Hi. What’s up? No episódio de hoje eu falo sobre doing everything in your power, se você quiser dizer doing everything I can com um pouco mais de vigor. Transcrição Hello, everyone. How's it going? We're starting now a new episode of the Inglês online podcast. That's right. We're back! Let's get right into it, because on this podcast... We do not waste time. We go right into the expressions and here's our idiom for today: everything in my power, everything in his power. It's quite a simple one to understand, but in Portuguese - or in Brazil, anyway - we say it... We don't really say it this way. We wouldn't translated (it) literally to Brazilian Portuguese this way, and I believe even European Portuguese. Everything in my power: that means "everything I can". I will do everything in my power to make this or that happen. That means simply "I will do everything I can" - but if you use everything in my power, that shows you have a bit more vocabulary, a bit more English vocabulary than just "I will do everything I can". Let me give you an example. Let's say Jane has seen a doctor... and the doctor had a serious heart-to-heart with Jane, and said: Jane, you need to lose some weight... because your excess weight is creating this and that health risk. You're in a worse shape now than you were, let's say, three years ago. You have to take care of yourself and get yourself back into shape. What does Jane do for the next two months? She does everything in her power to lose a bit of weight. She starts exercising regularly... Ok, she starts walking, all right? That's exercise too! She starts walking around the neighborhood before she goes to work, she learns how to cook better recipes... More nutritious recipes that are still delicious - she enjoys what she's eating but now she's eating more nutritious food, which means she is satisfied with less, I guess. She cuts excess bread from her diet, she starts eating less pasta and more, let's say, tuna. She looks up healthy recipes online, she starts watching TV shows, she learns a little bit about nutrition - the basics of nutrition. In other words, she's doing everything in her power, everything she can, everything she has the ability to do. She's doing everything in her power to go back to a healthy diet. Another example would be if... Let's say, you're a guy and your sister is having a birthday party in three months and she really wants to waltz. You know, waltz? It's a musical style. She wants to learn how to waltz. And your sister... She doesn't have a husband or a boyfriend. She asks you - you're her brother - she asks you Can you dance with me at my birthday party? I really want to dance to waltz. That's my wish. You don't even have to give me a birthday gift, seriously! Your gift to me will be: you dance with me. You and your sister do everything in your power to become better dancers: you watch videos online, you practice every day, you even consider hiring an instructor... But then you find online classes that are pretty good and you don't hire the instructor. But you are really doing everything in your power to become a better dancer. You're doing everything you can. Tell me: everyone can tell a story about this. Years and years ago I did everything in my power to improve Inglês Online when we were just... when I was just starting the website and people started asking me for help to learn English. I did everything in my power: I did research, I talked to other people, I wrote tips, I did videos. What is it in your life that you did everything in your power to accomplish? Let me know and talk to you soon. Bye. Key expressions Everything in my/your/his/etc power Vocabulary have a heart-to-heart with someone = ter uma conversa franca com alguém lose some weight = perder peso, emagrecer get yourself back into shape = voltar a ficar em forma waltz = valsa

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Podcast: Tudo que estiver ao seu alcance

How's it going? No episódio de hoje eu falo sobre o idiom keep your fingers crossed. Transcrição Hi. How are you? This is Ana, back with a new episode of the Inglês Online podcast. Hope all is well. What's the weather like in Brazil? I think it's getting cold in Brazil, isn't it? Today I came across this really, really cool idiom, which is keep your fingers crossed. Keep your fingers crossed. Open your hand and look at your fingers: you have your thumb... Let's say your thumb is the first finger to the left, and then the next two fingers, if you sort of intertwined them... That's your fingers crossed. Cross your fingers and keep your fingers crossed, because... Let's say, tomorrow I have my English exam and I've studied so hard, and I'm hoping (that) I'm going to do really well. Please keep your fingers crossed. I have to get a good grade on my English exam. That's basically what keep your fingers crossed means. It's like a lucky... It's as though if people keep their fingers crossed for you, that is somehow going to help you. I guess that's a symbol of their good wishes or maybe good vibes, I don't know... But people say to each other "I'm trying to do this thing tomorrow that I really want to be successful. Keep your fingers crossed". I did a search on the Inglês Online blog and then I found this old article that I wrote with two idioms. One is "high five" and the other one is "keep your fingers crossed". Actually I had already written about it!... but it doesn't have any audio. Here are some of the examples I included in this article (and you're going to find the link at the bottom of the podcast episode page). One example was Jane said "I have a job interview tomorrow finally". And then her friend Tom says That's awesome. Do you feel ready? And she says I've been practicing my interview skills or questions. And Tom says Great, I'll keep my fingers crossed. Another example that I used in the article was about Mary saying that her driving test is tomorrow and then she says Fingers crossed! After all, she has failed the exam three times already. Hey third time's a charm! Fingers crossed. "Please root for me"... Which is a bit funny - it is a funny thing to say, because I don't know what crossing your fingers will do for the outcome of the situation that you're going to go through. I haven't really looked into the origin of this idiom, but I bet it's pretty interesting. If you know what the origin of this is... If you know why people say "fingers crossed", "Please keep your fingers crossed for me"... If you know why they say that and why it means that maybe there's a bigger chance of what you're going to do being successful, let me know. Tell me: What is the last time that you asked someone to keep their fingers crossed, maybe in Brazil... Using, obviously, a Brazilian expression? Can you let me know? Can you give me an example? Let me know and talk to you next time. Article: Keep your fingers crossed Key expressions Keep your fingers crossed Vocabulary intertwined = entrelaçou third time's a charm = Agora vai, da terceira não passa root for me = torça por mim outcome of the situation = resultado/desfecho/consequência da situação

Podcast: Keep your fingers crossed

Hey, you! No episódio de hoje do podcast Inglês Online eu falo sobre o idiom let alone, que é suuuuper comum na língua inglesa. Ouvindo os vários exemplos do pod, você vai se familiarizar bastante com esta expressão e chegar bem mais perto do ponto onde é só abrir a boca que as palavras saem (se é que você já não está lá). Ouça, re-ouça e depois deixe seu exemplo nos comentários. Abraço - Ana! Transcrição Hello, what's up? How are you doing? What did you have for lunch? How did you sleep last night? Anyway, welcome to a new episode of the Inglês Online podcast. Today I have a really good expression for you. It's a phrase... very, very common. And if you're a listener of, of other podcasts, if you watch a lot of American TV or British TV, if you're into movies and TV shows I guarantee you have already heard this expression before. But- is it rolling off your tongue? Is it something that comes to your mind when you want to express that idea? That's the big question. I'm going to give you many examples today. This phrase is let alone. Does it ring a bell? Sound familiar? Picture this: there's this little guy, Tommy, who's in school and his mother is talking about him, let's say to the neighbor. Tommy's mother says: Tommy never eats fruit, let alone vegetables. He never eats fruit, let alone vegetables. Now, what is being said here? The first piece is Tommy never eats fruit, never! He never does it. Now, most kids would probably choose fruit over veggies if they had to pick one. My guess is, it's easier to get a kid to eat mangoes and bananas than broccoli and eggplant. Tommy won't even eat fruit, which, let's say, is the nicer option. Can you imagine when it comes time to eat vegetables? He just runs in the other direction - he wants nothing to do with vegetables. With fruit, he's still in the room. But if you try to get him to eat broccoli he'll get out of the room. That's why his mother is saying, Tommy never eats fruit, let alone vegetables. No, no, no chance, no chance for Tommy. Here's another word, imagine that there's this girl, Sally. She lives on her own but she doesn't cook. She can't even fry an egg. She can't even fry an egg, let alone bake a cake. Again, what's more work? Fry an egg or bake a cake? Or what's the level of difficulty of these two things? I think we can all agree... Baking cakes is probably a bit harder, it's probably a bit more work, a bit more complex than frying an egg. Sally can't even fry an egg. She doesn't have the ability to fry an egg, she just can't do it, let alone bake a cake. I mean, she can't even do something that is relatively easy like frying an egg. Do you think she can do something that is more complex like baking a cake? Nope, no chance, she can't do it. Sally can't even fry an egg let alone bake a cake. Here's an example with me. I can barely understand Japanese, let alone write in Japanese. Actually in this example, I'm actually exaggerating my abilities a little bit... Because when I say I can barely understand Japanese it kind of communicates that I can understand something in Japanese, but that isn't even true. I can't even understand the basics of Japanese, let alone write in Japanese. Come on... I guess what I'm saying here is writing in Japanese is a lot more complex than understanding Japanese. I can't even understand it, let alone write it. Let's wrap it up with a final example. Mark never remembers his own birthday. I mean, he forgets his own birthday. Have you ever met someone like that? That forgets their own birthday? Mark never remembers his own birthday, let alone his friends' birthdays. He can't even remember his own, let alone his friends'. Nope, not a chance. Tell me, can you think of an example from your own life? Something that is real for you, maybe it's about you, maybe it's about someone you know. Leave it in the comments, I'm curious. Talk to you next time. Key expressions Let alone Vocabulary is it rolling off your tongue?

Podcast: Ela não faz nem tarefa, imagina estudar!

What's going on? Gravei o episódio de hoje enquanto fazia compra em um supermercado online. Você usa esse tipo de site no Brasil? Conte. Mas primeiro, ouça e enjoy :) Fique de orelha em pé para as pronúncias destas palavras (que muita gente erra!): AISLE, CUPBOARD e BISCUIT Transcrição Hello. How have you been? All good? So, so? Whatever is going on and however you are, right now you're here listening to the podcast... to the Inglês Online podcast. That is a good thing. I hope overall everything is going well. Today we have a new episode, and I was just browsing a website for... It's a supermarket that has this online delivery service and I was browsing the pages and seeing how it works. Obviously we're now in coronavirus lockdown. I live in the UK, in the United Kingdom, if this is your first time listening to the podcast. Things here are a bit stricter than in Brazil from what I've heard when talking to people in Brazil. Here, we can only leave the house... We're self distancing - we can only leave the house to actually go buy food, to go to the hospital or see a doctor, and exercise once a day. Oh... and if we're... what they call 'essential workers', we can leave the house and go to work. For example, people who work in basic transportation services, like trains and the tube. Or if I'm a hospital worker - obviously I can leave the house to go to the hospital. I was looking at this website... It's an online delivery service of groceries, or everything that you would find in a really good supermarket. There's a bit of electronics, there's a bit of clothing, things for your kitchen, for dining, cutlery, plates, small appliances... Here in the United Kingdom lots and lots and lots of people who didn't use to order groceries online, are doing so for obvious reasons right now. But I imagine that the same happened in Brazil: online delivery services of every kind have probably seen an increase in demand. I'm looking here at the website and just sort of thinking back... When all I used to see in front of me was American English, mostly, and just noticing tiny differences here and there. For example, you know when you shop online and they call it 'shopping cart'? It's the place... when you click on an item. I want to buy this item, it gets placed in the shopping cart or the shopping basket and here in the supermarket they call it trolley, which is a very common word here in the UK. People rarely use the word 'cart' in that sense. And I'm looking at the aisles - when you walk the aisles of a physical supermarket, you look to your right and you see the shelves. Let's say, with tons of biscuits, and sliced bread, confectionery, candy... That's the aisle with everything that is sweet, let's say, sweet snacks. Then you go around that aisle and you see a different aisle with flours: wheat flour, almond flour, or ingredients for cooking - sugar, eggs and things like that. That's a different aisle. In the online supermarket website, we see the aisles as what... They call it aisles, although obviously they're virtual aisles. I see Fresh, I see Food cupboard - notice the pronunciation of this word, 'cupboard'. It's an interesting pronunciation. And then I see Bakery, Frozen, Baby and child, Toiletries, Household and so on. I'm clicking on the Food cupboard aisle now. And then I clicked again, because it's... It's got different groups of things under it. I clicked again on Biscuits and I'm seeing all kinds of energy bars and fruit bars, and there's something called energy ball. These little balls... It's like an energy bar, but it's just a ball. It's obviously smaller, it's a bit cheaper - but still expensive, because it's supposed to give you a lot of energy. I don't know... What do you guys think? Do you eat energy bars? And do you think it makes any difference? Here's another thing that I can see in the Biscuits aisle, which is a kind of biscuit that I don't know if we have that in Brazil...

Podcast: Online supermarket

Tudo bem por aí? No episódio de hoje, eu te faço uma pergunta. Para responder, é só escolher e clicar em uma alternativa ao fim do texto abaixo. Ouça o podcast e me diga o que você acha... Enjoy. Transcrição Hi, everyone. How's it going? How have you been? This is Ana with another episode of the Inglês Online podcast. Here we go. Today I have a question for you, especially if you're sort of a long time listener of this podcast - but also if you're new. If this is one of the first times listening to this podcast that is fine... I want to know your opinion as well. But if you're a long-time listener, you know that sometimes when I do the podcast I speak a bit more slowly. Usually when I'm explaining English expressions, when I'm talking about idioms and giving examples... Usually I tend to speak a bit more slowly. On the other hand, when I do sort of a free-form kind of episode where I just talk about my life, and I just go on and on sort of telling a story... You know that sometimes I can speed it up a little bit and talk a bit faster. I have had requests - from some of you - both ways. Some people asking me to do more podcasts speaking more naturally, faster and other people asking me to slow down a little bit. Lately, though, I have to say... I think I have had a little bit more of the latter, which is... more people asking me to record podcasts speaking a bit more slowly. Instead of going one way or the other, I decided to ask you to tell me which one you prefer. In this podcast - obviously, not in the audio... but if you visit the podcast page, this episode's page on the website, you will see a little... This little sort of quiz embedded in the post, in the page... And all you have to do is click on it and you'll see the question What would you like me to do? Would you like me to do more episodes speaking slowly? Would you like me to do more episodes speaking faster? Or do you think a balance is best? Let's say 50% more slowly, 50% quicker... or something like that. All you have to do is click and choose the option. And I'm very interested in what you guys are going to go for - which alternative is going to be number one. I can do both - I'm happy to do both. As you guys know, especially, again -  if you've been listening for a while, I have started to do more episodes without a lot of planning. There's a lot more spontaneous talk... But anyway, I really enjoy doing the kind of episode where I pick a couple of expressions and give you examples, and repeat the expression a lot. And I also like telling you guys about some... some interesting experiences that I go through because I think that it really helps. Like some real life experiences, where I tell you what other people that I run into everyday say. They talk about their lives... it's like different situations, everyday experiences... I think that's interesting as well, and in those kinds of episodes I usually speak a little bit faster. I'm curious to see what your choice is. Feel free, after you select your choice, to leave a comment as well. Looking forward to hearing from you guys. Talk to you soon. Bye! Vocabulary speed it up = acelerar, ir mais rápido the latter = ultimo ou segunda coisa a ser mencionada run into something/somebody = se deparar, encontrar ou esbarrar com algo ou alguém feel free to = fique à vontade para

Podcast: Fast or slow?

How are you? No episódio de hoje do podcast Inglês Online eu falo sobre coisas assim: I do watch this show. I did study. She does like you. They do have a dog. Só que concentro os exemplos na primeira pessoa do singular ("I") para simplificar. Está vendo ali - o do, o did, o does? Essa é uma maneira pra lá de comum de usar os auxiliares, e é uma daquelas coisas que a gente só pega (e começa a falar) com muito listening. Então vamos ao listening! Clique no player e ouça já! Transcrição Hello. How's it going? What have you been up to? Are you social-distancing or are you self-isolating? Here where I am we are all social-distancing, we're talking online, we're meeting online to chat... You know the drill. Today I'm not going to talk about coronavirus, thank God. I've got something really, really cool, really interesting that people do with the English language, that the native speakers do... And I think I've touched on it on the website. I think we have an article about it but I don't think I've ever addressed this on a podcast episode. Here we go. Listen to this little example: let's say your cousin Marilyn gave you a skirt. Let's say you're a girl... Your cousin Marilyn gave you a skirt on your birthday, and the skirt is orange in the front - and green in the back. It's an unusual skirt. The funny thing is, you have a shirt that is also orange in the front and green in the back. They were made for each other - the shirt and the skirt. Obviously, you think that the shirt will be perfect with that skirt. They will match completely, but you're saving this ensemble for a costume party because you know the colors are so strong... You don't really want to wear the skirt and the shirt every day. Orange in the front, green in the back... It looks more like a, like some sort of costume, maybe for carnival. Let's say your friend Marilyn gave you that skirt in March and now it's June, and she realizes she has never seen you wearing that skirt. She asks Hey, I've never seen you wear the skirt that I gave you. What is it? Do you not like it? And you say: No, Marilyn. I do like it! I do like it, but it's so unusual. It's such an unusual color combination... I'm really waiting for the right occasion to wear it. It goes with my shirt. But I do like it! And you're being honest, you do like it but it's not a skirt to be worn every day. Here's another little story. You had a Math test last week and you got a four out of ten. Your teacher graded your test and you got a 4. Your friend Marcy says Hey, you didn't study for the test, did you? I thought you were going to study so hard for this. I thought you needed a good grade. Where were you? Why didn't you study? And you tell Marcy Wait... actually, I did study but I had a cold the week before the test and that really got in the way of my studying. I was feeling really sick and I was in bed most of the time. I tried to study but it didn't go very well. Yeah, I did study. Did you notice that in these two little stories I said 'I do like it', 'I do like the skirt' and 'I did study'? 'I did study'. I said, 'I do like it' instead of 'I like it' and I said 'I did study' instead of 'I studied'. When you do that, you're emphasizing the action. You say that when you want to really emphasize to the other person that you are doing that action or that you did that action or that you really like something. They're thinking that maybe you don't like it, maybe you didn't do something, maybe you didn't do that action... But then you say No... I do like it. I did study. "No... I did see you at the movie theater, but you know... I was with my friend who doesn't really like you, I didn't want to upset her - that's why I didn't wave! But yes, I did see you at the movie theater." "Yes, I did like the food, but I had a stomach ache and... that's why I didn't eat much." In all of these situations, you want to emphasize the verb. You want to emphasize that it is true that you like something,

Podcast: I do like it

Hello! How’s it going? Hoje o podcast é sobre... o que mais poderia ser? Sim, o coronavírus - mas com um twist voltado ao entretenimento, ou, pelo menos, ao bom uso do tempo para aqueles que estão fazendo social distancing, self-isolation ou quarantine. Transcrição Hi, everyone. How are you guys? This is Ana Luiza of Inglês Online with a new podcast episode, and... We're in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and it's all everyone talks about. Everywhere you look it's coronavirus... There is no news anymore, there's nothing else that people talk about now. It's like the world has been brought to a halt and coronavirus is the only thing going on. If you're sick, if you're at home... Especially if you're sick, I wish you all the best. I hope you're doing better and taking care of yourself and I hope you get all the help you need and that you have a good rest, and that you fully recover. I wanted to give us all a break and instead of talking about all the problems and issues, and the suffering that has been brought on by coronavirus, I thought I would just talk a little bit about what I'm doing and what some people I know are doing while we self-isolate... Because from what I understand, you guys in Brazil are doing the same: self-isolating. Some people are probably in quarantine depending whether you tested positive for the virus or not... So I thought it would be just a good topic. This morning I had a conversation with some people that I know. There were some people there that I've worked with in the past and one of the people present has had coronavirus. And he is someone that had very mild symptoms, but his partner got it bad and was very sick for a couple of weeks and they're both now fine... But anyway, one of the things that I've been doing with this amount of free time that I have now is watching old comedies and one of the comedies I watched was Mrs. Doubtfire with Robin Williams. It's a super old movie - I think it's from the 90s or from the early 2000s. I don't remember, but it's old! I remember watching it a long time ago and I remember that I liked it and you know what? It holds up! When I watched it last week I had a good time. It was fun, I laughed. I'm kind of now going through a list of, sort of older comedies because my favorites are comedies. I don't want to watch drama or violent movies or even adventure. I'll just pass for now - I really want to go for the comedies. I'm going through a list of the best, most popular comedies from the 90s, from the early 2000s... And I'm going to watch some of those again. And I'm having a good time! Other people in this group that I talked to today... They said they're doing the same thing. They're watching reruns of old TV shows... Someone said they were watching Friends, others said that they're taking the time to really clean their house or organize their drawers, clean out the closet, donate some clothes, stuff like that. And cleaning my house is something that I'm really going to do, because I've been keeping my house relatively clean. But I have to say... with all this free time that I have now I think it's time for a spring cleaning. I'm really going to go for it. Let me know, please let me know: What are you doing? What is your family doing? What are the people you know doing in this strange, unprecedented situation that we're going through? Let me know in the comments - I'd like to hear from you. Talk to you soon. Bye! Vocabulary in the midst of = no meio de/da the world has been brought to a halt = o mundo foi paralisado/interrompido mild symptoms = sintomas leves/moderados it holds up = continua bom, ainda dá para o gasto reruns = reprises spring cleaning = limpeza/faxina geral. Época do ano em que as pessoas aproveitam pra reorganizar a casa depois do inverno unprecedented = nunca antes vista

Podcast: Keeping busy during coronavirus

Hi. What’s up? Tudo bem? O episódio de hoje é sobre aquela situação onde a pessoa acha melhor ficar quietinha, não falar nada, não criar caso... pois há o risco de dar problema se ela disser alguma coisa. Em outras palavras - um ambiente bem chato... Por outro lado, bom assunto para o pod :-) Ouça já! Transcrição Hi. How are you? This is Ana Luiza with a new episode of the Inglês Online podcast. It's a beautiful day here where I am. Pretty nice day to be recording a podcast. Today I was thinking that... I had a chat with someone last week about their workplace, and this person was telling me about this company that he works for, and... It's pretty interesting, I mean... It's not great because he doesn't like the environment too much, but pretty interesting in terms of English vocabulary. I thought of a few expressions to describe my friend's workplace. Here's what it's like. It's very hierarchical, meaning... you have your boss, then you have your boss' manager and then you have the director, and then you have the VP... Whatever they say has to be done: there's no discussion, there's no arguing, there's no challenging. What does that mean? When you challenge someone's opinion, and that's something that I guess we do to different degrees all the time... If someone tells you that soccer team XYZ is the best soccer team in the world, you can challenge their opinion by saying: No, they're not and I'm going to show you why. Actually, team ABC is the best team in the world. You can challenge someone's opinion by actually showing them that they're incorrect and explaining to them why you disagree with what they said. That's what challenging someone's opinion means. In my friend's workplace no one can really challenge anything. If a director or if even your boss says that you have to do this or that, you sort of have to keep your head down and just get on with it. No one challenges anything that comes from above. It's a very hierarchical environment where people have to just be quiet and the managers and directors and VPs... They will tell employees what they have to do and everyone has basically to keep quiet and just do it. Here's an interesting expression that fits the context: make waves. What happens in that environment in my friend's workplace... People try not to make any waves, they try not to speak up too much, they don't give many opinions, they don't disagree, they kind of pretend to like everything, they don't make any waves... They don't want to make any waves, because if you start making waves, if you start voicing your opinion and criticizing, and maybe even coming up with new ideas... My friend said that you will be seen as a troublemaker. It's really that kind of environment. The bosses... They don't really want people challenging them very much. If you work in that place and you don't want to lose your job, you don't make any waves. My question for you is: Have you ever worked in a place like that? Maybe you work in a place like that right now! Maybe it's the place where you feel that in order to keep your job, you'd better not make any waves. Don't disagree too much, don't have any bright ideas, just follow orders and do what you're told. Is that the kind of place that you work in? Or is it very different? Is it a place that is very open to your ideas and your boss wants to listen to you and you can give your opinions... You can challenge what your boss says and your boss is okay with it? Let me know. See you next time, bye. Key expressions Challenge someone's opinions / challenge someone Make waves Vocabulary VP (Vice president) = Vice presidente get on with it = continuar ou seguir em frente com algo troublemaker = pessoa que frequentemente cria problema pretend to like everything = fingir gostar de tudo voice your opinion = dar ou expressão a sua opinião ou ponto de vista bright ideas = ideias brilhantes (frequentemente usada com ironia)

Podcast: “Não crie caso” em inglês

How are you? Hoje voltamos ao "básico" para você ouvir um pouco mais as expressões get used to e be used to sendo usadas. Enjoy! Transcrição Hello, everyone. How's it going? How are you? This is a new episode of our podcast our Inglês Online Podcast. Hope everything is going fine with you and that you're having a good week. All right. Here's what I'm going to talk about today... I'm going to use the expression used to in two different ways: be used to something and get used to something. I'm going to keep things simple for this podcast. All the examples that I will give you will be... "be used to", for example, "the heat". Or "get used to cold weather". In other words, I'm not going to be adding a second verb form to the examples. The only verbs we're going to be dealing with are be and get. Let me start with this example: six years ago I moved to the UK and I was not used to the cold... the cold weather. I lived most of my life in Brazil - obviously I was used to hot weather. What does that mean? I was used to hot weather, I was not used to cold weather. That means I was familiar with hot weather; I was accustomed to hot weather; I lived in the hot weather... Of course hot weather wasn't a strange thing to me. I was used to hot weather, and you know what happened after a few years in a colder country? I think I am not used to hot weather anymore. I am not used to hot weather anymore but on the other hand... I'm used to cold weather now. What does that mean? That means I'm very familiar with the cold weather here where I live. I don't think it's two different anymore; I don't think it's strange. I don't suffer a lot anymore. I'm very used to cold weather now. Seriously, I don't even wear that many jackets anymore when I go out! I'm so used to the cold weather now, guys... You have no idea. I wasn't... I wasn't in the past; I wasn't used to cold weather... but now I am! I'm familiar with it --- it's fine. I think it's fine and, to be honest with you, England is not the European country with the coldest weather. There are other countries where it gets a lot colder than England. It's not that bad, but still... For us Brazilians... When I got here, I remember one day I went out and I had only a light jacket on. You guys, I thought I was going to die. I was shaking and I remember it wasn't even that cold by UK standards but I just wasn't used to cold weather back then. Now, I am. I'm used to cold weather. What happened? Well... what happened was that I got used to cold weather. It was a process; I became gradually more accustomed to cold weather. I got used to cold weather over time. When I got here 6 years ago I wasn't; I wasn't used to it. Now, I am. (In) the past 6 years I gradually and increasingly got more and more used to the cold. That's it! I got used to it. Did you see the difference? We use be or, for example, I am used... I am used to this; I am used to that; I'm not used to this... to say what you are or are not used to right now. On the other hand, get used to... That describes a process. The past 6 years I got used to the cold. You guys, if you listen to a podcast that I did a few weeks ago... I don't know, I think it was... maybe a couple of months ago, where I talked about the spiders... I even got used to spiders, I kid you not. I even got used to spiders! If you don't know what I'm talking about click the link and listen to my episode about spiders. That's it for today. I hope you enjoyed this podcast and talk to you soon. Bye! Key expressions Be or get used to Vocabulary on the other hand = por outro lado that many jackets = tantas jaquetas/casacos assim back then = naquela época over time = ao longo do tempo, com o passar/decorrer do tempo I kid you not = sem brincadeira

Podcast: Be or Get used to

How have you been? Hoje o episódio é sobre duas expressões fáceis, fáceis. Veja só como são fáceis: You got it! e You got this. Né? Mas minha pergunta a você é sempre essa: Você já usa estes idioms sem pensar? Se a resposta for não, você precisa ouvi-los mais vezes... Simples. Enjoy! Transcrição Hello. How are you? What's going on? How have you been? Well... Today we have a new episode of the Inglês Onlines podcast, obviously. This is Ana, as you know. Unless this is your first time listening to the podcast, but here we go. Today, I have two really quick and really nice expressions. Both of them with the verb 'get', but in the past - 'got'. These are really, really informal. If you watch any shows at all... If you have the habit of watching TV or movies, American sitcoms... You have definitely heard these before, both of them. But my goal is always enough input that these expressions actually get in your head - because the more input you have, the more you will become acquainted, or... used to these expressions. And as you know, there's a tipping point. After that tipping point, that expression just starts coming to your mind whenever you want to express that idea. Here you go. First one is you got it. This simply means someone is telling you that you will get what you want. Let's say you have a friend who owns a company, and your friend really likes you and trusts you. And let's say it's a guy. This guy has been asking you forever to join his company and to work with him, let's say as a salesperson. And you're finally willing to work with him. You're finally at a place where you're saying: Ok, yes, I'll join your company, I'll work for you. However, you say to your friend: Ok, I'll take the job if I get a company car. And what does your friend say? Your friend really wants you. He says: You got it! You got it. You got the car. Ok, you got it, it's yours. You want the car, you got it. Next example. Let's say your neighbor asks you to move his furniture. Let's say it's a girl. she's asking you to help: "Oh, can you please help me move my furniture? It's a lot of stuff. It's kind of heavy. Please help". And you know that she has a bike, and you don't... And you want to ride somewhere on the weekend and you need a bike. So you tell your neighbor: Ok, I'll help you move the furniture if you loan me your bike for the weekend. And she says: You got it! You got it. The bike is yours for the weekend... You got it. Third example: Let's say your friend Jack got two tickets to a theater play and for some reason he's not going anymore. You and your girlfriend really want to see that play. You say to Jack: Hey, if you're not going to use those tickets - can I have them? And Jack is a really generous guy. He says: You got them! You got them. Notice that I'm using "them" right? I'm talking about two tickets. He just says: You got them. Okay, guys. Now, the second expression is actually one of my favorites because it's an expression of encouragement. It's really nice when someone says that to you. Let's say you're talking to a colleague, and you're talking about this presentation that you have tomorrow... And you've been preparing, you've been working really hard because you're going to... present, let's say, to a client. And your colleague has been listening to you talk about the presentation and he says: You know what? You got this. You got this. That means your colleague believes you're completely capable of doing this. You will have no problem being a success. He believes you will be a success. "You got this". Notice the emphasis on the word 'got'. Let's say you're on a phone call with your boss, and you're just about to step into a sales meeting with a big client. And your boss, who trusts you, says: "Hey, good luck. You got this. You got this." Or you're about to take an exam and you've been studying for this exam for months now. You're about to hop on the bus, or drive to the exam place, and your roommate says "Hey,

Podcast: You got this

How’s it going? No episódio desta semana do podcast, eu comento as últimas da família real britânica. Se você é uma pessoa que não tem muito interesse nesse assunto, não se preocupe: eu também não. Mas o bafafá foi tanto por aqui no último mês que eu tinha que falar alguma coisa! Ouça o meu resumo, pois ele tem tudo que você precisa saber. Enjoy, e passe pelo iTunes (ou a plataforma que você usa) e deixe uma review para o podcast - muita gente entra em contado comigo para dizer obrigado/a pelo pod, e essa é uma das melhores maneiras de agradecer :-) Adorei ler as mais recentes. Nota: a imagem deste post é uma foto tirada por mim da capa da revista satírica Private Eye deste mês. Transcrição Hi! This is the new episode of the Inglês Online podcast. How are you doing? How have you been? Today I thought I would talk about something that is kind of old news by now, and that is -- everything that's been going on with the royal family here in the UK. And let me tell you, I was never someone who was interested in royal news. I knew the very basic... You have the queen, Queen Elizabeth and then you have Charles and Andrew. Prince Andrew was involved in a scandal recently -- he was friends with a pedophile and he gave this car crash of an interview that turned out to be worse than if he hadn't done the interview. I don't know if you guys heard about it in Brazil, but then, more recently... Prince Harry and his wife Meghan decided to distance themselves from the royal family. And I mean... I've been living in the UK for six years now and I have the habit of... having a look at the newspapers -- at least at the headlines sometimes -- usually once a week. It was impossible to avoid. I ended up reading several articles about what was going on. I don't know exactly what the Brazilian newspapers told you guys but here's a summary of what I read. Prince Harry is the son of the late Princess Diana, and Prince Charles. He's the younger brother of William, who's married to Kate. And Prince Harry, a couple years ago, I think... Got married to an American actress, Meghan Markle. She used to have a role in Suits, but she doesn't anymore... She started dating Prince Harry and I think in less than a year they decided to get married. And they got married and it was a huge royal wedding... And then after a few months she got pregnant, she had a baby, and finally, a few weeks ago... They decided to tell the press that they were stepping back from the royal family and from the royal duties. Being a royal in the UK is like having a full-time job. You represent the country in all kinds of official and governmental situations and events... And obviously you receive funding to do that, which comes from taxpayer money. But the thing that sparked a lot of controversy here in the UK is that... Number one: they released their announcement to the press before they had ironed out all the details with the queen, and... Most British people were not happy about that because actually they care a lot about respecting the queen, and people get really angry here if they think that their queen has been disrespected. That was the first thing. And then the second thing that people didn't seem to like very much was that their announcement to the press was kind of unclear. They said that they were stepping back from royal duties, but they kind of implied that they were going to keep some benefits like the really expensive mansion where they used to live -- which obviously is also funded by taxpayer money... That was a bit strange, and apparently the queen was very upset that their announcement went to the press first, before she and Harry, or she and Harry and Meghan had enough time to talk through all the details and agree on what kind of arrangement they were going to have. Anyway, those were the two major points of discontent, I would say, for the British public... But now, apparently, they're already in Canada... They're living a new life.

Podcast: What’s been going on with the Royals?

Hello!! How’s it going? Hoje eu falo sobre uma Uber ride que fiz recentemente no podcast, e aproveito essa historinha para ilustrar o idiom grab the bull by the horns... Uma expressão bem bacana e comum. Obrigada a quem deixou as novas reviews no iTunes - é sempre muito gratificante saber que o podcast ajuda no aprendizado de novas expressões em particular, e do inglês no geral. :-) Transcrição Hello, how are you doing? This is Ana and I'm back with another episode of the Inglês Online podcast - our second episode of 2020! Have you listened to the first one? If you haven't, go back and listen. Better yet, go back and look at our archive of episodes and download them all... I mean, these are five-minute long English bites that you can have throughout the day... A little bit every day. Why not? By now, we have a huge archive with hundreds and hundreds of episodes and the great thing is... I try not to repeat any idioms - I always try to center the episode around an idiom, or a couple of idioms, that I haven't really examined before... or I haven't really explained before to you guys. It's always a different theme. All right. Now back to today's episode: today I'm going to tell you about a recent Uber trip that I had - because the Uber driver told me... He talked about something that's really interesting to me, which is, how he learned English. And that story is going to be a good illustration of this idiom, grab the bull by the horns or take the bull by the horns. Picture a bull. Now picture its horns. Now imagine yourself grabbing that bull by the horns. I think you can get an idea of what the idiom means. You have a challenging situation in front of you, or a difficult situation, and you face it head-on... And you solve a problem, or you go through that difficult situation and come out (on) the other side, but... In any case, whatever the challenging situation is, you are facing it, you're not running away. You're grabbing the bull by the horns. This Uber driver... He was very chatty so I started asking him How long have you been working with Uber? Do you always work in this area? What's the traffic like today? You know. And I noticed that he spoke really good English but he had a slight accent. I could tell that he had learned British English, but he had a slight accent and then I asked him Where are you from? And how did you learn English? And he said: Well, I'm from Iran and I've been here in the UK for 10 years, and... When I moved to the UK I spoke exactly zero English. And this is a guy - he's probably close to 40 years old - it's not like he moved here when he was a child. When he said to me I learned it on my own. And I could hear his English - very good English... Obviously I was curious, as I always am, so I asked him What did you do to learn English? And he said Well, I spent some time studying grammar, studying vocabulary... but most of all, I used to just watch TV and pay attention to what people were saying and just try to repeat it. And, you guys, you probably know that his native language... I think it's called farsi. It's one of those languages that has nothing to do with English. This guy was really learning a completely different thing, a completely different language from scratch. It was, for him... It was a language that didn't make any sense - he couldn't make any connections with his native language. He said he just persisted by watching TV and just listening to the sounds that people were saying and he was probably, as he watched... I imagine that he was making that connection: these are the sounds these people are saying, and this is what they're doing. That sound must have something to do with what they just did right now... Let's say they're at a restaurant and this woman is talking to the waitress. OK, so that means she's ordering something... something like that. But I just found it amazing and I'm not telling this story because I'm going to advise you to do the same, necessarily.

Podcast: Grab the bull by the horns

Hi, there! How have you been? Veja/ouça no episódio de hoje um idiom super especial: of all people! No Brasil, expressamos essa ideia dizendo Justo você vem me dizer que não posso fazer tal coisa - e também pode valer para Olha quem fala! Ouça o episódio para entender o que eu quero dizer - se é que você já não conhece essa expressãozinha.... Quem é que não tem um exemplo de situação onde poderia ter dito algo assim? Pois é, é comum em qualquer língua. Enjoy. Transcrição Hello, how are you? Did you have a good end of 2019? How's it going so far? Have you rested? Did you go traveling? Anyway, the Inglês Online podcast is back and this is our first episode of 2020. I'm very happy to be back and for our first episode this year, I have chosen a really great expression. Really nice idiom, and if you read the title of this episode you know which idiom I'm talking about - and you know that in Portuguese that expression will change, depending on who we're talking about. I know that some people don't like it when I speak Portuguese in these episodes, but sometimes I just think that it's helpful and this is one of those times. For example, in Portuguese we say: justo você or justo ela, justo a Maria. In English, the corresponding expression is always the same - it doesn't change. In English we can say: of all people, of all people. Let me give you an example: let's say you go shopping with a friend... Let's say your friend's name is Tom. You and Tom go shopping and... Let's say you're a girl. You're shopping for clothes. Let's say you have to buy a dress and you go to the shopping mall... and Tom is really patient. You go to shop after shop after shop and you try on a load of dresses. Every single time, you go into a shop and you have a look at their selection of dresses, and you pick out the ones that you like and then, obviously, you talk to the shop clerk, or the shop attendant, and you ask that person Can I have these dresses in my size? And when you get the dresses, you go into the fitting room and you try them on. You have your shoulder bag with you, you have your wallet in your shoulder bag... obviously! Because when you finally settle on a dress you will have to pay for it - when you buy it. You and Tom have been looking at dresses for a couple of hours now and you finally find a dress that you love. You have just tried it on... It looks great on you... You asked Tom's opinion and he complimented you - he said: Oh, you look great. Good! You're happy. When you go pay for the dress, however, you look in your bag and you can't find the wallet. You realize that you must have left your wallet in one of the fitting rooms. Now you have to go back. You and Tom go back to all the shops to look for your wallet and Tom... is kind of giving you an earful. He's saying How can you let this happen? You have to be mindful of your wallet. Your wallet has all your documents - it has all your credit cards! You always have to know where your wallet is, you have to keep checking your bag for your wallet. You have to make sure that your wallet is always in your bag!! And you look at Tom and you say, Tom... Really? Of all people, you're giving me a hard time, because I lost my wallet, really? I mean, you've been friends with Tom for a while, you know that he keeps misplacing his keys - and sometimes he loses his keys! In the past year alone you've heard Tom say  he misplaced his keys at least five times. He eventually found the keys but before he found them, he would always give you a call and say: Oh... you don't know what happened, I misplaced my keys - I can't find them! I hope I haven't lost them. I mean, of all people... Of all people Tom is now giving you a hard time because you can't find your wallet and you probably left it at one of the shops. You cannot believe it. You look at him and... Tom, seriously, of all people - of all people you are giving me a hard time. Basically, that's it! I mean,

Como falo em inglês: Justo você dizendo isso!

Hi. What's up? No episódio de hoje, falo um pouco sobre como foi o ano de 2019 aqui no Inglês Online, assim como o que vem por aí. Enjoy! Transcrição Hello, listener. How are you? This is the new episode of our podcast. Thank you to everyone who has left a review! If you're a listener - if you are especially a regular listener of the Inglês Online podcast and if you can spare a minute or two, please head over to the Podcasts app on your iPhone or Android phone and leave a review. I really appreciate it. Thank you! So this is the last episode for 2019. The podcast is coming back in January - the plan is first week of January but before we wrap 2019, I just wanted to say that this has been a special year. First of all, because I relaunched our Curso Básico, and you guys... It's better than ever. I've had a great group -people are making a lot of progress in their English and we will have the pre-intermediate coming up... And obviously new groups for the Curso Básico, which is the first module, right? It's really the elementary level. And before I launched the course earlier this year, I made a series of three video classes teaching you a bit of English. Do you remember the classes? Did you watch them? I talked a lot about the 'possessive pronouns' hers, theirs and mine. And anyone who watched those classes got a lot of exposure to those. These little words are some of my absolute favourite things to teach because I know that people go through years and years of English so-called 'learning', and they come out of it not knowing these words, let alone speaking them naturally. I love teaching all those little words that sort of appear here and there in English lessons when you are going to English school and doing a course. But they're never... you never hear them enough if you're doing only the English classes. If all your exposure to English comes from going to English classes twice a week, you never get enough exposure to really absorb these little words. That's why I really enjoy focusing on them, because I know that people listening to these classes and watching these classes are going to get a lot out of it. Anyway, I hope you had the chance to catch those video classes while they were still up on the website and I hope you've continued to listen to English. I guess you have - if you're listening to this podcast right now. And by the way, our podcast has come back full force this year, after a break. I'm doing it in a different way now: before, I used to write the podcast and prepare, and revise before I recorded it... Whereas now, I'm doing it in much more of a... impromptu way, that is - just sort of winging it. It's not true that I wing it a hundred percent of the time. Sometimes I scribble down some thoughts before I record the episode but overall it's a lot more spontaneous than it used to be. As a result, I think the speed has been going up and down. Sometimes I talk a bit more slowly but there have been times where I talked a lot faster. You let me know what you think - you let me know if you think I'm talking too fast or if the speed is okay for you. One other really cool thing this year is.. our collection of basic English tips has expanded like crazy . Actually it has been expanding for the past few years thanks to the amazing work of professor Marcelo, who's part of the Inglês Online team. I know this is the podcast, I know that you're probably not a basic English learner anymore, but hey - if you'd like to have a review about basic vocabulary just head over to the Inglês Básico section of the website and you'll see some pretty cool tips. And most of them have audio as well. This is it you guys. Just wanted to do a little recap and let you guys know that the podcast is coming back early January... And thank you all for listening and for sharing, and for letting me know what you think, and for leaving reviews. (I) Wish you a great end of the year, a very Merry Christmas and see you soon. Bye!

2019: A year in review!

Aprenda os idioms e phrasal verbs mais comuns do inglês toda semana em menos de cinco minutos, com as explicações super fáceis de entender da Ana Luiza do site Inglês Online. Tudo que você ouvir nos episódios é usado no inglês de todo dia. Nível de compreensão recomendado: intermediário e acima.