Name: アメリカ人と英語でこんな話がしたい〜使える英語ばかり〜
Uploaded: 2025-06-06T05:28:24.000Z
Duration: 12 min 45 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

To-infinitive

I also have some questions from Yasu today that I want to answer.

Past simple

So the first one is, if you had a billion dollars, what would you do with it?

Gerund

And I have like the safe answer, which is like investing, maybe like buying a house.

But that's a little boring, so I feel like if I had no responsibilities and I had a billion dollars to just spend, I would definitely go traveling.

I love like treating my friends, buying stuff for them, so I would book us all a trip maybe to like Mexico or Europe or somewhere in Asia and, you know, cover all their flights, all their hotels, so that we could all just like go have a good time.

A lot of them are big partiers, I'm not going to lie.

So maybe going to the clubs, trying new food like around the world.

I don't know how long that you could go just traveling the world with your friends on a billion dollars, but I feel like that would be our plan for the next year or two.

It's just blowing that money on travel and food and that kind of stuff.

That would be the dream, that would be the dream.

But again, not the realistic answer, because honestly I do want a house, I do want to invest.

I would give some of that money to my parents for helping me through college, all that kind of stuff.

The second question is, what was your dream as a kid?

I feel like I was a very wishy-washy kid.

I had a lot of different interests, and I swear my like dream career and like dream goal in life would change every other week.

But one that I do remember sticking with for a lot was wanting to be a veterinarian.

So I think that it's very common for kids to love animals, and I didn't really grow up with pets, like cats or dogs or anything like that.

So I really wanted to be able to work with animals in the future, and I was like, oh, a veterinarian would be perfect.

Again, I didn't know anything about like what actually involved to be a vet.

But yeah, that was what I would tell everyone when they asked me, what do you want to be when you grow up?

Just because all I thought it meant was that you hung out with cats and dogs all day.

A very broad question, but I feel like that just gives me more to talk about.

I honestly, I really pride myself on my cooking and baking.

Whenever I go home, right now in college, I don't have access to a kitchen, so I don't really cook or bake a lot.

But every time I go home, I am always like in the kitchen cooking.

I think that it's just such a good necessary skill.

I love like cooking with my friends or cooking with my family or like baking something for my neighbors and bringing it to them.

I'm moving into a new place next year, and I was already talking with my future roommates.

I'm like, guys, once we have all the furniture moved in, can we have a big baking night and go introduce ourselves to our neighbors, give them our number, give them some like cookies or something just to kind of establish that relationship.

I also would say like another skill that is kind of useful in all aspects of my life is I'm a very organized person.

I credit my mom for this because I feel like she taught me all my organizational skills, but it's been super helpful in college just because I'm working like two jobs right now.

I'm applying to like future internships and stuff like that.

And I think staying organized, like keeping a calendar, knowing what I want, when I want it, and like when I have things planned has been super helpful in staying efficient and yeah, just productive in college for sure.

So yeah, two different sides of the spectrum, like the cooking and staying organized.

But I feel like those are two skills that I really enjoy.

Another question Yasu had for me was if you're going back into the past, when would you go and what would you do?

And honestly, I haven't thought about this one a lot before.

I feel like there's so many good things about the era that we're in.

But I think one of my guilty pleasure answers would be I would go back into the 70s and see a David Bowie concert.

And he died back in 2016 when I was still in middle school.

So I feel like I didn't really appreciate music.

But it was kind of during middle school and high school that I discovered him.

So that's something that we've talked about before.

So I would love to see one of his concerts live.

And obviously that's no longer possible because he passed away.

But he has this particular show in London that he did in 1973 that I would have loved to have been there.

And it was at the height of kind of his stardom, I would say.

But also when one of his albums came out, which is my personal favorite album.

So I would love to go back into the 70s and see that concert.

The next question is, what is an emotionally powerful movie that I've seen?

For this one, I would have to say Do the Right Thing.

My dad had me watch it when I was younger.

And I watched it again for a film class in high school.

But basically it was directed in the 80s.

It's really hard to explain just in one video.

But it explores basically racism in the US and the legacy of it.

It mostly follows the black community in New York.

Which was super vibrant and interesting during the 80s.

But it also has these Italian immigrants who own a pizza shop there.

It has some Korean immigrants, I'm pretty sure.

And it's kind of exploring those racial tensions between them.

But also the influence of, I would say, white supremacy.

And oppressive structures within our legal system.

And how that kind of affects individuals' lives.

It's always a movie that will make me cry.

Just because you get so emotionally connected to the characters.

And the filming techniques are super interesting.

Subtitles ListPlay Video

アメリカ人と英語でこんな話がしたい〜使える英語ばかり〜

stuff

basically

general

productive