In this English lesson,
I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,
Rome wasn't built in a day.
I think you're familiar with the city of Rome.
It took a long time to build the city of Rome,
and we use this phrase whenever we talk about something
that isn't going as fast as people might want it to.
Sometimes people want things done quickly,
and you'll say, you know, Rome wasn't built in a day.
Let's think of something that takes a long time.
You can see the peonies behind me.
When we plant these, they're very small,
and we don't actually harvest flowers off of them
for about four to seven years,
so it's something where you really need to wait
until you have something that you can sell,
and this would be a good phrase to say, to describe it,
you could say, you know, when you grow peonies,
it takes a while before you have some to sell.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase,
time will tell.
Sometimes you have to wait a certain amount of time
to see if something you did works out.
What would be a good example of this?
Maybe you buy a car and you put in some new parts
because you want the car to run better,
but when you start it up,
you're not sure everything's working right,
but time will tell if everything is working right.
It basically means if you wait a certain amount of time,
you will eventually see if something is working well.
So to review, when you are talking about anything
that takes a long period of time,
and if someone is being impatient, you could say,
Hey, just be patient, Rome wasn't built in a day,
like please remember that sometimes it takes a long time
to get things done,
and then the second phrase, time will tell,
simply means sometimes you need to wait a while
to see if something is working.
If you're watching my videos to learn English,
and you're wondering if they're helping you,
well, time will tell.
Watch them for a few months or a few weeks,
and time will tell if they are a benefit to you.
Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
This comment is from Dmitry.
Once again, my comment is all crumpled up in my pocket.
Sorry about that.
Dmitry says, "Hi, Mr. Bob.
"The filter that you used
"this time making the video looks kind of weird.
"The picture seems unnatural
"and a little gloomy in my humble opinion,
"but maybe I'm the only one who thinks so.
"Anyways, thanks for the lesson."
And my response was this.
"I have to admit I'm not an expert
"when it comes to making videos,
"but I'm learning slowly, but surely.
"I think this video looks a lot better."
I hope this video looks a lot better.
No, the other day when I was out here, Dmitry,
it was very sunny, and if you know anything about cameras,
I had my camera set to let a lot of light in,
and so, the video had too much light,
and then I tried to correct it when I was editing it.
While I was editing the video,
I tried to change settings so that it looked more natural
and I just kept making it look worse,
and that was kind of, I was kind of running late,
so eventually, I just published it.
So again, yeah, the colors weren't great.
I think this video, hopefully, the colors are a lot better.
It is still quite sunny out,
but I set the camera to automatically adjust
certain settings based on the light.
Hey, I wanted to show you the peonies.
You'll see, there's no more flowers.
We are all done harvesting peonies.
They only actually have flowers for a few weeks in June
and then it's all over.
So yeah, it's a lot of fun.
It's a lot of work,
but we harvest like crazy from all of our peony patches
for about, yeah, it usually starts the end of May
into the second or third week of June and then they're done,
and then they're just these green bushes
for the rest of the year and that's all we get.
Anyways, thanks again for watching.
Sorry this video is late.
I had a weird week.
I was kind of out of sorts.
I wasn't, yeah, I wasn't kicking out videos
at my normal rate, but that'll get better next week, bye.