Name: Real Vacation English: Cooking Mussels in Maine + Finding Pearls – American English Conversation
Uploaded: 2025-11-11T18:23:15.000Z
Duration: 27 min 6 s
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One thing at dinner was great and one was awful, but

in the end we found a wonderful surprise that had me laughing harder than I've laughed in a while.

Today we'll study English together as you come with my family on vacation in Maine.

We'll harvest and cook mussels from the ocean.

There will be a controversy over at cheddar cheese spread bread, and

you'll not believe what comes out of my dad's mouth at the end.

I said, so what's gone in the pot so far?

Do you know what the apostrophe S is for in English?

It's the contraction for is and has and they both look the same and are pronounced the same.

In spoken English, it's much more natural and very common to use contractions.

This is a little bit of oil, a little bit of butter, and

then diced onion and a whole bunch of herbs.

Notice that in American English, the H in herbs is silent.

This is different from British English, where the H is pronounced herb.

I can't have caffeine that are thousands of years old.

And plants and herbs that are a gift from Mother Nature.

You see a lot more spices in the Mediterranean diet and fresh herbs.

Delicious things under there like butter and herbs.

Bring this guy up to a simmer, add the chopped herbs, and

Generally, ancient Greeks prescribed medic medicinal herbs and alterations in diet.

First you need to pound the herbs in a pestle and mortar.

But when cutting herbs, look, I want the goodness left in the herb.

I don't want the darkness on the board every time you see chefs over chop herbs.

I have a background in opera singing and I've been teaching the American accent to non native speakers for over 20 years.

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It will give you totally new ideas on how to get the sound you've always wanted.

And then diced onion and a whole bunch of herbs.

Oregano, rosemary, parsley, garlic powder, onion powder.

And why are you making such a special dinner today?

My 50th, your brother's 50th, your parents.

Have you ever had an extreme difference of opinion with someone on food?

We'd gone to this local shop and bought some cheeses.

My brother loved one of the cheeses, whereas I thought it had no flavor whatsoever.

I mean, the texture is good, but there's zero flavor.

It's not completely void of cheddariness.

The texture of food is as important to a lot of people as the flavor.

Texture and flavor, two words we use to describe the experience of eating food.

Adding the Y makes it an adjective, meaning like cheddar.

When we add ness, which is used in English to turn an adjective into a noun, we invent a new word.

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Real Vacation English: Cooking Mussels in Maine + Finding Pearls – American English Conversation

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