WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.419 You're listening to the FootGlish podcast. Love 00:00:03.419 --> 00:00:09.919 football, learn English. What exactly happened 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:12.740 between Robert Lewandowski and the Polish national 00:00:12.740 --> 00:00:16.300 team? What is the similarity between Cristiano 00:00:16.300 --> 00:00:19.820 Ronaldo and Lewandowski's situation? How much 00:00:19.820 --> 00:00:22.620 longer can Lewandowski stay at the top level 00:00:22.620 --> 00:00:26.219 of his game? And how do we use the verb to seem 00:00:26.219 --> 00:00:49.509 in English? Ladies and gentlemen, this is Zdenek 00:00:49.509 --> 00:00:52.289 speaking and you're listening to the Footgrish 00:00:52.289 --> 00:00:55.990 podcast. Welcome back. And if this is your first 00:00:55.990 --> 00:00:58.070 time listening to the Footgrish podcast, then 00:00:58.070 --> 00:01:01.210 you should know that this is a podcast for English 00:01:01.210 --> 00:01:06.290 learners who are also enthusiastic about football. 00:01:06.750 --> 00:01:10.909 So if you're into football, then this is the 00:01:10.909 --> 00:01:14.590 right place. And as always on the Footgrish podcast, 00:01:14.730 --> 00:01:18.239 there is a guest. And this time it's none other 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:22.099 than Tomasz from Poland, a Polish fan of the 00:01:22.099 --> 00:01:24.879 Polish national team and someone who is going 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:30.000 to tell us about a very, very famous Polish player. 00:01:30.299 --> 00:01:34.260 Hi, Tomasz. Welcome to the FootGlish podcast. 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:39.159 Hi, Danek. Thank you for having me. I'm very 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:42.840 happy to be here again. It's a pleasure. Tell 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:47.620 us which player. am i referring to here well 00:01:47.620 --> 00:01:51.719 unfortunately because we are going to speak about 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:54.620 the conflict and unfortunately you are speaking 00:01:54.620 --> 00:01:57.980 about the best polish player of all times robert 00:01:57.980 --> 00:02:02.000 levandowski which is a tragedy it's a tragedy 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:06.019 oh it's of all times and i think he will stay 00:02:06.019 --> 00:02:08.900 the best player of all time really many years 00:02:08.900 --> 00:02:13.719 yeah wow okay well so we we have We have been 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:17.039 watching him play for the last two decades, right? 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:21.120 And he has been the biggest standout player of 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:23.580 the Polish national team. As we know, he played 00:02:23.580 --> 00:02:28.659 for massive clubs, Bayern Munich and now FC Barcelona. 00:02:30.060 --> 00:02:36.099 And something has just been going on. Something 00:02:36.099 --> 00:02:38.759 has just happened in the Polish national team. 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:42.699 Some sort of conflict, yeah? So he was out of 00:02:42.699 --> 00:02:45.960 the team because the manager didn't fancy him, 00:02:46.060 --> 00:02:47.699 right? Or something like that. What happened 00:02:47.699 --> 00:02:50.860 exactly, Thomas? Well, there was a decision. 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:54.219 Nobody understands till now. We still don't know 00:02:54.219 --> 00:02:57.240 why it happened and what was the motive and why 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:02.199 the coach, the manager, did it. So he just wanted 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:05.699 Lewandowski not to be a captain of this team 00:03:05.699 --> 00:03:10.020 anymore. Ah, so he... Ah, you see, I didn't know. 00:03:10.139 --> 00:03:15.379 So he took it from him. So he stripped him of 00:03:15.379 --> 00:03:19.319 the armband. Wow. That was the only thing that 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:22.500 happened officially. We don't know what more 00:03:22.500 --> 00:03:26.979 happened in this period of time. But the official 00:03:26.979 --> 00:03:35.039 message that the coach gave to all the journalists, 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:39.259 to all that have been waited. for our last game 00:03:39.259 --> 00:03:43.280 against Finland was Lewandowski will not be a 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:45.659 captain of our national team. Wait, wait, wait. 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:48.819 So that means he must have done something wrong, 00:03:48.860 --> 00:03:51.300 right? This sounds like a punishment, right? 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:55.039 Well, it must have been this way, in my opinion. 00:03:55.259 --> 00:03:59.080 But nobody heard about what it was. There are 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:05.319 some rumors. There were some players of the national 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:08.370 team. who didn't want him to be a captain anymore. 00:04:08.689 --> 00:04:12.750 But they weren't the majority of the team, of 00:04:12.750 --> 00:04:16.149 the national team. So the manager did something 00:04:16.149 --> 00:04:21.610 that I think he doesn't understand himself till 00:04:21.610 --> 00:04:26.129 now. Because it costed him a lot. It cost him 00:04:26.129 --> 00:04:30.050 his job in the end. But first things first, let's 00:04:30.050 --> 00:04:35.069 not skip ahead. Basically... We are talking, 00:04:35.110 --> 00:04:37.850 we should say this, we are talking about the 00:04:37.850 --> 00:04:40.569 biggest legend of the Polish national team and 00:04:40.569 --> 00:04:44.430 someone who has been crucial to the Polish offense. 00:04:45.209 --> 00:04:49.170 Because how many goals has he scored? Many, right? 00:04:49.449 --> 00:04:53.850 Oh, we would have to check it. That's the number 00:04:53.850 --> 00:04:56.610 of goals that nobody scored in the national team 00:04:56.610 --> 00:05:00.529 before Lewandowski. He is way ahead of everybody. 00:05:00.870 --> 00:05:06.519 He is a record holder. So in my mind, this seems 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:09.079 quite similar to the Ronaldo situation because 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:11.379 there have been some issues in the past as well, 00:05:11.420 --> 00:05:14.800 right? Because I think some people don't want 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:17.899 to see him in that role anymore because Ronaldo 00:05:17.899 --> 00:05:20.879 has the status of God in the Polish national 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:24.720 team. And it's mostly because of the fans as 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:27.399 well, because they absolutely adore him. And 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:32.879 even if he is slow, he doesn't defend. He still 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:35.220 keeps scoring goals. So on the one hand, some 00:05:35.220 --> 00:05:38.240 people say, yeah, but he's taking someone else's 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:41.180 place, especially the younger players who are 00:05:41.180 --> 00:05:43.759 very talented. The Portuguese team is amazing. 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.420 Maybe they should be playing instead of him. 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:51.459 But because it's Ronaldo, he has to play. Even 00:05:51.459 --> 00:05:55.259 if he's now in Saudi Arabia and all that. Is 00:05:55.259 --> 00:05:59.459 it similar with Lewandowski? Just like Ronaldo 00:05:59.459 --> 00:06:05.680 for the... Team of Portugal, I think the influence 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:08.819 of Lewandowski, just like in the case of Ronaldo, 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:13.040 the influence on other players was always very 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:19.139 positive. So I have never seen this, what now 00:06:19.139 --> 00:06:22.920 everybody's talking about, there were some situations 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:26.879 in which Lewandowski... didn't want to play with 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.720 the younger players. I have never seen it, I 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:35.019 have to say. Just like Ronaldo, he always had 00:06:35.019 --> 00:06:39.040 respect of the youngsters and he always could 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:41.879 help. Of course, at times you can see Ronaldo 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:44.519 and Lewandowski a little bit disappointed when 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:48.259 the team on this particular day is not playing 00:06:48.259 --> 00:06:51.199 well. They are maybe disappointed. You can see 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:53.939 it if you watch the game. this disappointment 00:06:53.939 --> 00:06:58.000 of the legend that the rest doesn't do its job 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:02.660 okay that's and you can understand it but the 00:07:02.660 --> 00:07:07.300 influence stays positive so i don't i don't think 00:07:07.300 --> 00:07:10.879 it all of this mess let's let's call it this 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:16.600 way that happened was really was it was it really 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:21.379 necessary We don't even know the details. That's 00:07:21.379 --> 00:07:24.339 the problem. It's all speculations, right? And 00:07:24.339 --> 00:07:28.259 we are just speculating here. What happened? 00:07:28.500 --> 00:07:33.740 What must have gone on that the situation came 00:07:33.740 --> 00:07:36.839 to this, that he was stripped of the captaincy? 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:43.019 And then as a response to that, Lewandowski said 00:07:43.019 --> 00:07:44.899 that he wouldn't play for the national team as 00:07:44.899 --> 00:07:48.050 long as the... The coach at the time, he has 00:07:48.050 --> 00:07:52.629 now resigned since, but that's breaking news, 00:07:52.709 --> 00:07:55.569 basically. But he was the coach and he said he 00:07:55.569 --> 00:08:01.329 wouldn't play under him. So that throws really 00:08:01.329 --> 00:08:04.930 bad light on the team, right? And that's what 00:08:04.930 --> 00:08:08.870 causes the disappointment, right? That is what 00:08:08.870 --> 00:08:11.529 causes the disappointment of the Polish fans. 00:08:11.790 --> 00:08:16.269 Because now we are disappointed mostly. Because 00:08:16.269 --> 00:08:19.750 they didn't communicate enough, the manager, 00:08:19.990 --> 00:08:22.670 with this legend, with this best player of all 00:08:22.670 --> 00:08:26.910 times. They did not communicate prior to all 00:08:26.910 --> 00:08:31.750 this situation. And they let it happen. And then 00:08:31.750 --> 00:08:35.929 just like in ours, nowadays we have a problem 00:08:35.929 --> 00:08:38.850 of social media. So the one said something in 00:08:38.850 --> 00:08:41.549 the press conference. The other one has written 00:08:41.549 --> 00:08:44.509 something on his Twitter or whatever it was, 00:08:44.629 --> 00:08:47.309 Instagram, that you will not play. The other 00:08:47.309 --> 00:08:49.730 one responded. Then in the next press conference, 00:08:49.909 --> 00:08:56.370 they tried to bring to light some issues, some 00:08:56.370 --> 00:08:59.029 details, which they couldn't find. We don't know 00:08:59.029 --> 00:09:03.429 what to trust anymore because bad news travels 00:09:03.429 --> 00:09:06.570 fast, as we say in English. And social media 00:09:06.570 --> 00:09:11.029 is all about controversy because that feeds the 00:09:11.029 --> 00:09:15.110 algorithms. So nobody knows what the hell is 00:09:15.110 --> 00:09:18.289 going on, basically. But it looks to me like 00:09:18.289 --> 00:09:23.990 it was some sort of clash of egos, I guess. Right? 00:09:24.029 --> 00:09:28.750 Right. Definitely. Definitely. And if you want 00:09:28.750 --> 00:09:31.350 to defend yourself in this situation, and in 00:09:31.350 --> 00:09:34.470 this situation, the one in charge was the manager. 00:09:35.230 --> 00:09:39.990 So he decided what he wanted to decide, and he 00:09:39.990 --> 00:09:43.470 had a game to win. And he lost this game. So 00:09:43.470 --> 00:09:46.789 he lost this game against Finland without Lewandowski. 00:09:47.110 --> 00:09:50.590 It was the World Cup qualifier. Yeah, it was 00:09:50.590 --> 00:09:53.509 a qualifier. Was it a home or away game? Yeah, 00:09:53.529 --> 00:09:56.490 it was an away game. I think it was an away game. 00:09:56.909 --> 00:10:00.450 Against Finland. Yeah, we lost in Finland. Lewandowski 00:10:00.450 --> 00:10:03.700 wasn't nominated. you lost did did the players 00:10:03.700 --> 00:10:06.919 play for the manager or did did they look like 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:09.840 they were not bothered well that's the that's 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:13.299 the greatest question of them all because many 00:10:13.299 --> 00:10:18.039 people think that the team was divided and if 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:22.480 we are talking about team sports and you're working 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:26.200 with a divided team with a half that wants to 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:28.340 play for the manager and the half that wants 00:10:28.340 --> 00:10:31.980 to play for the legend uh that is not there you 00:10:31.980 --> 00:10:35.299 cannot win any game and finland used it wonderfully 00:10:35.299 --> 00:10:39.860 they won two to one and now we have a problem 00:10:39.860 --> 00:10:43.000 we have to play twice against holland we have 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:48.100 to play again at home against finland so it will 00:10:48.100 --> 00:10:50.379 be tough and that's the biggest disappointment 00:10:50.379 --> 00:10:53.659 because because i have to frankly we all thought 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:58.340 the World Cup 26 will be this last tournament 00:10:58.340 --> 00:11:01.379 of Lewandowski, in which maybe he will show something 00:11:01.379 --> 00:11:03.820 special, just like Ronaldo did in the last final 00:11:03.820 --> 00:11:08.320 of the European Nations League. Or Messi did 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:11.360 in the World Cup. Yeah, that would be a nice 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:16.019 send -off, nice goodbye for him, right? And obviously 00:11:16.019 --> 00:11:18.919 Polish fans would love that. And you are one 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:22.500 of those fans. From what I can see, you are really 00:11:22.500 --> 00:11:26.360 clearly behind Lewandowski, right? You personally, 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:31.259 Tomas, you stand with Lewandowski in this conflict. 00:11:31.820 --> 00:11:37.799 And I think it's 99 % of the Polish football 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:41.860 fans, of the fans of the Polish national team, 00:11:42.019 --> 00:11:46.320 because we live this reality of having Lewandowski 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:51.740 in our team. just like you said almost two decades 00:11:51.740 --> 00:11:57.779 and we cannot really imagine this this team without 00:11:57.779 --> 00:12:00.299 him and many of players who play with him are 00:12:00.299 --> 00:12:02.259 not anymore with the national team because they 00:12:02.259 --> 00:12:06.960 got old simply and and he he is still somehow 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:10.220 biologically very young and is i want to ask 00:12:10.220 --> 00:12:13.159 you about that so much because i know you are 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.919 a football fan but i i hope it's okay if i if 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:20.279 i uh tell my listeners but in your private life 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:22.899 you are actually a doctor you are a doctor you 00:12:22.899 --> 00:12:26.120 work in germany as a as a doctor so that's right 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:30.379 how long can he be at the top level and is he 00:12:30.379 --> 00:12:34.299 already losing his strength and speed at the 00:12:34.299 --> 00:12:37.240 age of 36 what's what's happening to his body 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:41.820 right now we're looking at him no i think so 00:12:41.820 --> 00:12:45.100 there are some studies now that are being published 00:12:45.690 --> 00:12:49.870 about the biological age of this best and oldest 00:12:49.870 --> 00:12:53.529 players and everybody now is is talking about 00:12:53.529 --> 00:12:58.950 the age of Lewandowski like about 30 years biologically 00:12:58.950 --> 00:13:02.889 30 years so i think he is he is on the edge he 00:13:02.889 --> 00:13:06.649 is on the edge so this next next tournament would 00:13:06.649 --> 00:13:11.250 probably be his last Wait a minute. He's 36. 00:13:11.549 --> 00:13:15.049 Ronaldo is 40 or 41? Right. He's 40 already. 00:13:15.429 --> 00:13:19.110 So he could do one more. If Ronaldo can do it, 00:13:19.149 --> 00:13:23.110 so can Lewandowski, right? Theoretically, it's 00:13:23.110 --> 00:13:25.629 possible. And you have to say he has a wonderful 00:13:25.629 --> 00:13:31.970 career. And he is this kind of very healthy sportsman 00:13:31.970 --> 00:13:37.090 that you don't really see a lot. didn't have 00:13:37.090 --> 00:13:41.750 any major injuries, only like lately some injuries 00:13:41.750 --> 00:13:47.190 that wasn't that bad. He managed also to play 00:13:47.190 --> 00:13:54.509 in the second game against Inter Milan in this 00:13:54.509 --> 00:14:01.049 last half -final, right? That was the semi -final. 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:04.659 Semi -final, right. Semi -final of the Champions 00:14:04.659 --> 00:14:08.100 League. They lost on penalties, right? Yeah, 00:14:08.340 --> 00:14:12.440 they lost on penalties. It was very... No, with 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:15.559 one goal. With one golden goal in the... Okay, 00:14:15.659 --> 00:14:18.039 so it wasn't penalties. It wasn't penalties. 00:14:18.179 --> 00:14:22.519 With one goal. With one last goal in the extra 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:27.740 time. They've lost the game and didn't get to 00:14:27.740 --> 00:14:30.659 the final. Is he still a starter for Barcelona, 00:14:30.899 --> 00:14:33.000 Lewandowski? Does he start every game or no? 00:14:33.100 --> 00:14:34.919 Is he on the bench sometimes? Well, it depends. 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:39.799 In most games, he was in the starting 11. Okay. 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:44.179 So physically, he is not worse than the young 00:14:44.179 --> 00:14:48.100 players. And of course, we don't have to talk 00:14:48.100 --> 00:14:52.919 about his experience. He's seen it all. And he's 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.240 a leader as well, right? So he has leadership 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:00.009 qualities. That has to count for something as 00:15:00.009 --> 00:15:07.629 well. And his inspiration and like a role model 00:15:07.629 --> 00:15:11.730 for a lot of young footballers and people who 00:15:11.730 --> 00:15:14.110 want to be like him. One day they want to achieve 00:15:14.110 --> 00:15:17.789 something big. And this is so important. Extremely 00:15:17.789 --> 00:15:20.490 important. If you have an icon, a football icon 00:15:20.490 --> 00:15:26.129 like that, that's just... We cannot stress how 00:15:26.129 --> 00:15:29.279 important this is. for your for your nation and 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:32.659 for for the for the team right for the and for 00:15:32.659 --> 00:15:36.899 football in general in your country so i hope 00:15:36.899 --> 00:15:39.320 everything works out in the end because now this 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:43.679 manager that he had a conflict with um has resigned 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:47.600 so so he has resigned after after that game against 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:51.779 finland yeah and now the polish national as the 00:15:51.779 --> 00:15:54.220 polish football association is looking for a 00:15:54.220 --> 00:15:57.539 new manager so Tomasz, would you be interested 00:15:57.539 --> 00:16:00.860 in taking this job? It's free, I heard. Well, 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:03.360 I thought about maybe there was this concept 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:06.919 of two managers, for example, in the national 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:10.940 team of Denmark, like some years ago. So let's 00:16:10.940 --> 00:16:13.340 try Polish Czech team. So I will take you with 00:16:13.340 --> 00:16:17.740 me. Oh, can I be your assistant? I don't know. 00:16:17.779 --> 00:16:20.940 Maybe we just do like co -trainers, something 00:16:20.940 --> 00:16:24.340 that could work for us because you as an expert 00:16:24.340 --> 00:16:27.519 with your English. Now everybody's talking about 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:31.139 we have to have a Polish coach once again. But 00:16:31.139 --> 00:16:34.980 I don't think that the players really find it 00:16:34.980 --> 00:16:38.200 this important to have a Polish coach. They want 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:40.480 to have someone who will unite them, someone 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:43.539 who will lead them to success. And I don't think 00:16:43.539 --> 00:16:46.279 the nationality is important. So your candidacy 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:51.080 is still on. Yeah, I'm a teacher. I'm a teacher. 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:54.539 I'm not sure that... I'm a teacher, you are a 00:16:54.539 --> 00:16:57.240 doctor, so maybe that would be just the first 00:16:57.240 --> 00:16:59.379 time in football history that you would have 00:16:59.379 --> 00:17:03.960 a duo of managers in such high positions that 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:07.759 don't have a training license. Let's try it. 00:17:07.779 --> 00:17:13.099 This healthy, educative approach of a teacher 00:17:13.099 --> 00:17:16.140 and a doctor for a national team. Get them in 00:17:16.140 --> 00:17:18.740 the quarterfinal or semifinal. Let's try it. 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:22.470 If you are listening to this... polish football 00:17:22.470 --> 00:17:25.789 association whoever to whom this may concern 00:17:25.789 --> 00:17:30.009 then we are here for you and we want to save 00:17:30.009 --> 00:17:32.589 the polish national team and i think the number 00:17:32.589 --> 00:17:38.049 one thing we would do is to nominate robert lewandowski 00:17:38.049 --> 00:17:41.430 back to the team right and as a captain on the 00:17:41.430 --> 00:17:45.779 first day of our work forever forever for the 00:17:45.779 --> 00:17:48.680 rest of football yeah that's that's the hope 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:50.980 of polish fans now that you will stay forever 00:17:50.980 --> 00:17:53.140 with us we'll play forever we're captain forever 00:17:53.140 --> 00:17:56.519 because we just we just had lots of beautiful 00:17:56.519 --> 00:17:59.559 moments thanks to him of course yeah tomas i 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:01.740 could also talk to you on this podcast forever 00:18:01.740 --> 00:18:03.660 about this topic and about the polish national 00:18:03.660 --> 00:18:06.680 team about football in general because we love 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:09.119 football and it's so easy for us to talk about 00:18:09.119 --> 00:18:12.279 it but i think it's time for us To say goodbye 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:14.440 for today. Thank you very much for telling us 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:18.460 about your national hero, Robert Lewandowski. 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:21.920 And all the best to you. Thank you once again 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:25.359 for having me. See you next time. Bye. Cheers. 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:33.299 Take care. Bye -bye. Welcome back to the Language 00:18:33.299 --> 00:18:36.400 Corner. As always in this part of the show, I'm 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:39.420 going to teach you something because that's my 00:18:39.420 --> 00:18:42.109 job. That's right, I'm an English teacher in 00:18:42.109 --> 00:18:46.069 case you didn't know that. And today I would 00:18:46.069 --> 00:18:49.769 like to take a look at the verb to seem, which 00:18:49.769 --> 00:18:54.250 is quite a useful verb to know for all sorts 00:18:54.250 --> 00:18:59.390 of reasons. I said, in my mind, this seems quite 00:18:59.390 --> 00:19:04.369 similar to the Ronaldo situation. So I was comparing 00:19:04.369 --> 00:19:08.190 the situation of... Lewandowski, Robert Lewandowski 00:19:08.190 --> 00:19:12.130 in the national team, to the situation of Cristiano 00:19:12.130 --> 00:19:15.410 Ronaldo in the Portuguese team. And I was saying 00:19:15.410 --> 00:19:19.849 that these two situations seem quite similar. 00:19:19.910 --> 00:19:23.529 Or this seems, third person singular, right? 00:19:23.569 --> 00:19:27.990 This seems quite similar. If something seems 00:19:27.990 --> 00:19:33.130 quite similar, it means... it appears to be quite 00:19:33.130 --> 00:19:36.789 similar it looks like it's quite similar but 00:19:36.789 --> 00:19:41.509 this verb is used to make something sound less 00:19:41.509 --> 00:19:47.170 strong so imagine I said this is quite similar 00:19:47.170 --> 00:19:50.349 that sounds stronger or if even without the word 00:19:50.349 --> 00:19:55.049 quite even if I said this is similar then it 00:19:55.049 --> 00:19:59.059 sounds like I'm stating a fact right Perhaps 00:19:59.059 --> 00:20:01.859 I should have some evidence to back up my claim. 00:20:02.059 --> 00:20:06.660 But if I say this seems quite similar, I am sort 00:20:06.660 --> 00:20:11.319 of distancing myself from what I'm saying. I'm 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:15.299 making it sound less strong. I am what's called 00:20:15.299 --> 00:20:20.619 in academic English hedging. I am hedging. So 00:20:20.619 --> 00:20:24.619 obviously you can use this verb to seem to make 00:20:24.619 --> 00:20:28.549 something sound less strong. For example, I could 00:20:28.549 --> 00:20:32.130 say, this is a good podcast. The Footgrish podcast 00:20:32.130 --> 00:20:36.109 is a really good podcast. That sounds very strong, 00:20:36.289 --> 00:20:39.029 like a strong claim, right? So if I want to sound 00:20:39.029 --> 00:20:42.430 less strong, I could say, this seems like a good 00:20:42.430 --> 00:20:46.750 podcast. So you see how this is such a useful 00:20:46.750 --> 00:20:50.529 verb. Now notice how we use the structure to 00:20:50.529 --> 00:20:54.750 plus infinitive after the verb seem. The verb 00:20:54.750 --> 00:20:58.150 seem is followed by... to infinitive with to. 00:20:58.430 --> 00:21:01.349 Or it could be followed by also an adjective. 00:21:01.549 --> 00:21:05.349 You can say, this seems great. This seems fun. 00:21:06.029 --> 00:21:12.309 This, I don't know, this podcast seems fun. It 00:21:12.309 --> 00:21:15.869 seems to be a good podcast. So either the infinitive 00:21:15.869 --> 00:21:18.529 with to or adjective, those would be the two 00:21:18.529 --> 00:21:22.450 most typical structures to use after the verb 00:21:22.450 --> 00:21:27.019 to seem. All right, well, I hope you guys enjoyed 00:21:27.019 --> 00:21:30.819 this language corner, which is the final part 00:21:30.819 --> 00:21:35.160 of this podcast. And let me know what you think. 00:21:36.180 --> 00:21:39.500 Yeah, I guess that's it from me for today. If 00:21:39.500 --> 00:21:41.799 you were watching this on my YouTube channel, 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:45.359 Teachers Denek, then please make sure you hit 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:49.180 the like button, because that's the least you 00:21:49.180 --> 00:21:52.859 could do for me, because honestly, it helps a 00:21:52.859 --> 00:21:58.210 lot. because the algorithm shows it to more people 00:21:58.210 --> 00:22:01.329 and that's how i potentially get more subscribers 00:22:01.329 --> 00:22:05.289 for my channel and and become famous i'm not 00:22:05.289 --> 00:22:07.829 sure about that but honestly it's nice to reach 00:22:07.829 --> 00:22:09.789 out to more people help more people with their 00:22:09.789 --> 00:22:14.750 english and you know anyone that does youtube 00:22:14.750 --> 00:22:19.970 is aiming for that right is aiming for more subscribers 00:22:19.970 --> 00:22:24.329 more sort of popularity so Of course, I'm trying 00:22:24.329 --> 00:22:28.470 a little bit as well. You know, maybe you may 00:22:28.470 --> 00:22:31.769 say that I'm not trying hard enough. It's true 00:22:31.769 --> 00:22:35.029 that I'm not willing to sacrifice too much of 00:22:35.029 --> 00:22:40.049 my time on, let's say, editing or preparing this. 00:22:40.190 --> 00:22:44.609 I do sacrifice some of my time, but there is 00:22:44.609 --> 00:22:48.369 a line that I'm not willing to cross. So you 00:22:48.369 --> 00:22:51.250 get what you pay for. Right. This is a free podcast. 00:22:51.630 --> 00:22:54.670 Anyway. I've been Zdenek. Thank you very much 00:22:54.670 --> 00:22:59.589 for listening or watching this episode. Take 00:22:59.589 --> 00:23:01.170 care, everyone. Bye -bye.