hello Michelle how's it going today how are you hey Lindsay I'm good I'm good I'm happy
to be here on video with you it's been a little while I know guys today's episode is on video on
YouTube and I'm so excited because Michelle you and I we have not actually recorded on video in
quite a few months right that's right that's right so I am here I am happy to be recording
with you again too well what are we getting into it looks like we're getting into a little
bit of a sad subject today on all there's English Michelle what are we getting into
yeah well um it's it's sad but it's a and it's a it's a good way to learn to practice something in
English so yeah uh we have a listener a question today um about uh when you say to make it right so
we've talked about this before so we'll get into that a little bit but um so we can still have fun
with this episode guys turn it off of course um yeah do you want to read the question for us yeah
I'm going to go ahead and read the questions today we're touching on the topic of you know of death
right but we know that death is part of life and so our listener had a question of this about this
and I'm gonna go ahead and read it Michelle here we go this is from David from Beijing
I simply love your podcast is both informative and interesting because all of your words and
phrases are so native and natural in context your vocabulary is a great bonus to my everyday
conversation skills thank you David that's fantastic guys yeah Michelle what should we ask
our listeners to do if they have not left a review yet for the podcast by the way well you're going
to leave us a review guys and that's a great place to ask a question right yeah um so so listener
questions we love getting listener questions and so yes leave it leave a review leave a question
I love it all right so here's David's question he says I have a question I hear the phrase to make
it a lot and I know one meaning is to reach one's goal but I saw this sentence in my English paper
my father was 44 he knew he couldn't make it to 45. in this sentence to make it means to live can
you explain the usage of this phrase fully thanks a million what a good native expression thanks a
million Michelle it's a good one yes that's true that is a good one we should do something about
like more creative ways to say thank you if we haven't done it already well I don't think we've
taught that phrase yet things no no I love it it would for sure all right well thank you so much
so okay so we have done other episodes with make it it's true there are many many ways to use make
it and many different meanings so for example uh we did uh episode 1762 was how to avoid sounding
boring when you RSVP to an event so make it is used in there so listening to that one and then
we also did uh well this isn't necessarily about make it but uh there was uh episode 1806 right
Lindsay and you were talking with a producer my friend Alan seals who is a Broadway producer and
the owner of Broadway podcast Network so he was talking about how to make it in New York City and
how to make it on Broadway so guys go check out those other episodes to see different ways to use
make it but today we're getting into something deeper right Michelle more profile yes yes more
profound so this is a very important uh meaning uh so guys we have to learn the the happy things and
also a little bit of the sad things too um because you know in those situations that's also you know
connection and you know yeah connection is so important right so we have to learn we have to
learn everything that's my point Michelle yes exactly yeah so where do we start okay so the
sentence from our listener was my father was 44. he knew he couldn't make it to 45. okay so yes so
our listener said that this means live to in this context so right it means basically to live to or
to survive right so I mean this is different than other ways of using to make something and like I
said there are tons of them and we can do even more other days right like we've talked about
you know to make it on Broadway right to make it to talk about like if you can go somewhere
um so I uh let's give a few more examples here Lindsay all right guys so talking about your dog
getting older oh my gosh this makes me die just thinking about this by the way I don't know all
right so my dog is turning 15 years old this year I'm hoping the old guy Al will make it
another few years that's a bonus there gal old gal that's like something that you can only say really
about animals yeah right right you wouldn't want to say that about a person oh the old gal like
this one's not like a dog or like a horse or you know no no no no don't do that exactly exactly
um so this one is uh my great-grandmother is in the hospital honestly I'm not sure she's gonna
make it right right okay and so that's common like if someone is you know try people are trying to
help someone they're giving them medication trying to stabilize their vitals this is a situation
where you would use that right right uh Michelle yes right right right exactly exactly so guys this
is a little bit gloomy but guess what you can also put it in a positive way so Linda you want
to read a more positive sure one yes my cousin dealt with a lot of health problems but because
of his positive attitude he made it to 90. nice nice um Michelle in your in your world and your
family I mean I could say my family people live a long time like my grandmother lived to 99 or
like 101 or something like do you do you think that like you'll live a long time Michelle like
do you think like do people in your family tend to to like go past a hundred typically or like
what are those patterns or the trends that you see well you had you had cut out for a second so
you said people may get to 101 in your family is that what well my grandmother lived to like 91 99
sorry oh wow and it's kind of crazy when someone gets close to a hundred I kind of don't know if I
want to live that long long you know yeah well I had a great aunt who lived to like 103. okay
so it's in your family yeah but then there are other people who were did not make it uh quite
so long so I don't I have to knock on lots of wood yep okay what's the example sentence all right uh
so she had a terrible accident but she's gonna make it she's coming home from the hospital soon
yes I love that or let's say I don't even see that example in in the notes let's see where you don't
say Oh no you're done we're done we got it yeah so why is this kind of a strange topic Michelle
um because we're this is like a happy podcast and you know and it also makes me feel like it
was very hard for me to actually make some of the example sentences because I like wanted to remove
myself you know like I wanted to like I wanted to put it on uh like a dog like or I'd like it's like
or great great grandmother you know stuff like that because I'm not like I'm like a little bit
superstitious I guess talking about that yeah yeah yeah for sure yeah I mean this is you know
as I was just telling you I just said someone very close to me passed away just two days ago
and so this stomach is very pertinent very top of mind but yeah this this is part of life right and
I've been doing a lot of crying a lot of just dealing with sorry going through it but many of
our listeners have experienced something similar you know sometimes we lose someone close to us and
if we can connect with other people that are still around talk about how we're feeling and to talk
about that person that's gone right we can we can get through it we can connect we can be okay right
right right absolutely okay so what should we do Michelle should we go into a couple of other
ideas around this topic what do you think sure so um well you know we already kind of talked about
these two but we're we're gonna talk about them and give more examples so again you could say
survive or live to right so right I feel like the word survive I feel like it's more formal sounding
um yes and I also feel like it's used more some for more for something specific than like I then
live to right so like I feel like he will survive this so that might not be for life and death that
could also like sometimes I think people use survive just like to talk about like overcoming
something not necessarily like not just just the idea of not dying like the song I Will
Survive right oh yeah that's a great one that's a fantastic one or you know like a parent saying to
their kid oh you'll survive just you know take this bagged lunch stop complaining that you're
the only one that takes back lunch that was me I don't know that was you but that was amazing yeah
um you'll survive right you'll survive yeah this is in a lighter sense guys in this case we're not
talking about someone losing their life we're talking about kind of making fun of someone a
little bit yeah they'll survive yeah right exactly whereas live two I think is more just general like
about life and death and if like for example if you could say if you want to live to 100 exercise
yeah I mean now there's I'm always reading the research on that right longevity what is the
key to longevity and I feel like they're finding more and more that socializing is maybe even more
important than extra it's all important but what is the most important having strong social ties I
feel like I'm seeing that thread coming up in the research now Michelle which is really interesting
uh don't they say also like if you have a pet isn't that oh yeah yeah that's got to be good it
has to be if I go over and pet my dog immediately I relax it's like oh it's the best it's the best
yeah yeah yeah it's true all right do we have a role play for our listeners yes um all right
so here we go so uh we have a friend whose dog survived an illness oh okay oh she's gonna make it
I know what a relief I'm hoping she lives to 20. same here she's so cute oh man I'm so hungry well
lunch isn't for another two hours do you need a snack nah it's okay I'll survive so in that
case I'm we'll just go through that last one I said right there first I'll survive I'm kind of
kind of making fun of myself a little bit right yeah right yes exactly it's like yeah you're not
talking I don't know it's just it's it's basically like ah don't worry about me I'm fine I'll be okay
I'll survive and then what else what did you say well at first you said uh she's gonna make
it right so that means the dog was going to live yes and then you said I know what a relief I'm
hoping she lives too right that's your phrase guys lives 220. okay good good yeah right and like with
lives too like that's when you can use the age after right or if you said like make it to 20
that would also be okay now I wouldn't I better our listeners are wondering could we say she
lives until age 20 or age a hundred or whatever I think we could right Michelle yeah but I think we
would say a lives till right like how we I think recently we talked about like saying till until I
feel like I wouldn't say like oh hopefully she'll live until I don't know I feel like I would just
say till I don't know yeah we shorten things we don't like to say full words who has time
for that right all right what's the takeaway for our listeners today all right so guys this was a
great question from our listener um even though oh it kind of took things in a gloomy Direction
um but it's important right that is you know all topics even sad ones are times to connect
we want to teach you all the vocabulary we're not going to just shy away from topics that
are hard to talk about because they're yes that's part of life yeah and I would say
that for listeners too guys if you have a good question that is a little bit deeper maybe it's
you know maybe it's not the most optimistic topic but we can approach that topic if it's
about human connection that's what we talk about on this show right human connection and language
and culture so good send it to us send your question to Lindsay at all earsenglish.com all
right all right Lindsay and well for talking about this with me today and yeah guys thanks
thanks for everything of course talk to you very soon Michelle have a good one [Music]