hello everyone and welcome back to english with Lucy I have got Joel today
we've got exciting so we'll have one on their channel as well do you want to
introduce your channel today we're John oh yeah hi our channel is all things
British yeah it's all about British culture we've got some accent tutorials
things like that hey anything British yes if you're a fan of Britishness so if
you're a fan of all things British then I'm sure you like their channel
but today I was thinking that we spend our whole time correcting your mistakes
when you're learning English so I thought it'd be quite funny to tell you
about times that we have made mistakes in our own language yeah so we each got
a couple to tell you so this was when I was quite young I was about four years
old maybe five I was in recession which is what we call the lowest level of
school yeah yeah yeah like age five age five yes I would be 405 and I had to go
off school I had to go home because I was ill with a disease called
impetigo gaps on your face it's just a skin condition but it's very contagious
it can pass to the other children but when I went back I told all of my
teachers that I had a very bad case of osteoporosis
toward my teachers are you okay Lucy you've been off for a while honesty
osteoporosis age oh no you know that's so sad to hear about Lucy's condition
my mom was like yeah it was a bit annoying but you know how do we deal
with this in the classroom and she was like well it's gone now it's gone I was
always a fan of really long words as a child today you still in this understand
slight misunderstanding it's like a fully different word and
meaning I thought you're gonna say impotence say that you went back to
school and told everyone you were Tiger like Tiger like I was a tiger anything
but night Claire Lucy we've like really long words as a child so probably spent
ages memorizing it right I'm gonna say mine okay so when you're at a train
station sometimes they say like stand back there's a freight train coming free
and I always thought that was a frightful train like fright train you
should be scared of this train great I just like oh no there's a freight train
coming get it what I can I just didn't know
what a freak oh really quickly yeah what is a freight train it's like a train
carrying no but I just thought it's trained to be
scared of like these canapés frightful trains freight train it's really dumb
hey guys will help dumb I'm done yeah better no that is very dumb but and I
don't to say that because mine's also dumb sorry I can't understand this do
you feel like we have this like dumb confession meeting yeah hi my name's
John so I always get this word wrong I still right now don't really know what
it means it's the word dozen like a dozen eggs how many is it six or is it
twelve I can never remember yeah but wider so why do don't people
just say I've got 12 eggs I've got a dozen eggs it doesn't make any sense and
when you say just few it means like very little but you think a few it means if I
go into my second one and then we can go onto yours because my second one is very
similar the word fortnight what does support like me two weeks -
then why don't people just say to ease oh we're going on holiday for a
fortnight because I thought fortnight meant 10 days and I still kind of think
it means 10 days Oh what would you say just these words
doesn't and for tonight I'm like just use the actual numbers use the numbers
so I bet half a dozen throws you yes what's that me exactly three six I have
a way to remember it in Spanish yeah nothing it's 12 so it's like a dolphin
dolphin
my second wine so this one is really embarrassing but I have actually put it
on my Instagram so wonder if you saw it but I was putting in like a dishwasher
let's get your dishwasher fitted and I was texting the plumber and I was like
look I just want to know if it can go in or not
so he said send me a picture of the sink is like water and I opened and I saw and
I was like I didn't understand the word exactly and it was like so no okay so I
actually we were talking about this a moment ago I still can't get left and
right without nothing to do with the words left and right when I was doing my
driving test I had to write L on that led to small
and AH here and to ask the examiner to just stipulate
they're just like me you can ask them you can say look I really
when you say left and right it just doesn't do anything in my brain so can
you just go turn left so I could see her hands and I was like
thank you thank you as well because they were saying you know just whatever makes
an L that's left and I'd be like cool
yeah it happens all the time with Lea when we're going and I'm not okay we'll
just turn right and she'll be like just take the moment I think that people must
think I'm really dumb but on paper I'm really smart other one really quickly is
escalator and elevator I can't tell you if we're in an escalator quick in on and
I can't get that say the first word again
escalator you say that incorrectly how do you say yeah they're very similar I
can imagine that being confusing for a learner
I'm sure there's so many more by just calm yeah bring myself to that's the
thing you shouldn't ever worry if you're making mistakes when this is a second
language like when people who go who miss that first language like even we
get stuff wrong I would say just use your mistakes as funny anecdotes which
is
this morning I know I feel like home so that's it for today's video I hope you
enjoyed it I don't really think you would have learned much but this is more
of a conversation listening practice
just to make you laugh and feel a bit better about yourselves
I know you do
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Leah's channel where we've got another video
yeah yeah I'm about to now and I will see you soon for another lesson
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