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I mean, it is just a burger.
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Just a burger.
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Just a burger.
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Robin, it's so much more than just a burger.
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I mean, that first bite.
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Oh, what heaven that first bite is.
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The bun, like a sesame-freckled breast of an angel resting gently on the ketchup and mustard below, flavors mingling in a seductive pas de deux.
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How I Met Your Mother still holds up as one of my favorite sitcoms of all time, and I really don't think they make shows like this anymore.
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And for today's lesson, we've chosen a hilarious scene where Marshall is obsessed with finding a hamburger he ate eight years ago right after he moved to New York City.
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He remembers it vividly as the best burger he's ever had, and now he's on a mission to find it again.
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So this lesson will be great for learning lots of useful expressions about food and even some vocabulary related to dating.
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Oh, my God.
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I'm never brushing my teeth again, unless it's with a toothbrush made from this burger.
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I think I just had my first burg-asm.
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I want to take this burger out to dinner, then maybe a movie, then take it back to my place.
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put on a little Terrence Trent Darby and then I would just fool around a little bit.
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It's nothing serious, just take it slow, you know?
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Alright, so first of all, let me just give you some more context about what's happening in this scene.
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Marshall is looking for the place where he had the best burger of his life.
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In his quest to find it, he thought this particular burger joint might be the one, because it looked exactly like the place he remembered.
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So he took his friends there to try the burger, and in this first clip, we see their reaction.
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Now let's learn the advanced English we hear in it.
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Oh my God, I'm never brushing my teeth again, unless it's with a toothbrush made from this burger.
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I think I just had my first burgasm.
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Burgasm is a made-up word combining burger and orgasm.
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It's a funny way to say the burger was incredibly satisfying.
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I want to take this burger out to dinner, then maybe a movie, then take it back to my place.
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This is funny because Barney is treating the burger as if it were someone he was dating.
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His whole line describes this typical romantic evening, so we hear all this relationship vocabulary there, like to take someone out to dinner, to fool around, to take it slow.
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So let's see.
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When you take someone out to dinner, you're inviting them to a restaurant.
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and usually paying for the meal.
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You could also use take someone out with other activities, like take them out to see a movie, or you could take them back to your place, meaning your house or apartment.
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I want to take this burger out to dinner, then maybe a movie, then take it back to my place.
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Put on a little Terrence Trent Darby.
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The phrasal verb put on here means to start playing a piece of music, like to put on a song.
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In this case, Barney says he would put on a little Terrence Trent Darby, who is this American singer from the 80s, famous for his romantic or Sanchez style.
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Which, for Barney, would help set the mood.
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Then take it back to my place.
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Put on a little Terrence Trent Darby, and then I would just fool around a little bit.
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It's nothing serious, just take it slow, you know?
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In a more general context, fooling around means acting silly or playfully, like joking with friends.
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But in this context, it's slang for being physically intimate with someone in a romantic way, but in a way that's not so serious.
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Now, did you hear the way Barney pronounced that phrase?
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Put on a little Terrence Trent Darby.
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This is such a great line to learn and practice advanced pronunciation because of the connected speech that we hear in it.
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If you sometimes think natives speak too fast, like here, instead of saying put on a little, he said put on a little, then that's just because you aren't really getting the connected speech patterns right.
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That is how natives link, cut, and reduce words when they speak.
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Let's have a look at this phrase so we can master all the sounds.
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Put on a little Terrence Trent Darby.
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When a T stands between two vowels like this, we often get a flap T sound like ra ra ra.
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So put on sounds like put on.
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And we also hear the sound in the word little.
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It doesn't say little, but little.
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Finally, the word on and a little get linked.
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So what we hear is on a little, put on a little.
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Now try and repeat after Barney.
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Put on a little Terrence Trent Darby.
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Put on a little Terrence Trent Darby.
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All right, so everyone is here because of Marshall's quest to find a perfect burger he can't forget.
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But it turns out this is not the right place.
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This isn't it.
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Marshall, you might not want to hear this, but is it at all possible this is the same burger you had eight years ago, only to never live up to your ridiculously high expectations?
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I mean, it is just a burger.
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Just a burger.
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The phrase live up to means to meet or match someone's expectations or hopes.
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So when Ted says it could never live up to your ridiculously high expectations, he means the burger might not be so amazing as you remember because your memory or expectations were too high.
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You can use this phrase in lots of situations like the movie didn't live up to the hype.
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She's trying to live up to her parents' expectations.
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concert totally lived up to everything I hoped for.
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Okay, so now let's see what Marshall says in the next part of the scene.
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an angel resting gently on the ketchup and mustard below flavors mingling in a seductive pas de deux.
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And then, a pickle.
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The most playful little pickle.
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Now this is some high-level poetry from Marshall here, right?
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So let's break down the advanced vocabulary.
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When he says, oh, what heaven, he means that the burger's taste was amazing, almost like a divine experience.
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He keeps going with a divine theme when comparing the bun with the breast of an angel.
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And here's what else he adds to that phrase.
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The bun, like a sesame So these are sesame seeds, which you often see sprinkled on top of burger buns.
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He compares those with freckles on this imaginary breast of an angel.
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Now freckles are these natural little spots some people have on their skin.
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You probably know the word rest meaning to take a break and relax.
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In this context though, resting means gently lying on top of something, like this book, Resting on this Nightstand.
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Or in this example from the movie Toy Story.
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Mom would let her keep Bo on all night.
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Who knew you were such a softie?
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And Molly would fall asleep with her hand resting on Bo's feet.
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Okay, okay.
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So what it means is that the bun was placed gently on top of the ketchup and mustard to prevent them from spilling.
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Below flavors, mingling in a seductive pas de deux.
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To mingle means to mix or blend together.
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He's talking about the flavors combining beautifully in your mouth.
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But for example, one way you could apply this expression could be if you're saying, Guests mingle with each other at the party, meaning they were moving around and socializing with different people.
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Check this out.
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Jonah, relax.
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It's a party.
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You should be mingling.
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lingo talk to someone about how the second season of patriot gets better it doesn't see this is a great conversation
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get out there so let's hear again how he describes the combination of flavors below flavors mingling in a
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seductive padded seductive means tempting or attractive like the way you could feel about some clothes when you're tempted to buy them or about someone you're romantically or sexually interested in.
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And pas de deux is a French term used in ballet.
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It refers to a duo of dancers who perform like this.
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Marshall is comparing the flavors of ketchup and mustard to two dancers moving together perfectly and gracefully.
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Now before we move on to the last part of the scene, I want to check how good your burger vocabulary is.
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Let's take a closer look at this typical burger.
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Looking at these ingredients, see if you can name them all in eight seconds.
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Here are their names.
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How many did you get right?
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Anyway, so now let's watch the last part of the scene.
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And a slice of tomato, a leaf of lettuce, and a patty.
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of ground beef, so exquisite, swirling in your mouth, breaking apart and combining again in a fugue of sweets and savory, so delightful.
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This is no mere sandwich of grilled meat and toasted bread, Robin.
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This is God speaking to us through food.
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And you got our wedding vows off the internet.
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Hey, so before we continue learning, let's do a quick recap.
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Do you remember this particular dating phrase we covered, to fool around?
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Or how about this other phrase, to live up to high expectations?
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Wouldn't it be awesome if you could actually use these naturally in your next English conversation?
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Well, to make these phrases part of your active vocabulary, that is, the words that come to mind automatically when you're speaking, then you need an effective way to make sure that you remember them.
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And that's what we give you on our mobile app.
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For every lesson like this one, we create flashcards with all the key expressions.
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And with our spaced repetition system, we help you review new words right before you're about to forget them so they can actually stick with you forever.
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You can start using the app right now and continue practicing with this lesson from there.
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Just click the link in the description below or search for Real Life English on your favorite app store.
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And I hope to see you there.
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And then a slice of tomato, a leaf of lettuce, and a patty of ground beef.
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So exquisite.
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Ground beef is beef that is cut up into very small pieces in a meat grinder or other machine.
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And you remember what a patty is, right?
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From the image we saw?
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It's basically this disc-shaped meat part of the burger.
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He calls the patty exquisite, which means extremely beautiful or of exceptional quality.
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Check out these examples.
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Ingrid, the food was exquisite.
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Thank you.
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So lovely to meet you, Miss Bridgerton.
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Your gown, it is exquisite.
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Swirling in your mouth, breaking apart and combining again in a fugue of sweets and savory so delightful.
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Now imagine leaves spinning in the wind, dancing around before settling.
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That circular, flowing motion is exactly what swirling looks like.
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So when Marshall says that patty swirls in your mouth, he means it's spinning and moving smoothly like those leaves.
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And then he adds, Breaking apart and combining again in a fugue of sweets and savory soap.
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Delightful.
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To break apart means to separate or split into smaller pieces like this.
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Fugue is a technical musical word.
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It's using classical music to describe many melodies playing together.
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So a fugue of flavors would be a group of flavors that feel like a beautiful song made of different tunes.
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Now by saying sweets and savories is probably referring to the sweet taste of ketchup or tomato and the savory flavors of beef and mustard.
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And everything together, it's so good, it makes you feel happy and satisfied.
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In other words, it's delightful.
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The word delight means pleasure, and so delightful is pleasurable, satisfying.
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And finally, if you're following the rhythm of this line, you may have noticed there's some connected speech happening here too.
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Let's listen to this phrase again.
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First of all, the ending of the word combining gets reduced to just an end sound.
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And that connects to the word again.
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So what we get is combining again.
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Then the N sound from again links to the next vowel from in.
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Again in.
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And the same thing happens one more time between in and a.
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Inna.
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Again inna.
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So altogether it sounds like combining again inna.
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Listen and repeat after Marshall.
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Breaking apart and combining again in a fugue of sweets.
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This is
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a dramatic or poetic way of saying something is much more than it appears.
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This is no mere sandwich means this is not just an ordinary, simple sandwich.
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So the word mere means just or only.
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No, you misunderstand.
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This is no mere flirtation.
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Marina loves this man.
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She loves him still.
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And she's marrying me.
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And you got our wedding vows off the internet.
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Wedding vows are the promises a couple makes to each other during their wedding ceremony.
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This line makes the scene even funnier, because Marshall, who just gave this super poetic speech about a burger, apparently didn't even write his own wedding vows.
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He just got them off the internet, meaning he copied them from a website instead of writing them himself.
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Alright, now let's test your comprehension by watching the entire scene again, this time without any subtitles, and I'm going to ask you some questions just to see how well you understood everything.
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Let's do this.
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Oh my god, I'm never brushing my teeth again, unless it's with a toothbrush made from this burger.
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I think I just had my first burg-asm.
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I want to take this burger out to dinner, then maybe a movie, then take it back to my place.
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Put on a little Terrence Trent Darby and then I will just fool around a little bit.
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It's nothing serious, just take it slow, you know?
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What does fool around mean in this context?
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Acting silly and being funny, kissing and hugging, dancing with a burger.
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This isn't it.
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Marshall, that's not it.
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Hey, Marshall, you might not want to hear this, but is it at all possible this is the same burger you had eight years ago, only to never live up to your ridiculously high expectations?
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I mean, it is just a burger.
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Just a burger.
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Just a burger.
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Robin, it's so much more than just a burger.
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I mean, that first bite.
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Oh, what heaven that first bite is.
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The bun like a sesame-freckled breast of an angel resting gently on the ketchup and mustard below.
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Flavors mingling in a seductive pas de deux.
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When flavors are mingling, they are mixing together gently, turning into a stronger flavor, contrasting with each other.
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And then a pickle.
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The most playful little pickle.
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And then a slice of tomato, a leaf of lettuce, and a patty of ground beef.
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So exquisite Inquisite, swirling in your mouth, breaking apart and combining again in a fugue of sweets and savoury, so delightful.
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Which word means exceptionally good?
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Inquisite, requisite, exquisite.
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Delightful.
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This is no mere sandwich of grilled meat and toasted bread, Robin.
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This is God speaking to us through food.
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And you got our wedding vows off the internet.
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What is another way to say this is not just an ordinary sandwich?
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Ha ha, yeah!
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Great job guys!
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Now remember to go and practice everything that you learned today on the RealLife app.
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I'm gonna leave the link in the description below so you can click on that and it'll take you straight to the vocabulary practice over there.
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You know what's funny?
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When I saw your ad on Craigslist, I thought you were women.
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That's funny.
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Why would you think that?
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That's crazy.
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I mean, Schmidt wrote the ad.
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Oh, I guess it was something about the words he used.
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It was like, uh, like sun-soaked and beige-y.
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Ah!
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What are you doing?
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What about these?
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These look beige-y to you?
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Sorry.
Về bài học này
Bài học hôm nay tập trung vào một cảnh hài hước trong bộ phim sitcom nổi tiếng "How I Met Your Mother", nơi nhân vật Marshall đang tìm kiếm chiếc hamburger ngon nhất mà anh đã ăn từ 8 năm trước. Cảnh này không chỉ mang lại những nụ cười mà còn cung cấp cho bạn nhiều từ vựng phong phú liên quan đến đồ ăn và mối quan hệ. Bạn sẽ luyện nói tiếng anh qua việc lắng nghe cách nhân vật diễn đạt sự hưng phấn của mình và cách họ tương tác với nhau. Đây là cơ hội tuyệt vời để bạn cải thiện kỹ năng phát âm và sự tự tin khi giao tiếp bằng tiếng Anh.
Từ vựng & Cụm từ quan trọng
- Just a burger: chỉ việc giản đơn là một chiếc hamburger.
- Burgasm: từ kết hợp giữa 'burger' và 'orgasm', diễn tả sự thỏa mãn cực độ khi ăn hamburger.
- Take someone out to dinner: mời ai đó đi ăn tối.
- Put on: bắt đầu phát một bản nhạc.
- Fool around: hành động chơi đùa hoặc gần gũi một cách lãng mạn.
- Take it slow: tiến triển từ từ, không vội vàng trong mối quan hệ.
- Terrence Trent Darby: tên một ca sĩ nổi tiếng từ thập niên 80, người có phong cách lãng mạn.
Mẹo thực hành
Để tận dụng tối đa bài học này, hãy tham gia vào shadow speak, một phương pháp hữu ích trong việc luyện nghe nói qua video. Khi xem đoạn cảnh, hãy cố gắng nhắc lại những câu mà bạn nghe được ngay lập tức. Hãy chú ý đến tốc độ nói của các nhân vật, vì đôi khi họ nói rất nhanh. Một mẹo nhỏ là hãy lặp lại từng cụm từ ngắn, như "put on a little" hoặc "take it slow", trước khi cố gắng đọc cả câu. Điều này sẽ giúp bạn làm quen với shadowing tiếng anh và cải thiện khả năng phát âm. Hãy thử nói theo cùng với video để luyện nói tiếng anh một cách tự nhiên nhất!
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