[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yes. You're driving on that road and it would be really, really bumpy.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And shaking, yeaah. So a bumpy ride is a trip where you move and shake a lot. It's kind of uncomfortable.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, all of these words you'll hear really, really often when you're flying. Uhm, and the first one we have for you is FASCIN.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now the pronunciation here is interesting


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I know, so many words for bathroom. Uhm, a lavatory is a room with a toilet and sink only.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yes, or stow your luggage in the overhead bin.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Mhmm. So this is a verb, uhm, meaning avoid doing.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, three phrases we have for you here. Uhm, the first one, remain seated. Remain seated. Remain seated.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now one of the reasons they had to remain seated was because they were going to go through a patch of rough air.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, maybe a patch of strawberries.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, and if you're going on vacation, you could suspend your subscription to the newspaper.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, I know we all hear that, like, more people are killed in car accidents than, uh, flight accidents. So, it's very, very safe. So, yeah, I don't worry about the turbulence. Yeah, yeah. Knock on wood.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, actually that's a really good point, cause actually when I was reading about flight turbulence for this dialogue,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I kept reading all these stories about these people who, you know, when they got into some turbulent air were, you know, knocked over or they ended up like actually literally flying through the cabin and getting really badly hurt, so.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, Marco and I are always there and actually in fact we have to go check the site now, so.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We've managed to stabilize Frankie, but he's not out of the woods yet. He's still in critical condition. We're moving him to intensive care but


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Somebody page Dr. Hauser, get the patient to hold still. I can't get a pulse.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, he's on the monitor. His BP's falling. He's flatlining.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Someone get her out of here! Get me the defibrillator! Okay, clear? Again, clear? Come on dammit, I'm not letting go of you. Clear! I got a pulse?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The patient is in acute respiratory failure, I think we're going to have to innovate. Alright, tubes in.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We've managed to stabilize Frankie, but he's not out of the woods yet. He's still in critical condition. We're moving him to intensive care, but


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, he's on the monitor. His BP's falling. He's flatlining.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We've managed to stabilize Frankie, but he's not out of the woods yet. He's still in critical condition. We're moving him to intensive care, but


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Sounds good. And so, why do you wanna work with them?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So, let's see. You did your research on the company, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Sounds good. And so, why do you want to work with them?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Hello English learners, welcome back to EnglishPod, my name is Marco. And I'm Erica. And we're bringing you the final lesson of our job interview series.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so we've talked about preparing for the job interview in part one. Part two, we talked about educational background and work experience. And in part three, what are we going to be looking at?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so these are the classic common questions that you'll get at a job interview, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, so let's take a look at the language in Language Takeaway.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, the first thing that he said in a very interesting word, he said, technical acumen. Technical acumen. Acumen.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, or I can change it and maybe say, I have a very strong business acumen.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, great. Now let's take a look at another word which is very interesting because everybody knows it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now, Excel is of course the software that you use, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Heads. Well in the dialogue we heard it as headed in the past, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay. Okay, now for the next word. Struggle.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] For example, when I was in school, I struggled with math.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so great examples. Let's move on to our next word. Punctuality. Punctuality. Punctuality. Punctuality. Okay, so to be punctual.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Always. So punctuality would be the noun form.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right, so punctuality, to be punctual.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now, he has a problem with punctuality, but he said he has addressed this weakness.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now if you notice, it's spelled the same way as address.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Very good. Okay, so let's listen to this dialogue one more time and then we'll come back and talk about these two questions. Greatest weakness and why should we hire you?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, the first thing that he said is very, very important because they're asking you why, so your immediate reaction would be to answer with because or I think that, but there's a different way of approaching it which is a little bit more professional.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's how he started his answer, and then he explained why.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, basically it just makes you seem to be very confident and puts you like you are already part of the company.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, like we talked about in your work experience, the same thing goes here. What do you have to offer to this company? What special skills or insights or experience can you bring that would help us?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Exactly. So again, you have to start talking about your strengths and your previous experience, but with examples, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Once you've talked about these things, you can close off this answer by saying, given the opportunity, I could bring this kind of success to this company.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So that is just like a magical sentence saying like, if you give me the chance, I will demonstrate how good I am and how I can help this company.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yes. So that's the way you should more or less approach that question, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] When you get this question, be sure to NOT say.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] My greatest weakness is I work too much.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so yeah, be sure to stay away from these answers. But you can say anything, like in this case, he has a problem with being on time.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So be honest, say what one of your greatest weaknesses are, but the key to making this weakness look good is saying what you are doing to solve this weakness.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Exactly, so you can say I am usually late, but I am getting more organized, I am doing the seminar, I, you know, yeaah. Let the interviewer know that you are trying to improve this weakness.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And be sure to also think about your strength, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] When you're talking about your strengths, be sure it's something more specific than saying, oh, I'm very responsible.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right, exactly. So, think about your weaknesses, think about your strengths. If you don't know them, ask people. Ask your colleagues or ask your friends, what do you think is my greatest strength? Maybe you're a funny person, that's a strength.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right, come to our website EnglishPod.com. You can look at all of these three lessons and I hope they are really helpful and of course if you have any questions or comments or maybe you'd like a little bit more of this interview series, let us know.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, well, I don't want to give you any hints about what will happen in this dialogue.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well we have three words for you here that we heard in the dialogue. Uhm, and the first one, Armand tells Ellen to drag her over here.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You pull them across the floor or pull them across the ground.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No. Their body is still touching the ground.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right, and then he says, tie her up. Tie her up. Tie somebody up.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To use rope and put it around a person so that they


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, no, but she believed the lie.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yes, so these three words always, always, always go together. Fell for it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, that's true. Uhm, you know what? My grandmother used to tell me every year she would say, oh, I'm 35. I'm 35. Uhm, and I, I really believed her until I was about 12 years old. Wow.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So Lois was pretending to be a normal housewife.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yes, or yeah, it's sort of like acting a lie.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, I think that I would be a perfect fit in this company. I have a unique combination of strong technical acumen with outstanding soft skills. You know, I excel at building strong long-term consumer relationships. For example, when I headed the customer support department in my previous company, our team resolved about 70% of our customers' problems.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I decided that we needed better information and technical preparation on our products. So after I implemented a series of training sessions in coordination with our technical department.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We were able to solve 90% of our customers' issues. Given the opportunity, I could bring this kind of success to this company.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To be honest, I struggle with organization and time management. Punctuality has never been a strength of mine. I find it hard to organize my time effectively. I've actually addressed this weakness recently by attending a workshop on efficient time management.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It helped me a lot by providing me with great insights on how to get organized and use my time efficiently. So, I think I'm getting better now.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, I think that I would be a perfect fit in this company. I have a unique combination of strong technical acumen with outstanding soft skills. You know, I excel at building strong long term consumer relationships. For example, when I headed the customer support department in my previous company, our team resolved about 70% of our customers' problems.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I decided that we needed better information and technical preparation on our products. So after I implemented a series of training sessions in coordination with our technical department, we were able to solve 90% of our customers issues. Given the opportunity, I could bring this kind of success to this company.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To be honest, I struggle with organization and time management. Potentiality has never been a strength of mine. I find it hard to organize my time effectively. I've actually addressed this weakness recently by attending a workshop on efficient time management.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It helped me a lot by providing me with great insights on how to get organized and use my time efficiently, so I think I'm getting better now.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yep, that's right. So in this lesson, uh, we're going to teach you some great words that you can use when you need to call your office to solve a problem.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, well today we're looking at three interesting words. The first one is ooflay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, this is a really useful phrase and I think it would help us to hear some examples of what it sounds like so we can understand the meaning. Example one.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To get better, to start feeling healthy again.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Exactly, so this is a great verb to use when you want to say, I'm going to feel better.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, Marco, have you ever found yourself in a situation like this?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, well uhm, yeaah, happens to all of us, and now you guys have all of this useful language next time you face this problem.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The brain is an amazing and complex organ. And while many people are fascinated by the brain, they can't really tell you that much about the properties about how the brain works because we don't teach neuroscience in schools.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And one of the reasons why is that the equipment is so complex and so expensive that it's really only done at major universities and large institutions. Uh, so in order to be able to access the brain, you really need to, you know, dedicate your life and spend six and a half years as a graduate student just to become a neuroscientist to get access to these tools.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that's a shame because 1 out of 5 of us, that's 20% of the entire world will have a neurological disorder. And there are zero cures for these diseases.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And so it seems that what we should be doing is sort of reaching back earlier in the education process and sort of teaching students about neuroscience and so that in the future they may be thinking about possibly becoming a brain scientist and so


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] When I was a graduate student, my lab mate Tim Marzullo and myself decided that, you know, what if we took this complex equipment that we have for studying the brain and made it simple enough and affordable enough that anyone, uh, you know, an amateur or a high school student, uh, can learn and actually participate in the discovery of neuroscience. And so we did just that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] A few years ago we started a company called Backyard Brains and we make DIY neuroscience equipment and I brought some here tonight and I want to do some demonstrations. You guys want to see some? Alright. Alright, so I need a volunteer. Uh, so right before, what is, what is your name?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, Sam, uh, I'm gonna record from your brain. Have you, have you had this before? No. Okay, alright, I need you to stick out your arm for science, roll up your sleeve a bit, alright. And so what I'm gonna do, I'm putting electrodes on your arm, and you're probably wondering, I just said I'm gonna record from your brain, what am I doing with your arm? Uh, well we, you have about


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] 80 billion neurons inside your brain right now. They're sending electrical messages back and forth and chemical messages. Uh, but some of your neurons right here in your motor cortex are gonna send messages down when you move your arm like this. They go down across your corpus closum, down onto your spinal cord, your lower motor neuron, out to your muscles here, and that is electrical discharge. It's gonna be picked up by these, uh, electrodes right here.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We're going to be able to listen to exactly what your brain is going to be doing. So I'm going to turn this on for a second. Have you ever heard what your brain sounds like?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, let's turn it on. So go ahead, whenever you... Go ahead and squeeze your hand. Alright, so what you're listening to...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So this is your motor and your units are happening right here. Okay, so let's take a look at it as well. So I'm going to stand over here.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, so right here, these are the motor units that are happening from her spinal cord out to her muscle right here. And as she's doing it, you're seeing the electrical activity that's happening here. We give them a click here and try to see one of them. So keep doing it really, really hard. Yeah, so now we pause on one motor axe potential that's happening right now inside of your brain. Okay, uh, do you guys want to do see some more? Alright.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's interesting, but let's get it better. Okay, I need one more volunteer. Okay, what is your name, sir? Miguel. Miguel, alright.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, I want you to move your arm as well. Alright, so your brain is gonna send a, like a signal down to your muscles. And so, it turns out that there is a, a nerve that's right here that runs up here that innervates these three fingers. Uh, and it's close enough to the skin that we might be able to stimulate that so that we can do is copy your brain signal that's going out to your hand.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Do it again. Alright, perfect. So now I'm gonna hook you up over here so that you get the simi- It's gonna feel a little bit weird at first. This is gonna feel like a...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, when you lose your free will, uh, and someone else becomes your agent, it does feel a bit strange. I want you to relax your hand. Alright, and Sam, are you with me? Alright, so you're gonna, you're gonna squeeze. I'm not gonna turn it on yet, so go ahead and give it a squeeze. Alright. So now, are you ready, Miguel?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Ready as I'll ever be. Okay, so I've turned it on, so go ahead and turn your hand. Do you feel that a little bit? Alright, do it again.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Oh perfect, perfect. Alright, so relax, do it again. Alright, so now.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, so right now, your brain is controlling your arm, and it's also controlling his arm. So go ahead and just do it one more time. Alright, so that's perfect.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So let's listen to this phrase that we're talking about. What about some appetizers?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so, this phrase, what about?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, Anthony, this is not going to be an easy conversation.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The company has made some decisions which will have a direct impact on your employment. Okay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm sorry, but to be honest, you're a terrible employee. What? I resent that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Anthony, you were caught making international calls from the office phone. You called in sick eight times this month and you smell like alcohol.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yes, Anthony, come on in and have a seat.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, Anthony, this is not going to be an easy conversation.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I don't want to beat around the bush, so I'm just gonna come out with it. We're gonna have to let you go.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm sorry, but to be honest, you're a terrible employee. What? I resent that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Anthony, you were caught making international calls from the office phone. You called in sick eight times this month. And, you smell like alcohol.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, Anthony, this is not going to be an easy conversation.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The company has made some decisions which will have a direct impact on your employment. Okay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I don't wanna beat around the bush, so I'm just gonna come out with it. We're gonna have to let you go.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm sorry, but to be honest, you're a terrible employee. What? I resent that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Anthony, you were caught making international calls from the office phone. You called in sick eight times this month and you smell like alcohol.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Horowitz, I beg to differ. Even in your most recent study, the investigative approach was flawed!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know as well as I do, the collection of data was not systematic, and there's a large margin of error. To draw a definitive conclusion based on that data would be misleading.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I beg to differ. Even in your most recent study, the investigative approach was flawed. You know as well as I do, the collection of data was not systematic, and there's a large margin of error. To draw a definitive conclusion based on that data would be misleading.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Hello English learners, welcome back to EnglishPod, my name is Marco.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And we're gonna be looking at our fifth episode of our, uh, famous love story.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Part five. So if you haven't listened to the first four, I suggest you go do that first because...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Oh, yeah, we can't preview anything because it's, uh, we want to surprise you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so let's listen to the dialogue and then we'll come back and talk about some of the difficult vocabulary we might find.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, so more drama in our love story. Oh my god. Things were going well and now more bad news.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, let's take a look at the vocabulary first in Language Takeaway.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So basically it's like the flame of the fire.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Let's look at our next word. Conceived. Conceived. The past of conceive.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, conceive. So after the baby was conceived,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And our last word and language takeaway, accurate.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] 100%. Okay, so accurate. Let's listen to some more examples of how we can use accurate.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Just imagine yourself in a desert that would be the middle of nowhere.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, let's take a look at our next phrase.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So I can change it a little bit and say first thing in the afternoon.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so it's a very common way of referring to very early.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, let's look at our last phrase. Seems to be in order.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So this is a very common phrase when people check your documents or reports.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Exactly. Everything is normal. Alright, so let's listen to this dramatic dialogue one more time and we'll come back and talk.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, I don't know what I would do. It seems like something very typical of soap operas.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, she didn't really accept it, so it's still a little bit difficult to see if maybe she cheated on him or something.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Do you think it's his baby? Maybe it's not. Maybe the doctor is wrong.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Anything could happen here at EnglishPod, so send us your ideas and tell us what do you think happens next. Uh, come to EnglishPod.com where you can leave your questions, your comments.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Exactly, and we want to know what you think will happen next.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Written by Rachel Rice Focus Question


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Written by Elise Sweeney. Illustrated by Chris Baldwin.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Will you read me a scary book? No I won't.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Will you help me scare mom? Yes, I will.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Grandpa Pig is very proud of his garden.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Sure, well, I graduated with honors from Chesterston University with a major in business administration with a specialization in information management and I minored in psychology. I chose this course of study for two reasons. I wanted to gain some practical marketable skills, which the information management track provided.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I also feel that the interpersonal skills are essential for professional success, hence the minor in psychology.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And your post-graduate studies? Well, I am really passionate about consumer behavior, so I pursued a masters in that area. I also strive to keep my professional skills current, so I continuously attend seminars and conferences related to management and customer service.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, I worked as their customer support manager, which brought me a breadth of experience in both client care and process management. I supervised and coordinated the customer support team as well as implemented new strategies to achieve better customer satisfaction.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yes, in this position, I was able to make some pretty significant contributions to the overall success of the company. With the different initiatives that we implemented, we lowered our churn rate to about 5%, which had a direct impact on revenue.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Sure, well, I graduated with honors from Chesterston University with a major in business administration with a specialization in information management and I minored in psychology. I chose this course of study for two reasons. I wanted to gain some practical marketable skills, which the information management track provided.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I also feel that the interpersonal skills are essential for professional success, hence the minor in psychology.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And your postgraduate studies? Well, I am really passionate about consumer behavior, so I pursued a masters in that area. I also strive to keep my professional skills current, so I continuously attend seminars and conferences related to management and customer service.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, I worked as their customer support manager, which brought me a breadth of experience in both client care and process management. I supervised and coordinated the customer support team as well as implemented new strategies to achieve better customer satisfaction. Interesting.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yes, in this position, I was able to make some pretty significant contributions to the overall success of the company. With the different initiatives that we implemented, we lowered our churn rate to about 5%, which had a direct impact on revenue.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Oh, but Marco, what is there to say about a hand?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Perfect. And also we're going to learn about some common phrases that you might hear in an English wedding.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, well I'm excited to find out what this unexpected event is, so let's listen to our dialogue for the first time.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, you know, if you put your middle finger up,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You are making a very rude gesture, a rude sign. So what would you call that? I would call that giving the middle finger.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Video games. Okay, so the pronunciation here, do you say the B at the end of this word?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well this is really common wedding speak, isn't it?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, why don't we look at some of these phrases now because it's really interesting to talk about their meaning. So the first one, may this ring be blessed.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, usually the, the religious leader does this, right? And he's giving good wishes to that thing.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And so these good wishes usually come from God.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Abide in peace, abide in peace, abide in peace.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, we've got two words in here that are also older English words.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So this is an, this is a middle English term for you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This is also an old word for, an old verb for the action of marrying someone.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But don't say that now because you'll sound quite silly.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Wear it as a symbol of our love and commitment.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well obviously, you know, love, you can't see it, you can't touch it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, but how about this word commitment?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, great. So now we are a little bit more familiar with some of the language you hear in a wedding ceremony. And we also know all of the names of the fingers.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So why don't we listen to the dialogue one more time to hear these all in context.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yes, yeaah. In most English speaking countries, the woman is very, very lucky. Because she gets two rings. Right. So, when the man asks her to marry him,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it's really, really important that he does this.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, she'll always wear both of them. So the engagement ring goes closest to you and then the wedding ring on top.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But, but if, if it was sort of like a happy breakup, then okay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well thanks for listening to this lesson everyone and until next time, goodbye!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's my middle finger, Nick. This is my ring finger.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's because we're on top of the clouds! The plane is flying higher and higher!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And today we're bringing you an advanced lesson for all of our advanced learners out there.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yes, we're gonna be talking about a very interesting topic that's known around the world, which is International Workers Day.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right, but we're also going to be taking a look at some great words and of course a little bit more advanced or complicated structures.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, so we were in a history class and we learned something new, something interesting, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, on May 1st, a lot of people have a day off, so that's always good. Yes. Alright, so why don't we take a look at some of the words that we saw in this dialogue, which were maybe a little bit different or difficult in Language Takeaway.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So that's a genesis. So the genesis of our legal system, you would say.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, I guess maybe you can say the origin or the beginning.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So now if something is appalling, like the working conditions were appalling,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, okay, so the working conditions were appalling and people were setting up this movement.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So if somebody is hostile, they can maybe be aggressive and maybe to a point, violent.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think there's a saying that says desperate times call for drastic measures.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, okay, but it goes around there somewhere, right? So if you really have an emergency, you need to do something drastic.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So again, maybe brutality and hostility are maybe similar, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so, brutality. Now, we also use the word brutal.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now, sometimes we can use that word but not in a harsh or forceful way, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so for example, I can say, oh, I went for a run today and it was brutal. I'm so tired.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That phrase, brutal, using it in that context would be for younger people maybe, not really, you wouldn't really hear older people using it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so we have some phrases that we saw in this dialogue, and well, let's start with the first one.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so the teacher started with an important aspect of and then specified the idea or what part it belongs to.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, perfect. A part of. Very good. So Aspect sounds a little bit more formal or just a lot more intelligent, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So the beginning of this sentence, it's not enough to simply, something.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] By starting a sentence like this, you are indicating that more is required, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Another example would be, it's not enough to simply pass your exams. You must get good grades as well.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, very good. So that's a very good way of starting out. This idea of more is required.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so what's happening here? Obviously this happened in the past. It's like about a hundred years ago, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But there was a future action that was going to happen in consequence of this.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so it's a, it's a grammar structure. Many of you maybe know the simple present or the, or the future tenses, but this is a little strange one. And as we said, so maybe it's a little bit difficult to understand the grammar in general, so why don't we take a look at some more examples of how we would use this future in the past.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so now I think it's clear this whole idea of the future and the past and we'll, uh, we'll also be answering any questions on the site if you have any problems, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so why don't we listen to the dialogue one more time, and then we'll come back and talk about this holiday, which is the International Workers Day.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Oh wow. Well yeah, I mean, it's not productive, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, we do. On May 1st, it's a, it's a holiday and we actually have two holidays in May as well because on the 24th, we actually celebrate the Battle of Picincha, which is one of the decisive battles for the independence of Ecuador. So we don't mind having two holidays in the same month.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So yea, on May 1st, people take vacations, and our companies usually on May 1st will do something special for their employees.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, so it's like, it's workers' day, so they'll set up maybe a barbecue or a trip or something like that, so that's what usually happens on May 1st.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] May 1st, right? And if you do, well let us know, come to our website, EnglishPod.com and leave your questions and comments there as well.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Good morning, Mr. Pig. I see you have found the swimming pool. This is Signior Goat. It is his job to look after the holiday house.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Granny and Grandpa Pig are looking after Goldie the Fish while Peppa is on holiday. I do hope we're feeding Goldie enough.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Pepper and George are fast asleep in their holiday house.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Have you got some please? I don't know what you're talking about. It's just pretend. We're playing a game. Oh, I see. You want pretend water. Yeaah.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Hmm, I know where there's pretend snow. We can melt it to get pretend water. Where? On the mountain top.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Hello there. Come on in. Don't just stand there. Come and take a seat.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Um, okay. Well, I just want to trim. Nothing too fancy. Oh my gosh! Your hair is amazing! So silky! So shiny!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I am going to work my magic on your hair. You hear me? You are going to look like a million bucks. Okay. Uhm, can you make sure my sideburns are even and you just take a little off the top? Don't you worry, I'll take care of everything.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Oh my god. I just love your curly hair. It's so fluffy and cute. You should totally let it grow out. An afro would look great on you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, no. Okay, but you're going to be my masterpiece.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So, we have to stop our game. Not cool.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Time to put a stop to red stopping.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And when they all were seated, a service like a drum kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again. Then space began to toll as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear and I and silence some strange race wrecked solitary here.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We know depression through metaphors. Emily Dickinson was able to convey it in language. Goya in an image. Half the purpose of art is to describe such iconic states.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] As for me, I had always thought myself tough. One of the people who could survive if I'd been sent to a concentration camp.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In 1991, I had a series of losses. My mother died. A relationship I'd been in ended. I moved back to the United States from some years abroad.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I got through all of those experiences intact. But in 1994, three years later, I found myself losing interest in almost everything.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do, and I didn't know why. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality. And it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then I would think that I'd have to get the food out and put it on a plate and cut it up.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And chew it. And swallow it. And it felt to me like the stations of the cross.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And one of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If you told me that I have to be depressed for the next month, I would say as long as I know it'll be over in November, I can do it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I would rather split my wrist than go through it. It was the feeling all the time, like that feeling you have if you're walking and you slip or trip and the ground is rushing up at you, but instead of lasting half a second the way that does, it lasted for six months.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's a sensation of being afraid all the time, but not even knowing what it is that you're afraid of.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it was at that point that I began to think that it was just too painful to be alive.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that the only reason not to kill oneself was so as not to hurt other people.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And finally one day I woke up and I thought perhaps I'd had a stroke because I lay in bed completely frozen looking at the telephone thinking something is wrong and I should call for help.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I couldn't reach out my arm and pick up the phone and dial. And finally, after four full hours of my lying and staring at it, the phone rang. And somehow I managed to pick it up.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it was my father, and I said, I'm in serious trouble. We need to do something.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The next day, I started with the medications and the therapy.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I also started reckoning with this terrible question. If I'm not the tough person who could have made it through a concentration camp, then who am I? And if I have to take medication, is that medication making me more fully myself?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Or is it making me someone else? And how do I feel about it, if it's making me someone else?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I had two advantages as I went into the fight. The first is that I knew that, objectively speaking, I had a nice life, and that if I could only get well, there was something at the other end that was worth living for. And the other was that I had access to good treatment.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And finally understood, I would have to be on medication and in therapy forever.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I thought, but is it a chemical problem or a psychological problem? And does it need a chemical cure or a philosophical cure? And I couldn't figure out which it was. And then I understood that actually


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We aren't advanced enough in either area for it to explain things fully. The chemical cure and the psychological cure both have a role to play. And I also figured out that depression was something that was braided so deep into us that there was no separating it from our character and personality.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I want to say that the treatments we have for depression are appalling. They're not very effective. They're extremely costly. They come with innumerable side effects. They're a disaster. But I am so grateful that I live now and not 50 years ago when there would have been almost nothing to be done.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I hope that 50 years hence, people will hear about my treatments and be appalled that anyone endured such primitive science.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If you were married to someone and thought, well, if my wife dies, I'll find another one. It wouldn't be love as we know it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There are three things people tend to confuse. Depression, grief, and sadness.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Grief is explicitly reactive. If you have a loss and you feel incredibly unhappy and then six months later you're still deeply sad but you're functioning a little better, it's probably grief.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it will probably ultimately resolve itself in some measure. If you experience a catastrophic loss and you feel terrible and six months later you can barely function at all, then it's probably a depression that was triggered by the catastrophic circumstances. The trajectory tells us a great deal.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] People think of depression as being just sadness. It's much, much too much sadness, much too much grief, at far too slight a cause.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] As I set out to understand depression and to interview people who had experienced it, I found that there were people who seemed


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] On the surface to have what sounded like relatively mild depression, who were nonetheless utterly disabled by it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There were other people who had what sounded as they described it, like terribly severe depression, who nonetheless had good lives in the interstices between their depressive episodes.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I set out to find out what it is that causes some people to be more resilient than other people. What are the mechanisms that allow people to survive? And I went out and I interviewed person after person who was suffering with depression.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] One of the first people I interviewed described depression as a slower way of being dead.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that was a good thing for me to hear early on because it reminded me that that slow way of being dead can lead to actual deadness. That this is a serious business. It's the leading disability worldwide and people die of it every day.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] One of the people I talked to when I was trying to understand this was a beloved friend who I had known for many years and who had had a psychotic episode in her freshman year of college and then plummeted into a horrific depression. She had bipolar illness or manic depression as it was then known.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then she did very well for many years on lithium and then eventually she was taken off her lithium to see how she would do without it. And she had another psychosis and then plunged into the worst depression that I had ever seen in which she sat in her parents' apartment


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And when I interviewed her about that experience some years later, she's a poet and psychotherapist named Maggie Robbins. When I interviewed her, she said,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I was singing, where have all the flowers gone? Over and over to occupy my mind. I was singing to blot out the things my mind was saying, which were, you are, you are nothing. You are nobody. You don't even deserve to live.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that was when I really started thinking about killing myself.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's easier to help schizophrenics who perceive that there's something foreign inside of them that needs to be exercised, but it's difficult with depressives because we believe we are seeing the truth. But the truth lies. I became obsessed with that sentence, but the truth


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Lies. And I discovered as I talked to depressive people that they have many delusional perceptions. People will say, no one loves me. And you say, I love you. Your wife loves you. Your mother loves you. You can answer that one pretty readily, at least for most people.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But people who are depressed will also say, no matter what we do, we're all just going to die in the end.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Or they'll say, there can be no true communion between two human beings. Each of us is trapped in his own body. To which you have to say, that's true.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But I think we should focus right now on what to have for breakfast.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] A lot of the time, what they are expressing is not illness but insight, and one comes to think what's really extraordinary is that most of us know about those existential questions, and they don't distract us very much.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There was a study I particularly liked in which a group of depressed and a group of non-depressed people were asked to play a video game for an hour. And at the end of the hour, they were asked how many little monsters they thought they had killed.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The depressive group was usually accurate to within about 10%. And the non-depressed people guessed between 15 and 20 times as many little monsters as they had actually killed.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] A lot of people said when I chose to write about my depression that it must be very difficult to be out of that closet to have people know. They said, do people talk to you differently?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Things are different because now I know that depression is a family secret that everyone has. I went a few years ago to a conference


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And on Friday of the three day conference, one of the participants took me aside and she said, I, uh, uh, I suffer from depression and I'm, uh, uh, I'm a little embarrassed about it, but I've been taking this medication and


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, I just wanted to ask you what you think. And so I did my best to give her such advice as I could. And then she said, you know, my, uh, husband would never understand this. He's really the kind of guy, doing this wouldn't make any sense. So uhm, I just, you know, it's just between us. And I said, yes, that's fine.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I wondered what you think. They were hiding the same medication in two different places in the same bedroom.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I said that I thought communication within the marriage might be triggering some of their problems.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then I began thinking about all the ways people make themselves better. I'd started off as a medical conservative. I thought there were a few kinds of therapy that worked. It was clear what they were. Um, there was medication, there were certain psychotherapies, there was possibly electroconvulsive treatment.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that everything else was nonsense. But then I discovered something. If you have brain cancer and you say that standing on your head for 20 minutes every morning makes you feel better, it may make you feel better, but you still have brain cancer and you'll still probably die from it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But if you say that you have depression and standing on your head for 20 minutes every day makes you feel better, then it's worked. Because depression is an illness of how you feel. And if you feel better, then you are effectively not depressed anymore.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So I became much more tolerant of the vast world of alternative treatments.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] My favorite of the letters that I got was the one that came from a woman who wrote and said that she had tried therapy, she had tried medication, she had tried pretty much everything, and she had found a solution and hoped I would tell the world, and that was making little things from yarn.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But a few years afterwards I was in Rwanda working on a different project and I happened to describe my experience to someone and he said, well, you know, that's West Africa and we're in East Africa and our rituals are in some ways very different, but we do have some rituals that have something in common with what you're describing.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I said, oh, and he said, yes, he said, but we've had a lot of trouble with Western mental health workers, especially the ones who came right after the genocide. And I said, what kind of trouble did you have? And he said, well, he said they would


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They would do this bizarre thing that they didn't take people out in the sunshine where you begin to feel better.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They didn't include drumming or music to get people's blood going. They didn't involve the whole community. They didn't externalize the depression as an invasive spirit. Instead what they did was they took people one at a time into dingy little rooms and had them talk for an hour about bad things that had happened to them.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now at the other end of alternative treatments, let me tell you about Frank Rusikoff. Frank Rusikoff had


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The worst depression perhaps that I've ever seen, uh, in a man. He was constantly depressed. He was when I met him at a point at which every month he would have electroshock treatment.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Then he would feel sort of disoriented for a week. Then he would feel okay for a week. Then he would have a week of going downhill. And then he would have another electroshock treatment. And he said to me when I met him, it's unbearable to go through my weeks this way. I can't go on this way. And I figured out how I'm going to end it if I don't get better.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But he said to me, I heard about a protocol at Mass General for a procedure called a singulotomy which is a brain surgery and I think I'm going to give that a try. And I remember being amazed at that point to think that someone who clearly had so many bad experiences with so many different treatments


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And he had the singulotomy and it was incredibly successful. He's now a friend of mine. He has a lovely wife and two beautiful children.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He wrote me a letter the Christmas after the surgery. And he said, My father sent me two presents this year, first a motorized CD rack from the sharper image that I didn't really need, but I knew he was giving it to me to celebrate the fact that I'm living on my own and have a job I seem to love.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And the other present was a photo of my grandmother, who committed suicide.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] As I unwrapped it, I began to cry. And my mother came over and said, Are you crying because of the relatives you never knew?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I said, she had the same disease I have. I'm crying now as I write to you. It's not that I'm so sad, but I get overwhelmed. I think because I could have killed myself, but my parents kept me going and so did the doctors and I had the surgery. I'm alive and grateful.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I was struck by the fact that depression is broadly perceived to be a modern western middle class


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I went to look at how it operated in a variety of other contexts.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And one of the things I was most interested in was depression among the indigent.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And what I discovered is that poor people are mostly not being treated for depression. Depression is the result of a genetic vulnerability which is presumably evenly distributed in the population and triggering circumstances which are likely to be more severe for people who are impoverished.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And yet, it turns out that if you have a really lovely life but feel miserable all the time, you think, why do I feel like this? I must have depression. And you set out to find treatment for it. But if you have a perfectly awful life and you feel miserable all the time, the way you feel is commensurate with your life.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And so I found an academic who was doing a research project in slums outside of DC where she picked up women who had come in for other health problems and diagnosed them with depression and then provided six months of experimental protocol. One of them, Lolly, came in and this is what she said the day she came in. She said,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And she was a woman, by the way, uhm, who had seven children. She said, I used to have a job but I had to give it up because I couldn't go out of the house.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I have nothing to say to my children. In the morning, I can't wait for them to leave. And then I climb in bed and pull the covers over my head. And three o'clock when they come home, it just comes so fast. She said, I've been taking a lot of Tylenol, anything I can take so that I can sleep more. My husband has been telling me I'm stupid. I'm ugly. I wish I could stop the pain.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, she was brought into this experimental protocol, and when I interviewed her six months later, she had taken a job, working in childcare, uhm, for the US Navy. She had left the abusive husband, and she said to me,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] My kids are so much happier now. She said there's one room in my new place for the boys and one room for the girls, but at night they're just all up on my bed and we're doing homework all together and everything.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] One of them wants to be a preacher, one of them wants to be a firefighter, and one of the girls says she's going to be a lawyer. They don't cry like they used to, and they don't fight like they did. That's all I need now, is my kids.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Things keep on changing. The way I dress. The way I feel. The way I act. I can go outside not being afraid anymore. And I don't think those bad feelings are coming back.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And if it weren't for Dr. Miranda and that, I would still be at home with the covers pulled over my head if I were still alive at all. I asked the Lord to send me an angel and he heard my prayers.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I said, why not? And she said, it just is too far-fetched. These people who are sort of at the very bottom rung of society and then they get a few months of treatment and they're virtually ready to run Morgan Stanley, it's just too implausible.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He said, I've never even heard of anything like it. And I said, the fact that you've never heard of it is an indication that it is news.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But I think a lot of what they said was connected in some strange way to this distaste that people still have for the idea of treatment. The notion that somehow if we went out and treated a lot of people in indigent communities, that would be an exploitative thing to do because we would be changing them. There's this false moral imperative that seems to be all around us that


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And people then say, well, but isn't depression part of what people are supposed to experience? Didn't we evolve to have depression? Isn't it part of your personality? To which I would say, mood is adaptive. Being able to have sadness and fear and joy and pleasure and all of the other moods that we have, that's incredibly valuable.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And major depression is something that happens when that system gets broken. It's maladaptive. People will come to me and say, I think though, if I just stick it out for another year, I think I can just get through this. And I always say to them, you may get through it, but you'll never be 37 again.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Life is short, and that's a whole year you're talking about giving up. Think it through.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's a strange property of the English language and indeed of many other languages that we use the same word depression to describe how a kid feels when it rains on his birthday and to describe how somebody feels the minute before they commit suicide.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] People say to me, well, is it continuous with normal sadness? And I say, in a way, it's continuous with normal sadness. There is a certain amount of continuity, but it's the same way there's continuity between having an iron fence outside your house that gets a little rust spot.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That you have to sort of sand off and maybe do a little repainting. And what happens if you leave the house for a hundred years and it rusts through until it's only a pile of orange dust. And it's that orange dust spot, that orange dust problem that's the one we're setting out to address.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So now, people say, you take these happy pills and do you feel happy? And I don't.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But I don't feel sad about having to eat lunch. And I don't feel sad about my answering machine. And I don't feel sad about taking a shower.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I feel more, in fact, I think, because I can feel sadness without nullity. I feel sad about professional disappointments, about damaged relationships, about global warming. Those are the things that I feel sad about now.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I said to myself, well what is the conclusion? How did those people who have better lives even with bigger depression manage to get through? What is the mechanism of resilience?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And what I came up with over time was that the people who deny their experience, the ones who say I was depressed a long time ago and I never want to think about it again and I'm not going to look at it and I'm just going to get on with my life. Ironically, those are the people who are most enslaved by what they have. Shutting out the depression strengthens it. While you hide from it, it grows.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And the people who do better are the ones who are able to tolerate the fact that they have this condition. Those who can tolerate their depression are the ones who achieve resilience. So Frank Rusikoff said to me, if I had it to do over, I suppose I wouldn't do it this way. But in a strange way, I'm grateful for what I've experienced.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm glad to have been in the hospital 40 times. It taught me so much about love and my relationship with my parents and my doctors has been so precious to me and will be always.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And Maggie Robin said, I used to volunteer in an AIDS clinic and I would just talk and talk and talk.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then I realized, I realized that they weren't going to do more than make those first two minutes of small talk. It was simply going to be an occasion where I didn't have AIDS and I wasn't dying, but could tolerate the fact that they did, and they were.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Our needs are our greatest assets. It turns out I've learned to give all the things I need.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Valuing one's depression does not prevent a relapse, but it may make the prospect of relapse and even relapse itself easier to tolerate.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The question is not so much of finding great meaning and deciding your depression has been very meaningful. It's of seeking that meaning and thinking when it comes again, this will be hellish, but I will learn something from it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I had learned in my own depression how big an emotion can be, how it can be more real than facts.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I have found that that experience has allowed me to experience positive emotion in a more intense and more focused way.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality. And these days, my life is vital, even on the days when I'm sad. I felt that funeral in my brain, and I sat next to the colossus at the edge of the world.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That while I hated being depressed and would hate to be depressed again, I found a way to love my depression.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I love it because it has forced me to find and cling to joy. I love it because each day I decide sometimes gamely and sometimes against the moment's reason to cleave to the reasons for living. And that I think is a highly privileged rapture. Thank you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We tied up the dog, but he is trying to break free.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I want to break free from all my daily responsibilities.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Actually, you're the first in the neighborhood to stop by.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Republican lawmakers in the American state of Wisconsin have sent out police to search for a group of democratic party politicians.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The Democratic state senators left Wisconsin in order to block a crucial budget bill, which includes controversial plans by the Republican governor, Scott Walker, to limit the power of trades unions.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Without the democratic lawmakers, the Senate cannot reach a quorum and the bill, which would have been passed easily by the Republican majority, cannot be voted on.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] News item 32. A former Serbian police chief has been jailed for 27 years for his role in the murder of more than 700 ethnic Albanians in Serbia's province of Kosovo in 1999.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Vlastimir Dojovic was convicted by the International Tribunal in The Hague of four counts of crimes against humanity.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Republican lawmakers in the American state of Wisconsin have sent out police to search for a group of Democratic party politicians.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The Democratic state senators left Wisconsin in order to block a crucial budget bill, which includes controversial plans by the Republican governor, Scott Walker, to limit the power of trades unions.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Without the democratic lawmakers, the Senate cannot reach a quorum and the bill, which would have been passed easily by the Republican majority, cannot be voted on.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] News item 32. A former Serbian police chief has been jailed for 27 years for his role in the murder of more than 700 ethnic Albanians in Serbia's province of Kosovo in 1999.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Vlastimir Dojovic was convicted by the International Tribunal in The Hague of four counts of crimes against humanity.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm fed up with arguing about this. Let's just settle the argument once and for all. Example two.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We'll have to attempt to make contact. This is Captain Picard of the Starship Enterprise. We don't wish to engage. What is the nature of this attack? I am Captain Core of the ship Clothos. Your ship attacked our search party.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, you're not doing it right. Core doesn't sound like that. His voice is deeper.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I am Captain Cor of the ship Clothos. Your ship.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, if you can't do an authentic Klingon voice, I'll have to find a more serious Star Trek fan who can actually act, okay? But, but, I already bought the Klingon suit.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yes, all of these words and phrases you might still hear today, but they are really a little bit old fashioned.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We have two words we're going to hear in the dialogue. The first one, sock hop.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, not used anymore. But a sock hop is a school dance.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, we've got five phrases and words from the dialogue. Now, the first thing we heard was Sandy said, heya.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, Sandy asks Tracy, how are you? And Tracy replies, I'm swell.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] A small person who is not strong.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so that was a little bit easier to understand, but some great 50s style phrases and words. So why don't we look at some of these phrases now in Fluency Builder.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You, you are watching it carefully because you want it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I have my eye on that sweater because it's on sale.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Example 2. I lost my keys so I'm crashing at my girlfriend's house. Example 3.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Example two. Yeah man, that's a great idea. Example three.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's nothing quite like being in a room full of people like this, where all of you are giving your attention to me. It's a powerful feeling. Get attention.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm an actor, so, uh, I'm a bit of an expert on, uh, well, nothing, really. But I do know what it feels like to get attention. I've been lucky in my life to get a lot more than my fair share of attention. And I'm grateful for that, because like I said, it's a powerful feeling. But there's another powerful feeling.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That I've also been lucky to experience a lot as an actor. And it's funny, it's sort of the opposite feeling because it doesn't come from getting attention. It comes from paying attention. When I'm acting,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I get so focused that I'm only paying attention to one thing. Like, when I'm on set and we're about to shoot and the first AD calls out, rolling.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then I hear a speed marker set and then the director calls action. I've heard that sequence so many times, like it's become this Pavlovian magic spell for me. Rolling speed marker set and action. Something happens to me. I can't even help it. My attention narrows and


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That feeling, that is what I love. That to me is creativity and that's the biggest reason I'm so grateful that I get to be an actor. So, there's these two powerful feelings. There's getting attention and paying attention.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Of course in the last decade or so, new technology has allowed more and more people to have this powerful feeling of getting attention.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Writing or photography or drawing or music, everything. The channels of distribution have been democratized and that's a good thing.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But I do think there's an unintended consequence for ...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Anybody on the planet with an urge to be creative, myself included, because I'm not immune to this, I think that our creativity is becoming more and more of a means to an end. And that end is to get attention. And so I feel compelled to speak up, because in my experience,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The more I go after that powerful feeling of paying attention, the happier I am.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So this is something that goes way back for me. Uh, I think the first time I can remember, uh, using my acting to get attention, I was eight years old at summer camp.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I've been going on auditions for about a year by then and I've been lucky to get some small parts and TV shows and commercials and I bragged about it a lot that summer at camp.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Then the tide turned, I think I took it too far with the bragging, and uh, and then the other kids started to make fun of me.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I remember there was this, there was this one girl I had a crush on. Rocky. Her name was Rachel, but she went by Rocky.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And, uh, she was beautiful, and she could sing, and I was smitten with her, and I was standing there, bragging. And she turned to me, and she called me a show-off. Which I 100% deserved. But, you know, it still, it really hurt. And,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Ever since that summer, I've had a certain hesitance to seek attention for my acting.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then Twitter came out. And I got totally hooked on it, just like everybody else, which made me into a complete hypocrite, because at that point I was absolutely using my acting to get attention. I mean ...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What, did I think I was just getting all these followers because of my brilliant tweets? I actually did think that. I was like, they don't just like me because they saw me in Batman. They like what I have to say. I've got a way with words.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then in no time at all, it started having an impact on my dearly beloved creative process. It still does. I try not to let it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But you know, I'll be sitting there like, reading a script.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And instead of thinking, okay, how can I personally identify with this character? Or how is the audience going to relate to this story? I'm like, what are people going to say about this movie on Twitter? And what will I say back? That'll be good and snarky enough to get a lot of retweets, but not too harsh because people love to get offended and I don't want to get canceled. These are the thoughts that enter my mind. Well, I'm like,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I'm not here to tell you that technology is the enemy of creativity. I don't think that. I think tech is just a tool.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It has the potential to foster unprecedented human creativity. Like, I even started an online community called HitRecord, where people all over the world collaborate on all kinds of creative projects, so I don't think that social media or smartphones or any technology is problematic in and of itself.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If we're going to talk about the perils of creativity becoming a means to get attention,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Then we have to talk about the attention-driven business model of today's big social media company. Alright? Okay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So this will be familiar territory for some of you, but it's a really relevant question here. How does a social media platform like, for example, Instagram, make money?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's not selling a photo sharing service. That part's free. So what is it selling? It's selling attention. It's selling the attention of its users to advertisers. And there's a lot of discussion right now about how much attention we're all giving to things like Instagram. But my question is, how is Instagram getting so much attention? We get it for them. Anytime somebody posts on Instagram,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They get a certain amount of attention from their followers, whether they have a few followers or a few million followers. And the more attention you're able to get, the more attention Instagram is able to sell. So it's in Instagram's interest for you to get as much attention as possible. And so it trains you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's a whole science to it. Uhm, if you're curious, I recommend the work of Jaren Lanier, Tristan Harris, Nir Eyal. But here's what I can tell you. Being addicted to getting attention, it's just like being addicted to anything else. It's never enough.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So I have 4.2 million followers on Twitter. It's never made me feel amazing.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm not gonna tell you how many I have on Instagram because I feel genuine shame about how low the number is because I joined Instagram after Batman came out.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And of course, there are a lot of actors, you know, who are a lot more famous than I am, have more followers than I do, but I bet you they would tell you the same thing. If your creativity


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Is driven by a desire to get attention. You're never going to be creatively fulfilled.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Something else you can do with your attention besides letting a giant tech company control it and sell it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This is that feeling I was talking about, why I love acting so much. It's being able to pay attention to just one thing.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Turns out there's actually some science behind this too. Uh, psychologists and neuroscientists, they study a phenomenon they call flow, uh, which is this thing that happens in the human brain when someone pays attention to just one thing, like something creative and manages not to get distracted by anything else. And some say the more regularly you do this, the happier you'll be.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now, I'm not a psychologist or a neuroscientist, but I can tell you, for me, that is very true. It's not always easy.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's hard to really pay attention like this. It takes practice. Everybody does it their own way. But if there's one thing I can share that I think helps me focus and really pay attention, it's this.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I try not to see other creative people as my competitors. I try to find collaborators. Like, if I'm acting in a scene,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If I start seeing the other actors as my competitors and I'm like, oh my god, they're going to get more attention than I am. People are going to be talking about their performance more than my performance. Like, I've lost my focus. And by the way, I'm probably going to suck in that scene. But when I see the other actors as collaborators, then it becomes almost easy to focus because I'm just paying attention to them.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I don't have to think about what I'm doing, I just, I react to what they're doing, they react to what I'm doing, and we can kind of keep each other in it together.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But I don't want you to think there's only actors on a set that can collaborate in this way. It could be whatever kind of creative situation. It could be professional. It could be just for fun.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And once I'm collaborating with other people, whether they're on set or online, wherever,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That makes it so much easier for me to find that flow because we're all just paying attention to the one thing that we're making together and I feel like I'm


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Part of something larger than myself and we all sort of shield each other from anything else that might otherwise grab our attention and we can all just be there. At least that's what works for me.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that addictive cycle of wanting to get attention, I mean like,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But I can also, I can honestly say that this whole creative process of writing and giving this talk, it's been a huge opportunity for me to focus and really pay attention to something I care a lot about.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Why didn't you tell me before? What are you doing here?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] See that constellation there? That's Orion.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And the very bright star? Well, it's not a star, cause it doesn't blink. That's actually Venus.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] See that constellation there? That's Orion.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, the very bright star? Well, it's not a star, cause it doesn't blink. That's actually Venus.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's right. Uhm, and, you know, even though most people agree that global warming is a big problem, there's still this sort of fringe element of people who believe that actually global warming doesn't exist.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We're going to look at two words here and you'll hear both of these in the dialogue. So the first one is polar ice caps.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Like the poles, the north and south poles of the earth.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So the polar ice caps are masses of ice that, uh, that live or that exist on the top and the bottom of the world.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, next word is endangered species.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's a type of animal that is at risk of completely dying out.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so with that, I think we're just about ready to turn to our dialogue. Now here we're gonna learn a lot of language that you can use when you want to make an argument or express your point of view in a very sort of academic way. But Marco, what are we arguing about here?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, yeaah, maybe he believes it, but they certainly have very strong and differing opinions.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So the college professor was arguing against this idea of global warming and she said, look, it's an indisputable fact.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So why don't we give a few examples? Uhm, it's an indisputable fact that China is the most populous nation on earth.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well the student accused the professor of scaremongering.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Which is basically a seller of fish. So a scaremonger is a seller of fear.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So an autocratic country is ruled by someone who holds total power.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, you could say, ah, I can't stand my boss's autocratic leadership style.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, this company is a very autocratic organization.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The student accused the professor of being duplicitous.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yet you're telling lies as a means of making people do something or tricking them.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so that, that part I can't, I can't argue with. It's really true.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now, at the end of the dialogue, the student accused the professor of being in the pocket of the oil lobby.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So why don't we move to our final phrase. And the student was talking about the professor's so-called findings.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You use this word when you want to take away from the importance of an idea.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right, so for example, my so-called friends.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So yeah, they're friends in name, but they don't act like friends.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so maybe you'd kind of go to work, but do nothing all day.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's right, so that's our last phrase for Fluency Builder. Now I think it'll help us to understand these words and phrases a little bit better to hear them again in context.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's right, but what I, uhm, what I noticed in this dialogue is that the, the student was pretty assertive in putting forth her argument and standing up to the teacher.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, in North American universities, there is this idea that it's really important to, uhm, you know, think critically and to argue against different ideas, uhm, and to, you know, to really speak up when you don't agree with something.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Exactly, and actually I think this situation is really interesting, you know, you always go to these lectures and there's always a question and answer period at the end of the lectures, and I think that there's like this, this group of sort of academically minded people


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Who uhm, who feel like it's really cool to ask these really difficult questions and engage in arguments with the profs.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, but that is one step too far. I think, I think this would be considered a little bit rude.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yep. Okay. So some great argumentative language here in this dialogue, but, uh, we want to give you an opportunity to try out some of this language. So come to our website at EnglishPod.com.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Hello English learners, welcome back to EnglishPod, my name is Marco.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so before we listen to this dialogue for the first time, let's take a look at vocabulary preview.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so an erudite in engineering.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, very good. So that's the word that we're gonna preview today. And now let's listen to our dialogue and find out what movie they are criticizing.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] A very good movie, and well, mixed feelings about it, right? Some people think it's good, other people's- other people think it's not that good.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, so this word, depict, it sounds a little bit strange, so before we explain it, let's take a look at some examples.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, very good. So, to depict- Well, moving on, the critic also talked about the grim portrayal of the villain of the movie, Scar.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so something that is grim. Now what about portrayal?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so a portrayal. I guess we can relate it again to a portrait.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so we can use this as a noun or as a verb. That's right! So, moving on with our third word today, we have an enchanting movie.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, it holds your attention. So it's something very nice. Something that is enchanting has to be nice.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, very good. So, an enchanting moment.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, and now, what about our next word? It's very... and what about our next word? It's French, actually, but we use it in English.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so, we hear this all the time. What is a cliche?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so when we were small, we all read fables.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so a fable teaches you a lesson. I think the most famous one is the one of the tortoise and the hare, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so we've looked at these five great words and now it's time for us to move on to putting it together.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so let's start right away with our first word. So the film critic asked,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What's your impression of something, right? That's right. Alright, so before we get into explaining impression, let's listen to some more examples.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so you can have an impression of something or of someone.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so now we have an interesting phrase here. The accusations of plagiarism.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so if I copy somebody's book and I say, I wrote it, then that's plagiarism.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, so for example, we can say he was cleared of all accusations of tax evasion.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, very good. So, accusations. And now moving on to the final part of putting it together, we have this word, lax.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so, the film lacks a certain originality. What does he mean by that?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so if you are lacking something, you don't have enough of it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, so can you give us some more examples of how we can use lack?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, or I can say, our school lacks infrastructure for so many students.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, so a good movie. What do you think about the Lion King? What do you think about his critique?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right, so come to our website at EnglishPod.com where you can leave your questions, your comments, and also any criticisms on this particular movie or maybe the other one that we mentioned, uh, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, or maybe any other movies you might like. So, uh, come to the website and until next time.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Welcome back movie lovers to another premiere movie review. My name is Richard Clark and I am joined today by the very erudite David Watson.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think this film is simply a fable, depicting man's eternal greed for power, and in my opinion, it's a very fine film. Even despite the accusations of plagiarism of traditional folk tales from other countries, the musical score was amazing, the animation was very well done, and the story was simply enchanting.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Predictable? How? Come on Dave, it's a G-rated movie.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's telling a time-honored story. The movie makes a point of how the hunger of power leads to corruption and teaches children of the value of respect, life, and love.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Welcome back movie lovers to another premiere movie review. My name is Richard Clark and I am joined today by the very erudite


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think this film is simply a fable, depicting man's eternal greed for power, and in my opinion, it's a very fine film. Even despite the accusations of plagiarism of traditional folk tales from other countries, the musical score was amazing, the animation was very well done, and the story was simply enchanting.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Predictable? How? Come on Dave, it's a G-rated movie.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's telling a time-honored story. The movie makes a point of how the hunger of power leads to corruption and teaches children of the value of respect, life, and love.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Cool, we join up in a colour circle.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But red's not similar to green at all. Green is on the other side of the colour wheel, your opposites.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Little red riding hood set out through the forest and- Wait a minute!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] All the better to... Is it time for the party yet?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I suppose we do look a bit the same. Well, we are sisters.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] News item 41. Kyrgyzstan's parliament has voted to name one of its mountains after the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The parliament said it would immortalize the Russian leader's name. Putin peak stands at 4,500 meters higher than Yeltsin peak named after the former Russian leader. However, both are dwarfed by the 7,000 meter Lenin peak named over 80 years ago. News item 42.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The group of policemen is accused of forming a death squad, which killed more than 45 people over the last 10 years. Among those already in jail are several high ranking officers, including one Colonel, the highest rank in the country's military police.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The federal police investigation that led to the arrests began more than a year ago when the authorities noticed an increase in the number of deaths in the areas to where these policemen were assigned.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, we're gonna hear both of these words in the dialogue. Now, the first one, encounter.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Meeting of two people or two teams or two groups.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's right. So a powerhouse team is basically a strong, powerful, really energetic, great team, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So it is a noun and a verb, a bump to bump.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now, another type of, uh, way to move the ball in volleyball we heard in the dialogue is a set.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, so our two announcers, Bob and Rick, said that we've got an exciting encounter ahead of us.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, something will happen in the very near future.