Name: English Listening Practice: TikTok, ding-dong, hip hop, teeny-tiny
Uploaded: 2022-04-21T18:05:27.000Z
Duration: 15 min 18 s
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Hey guys, it's Ronnie today, we're gonna practice some listening.

I'm going to speak slow enough so that you can understand my wonderful story.

Um, and make this kind of like a listening test for you too.

You know, kind of practice your english listening because people speak really quickly and it's hard to understand when people speak in slang and they use different words or they speak really quickly and they mush words together and you're like, what is this person talking about?

Um, I think it was yesterday, the day before.

I was, I was looking at tac Tic and this guy just telling a story about a simple guy and he was on the way on his way to the store because he wanted to buy a cat kit because he's really hungry, right?

So he went into the store and he got his cat kit.

But when he was there, he also saw those mints, What are those mints called?

So he's like, oh, it's been a long time since I've had a tactic, I'm going to get some of those.

So you know, he paid for his, his chocolate bar and his, his mint and he started to go back home.

But on the way home, he was walking down the street and he flipped over a pong, ping ball that someone, I don't know, someone was playing table tennis and the ball just landed on the road.

He flipped over it and it's summertime and he actually broke his flat flip?

But then he realized, oh bollocks, I've forgotten something at the store.

So he goes back to the store and he asked for his favorite rolling papers which were players, but they didn't have them.

And the guy said, oh hey, do you know what?

We don't have players, but we definitely have the zigzags if you want those.

And he's like, well, okay, I'll try something new today.

So he's got his chocolate bar, he's got his rolling papers, he's got everything, he's got a broken flip flop and he was kind of, you know, looking sad.

And the guy behind the cash, the cashier said dude, are you okay?

You look kind of stressed out or whatever.

And he said, you know, I'm kind of piste because they, I broke my sandal here and the guy's like, do you know what will cheer you up?

I just got an old school snoop Dogg hop hip album in and the guy put it on and it was like they had such a good time hanging out in the variety store listening to music.

It was such a cool story because these are the wonderful stories that you have on these apps.

They're just so exhilaratingly wonderful.

There's probably some words that you were kind of like, what are you even talking about?

Well, here's something so cool that even native speakers don't even know the rules too.

So I'm gonna let you in some inside knowledge of ye olde english language, you know the app is called Tiktok.

Okay, But did you know they spelled it differently?

So in english, when a clock makes the ticking noises?

When we imitate the sound of the clock, it says Tiktok and that's how the company got the name for the app.

But when I said to you, talk tick, oh, it was really confusing.

Like Ronnie has an app called tactic Tiktok.

Um, we have this zig zag zig zag rolling papers, they're also Zigzag is also a pattern.

So zigzags a pattern and this is what happens in english.

If I said to you, zag zig or if I said dong ding, maybe it wouldn't seem that weird to you, but other people go, oh, there's something not quite right about that.

And there's a rule to it, which I really don't like rules, but I'll teach you what it is.

The rule is what we put first, the word we put first is an eye.

Okay, I'll explain what these words mean later and then we have an A.

So it's always going to be the eye word and then the A word or if you don't have an A, it'll be an oh, so we would never reverse the order of this.

We would never say pong ping because we have an eye here and oh there, we always have to put the word with an eye first.

And then the word was O or an A after it.

And there's one crazy example that uses all of them and it's a game, it's called tick attack two.

I want you to play with my ding a ling, ding dong.

A ding dong is the sound that a bell makes.

So remember I told you that Tiktok was the sound of a clock zigzag pattern and a rolling paper brand.

But ding dong is the sound of bells, not balls.

Bells that go ding dong And the clock goes tick tock.

Those little mints that I talked about in the story.

Those are actually called tic tacs, not tactic.

So you might be thinking Ronnie, why are you even teaching us this?

But there's three reasons why I'm telling you this one.

If you mess it up like I did in the story and say talk tick instead of tick talk, people are going to not understand you.

Um, it'll let people know right away that you're not a native speaker.

Um, the other one is, if you are creating something in english, if you're a content creator, like on, oh, I don't know youtube or something.

Um, or you're creating characters for a book or anything creative, you should follow the rule because that's how the rhythm goes in english.

Hey, try it, Make a character called pumping and see how that goes over.

But it seems to be like the rhythm of english.

Um, Tiktok is a candy Kitkat chocolate bar, famous all over the world.