Hello and welcome to speed learning English your podcast for smarter and more professional English. Hope you're having fun. I Richard Iannelli for the same hello hello yes I also just applicable his intellectual numbers like the Pergamon hello and welcome to speed learning English your podcast for more professional and smarter English. I hope you're having fun with this podcast hi Richard how are you happy are you having fun… And yes engineering firm is always a pleasure to record this podcast with the pleasure is mine, and one day we have to make a podcast episode on these in words and so when you are asked do you have fun are you having fun, etc. so let's keep in mind to make a podcast episode on that topic one day. Also In I came across very very funny book Adam Fletcher how to be German in 50 easy steps. This book, this billing will so if you have the book in your hand and you flip it you get the German version so and you can read either in English or in German, Adam Fletcher and Ellen Fletcher came to Germany met his wife, and in the new meter it. It was not his wife when they met first but they decided to get married so he decided to stay in Germany and he tried to become as German as possible lives in Berlin and I just want to go through some apparently typical German phenomena and nominal ideas. Thanks. How do you pronounce phenomena send more when the number how you pronounce your sentence was. I came across a lot of funny or interesting phenomenons, determined phenomenons, yet the greatest term easy to use a phenomenal but then you have a problem at the end of the sentence because you need another word there as well as well as asking for your sentence new sentence you you should actually use phenomenal but then you have to structure sentence a bit different differently because the error we get into the grammar part of English but split phenomenal normal meters from the government and as it comes from Greek it's going to be phenomena and not in the end, one phenomenal and to phenomena. So here is a scut pressure for longer than normal. Now that this is as is traditional, new English, and Philomena blue (yeah, right. This is similar and for whom English title is a satellite Socratic newsletters listed in the English arachnids and Philomena existence to the fulfillment for us. We are phenomenally not really since the artist is a limit informatics urine from what's your and your left as if this is its potatoes and also about explicit finished present for hand and Philomena is the reason Philomena is a site I think that the and phenomenologists and amended the dramatic record okay and not an ancient document is a phenomenal phenomenal/okay then domestic market share leader double down remodeling the sermon. Might as always is writing articles and are good then you can look at for another smart yes and I came across a lot of funny attitudes. Germans seem to have so for example, put on your house shoes do you have house shoes ASL her shoes and there have also you're so determined. Why do you have house shoes and okay you have them, but you also wear them just because whenever I enter the house. I have to put on my house shoes on. And that's how I was raised and I believe it's an have to break the illusion of it, but that's not only bound to Germany and Germans in several countries and several coaches obviously have discussions with a take of the issues and really walk barefoot in the house on the flat butts and obviously we cannot do this are over a year because of our cold, cold winter, as we have experiences yet, but it's not really only bound to Germany, but I understand the stereotype and yes do you have indoor and outdoor house shoes that I really think that if you have a good area to the garbage bin. For example, you have outdoor house shoes were going to do some picking because I have them in the house thinking about the concept as you see literature and the easiest way actually would be to just wear long shoes when you go outside and I went inside to where your house shoes but yes I have and to her shoes separately. For one, and that I use. For example, I can tell you one situation and doing covert the postman to enjoy DHL and they have this regulation or new rule that they will want come up to you and the fact that I will just drop your parcel at the gate and so you have to steps and for that I always use my outdoor house shoes or just have them, but as you have in Jesus comes up to me the most most sensible way with just put on your on your normal tissues, raising money for it, but it's really German – which which takes a lot longer to put on your regular shoes so maybe that's the reason for the house with what you you said it's impossible to go barefoot here during the whole year. In fact I walk barefoot from January to December when I go outside and there's no. I walk barefoot if I have to put the garbage bin to the street and it's snow all over I go barefoot because it's easier for me to clean my feet instead of by my house shoes certain questions and what will the asset class should when was the last time you took out the garbage to the desperate yesterday yesterday so it's the weather is quite cold lately, yet you walk barefoot if she wants to go running barefoot when I when I do some some running for half an hour I ran barefoot my my feet are really the reason is just well it's good for my and for my spine and because I avoid the IL board to walk with the now we come to an monotony and atomic cavalry and so normally when you when you where feet know when you're right where feet area for yes okay normally I have my feet with me normally and if if I walk and and start working with the title. I touched the ground with the child first. This is not very good for your for your files and your report. When you bring you when you and your heel makes contact first year that certified so this is what is avoided. If you walk barefoot because you will trust the shoe and if you run and your heel touches the ground first all the time. This is quite an respect for your needs. Because the whole pressure will get your kneecaps yeah and it goes up to the hips into the back and it's just you and I feel more comfortable walking barefoot and had the same problem and I talked to my friend that studies studies sport sports. I think sports science think and he's no physiotherapist in and he told me that you have to look out for that. Don't make the first letter he'll be the first contact to the floor and always try to avoid it at 72 point yes, and I came across this a couple of years ago when I read the book born to run, which is about a Mexican tribal and population and they pay they solve all problems by running away, thinking they can run 50 or hundred kilometers and in one round and barefoot and so yeah I mean I simply feel more comfortable being barefoot. I also wear barefoot shoes wherever I can and I don't have any problems walking barefoot in the snow, but dill is not don't start walking barefoot in the snow or in hot weather. If you have not practiced walking barefoot in normal weather conditions because this can damage your feet and tremendously so it it is the file for seven year training that I have with my feet as though my feet are quite a quiet experience and you see that this Roger there quite okay. So even if if you work at the beach and that the stony beach. I can walk there barefoot and my wife. She's crying and shouting and screaming and it's very painful for her but I don't feel anything. I think I could even I could even extinguish the cigarette with my feet without feeling anything because after this special and skin part that develops. If you walk like barefoot. So that's very that's very anatomic vocabulary. In this episode and okay so now we just came to do this. The first part that makes people centered. We have a few more minutes let's talk about food shorter. This is typical German tests generally tests. This is typically general social stability and believe me or not. If I'm what I'm looking for freelancer to work for speed learning Academy and they always say well I speak German and then I contact them and sometimes I get answers and I have the impression that Google helped them to speak German, so, so I always ask them well. Tell me what is up to the short and if they can explain what is offshore is in German. I know exactly bedroom and is good enough to communicate in German because then it's normal Germans living abroad somewhere and say in your letter that will test yeah that's right so am I. Sorry if somebody comes to Germany and wants to bring up his left shoulder. This is sparkling water would produce. Now you have given me a test I have given you what you regularly test away all of your expressed start list. I explained it. I explained that in an English so they have to translate into the antibribery abbreviation that is commonly used by by people is our left shoulder, which is a Jewish shawl. How would you translate Charlotte. There's no there's no English translation for sure is that the there's no English. Normally, when you use think of German phrases. There is English English yeah maybe I will let you know there's no there's no translation for that little. Let's ask. Let's ask Google hey Google, what is shorter in English. Did you get the red third you have to say words are. I mean nobody will understand that I like to have a juice spreader. That's funny. We have to we have to make sure that this spritzer will come into the Encyclopaedia Britannica spritzer okay yes and I mean this is great because it correlates with and covered 19 vaccinating the we love spritzer. We make a spread store to the vaccination center okay now and let's continue with these how to be German things next week. In the next episode on just to have some ideas for you. The first one is watch part what and then recycle which is not a minute. Meanwhile, it's not typical typical German fence start off So use these two parts of the children here are very general, yes it was a very general to recycle and is not just just to recycle, but the way we recycle our bins or how we structure and organize our bins verdure okay yes and a window on. Also, as also German as we are seeing and there in the context of corporate where other European countries were copying the concept of fence to keep witches which is absolutely not understandable if you're if you're German that other people wouldn't do that, just the normal basis and yet so we we're exporting. We exporting new habits to other countries. We should charge them for keeping the windows that Greece could charge people for using democracy and the final thing is and this is probably the weirdest habit. Germans have watched enough for one on New Year's Eve. I mean it's it's an English sketch in English as a theater play and it's in English and in Germany people work shirt every New Year's Eve. So let's talk about this so Norman learns about this attitude about the habits next week and until then. Richard have a great time. Thank Israel is always a pleasure to record this book is