hey there i'm drew badger the world's
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i'm in my studio again today it's
it's a crazy loud here in japan in
in the summertime because we've got
got a lot of construction and a lot
lot of cicadas those are those little
little bugs are actually fairly large
large bugs that are singing and making
making all that noise like Shh it's
it's hard to hear anything when you're
you're inside so I'm happy to be in
in this nice quiet studio for a little
little bit so I can record a bunch
bunch of great lessons for you anyway
anyway let's get started with today's
today's lesson actually want to talk
talk about something kind of interesting
interesting why i always try to talk
talk about something interesting but
but in this lesson sometimes
sometimes I'll just be you know going
going through my daily life and something
something will hit me just
just all of a sudden it will hit me
me that maybe I would like my to make
make an interesting lesson so
so today we're going to talk about
about how you can play with the language
language and really owning the language
language even as a learner the language
language from the first moment you
you start learning it you know even
even as a very beginner right now
now you're probably fairly intermediate
intermediate or even advanced learner
learner but even from the moment you
you start learning it your first one
one or two words that you learn your
your really owning the language and
and I don't want you to really remember
remember that you're even if you're
you're not a native speaker that you
you can definitely be an actual Speaker
Speaker of the language and not just
just a learner of the language so
so when people think of themselves
themselves as learners of the language
language then they think of well
well i guess more of themselves as
as someone is kind of borrowing the
the language or using the language
language for a little bit but it's
it's not something they actually own
own like their own a personal native
native language but I don't want you
you to think about it like that i
i want you to think about it as you
you being an owner of the English
English language and you have every
every right to use the language as
as much as anybody else does so
so whether you're a native speaker
speaker not really the point is just
just to remember that you have the
the ability to use the language in
in that you should really be thinking
thinking about it in that way so
so in my case when I'm thinking about
about learning japanese I don't think
think well I'm kind of here and i'm
i'm borrowing the language and it's
it's not really something I speak
speak i'm a language learner I'm a
a Japanese learner I
I think of myself as a Japanese speaker
speaker and of course maybe there's
there's some words I don't know or
or even a lot of words i don't know
know but I'm always thinking about
about how i can play with the language
language and if something doesn't
doesn't sound quite right to me maybe
maybe I can try to make it better
better or more interesting I
I even create lots of new words by
by putting different pieces of words
words together in Japanese so
so there's no reason why you can't
can't be doing the same thing either
either
either now
now the whole reason I'm talking about
about this is because a few days ago
ago I was out with a friend of mine
mine and we were just talking he's
he's a another native and non-native
non-native english speaking friend
friend of mine out here in Japan so
so we were talking about movies and
and we like to quote movies you know
know to each other like will say lines
lines from a movie or a TV show and
and when he was talking about the
the movie Aladdin so this is the disney
disney cartoon movie i think it came
came out like the nineties or something
something like that I remember exactly
exactly but it was an entertaining
entertaining movie and I was trying
trying to think of a line so a line
line meaning some words every particular
particular expression that came from
from that movie and I was trying to
to remember what the genie said so
so they like just to set the scene
scene for you i can't really play
play the clip in this video but just
just imagine the genie so
so this is the Robin Williams character
character or the the genius played
played by robin williams and he's
he's sitting and playing a game of
of chess with the magic carpet and
and so in my mind when I think back
back to that scene i have this vision
vision or kind of the idea of what
what I think he's really saying but
but Robin Williams actually says something
something different and maybe you've
you've had this experience before
before we were thinking about okay
okay i know the name of a song or
or I know the particular song lyrics
lyrics or I know what a character
character says in the movie but actually
actually it's something different
different and this happens you know
know usually with people we're thinking
thinking about maybe a classic movie
movie quote that actually isn't that
that and so they think it's one particular
particular thing and it turns out
out to be something else well
well as happened to meet for many
many years I was thinking that Robin
Robin Williams was sitting there talking
talking with the rug and the rug or
or the the magic carpet is beating
beating him at a game of chess and
and so he was like wow that's a really
really good movie you know the rug
rug is like okay I'm going to move
move this piece to this part of the
the chessboard and
and then the genie says wow that's
that's a good move and he's pretending
pretending to be like quite a few
few different characters in the movie
movie so he's doing impersonations
impersonations actually talked about
about this recently in the in the
the lesson said about Ellen so
so I was talking about how Kate McKinnon
McKinnon had come on to the ellen
ellen show and was doing Ellen
Ellen so she was doing an impersonation
impersonation of Ellen in the same
same way that Robin Williams typically
typically does in his own comedy routines
routines are we did when he was alive
alive anyway he would do impersonations
impersonations of particular people
people so he's really always trying
trying to like keep the audience entertained
entertained and constantly doing lots
lots of different people doing lots
lots of interesting things invitations
invitations and impersonations and
and in this occasion in the movie
movie itself he does the same thing
thing so we imitates Jack Nicholson
Nicholson
Nicholson imitates
imitates like a couple of older movie
movie stars or movie characters that
that most younger audiences probably
probably wouldn't know but anyway
anyway uh this is a man in this case
case right here we're talking about
about the rug speaking with the genie
genie he's doing an impersonation
impersonation of Rodney Dangerfield
Dangerfield now Rodney Dangerfield
Dangerfield is a comedian and you
you can look for this clip online
online
online i'll
i'll put a link to it down in the
the description actually just a quick
quick clip about that but it just
just shows a rodney dangerfield who
who is a really famous and funny comic
comic or at least he was another comic
comic that passed away but he had
had a whole big kind of his thing
thing was to talk about man I get
get no respect so he was saying I
I get no respect and I do things like
like my mother used to tie a steak
steak around my neck so the dog would
would play with me kind of thing so
so he would make jokes is called self-deprecating
self-deprecating humor where your
your software kind of saying bad things
things about yourself and getting
getting other people to laugh at you
you because of that anyway
anyway this isn't a lesson about Rodney
Rodney Dangerfield that the point
point is so he's doing an impersonation
impersonation of Rodney Dangerfield
Dangerfield and he's the genie is
is kind of messing with his tiny is
is like man I'm losing to a road I
I don't actually don't do a very good
good impersonation of Rodney Dangerfield
Dangerfield but
but anyway you get the point so the
the genie what I thought he said and
and all these years I've been thinking
thinking like I had this really clear
clear image in my mind of what I thought
thought he said and what he actually
actually says man that
that works something like that I'm
I'm losing to a rug I'm losing to
to a rug
to a rug now
now when you think about that phrase
phrase there is nothing amazing about
about that i'm losing to a rug is
is it
is it it's
it's the same phrase you could use
use for anything else so he says I'm
I'm losing to a rug or you could be
be losing to anything you could be
be losing to a vacuum cleaner you
you could be losing to a baseball
baseball bat it doesn't really matter
matter in this case he's talking about
about a rug or magic carpet but there's
there's nothing funny about that and
and I was thinking like the actual
actual funny thing to say would be
be man i'm being beaten by a rug now
now the reason this would be funny
funny and I guess maybe the reason
reason I remembered it that way is
is because when you actually like
like you would take a rug outside
outside and you would be the rug like
like physically hit the rug so you
you would knock off the dust and other
other things like that that get you
you know falling on a rug so you take
take a rug outside and beat it in
in order to clean it off and then
then you would put it back in your
your house so it would be much more
more funny much more entertaining
entertaining if he was actually playing
playing Rodney Dangerfield in making
making a joke instead of just saying
saying something obvious using the
the Rodney Dangerfield voice which
which doesn't make much sense now
now when I saw the movie at that time
time
time you
you know I was like a 13 year old
old kid or whenever it came out I
I don't remember actually really noticing
noticing it much you know the whole
whole scene is quite quick and you
you can see it again in the link in
in the description but it's just funny
funny to think about like how you
you can see something in one way but
but you can actually play with the
the language and try to make it better
better and so the whole point of telling
telling this story is because I'd
I'd like you to think in the same
same way when you're owning the language
language you get to decide will it's
it's not just something coming to
to me the language is something i
i can receive and it's something I
I can manipulate as well so I don't
don't want you to feel nervous about
about thinking well why can't you
you know think of my own phrases or
or I can't you know maybe question
question something that I hear that
that maybe sounds a little bit odd
odd
odd you
you have every right to do that and
and the more you learn about the language
language the more confident you get
get about using the language and playing
playing with the language in the same
same way
same way so
so if you hear a joke where you see
see something and you think well maybe
maybe that could be better or
or maybe that's maybe not quite correct
correct or something like that so
so even in my case like I'm actually
actually incorrectly remembering the
the movie but what I'm thinking of
of is actually funnier in a logical
logical way than what
what was said in the movie obviously
obviously people can't always you
you know try to make everything perfect
perfect the exact first time they
they do it just like in the case of
of this video i'm sure i could go
go back and maybe have said something
something funny or if i were to go
go back and make this video ten different
different times but you understand
understand the idea the
the language is something that it's
it's not just a fixed thing that you
you can't touch and you can't move
move and manipulate the more you play
play with the language the more you're
you're going to get used to it and
and the more you'll get excited about
about using language so
so this is a the same way we talk
talk about or I talked about in lessons
lessons about mastering prefixes and
and suffixes these are the pieces
pieces of words that come together
together like by and cycle meaning
meaning two wheels to form a word
word like bicycle so we can make buy
buy something else or something cycle
cycle and you can even create your
your own words and this is how the
the whole language is created in the
the first place so
so if you become a language creator
creator and that's what I'd like to
to encourage you to do in this video
video you're going to get fluent much
much faster well
well i hope this has been an entertaining
entertaining video for you it's been
been a lot of fun to make I'm
I'm really surprised that I completely
completely miss remember that whole
whole thing but I'm actually glad
glad i did I guess I'm funnier than
than the writers at disney released
released for that one particular line
line but again it's just a really
really great it kind of piece of advice
advice for you such that you can start
start thinking about how you can command
command language control the language
language and feel more confident about
about using the language have
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