hey guys and welcome back to happy english my name is sam and i'm traveling the world
and teaching you english and today i'm in ljubljana in beautiful slovenia so let's go
and check out the city this is ljubljana it is one of europe's smallest capital cities
tucked away between the alps and the cast mountain ranges to be tucked away means
to be hidden in a quiet place where very few people go yes lubiana is tucked away
and that's why it's an incredible city to visit welcome to ljubljana and let's learn english
in the center of ljubljana i first walked along the lubianica river a river with a long history
as a transport route across europe even in the times of the roman empire now it's a
beautiful place to go canoeing or in my case to teach you a lesson about english prepositions
as you can see behind me the ljubljanaka river is so beautiful and there are even people canoeing
along the river so here we use the preposition along because they're going from one place to
another in a line because a river is a line but do we say i'm sat on a canoe or i'm sat in a canoe
well this depends on the type of canoe if it's a canoe that is open at the top we say i'm sat on
the canoe if it's closed at the top we say i'm sat in the canoe and is the canoe in the river
or on the river while the canoe is on the river because it's over the water if the canoe is under
the water so maybe it's sunk we can say the canoe is in the river lubiana is also famous for its
bridges such as dragon bridge and butcher's bridge where couples write their names on these padlocks
and throw away the keys to represent their lasting love there's also triple bridge in
the center three bridges together instead of one and these bridges are dotted along
the lubianica river so here we go we've got a verb expression with the preposition along dotted
a long the bridges are dotted along the river this means you have a line and then a bridge
a line then a bridge a line then a bridge the bridges are dotted along the river next to triple
bridge i found ljubljana's main square adorned with a central statue and beautiful bourgeois
palaces if something is adorned it is made more beautiful or attractive this is preserving square
the most important square in slovenia named after the slovenian poet and he said this about slovenia
slovenia this second eden full of charm and grace it's hard to disagree so let's take a
look at the word formation with the word charm we have two common adjective forms charming and
charmed charming describes someone or something extremely pleasing or delightful whereas charmed
describes something extremely lucky or prosperous and is usually collocated with the word life for
example i'm living a charmed life visiting all of these wonderful places how lucky i am okay so now
let's try some slovenian food so now i'm gonna eat kranska kobasa which is a traditional dish here
in slovenia something that is very special it's even protected only 13 places can make it so let's
go and try this special smoked sausage kranska klobasa is made from the finest pork and bacon
and is held together with a wooden skewer it's slightly smoky and full of juices here it's served
with sour cabbage mustard and horseradish sauce it's best to try everything together it tastes
amazing that clan skuck of ourselves out of this world you know out of this world can mean it's
amazing it's fantastic actually kranska kobasa is out of this world because they sent it up into a
rocket into space glasgow has been into space it's out of this world after lunch i climbed the hill
in the middle of the city to see lubiana castle however with the summer heat and a full stomach i
was struggling with the climb to struggle means to have difficulties doing something trying to climb
this hill to see the castle and i've got food coma so that's when you're very tired after eating
but slow and steady just keep going why in all of my videos do i seem to be climbing up hills
i hope you appreciate everything i do for you lubianski grad lubiana castle finally i made it
to the castle after a lot of moaning moaning is another way of saying complaining and i wasn't
moaning anymore because the castle was amazing and the views of the city were spectacular
so there we go guys we have made it and behind me you can just about make out the mountains
with a bit of ice on top i mean it's the middle of summer but it's still there if you make something
out it means you can just about see it with a bit of difficulty you can just about make out
the snow on the mountains it was also possible to go inside the castle which had this awesome
courtyard a courtyard is an outdoor square inside a building complex so it's cool that the castle is
free to enter so i'm in the middle of the castle now really this is the courtyard and then around
the castle you have all of these art exhibitions difficult word to pronounce exhibitions ex
so if you have a bit of time you can see different art exhibitions which you do have to pay for
but this you can all see for free this castle was built in the 15th century it's important to
do that 15th century my students always laugh at me when i do that um but it's been reconstructed
many times it's been done up you can say so if something is done up it's reconstructed
it's made nice again safe again so it's been done up especially after the earthquake over
100 years ago which destroyed much of ljubljana so they've done it all up and it's lovely i loved the
castle but it was time to go i saw this green bus that was going back to the city center so i jumped
on it had an audio tour and then it dropped me off to see one more place to drop someone off means to
take and leave someone somewhere this was speaker park so the green bus has just dropped us off
here at the ljubljana beach here you can go for a swim there are even deck chairs if you want
to chill out in the sun and catch some rays catch some sunshine and yeah even there is a botanical
garden here where you can find a linden tree which is a symbol of slovenia i better not miss
the bus not lose the bus miss the bus remember we don't say lose the bus if you lose it you don't
know where it is i know it is it's in front of me i caught the bus and it took me back to the
city center to finish my trip so there you go that's the amazing city of ljubljana slovenia
such a beautiful country so green calm and quiet absolutely love it here definitely come here
and check it out yourself in the meantime practice your english i hope you've learned something new
in this video if you have write an example sentence in the comments like and subscribe
and i'll see you in the next class bye so that was lubiana the capital of slovenia and an incredible
city i'm traveling the world and i'm teaching you english where do you think i should go next