Name: I’ll Help You Speak Like a Native: My Work Trip Vlog for Perfect English Pronunciation!
Uploaded: 2025-08-30T18:02:03.000Z
Duration: 14 min 59 s
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Let's study real English conversation from a work trip where my colleague Tom and I went to a YouTube workshop and meet up in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Past simple

We also did some sightseeing when the events were over.

To-infinitive

Tom and I had the best day ever meeting other YouTubers and even got to see a nighttime drone show that honestly was kind of cool.

Though I will say the altitude got to me.

I think my workout was rough so I don't think I can walk very far.

Altitude is what we call the height of something above sea level.

The higher you go, the less oxygen in the air and that really affects some people and they get something called altitude sickness.

This happens to me a lot when I visit my parents in the mountains of Colorado.

Here we were in Salt Lake City where the elevation is 1300 meters above sea level.

Elevation and altitude are synonyms, meaning words with the same or similar meaning.

Where I'm from in Philadelphia, the average elevation is 340 meters so that added elevation gives me altitude sickness like headaches and fatigue.

I'm like, I'm almost, I almost can't think.

Okay, I'm concerned about the not being able to think thing.

But yeah, so we'll go to the same place but we'll take a car.

While we wait for the car to arrive, we discuss the weather the next day, the day we fly out.

So it is supposed to be thunderstorms from 9 AM to 4 PM and we fly at 11 something.

So it's, and it's like a 90% chance of rain and thunderstorms.

It sounds like if we get pushed, we might get pushed to like the next day.

This is a common, casual, and a little bit of a slangy way to say that would not be good.

Here I'm talking about if our flight can't go out on time and is delayed.

It might be delayed several hours, but if the weather is bad, it could get delayed until the next day.

No, I bet they can get us out but not direct.

If you're flying somewhere and it's not direct, that means there will be one or more stops at another airport.

Whenever possible, I always choose a direct flight.

Yeah, and maybe there will be like windows because thunderstorms are often like patchy.

Tom doesn't mean an actual physical window like in a building.

He means a spot in time in the day when it's not raining.

For example, what's the pickup window for your kid's school?

Yeah, and maybe there will be like windows.

If the storm is patchy, that means it's not stormy the whole day but off and on.

Periods of time where there are storms but also periods of time where there are no storms.

I bet they can get us out but not direct.

Okay, so the flight's at like 1145, 1147?

Tom and I were on the same flight back home.

Here we're discussing when to leave for the airport the next morning.

Are you okay with getting there at 1030 or is that too tight for you?

This means not enough time to do something.

Did you hear how many times we said K as we negotiated the timing?

Short for okay, agreeing with someone. 1015.

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