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Hey everybody, my name is Andrew.
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And my name is Morag.
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And you are listening to Q-Lips.
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Hey Morag.
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Hey Andrew, how's it going?
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I'm pretty good.
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How about yourself?
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I'm alright, but I have a new frustration.
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A new frustration.
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What is this frustration that's new to you?
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Well, for the past couple months,
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there has been no one in the building I live in above me or below me.
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So I am on the second floor and the third and first floors were vacant.
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No one was living in them.
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No one was living there?
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That was very pleasant because you didn't have to worry about making noise and no one bothered you with noise.
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Awesome.
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Well, I have currently an infestation of French raver bros.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Okay, let's back it up.
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Let's back it up.
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That was an interesting sentence because this word infestation,
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we usually use this word to talk about bugs or rodents
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when they come into your house and they take over your house.
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This is an infestation, but you don't have an infestation of cockroaches or ants or mice.
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You have an infestation of French raver bros.
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Yes, that is exactly correct.
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That is how I think of them.
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They're actually my downstairs neighbors,
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but they're just as annoying as an infestation of insects or rodents.
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There are five of them in a three-bedroom apartment.
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Oh, no. They seem to be 18, maybe?
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19?
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And they constantly, constantly listen to bad dance music.
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Bad dance music.
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So you hear that bass drum, just the boom, boom, boom, boom.
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Oh, drives me insane.
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Yeah.
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I'm curious, what is a raver bro?
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Who is a raver bro?
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Well, a bro is, that's a tough one.
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A bro is a typically masculine guy, kind of like a jock.
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A bro is, at least when you're calling somebody a bro in a negative way, it's just a guy that has a bad attitude that you don't like.
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They're not a super terrible person, but they're still terrible enough.
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And you just wish that you didn't have to interact with them.
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Mm hmm.
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And the raver part is they are very much into EDM electronic dance music and they seem to go dancing a lot.
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And I saw them outside making friendship bracelets.
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Cute.
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Yeah.
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And other things that you wear going dancing to electronic clubs and stuff.
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So that's where that's coming from.
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Well, Morag, it's very timely that these neighbors have moved into your building
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because the topic for today's Simplified Speech episode is dancing.
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Something that your neighbors probably know a lot about.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, too bad.
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Can't have them up here.
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If you don't know,
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Simplified Speech is our series where we have natural conversations at a slower than usual conversational speed.
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And if you want to really maximize your time studying here today, guys, check out our website,
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Okay, Morag, let's get into it a little bit.
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We'll transition away from the French raver bro neighbors.
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And we'll talk about us, okay?
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All right, sounds good.
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So dancing Dancing Do you like to dance, Andrew?
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I do honestly enjoy dancing But I'm a terrible dancer I have two left feet That's a great expression
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To have two left feet If somebody has two left feet It means they're just bad at dancing
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I don't have two left feet,
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but I'm not a big fan of dancing in public.
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In public, so you're a private dancer?
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Yeah.
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It's fun to dance alone, like putting on music at home,
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and if the mood strikes you, just, you know, dancing, jumping around, moving to the music.
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But I'm not a big fan of dance moves, I guess.
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Maybe I do have two left feet.
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It's fun to move your body to music, but knowing how to dance is the other thing that's the real issue.
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Yeah.
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I recently became friends with a guy who's a really good dancer.
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He went to a special high school, one of those art-focused high schools, and studied dancing in high school.
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Wow.
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So he could do all sorts of dance styles, but he was showing me some popping and locking and breakdance moves.
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And I got to say, I was a little jealous.
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Like, it looked pretty cool.
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Yeah, it definitely can.
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But I think that guy is in the minority.
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I think most people seem to not know how to do dance moves.
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Mm-hmm.
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I think you can see that pretty well if you ever watch the dance floor at a wedding, say.
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Dance floors at a wedding in Canada.
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It's one of the funniest things you'll ever see because I think Canadians were just not good dancers.
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Of course, I don't want to say everybody's a bad dancer in Canada up
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but on the whole at least the weddings
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that my family members go to like my cousin's wedding
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that i went to a couple years ago seeing all of
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my extended family dance a little bit painful i have to
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be honest a little cringy very cringy maybe it's just watching older people dance though I think as you get older,
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you lose some of the self-consciousness that would stop people from dancing.
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You just don't care.
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You just want to have fun.
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So even if you look really silly, you'll still dance.
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I'm okay with that.
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It doesn't look good, but I think people should enjoy.
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Yeah, I mean, it's a lot of fun.
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You get to listen to music that you like.
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Obviously, if you're dancing to it, the music is exciting to you. And it's great exercise.
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It's good to move around.
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Very true.
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It's easy to sit on the sidelines and laugh at people on the dance floor at a wedding.
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But, I mean, if you do that, you're kind of the loser in that situation.
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It's true.
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So that's why you go and you join and you laugh at yourself.
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It's just more fun.
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Now, another place you can go to dance is a nightclub, a dance club.
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And I guess I used to do this occasionally when I was younger.
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Haven't done it for a while now.
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And I don't know if I would like to visit a nightclub now.
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But yeah, I have in the past.
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What about you, Borak?
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Have you ever danced at a club, in the club?
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Definitely have.
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I have danced in the club, yep.
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Also, when I was younger, that happened more often.
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Although, funnily enough, I was at a club all the time last year because I was working at a club.
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Right.
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So I saw a lot of people dance, but I did not dance.
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I liked it better that way.
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Cultures around the world usually have a traditional dance style.
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In Canada, our First Nations communities have, you know, lots of different styles of traditional dance.
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And we both have Scottish heritage.
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Families are from Scotland.
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And Scotland has a really interesting style of traditional dance, Highland dance.
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Have you ever tried to do Highlands dancing?
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I didn't, although I have another friend who she and her sisters, all redheads.
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Classic.
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Yeah, their father is from Scotland and they all did Highland dancing.
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It's really interesting.
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It's very, very aerobic.
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There's a lot of jumping.
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It's interesting to think about dance styles from around the world.
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And I kind of wish that Canada, we need to make a new dance for everybody in Canada.
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This would be really cool.
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That would be nice, but...
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I don't see it happening.
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Maybe we could adopt a dance that's popular.
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Do you know, Andrew, are there any dance crazes sweeping the nation?
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Ooh, that's a good question.
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I don't know.
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I think, at least from a Canadian perspective, we'd have to look to one of our pop superstars, like Justin Bieber or Drake.
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You know, Drake had that one dance music video that came out a couple years ago.
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And there's some pretty funny dance moves in that video.
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Kind of went viral for a little bit.
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Maybe we should take those Drake kind of grandpa dance moves on as our national dance.
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I think I could get behind that.
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If everybody does it, it's okay, I guess.
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It's cool again.
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Yeah, perhaps.
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I don't know.
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But guys, if you haven't seen the music video for One Dance by Drake, you've been living under a rock, first of all.
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But second of all, you should go to YouTube and check
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that video out to see the funny moves that we're talking about.
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Check out a Canadian icon.
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That's right.
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more egg we will leave it at that for today
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Từ Vựng & Cụm Từ Quan Trọng

  • Infestation: sự xâm chiếm (thường dùng để chỉ côn trùng hoặc động vật gây hại)
  • Raver bro: chàng trai yêu thích khiêu vũ và thường tham gia các buổi tiệc âm nhạc điện tử
  • Bad dance music: nhạc khiêu vũ không hay (nhạc điện tử tệ)
  • Bass drum: trống bass (một loại nhạc cụ trong âm nhạc điện tử)
  • Jock: một chàng trai khỏe mạnh, thường tham gia thể thao
  • Friendship bracelets: vòng tay tình bạn (vật dụng thường thấy trong các bữa tiệc khiêu vũ)
  • Electronic dance music (EDM): nhạc điện tử khiêu vũ, thể loại nhạc phổ biến trong các buổi tiệc

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