Pratica di Shadowing: 2686 - Joke, Pun, or Prank? What’s the Difference? - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Hey, Lindsay, how are you today?
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Doing good, doing good.
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Aubrey, how's it going?
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I am great.
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I'm excited to talk about jokes, puns, and pranks today.
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How fun.
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I know.
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Aubrey, do you know any good jokes?
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I mean, do you got anything off the top of your head you could share with us?
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I've got one that my son loved.
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The first time I told him this, he laughed so hard.
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So maybe it's better for little kids.
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But it is, what do you call a fish with no eyes?
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Oh, that's a good question.
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What?
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What's the answer?
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Fish.
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that's good right love it so
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if you remove the i in the word fish right
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so you say that fsh so that's kind of a pun
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and a joke it's a little language joke yeah i love language jokes i love a play on words
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and it's always fun when you tell a kid
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and it takes them just a second to figure it out
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and then they get it and they're like thrilled
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and then they die of laughter right this is unfiltered laughter
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so cute um so this episode was inspired by a student
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and who was that student Aubrey
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so Geneviève from France in in our open conversation club one
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of our live speaking events asked you know what is the difference between a joke a pun
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and a prank great question we talked about it in this open conversation club
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and I immediately was like this is going to be a
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fun episode of the podcast yeah this is really fun I
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mean I I listened to this one podcast um the Wall Street Journal podcast and the host Ryan something, he's always doing puns.
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Like anytime he's interviewing someone from the airline industry, he's always like, I don't know.
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There's always puns that I find really funny, but some people find them annoying.
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I know not everybody loves puns, but I always point them out if I accidentally make a pun, right?
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I think they're very fun.
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Especially sometimes they're really clever.
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Sometimes they are more like a dad joke, right?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It depends on the quality of the pun, but they can be really fun for sure.
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Guys, we're getting into this topic of jokes, puns, pranks today, but hit follow because we get into so many different things on this podcast.
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Aubrey, earlier last week, we were talking about following our intuition.
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We've talked about some great stuff lately.
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Yes, exactly.
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We've got so many fun episodes that if you're not following the podcast, you might be missing them.
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You're missing out.
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We are on video right now.
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You could do that.
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All right.
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Absolutely.
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That's also the best place to leave comments, leave questions for future episodes.
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Leave us a comment right there on YouTube.
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All right.
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Good stuff.
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All right.
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Let's break it down for our listeners to make it super clear.
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What is a joke then?
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What is a joke?
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So a joke is anything someone says that is intended to make people laugh.
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It can be a story, a question, a funny comment.
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This is pretty loose and flexible.
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Lots of things can be a joke, right?
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Yeah.
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So for example, he told a funny joke during lunch that made everyone laugh, right?
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Or she always has a joke ready when meetings get boring.
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Yeah.
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And yeah, I love a joke.
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You know, of course, when you go to a stand-up comedy, a comedian has five to 30 to an hour of jokes ready.
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And some of them are long.
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There's a buildup.
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There are callbacks, which is where it's referring to something earlier.
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So there are all kinds of different jokes and all kinds of different humors, depending on, you know, there's more dry humor,
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which is very typical for the UK slapstick humor, dad jokes.
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There's all these different types of jokes, right?
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There's so much you could study it really.
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I mean, I think the best comedians are the ones that do the callbacks.
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I didn't know what the term was, but they make it feel at the end, they make it feel like the whole thing has come full circle
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and it just feels like pure art by a really good comedian.
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It's incredible.
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Really fun and clever that brings it all full circle.
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I agree.
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And as a bonus here, I want our listeners to know the phrase jokester, right?
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You're a jokester, right?
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You're always telling jokes.
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He's kind of a jokester, kind of a rare slang, but do you use that ever?
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I do.
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I'll say what a jokester.
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We might say like, what a comedian, but it is a term of endearment at least in the
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states we really appreciate a sense of humor we love
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if someone can be clever can make us laugh
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but it is there's like there's the dad jokes where we might say
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that to like some dad telling a lot of corny jokes we might be like what a jokester
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but it's still playful it's not like mean and pretty soon, actually very soon in the next coming weeks, we're coming out with our brand new course,
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which I'm super excited about Aubrey, socializing in English, right?
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How to socialize in English.
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We will be covering humor in there because it has to be covered.
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So look for that guys.
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Yeah.
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We'll tell you more about that soon.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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This is part of it, to be able to tell a joke in a second language is extremely difficult.
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In your first language, I'm sure you've got it down, but that is tough as you're learning English to be able to tell a joke, the timing, the wit to know.
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There's so much that goes into that.
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How to tell a joke, how to react to a joke, everything around humor.
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There's so much there and it does vary cross-culturally.
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So we'll get into that in the course.
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Keep your eyes and ears open for more information about that, guys.
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But Aubrey, what is a pun then?
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So this is our second term.
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Very different, right?
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So not all jokes are puns, but all puns are jokes, right?
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Because a pun is wordplay.
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It's a specific type of joke that plays with multiple meanings or maybe similar sounds of words.
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So yeah, the one I said, it depends because it's usually is more about a play on words, two words that might have the same meaning.
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Yeah.
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Now here, okay.
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I think we just need to give some examples, Aubrey.
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This is a good one.
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I used to be a baker, but I couldn't make enough dough.
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But I'm ching.
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You got to have some kind of joke.
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Why is that a pun?
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Yeah.
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So the word dough, of course, is yeast and bread and flour, you know, flour and water that is dough that we use to make all these baked goods.
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And we also use the word dough to mean money in English.
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And we say, I couldn't make enough dough.
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That's the play on words, the double meaning of the dough a baker would need to actually make food and money.
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Yeah.
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It's kind of interesting.
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You kind of have to think quite flexibly to understand a pun, right?
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You have to kind of open your mind to maybe I'm missing one of the meanings of these words, right?
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Exactly.
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And I actually have a good friend from Puerto Rico that one of the things I respect the most about her, there will be puns, there will be wordplay, and she is savvy enough she can pick up on.
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There was some kind of joke here that I missed and she's not afraid to ask.
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She'll be like, okay, wait, what was the double meaning that I missed or like, what was the innuendo that I missed?
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And we're happy to like, Oh, because it also means money or whatever.
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Right.
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She's very fluent.
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So a lot of it she'll pick up on, but if ever there's something she missed, she asks.
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And I love that about, cause then she can be in on the joke.
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She doesn't want to just like pretend she got it.
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Right.
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Oh, that's the worst feeling.
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Try to pretend.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And we've all been there.
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I've done that in Spanish and French.
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I'm like, I'm just going to pretend I understood.
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I know.
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Yeah, but don't do it because it could be an opportunity for connection right there.
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Like this one, the calendar factory fired me because I took a day off.
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How is this a pun, Aubrey?
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So a day off, right?
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Of course, if you take a day off of work, that means that you are not going to go to work for the day.
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But then because on a calendar, if you literally take a day off, that would mean like removing Monday or Wednesday, like removing a day.
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Physically, yeah.
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If you were to do that, you might not work long for the calendar makers.
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Calendar factory.
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Exactly.
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So this is often how a pun works is you have the literal meaning, like if you're literally to take a day off a calendar.
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And then we have the more idiomatic meaning of taking a day off meaning not going to work for a day.
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Yeah, that's a good formula for a pun, right?
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So if you know, you understand the literal meaning like dough, right?
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We know literally it's dough.
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It's the stuff that goes into creating bread.
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think about what could be the metaphorical or what could be the non-literal meaning.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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So whenever you find words or phrases that have two separate meanings, you can create a pun to use them both.
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Exactly.
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The humor comes from the language itself, which is clever, right?
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Yeah.
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Really clever.
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Let's do a role play, Aubrey.
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Here we go.
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I'll start us out.
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Ready?
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Which animal gets the best scores on exams?
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Oh, I don't know, Aubrey.
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Which one does?
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The cheetah.
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That's a dad joke for sure.
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That's a dad joke.
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I like it.
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This was one I did because we had to send words of encouragement
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or jokes with our kids on the exam day and all mine were puns and my kids love them.
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Oh, that's adorable.
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That's adorable.
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I love that.
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But yeah, so we have the animal, a cheetah, right?
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Which you might see in a zoo or a big cat.
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Yeah, a big cat.
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And then of course, cheater in English is someone who would cheat on an exam.
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And this is also kind of playing with accents because you wouldn't say cheater, but some people in their regional dialect, they drop the R at the end of the words.
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You can say a cheetah and it still sounds like cheater in English, right?
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Yeah.
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You might find that in, for example, we've talked about a Boston accent, right um east coast new york maybe philadelphia yeah exactly all
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right then we have pranks abri how are they different totally different
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so this is very different right this is an action
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or a trick that's played on someone for amusement
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so it's not something
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that you're just saying to someone it's something you're going to
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do right it involves doing something yeah are you a prankster
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lindsey ever do you play pranks in high school i think
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i i was you know we did play pranks on our friends in high school like I don't know
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but I never thought they were very funny they were just always like I guess funny
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because you think about the person walking to the parking lot
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and discovering their car has been toilet papered or you know things like
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that but it's not actually funny it's just like you bring up a really good point
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that sometimes pranks are funny like they're silly sometimes it's funny
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but sometimes it's not it can be mean-spirited or if you like scare someone or let it go on too long,
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then it's the kind of humor that like the person being pranked probably won't think it's funny.
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And it's more people laughing at them.
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So there's sort of an art to this and it's not easy.
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Sometimes we see this on April Fool's Day, right?
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April 1st, we see this a lot.
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We play pranks on April 1st. So for example, my brother hid all my shoes as a prank.
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Like that's a harmless, funny prank.
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All your shoes are hidden.
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He's laughing somewhere.
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You'd probably laugh too, but you'd be like, okay.
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It's not like a joke funny, but it's just kind of, you know, you might laugh about it later if you tell the story.
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So when I was in college, you were saying you did this younger.
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When I was in college, we created all of these fake parking tickets and we would put fake parking tickets on our friends' cars.
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And I haven't grown out of it because I did that to my husband not that long ago.
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But I'm better now as I get older of like letting, you know, letting them in on the joke quicker.
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Like as soon as they believe it and they're like panicking, then I let them know it's a prank.
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Whereas once upon a time, I probably would have left it for a while.
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See how long before, like make them go, make them go to the office to dispute it and then find out it's not real.
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Oh, you took it too far.
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I was always afraid that someone was going to, this is sort of a mean and disgusting, but sometimes I've heard people have put like saran wrap on a toilet.
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So when you go to the bathroom, I was always afraid someone was going to do that to me but no one ever like checking every time.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Kind of still do still do.
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Um, yeah.
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So this is different.
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So very different from puns and sort of a joke, but kind of not sort of a practical joke is another way we, we might call that.
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Right.
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There's a TV show called impractical jokers.
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My kids like watching it sometimes where they're playing pranks, they're playing pranks on people just to catch the video, their reactions.
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And so it's funny and you have to be able to take a joke, right?
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If someone's playing a prank on you, if you get really upset, that's true.
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Like you'd have to just, you know, be able to take a joke.
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And there was also the classic when we were kids, we used to do prank calls.
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We had a babysitter would be like, let's prank call.
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Like it's so bad if you think about it now.
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Right.
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It's so funny, but I still, we used to do that all the time.
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And there's a TikToker now who does it.
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And she, a lot of people out there will probably know who I'm talking about.
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She, um, disguises her voice and calls herself Sue and she pranks people constantly and videos them.
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And so I'm like, prank calls are still alive and well.
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They're still alive and well.
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The classic one we used to do, I'm sure they don't do it anymore, but we would call a random person in the phone book and say, oh, excuse me, ma'am, is your refrigerator running?
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Right.
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And then they'd say, yes.
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And then you say, well, you better go catch it.
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And then you'd hang up and laugh.
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And you know, did you actually do that one?
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I saw that one on TV once, but I didn't know anyone who ever really did that.
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I love it. So fun. So fun.
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All right.
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Here we go.
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Hey, quick question.
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All right, Aubrey, we're back from break.
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So now our listeners understand the difference between prank, pun and joke.
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Let's get into a role play, shall we?
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Yeah, you and I are co-workers in this role play.
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I'll start us out.
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Okay.
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Did you hear the joke Ryan told earlier?
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Uh, yeah, about the scarecrow winning an award because he was outstanding in his field.
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Yes, I have to remember that one so I can tell my son.
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He loves puns.
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Does your son like to prank people?
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Yes.
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He'll hide my phone, for example, but then he'll let me look for it way too long.
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He finally lets me in on the joke.
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What about you?
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When's the last time you pranked someone?
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last year Blake and I covered Janet's car in post-it notes I remember
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that she walked outside
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and couldn't stop laughing I'm a fan of a harmless prank
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same it's an art to fool someone without taking it so far
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that you actually upset them yeah you gotta gotta it's the
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it's the art of finding the line between without upsetting them
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right without causing them any problems like being late to work
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or something right and knowing who to prank
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because not everybody can take a joke Like some people will just get mad
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or they'll just know it's not real and roll their eyes and that's no fun.
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Wasted effort.
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It's true.
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Yeah, you have to choose the right person, but it is fun when you can do it.
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So where did we use our, we use joke at the top of the role play, Aubrey, right?
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Did you hear the joke Ryan told earlier?
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And then we have a joke here.
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What's funny about that joke, Aubrey?
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Yeah, so the scarecrow won an award because he was outstanding in his field.
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So this is a pun.
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It's a joke that it's a play on words, right?
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We have outstanding, meaning excellent.
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If you're outstanding in your field, that means you're excellent at your job.
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But also scarecrows are just outstanding in fields, right?
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So that's why it's definitely a dad joke, but a good pun.
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It's a good one.
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And then you said, I have to remember it so I can tell my son he loves puns.
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And so that's also a joke and a pun, right?
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Exactly.
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And then you ask, oh, does your son like to prank people?
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And I share, and this was, this is true my son would prank us
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but he would let it go way too long he would
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let us like look for something he had hidden till we're like angry and whatever
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so then i've i've now taught him the art of like letting someone in on the joke right away
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and i've had him practice i'll have him like i'll help him prep a prank for his dad
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and then i'll like and then i'm there with him and
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if he doesn't let him in i'm like okay here's where
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you need to let him in on the joke that's
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so fun because it just can't It goes so long that someone's getting angry or super frustrated.
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It's knowing when to let them in.
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And actually, that should be a bonus phrase for today, right?
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To let someone in on the joke.
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There's a lot of prepositions there, Aubrey, right?
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Exactly.
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And it's really tricky.
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You have to use it word for word, right?
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You can't say let them on or out.
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Yes, we let someone in on a joke means we tell them we were pranking them.
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We tell them it was a joke before it's too late.
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Yeah, I love it.
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Great episode today super important for connection.
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And we're going to have a part two on this episode, right, Aubrey?
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Yes.
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Hit follow for part two.
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We've got a lot of idioms we use about jokes and about sense of humor.
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So hit follow for that coming up in a few weeks.
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Yeah.
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Hit that follow button and go check out episode 2678, why and how to connect over sleep in English.
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Was that you and Michelle that did that one together?
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Yes, that was a good one.
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And we do, we talk about sleep and how little or how much of it we're getting a lot.
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So you want to be able to connect about that.
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Yeah.
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I love it.
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I love it.
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Anything that kind of, uh, emphasizes our humanity, telling jokes, sleep, intuition.
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These are things that we look for here in Allers English, these topics guys, and it's what you need to know to connect.
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It's not the perfection of the grammar.
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It's topics like these.
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Okay.
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Exactly.
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It's so true.
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Tell a joke, right?
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Get that humor down, play a prank, but then let people in on the joke before they get angry.
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There's such an art to it.
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And it is a great way to connect with other people.
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Yeah, great stuff.
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All right, Aubrey, you have a good rest of your day.
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I'll see you back here on the show very soon.
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All right.
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Me too.
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See you next time.
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Okay, bye.
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Bye.
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Cose che imparerai
In questo video, migliorerai la capacità di distinguere tra joke (barzelletta), pun (giochi di parole) e prank (scherzo pratico), fondamentale per capire l'umorismo inglese. Imparerai anche a usare frasi come "to let someone in on the joke" (raccontare a qualcuno che è stato uno scherzo) e a riconoscere i "dad jokes" (barzellette simpatiche e un po' stupide). Queste competenze ti aiuteranno a connetterti meglio con i madrelingua!
Ascolta questi suoni
Nella conversazione, nota come le parole si legano: ad esempio, "what do you call" diventa waddya call e "I couldn't make" diventa I couldn't make con la "t" soft. Anche le riduzioni come "gonna" (going to) e "gotta" (got to) sono comuni. Questi dettagli rendono il tuo inglese più naturale e ti aiutano a seguire le conversazioni veloci.
Parla come un native
Per imitare il ritmo e l'enfasi dei parlanti, usa lo shadowing in inglese: ripeti immediatamente dopo di loro, cercando di corrispondere al tono e alla lunghezza delle frasi. Per i "pun", metti l'enfasi sulle parole con doppi sensi, come "dough" (impasto/dinero) o "day off" (giorno libero/togliere un giorno dal calendario). Per i "prank", usa una voce giocosa quando racconti gli scherzi, per trasmettere l'umorismo senza offendere. Praticare così migliorerà la tua pronuncia inglese e la tua confidenza nel parlare.
Se vuoi approfondire, usa un shadowing site o esercitati con lo shadow speech: ascolta brevi frasi, ripetile e confrontali con l'originale. Ricorda: l'umorismo è un'arte, e con la pratica diventerai un maestro nel capirlo e nel usarlo! 🎭
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verbo — un’abitudine o uno stato passato che non è più vero | used to be · used to do |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | We've talked · has come · I've done |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | is unfiltered · was inspired · is intended |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | callbacks, which is · itself, which is · someone who would |
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.