5. Languages
Listen to a short English conversation about languages to practice your English speaking and listening skills.
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Emma: You are listening to Dialogue Frog’s short and sometimes silly conversations for listening, imitation and shadowing practice. Today is episode 5 and we’re talking about languages. How many languages do you speak Luke?
Luke: Um, probably one half because I’m not even sure I know English that well.
Emma: I’m glad I have you on this podcast that’s about English conversations. No, you speak English quite well, even as a native speaker.
Luke: Thank you.
Emma: But you studied Italian, you studied French.
Luke: Um, yep, I forgot all of my French and most of my Italian. Non capisco.
Emma: Capisco.
Luke: Capisco.
Emma: I did not study Italian. I studied Japanese. I guess I studied French in high school. But I definitely do not remember the French I learned in high school.
Luke: Ugh, It it it can slip away pretty quickly.
Emma: If you don’t use it, you lose it.
Luke: Yep.
Emma: That is what they say.
Luke: Yep. Well I use my car keys and I still lose those all the time so,
Emma: Well that’s just you. Uh, would you like to keep learning Italian though? I know you’re busy doing other stuff, but,
Luke: Yeah, I think it would be fun to revisit it and occasionally I’ll come across a little bit of Italian text or something and I’m like ‘Oh hey, I can, I can understand that’ even if I don’t grasp all the gra-the- even if I don’t remember all of the details of the grammar and stuff I can still get the basic meaning of the sentence, so, it it it does stay in there somewhere.
Emma: And there’s a lot of cognates between English and Italian.
Luke: Mm hm. Yeah, for sure.
Emma: So, when uh, I decide to take a trip to Italy, I can hire you as my tour guide and you can translate menus and museum signs, right?
Luke: Y-yeah. It depends on what, what you uh, you know, I could probably order fish on accident if I was trying to order spaghetti.
Emma: That’s awesome because I don’t like fish, so, if you could learn how to not order fish, that would be great. Okay, today we talked about Luke learning Italian. Um, if you’d like a transcript for vocabulary list for today’s episode, please go to our website at www.dialoguefrog.com and we’ll see you next time.
Luke: See ya.
Languages
One half (1/2)
Not even sure
Glad
Quite
Even as a
Native
Speaker
Forgot
All of
Most of
I guess I….
High school
Definitely
Remember
Learned
Ugh
Slip
Away
Pretty
Quickly
Lose
Well
Car keys
Still
All the time
So
To keep learning
I know
Busy
Other
Stuff
Revisit
Occasionally
Come across
Text
Or something
I’m like
Oh hey
Even if
Grasp
Details
Grammar
Basic
Meaning
Sentence
Stay
Cognates
Between
Decide
Take a trip
Hire
Tour guide
Translate
Menus
Museum
Signs
Depends
Order
Fish
Accident
Trying to
Spaghetti
That’s awesome
That would be great.
Emma: You are listening to Dialogue Frog’s short and sometimes silly conversations for listening, imitation and shadowing practice. Today is episode 5 and we’re talking about languages. How many languages do you speak Luke?
Luke: Um, probably one half because I’m not even sure I know English that well.
Emma: I’m glad I have you on this podcast that’s about English conversations. No, you speak English quite well, even as a native speaker.
Luke: Thank you.
Emma: But you studied Italian, you studied French.
Luke: Um, yep, I forgot all of my French and most of my Italian. Non capisco.
Emma: Capisco.
Luke: Capisco.
Emma: I did not study Italian. I studied Japanese. I guess I studied French in high school. But I definitely do not remember the French I learned in high school.
Luke: Ugh, It it it can slip away pretty quickly.
Emma: If you don’t use it, you lose it.
Luke: Yep.
Emma: That is what they say.
Luke: Yep. Well I use my car keys and I still lose those all the time so,
Emma: Well that’s just you. Uh, would you like to keep learning Italian though? I know you’re busy doing other stuff, but,
Luke: Yeah, I think it would be fun to revisit it and occasionally I’ll come across a little bit of Italian text or something and I’m like ‘Oh hey, I can, I can understand that’ even if I don’t grasp all the gra-the- even if I don’t remember all of the details of the grammar and stuff I can still get the basic meaning of the sentence, so, it it it does stay in there somewhere.
Emma: And there’s a lot of cognates between English and Italian.
Luke: Mm hm. Yeah, for sure.
Emma: So, when uh, I decide to take a trip to Italy, I can hire you as my tour guide and you can translate menus and museum signs, right?
Luke: Y-yeah. It depends on what, what you uh, you know, I could probably order fish on accident if I was trying to order spaghetti.
Emma: That’s awesome because I don’t like fish, so, if you could learn how to not order fish, that would be great. Okay, today we talked about Luke learning Italian. Um, if you’d like a transcript for vocabulary list for today’s episode, please go to our website at www.dialoguefrog.com and we’ll see you next time.
Luke: See ya.
Languages
One half (1/2)
Not even sure
Glad
Quite
Even as a
Native
Speaker
Forgot
All of
Most of
I guess I….
High school
Definitely
Remember
Learned
Ugh
Slip
Away
Pretty
Quickly
Lose
Well
Car keys
Still
All the time
So
To keep learning
I know
Busy
Other
Stuff
Revisit
Occasionally
Come across
Text
Or something
I’m like
Oh hey
Even if
Grasp
Details
Grammar
Basic
Meaning
Sentence
Stay
Cognates
Between
Decide
Take a trip
Hire
Tour guide
Translate
Menus
Museum
Signs
Depends
Order
Fish
Accident
Trying to
Spaghetti
That’s awesome
That would be great.
