Let s Master English Podcast Episode 9 Hello everybody, you're listening to Let's Master English and my name is Coach Shane. Alright, this is our Let s Master English podcast number 9, already the 9 th episode. Thank you so much for listening to the podcast, I really, really appreciate. You re taking time, learning some English, hopefully having some fun. Once again, our fantastic listeners are uploading the transcriptions to our Google Plus Community, so go to Google + and search for Let s Master English it s a great place with great people and we try to keep the spam at a minimum. Transcript number 8 was dictated by Ingrid from Germany, she did a great job but we do have a few mistakes. Do you think you can help? Well, feel free Today I want to introduce a couple of comments from itunes and we get some new countries and some old counties. I m gonna start with Spain and we have 5 stars review from, oh boy, G or maybe G Handrey I apologize for killing your name, I think it s one of the best podcasts to improve English because the content, the skill of the teacher and the variety of matters, here is recommended. Thank you so much, I m gonna call you Andrey or maybe Handrey, I sincerely apologize for the bad pronunciation. Let s jump over to Italy and we got a couple of reviews from Italy: From 92, Fantastic and rewarding! This podcast is very interesting and I m never humdrum, I m used to listening to registrations, I had the podcast when I go to university and it s the great way to keep the mind to train, that s fantastic. Fredereco R, I m so terrible to pronounce it, I apologize guys, Thank you Coach Shane, I m getting better with my English, I really love when you explain the pronunciation of the words. Please do it as frequently as you can. I shall, Fredereco. And I think I did this one, Angelo but I m gonna do it again. Thank you so much Coach, you re doing a great job. Angelo from Italy. And well, Angelo, thank you for leaving the comment. Let me jump over to Japan, from H.3, Very good material, this a very good English learning material which I haven t been experienced. That s very, very nice. Oh, no, and then we get the comments in Japanese and I can not read the Japanese letters: So there is one from somebody; there is another one from Cooper8888, thank you; there is another one from somebody loves this podcast and another one from somebody, hum, T..570 podcast that s all I can read in their comments, but they give me 5 stars and I sincerely appreciate, (Japanese) thank you very, very much. Let s jump over to China: From PJ Zhang Peng, awesome Coach, awesome classes, definitely I must to listen to English learners, 5 stars. Thank you so much. 谢谢, I hope that s pronounced ok. We re gonna jump to Vietnam, thank you so much from Huang Dang Dong, you speak very clearly, your podcasts help me a lot and I listen to them every day. Thank you so much. And also from Lee Hcm, thank you. (Vietnamese) to both of you and all the Vietnamese listeners. I sincerely appreciate, it means a lot your comments and your ratings on itunes help us very much and I really appreciate. Let me give some quiz statistics: Now since the beginning, Russia has been number 1, but Russia, I m sorry Russia, you lost. Haha ; Japan is number 1-15 000 downloads. Japan is rocking, once again, (Japanese) thank you very much; N 2, Russia, come on, it s Italy, Grazie, thank yo u so much to my Italian listeners, I sincerely appreciate; N 3, it s Russia, (Russian) thank you very much to my Russia listeners; Grazie, Spain is at N 4;
Hum, I m forgetting my Chinese friends, once again, ( 谢谢,Xie Xie), N 5, China; Mexico, Grazie, N 6; Merci, thank you to my French listeners, there are N 7; Thank you very much to my American friends and I know there are probably zero native English speakers in American listening. It s a bunch of different people in America, thank you very much; Kazakhstan, can I say (Russian) to my Kazakhstan s listeners, N 9; And once again, (Vietnamese) to my Vietnamese listeners, there are N 10. Running out to top20: Germany is N 11; Brazil then we have Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Ukraine, India and Canada, the UK, Malaysia and Colombia. That s the top 20, thank you to everybody, and if you want me to mention you or your country, please send a message, leave a rating, and then tell me because actually, it s sometimes really difficult to find those ratings on itunes, I have to click on every single country. Okay, it s the time to get into the News! When you re super hungry, do you scarf down your food like a pig? Do you wolf down your burger like a starving dog? But in public, that s gross. Have no fear, a Japanese burger chains has created the Liberty Wrapper which hides your mouth while you chow down your lunch. Instead of seeing your disgusting eating habits, fellow patrons only see a specially made wrapper that shows a clean, smiling face! What? Lots of interesting words in this one, let s listen it again. (reads the text again) Hum, yes, I must to say the Japanese people are very creative, they have so many interesting inventions and this one of these Japanese interesting inventions. Did you understand the story? Well, let s go back to the first sentence: When you re super hungry, When you re super hungry, hum, super hungry, very very hungry, you re so hungry. How hungry? You could eat a horse if you re hungry. When you re super hungry, do you scarf down your food like a pig? Well, here s a new phrasal verb for many of you to scarf down, S-C-A-R-F, down, D-O-W-N, scarf down is American expression; in the UK, they say scoff down which will be S-C-O-F-F D-O-W-N, it s the same thing and it means to eat something very quickly and probably very very dirtily, in a very dirty way, so you don t care about the looking good. For me, when I come to Pizza, I usually scarf it down, (noise ) yes, so when you re super hungry, do you scarf down your food like a pig? Yeah, well, we know pigs have the image of (noise ) of eating not in a very clean way. Do you eat like that sometimes? Maybe you do when you re super hungry. The next sentence, do you wolf down your burger like a starving dog? Well, it s the same sentence. Do you wolf down? Here is another phrasal verb, wolf, W-O-L-F that s like a wild dog, (noise ) that s a wolf. Hum, wolf down, of course, it means eat - to scarf down, to wolf down - to eat something very very quickly and not very cleanly. Do you wolf down your burger, now B-U-R- G-E-R, burger, hamburger, cheeseburger, now make sure you pronounce the r, do not say booger because a booger that s disgusting. Boogers are those things in your nose. Do you eat that stuff in your nose? Of course not, those are boogers. You don t want to eat boogers, you wanna eat burgers. Haha so do you wolf down your burger like a starving dog? So starving, once again, starving means extremely hungry, you haven t eaten for days. A dog is a dog, so we can imagine a starving dog would wolf down its food like a pig because it s super hungry. Okay? When you re super hungry, do you scarf down your food like a pig? Do you wolf down your burger like a starving dog? But in public, that s gross. Yeah, in public, in front of other people, if you eat like that, like a starving dog or like a pig, if you eat like that in public, at a restaurant in front of other people, that s gross, G-R-O-S-S, that s disgusting, that s eke, oh, that s terrible. Have no fear, have no fear - don t worry. If you worried about that, don t worry anymore. Why? A Japanese burger chains has created the Liberty Wrapper. So in Japan, a hamburger restaurant franchise a Japanese burger chain, there are not just one restaurant, there are many restaurants with the same name. So this chain, so in America, the biggest hamburger chain is
McDonald s, next will be Burger King. I m sure in your country, you probably have McDonald s and Burger King, but you probably also have local chains or domestic chains. What this a Japanese burger chain and they have created, they made, they invented the Liberty Wrapper, liberty, L-I-B-E- R-T-Y, liberty, freedom. Wrapper, W-R-A-P-P-E-R, what is a wrapper? Well, if you buy a hamburger at McDonald s, they don t just give you the food, they put the food in paper and they closed the paper and then they give you the hamburger, that paper is called a wrapper. The same thing if you buy gum at a store, it comes a little package and then you take a piece of gum out, and usually there are some foil, some tin foil or aluminium foil? That is the gum wrapper. So a Japanese burger chain has created the Liberty Wrapper, the Liberty wrapper, a wrapper that gives you freedom? Which hides your mouth while you chow down your lunch. Okay. So this Liberty Wrapper hides your mouth, H-I-D-E-S, it covers your mouth, it hides your mouth. When? While you chow down your lunch, chow down, C-H-O-W, down, we have another phrase verb, so we have scarf down, scoff down, wolf down and now chow down and they all mean the same thing (noise ) to be eating like a starving dog or a pig. So when you re eating your lunch, and you re chowing down, it s really mass and dirty. Don t worry, feel free to eat like a pig because this restaurant will give you a Liberty Wrapper and that Liberty Wrapper will hide your mouth while you eat like a pig. Instead of seeing your disgusting eating habits, fellow patrons only see a specially made wrapper that shows a clean, smiling face! Do you understand? So we need to understand fellow patrons, so fellow, F-E-L-L-O-W, patrons, P-A-T-R-O-N-S, fellow patrons, other customers, other customers at the restaurant. So you re eating like a pig, but the other customers at the restaurant only see a specially made wrapper, the Liberty Wrapper, special made and what about this Liberty Wrapper? That shows a clean, smiling face. Aha, so when you eat your hamburger and you use the wrapper, it hides your face and shows a clean, smiling face. So, fellow patrons will never see your disgusting eating habits. Of course, normally you do not have disgusting eating habits, right? You re very proper you re very polite, you only eat in small bites and you always use a napkin, right? Haha me too. I am very clean when I eat and I m cleanest eater in the world. Do you believe me? (noise ) yeah, maybe not. I eat like a pig, but only when I m alone but now if I go to Japan, and I go to this burger chain, I can eat like a pig in the restaurant. This great! But there is only one problem - what about the sound? So people can see a nice clean smiling face but they ll hear (noise ) and that s not good. Well, anyway, it s better than nothing, so very interesting, very funny, I like this story. And once again, the Japanese people are very creative. So we have several good words, new vocabularies, phrasal verbs. Let s go ahead to start: Scarf down, S-C-A-R-F down, and wolf down, W-O-L-F down, to scarf down, to wolf down means to eat like a pig or to eat like a starving dog. So be honest, when do you scarf down food, what s your favourite food to wolf down? Starving, S-T-A-R-V-I-N-G, super super hungry, now actually, starving is a serious word and we all know about the children in Africa and children and people in North Korea, we heard that they are starving. Starving is serious issue but even like for me, if I don t eat breakfast, I don t eat lunch and it s 4 o clock in the afternoon. I could say, oh, I m starving. In public, to talk in public, to do something in public, to eat in public, that means in front of other people, especially strangers, in front of other strangers. Gross, G-R-O-S-S, disgusting. Have no fear, to get the intonation, have no fear, don t worry, don t worry about that. A burger chain, get that r sound, burger chain, would be a hamburger chain, a hamburger franchise, F-R-A-N-C-H-I-S-E,. Liberty Wrapper, so this actually a proper noun. It s the name of the invention. Liberty means freedom; wrapper is the paper covering on food. Liberty Wrapper. W-R-A-P-P-E-R. Hides your mouth, hides your mouth, covers your mouth. Chow down, the chow down is of course, the same as to scarf down or to wolf down. Eating habits, eating habits can have many different meanings but in this case, I m referring to eat in a very polite or disgusting style. And finally, fellow patrons, other customer at the store or at the restaurant, the same time you re. So when you re in the restaurant and you see other customers, when you re at the store, and you see other customers, those are fellow patrons. Okay? So those are the key words and I m gonna
read the story 2 more times, the first time, slowly and the second time, normal speed. And I want to remind you I teach normal speed pronunciation and listening skills that means linking and cancellation in my Daily Dictation Member class. And I am happy to give you a free sample lesson, send me an e-mail to dailydictationmembers@gmail.com and say, Hey Shane, give me a free lesson and then I ll send you a free lesson, okay? Okay, here we go, listen carefully, 2 times, the first time, slow and the second time, normal. (reads the text again) It s Question and Answer time. Our message from Sergej Q and he leaves this message, I can watch the Discovery Channel and understand everything. I m very happy. He wants me to tell everybody that s including on my videos and on the Discovery Channel and other channels on YouTube, you can use the caption s button. That s right, they do have a caption s button which gives to you English words. They put their words on the screen and that ll help you understand, so that s very true, Sergej. I do agree. However, Sergej, I do warn you - many times those captions make mistakes and sometimes they make a huge mistake, sometimes I listen to my videos and I read the captions that YouTube provides and I laugh and laugh and laugh because there are terrible. Haha so Google and YouTube are doing a great job in these caption technology and yeah, give it try, sometimes you can use it but just remember, Sergej and to everyone else, don t trust those captions of 100%. We have another request from Bo Yu Chen, this Jerry and he says, Could you tell us how to spell those sounds that use in English, you know those sounds like, huh, hmm, oh, haha. That s a great question, Jerry. Now those sounds are called interjections and actually, Jerry, there are many different ways to spell interjections. It depends on the country and even the region within the country. Now here is another reason to visit our Goole Plus Community Let s Master English, Margherita Grdlek, one of our DDM students, just like Jerry, she posted a link and this basically a dictionary of interjections. oh, huh, hum, aha, oops. And it has all these spellings and meanings. So this very very useful website and you can find the link on our Let s Master English Community. She posted it on November 5 th, November 5 th and once again, it s a dictionary of interjections. And I read the link to you, so if you a pencil, get ready www.vidarholen.net/contents/interjections Margherita, as always, thank you very much for that great link and please go there, check tout dictionary and check out this spellings and it should help you a lot. That s a great question. We also have a question from B from Japan. Actually has 3 questions: on top of one another, so those 5 words, on top of one another. This expression actually difficult to hear and it s almost impossible to say. Would you teach me pronunciation of these words. Absolutely, B the pronunciation of on top of one another is on top of one another. So let me explain: on, in America, we don t say on, we say on, on, on On top, T-O-P, we don t say top, we say top, the next word is ov and after ov is one, O-N- E, now there is a rule, and we learn this in DDM and the rule is after the word ov, if there is a consonant, then the v is cancelled, so ov-one, is there a consonant? No, Shane, there is O-N-E, o is vowel. Yes, o is a vowel but the pronunciation is not on, it s wan which is a w, it s a consonant which means we can cancel the v, so on top of one another lots of connecting, lots of linking, on top of one another Yeah, so there we go. The next question I want to know the difference between frame and flame. So obviously the meaning is different. F-R-A-M-E, F-L-A-M-E, it s the different pronunciation, frame, flame; frame, flame. So let s get rid of the f rame, rame; lame, lame. Now you ll go on mycoachshanesesl YouTube channel, that s www.youtube.com/coachshanesesl, go to the search box and type r or l, then you ll see I have many videos teaching the r pronunciation and the l pronunciation. Those videos are very important, so I want you to practise a little bit, and if you can, leave me an MP3 of audio recording, you can do that on YouTube and just leave a response and I should be able to see it and listen to your pronunciation that goes for everybody too.
And number 3, I want to know the pronunciation difference between C-O-D-E and C-O-R-D. So once again, it s the r sound and I know in Japan and in Korea and in many other countries, the r is very difficult. Remember when you make the r pronunciation, the r sound, the tongue touches nothing, and the tip of the tongue points to the upper part of your jaw. Do you know the alveolar ridge? A-L-V-E-O-L-A-R, alveolar ridge, the tongue points to that. It s the ridge or the bump right behind your upper teeth, you have to point, you have to use some muscles in your tongue and actually in your check, er, er frame, cord. That r sound in almost every word is going to be pronounced nearly the same. Native English speakers have the easy time with the r sound, but I know it s very difficult, you need to practise to master the r. The l sound is easy, if you put your tongue slightly, lightly between your teeth and go l, l, I love you, I love you. I love, the letter l if you put your tongue between your teeth every time you say the l, not too heavy, very light. You have to the perfect l sound, so then you need to compare the l and the r, and there are very different, very very different. So Y and many others people practise those l and r sounds. And thank you guys for your questions. It s the time to move on. How are you doing everybody? This is Country Shane and I'm here to bring you the facts. Most of plants are solar systems., but Venus and Uranus in the different directions. This is been Country Shane bringing you the facts. Wow, Country Shane is reading science these days. Well Country Shane said Uranus, and some people say Uranus, that s one of our planet. I know that you know the 7 turn of planet after set turn. And then of course Neptune, Pluto, I still think Pluto is a planet. Oh, thank you Country Shane for that fact and for that great expression foot for thought that we learn on e-cubed. I hope everybody is watching my e-cubed channel on YouTube is www.youtube.com/dailyeasyenglish And there we study the great expression every day. So thank you once again everybody for joining my podcast, for downloading my podcast. And please tell your friends subscribe on itunes and give me a good rating. And hopefully I can read your comment or talk about your country in the future. Don t forget we have a webpagewww.letsmasterenglish.com You can also get the transcripts to our past podcasts there and hopefully at this point, we re still working on the website. This all to tell everybody who is listening this, this what? November 6 th, 2013. Our website is still being constructed. Hopefully, when you re listening this podcast, you can go there and get more information about DDM Daily Dictation Member that s my membership class. It s a great class, if you wanna improve your English listening and pronunciation skills, if you want to learn many interesting things about American culture and the American way of thinking, it is the best class on the internet,i guarantee that I ll give you a free lesson, send me an e-mail, www, oops, that s not an e-mail address. Sorry, my e-mail address is dailydictationmembers@gmail.com. I gotta get going. Thank you for listening everybody. Take care everyone and Let's Master English!!!