Name: Learn English with Disney's ELIO
Uploaded: 2026-03-27T16:58:16.000Z
Duration: 20 min 52 s
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Uh, I come in peace, and I'm super excited to join you.

Aww, yeah, today we're learning English with Disney Pixar's ELIO.

ELIO is a lonely, misunderstood child who longs to meet aliens and explore new worlds.

I love all things space, and I hope you do.

I'm Xenia, your real-life English fluency coach.

After sending the communication we just saw, his wish comes true.

In ELIO's message, we heard him say, "I come in peace." This is Elio Solis of the planet Earth.

You can hear this all the time in alien movies.

It's a way to announce you're friendly and you have no violent intentions, like in this example from Toy Story.

In his message, ELIO described himself as creative, hardworking, and shredded.

What do you think "shredded" means in this context?

Right, someone who is shredded might look like this.

Keep in mind this is slang, and it's funny because ELIO is clearly exaggerating here.

In today's scene, after being abducted, ELIO meets Gordon and soon realizes he is Kindred Spirit, that's someone who shares your personality and interests so you connect with them instantly.

In the movie, ELIO gets a chance to build a real connection with aliens.

They don't speak English, but they're interacting through a translation device.

Have you ever been in a situation where you get the opportunity to speak English, but

a word you know you've learned simply won't come to you?

I've learned English and German myself, so I know how frustrating that is.

That's why our team created an app that uses scientific technology to solve this problem.

You can use the link below to get free access to the premium ELIO lesson, which includes vocabulary flashcards.

And using these just 10-15 minutes per day will make difficult native expressions like "shredded" and "Kindred Spirit" stick in your brain like super glue.

Give it a try today, just click the link below.

I was just swaddling you because you seemed scared.

That's what my mom does when I get scared.

To swaddle means to wrap someone, usually a baby, tightly in cloth or blankets to make them feel warm and safe.

For example, parents swaddle newborns like this.

So here, little isn't referring to Gordon's size.

For example, a mother might tell her child, "You're still too little to watch that scary movie." Now here's an interesting pattern: be rude about it.

When you use be + adjective + about it, you're describing someone's attitude or behavior toward something.

Don't be weird about it means don't act strange regarding the situation.

Don't be dramatic about it means don't overreact.

And finally, you don't have to be mean about it means you could express that more nicely.

Might have been difficult to understand Gordon's response without subtitles because of connected speech.

That's how natives cut reduce and link their words and fluent speech.

Wow, he almost said that as if it were just a couple words.

First off, in words like can't, won't, and don't, we often do not pronounce the T.

Next, we sometimes drop the H sound in words like half and to, usually reduces to ta.

The two words link together and sound like after.

The T in about is between two vowel sounds, so it becomes a tap T, which sounds like a soft d sound.

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