Learn English quickly with podcast | English learning Conversation | Episode 1

[Music] hello English Learners and welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica how are you Erica Marco I'm doing really well today you're excited uhhuh we've got a great lesson for everyone yes we have a really common situation where we're going to use real English right yep everyday English English that people really use and that's what we want you to learn what are we talking about today specifically today we have a really common situation that is a little bit embarrassing all right an embarrassing situation so let's listen to the dialogue for

the first time and it's going to be kind of fast yeah but don't worry if you don't understand everything because after 10 minutes you'll understand everything Perfect all right let's [Music] listen Nick how's it going oh hey what are you doing in this neighborhood do you live around here actually my office is right around the corner it was great to meet you last week at the conference I really enjoyed our conversation about foreign investment yeah yeah it was really interesting you know I'm in a bit of a hurry but here's my card we should definitely

meet up again and continue our discussion sure you still have my contact details right you know what this is really embarrassing but your name has just slipped my mind can you remind me sure sure my name is Anna Ferris don't worry about it it happens to me all the time I'm terrible with names too wow Nick forgot her name yeah that's happened to me a couple of times and I'm going to tell you about it a little bit later okay all right well let's start with our three language takeaways language takeaway so our first word

on our language takeaway is in a bit of a hurry in a bit of a hurry in a bit of a hurry in a bit of a hurry so Nick was in a hurry yeah that's right this is a great phrase so let's listen to three examples of how you can use this phrase example one can you drive faster I'm in a bit of a hurry example two I can't talk right now I'm in a bit of a hurry example three I'm in a bit of a hurry so I'll check these files later okay so

it's clear now basically it means that you don't have time you're moving really quickly okay perfect now let's look at our second language takeaway word and it's it's contact details contact details contact details contact details so what are your contact details basically this is the information you can find on your business card all right so we have like our name our telephone number your email address perhaps your mobile phone number so all the useful information so people can get in touch with you yep so people can phone you or email you okay so contact details

great okay so our third third word is slipped my mind slipped my mind slipped my mind slipped my mind so this is a funny phrase it's kind of strange right yeah slipped my mind it sounds very weird exactly okay so now we're going to listen to two examples of this phrase try and see if you can figure out what it means example one I'm sorry I forgot to respond to your email it just slipped my mind example two don't you know what day it is today oh it's your birthday it completely slipped my mind ah

so slipped my mind is like I forgot you forgot something uhhuh so accidentally right okay great now it's time for putting it together putting it together all right Erica why don't you tell our listeners what putting it together is well putting it together helps you put language together it helps you be more fluent by knowing how words fit together great so let's look at our first phrase today and it's around here around here around here around here so this is like close by close by right I can say for example is there a bank around

here yeah yeah um so that's is there a bank close to here exactly now this phrase around here we can change it a little bit and it means something a little bit different right I could say Marco there's a great restaurant right around the corner right and that would mean there is a great restaurant on the other Street yep around the corner yep great or we have another example we can say around there around there right so for example I can say uh Los Angeles is a great City I used to live around there so

you used to live near Los Angeles exactly all right it's a really good phrase and it's really common yeah now our next phrase in putting it together is terrible with terrible with terrible with terrible with so we have a couple of examples that will show you how this phrase Works example one you're terrible with numbers you can't even remember your own telephone number example two I'm terrible with directions I'm always getting lost example three I'm terrible with faces I can never remember what people look like wow I understand that I'm also terrible with numbers I

can barely add 2+ two well yeah I guess uh not everyone is a numbers person I'm terrible with uh faces I sometimes forget what people look like really yeah uhoh so I think it's time now for us to listen to our dialogue a second time okay this time the dialogue will be a little bit slower right so try and listen for some of the words we've just talked about Nick how's it going oh hey what are you doing in this neighborhood do you live around here actually my office is right around the corner it was

great to meet you last week at the conference I really enjoyed our conversation about foreign investment yeah yeah it was really interesting you know I'm in a bit of a hurry but here here's my card we should definitely meet up again and continue our discussion sure you still have my contact details right you know what this is really embarrassing but your name has just slipped my mind can you remind me sure my name is Anna Ferris don't worry about it it happens to me all the time I'm terrible with names too so it's more clear

now you can understand a lot better right yeah that's true great so now it's time for us to take a look at fluency Builder fluency Builder so with fluency Builder we take some very simple phrases and show you how you can be more fluent or how you can sound more native yeah great in the beginning of the dialogue Anna said Nick how's it going yeah this is a great phrase it sounds really really natural you know sometimes I hear students say how are you or how are you doing those are two great phrases but this

one sounds really really natural it just sounds more casual yeah let's listen again to that phrase from the dialogue how's it going how's it going great so next time that you find a friend on the street you can just say hey how's it going yeah so Marco have you ever forgotten someone's name yeah it's happened to me a couple of times and actually the most embarrassing situation was that I forgot a family memb no a family member's name we had like a family reunion and there were a lot of aunts and uncles and cousins that

I hadn't seen in a while and I just forgot one of my uncle's names and I was uhoh that's pretty embarrassing so what did you do well I had to ask one of my uh other cousins I'm like hey who is that guy he's like oh that's Uncle John I'm like oh man I totally forgot yeah so it was really embarrassing because I didn't know what to call him so I just called him Uncle cuz I didn't know his name hi Uncle yeah oh yeah so when that happens to me when I'm in a business

setting sometimes what I do is I ask for someone's card ah yeah that's the good technique yeah or sometimes I might ask them to write down their email cuz usually their full name is spelled out in their email address so that's my trick when I forgotten someone's name that's a good trick and I guess a lot of our listeners can take your advice on that okay so I think it's time for us to listen to our dialogue one more time this time at natural speed Nick how's it going oh hey what are you doing in

this neighborhood do you live around here actually my office is right around the corner it was great to meet you last week at the conference I really enjoyed our conversation about foreign investment yeah yeah it was really interesting you know I'm in a bit of a hurry but here's my card we should definitely meet up again and continue our discussion sure you still have my contact details right you know what this is really embarrassing but your name has just slipped my mind can you remind me sure my name is Anna Ferris don't worry about it

it happens to me all the time I'm terrible with names too well I hope that you've all enjoyed our lesson for today and remember to check out our website at englishpod do.com where you can find a lot of other resources and you can leave all your questions and comments yeah Marco and I are always on the site so we're happy to answer all of your questions exactly so now it's time for us to say [Music] goodbye the English pod audio review listen to the meaning then say the vocabulary word how are you how's it going

close to here around here on the next street around the corner moving quickly having no time in a bit of a hurry information required to contact someone for example telephone number email address contact details been forgotten slip my mind bad at terrible with close to there around there to know and remember someone or something you have seen before to recognize someone you know but who is not a close friend acquaintance move quickly not have much [Music] time in a rush forgetting things easily forgetful let's try that faster bad at terrible with forgetting things easily forgetful

to know and remember someone or something you have seen before to recognize close to there around there moving quickly having no time in a bit of a hurry close to here around here move quickly not have much [Music] time in a rush how are you how's it going on the next street around the corner information required to Conta someone for example telephone number email address contact details someone you know but who is not a close friend acquaintance been forgotten slip my mind now say the word and hear it in a sentence around here excuse me

is there a bakery around here around here did I leave my keys somewhere around here around here there is a really good restaurant right around here if you are looking for a bank there is one right around the corner you can find a parking space right around the corner there used to be a supermarket right around the corner but it went out of business I'm in a bit of a hurry now so I will talk to you later his wife was having a baby so he was in a bit of a hurry can you drive

faster I'm in a bit of a hurry contact details Isabelle do you have the contact details of our internet service provider contact details here is my card with all my contact details contact details I don't have your contact details slip my mind I'm sorry I forgot to respond to your email it just slipped my mind slip my mind I forgot I had a dentist appointment this afternoon it must have slipped my mind slip my mind I'm sorry I forgot your birthday it completely slipped my mind terrible with I always make mistakes with the budget I'm

terrible with numbers terrible with I am terrible with directions I always get lost terrible with every time I turn on the computer something happens I'm terrible with technology [Music]