[Music]
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what are you eating there joe oh no it's
a spicy
paste on a donut
well i'm seeing this girl who likes
spicy food but i can't handle it
so i'm trying to build up my tolerance
to have food before i date in
ah 30 minutes
how exactly is that helping well i don't
like spicy food
but i do like donuts one thing cancels
out the other
good one joe could you be any more of a
genius
good channeler i have to go out and why
is joey putting my korean hot sauce on a
donut
oh he's just building up his tolerance
to spicy foods
whatever is ross here oh yes he's
sitting next to me
he's coming by to pick up my tennis
racket but i have to go to work can you
give it to him when he gets here
why is he taking yours i gave him mine
last week really
that's weird he told me he just broke
his yesterday
hot joey
come on hey man hey chandler
have you uh see monica no why
you want to borrow something
no all right ooh donuts
is that extra jam yep can i uh
oh definitely oh
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and your speaking skills wait how can i
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if i'm not actually speaking well first
of all
by actively listening you're passively
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listen to how
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the style and then copy the parts that
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that's just the first way of how you can
improve for example
remember how chandler asked that
question on a donut
he didn't use a question word like who
what why
when but it was a question and did you
hear the intonation
on a donut it goes up at the end
listen to it copy it practice it use it
in your next conversation
oh you're brazilian again actively
practicing your listening skills
passively improves your speaking skills
okay but how can you improve your
english if you don't have a teacher an
english-speaking friend
you're just you watching netflix
well we're gonna learn in the same way
that babies learn english
the natural way okay joey is talking
about spicy food
but he doesn't want to keep repeating
the same word
spicy i'm seeing this girl who likes
spicy food
but i can't handle it so i'm trying to
build up my tolerance to have food
first he said spicy food then he said
hot food
so already we know those are synonyms
we can catch synonyms for words and
build our vocabulary that way
and and we're learning which
word which expression is best used
depending on the context for example
when joey says
hut we can see and understand that it's
more common to say hot when we talk
about
the feeling of the food or in this case
the reaction to it and spicy
that's more common just to talk about
the type
of food it is it's sweet food savory
food salty food
spicy food blah blah blah so this is
something to focus on
next time you're watching movies and tv
focus on the synonyms but also focus
on which words we're more likely to use
in which situations okay but how do i
watch a show or a movie if i
only understand like 50 to 70 percent
movies and tv there for you to enjoy
not to study with and pay attention to
every single word i don't pay attention
to a hundred percent of what i'm
watching
you probably don't pay attention to
every word
in what you watch in your language but
yes
if you're curious about a new word or a
new expression that you've just heard
for example so i'm trying to build up my
tolerance to have food
some people might watch that clip and be
like tolerance tolerance
i know that word it's similar in my
language
but what does this expression mean build
my tolerance
huh again we look at the context
he's eating spicy food and we know that
spicy food is painful
we know that joey is rubbish with hot
food but he wants to
at least get used to it so so
from that context we can infer
that to build your tolerance to
something
probably means i don't know suffer less
from it or increase my ability to
endure something painful or difficult or
hard something like that okay now what
well if you have an english teacher
or an english-speaking friend they can
confirm the meaning
but we also have to remember it and add
it to our vocabulary
so what do we do now make your own
example
using that expression make it something
relevant to your life
that probably you're going to use in the
future
for example for me uh i want to build my
tolerance
to beer no seriously one beer and i'm
sleeping
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one thing that i really like which is
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for example remember when joey said this
well i don't like spicy food but i do
like donuts
this might seem weird at first i do like
donuts
shouldn't it just be i like donuts
well this is something we do in english
when we really want to emphasize a point
for example i really do love you so much
we add the extra do before the verb and
it adds emphasis
or to contradict a negative point for
example
joey was comparing something he doesn't
like
with something he does like i don't like
this
but i do like this
or if someone said you don't love me
you can contradict that statement and
reply like this
no no no you're wrong i do love you now
of course
this might not be as easy or obvious
in every case with every new piece of
grammar that you hear
and sometimes yeah you're gonna need a
teacher or an english-speaking friend
to clarify or to confirm the meaning
what you think it means but often
we can learn new grammar just from the
context
all right fine but now what then
you gotta practice it again make an
example make it relevant to your life
and try to use it in a future
conversation
i bet you didn't do your homework
actually mate
i did do my homework yeah side note
you can use that do for emphasis
in the past tense too so let me know
down below
which tv shows do you like to study with
also try these methods to boost your
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and i'll see you in the next class
um
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