Lets Master English Podcast Episode 9

Hello everybody, you're listening to Let's Master English and my name is Coach Shane.

Alright, this is our Lets Master English podcast number 9, already the 9
th
episode. Thank you so
much for listening to the podcast, I really, really appreciate. Youre taking time, learning some
English, hopefully having some fun. Once again, our fantastic listeners are uploading the
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Transcript number 8 was dictated by Ingrid from Germany, she did a great job but we do have a
few mistakes. Do you think you can help? Well, feel free

Today I want to introduce a couple of comments from iTunes and we get some new countries and
some old counties. Im gonna start with Spain and we have 5 stars review from, oh boy, Gor
maybe G Handrey I apologize for killing your name, I think its one of the best podcasts to
improve English because the content, the skill of the teacher and the variety of matters, here is
recommended. Thank you so much, Im gonna call you Andrey or maybe Handrey, I sincerely
apologize for the bad pronunciation.

Lets jump over to Italy and we got a couple of reviews from Italy:
From 92, Fantastic and rewarding! This podcast is very interesting and Im never humdrum, Im
used to listening to registrations, I had the podcast when I go to university and its the great way to
keep the mind to train, thats fantastic.
Fredereco R, Im so terrible to pronounce it, I apologize guys, Thank you Coach Shane, Im
getting better with my English, I really love when you explain the pronunciation of the words.
Please do it as frequently as you can. I shall, Fredereco.
And I think I did this one, Angelo but Im gonna do it again. Thank you so much Coach, youre
doing a great job. Angelo from Italy. And well, Angelo, thank you for leaving the comment.

Let me jump over to Japan, from H.3, Very good material, this a very good English learning
material which I havent been experienced. Thats very, very nice.
Oh, no, and then we get the comments in Japanese and I can not read the Japanese letters:
So there is one from somebody; there is another one from Cooper8888, thank you; there is another
one from somebody loves this podcast and another one from somebody, hum, T..570 podcast
thats all I can read in their comments, but they give me 5 stars and I sincerely appreciate,
(Japanese) thank you very, very much.

Lets jump over to China:
From PJ Zhang Peng, awesome Coach, awesome classes, definitely I must to listen to English
learners, 5 stars. Thank you so much. , I hope thats pronounced ok.

Were gonna jump to Vietnam, thank you so much from Huang Dang Dong, you speak very clearly,
your podcasts help me a lot and I listen to them every day. Thank you so much.
And also from Lee Hcm, thank you. (Vietnamese) to both of you and all the Vietnamese listeners. I
sincerely appreciate, it means a lot your comments and your ratings on iTunes help us very much
and I really appreciate.

Let me give some quiz statistics: Now since the beginning, Russia has been number 1, but Russia,
Im sorry Russia, you lost. Haha;
Japan is number 1 - 15000 downloads. Japan is rocking, once again, (Japanese) thank you very
much;
N2, Russia, come on, its Italy, Grazie, thank yo u so much to my Italian listeners, I sincerely
appreciate;
N3, its Russia, (Russian) thank you very much to my Russia listeners;
Grazie, Spain is at N4;
Hum, Im forgetting my Chinese friends, once again, (Xie Xie), N5, China;
Mexico, Grazie, N6;
Merci, thank you to my French listeners, there are N7;
Thank you very much to my American friends and I know there are probably zero native English
speakers in American listening. Its a bunch of different people in America, thank you very much;
Kazakhstan, can I say (Russian) to my Kazakhstans listeners, N9;
And once again, (Vietnamese) to my Vietnamese listeners, there are N10.

Running out to top20: Germany is N11; Brazil then we have Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Ukraine,
India and Canada, the UK, Malaysia and Colombia.
Thats the top 20, thank you to everybody, and if you want me to mention you or your country,
please send a message, leave a rating, and then tell me because actually, its sometimes really
difficult to find those ratings on iTunes, I have to click on every single country. Okay, its the time to
get into the News!


When youre super hungry, do you scarf down your food like a pig? Do you wolf down your
burger like a starving dog? But in public, thats gross. Have no fear, a Japanese burger
chains has created the Liberty Wrapper which hides your mouth while you chow down your
lunch. Instead of seeing your disgusting eating habits, fellow patrons only see a specially
made wrapper that shows a clean, smiling face!

What? Lots of interesting words in this one, lets listen it again.

(reads the text again)

Hum, yes, I must to say the Japanese people are very creative, they have so many interesting
inventions and this one of these Japanese interesting inventions. Did you understand the story?
Well, lets go back to the first sentence:
When youre super hungry, When youre super hungry, hum, super hungry, very very hungry,
youre so hungry. How hungry? You could eat a horse if youre hungry. When youre super hungry,
do you scarf down your food like a pig? Well, heres a new phrasal verb for many of you to
scarf down, S-C-A-R-F, down, D-O-W-N, scarf down is American expression; in the UK, they say
scoff down which will be S-C-O-F-F D-O-W-N, its the same thing and it means to eat something
very quickly and probably very very dirtily, in a very dirty way, so you dont care about the looking
good. For me, when I come to Pizza, I usually scarf it down, (noise) yes, so when youre super
hungry, do you scarf down your food like a pig? Yeah, well, we know pigs have the image of
(noise) of eating not in a very clean way. Do you eat like that sometimes? Maybe you do when
youre super hungry.
The next sentence, do you wolf down your burger like a starving dog? Well, its the same
sentence. Do you wolf down? Here is another phrasal verb, wolf, W-O-L-F thats like a wild dog,
(noise) thats a wolf. Hum, wolf down, of course, it means eat - to scarf down, to wolf down - to
eat something very very quickly and not very cleanly. Do you wolf down your burger, now B-U-R-
G-E-R, burger, hamburger, cheeseburger, now make sure you pronounce the r, do not say
booger because a booger thats disgusting. Boogers are those things in your nose. Do you eat
that stuff in your nose? Of course not, those are boogers. You dont want to eat boogers, you
wanna eat burgers.
Hahaso do you wolf down your burger like a starving dog? So starving, once again,
starving means extremely hungry, you havent eaten for days. A dog is a dog, so we can imagine a
starving dog would wolf down its food like a pig because its super hungry. Okay?
When youre super hungry, do you scarf down your food like a pig? Do you wolf down your
burger like a starving dog? But in public, thats gross. Yeah, in public, in front of other people,
if you eat like that, like a starving dog or like a pig, if you eat like that in public, at a restaurant in
front of other people, thats gross, G-R-O-S-S, thats disgusting, thats eke, oh, thats terrible.
Have no fear, have no fear - dont worry. If you worried about that, dont worry anymore. Why?
A Japanese burger chains has created the Liberty Wrapper. So in Japan, a hamburger
restaurant franchise a Japanese burger chain, there are not just one restaurant, there are many
restaurants with the same name. So this chain, so in America, the biggest hamburger chain is
McDonalds, next will be Burger King. Im sure in your country, you probably have McDonalds and
Burger King, but you probably also have local chains or domestic chains. What this a Japanese
burger chain and they have created, they made, they invented the Liberty Wrapper, liberty, L-I-B-E-
R-T-Y, liberty, freedom. Wrapper, W-R-A-P-P-E-R, what is a wrapper? Well, if you buy a
hamburger at McDonalds, they dont just give you the food, they put the food in paper and they
closed the paper and then they give you the hamburger, that paper is called a wrapper. The same
thing if you buy gum at a store, it comes a little package and then you take a piece of gum out, and
usually there are some foil, some tin foil or aluminium foil? That is the gum wrapper. So a
Japanese burger chain has created the Liberty Wrapper, the Liberty wrapper, a wrapper that gives
you freedom?
Which hides your mouth while you chow down your lunch. Okay. So this Liberty Wrapper
hides your mouth, H-I-D-E-S, it covers your mouth, it hides your mouth. When? While you chow
down your lunch, chow down, C-H-O-W, down, we have another phrase verb, so we have scarf
down, scoff down, wolf down and now chow down and they all mean the same thing (noise) to
be eating like a starving dog or a pig.
So when youre eating your lunch, and youre chowing down, its really mass and dirty. Dont worry,
feel free to eat like a pig because this restaurant will give you a Liberty Wrapper and that Liberty
Wrapper will hide your mouth while you eat like a pig.
Instead of seeing your disgusting eating habits, fellow patrons only see a specially made
wrapper that shows a clean, smiling face! Do you understand? So we need to understand
fellow patrons, so fellow, F-E-L-L-O-W, patrons, P-A-T-R-O-N-S, fellow patrons, other customers,
other customers at the restaurant. So youre eating like a pig, but the other customers at the
restaurant only see a specially made wrapper, the Liberty Wrapper, special made and what about
this Liberty Wrapper? That shows a clean, smiling face. Aha, so when you eat your hamburger and
you use the wrapper, it hides your face and shows a clean, smiling face. So, fellow patrons will
never see your disgusting eating habits. Of course, normally you do not have disgusting eating
habits, right? Youre very proper youre very polite, you only eat in small bites and you always use
a napkin, right? Hahame too. I am very clean when I eat and Im cleanest eater in the world. Do
you believe me? (noise) yeah, maybe not. I eat like a pig, but only when Im alone but now if I go
to Japan, and I go to this burger chain, I can eat like a pig in the restaurant. This great!
But there is only one problem - what about the sound? So people can see a nice clean smiling face
but theyll hear (noise) and thats not good.
Well, anyway, its better than nothing, so very interesting, very funny, I like this story. And once
again, the Japanese people are very creative. So we have several good words, new vocabularies,
phrasal verbs. Lets go ahead to start:
Scarf down, S-C-A-R-F down, and wolf down, W-O-L-F down, to scarf down, to wolf down means
to eat like a pig or to eat like a starving dog. So be honest, when do you scarf down food, whats
your favourite food to wolf down?
Starving, S-T-A-R-V-I-N-G, super super hungry, now actually, starving is a serious word and we
all know about the children in Africa and children and people in North Korea, we heard that they
are starving. Starving is serious issue but even like for me, if I dont eat breakfast, I dont eat lunch
and its 4 oclock in the afternoon. I could say, oh, Im starving.
In public, to talk in public, to do something in public, to eat in public, that means in front of other
people, especially strangers, in front of other strangers.
Gross, G-R-O-S-S, disgusting.
Have no fear, to get the intonation, have no fear, dont worry, dont worry about that.
A burger chain, get that r sound, burger chain, would be a hamburger chain, a hamburger
franchise, F-R-A-N-C-H-I-S-E,.
Liberty Wrapper, so this actually a proper noun. Its the name of the invention. Liberty means
freedom; wrapper is the paper covering on food. Liberty Wrapper. W-R-A-P-P-E-R.
Hides your mouth, hides your mouth, covers your mouth.
Chow down, the chow down is of course, the same as to scarf down or to wolf down.
Eating habits, eating habits can have many different meanings but in this case, Im referring to eat
in a very polite or disgusting style.
And finally, fellow patrons, other customer at the store or at the restaurant, the same time youre.
So when youre in the restaurant and you see other customers, when youre at the store, and you
see other customers, those are fellow patrons. Okay? So those are the key words and Im gonna
read the story 2 more times, the first time, slowly and the second time, normal speed. And I want to
remind you I teach normal speed pronunciation and listening skills that means linking and
cancellation in my Daily Dictation Member class. And I am happy to give you a free sample
lesson, send me an e-mail to dailydictationmembers@gmail.com and say, Hey Shane, give me
a free lesson and then Ill send you a free lesson, okay?
Okay, here we go, listen carefully, 2 times, the first time, slow and the second time, normal.

(reads the text again)

Its Question and Answer time.

Our message from Sergej Qand he leaves this message, I can watch the Discovery Channel
and understand everything. Im very happy. He wants me to tell everybody thats including on my
videos and on the Discovery Channel and other channels on YouTube, you can use the
captions button.
Thats right, they do have a captions button which gives to you English words. They put their
words on the screen and thatll help you understand, so thats very true, Sergej. I do agree.
However, Sergej, I do warn you - many times those captions make mistakes and sometimes they
make a huge mistake, sometimes I listen to my videos and I read the captions that YouTube
provides and I laugh and laugh and laugh because there are terrible. Haha so Google and
YouTube are doing a great job in these caption technology and yeah, give it try, sometimes you
can use it but just remember, Sergej and to everyone else, dont trust those captions of 100%.

We have another request from Bo Yu Chen, this Jerry and he says, Could you tell us how to
spell those sounds that use in English, you know those sounds like, huh, hmm, oh, haha.
Thats a great question, Jerry. Now those sounds are called interjections and actually, Jerry, there
are many different ways to spell interjections. It depends on the country and even the region within
the country. Now here is another reason to visit our Goole Plus Community Lets Master
English, Margherita Grdlek, one of our DDM students, just like Jerry, she posted a link and this
basically a dictionary of interjections. oh, huh, hum, aha, oops. And it has all these spellings and
meanings. So this very very useful website and you can find the link on our Lets Master English
Community. She posted it on November 5
th
, November 5
th
and once again, its a dictionary of
interjections. And I read the link to you, so if you a pencil, get ready
www.vidarholen.net/contents/interjections Margherita, as always, thank you very much for that
great link and please go there, check tout dictionary and check out this spellings and it should help
you a lot. Thats a great question.

We also have a question from Bfrom Japan. Actually has 3 questions: on top of one another,
so those 5 words, on top of one another. This expression actually difficult to hear and its almost
impossible to say. Would you teach me pronunciation of these words.
Absolutely, B the pronunciation of on top of one another is on top of one another. So let
me explain: on, in America, we dont say on, we say on, on, on
On top, T-O-P, we dont say top, we say top, the next word is ov and after ov is one, O-N-
E, now there is a rule, and we learn this in DDM and the rule is after the word ov, if there is a
consonant, then the v is cancelled, so ov-one, is there a consonant? No, Shane, there is O-N-E,
o is vowel. Yes, o is a vowel but the pronunciation is not on, its wan which is a w, its a
consonant which means we can cancel the v, so on top of one another lots of connecting, lots
of linking, on top of one another Yeah, so there we go.

The next question I want to know the difference between frame and flame.
So obviously the meaning is different. F-R-A-M-E, F-L-A-M-E, its the different pronunciation,
frame, flame; frame, flame. So lets get rid of the f rame, rame; lame, lame. Now youll go on
mycoachshanesesl YouTube channel, thats www.youtube.com/coachshanesesl, go to the
search box and type r or l, then youll see I have many videos teaching the r pronunciation and
the l pronunciation. Those videos are very important, so I want you to practise a little bit, and if
you can, leave me an MP3 of audio recording, you can do that on YouTube and just leave a
response and I should be able to see it and listen to your pronunciation that goes for everybody too.

And number 3, I want to know the pronunciation difference between C-O-D-E and C-O-R-D.
So once again, its the r sound and I know in Japan and in Korea and in many other countries, the
r is very difficult. Remember when you make the r pronunciation, the r sound, the tongue
touches nothing, and the tip of the tongue points to the upper part of your jaw. Do you know the
alveolar ridge? A-L-V-E-O-L-A-R, alveolar ridge, the tongue points to that. Its the ridge or the
bump right behind your upper teeth, you have to point, you have to use some muscles in your
tongue and actually in your check, er, erframe, cord. That r sound in almost every word is
going to be pronounced nearly the same. Native English speakers have the easy time with the r
sound, but I know its very difficult, you need to practise to master the r. The l sound is easy, if
you put your tongue slightly, lightly between your teeth and go l, l, I love you, I love you. I love,
the letter l if you put your tongue between your teeth every time you say the l, not too heavy,
very light. You have to the perfect l sound, so then you need to compare the l and the r, and
there are very different, very very different. So Y and many others people practise those l and r
sounds. And thank you guys for your questions. Its the time to move on.


How are you doing everybody? This is Country Shane and I'm here to bring you the facts.
Most of plants are solar systems., but Venus and Uranus in the different directions. This is
been Country Shane bringing you the facts.

Wow, Country Shane is reading science these days. Well Country Shane said Uranus, and some
people say Uranus, thats one of our planet. I know that you know the 7 turn of planet after set
turn . And then of course Neptune, Pluto, I still think Pluto is a planet. Oh, thank you Country
Shane for that fact and for that great expression foot for thought that we learn on e-Cubed. I hope
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