country - México, Mexico. This from Kanlink, Thank you Coach Shane, your podcast is incredible and I hope you keep well. And I recommend to everyone in truth - it s an incredible way to learn English. Thanks, greetings. And Monique, thank you very much for this podcast. Well, thank you to everybody, if you want me to read your rating from itunes, just let me know and I will do it, I ll do my best, anyway. I sincerely appreciate all of the ratings. Now I do have some people give me one star or 2 stars, and that s fine, I understand, but I would really like to know why. If it s one star show or just 2 stars show, let me know. 3 stars, 4 stars, 5 stars, hum, thank you thank you so much. I really do appreciate it. And now let s go into the top listening countries. It's the statistics time. Maintaining the top position is Russia, 4900 downloads in Russia, thank you so much; And jumping from the 4 th position to number 2 is Japan. Japan rocked and rolling this time. Thank you very much Japan; Number 3, Italy; Kazakhstan follows number 4 ; And Mexico rises to number 5; China, then France that s number 7; Spain, a big jump for Spain, number 8; The US drops to the 9 th And Brazil takes over the 10 th spot; In the 11 th position, Vietnam; followed by Saudi Arabia; then Germany; 14 th is Korea; Ukraine at the 15 th ; Malaysia jumped to the 16 th and Canada to the 17 th ; India jumps to the 18 th and Singapore is at 19 th and Morocco jumps to the 20 th. Thank you so much to all the countries and we really are all over the world. Right now, our downloads are in 129 countries that makes me so happy. So I would love to hear from you. You can leave a message on itunes and also you can me, send me an . My address is dailydictationmembers@gmail.com. I do have other addresses, but I m not checking them very regularly, so send me an and I give you introduce on the next podcast. Tell your friends, everybody, the bigger we make this, the better. Okay, enough cheat chat. Let's get into the News! If you found someone lying still in the pool, could you rescue them? What about a pet? What about a blind pet chicken named Chuqiwoqi. That s what Reberta Ropo of Sydney did. The pet was her autistic daughter s baby and she knew she had to try. She did CPR on the chicken and it worked. Mystified friends walked away thinking she was crazy but after the hen clucked back to life escaping the claws of death. She enjoyed texting them back. The miracle chicken laid an egg for Reberta and got hugs and kisses from the daughter. What? It was about a story of chicken, but what happened? Alright, let s listen it again. A little bit slower, a little bit clear. Here we go. (reads the text again) Oh, it s such a sweet story, it s a nice story. So there was a chicken and somehow it ended up in the swimming pool. But this chicken couldn t swim and it was almost dead. But a woman found the chicken and she took the chicken out of the pool and she gave the chicken CPR and the chicken survived. And she was happy and her daughter was happy. And that s the story. But let s go line by line and figure out exactly what I was saying. If you found someone lying still in the pool, could you rescue them? Okay, so if you found someone, you found somebody lying still, lying still means not moving in a pool, a pool will be a swimming pool. Oh my goodness, if you found someone lying still in a pool, hum, could you rescue them? Could you save them? Could you bring them out of the pool? And save their life, because if there are lying still in a pool, it means they may have drowned, D-R-O-W-N-E-D, that s terrible. It could be dead. So could you rescue them? Could you save them? Hum

3 What about a pet? So if you found someone lying still in a pool, could you rescue them? Probably you ll try. But what about a pet? You know, like a dog, or a cat, would you try in rescue a dog or a cat? What about a blind pet chicken named Chuqiwoqi? If you saw a chicken, and the chicken was blind, it couldn t see. And the chicken was somebody s pet and the chicken s name was Chuqiwoqi, could you rescue the chicken? Well, I think most people would say no. But that s what Reberta Ropo of Sydney did. So there is a woman in Sydney, Australia, and her name was Reberta Ropo and she did - save or rescue a blind pet chicken named Chuqiwoqi. Wow, why? Well, the pet was her autistic daughter s baby and she knew she had to try. Okay, so the pet was her daughter s pet and the daughter thinks of the pet as her baby, she s raising her baby, her chicken. Now her daughter has autism, A-U-T-I-S-M. She is autistic, the daughter is autistic, A-U- T-I-S-T-I-C. Autism is a type of genetic disorder. It s a problem with children. I don t know it s a genetic, but there are many types of autism. And some children with autism, they are actually okay; but some children with autism have to stay in the hospital because it s very hard for them to live in our normal world. Do you the movie Rain Man with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. In that movie, Rain Man Dustin Hoffman, he was autistic, he had autism. So Reberta Ropo has a daughter and her daughter is autistic, and the chicken was her daughter s baby. So she knew, Reberta Ropo knew she had to try and save the chicken for her daughter. So what did she do? She did CPR on the chicken and it worked. Wow, it worked. It was successful. What s it CPR? She did or she performed CPR on the chicken, or she gave the chicken CPR. Now what is CPR? CPR is a medical procedure that we use in emergencies. CPR stands for Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation, I m not going to spell it, you can just say CPR, big C, big P, big R. So if you find somebody and their heart is not pumping, and they are not breathing, that means they need CPR. So what you do is you do chest compressions and that means you push on the chest very short, very quick but a little bit deep about 2 inches deep, I guess about 5 cm, and you push at the rate of about 100 per minute. So you push on the chest, that s the idea. you push on the chest, you push on the chest and you sometimes help them breath by lifting their neck, closing their nose, and putting your mouth over their mouth and giving them a breath, this called artificial resuscitation. So when I was young, I did learn how to do CPR and so far in my life, I ve never had to do, I ve never had to perform CPR. Do you know CPR? I do recommend that you learn CPR and there are classes in every community that teach CPR, and of course you can also learn online, but going to a Red Cross or some other hospital or police station or fire station is the best way to learn CPR. If you have the time, I highly recommend you learn CPR. And this woman, she knew CPR and she did it on a chicken. Oh, my goodness. So mystified Friends walked away thinking she was crazy. So when this happened, when the woman found Chuqiwoqi in the swimming pool, Reberta Ropo has several friends over, and they watched Reberta rescued the chicken, take the chicken out of the swimming pool, and gave the chicken CPR, and the friends were mystified. They were, they couldn t understand what Reberta was doing. Oh, my god, Reberta, it s a chicken, it s dead. Stop it! They walked away. They left thinking Reberta was crazy. Oh, my god, Reberta was crazy, she s trying to save a chicken s life, she s giving mouth to mouth resuscitation to a chicken. Ho She was crazy but after the hen clucked back to life, escaping the claws of death. She enjoyed texting them back. But after the hen, a hen is a female chicken, after the hen clucked back to life. So usually we say come back to life, so the chicken was basically dead, but Reberta gave the chicken CPR and then the chicken came back to life. And how do we know the chicken was alive? Because it s clucked, the sound that chicken makes is called clucking, C-L-U-C-K, the chicken clucked, so the chicken was dead and then suddenly after the CPR, the chicken came alive, it escaped death. To escape means to run away successful from something. And the chicken escaped what? Death, death almost had, the chicken death almost caught the chicken, but the chicken escaped death. And here I said escaping the claws of death, if you look at chicken s foot, it has claws, and those claws are death almost had the chicken, but she s escaped the claws of death. And after the chicken was alive. Reberta Ropo enjoyed texting them back, so what she did, her friend walks away and thinking she was crazy but the chicken survived and Reberta sent a text, a texted message to her friends, ha, you thought I was crazy, but the chicken is alive, I am a hero. And she is.

4 Now what s amazing is the miracle chicken, this chicken is miracle, it should be dead, but thanks to Reberta and CPR, the chicken was alive, it s a miracle. The miracle chicken laid an egg for Reberta. Truly? It s true. So after the chicken came bake to life, she laid an egg, she gave Reberta an egg. and got hugs and kisses from the daughter. Of course, she did. So it s a really nice story, it s kind of funny, but I think it s very very sweet. So let s go to look some vocabulary words: Lying still, not moving, maybe dead; A pool, a swimming pool in this case; To rescue, to rescue to save, to save somebody s life; A pet, a pet dog, a pet cat. I have 2 pet cats; Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Autistic, that s the adjective for autism, A-U-T-I-S-M, checking your dictionary for that word; CPR, this a medical procedure. If somebody s heart stops beating and they stop breathing, we should do CPR, we should perform CPR, we should give them CPR. By giving them CPR, hopefully, we can restart their heart and restart their breathing. Then we can save their life. CPR; It worked, it was successful; Mystified, they were confused, they didn t understand, he was mystified, he was confused, he didn t understand; They walked away thinking she was crazy, they left the situation thinking she was nuts; A hen, a female chicken; Clucked back to life, to come back to life means to have been dead, but are alive again. And cluck is the sound that a chicken makes; Escaping the claws of death, so we can imagine death, as a dark shadow, chasing the chicken, but the chicken escaped, successful, and the death as the chasing the chicken uses its claws, C-L- A-W-S to grab the chicken but the chicken was lucky, and it s escaped; Texting back, to send a text message to somebody in reply to something; Miracle chicken, the chicken that was saved by god, truly a miracle, truly a gift; Laid an egg, L-A-I-D, laid an egg, to produce an egg. Chickens laid eggs all the time. I like eggs, eggs are good for you, I like the white parts and the yellow parts. And that s our story. So once again, it s a happy story, it s a kind of cute, but there are lots of good words and expressions for you to learn. So I m going to read 2 more times: the first time, nice and clearly; the second time, normal American style. Are you ready? (reads the text again) It s question and answer time. Our first question is from Saaag, Hey, Coach Shane, I m new to your videos, I m confused where to start, how should I follow you? Can you please suggest a method where to start, from where should I watch all of your Daily Dictations, what else should I do to speak fluently, please to help. Well, that s a great question. Saag, and you know what, I have lots of channels so, Daily Dictation, that s a great channel, we have about 250 lessons right now, and if you re a beginner or low intermediate student, I recommend you start at Daily Dictation One - DD1 and go through the whole series that will take you a long time, but that will definitely help you with your English fluency. I have another channel - Daily English, and that channel address is and on that channel, I have almost 300 expressions, idioms, or clichés, or words that you should know for daily English communication. If you have American friend, they should all know these expressions. They are very short lessons, and I try to make them fun, or at least funny, so you can watch all of those. One a day is my recommendation, sometimes I miss a day, but I try my best. I have another channel, and this channel, I answer questions, like yours, with the video. Most questions are about the pronunciation, and that s my specialty pronunciation and listening skills, so there is no real method to watch these lessons but if you have a problem with the r sound or some other pronunciation problem or you confused about an expression, you can look on this channel, do a search or just look at the videos. Hopefully, I have a video for you. If I don t have a video, you can leave a comment at the end of any video, and I will see it and if it s a good one, I ll make an answer video for you.

5 Then I have Success English this channel is mainly for Korean students, or for people who s speaking English and want to learn Korean. So I teach English expression and it s equivalent in Korean. And I have another good channel, and that s about American English Pronunciation and in this channel, I focus on one word and its pronunciation. And my new format is one word and an example sentence and a definition. And I haven t been uploading this channel much recently. However, I will be. And hopefully, it will be a daily update in the future. So those are my main channels. There is one more - DD Members only. DD Members only and this for DDM students. Now DDM is not free, you actually have to pay for the lessons, but if you go to the DD Members Only channel, you can watch some of our live classes. And we do have live classes, not for everybody. DD Membership has 3 levels, there is the DDM VIP, and those classes are actually very expensive; then there is regularly DDM, those classes are actually very inexpensive; and then there is DDM from the beginning, and those classes are even cheaper. If you re interested in DDM, send me an , dailydictationmembers@gmail.com and I will send you a FREE lesson that sounds pretty cool? I hope so. And DDM is really probably the best way to help you master your English skills, because it involves listening, it involves writing, it involves speaking and pronunciation. And those are very important, we don t talk much about grammar, and if you have the grammar questions. Oh, don t ask me, Learning American English is a great channel on YouTube and he is brilliant with its grammar explanations. Okay? So thank you very much for the question. Our next question comes from Ledehone, Hey there, Coach Shane, I ve been trying to master American accent for quite a while now, and I find it s difficult to pronounce north-south, it s quite difficult to pronounce the s sound after the th. Do you have any tips? Thanks in advance. Okay, so north-south the s sound in the south is difficult after the th. Well, Ledehone, in American English, the s sound is the most important sound, so always try your best to keep the s sound. now in DDM and also in the Daily Dictation, I teach students that if there is an s next to a th sound, if we say it fast, the th can disappear, so north-south, the fast I say, nor-south, nor-south, nor-south the th can actually disappear, but remember in my head, I have to saying the th sound, but out of my mouth, the s sound is more prominent. nor-south, nor-south, norsouth. So some people just completely delete the th nor-south, and the r posterfy the th, some people say like this, north-south Hum Fortunately, we don t use this word too much, except maybe for a highway, the highway runs for the north-south, it s a north-south highway. So it is tough, the th is tough, the s rather can be tough. But remember, Ledhone, the s is more important than the th, okay? P da Cilva, I hope I pronounce your name correctly, has a question, Hello, Shane, you re awesome, thank you for the videos that I d like to ask you a question. In the video, that s my vowel sound test video, it says that took has a schwa sound. However, in the International Phonetic Alphabet, took is representative with something else that s not schwa, is that right? Thank you. Okay, da Cilva, this a problem, because as I have found out some dictionaries use the IPA symbols differently. Yes, it s crazy, I know it sounds crazy, but it s true, and that is a big reason why I hate the IPA the International Phonetic Alphabet. Now I know many teachers, English teachers linguistics, they love the IPA. Great, I hope that you have a fan teaching it, but my method does not relay on the IPA, okay? I don t like using those symbols, it s specially now, because in 2013 we have access to the internet, we can actually hear native English speaker speaking English, so you can hear a person say took, took, took, e, e, e, it s an e sound which it s in my opinion, a schwa sound. Now maybe somebody wants to disagree, that s fine, everybody can have their own opinion, and also remember, P I say took, but I think in England, they say took, although I m not sure, different parts of English speaking countries, in the different areas, do have the different pronunciations, so there is not a perfect pronunciation. However, in American, if you say took, who took my seat? Who took my cell phone?, in that case, took everybody will understand you. So I m sorry, but don t focus on the IPA, focus on the sound, Okay? Philipe? And we take one more set of questions, this from Victor in Argentina, Number1, could you make a video about the difference between the sounds of letter d, because I read in many books about

6 American pronunciation, and they say the t in pretty sounds like a d, predi, but then I think, oh, my god, the d as in day, sounds totally different from pretty. Okay, I m not going to make a video, but yes, I do agree with you, pretty, pretty, day, day, is there a difference in the d sound. well, when we say day, day, it s very full d sound; when we say pretty, P-R-E-T-T-Y, the American style - pre-di, it s a very short d, actually they call it a flap t, pre-di, pre-di and they call the flap, because there is like a flap, the tongue flaps on the roof of the mouth - the alveolar ridge. I m sure you re familiar with this word. Victor. Hum, so the d s do sound different, Victor. However, the base sound and placement and vibration are going to be very familiar. pre-di, pre-di, pre-di, yes, we can have vibration when we say the word pretty. I know it s tough. Victor also asks about C-A-U-G-H-, caught and F-A-T-H-E-R, father and C-U-T, cut, and he s using the IPA symbol, but once again I hate the IPA symbols, dictionaries use the different symbols sometimes, and some Americans pronounce the words differently. Some American say father, some American say father ; Some American say caught, some American say caught, it s very different sounds. So, once again, my answer with IPA symbols is very special, ignore them and listen to the native English speakers. And American from Origen will pronounce words differently than American in Chicago or New York, or British person in London has a different pronunciation from British person in Scotland. And in Australia, so there are lots of different types of pronunciations, even in America, my recommendation follow me, Hahaha And the final question, I read in some books, there is a special American nasal sound and words sound like B-A-T, bat and cat and D-O-W-N, down, you never mentioned those sounds in your videos. So is it the regional? Yes, it s regional sound Bat, Cat, Down, hum, put the cat down, put the cat down very nasal, but not common. Some Americans do say that, normally, we d say put the cat down, put the cat down ; Some American nasally, put the cat down, put the cat down. Yeah, that s very nasally sound, and it s not typical. And I recommend you don t imitate that sound, okay? Victor? So, once again when we come to the pronunciation, use the internet as your resource, not the dictionary. Okay? Some dictionaries do have an audio file, that s great. Listen to the audio file, the IPA is not my friend. And it sometimes helps a lot of students, I know it does, but also it sometimes confuses a lot of students. So forget the IPA, use your ears and use the internet. And if you want, yeah, typical American pronunciation, I think my pronunciation is pretty damn good. Okay? How are you doing everybody? This is Country Shane and I'm here to bring you the facts. Your body stops to grow at about 20 years old, but your ears and your nose, they grow until you die, hum This is been Country Shane bringing you the facts. Hey, guys. Cliff Langston here from That Was History. If you re sports fan, you can enjoy the event from the history that I have for you today. Did you know on October 7 th of 1916, American football hit coach John Heisman let his Georgia Tech Engineers to 222 to nothing victory over the Cumberland Bulldogs, this the highest scoring game ever played in American football history. To find more about this story and others likes, be sure to check it on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Or you get do a search for That Was History Alright, it s time to Let's Master English s studying tip. Today I m going to I want to go back to the blogs. Now I get some great news: Miguel from Spain has started a blog in English and Spanish. Mario in Brazil has started a blog in Portuguese and English. And Quy in Vietnam has started a blog in Vietnamese and English. If you re Vietnamese, if you speak Portuguese, if you speak Spanish, contact these guys and join their blogs, help them with their blogs. Teach English, remember, what does it take to become a teacher? If you know one thing, that somebody else, may not know, then you can be a teacher. You re qualified to teach. So if you re watching my videos, and you learn something new, teach it, that way you mastered. That s the one of the best way to master your English language, it really helps. So use these blogs, and I ll put some links to the blogs in the description file. I don t know how come I can do it? Yeah, I put in there somehow, I m still not use this podcast stuff, so I ll work on it, I m getting use it, but once again, I want to say thank you so much to Mario and Miguel and Quy,

7 you guys are doing a great, I want to say some activities, in Russia, maybe a blog in Russian and English, vk.com will be a great place. And China, and every other country, I would love for my lessons to be available to everybody around the world, and especially for the beginners, because, well, I know, my English lessons are a little bit difficult for the beginner. However, it s okay. You can still learn something. And you help me and you take my lesson and do a little bit translation for people in your country that speak your language, that s a big help. And remember we re all the same family, so it s benefit for everybody. So once again, keep making blogs, I m serious, this the huge way to help you master English and helps others too. And that's gonna do it for me today. I hope you enjoyed this edition - the 7 th episode of Let's Master English. Please subscribe on itunes and give me a good rating, give me a review. Once again itunes. I think everybody knows that. Hum, you can also get our podcast on our homepage please go there, leave a comment, and if you want me to introduce you, tell me. If you want a FREE DDM lesson, me. My address, once again, dailydictationmembers@gmail.com and I'm all there. Take care everyone and Let's Master English!!!