hello and welcome back to real English with real teachers I'm on a lovely walk
with my girlfriend marina hi marina and she kindly said I could
interview her so that would be fun I'm gonna interview
about her life because she has a bloody interesting life especially now she's got
me as a boyfriend and we're gonna see what interesting vocabulary what real
English comes out of the conversation let's get going you're watching real
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are you from I'm from Luton which is a town in Bedfordshire right it's um it's
not got a great reputation but I wouldn't say I'm the stereotypical Lutonian you
know I really yeah say lutonium that's a person from Luton I think I made that up
you made that I think yeah oh you're very inventive with your English thank
you great and what is a stereotypical Lutoniun like then so I can judge
whether your typical Lutoniun um I think I speak a bit posh I could get in
trouble for this video I don't think Lutonians have the
internet anyway know what something typical that a lutoniun would say mmm like my
uncle's banged up they probably dropped their T's like Londoners like they won't
say kettle they say put the kettle on put the kettle on
right okay put the count speaking of kettles how do you like your your tea in
the morning I love tea and if I get a bad cup of tea it puts me in the worst
mood ever so it needs to be it needs to be quite strong okay so you leave the
teabag in for a while yeah leave it to you I gained a little bit of milk no
sugar right and it needs to be hot like hot if it's not hot hot like hot I'm
livid if it's not hot you're livid I'm livid okay
leave me that's a good word okay yep right marina yeah do you mind if I tell
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yeah I'm livid if it's not hot you live it I'm livid okay livvie that's a good
word okay yeah what else makes you livid hmm what
else makes me livid yeah do I make you livid we've been
going out for Halloween together longer than four months longer than four months
have I ever made you livid mmm yeah yeah yeah okay so I flew I flew halfway
across the world to meet this guy hello thank you
so I flew halfway across the world to meet this guy in Asia this guy this guy
and great guy and art we were staying over an hour and a half from from the
airport and he suggests that I make my way to our accommodation once I land
right and he's already been left two days and I said are you taking me yeah
give me you want me to travel and then you're not even gonna meet me at the
airport in this foreign in this foreign country no yeah
nice to me was it no but he's learning yeah he's my friend
yeah I've been single for so long it kind of forgetting how to be a boyfriend
so it's it's really good practice all this my next girlfriend I'll be really
good oh yeah okay so you would live it then then he forgave me yeah he makes a
really good cup of tea yeah what do you what do you do what's your job depends
what what day of the week it is really now the Sunday Sunday what you do
you give Mass in the church well right now we're not allowed to do anything
unless my front liners okay so I'm I'm self-employed I'm a singer actress
singer actress I'm a singer slash actress okay as a okay okay um so I've
done a variety of different jobs in the field of performing arts and
entertainment and but it does mean that I have a lot of time out of work so when
I'm out of work and whatever you want me to be really
I've been a waitress I've been a gym instructor but a bartender children's
entertainer a teacher promotional work so the list has just never ended I just
I get bored Wow and of all of these like other jobs you've had yeah what has been
the weird or like your least favorite would you say oh definitely sales
definitely says I feel like a fraud I feel like I'm I'm leading people into
something that they really don't want to do but I'm trying to convince him that
they do want to do it right okay what was the worst thing here to sell um it
was a beauty package what was a good photography shoots and you get all your
hair and makeup done and then you take a loved one with you and you get to do
this amazing photo shoots and at the end you get one free photo you had to
convince people that this was this was worth sixty quid each we got one photo
out of it that's it you get your hair and makeup
done so you get pampered for a day basically kind of we'd try and sell it
as being pampered but if I'm honest just get abused yeah it wasn't really
being pampered you're just sitting down and getting like you your face made up a
little bit okay yeah it sounds terrible yeah and I always felt like a criminal
because I'd be it was in like cold months and you'd be outside it should be
on the streets of London in your coat all wrapped up no badges or anything
like official you just walk up to people excuse me excuse me and so ticked off
and then the photo packages cost like four hundred quid or something four
hundred quid no what I see you could get a whole package yeah like if you wanted
all the photos afterwards you could get did you ever get anyone that actually
bothered buying all of that yeah yeah yeah people bought as presents were
there certain people you'd see coming on the street and you you knew they were a
good person to sell it to yeah who was your bread and butter for that man I
tried to aim for him an Indian businessman I'm allowed to say that
because I'm half Indian I she's alive he's not racist because she's Indian
well in there a lot of Indian families and they like they like to you know do
nice things for people other people in the family spend money get get big gift
so you know and if they look like they worked and a good job and they all dress
up in a suit they probably have money so I thought you know they're little good
shout and we could relate a couple light snow up I'm half Indian yeah I've done
this and it's great cuz I hadn't actually ever done it
myself and I'm half Indian and you're Indian so you're probably gonna love it
so give me sixty yeah how many times did you sell this to your dad so your dad's
Indian yes your mommy's is English yes he fully English she is fully English
she she's blonde with blue eyes oh wow by me I do say you go for your mother so
your dad was born here yes what's the story with your dad's side of the family
do you know how they ended up here i I'm pretty sure that my dad's dad came
to England to work when he was 18 and his wife my granny I think she was only
13 or something yes very yeah and then but they definitely created a birth
certificate for her to get her into the country they created a birth certificate
for her yeah they created her birth certificate so to this day no one knows
my granny's age and we celebrated her 80th birthday about five years in a row
surely she knows her age I don't think she does know what how can you not know
your age I don't think she knows that's ridiculous I don't even know her first
name she's just granny don't know your granny's name just granny what's it like
having a kind of Indian side the family and then an English side of the family
and when I was growing up I hated it because I didn't think being Indian was
very cool when I was in school right you know why why was that well I was a
proper like Indian kid like I had a monobrow
come on over okay yeah and sorry positive things I got to go to a lot of
banging weddings banging weddings okay dying any good
wedding banging yeah really very good the music was always epic epic music
tons of foods that never-ending food and then all the kids or the Indian kids
we'd leave the parents and we'd go play like loads of cool games like hide and
seek it's a really cool game Indian game never heard of that and then the English
side of the family how did it are there not is very different yeah they're
absolute not matters okay complete nutters proper Londoners right very very
sociable very friendly very loud very very loud and so I'd go into London to
see them quite a lot we'd go to where the spoons good old
spoon so they quite working-class yeah very much working-class yeah okay I love
how you do it yeah they'd also say put the kettle on put the cat on put the cat
stick the kettle on
they did say the word Blanca Blanca that's a good one Blanca what are you
doing you're plum cat yeah mum would use that especially when she was driving
right okay what'd she say it's mother out the window yeah ask gray okay
so another important thing about you is you're the Euro vegan right yes you're a
vegan yeah I think that's quite relevant nowadays you know lots of people turning
vegan and how long have you been a vegan I've been a vegan for five years right -
a few months where was it what happen there
well I was like a gym instructor so I seen a lot of exercise and I just felt
like my body needed more at the time and I thought meat was a solution so I went
back to chicken turkey but haste it is disgusting then I went to America and
the meat was absolutely vile and I was like I can't do this anymore
so I went back but I was vegetarian since I was 13 13 yeah so it was quite a
big deal we in me after yeah a decade how was that when he had like had
chicken and turkey he didn't like it but it was just the taste or did it feel
weird in your body as well yeah like the texture and the taste and they're just
the knowing that I was eating flesh was just sick so morally wrong
well more it not so much morally because I get there's a food chain but more like
so you listened in school oh I do a lot for the environment okay
the environmental impact on the mass production of me is is very big is it so
I want to be a part of changing that okay yeah
can you tell us a bit about that the environmental impact of mass produced
meat yeah well just like the whole process of of like keeping animals and
and raising them reading them for meat and dairy products and then transporting
it across the world it just the carbon footprint is massive so yeah I want to
help reduce that and I think they do like encourage that now like some of the
media it's it's come more to the forefront it's more for trends now which
is nice you know why it's nice because do you know why do I which is your
material I'm going to tell you because about five years ago
you go into a restaurant and they'd say you'd say I'm a vegan they'll be like
well here's a vegan option macaroni cheese and I'd be like no babes I don't
think you know what vegan means I'm not a vegetarian I'm a vegan
so no cheese no butter no dairy yeah and and also you couldn't get cakes like
whilst you're out and about you know there is now do you know whereas now if
you go out there's too much vegan cake oh really
yeah well for choice I know I'm not good choice I would say used to having like
no choice on the menu I'd like create my own dishes I go in and be like hey yeah
can I just have plain rice and then broccoli on the side thank you so much
yeah that's funny so you would tell the chef what to what to make I bet they
never spat in your food so that's vegan life yeah it's great I
love being vegan what's the best thing about being vegan
and I'd say like discovering new foods okay so before I was vegan I didn't know
that much about all these different beans and lentils and things like quinoa
and tempeh tempeh tempeh he's not a vegan he loves tempeh yeah it's really
good it soaks up the flavor well yeah you've pretty much turned vegan haven't
you I have yeah I've we're in lockdown together so I'm kind of just eating the
same things as marina and we're having a lot of meat substitutes and stuff and
I'm quite enjoying it it's all right but I'm noticing that it's making me very
gassy so I'm farting more than usual but you don't seem to mine which is great
doesn't mine we do were ruled that oh as long as it doesn't say under the cover
so you got a he does he has lifts the cover and let it out you know he is
considerate oh very yeah I'm incredibly considerate and if
he's kissing me he'll stop kissing too far he won't kiss and fart at the same
time yes kissing and farting no I'm not very good at multi
I couldn't possibly do them at the same time well I think that's enough for
today but I hope you enjoyed that little interview and discovered lots of new
language do you enjoy it yeah yeah which is coming again right yeah all right
well ciao for now and we'll see you again soon for another video