hey there Aubrey how's it going today I'm great how are you Lindsay oh my gosh I am excited I'm
back for my trip to Egypt but I want to open the episode with a question for you Aubry where is
the most adventurous place you've ever traveled to what would you say I think Puerto Vallarta Mexico
and the main thing that was adventurous about it is I had a chance to ask a local like where is
somewhere I should go that tourists never go that they don't know about and they told me about this
hike Through the Jungle to sort of a bay like a little Hidden Beach that had amazing snorkeling
nobody was there so it was amazing it felt very adventurous very off the beaten path it was very
adventurous I love it I love it while we love Adventure dollars English how could we ever be
talking about languages and cultures if we haven't had our own Adventures right Aubry exactly it's so
true we wouldn't have much to say would we have much to say so guys I shared with our listeners
Abraham share with our listeners about two months ago that I was taking a trip to Egypt and now I
am back and I am super excited to follow up with our audience and let them know five kind
of takeaways that I had from my trip all about language culture learning business all these good
things oh I love that I cannot wait to hear all of it I know I listen our listeners are going to
be excited because that is an adventure it might be somewhere that a lot of our listeners haven't
been and just you know a lot of you are out there are looking forward to upcoming trips and travel
and you're interested about business English so I feel like there's going to be a lot here
for us it's exciting yeah I'm ready for it so guys first before we get into it and I tell you guys my
story of what happened and what you can learn from this I want to remind you that we have an app for
all ears English Aubry what is so amazing about the app yes you guys you can follow along with
the podcast with the transcripts so it's the best way to listen to the Euler's English podcast and
you can save higher level vocabulary words that we have chosen right we have curated this list
I choose the vocabulary each week and then it's super easy for you to go back re you know refresh
and use it and then you can remove it from your list once you have it mastered so this app just
makes learning simple makes learning everything you can from our podcast a little bit easier yeah
so we maximize the learning right we take what we listen to and now these are the words I'm going to
learn today and they're always going to be inside my own personalized list so so good all right
should we dive into it Aubry what do you think are we ready yes let's do it let's hear your first tip
I can't wait okay all right so well first of all I was so excited that I got a chance to meet with
Ahmed and Ahmed so our two Ahmed one Ahmed too my lovely uh are the students who came and met
with us we had koshari right in downtown Cairo uh koshari is a street food and we met inside the
restaurant it was just so cool to meet in person or listeners Aubry ah so amazing I saw the photo
you shared with the team they look super nice I wish I could have been there so awesome you got
to meet a couple of listeners in person I love it yeah and so my first kind of tip for our listeners
is my takeaway was embrace the chaos when you travel have you ever traveled to Southeast Asia
like Vietnam before I can't wait to go that is on my bucket list but I haven't been yet so when I
went to Vietnam for the first time I thought the traffic was crazy and I thought it was crazy that
you have to cross the street without a crosswalk you just walk in front of traffic Cairo is 10
Times Crazier that's not what we're used to right it's not what we were used to it's um they're you
know lanes are more of a suggestion and the locals told us this they're not you know people don't
necessarily follow traffic Lanes they're just purely a suggestion and it really felt chaotic
at times there were times when we had to cross the street and we just had to walk there's literally
no crosswalks and at times this felt quite stressful but by the end I was just in it and I
realized you know what I'm used to is not the norm and it's not even what's right or wrong right it
is a different way and when we travel this is just what we get this is what we have to be up for when
we go to a new country oh I love that and think about pushing that to a broader perspective too
many of us feel like the way we think the way we do things is right and everything else is
wrong and if we can adjust that to just think everything is different and there is no wrong
that will improve everyone's perspective on so many levels yeah it's so true I mean there's
always a reason why something is the way it is right for the City of Cairo it's just so old I
mean that was the thing I loved about Egypt how old it is and you know there's a reason why people
don't necessarily follow Lanes or they use them as a suggestion and I'm not one to judge right
instead I just have to cross the street and you know try not to die absolutely right that's the
goal well done for meeting that goal yeah I love it and so my second tip so that is my first tip
embrace the chaos wherever you go right and my second tip Aubry is about pronunciation
so what happened here is I learned a little bit of Arabic as our listeners know before I went
to Egypt but I got a little confused this is kind of funny actually so the word 100
um in Arabic is is Maya okay or is Maya and the word for water is Maya and so I got the two
confused and so what I was doing was I was going up to taxi drivers and I was saying Maya water
I'll give you water if you give me a ride and they're like and you know and and whenever I
would say Mateen 200 teletene 300 they would say yeah okay okay of course that's more right but
then when I would say Maya right I was actually saying water thinking I was saying a hundred I
was like why are they getting my other numbers they're not getting a hundred what is happening
they would look at me completely black well and I'm curious too does that so in Cairo you don't
just pick up a cabin jump in or do you kind of say how much you'll pay for the ride before they
let you in it sounds like at least that's what we did we figured that was the right thing to do
um you know and then later we found out that we could there's a uber like app that we could have
been taking that would be more efficient but no but I'm kind of glad we had the experience
of the taxi yo taxi negotiations because it was fun and I got to use my airbag right away about
50 success rate there but I love it I love it um and so yeah so my takeaway for our listeners here
is check with a local if you're not sure about your pronunciation because I did have a hunch
that that was happening right after that happened three four times Maya Maya right I did ask Ahmed
uh yo what's going on here am I am I saying this correctly so don't have too much pride to check in
absolutely I bet they had a little bit of a laugh about that mistake but I'm glad you you were able
to swallow your pride right be humble enough to ask like what's the mistake I'm making help me out
yes oh my gosh did anything like this ever happen to you Aubry in French for example when you first
lived abroad I know I'm sure right absolutely I know I may have shared this before but one time
I I basically said um I hope this home has a lot of death when I meant to say love because it's
like they're very similar vowels and I kind of got some looks I'm like okay you just have to tell me
what did I say what did I say wrong sorry don't do it again oh that's so funny that's so funny this
happens this is part of being humble traveling and knowing it's gonna happen to you right we
really need that experimental mentality I love it so good and my third takeaway for our listeners
here is just take a moment to laugh with other people so the water moment is hilarious after
the fact but there was no laughter with that there was just confusion like me looking at the taxi guy
you know him looking at me with total confusion every time but we had other moments in which
another negotiation happened and we ended up in the taxi thinking that we were on
the same page of where we were going but the driver didn't know where we were going
and so we're kind of driving along and there was one moment in which the driver called his friend
to try to figure out where we were trying to go right we're driving and he's on the phone with
his friend to try to figure out where we actually want to go and you know by the time that happened
after we finally got off the phone with his friend who spoke some English we figured out where he was
going we all just burst out in laughter and it was such a cool moment you know the driver as well not
just us we were laughing at each other together it was a moment of international connection yes
right human connection when you can laugh when you're all in on the joke I feel like
there's nothing better to create that bond that connection it's the best way to do it oh I got a
hundred percent I I loved it I loved that moment and I think having a Keen Eye for moments like
that when you travel that's what it's all about right because travel can be exhausting it can be
hard if you're in a group maybe personalities don't always mesh there has to be moments that
you can find in your own heart and mind to really kind of relish in and really enjoy especially with
locals right absolutely yes okay Aubry I do have a fourth tip are you ready for it yes let's hear
it all right so in my mind a sign of a good trip is coming back with more questions than answers
right so Aubry have you ever kind of studied the Egyptian gods and Pharaohs and and that kind of
thing or anything along a little bit Yeah I had an archeology class where we talked about it some
and then of course I've seen the film The Mummy so other than that I have not done a deep study
yeah and so I came back with a lot of questions you know for example one question that came to
mind about ancient Egypt is it's clear that a lot of these you know these Kings really didn't want
to be uncovered right they did everything they possibly could do and their tombs are so inset so
deeply into the ground and they did everything to not be uncovered but now we're uncovering them and
that's archeology That's History that's science and I had a question I kept on asking our tour
guides is there any part of Egyptian society that doesn't like this that disagrees with what word
the fact that there are Taurus everywhere where in the Valley of the Kings right now the fact
that archaeologists are still digging up new tombs all of the time is there any part of society that
disagrees that was a big question I can't and what did they answer I'm curious did you get an answer
no you said no but I don't know if I believe it oh interesting he just doesn't want the tourists
it reminds me of the catacombs in Paris there are all these tunnels under Paris just full of Bones
and I'm like these are someone's ancestors I don't know if I should be taking photos and just being
right up close and personal with all of these human bones I don't know right is everyone okay
with this is everyone okay with this yeah there's some really big questions and then you know you
run into questions of Tourism being a um important for the economy in Egypt as well right and so just
more questions than answers coming out of it and I think that's kind of my fourth takeaway for our
listeners you know you're never going to get all the answers on a trip so make sure you're just
asking questions and then we hope that we can go home and kind of sit in those questions yeah
yes absolutely oh I'm I really wish we had time to get into all of them I see you've listed
yelling in the street is it personal Egypt as a colony of Great Britain like what's the history
there and how do we feel about it mummification practices there's so much if someone could go to
Cairo and you come home with all these things you want to research and talk to people about
that's the sign of a good trip oh it's such a cool feeling obvious feeling that you've been
out in the world and you've gotten these questions in your head just it's so enriching right to our
souls I feel like our souls need this we need to leave where we're we're we're sorry where we
are from where we are living in that moment and get out into the world absolutely if not we stay
closed-minded right think of all the things that opened your world view your perspective broadened
your horizons on this trip every person every human needs those experiences yes and my final
tip Aubry is a really good one because I think this is an opportunity that I became aware of
as I traveled that every single one of our list listeners could actually take advantage of this
opportunity right away and I love it have you ever done an Airbnb experience so you just mean
stay in an Airbnb right no no no no experience no I don't know so if you go on to the Airbnb
app there are now experiences that you can sign up for when you travel for example a cooking class
um a tour of a neighborhood we did an incredible food tour and our listeners from Egypt are going
to know this name of the neighborhood we went to it's called rod El farage in North Cairo this
is the most local neighborhood you could ever go to no tourist has ever gone to this neighborhood
oh he signed up for an Airbnb experience with a local tour guide someone from Cairo this woman her
name was Maggie she actually had studied tourism in Austria and had come back and had decided she
wanted to create the most local tour she possibly could food tour we like to do Food Tours when we
travel um and so she took us the four of us through this neighborhood through the markets
to all the little like Fast Food Shops dessert shops we tried everything this is something that
any one of our listeners could put together in their own home cities and to be honest you can
make a good amount of money from this yes I will sign up I will come do it I want to meet you I
want to do whatever Airbnb experience you could come up with absolutely what a good idea yeah it
makes me wish I lived somewhere more interesting because I don't know if anyone wants to do an
Airbnb experience in Phoenix Arizona I'm gonna move somewhere awesome so I could do one of those
yeah so you know this is something that as I was coming home on the flight I thought to myself oh
maybe we should put together a course to talk about how our listeners could potentially put
together their own Airbnb experience right what are the English phrases we need how are we going
to for example we did one to the pyramids it was actually an Airbnb experience which wasn't as good
because the English the guy's English honestly was hard to understand and he spoke very fast
and so we're frustrated with that experience all the other tours were incredible all the
other experiences on Airbnb were incredible um and so I think that if this is something our
listeners are interested in guys send me an email at Lindsay allersenglish.com let me know we could
put together a course on this and help you get your business going very quickly oh interesting
did you tell that tour guide of the pyramids about Oliver's English I do this all the time when I was
in Rocky Point I'll meet people and I'll be like find dollars English app I'm on it after I chat
with them for a while you know and they'll be like get our app Listen to the podcast that's
awesome because it's true it's such a great way to learn English I'm I'm a super fan even though
I also work here you're a Superman I love it yeah I mean I think there's a lot we could do there so
actually Aubry I think what we should do is have a poll right in Spotify so we're gonna put up a
poll for today's episode let us know if you're listening in Spotify you can actually answer yes
or no our question is would you like to organize your own tour or experience in your home home city
right so let us know yes or no I love it awesome yes I'm excited to see those poll results that is
a very cool idea and thank you Lindsay for sharing these awesome tips that are useful no matter where
you're thinking about traveling and just for daily life right to expand our world view get
out there and talk to people from other cultures with other who speak English yeah I mean I think
that's a takeaway for today's episode guys every time we travel at least in my mind what you're
gonna remember is that those human moments right that moment of laughter when the taxi
driver got on the phone to figure out where we were actually going or or the water moment which
is just more confusing it's the moments when we engage we learn the language we engage directly
with people so go for it in your next trip guys love it awesome so great so fun Lindsay thanks
for joining me on the podcast today 100 I'll talk to you soon Aubrey have a good one you too bye bye
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