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You're listening to the Footglitch Podcast. Love football, learn English.

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Czech Republic 2, Georgia 1. How massive is this result for my country?

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Was Czechia the better team in this Nations League game?

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Who were the best Czech players on the night?

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What are the words neither and either and how do we use them in English?

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Hello everyone, welcome back to the Footglitch Podcast.

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Your solution to learning English through football.

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Because as an English teacher, I believe that the best way to learn is by having fun and enjoying yourself.

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So that's why I started this podcast. My name is Denik Lucas and I'm your host.

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And every host needs a guest and today we have a returning guest.

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I believe it's his third appearance. Please correct me if I'm wrong, Tom.

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I think you're right. Hello Denik and hello to everybody. It's nice to be here as always.

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Good to have you back. I have a question for you, Tomas, to start with.

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Do you remember the first time you were on this podcast? After which game it was?

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I do. It was when we met in July. Was it in July? I think so.

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And it was after our match in Europe. Against?

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Against Portugal? It was Georgia.

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Ah, Georgia, sorry. We played against Georgia. It was 1-1, remember?

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And we played really well, but at the end of the game they had a really big chance.

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The Georgian players. And we almost lost that game in our chance of advancing in the tournament.

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The reason I'm asking you this... We had a couple of beers as well. This is what I remember very well.

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Are you sober this time then? Yes. You're still in your work, aren't you?

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I am. That's why. Still at work.

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I'm also sober because I've just finished one of my English lessons. I teach online these days.

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So I think today it might be more measured from us, right? More sort of academic almost.

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But the common denominator, Thomas, to use a mathematical term, because I know you are good at math.

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The common denominator is that we're going to talk about a game against Georgia again.

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Did you know? Did you realize that? I guess so.

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Czech Republic-Georgia, which finished 2-1 for the Czech team.

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It was the last game in the Nations League group. This means that our team got promoted to League A.

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So next time there's the Nations League, we will be in League A with the best teams.

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This also means that we have secured the playoffs for the upcoming World Cup.

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And there's more, Tomas. We also are now in pot two, because before this game we were in pot three.

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But by getting three points, we managed to get to pot two for the draw of this qualification, the next qualification for the World Cup.

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So it was a hat-trick of achievements for the Czech teams. Which of these things do you think is the most important one, Tom?

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It's difficult to say. I would say that the most important is that we won the group.

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And we definitely improved our impression after the first match when we lost against Georgia 4-1.

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I think everyone was very unhappy and was very skeptical about our performance in this group.

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But at the end we won and this is the most important thing.

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And yesterday's match, I think the first 25 minutes was extremely enjoyable. I have really enjoyed it.

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And the next 70 minutes was full of uncertainty, I would say.

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Do you know how this game started?

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Okay, let me describe my experience of watching this game.

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So I turned on my computer and launched my stream.

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And then one minute later I received a message from Tomáš and the message was, yay, we scored a goal!

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I'm like, okay, where? I don't see any of that.

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I think my stream was like two minutes delayed, so I took my phone and recorded the goal.

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So that was an interesting experience.

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And after that, Tomáš, I have to say, I put my phone on do not disturb.

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I love discussing football with you during games, but I have to make sure that I'm not too much behind with my stream.

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You ignored me.

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I did not, but I always waited for the half time.

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I wouldn't dare to ignore my guest.

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I noticed Tomáš, so you mentioned that the first game of this Nations League campaign that we lost 4-1.

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What does this say about us as football fans that we recorded a podcast after every single game against Georgia, except that one?

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How come?

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We were too depressed.

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It would have been a depressing podcast, so we didn't want that feeling to be passed on our listeners, right?

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Yes.

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This was the main reason, right?

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You were actually being nice to our listeners. Yeah, that makes sense.

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Okay, Tomáš, so who were your best players yesterday?

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Which players did you think put in a great shift yesterday?

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I would start with the goalkeeper because I think Kovář was extremely important.

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He saved like two or three goals and he was very confident.

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He didn't make any significant mistake.

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It was very good, so he would be my number one.

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But unfortunately, he's number two at Leverkusen right now because Hradecky is number one there.

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But he's your number one.

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Yes.

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Then I would definitely mention Adam Holozek because he really played a very good match yesterday.

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Basically, he scored one goal and he prepared the first goal.

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Yeah, he was involved.

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Yes, he was very strong in dribbling and he was self-confident as well.

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So he would be my number two.

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And then I think Alex Grau would be number three.

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Alex the King.

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Alex the King, exactly.

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Have you heard the press conference?

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Have you heard the press conference?

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I've heard it.

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What happened?

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Describe it to our listeners.

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I think that they were asking about the name of Alex Grau, his surname.

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Yeah, because there was a translator from Czech to Georgian.

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And I think she was translating simultaneously or consecutively one of those.

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And then she forgot about the surname of the player.

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So she asked during her translation, she asked Hacheck, our manager, what's his surname?

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And he said, what did he say?

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King.

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He said Kral.

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No, he said Kral first.

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And then he added the King to help with the translation.

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But everybody started laughing because in Czech Kral means King.

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It just seemed very funny to everyone involved.

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And he was very good as well, I think.

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He was the King.

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He was the King, definitely.

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And the great news is that even without Tomáš Souček, he was playing, I think, mainly his role.

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He was very good at it.

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He was excellent at stealing the ball.

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He was like everywhere.

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I think him and another player, Cerv, now if we want to use the same thing, so we should say the worm,

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because that's the translation of the word Cerv.

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Kral and Cerv, the King and the worm.

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It's the current Czech midfield.

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So, yeah, I would say early bird catches the worm, but nobody caught this worm.

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He was everywhere.

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And what do you think?

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Who was the best from our team, according to your opinion?

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So, you know, after the game that I sent you a message, I was really excited about Alex Kral's performance.

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I have to say, I think later when I thought about it and I read other people's opinions,

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I realized that I may have been a little bit biased because I don't remember Alex Kral playing so well in the previous years.

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And that's why my expectation was so low that this excellent performance, it just there was such a huge gap,

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huge gap between my expectation and the reality that in my head, it meant that he was the best player on the pitch.

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But then looking at it from the benefit of the hindsight, I would say it was Kovář, I think, the goalkeeper, because he saved us, really.

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And then it was a team game. A lot of players. Excellent.

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But I think the team was above everything, because if you look even at the individual qualities of the Georgian players,

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not only Hvíča Kváraškelja, but the other players as well, they technically better than our players.

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I would agree. Yes, absolutely. But I think that our tactic was very good. It was quite similar to Slavia, Prague, wasn't it?

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It was very... Your favorite team. Yeah, but we already talked about this, that the national team now is playing in a similar way like Slavia.

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So with a very high intensity and they try to score as soon as possible because they usually start with super high intensity.

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And it happened yesterday as well. And after 25 minutes, it was 2-0. So our tactic, exquisite.

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I don't think anyone understood this joke. Only people who know Stanislav Žezáč, the famous Czech biathlonist who gave an interview in three languages,

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which is Czech, English and German at the same time, will understand. If you haven't heard this, please Google Stanislav Žezáč and his interview in three languages.

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Then you will understand why I told this joke. But I'm a little bit scared that only about three people got the joke. And one of them was Tomáš.

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Anyway, Tom, what else can I ask you about? So do you think there's bright future ahead of us now in the Czech national team,

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considering that we have some young players in the team now and we should also mention our under-21s have qualified to the Euros after beating the Belgian team, 3-1 on aggregate.

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It was a two-legged tie. So do you think it looks like there will be better times ahead for the Czech team?

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Well, I think it's fair to say that we were lucky in both cases. So under-21, the first game against Belgium, both goals were really just lucky goals.

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We were not a better team. Definitely. And yesterday against Georgia, I would say the same.

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Really? You think we were?

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I think we were not a better team. We were...

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Would you say so?

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Yeah, I would say so. I think, like you mentioned, the Georgian players, they are technically, they are on a very high level.

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I missed this a little.

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But if you look at stats, just to counter your argument a little bit. So if you look at the number of shots, we actually had nine shots in total, whereas Georgia only six.

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Yeah, so I think we were a little bit better when it came to shots. The only big difference, I would say here, is the possession of the ball.

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So they had two-thirds of the game, they had the ball, two-thirds of the game, 65% of possession. So that's a lot.

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And also the chances, I think Georgia had quite a lot of chances.

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Yes, but we had six. Six on target, they had five on target. Maybe it was about what kind of chances they were. Maybe their XG was bigger.

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I'm looking at this right now on the website, but I cannot see XG there. So it's possible that Georgia had better XG. I don't know.

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So I wouldn't say that we were like 100% better than Georgia. Let's see. Let's hope for a bright future.

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Exactly. Exactly. That's what we can only hope for. That's what I do on this podcast as well, Tomas.

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It's great that we have a lot of young players now. I think Czerw and Schultz, they are very promising.

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So hopefully they will be playing as much as possible. Exactly.

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So they will gain the experience in tough matches against big European teams.

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I don't think Ivan Hache can imagine his team without these players anymore.

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Neither can I. I cannot imagine this podcast without Tomas either, to be honest.

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So thank you very much, Tomas. I promised to you that it would be very short today. So I want to keep my promise.

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Thank you very much for listening, everyone. Tomas, any last words?

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Thank you very much. It was a pleasure, as always. And hopefully next time we will be celebrating some good results.

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We will probably do another podcast about Georgia with our luck.

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Imagine we might get Georgia in the World Cup qualifier or something like that. Yeah, it's possible.

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Okay. Anyway, Tom, have a nice day, man. Thank you very much.

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Have a nice day. Bye bye. Take care. You too.

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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Language Corner.

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As always, in this part of the show, I'm going to explain to you some bits of the English language because I'm an English teacher.

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And that's what we do. We are here to help you with the English language.

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And as you know, my approach is to teach English through football.

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So the context for this language is always the interview that I have with my guest.

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Today, my guest was Tom. By the way, before I get to the nitty gritty of this Language Corner bit, I should also make something right.

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I said in the podcast that Stanislav Rzeszac is a Czech biathlonist. It's actually not true.

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He is a long distance cross country skier. Right. So I apologize for that.

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Anyway, I hope you find the video interesting. If you indeed do search for it online, I have to say it's well worth it.

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But what are we going to talk about today? Well, this is what I said.

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I don't think Ivan Hasek can imagine his team without these two players. And neither can I.

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Now, I was referring to Pavel Schultz and also another player, Czerw, these two Victoria Plzenj players.

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And I used the phrase, and neither can I. And then after that, I said, I cannot imagine this show without Tomas either.

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Tomas was my guest. Right. So I use the word neither. Then I use the word either. What do these words mean?

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How do we use them? Basically, they are both used to agree with negative statements.

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If I say, I don't think Ivan Hasek can imagine his team without these players, this statement or this sentence has a kind of a negative meaning.

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Right. So I cannot imagine this, basically. Sorry, Ivan Hasek cannot imagine this.

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And if I want to agree with the negative statement, I can use the word neither. There are two ways I could do this.

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First of all, the simpler one is to say me neither. Yeah, that would have been the simpler way to say it.

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But also you can use neither or neither. The pronunciation doesn't matter. Both variants are acceptable.

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Neither, neither. Then the verb, the helping verb usually or the modal verb.

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And then the subject, which is usually a person's name or a pronoun. Like in this case, it's I. Right.

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Let me give you another example. Someone might say, I'm not very good at heading the ball. I'm not very good in the air, let's say.

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And if I want to agree with this, if I want to say that I'm the same, basically, I can say neither am I. Yeah.

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Or someone could say I train very hard every day. Right.

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This is different because it's a positive statement. If I want to agree with the positive statement, I can either say me too, which I believe most of you know already.

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Or I can say so do I. So do I. Right.

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Another one could be I can I can run for 50 minutes straight. Right.

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And if you want to agree with it, you can say me too. Or so can I. Right.

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So you see the structure is similar to neither. And so it's a similar structure.

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You so neither. Then after that, the helping verb and finally the pronoun or if it's a person's name.

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But the point is neither is used to agree with a negative statement.

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So it's used to agree with positive statement. Me too is also used to agree with the positive statement.

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And then there was that word either, which here is used also to agree with the negative statement.

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The trick is you have to put it at the end of the sentence.

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So I said I cannot imagine this show without Tom either.

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Basically, it was a little joke. But you could say let me give you another example.

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You could say something like this player is not very good at dribbling. Right.

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I don't know. Tomas Socek is not very good at dribbling.

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And if I want to agree with this. So this is a negative statement. He's not good.

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I could use neither. Right. But I can also use either.

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I just have to make sure it's at the end of the statement.

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I can say, well, I'm not good at dribbling either or either.

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Again, either either both variants of pronunciation are acceptable. Right.

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So hopefully this has been useful, guys. Hopefully I made it clear.

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It's not easy. This grammar. It can be quite confusing.

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And there is more to it. But I don't want to overwhelm you at this point.

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Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed the show.

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I hope you liked this one about the Czech Republic.

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I know not everyone is a Czech Republic fan, the Czechia fan.

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But you know, guys, that I'm from the Czech Republic.

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So occasionally I will have to cover the Czech team, the Czech players and so on.

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But I think next time it will all be about the Premier League as usual.

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Thank you very much for listening.

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And if you did enjoy this episode, why don't you give it a like on the Teachers Denik YouTube channel,

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leave a comment or even subscribe to the channel.

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It will help this show out a lot, even if you don't watch this on YouTube.

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If you're a listener, if you are an audio listener, please, you still you could go to YouTube channel and help the show.

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It can really make a massive difference to me and how this show will succeed in the future.

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Anyway, that's it from me today. Thank you very much and goodbye.