hey guys and welcome back to puppy english my name is sam and i'm traveling the world
and teaching you english and this is i'm hello and today we're checking out
the city of trieste so let's take a look this is trieste it's a city which is a
melting pot of cultures that means it's a place where a variety of people
cultures and individuals come together so welcome to trieste and let's learn english
so welcome to trieste right now i'm in piazza unita which means the square of unity in english
and in english we can say unity or we can say togetherness unity is formal togetherness is
informal so if you're talking to children you say togetherness is important if you're naming a
square you'll use the word unity the interesting thing about piazzu nita is that it faces
the sea if something faces something else it means it points in the direction of that thing
but now it's time to face guarda because she's got something really cool to tell us i'm a spanish
language teacher so if you want to learn spanish with me check out my youtube channel espanol
so a common english expression is to face a problem if you face a problem it means you
have a problem and you deal with it so you might be facing a problem with your pronunciation what
about you guadal have you ever faced a problem with pronunciation actually yes it took me ages
to learn how to pronounce rural girl yeah it's the opposite of urban so trieste is an urban place
after mastering the pronunciation of rural we went to discover the rest of trieste but we got
distracted by a busker that's somebody who plays music for money on the street
the music pushed us on and we then discovered the ancient roman theater of trieste
so behind me you can see the teatro romano in english the roman theater and i want you to try
and picture how it was in the roman times to picture something means to imagine it
can you picture the spectators sitting on the stone steps watching the performers who were
stood on the wooden stage behind can you picture the sea that used to come up to the theater
it must have been incredible near the theater there are also the relics of the old
roman city wall so behind me you can see the arco de recaro and it's so impressive how it's
we've stood the test of time this is a nice expression it means it's lasted for a really
long time and it's still in great condition we made our way to the top of the hill in trieste
where we found the cathedral more ancient roman ruins and the san justo castle of trieste
so here is really like a medley of different ages and that's one of the things i really like
about trieste has a medley of cultures from the balkans also from austria and italy and that's
something you can see in the food as well so we can use the word medley as a synonym of
mixture so we're going to try the food in trieste which is a medley of different cuisines you have a
different type of food from here which is more like austrian so we've got ham with the yellow
thing which is mustard and also coarse radish the horseradish and mustard make it spicy but it's
also very tasty let's see what guada is eating okay so i'm eating the typical trieste ham it's
a cooked ham and they basically they cover it in a bread dough and cook it in the oven it's very nice
and then after lunch we bumped into james joyce if you bump into someone it means you meet them
without expecting to so trieste is the city of literature in italy and many famous authors
lived here like the irish author james joyce so i thought i'd teach you some irish slack
and in ireland they don't say what's up they say what's the crack so james what is the crack
we then hopped on the bus to hop on the bus is another way of saying to get on the bus
to take you to see one more surprise this is miramare castle it's a castle
fit for a princess or a prince or whatever so how would i describe this castle well it's very fancy
lavish or deluxe these are all synonyms that mean it has a lot of luxury okay even if you go inside
which we're not going to go inside today it's pretty amazing in fact princess sisi used to come
here for her holies that's slang for holidays it's really not a bad place to get away from it all
so everyone that's the beautiful city of trieste we've seen many things it's been a very hot
day and we've learned some english thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next class
that's the city of trieste it's a stunning city with a great mixture of cultures i'm
traveling the world and i'm teaching you english where do you think i should go next
one last thing in trieste is to have a beer by the sea cheers cheers why do you keep cutting out