all right hey michelle how's it going good lindsay how are you i'm excited to be here and i'm ready
for the new year how are you feeling about the new year i'm i'm excited i'm ready to get to the
next year also i know yeah um hoping for a good 20 22. how how do you feel about the new year
yeah i'm ready for a new year new start fresh start um yeah what do you usually do on new
year's eve what is your typical new year's eve or is there a typical new year's eve do you get crazy
no i mean i i mean i've you know my new year's eves have changed drastically since
uh it's since i became a parent okay you know even like you know i mean i
i i was abroad for a couple new year's eves um but i've also been traveling and then like
two years ago i was with my husband my son and he was just a year old and so we just like
ordered food to the hotel room when we ate it on the bed on now new year's eve is pretty much
watching like anderson cooper in my bed and and that's pretty much it but uh like it used to be it
used to be more exciting at parties with friends and things like that so but it's changed a lot
but it's still good how about you yeah michelle usually i'm on the low-key end of things too
um yeah i think not going out is totally okay because usually i mean recently i've been maybe
going out for like a casual dinner but not the kind of dinner that requires a five course meal
because that's what a lot of restaurants do right they put together a prefix menu so you
have to pay like a hundred dollars to eat dinner at a restaurant on new year's eve so
you know going out for pizza is kind of nice you know with your partner or something yeah
or i never went to times square on new year's did you ever go no and i never will yeah a good call
that's not i'm not into all of the crowds and everything that makes me nervous like yeah
no matter what i just yeah especially now and like i know there's like i just i can't i'm not like a
person who gets claustrophobic necessarily but i i can't i don't know i just don't like the feeling
i don't want to do times square in new year's i don't know but fair enough and also there are no
bathrooms so i am not gonna say that but i'm glad there are no bathrooms yeah not good not good so
we'll stay away from that entirely but michelle in this series guys and if you haven't gone back
go back and see the other videos the other lessons in this series about holiday movies today we're
talking about new year's movies right michelle that is right oh my gosh we are going to get
into some good ones some of these are some of my very favorites so i am very excited about this one
i mean so lindsay uh should we start with one that we both love yeah let's just go right to
the one that we love we do have a few other recommendations and we'll mention them but
we're going to go to the one that we love and i love this movie it's just so endearing it's the
character it's just like what we talked about in the last video michelle clark griswold yeah
endearing exactly endearing yeah so it's bridget jones diary and i've read the books as well i
don't know if you've read the books how are the books they're very good they're very cute i mean
she's a great character so this is renee zellweger guys um and uh she's not british but she plays
this character who is british um and yeah she's uh there also hugh grant is in it and cullen firth
and you know she's kind of she's she feels even though i don't think she's overweight she feels
that she's overweight she's like con is very very like concerned about her weight and she
um is you know trying to to find a guy and yeah just about all this stuff but one of the things
is that there's a climactic kiss on new year's eve right lindsay right right and the whole kind of
movie is set around the new year because i know that it's the end of the year it's the holiday
parties and i think i think she's turning 35 or 40 or some key milestone age and she feels like she's
kind of over the hill hasn't found a guy and she's but you know i wonder if this movie is as popular
in england as it is here because it takes place in england she has a british accent and i think to us
at least to me that makes it very funny endearing just because she's so british
in the movie yeah what do you think i think yeah i think a lot of um british movies are
very popular in the us and i think that i mean i don't want to like generalize but i think that
that a lot of many people in the u.s find the british accent very endearing and you know that
and also the humor and i don't know i i personally i mean i studied in in england and i i always i
always kind of wish i had a british accent i'll be honest with you yeah i know you told me that
before i told you i prefer the aussie accent right right right um but yeah no it's true it's true
i think i think also the slang is kind of different and the slang that she uses in
this movie is very british uh and she's also just kind of clumsy and kind of weird and just sort of
she's very much herself and so i think that's why we love it yeah so she's kind of a hero but not in
like a typical way yeah exactly an imperfect hero that's what i love about her yeah she like there's
a little bit of bridget jones in all of us i think you got it that's exactly right i think that's why
i think people can identify with like yeah you know something it's some you know the things that
she goes through right for example you know what comes to mind is for an example of what she like
the things that she does that are kind of clumsy she might i don't know if this happened or just
imagining it might happen to bridget jones she goes into the bathroom comes out with like toilet
paper attached to her shoe or something like that and kind of walks through the whole party with
toilet paper attached to her shoe it's just silly and just clumsy and but she's doing life she's
doing her best you know exactly exactly so um yeah we both love that movie and there are a couple
of them or two or three um so yeah that's a good one another one of my favorites it's also british
yes is about a boy um and this is with hugh grant uh also and i love hugh grant and so he
he uh apparently he meets the boy on new year's eve but so okay he meet so basically i don't want
to give away too much because he originally it's about he pretends to be like this boy's father
um in order to get with a girl and it's just it's a hilarious but also touching movie and i haven't
seen it in a while but it's i used to watch it every year and maybe uh i'm going to see my mom
soon and maybe i'll tell her we're going to oh fun you're going to watch movies together that's so
cool i love that i love that yeah it's hugh grant brenda she is right he's very british yeah okay
i knew it i knew it uh so about a boy is another good recommendation couple of others really quick
guys when harry met sally classic classic movie and i guess the kiss happened on new year's uh
and then love actually you know we didn't get to talk about it too much but it's a great one
it's a great one it's a great one it's a great one so guys we want to teach you some vocabulary today
along with these so we'll teach you a few words so lindsay what's the first one all right i like
this one anti-climactic right it's when something that you think is going to be amazing and then it
just kind of fizzles out it's just kind of not it doesn't hit that peak right of being truly awesome
it doesn't live up to your expectations what a bummer right right exactly yeah kind of a bummer
um so that's a good one and then there's also sappy which is like kind of emotional but like
too much it's like like sappy like cheesy almost right yeah yeah yeah would you use
this to describe a person or a movie more than anything what do you think i think a more like
uh like something you would watch or read yeah okay so a piece of media something like that
right i think so yeah i think so too and the next one guys yeah a song a sappy song yeah yeah a sad
sappy song yeah i like it uh misty-eyed is the last one so you know you get all misty-eyed this
could describe a person you look over oh he's all misty-eyed i didn't know he was so sensitive right
so what happens when you're misty-eyed you get kind of water in your eyes
yeah exactly you might just be crying a little bit right just a little bit misty idea yeah and on the
podcast guys go subscribe to the allers english podcast but on the podcast we talked about how
some movies make us cry really hard we talked about into the wild um which i just watched
again on the plane and cried again yeah i know i torture myself i don't know why i do it but that
movie just strikes a chord so yeah i don't know misty-eyed very misty out on an airplane for me
last week so anyway all right michelle let's do a role play for our listeners are you ready
okay i'm ready here we go okay hey lindsay doing anything for new year's eve this year
uh not really i mean i'm not going out or anything i feel like going out on new year's is always
anticlimactic yeah for sure i stopped partying on new year's a long time ago we like to stay in
and watch movies now like what well don't laugh but bridget jones diary is one of my favorite
movies no kidding me too i still get misty-eyed every time i watch it and they kiss at the end oh
me too i can't help it i still love sappy rom-com and that's a bonus for our listeners rom-coms
michelle what is that rom-com comedy right yes bridget jones will have actually you know
yeah you're definitely gonna hear native speakers use that term guys rom-com so learn that one and
use it let's go through the vocabulary okay here we go so let's see um i said wait hold on i'm
trying to find the first one oh yeah yes i said i feel like going out on new year's eve is always
anticlimactic you get excited about it but then it's like put right yeah exactly exactly and then
i said i'll see no kidding me too i still get misty-eyed right meaning i get little
tears in my eyes every time i watch it so and then what else michelle the very last
line you said i said i can't help it i still love sappy rom-com so emotional like really cheesy
emotional romantic comedies all right awesome so good so guys use these with native speakers we've
been talking about holiday movies in this series and if you love these little video series from
all ears english make sure you hit subscribe on this channel to get more i know in the next series
we're going to be talking about job interviews we're going to shift gears michelle into something
a little more more useful i guess well this is useful too guys for a different reason but
if you are going on job interviews yeah that will be useful for you completely exactly all right
michelle thanks for hanging out with me today i'll see you next time all right bye lindsay bye