27. Luke’s New Guitars – A Dialogue in English
Listen to a dialogue in English for listening and speaking practice! This week, Emma and Luke talk about Luke’s new guitars.
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Emma 0:02
You’re listening to Dialogue Frog’s short English conversations. So, Luke, I couldn’t help but notice there’s a few new family members in your studio.
Luke 0:16
Yeah. They’re my they’re my little treasured instruments.
Emma 0:24
Your instruments. So we have… who-who is this? This-this blue one?
Luke 0:29
Uh, her name’s Marcy. She is a Fender Stratocaster um, in Lake Placid blue, and-
Emma 0:40
You know, I already don’t understand most of what you just said and I know it was in English. So you got a couple new guitars?
Luke 0:49
Oh, yeah, I-I forgot my bass too, um, we’re still working on a name-name for him. But yeah, he’s a really cool. Um, he’s a matte black Stingray. Uh, a Stingray bass with two humbuckers.
Emma 1:14
Again, I’m not sure that you’re speaking English. I think you lost me.
Luke 1:17
Oh, okay.
Emma 1:18
You started speaking some kind of music language.
Luke 1:22
Oh, yeah.
Emma 1:23
Yeah. So is it, and this might be kind of a silly question, but I don’t know much about the culture of being a musician. Is it normal to name guitars?
Luke 1:35
Um, kind of. Some people do. Some people don’t. I-I don’t name my guitars un-unless they co-it like, the name has to come to me. So like, um, I also have a ’52 reissue Telecaster and it’s just like, I was just driving home one day, I was like, ‘Of course, his name is Charlie!’ It’s like-
Emma 1:59
Of course.
Luke 2:00
Of course.
Emma 2:01
Of course.
Luke 2:02
It’s like a really good like, I don’t know, I think of it as like a ’50s style name. Uh, I guess. I mean, I, it could be any name l s-, I suppose. But that was that was the connotation in my brain for that name, I guess.
Emma 2:19
Well, and often people will name expensive things. So some people might name their computer or some people might name their car.
Luke 2:26
Yeah. Yeah. And it-it’s kind of helpful too, like when I’m talking to my musician friends, and it’s just like a short reference to describe what instrument I’m talking about with saying, without saying, ‘Hey, my 1952 reissue Telecaster in butterscotch blonde I- was the one I used to record this track.’ So I just say, ‘Oh, I used Charlie on it.’ You know.
Emma 2:50
That does seem faster now that you put it that way. What was- what would you say the color was? Butterscotch?
Luke 2:56
Butterscotch blonde.
Emma 3:00
That’s an interesting color.
Luke 3:03
That’s true.
Emma 3:03
An interesting name for a color. Butterscotch blonde. And then this new one you have, Marcy, it was.
Luke 3:08
Yep.
Emma 3:10
Lake Placid blue.
Luke 3:11
Lake Placid blue.
Emma 3:13
Yeah, thank-
Luke 3:13
Yep.
Emma 3:14
Uh, this is a another episode of Dialogue Frog. For transcripts and vocabulary lists, please visit our website dialoguefrog.com.
I couldn’t help but notice
few
family
member
studio
treasured
instruments
Fender (a guitar brand)
Stratocaster (a type of guitar)
lake placid blue
already
most
couple
guitar
forgot
bass
working on
matte
Stingray (a type of guitar)
humbuckers
You lost me.
music
language
silly
I don’t know much about…
culture
musician
normal
to name
…has to come to me.
’52
reissue
Telecaster (a type of guitar)
It’s just like
driving
home
one day
of course
’50s
style
connotation
guess
mean
suppose
brain
expensive
computer
helpful
reference
describe
butterscotch
blonde
record
track
seem
faster
Now that you put it that way.
color
interesting
Emma 0:02
You’re listening to Dialogue Frog’s short English conversations. So, Luke, I couldn’t help but notice there’s a few new family members in your studio.
Luke 0:16
Yeah. They’re my they’re my little treasured instruments.
Emma 0:24
Your instruments. So we have… who-who is this? This-this blue one?
Luke 0:29
Uh, her name’s Marcy. She is a Fender Stratocaster um, in Lake Placid blue, and-
Emma 0:40
You know, I already don’t understand most of what you just said and I know it was in English. So you got a couple new guitars?
Luke 0:49
Oh, yeah, I-I forgot my bass too, um, we’re still working on a name-name for him. But yeah, he’s a really cool. Um, he’s a matte black Stingray. Uh, a Stingray bass with two humbuckers.
Emma 1:14
Again, I’m not sure that you’re speaking English. I think you lost me.
Luke 1:17
Oh, okay.
Emma 1:18
You started speaking some kind of music language.
Luke 1:22
Oh, yeah.
Emma 1:23
Yeah. So is it, and this might be kind of a silly question, but I don’t know much about the culture of being a musician. Is it normal to name guitars?
Luke 1:35
Um, kind of. Some people do. Some people don’t. I-I don’t name my guitars un-unless they co-it like, the name has to come to me. So like, um, I also have a ’52 reissue Telecaster and it’s just like, I was just driving home one day, I was like, ‘Of course, his name is Charlie!’ It’s like-
Emma 1:59
Of course.
Luke 2:00
Of course.
Emma 2:01
Of course.
Luke 2:02
It’s like a really good like, I don’t know, I think of it as like a ’50s style name. Uh, I guess. I mean, I, it could be any name l s-, I suppose. But that was that was the connotation in my brain for that name, I guess.
Emma 2:19
Well, and often people will name expensive things. So some people might name their computer or some people might name their car.
Luke 2:26
Yeah. Yeah. And it-it’s kind of helpful too, like when I’m talking to my musician friends, and it’s just like a short reference to describe what instrument I’m talking about with saying, without saying, ‘Hey, my 1952 reissue Telecaster in butterscotch blonde I- was the one I used to record this track.’ So I just say, ‘Oh, I used Charlie on it.’ You know.
Emma 2:50
That does seem faster now that you put it that way. What was- what would you say the color was? Butterscotch?
Luke 2:56
Butterscotch blonde.
Emma 3:00
That’s an interesting color.
Luke 3:03
That’s true.
Emma 3:03
An interesting name for a color. Butterscotch blonde. And then this new one you have, Marcy, it was.
Luke 3:08
Yep.
Emma 3:10
Lake Placid blue.
Luke 3:11
Lake Placid blue.
Emma 3:13
Yeah, thank-
Luke 3:13
Yep.
Emma 3:14
Uh, this is a another episode of Dialogue Frog. For transcripts and vocabulary lists, please visit our website dialoguefrog.com
I couldn’t help but notice
few
family
member
studio
treasured
instruments
Fender (a guitar brand)
Stratocaster (a type of guitar)
lake placid blue
already
most
couple
guitar
forgot
bass
working on
matte
Stingray (a type of guitar)
humbuckers
You lost me.
music
language
silly
I don’t know much about…
culture
musician
normal
to name
…has to come to me.
’52
reissue
Telecaster (a type of guitar)
It’s just like
driving
home
one day
of course
’50s
style
connotation
guess
mean
suppose
brain
expensive
computer
helpful
reference
describe
butterscotch
blonde
record
track
seem
faster
Now that you put it that way.
color
interesting
