hey there aubrey how's it going today hey lindsay i'm great how are you
awesome i'm so excited today's episode is on youtube and we are back at it back at the
podcasting game what are we talking about today oh this is so fun i've been reading about this really
cool holiday coming up in korea that i didn't know about this it's crazy how sometimes you just
know about the holidays in your own culture and don't if you don't travel somewhere you don't
find out about the celebrations in other cultures so i'm always fascinated to learn
about a celebration in another place i love it i love it and today we're kind of
we're honing in on one particular country having one celebration but i know a lot of our listeners
are really you know have just come off of celebrations like i know back in early august
there was obon which was a japanese holiday where many of our listeners i believe they
went back home to visit relatives so there's a lot of going back home during some of these
holidays right aubry yes and that's how this one is chuseok in korea a lot of people go back home
to where they're from go back to their roots this one's coming up very soon it's on september 10th
this year it's the 15th day of the eighth lunar month so it's a different day each year this year
september 10th so it's coming up and it's sort of a lot like our thanksgiving which i know lindsay
and i we've talked about how this is our favorite month because it's a lot about the food and the
family it's so fun yeah there's something very special about going back home you know your home
if you're lucky enough to be going back to your childhood home there are smells that you remember
right that bring you right back and we do you know another topic for another day could be that
sometimes we fall back into those roles right as kind of you know we have our parents and it can be
there can be complications that come out as a result of that right we start acting like
a kid again maybe and not being our independent adult self it's true isn't that interesting but
maybe that's a great episode for another day but today what exactly are our listeners going to get
today aubry yeah so we're going to share three really interesting idioms about going back home
so this will be really interesting if you guys are having conversations with friends or co-workers
about a holiday where you're going to go back home you can use these idioms to connect and make it a
really interesting conversation yes i can't wait so so again we're referring back specifically you
know want to highlight this special uh holiday in south korea and remind me again what you just
said so about the moon the the position of the moon and the calendar what is it you said this
yesterday so it is it takes place on the 15th day okay of the eighth lunar month wow so
this year it's september 10th but it's actually a three-day holiday it's the day before the 15th day
and the day after okay so traffic becomes quite an issue there i was reading there'll be like 32
million people heading back home so i can only imagine the traffic jams they have to deal with
which i faced that heading home for thanksgiving and i'm sure a lot of our listeners have traffic
can be terrible on a holiday weekend yeah you always see on the news here in the u.s that friday
tends to be the biggest travel day or the friday after and the wednesday before the tuesday night
biggest travel day of the year you see always see on the news shots of the airports people sleeping
in airports no matter what year it is or how great the airline environment is imagine what it's going
to be like this year i don't know i know it's so true and the other thing i loved about learning
about chuseok is it's a lot about the food right they make these tables for like sort of a family
ritual to honor your ancestors called cherry tables and there's some specific foods it's
different depending where exactly you are but like this song peon which there are these half
moon shaped rice cakes which look delicious i've need to find a place i can try them persimmons
hanbak is worn traditional korean clothes it made me really think about thanksgiving here
and how we have these traditional foods we eat sometimes we dress up a little nicer for the meal
so i love these commonalities between cultures some things are very different but a lot of it
brings us together as you know a lot of things we have in common i love it and guys if you're
participating in this holiday if you're from south korea let us know interact with us right there on
social and let us know more about this holiday all right aubry what do we need to know next yes
okay let's dive into these idioms guys if you are going to go back home for a holiday and want to be
able to chat about that a really fun one i used earlier in the episode is return to your roots
or get back to your roots we'll say right which just means to go back to where you grew up yeah
a couple different ways we use it literally yes and figuratively right so first of all literally
do you ever say that i'm going to get back to my roots when you're going to head home for a holiday
i do i think our listeners are going to be really excited especially to learn the figurative use of
this i personally use it figuratively a lot more aubry probably you do too but let's show
our listeners a couple a couple examples of the literal one so here's one guys write this one down
i'm excited to return to my roots for the holidays this year so going back to your hometown where you
see all your uncles aunts you know parents brothers sisters you have a big family aubry
yes i do right there's lots of family and i will say this right on this literal use of like i'm
going back home for a holiday i'm returning to my roots i'm returning to where i'm from i might say
i miss my family i need to get back to my roots meaning i need to visit them
yes so good so good i love it and then let's talk about the figurative use because this one
is really good what does this really mean when we say i need to get back to my roots yeah in this
case we're talking about behavior or like morals the way you were raised so maybe you were raised
going to church every week and you stop as an adult and then decide i need to get back to that
you're missing it this is an idiom we would use to say i need to get back to my roots meaning i
mean need to start up this behavior that i did as a child when i was growing up that i have stopped
yeah i mean as adults we get introduced to all these other ways of life lifestyles maybe an urban
lifestyle versus rural and sometimes we forget things we forget where we come from so i feel
like maybe our listeners have felt this before right aubry definitely right maybe you don't
know your neighbors but when you were a kid when you were growing up you did you chatted with your
neighbors a lot you might say this i need to get back to my roots and meet my neighbors yes i love
it so good so good um all right so let's go into the next one shall we do it yeah this is a really
fun idiom to have mixed feelings and this is kind of more of an expression because you can kind of
figure out from the words what that means to have mixed feelings yeah this is conflicting feelings
right yes there are things you love about it and things you really don't like about it and this
happens for a lot of us when we're getting back to our roots when we're going back home for a holiday
you might have mixed feelings about the trip oh my gosh i love this because life is nuanced feelings
are always nuanced right they're never 100 great you know going past my high school i have mixed
feelings because maybe i didn't like some of my teachers but i loved my friends right that kind
of thing exactly right i have mixed feelings about my hometown there are things about it that are not
ideal sometimes i'll have conversations with people where we really disagree politically or
about religion so i sometimes dread going back home and having those conversations but i also
love getting back home seeing my family the wide open spaces so i definitely have mixed feelings
and i'm sure our listeners have felt this oh and we know when we go back home we go back to one of
these holidays whether for us it's thanksgiving or for this holiday we're talking about politics
always comes up right yes this does right and it can be very divisive because the average room
in your hometown not everyone will agree with you ever lots of people will have different
political leanings so this is an interesting word divisive that means it tends to cause
disagreements or contentions do divisive topics come up when you're back home lindsay
i think for the i think in my family i'm a little lucky or maybe unlucky because maybe disagreement
is good but i think i'm somewhat lucky most of my family they have a similar political perspective
um with some nuances right when it comes to the primaries we don't usually choose the same person
but when it comes to the general election we choose the same person so um i don't have that
as much but it sounds like you say that's lucky i don't think the disagreement it depends on the
person some people don't mind a good argument a debate some contention i don't love it
and so for me that would be really lucky but there's always there are a lot of strategies
you can just have the conversation where you recognize like let's agree to disagree
it doesn't have to come up we don't want to ruin a holiday because everyone's fighting
oh my gosh no you have to find ways to make this work and maintain your relationship right because
it is it's it's dangerous it's dangerous to wade into that territory
that is a great word though devices divisive i'm sure that'll be in the app right i'll bring
that'll be a key word in the app love it yes guys if you don't have the app be sure to get
it there's great high level vocab and it's so fast to just add it to your vocabulary list you
can also follow along on the transcripts so you can get it at all ears english dot com slash app
good we have one more good one and then we're gonna show you guys how to use these in a role
play real quick what is this last one aubrey yes it's you can't go home again which means if you
return to some place you've visited in the past it won't be the same so it's very idiomatic because
it's not always going home right if i went back to paris i haven't been for 20 years yeah it's going
to be different than i remember for sure and i might get there and say uh you can't go home again
right anywhere you visit is going to be different okay so you mean even if you didn't live there
maybe you had an experience that felt like home when you were there it's kind of what you're
saying with this right exactly right it's an interesting expression and it's been used a lot in
media it's a title of a novel a song tv show episodes have been named this and often we
do use it a little more literally like if you go home to where you grew up it's going to be
very different you're not going to feel that same like i fit in here perfectly
it feels a little different but we can use this for anywhere we've been like you said whether
we've lived there or not to say it's going to be a different experience every time you go yeah
this is one of those great phrases that you said aubrey is used as titles chapter titles all sorts
of things all over the media so again remember it and now you'll understand when you see it all
over tv shows music movies all that good stuff yes exactly and you can use it yourself right whenever
you're having that experience or like oh this is going to be a different experience it's
things change right people change you can just say you can't go home again yes so good so good
okay aubrey so now should we show our listeners how it's done how they can use these right in
a role play what do you think yes let's do it in this role play you and i are discussing our
holiday plans all right here we go i'm ready to start us out are you headed home for thanksgiving
yes i love getting back to my roots whenever i can sometimes i have mixed feelings i always
know there might be some divisive conversations oh i hear you and it can be sad when you see your
hometown isn't always how you remember you can't go home again nice exactly right we crammed them
all into that conversation i first want to point out just headed home this expression instead of
are you going home for thanksgiving this is very native and natural to say i'm heading home are you
headed home right perfect so for our listeners who are in south korea right now if you're talking to
a native speaker or maybe you want to share that you are headed home or heading home that would
be so natural and native for you to say it that way okay so try to do that so good awesome and
then lindsay you used getting back i love getting back to my roots whenever i can which means yeah
in this case it's that literal sense of i like going home and visiting whenever i have a chance
yes and then you said sometimes i have mixed feelings right very common such a useful phrase
guys mixed feelings because again we're adults like our feelings are not simple right they never
are yes exactly and i'm just sharing that this is a an interesting thing to share
in a conversation to get to that deeper level to admit like sometimes some things about going home
are difficult i have mixed feelings it's not always all rosy and perfect yeah aubrey has
your hometown stayed pretty much the same like when you go back i mean things change at home but
what about your town has it like economically is it still the same as it was or has it changed it's
booming a little bit there are a lot of people moving from california to idaho where i grew up
because it is getting more expensive to live in idaho but it's more rural a lot of open land so it
is still a lot less expensive to live on a couple of acres and have a big garden and some land in
idaho in the midwest where it's more open than in a lot of places in the country so there are a lot
of people moving there it's getting more crowded but for the most part it's still a kind of a
slower way of life a little quieter so it is kind of a lot like how i grew up yeah boise is kind of
hot right now so i would imagine that you know it would expand out into the countryside beyond just
boise and it's true people are leaving california right that's what's happening right now in the
states just due to a number of factors i could list 10 reasons and they're all combined exactly
right they're able to sell their house and make a fortune and buy quite a bit of land if they're
wanting more of a different lifestyle a slower paced lifestyle it is crazy how places change and
how some things always stay the same absolutely i love it and then what i think there was one final
one that i used in this role play aubry what was it yes right at the end you said you can't go home
again which is funny right of course obviously you can go home again there's nothing keeping you from
going there but it's very idiomatic to say it's going to be different it's going to be different
when you go home yeah and guys just notice the rhythm that aubrey used when she said that
there's almost a nostalgia to her tone of voice right so when we're saying a phrase that reminds
us of music movies stories in our past we're gonna say it in a little bit of a nostalgic way
do you know what i mean yes for sure right that wistful you can't go home again like you're yeah
that's the word that's a fantastic word bonus for today guys we're getting some great vocabulary
today for our high level listeners wistful what does it mean one more time uh the nostalgic like
you said that feeling of nostalgia and a little bit of sadness that you wish things were the way
they used to be exactly and there's kind of like a wispiness in the voice even like almost sing-songy
right very native and natural what should we leave our listeners with for a takeaway yes it's so fun
guys to learn about holidays in other cultures can learn so much about this on youtube and podcasts
it was so fun to learn about chuseok and you know what i'm excited for everyone on september 10th in
south korea to be able to celebrate that just like i look forward to thanksgiving i know it's so fun
and now you guys have idioms that you can use to chat about going back home for the holidays
with co-workers and friends yes i love it so guys enjoy the holiday if you are in south korea if not
use this the next time you go home i'm sure that will be at some point
in the year you know now that we are becoming a little bit more free we're getting past the
health crisis we can finally start to go home i love it so good aubrey great stuff so fun awesome
thanks lindsay this was a really fun episode yeah i'll talk to you very soon take care bye