well hello there everyone i thought
thought i would do something a little
little different today again pardon
pardon - introductions in this video
video but in this series I'll be popping
popping in this all be appearing quickly
quickly from time to time to explain
explain a thing or two now
now this phrase a thing or two is
is actually really great expression
expression i highly recommend you
you remember it so
so to learn a thing or two just learns
learns means to learn a few things
things
things a
a finger - I've actually got my daughter
daughter Arya here and she is a all
all right how old are you know did
did you hear that she spoke she's
she's a about five months actually
actually a little bit over five months
months and you know I just figured
figured i would talk a little bit
bit this phrase I just figured means
means that you just thought about
about doing something now listen again
again
again I
I just figured i would talk a little
little bit I just figured i would
would talk a little bit now I
I just figured means again you're
you're thinking of something right
right now so i was maybe sitting at
at home and I just figured i would
would go out and have a picnic or
or I just figured i would go see a
a friend of mine so at that moment
moment I was thinking I should do
do something I
I just figured I just figured i would
would talk a little bit wow she's
she's actually yeah i got like kind
kind of a smile out of her now
now this just means that she doesn't
doesn't usually smile or that it's
it's difficult to get her to smile
smile and you can use this with anything
anything so maybe you got a smile
smile out of someone who usually like
like your boss at work he's like really
really angry all the time and you
you just got a smile out of him so
so i was able to get a smile out of
of him to get a smile out of him it's
it's so it's a little bit tricky sometimes
sometimes I can get her to look at
at me but sometimes i'll try to get
get in her field of view what's
what's going on we look at you looking
looking at now
now you have to listen to this carefully
carefully we've got what are you looking
looking at and what's going on what's
what's going on listen
listen we look at you looking at you
you look at you look at you look at
at you looking at what's
what's going on what's going on what's
what's going on these are just really
really great examples of blending
blending for conversational speech
speech
speech so
so I'm speaking to my daughter when
when I'm teaching her i'll take something
something that you know if I'm reading
reading a book and I say red dog blue
blue dog and I'm being very specific
specific about what I'm teaching her
her but i also have the times where
where I'm just speaking conversation
conversation later and
and i'm blending the sounds of my
my words together so she can hear
hear how everything works so
so I'm saying something like what's
what's going on well I'm you know
know looking at something like what
what are you looking at you
you look like you're looking at you
you look at you look at you look like
like you're looking at what are you
you looking at what are you looking
looking at what's
what's going on what's going on what's
going on and
and she's done this ever since she
she was like a little baby like show
show kind of stare up at the wall
wall like this I
I guess one of the things when you
you are starting to become a parent
parent for the first time you're still
still looking at that what
what do you we was going on she's
she's actually so quiet though this
this is pretty cool so I thought it
it would be interesting just to bring
bring her on and you know kind of
of talk about what it's like being
being a new father and now that she's
she's starting to move around and
and do more interesting or different
different things she's starting to
to develop some different habits and
and now speaking of habits and this
this is a great phrase you can use
use when you want to transition from
from one topic to another so maybe
maybe I'm talking about water like
like the water at my house of water
water pipes and I say oh speaking
speaking of water my friend and i
i went to a water park last week so
so I'm going to connect something
something
something speaking
speaking of my daughter picking up
up new habits as well it's actually
actually really interesting being
being a father and all the new things
things that you learn about yourself
yourself as a person you know being
being a parent or a father in particular
particular but also you get to try
try a lot of new things and experienced
experienced a lot of new things and
and it's even you know kind of more
more weird or more interesting when
when you're living in a different
different country so
so I thought since sometimes I bring
bring some interesting things on to
to the program or on videos i would
would just bring one of them now so
so here it is look at this thing now
now see if you can guess what this
this is for what do you think this
this is always give you a second and
and this is the box from the product
product you can see it's got a lovely
lovely mother with a baby in here
here and it's called the Mahayana
Mahayana mizu told day which just
just means the mother taking this
this knot out of the baby's nose thing
thing
thing so
so what you do is you put this and
and here in the baby's nose and he
he put this and here in your mouth
mouth and you like suck it out I
I
I isn't
isn't that amazing I mean that's that's
that's crazy really I've never seen
seen anything like this in America
America now I know what you're thinking
thinking what would happen if i use
use this on my own and
and since this wouldn't be a great
great YouTube video without me doing
doing something a little bit weird
weird i thought i would decide to
to actually just give this thing a
a try
a try so
so let's see what happens but
but i'm actually not going to do that
that in this video so i do apologize
apologize if you were hoping to see
see that you know actually I was a
a little bit nervous thinking about
about putting you know this in my
my nose and this in my mouth because
because i thought if i tried to use
use this on myself I might you know
know blow up the world or they would
would be out like a hole in time or
or space or something like that i
i was thinking about like a Back to
to the Future scene where doc you
you know he has the crazy hair and
and he's like Marty we can do not
not do this we're going to change
change time at the time continuum
continuum has been disrupted creating
creating this new temporal event sequence
sequence resulting in this alternate
alternate reality anglish stock and
and speaking of back to the future
future this is actually a really great
great opportunity for you to learn
learn something from the movie itself
itself
itself so
so you can see this is a very typical
typical thing that happens in movies
movies you've got one character that's
that's like the smart guy he
he speaks and really complicated language
language and then you've got another
another guy who's the more simple
simple one that's just saying hey
hey like can you give it to me in
in English is like in English doc
doc English stock English doc English
English stock in English doc like
like give it to me in English so you
you see this in movies and TV shows
shows and you'll see something like
like you know one native speaker like
like a boss or a person that works
works and you know a technical situation
situation like a laboratory and he
he says oh like you know we've got
got this technical thing and using
using a lot of technical language
language and then another person or
or you could say Oh could you explain
explain that in English or in English
English please in
in English please English doc but
but I don't want to invade this video
video too much so we'll kick it back
back
back we
we will return it will kick it back
back to life as you kick it back out
out kick it back to myself oh no maybe
maybe i'm going to like rip another
another hole in time talking to myself
myself about myself or whatever but
but anyway we'll let them say goodbye
goodbye
goodbye you
you want to say goodbye to people
people out there don't know you're
you're going to turn around again
again
again you
you want to say you want to see you
you
you you
you want to say good bye say bye to
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