शैडोइंग अभ्यास: 2162 - Dating Someone Much Older? Is It Accepted in American Culture? - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें

hey there michelle how's everything going today how you doing Good.

I'm glad to be here.

How are you?

I am great.

I'm great.

Do you have a question for me today?

Are we talking about relationships?

Yes, this is an interesting episode topic.

I'm excited for this.

Lizzie, have you ever been in a May -December relationship?

Oh, that's a really interesting.

First of all, when you asked that, I said, what does that mean?

Yeah.

I've been close to it.

I mean, currently, you know, my spouse is seven and a half years younger than me.

That's not quite technically a May to December relationship, but getting there, getting there.

What about you, Michelle?

Have you ever been in a May to December,

to just date people like within a couple of years now dan is actually only 11 days older than okay

so we're pretty much so

but it's always fun those 11 days i like to say how much younger i am

and that i'm with an older man that is fun i love

that we're gonna get into this concept today michelle of may december relationship

because a listener asked us a question but first where are we going where should we our listeners go Okay.

So check out episode 2137.

That was this Friday or next Friday, how to clarify calendar dates in English.

So that was a fun one.

I remember.

I know that was an important episode, Michelle, because what are we trying to do?

We're going for connection.

Then we need to make plans to build human connections.

So it really matters to clarify this Friday, next Friday, this coming you're at it,

hit the follow button on All Ears English so that you don't miss a single episode.

Right, Michelle?

Definitely.

Please do that.

And also one more thing before we get into it.

At the end of the episode, we will be having a Spotify key poll.

So we like to interact with you guys.

Yes.

Ask questions.

So wait until the end of the episode and we will be introducing this poll.

We want to hear from you. from Taiwan.

Three years ago, I started listening to All Ears English, and since then, I became a diehard fan of yours.

By the way, thank you.

Thank you, Vivian.

Yes.

I want to ask a question.

There's a new movie called May -December coming out.

At first, I was curious about how the title came into place.

After collecting some information, I found out that it has something to do with the

December relationship is well accepted in the U .S or not.

Besides, could you please share more phrases like this?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards, Vivian.

Oh, interesting.

Okay.

Well, first of all, had you heard of this term before Vivian emailed us?

No. Never.

And you know what?

Yeah.

So then apparently, I mean, this is quite a movie.

This is about a very large May -December relationship.

I'm not going to get into it, but about a problematic one.

wide age gap

which is one of our key words for today right lindsay

yeah we're going to talk about how to use the word gap in different ways to describe differences right

that is what we're going to really come out of today's episode plus a little pop culture around this movie

and just kind of

other talking about yeah talking about relationships

and what we know in american culture yeah

so technically what is the definition then of a may december relationship michelle um

so i what what it seems to me is that it's um like 10 years or more.

Where did I see that?

Okay.

We see that.

You said 10 years or more.

Yeah.

I think we Googled it.

So 10 years or more just with a relationship where the age gap is pretty significant.

A decade is pretty significant.

Don't you think?

Yeah.

I mean, Lindsay, do you know anyone who has a wide age gap in their relationship?

yeah i have two good friends uh two good friends who

have about a 24 year gap uh in their relationship

and they've been together for i think five

or six years now quite a while they'll probably be together forever

and so i've seen it work it absolutely works with them

so yeah it's just so personal it's so different depending on the couple

and the people in the relationship the maturity of too.

I mean, some people are a little more mature, so they might get along in a relationship better with someone who is a little bit older.

So it really, it really depends.

But yeah, for me, my grandparents, I think they were maybe 13 years apart.

And an uncle also pretty more than 10 years.

So I definitely know people who have had these relationships, very good relationships.

have oh yeah gaps I mean I think that's like what was it Demi Moore

and Ashton Kutcher that was a big one yeah are they still together I don't even know

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but I can't keep up with some celebrity relations oh no

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no no they're not together I had to think about it but no they're not

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right yeah oh oh but you know one who is still together I only know this

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because I recently they popped up on something for me is um Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart they've been together

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Douglas so there are okay okay ones that

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that work Celine Dion had a wide age gap with her

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husband I love Celine Dion she's also a great singer as well I love

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that okay so what else do we want to say about this what about within the U .S.

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Michelle what is the cultural thinking in American culture around this

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kind of May December relationship yeah anything with 10 years or more Yeah, I mean, I think it depends on the age, like if it's too young.

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I mean, certainly that has to be a legal relationship, right?

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Obviously.

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Yeah.

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But, but I mean, I think, I mean, I think, I think when I think now it's a little bit different at the age I am now.

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But if I were to have like, let's say I had a friend who was now going out with like a friend who's my age,

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like mid 30s, like going out with a 20 year old two -year -old um I might be like, that's a little bit interesting.

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But again, it's not for me to judge.

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I think that these can work.

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I mean, do you think that in the US, these relationships are frowned upon or what do you think?

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I think the older each party is the better um it

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because things tend to even out as we get older I

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just want to be clear to our listeners we are talking about in this scenario where both parties

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over the age of 18 okay just to be 100 exactly

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yes yes guys i'm gonna be clear here just to be explicit um over the age of 18

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and preferably over the age of 22 or 20 mid -20s right we

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so that's why i'm saying like legally obviously but then once you know

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if the younger party in the relationship is like 40

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and the older party is 50 let's say that's gonna work better than

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if the younger party is 25 and the older party is 35.

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in my experience and my knowledge of just the way people mature i think true

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because i guess the 25 year old might have some more wild oats to see yeah to us

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so what is that expression so you're wild yeah that's all yeah yeah

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so i think the more experience each person has it is probably better

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but listen like everybody's different i have a friend who and i mean her husband is i i want to

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have a child there, you know, they seem to have a really good marriage.

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So you can definitely have a strong relationship with May December relationship, we're calling it, I mean,

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Like I said, Dan and I are 11 days apart.

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So for what it's not what makes our relationship, but sometimes it's kind of fun because we have all of the same.

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references and we can you know we knew all the same songs all the same tv shows like yeah

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so that's kind of fun

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but in the same way then we're not like learning you

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know there there's like yeah yeah you know yeah that's interesting

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that's true it's the references thing it's the feeling of like

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we grew up at the same time you know the same things were happening

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that builds connection so obviously if you don't have that you have to have something much stronger to base your

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of my very close friends is also in i think a 15 year gap or age gap in his relationship so

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yeah there definitely are people that i know that are close to me

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that have these big gaps for whatever reason um

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and it works for them you know in my friend's case he's got two kids

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and another one coming next year probably and just it works um

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but in terms of like american culture michelle would you say broadly speaking accepted not accepted what do we think Oh, if I have to choose one?

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it isn't accepted you know i i mean i think it

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is like broadly i think it is yeah i think we're

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pretty open -minded around you know it depends on personality uh your family

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but i think generally american culture accepts age gaps in relationships i would say yeah yeah yeah you do sometimes see much

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older men with much younger, like I'm thinking of Hugh Hefner, like, you know, you do sometimes see that kind of a thing and you,

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you roll your eyes a little bit.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But who am I to say, listen, I, I, I don't know.

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Um, but you can have a strong relationship with an age gap.

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Um, guys, we did find an article from brides .com, which was do May, December relationships actually work.

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but it was updated on May 1st, 2022.

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Just a couple points.

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I mean, there is a they spoke to a social worker,

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Rochelle Khanna, who said the best is a one to five year difference. So, interesting.

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But again, like that doesn't like I when I think of I guess

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because my grandparents had a May December relationship and they had such a good marriage.

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I didn't

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i don't think much of it do you know what i

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mean totally yeah i i think it's it's too simple for a social worker

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or psychologist to say this is the right formula

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because human beings are not simple there's so many things

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that could connect you to someone way beyond age you know

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so it's just not i think i thought of uh uh

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another word we could teach um okay an old soul yes that's i actually had thought about

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that at the top of the episode let's teach our listeners that real quick let's do

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break and then we'll come back and talk about a poll

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and maybe a few other vocabulary expressions all right it sounds good yeah

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so what's an old soul all right

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so this is good a lot of people will use this

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to talk about themselves where they basically they're just more mature

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for their age than people their age right maybe they in

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their mind they feel like they were born maybe 10 years earlier

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or 20 years earlier or 30 years earlier or 100 years i don't know they just don't necessarily era.

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do you so yeah I have a friend who's she's like obsessed with everything 70s um the music everything

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and I think she says

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that she feels like she was brought in like born in the wrong era do you ever feel

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that about yourself not really I I reminisce

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and I feel kind of nostalgic for the 80s

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and the 90s just

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because it feels like it was a simpler time without technology without Facebook without all these things

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but I think a lot of us feel that way you know yeah so I don't I don't think I'm an

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No, that's funny.

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Yeah. So, okay.

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All right, Michelle, where should we go next for our listeners?

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What can our listeners take away?

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What should we teach our listeners?

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We talked about that word gap.

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What do we want our listeners to come away with?

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Yes, exactly.

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So other terms, we were talking about an age gap, right?

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We threw that out a lot today.

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So you could say, oh, like there's a big age gap between my partner and I.

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Yeah, there's a big age gap.

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And then another one that would tie in with this conversation, guys, or even I think you could say generation gap too would probably be fine.

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So what does this mean, Michelle?

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How is this different from age gap?

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I think it's more about like the, it's not so much about the number age.

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It's more about the time.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Between it's very close.

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What do you think?

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A hundred percent.

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I think because generations are cultures, right?

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Now we have I'm right in the middle.

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I'm 81.

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So I'm a cusper.

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But we're very different generations with honestly kind of different values towards work, towards technology.

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And then if one person is Gen X and one is millennial, you are going to have a generation gap.

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right you'll also have an age gap but what are you talking about age

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or generation different conversation yeah right

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and then we have one more gap we're gonna talk about a values gap what's a values gap

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so I mean this kind of goes along with generations generations have different values it could be

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that simple so you may also you may have all three of these

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but maybe you just want to talk about one of them

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you know maybe um the millennial generation values uh autonomy and I'm just making the C's here, right?

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And maybe the Gen X generation values stability, okay?

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These two aren't necessarily the same thing.

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We can't always find both in a job.

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So there's a values gap, all right?

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Interesting stuff.

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Yeah, exactly.

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We talk about that a lot nowadays with the values gap between, you know, the, I guess,

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Gen X and not Gen X and like after the global health crisis and everything like that.

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So and how work has changed.

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So there's a lot there.

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I think it's especially because now on

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I'm I'm always seeing all these these memes coming up where

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the same actor just an influencer will imitate each generation

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and they'll be like yeah like how millennial generation comes back

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from Christmas break like the the Monday morning after you know they're coming in with a big water bottle

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and versus like how Gen X does it and how boomers do it

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and you know it's hilarious it's you know we're obviously exaggerating these differences

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and having fun with it but these are funny funny memes send that to me.

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That sounds like fun.

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They're so funny.

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Okay.

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So where are we taking this today?

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Yeah.

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Guys, well, before we go, well, I do have one last question.

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Okay.

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What about friendships?

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Do you, like, are most of your friends, like, would you say most of your friends are the same age as you, older or younger, or is it a whole mix?

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Actually, most of my friends are older and I have had a big age gaps in my friendship.

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So I have a good friend who's in his 50s, late 40s.

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So actually my friends turned older.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Quite a bit.

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Yeah.

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Interesting.

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I would say I'm, it's funny because I think my friends are right now, either my age or older.

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Um, yeah, one of my, I mean, some of my just a year older, a couple months older or whatever.

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Um, I do have friends who are 15 years older than I am and like one of my best friends.

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Um, and, but I don't really have too many younger friends, but as I get older, I feel like my friends will be younger.

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Well, it comes back to another clip.

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the oldest person in the room.

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But before we go, guys, we do have that Spotify poll.

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So, uh, on Spotify.

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What is that?

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Yes.

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We want to know, have you ever been in a May December relationship?

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Let us know.

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I'm curious what our listeners have to say.

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I'm definitely also please comment.

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Do you know what is it like in your culture?

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I mean, are they accepted?

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Are they not accepted?

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Definitely.

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So, so much interesting stuff over here.

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So definitely please comment and answer

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that poll yeah guys let us know I'm excited you know take

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that poll so we can know

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and we are definitely going to be announcing this poll somewhere

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in the next few months back on all there's English

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so good conversation topic for our listeners today right Michelle start this conversation with a friend

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if you want use these terms generation gap age gap all

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very useful for connection yeah yes this is this is fun it is definitely a fun conversation topic

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so go ahead and you know bring it up with and things like that.

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Yeah.

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Good stuff.

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All right, Michelle, I'll talk to you very soon.

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Have a good day.

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All right.

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Bye.

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You too.

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Bye.

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संदर्भ और पृष्ठभूमि

युवाओं और बड़े वयस्कों के बीच संबंधों की बात करना एक दिलचस्प विषय है। यह वीडियो ज्यादातर May-December संबंधों पर केंद्रित है, जिसमें उम्र का बड़ा अंतर होता है। यहाँ, लिंडसे और मिशेल इस प्रकार के संबंधों के बारे में चर्चा कर रहे हैं और यह जानने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं कि क्या अमेरिकी संस्कृति में इसे स्वीकार किया जाता है। वीडियो में, वे व्यक्तिगत अनुभवों और नजरियों के माध्यम से इस विषय को समझाने का प्रयास कर रहे हैं।

दिन-प्रतिदिन संवाद के लिए शीर्ष 5 वाक्यांश

May-December Relationship: यह वाक्यांश एक ऐसे संबंध को दर्शाता है जहां उम्र के बीच का अंतर कम से कम 10 साल हो।
Age Gap: इसे व्यक्त करने के लिए इस्तेमाल किया जाने वाला एक सामान्य शब्द, जिसका अर्थ है उम्र का फासला।
Clarify Calendar Dates: यह वाक्यांश यह सुनिश्चित करने के लिए उपयोग किया जाता है कि योजनाएँ सही समझी गई हैं, खासकर जब आप किसी से मिलने की योजना बना रहे हों।
Build Human Connections: इस वाक्यांश का अर्थ है व्यक्तिगत संबंधों को बढ़ाना और सामाजिक नेटवर्किंग करना।
Legal Relationship: यह सुनिश्चित करने की आवश्यकता को दर्शाता है कि दोनों व्यक्ति वयस्क हैं और कानूनी रूप से संबंध में हैं।

चरण-दर-चरण छाया बोलने का मार्गदर्शक

अगर आप इस वीडियो के माध्यम से अपने अंग्रेजी उच्चारण में सुधार करना चाहते हैं, तो निम्नलिखित विधियाँ अपनाएं:

पहले सुनें: वीडियो को एक बार बिना रुके सुनें। ध्यान दें कि संवाददाताओं की आवाज़, लहजा और उच्चारण कैसा है।
इको टेकनीक: वीडियो को धीमा करें और संवाददाताओं को सुनते समय उनके शब्दों को दोहराएं। यह आपको सही उच्चारण सीखने में मदद करेगा।
सांसारिक वार्तालाप: उन वाक्यों को लिख लें जो आपको ज्यादा आकर्षक लगते हैं और उन्हें अपने दैनिक संवाद में लागू करने की कोशिश करें।
शब्दावली का विस्तार: वीडियो में उपयोग किए गए नए शब्दों को नोट करें और उन पर विचार करें कि आप उन्हें कैसे प्रयोग में ला सकते हैं। ये आपके संवाद को समृद्ध करेंगे।
समुह में अभ्यास: यदि संभव हो, तो अपने दोस्तों या अन्य अंग्रेजी सीखने वालों के साथ वीडियो देखें और चर्चा करें, जिससे आप अपने विचार साझा कर सकें।

इस प्रक्रिया के दौरान, shadowspeak का उपयोग करते हुए आप अपने उच्चारण में सुधार कर सकते हैं। याद रखें, यूट्यूब से अंग्रेजी सीखें के माध्यम से आप सीखने की इस प्रक्रिया को दृश्य और श्रवण सामग्री के माध्यम से और भी आकर्षक बना सकते हैं। प्रत्येक वाक्यांश को सही तरीके से बोलने का प्रयास करें, यही shadowspeaks का सार है।

इस वीडियो का व्याकरण

वक्ता जिन संरचनाओं का सबसे अधिक प्रयोग करता है, वीडियो के असली शब्दों के साथ:

संरचना	वीडियो में
Relative clauses who / which + उपवाक्य — व्यक्ति या वस्तु के बारे में अतिरिक्त जानकारी	anyone who has · someone who is · people who have
Present perfect have/has + past participle — बीता हुआ काम जिसका असर अभी भी है	I've been · they've been · i've seen
Passive voice be + past participle — ज़ोर इस पर कि क्या होता है, न कि कौन करता है	are frowned · isn't accepted · was updated
“might / may” से संभावना might/may + क्रिया — जो हो सकता है पर पक्का नहीं	may december · might get · might be

शैडोइंग तकनीक क्या है?

शैडोइंग (Shadowing) एक विज्ञान-समर्थित भाषा सीखने की तकनीक है जो मूल रूप से पेशेवर दुभाषिया प्रशिक्षण के लिए विकसित की गई थी। विधि सरल लेकिन शक्तिशाली है: आप मूल अंग्रेज़ी ऑडियो सुनते हैं और तुरंत इसे ज़ोर से दोहराते हैं — जैसे वक्ता की छाया 1-2 सेकंड की देरी से। शोध से पता चलता है कि यह उच्चारण सटीकता, स्वर, लय, जुड़ी हुई ध्वनियाँ, सुनने की समझ और बोलने की प्रवाहशीलता में काफ़ी सुधार करता है।

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