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English with real teachers today we've got a bit of a different episode for you
we found an amazing career in youtuber called big Marvel who does a range of
different videos funny challenges with his mates and tasting different food all
kinds of strange things and it's a channel of humour it's a comedy channel
and we love it and we thought because he's doing it in
English and he's Korean maybe we could talk about some of his common mistakes
applaud him on some of the really good English that he is using and maybe give
him some tips so that you can use some British English in his videos so we've
got spin the mystery wheel with his ex daring big up yourself yeah yeah big up
yourself big Marvel I like your ex she's really attractive so let's play it
and see what we've got
it's Big Marvel here today I'm with my ex-girlfriend
how are you fine
did you miss me oh a little
so anyway we will going to play the spin the wheel challenge so
first yoga slap sex dance skip kiss eat sausage delete channel
delete channel wow imagine that alright so so the first thing that I thought was
interesting charlie we will going to play we will going to play so this is a
grammar mistake and it should either be we are going to play or today we are
playing and but something about Big Marvel's English is and part of his charm
I think as a YouTube presenter as a youtuber is that he doesn't really care about
grammar mistakes does he no he doesn't yeah cause he likes using those little
abbreviated like let's do this or you got it so we could suggest we're gonna
play we are we're we're gonna so if he said something like that we're gonna
play we're gonna play it would really natural I think it would suit his
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that benefits you but let's get back to the video another thing in that in that
first bit Charlie that I thought was quite interesting was so he said did you miss
me when he asked he asked his girlfriend did you miss me did you miss me so he's
used the auxiliary verb correctly and often Koreans don't use auxiliary verbs
because they don't have them in their own language so I thought it was really
good that he was using that correctly nice okay so well done big Marvel well done Big Marvel
Okay three two one let's get it
oh yoga challenge ahh it's the yoga challenge do you think we could do the yoga challenge the
two of us I would probably have to be the the girl in this situation it's
called acro yoga it's quite good fun until you put your back out
so he said yoga slightly differently didn't he he did yes so he said Yoga
Yoga challenge yoga challenge so there were two
things there I thought were interesting he was saying oh yoga and not yoga
so the British we would pronounce that as a diphthong oh yoga and then how
about the way he said challenge charlie challenge so he didn't really pronounce
the l's did he challenge challenge yes in in Korean they don't distinguish
those two those two sounds they would just treat ir as one sound
and so that could cause problems for big Marvel you know if he's having a
conversation so the r and the l is important to try
and distinguish the two mm-hmm and but another thing from that clip which is
quite interesting was when he said he was counting three two one
he said three three two one okay let's get it so he didn't pronounce the th
sound it wasn't [inaudible] so big Marvel give that a go put your tongue between your
teeth and blow get your tongue out big Marvel we want to see your tongue lovely
alright so next one let's see what we've got
I did prepare Korean spicy noodle okay I prepare Korean spicy noodle
noodle noodle noodle yeah okay so is that its firstly it's
the tense he's used a simple present but he should use a present perfect
I have prepared I have prepared some noodles for my ex-girlfriend that's it
yeah and this is this is a common error with Korean students because they don't
have perfect tenses so it's quite hard to distinguish the perfect tenses from
the past simple or the present simple so if you want to talk about something
that's very recent big Marvel go for the present perfect I have prepared some
noodles mm-hmm what did you think of the way he pronounced noodle as well as
charlie is something like doodle doodle doodle doodle well that's a different
word for us isn't it doodle so he needs to change the d sound to the n noodle noodle
slap oh you have to slap me
his favourite yeah he loves that ah oh ah
did you ever get slapped around with a slipper when you
were younger I never got I never got the slipper actually for me it was a smack
on the arm and I don't think I ever got spanked my parents never used instruments
to hit me actually they just used verbal abuse and hand okay was that more
painful for you the verbal abuse yeah yeah the verbal stuff is always worse
for me just knowing that my parents were disappointed in me was was worse than
being slapped terrible oh the worst thing that I got was a bowl of cereal
poured on my head by my mum yeah I remember you telling us about that one
I was being a very unpleasant little boy and my mum had enough of it and just
poured the bowl of cereal in my head what about you did you ever get the
slipper or flip-flop I think my dad actually threatened me with a slipper
once but he never never went through with it I think that kind of thing puts
fear in a kid right rightfully like don't use it too much yeah yeah when you
were wrong you had a red bum yeah so what before he was slapped by his
girlfriend he said you have to slap me but it was the way he said it that I
thought was interesting charlie and he said you have to slap me you have to
slap me it was quite monotone it's quite monotonous
quite robotic and there was the same amount of stress on every word and it's
the way you know the way we speak the way native speakers use the language is
very different it's true yeah so we would have a bit more stress on the
content words like have and slap and then the me might be a bit softer
you have to slap me if I if I throw a sentence at you the same sentence
but I change the stress can you tell me what it means Charlie mm-hmm
mm-hmm okay so you have to slap me I'm being forced to do this thing of
slapping him okay so it's your obligation right you need to do it to me
yes okay next one you have to slap me well there I know the actual thing I
need to do is slap not shoot not punch not kick not spit all the nice things
all right another one you have to slap me there's lots of us
in the room and you're pointing at me you have to slap me not not him you and
then you have to slap me there's potential people that I should be
slapping but you're telling me that I need to slap you and you only there you
go so the same sentence but different stress and different words completely
changes the meaning of that sentence whereas Korean they don't have that the
way they would emphasize things is by changing the the order of words in a
sentence so a little tip is choose the word that's important in the sentence to
determine the meaning and then stress that word three two one ;et's get it
eat sausage! Very easy yeah she's she got to eat a sausage so he got his ex-girlfriend' to
bite the sausage and he said that this challenge was very easy but he
pronounced it a bit differently very easy this one he said very very easy
very easy he's pronouncing the V like a b and that's really common I hear my
Korean students do that a lot so you know that could cause difficulties in in
understanding for other people so I would try to to pronounce that v but
teeth on your bottom lip and let the air come out very very it's very important
isn't it Charlie it is very important it's very difficult for some nations
though isn't it totally yeah yes the Spain
have the same problem just quite interesting that Koreans and Spaniards
have that same issue Japanese speakers as well mmm
would you let your ex bite your sausage no no those sausages look really weird
yeah I've never seen something that big before you live in Germany well you did
yeah it's like a wiener isn't it wiener
I'd like that with a bit of ketchup
can't believe you didn't see say brown sauce so yhere you go very easy could
there be any confusions Charlie that berry looks very very like yeah yeah that
would be really confusing
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