we've got exciting so we'll have one on their channel as well do you want to

introduce your channel today we're John oh yeah hi our channel is all things

British yeah it's all about British culture we've got some accent tutorials

things like that hey anything British yes if you're a fan of Britishness so if

you're a fan of all things British then I'm sure you like their channel

but today I was thinking that we spend our whole time correcting your mistakes

when you're learning English so I thought it'd be quite funny to tell you

about times that we have made mistakes in our own language yeah so we each got

a couple to tell you so this was when I was quite young I was about four years

old maybe five I was in recession which is what we call the lowest level of

school yeah yeah yeah like age five age five yes I would be 405 and I had to go

off school I had to go home because I was ill with a disease called

impetigo gaps on your face it's just a skin condition but it's very contagious

it can pass to the other children but when I went back I told all of my

teachers that I had a very bad case of osteoporosis

toward my teachers are you okay Lucy you've been off for a while honesty

osteoporosis age oh no you know that's so sad to hear about Lucy's condition

my mom was like yeah it was a bit annoying but you know how do we deal

with this in the classroom and she was like well it's gone now it's gone I was

always a fan of really long words as a child today you still in this understand

slight misunderstanding it's like a fully different word and

meaning I thought you're gonna say impotence say that you went back to

school and told everyone you were Tiger like Tiger like I was a tiger anything

but night Claire Lucy we've like really long words as a child so probably spent

ages memorizing it right I'm gonna say mine okay so when you're at a train

station sometimes they say like stand back there's a freight train coming free

and I always thought that was a frightful train like fright train you

should be scared of this train great I just like oh no there's a freight train

coming get it what I can I just didn't know

what a freak oh really quickly yeah what is a freight train it's like a train

carrying no but I just thought it's trained to be

scared of like these canapés frightful trains freight train it's really dumb

hey guys will help dumb I'm done yeah better no that is very dumb but and I

don't to say that because mine's also dumb sorry I can't understand this do

you feel like we have this like dumb confession meeting yeah hi my name's

John so I always get this word wrong I still right now don't really know what

it means it's the word dozen like a dozen eggs how many is it six or is it

twelve I can never remember yeah but wider so why do don't people

just say I've got 12 eggs I've got a dozen eggs it doesn't make any sense and

when you say just few it means like very little but you think a few it means if I

go into my second one and then we can go onto yours because my second one is very

similar the word fortnight what does support like me two weeks -

then why don't people just say to ease oh we're going on holiday for a

fortnight because I thought fortnight meant 10 days and I still kind of think

it means 10 days Oh what would you say just these words

doesn't and for tonight I'm like just use the actual numbers use the numbers

so I bet half a dozen throws you yes what's that me exactly three six I have

a way to remember it in Spanish yeah nothing it's 12 so it's like a dolphin

dolphin

my second wine so this one is really embarrassing but I have actually put it

on my Instagram so wonder if you saw it but I was putting in like a dishwasher

let's get your dishwasher fitted and I was texting the plumber and I was like

look I just want to know if it can go in or not

so he said send me a picture of the sink is like water and I opened and I saw and

I was like I didn't understand the word exactly and it was like so no okay so I

actually we were talking about this a moment ago I still can't get left and

right without nothing to do with the words left and right when I was doing my

driving test I had to write L on that led to small

and AH here and to ask the examiner to just stipulate

they're just like me you can ask them you can say look I really

when you say left and right it just doesn't do anything in my brain so can

you just go turn left so I could see her hands and I was like

thank you thank you as well because they were saying you know just whatever makes

an L that's left and I'd be like cool

yeah it happens all the time with Lea when we're going and I'm not okay we'll

just turn right and she'll be like just take the moment I think that people must

think I'm really dumb but on paper I'm really smart other one really quickly is

escalator and elevator I can't tell you if we're in an escalator quick in on and

I can't get that say the first word again

escalator you say that incorrectly how do you say yeah they're very similar I

can imagine that being confusing for a learner

I'm sure there's so many more by just calm yeah bring myself to that's the

thing you shouldn't ever worry if you're making mistakes when this is a second

language like when people who go who miss that first language like even we

get stuff wrong I would say just use your mistakes as funny anecdotes which

is

this morning I know I feel like home so that's it for today's video I hope you

enjoyed it I don't really think you would have learned much but this is more

of a conversation listening practice

just to make you laugh and feel a bit better about yourselves

I know you do

don't forget me and Jonah Miller of our social media which will be popping up on

the screen right now and we hope to see you over on John and

Leah's channel where we've got another video

yeah yeah I'm about to now and I will see you soon for another lesson

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