1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,760 Huh? 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:04,760 Huh? 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:10,840 Shut up, I'm listening to Zdenek's English Podcast. 4 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,440 You're listening to Zdenek's English Podcast... 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:22,440 ... a podcast for English learners at B1, B2 and C1 levels. 6 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:33,920 Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen listeners of Zdenek's English podcast. 7 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,060 Welcome to another episode. 8 00:00:36,060 --> 00:00:41,320 I have got about 10 minutes to spare because I'm waiting for my pizza. 9 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,520 That's right I've ordered a pizza because I'm lazy. 10 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:51,060 I don't want to cook for myself today and so right now I have nothing to do basically 11 00:00:51,060 --> 00:00:54,800 I'm walking in front of a Tesco. 12 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,360 That's where there is a kebab place, a kebab house. 13 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:00,920 It's called K&K. 14 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:08,520 It's a Tesco in Podiebrady and they have a nice kebab stall here just outside the Tesco 15 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,440 and they make wonderful pizza there. 16 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,240 Really really good quality pizza. 17 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:21,520 So I've just paid for my pizza and now I'm waiting for it to be finished. 18 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:26,600 And when it is obviously I'm gonna eat it because that's what you do with a pizza. 19 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:32,400 But anyway you're probably wondering Zdenek why on earth did you start this episode like 20 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:33,400 this? 21 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:38,020 Well that's because I want to record an introduction to this one. 22 00:01:38,020 --> 00:01:43,000 So this introduction might be slightly longer than my usual introductions and that's because 23 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,200 I've got a few things to say. 24 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:50,760 You know there's so many things I could talk to you about regarding my summer as you know 25 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:55,120 I came back from Vietnam to spend my summer in the Czech Republic. 26 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,480 I actually kind of prolonged this summer. 27 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:59,600 It's no longer summer I would say. 28 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,360 It's almost the end of October and I'm still here. 29 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,000 But it's getting colder. 30 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,160 Winter is coming. 31 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,400 You know which TV series I'm referring to don't you? 32 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,840 Yes that's right The Game of Thrones. 33 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,440 Winter is coming it's true and I'm getting colder. 34 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:21,760 I also keep getting sick so I think it's about time I went back to Vietnam. 35 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:30,460 I've already booked my plane tickets so it's gonna happen soon and I will be out of here 36 00:02:30,460 --> 00:02:34,000 and back to Asia back to Vietnam. 37 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,880 But there's so much I could tell you about regarding my summer. 38 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:43,260 And one of the highlights was Irena visiting me here in the Czech Republic which happened 39 00:02:43,260 --> 00:02:45,520 about four months ago. 40 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,560 And we also recorded a podcast together. 41 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:54,640 It's a bit random because we recorded it in the morning and it was very unprepared. 42 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:57,700 You know I like to do these improvised interviews. 43 00:02:57,700 --> 00:02:59,020 You guys know me. 44 00:02:59,020 --> 00:03:03,540 If you have been a long-term listener you know how I do things here. 45 00:03:03,540 --> 00:03:09,160 And so I decided to call it random bollocks because it's kind of random. 46 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:13,300 So we talk about birds, language learning and some other stuff. 47 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:15,720 I think it's pretty interesting. 48 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,800 So I think you might like this episode. 49 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:26,880 And as you know Irena is from Poland and coincidentally four days ago I went to Poland. 50 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:27,880 That's right. 51 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:28,880 Why? 52 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:30,520 Why did I go to Poland? 53 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:32,760 And why Wroclaw again? 54 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:39,480 You may remember a while back I recorded an episode with another listener from Poland 55 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:44,820 who at the time was also doing her podcast. 56 00:03:44,820 --> 00:03:46,240 What was her name? 57 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:47,240 Nina. 58 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:48,240 Nina was her name. 59 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:49,240 Right? 60 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:50,920 Nina if you're listening then hi. 61 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,400 Yes I was back in Wroclaw. 62 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,000 And you know it because I actually sent you a message from the bus. 63 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:05,400 But anyway I went back to Wroclaw this time not to visit Nina but because I had been invited 64 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:12,560 by a listener of Zdenek's English podcast to see the Ukraine-Czechia game, a football 65 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:16,800 game which was taking place in Wroclaw. 66 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,960 Why was it taking place in Wroclaw? 67 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:26,400 Well because Ukraine is at war as you know and that's why this country cannot play its 68 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:33,680 games on its home soil which is a shame really because everybody wants to play home games 69 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:35,000 in their own country right? 70 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,820 But it is what it is. 71 00:04:36,820 --> 00:04:41,280 So this game it's a Nations League game if you understand football. 72 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:47,240 There's a competition called Nations League and Ukraine played this home match against 73 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:52,400 the Czech Republic in Wroclaw which is not too far as you know from my country. 74 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,040 It's actually in the south of Poland kind of. 75 00:04:55,040 --> 00:05:00,480 So you know of course I accepted this listener's offer. 76 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,080 His name is Kirill. 77 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:08,040 He's from Ukraine originally but he's got Polish roots as well and he's been living 78 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,720 in Poland for almost eight years. 79 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:15,720 And as he tells me himself he feels more Polish than Ukrainian. 80 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:22,040 You know he has a Polish citizenship so you can imagine it's one of those people with 81 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:26,320 a split identity I would say or something like that right? 82 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:32,160 Anyway I was expecting Kirill to support the Ukrainian team because he is from Ukraine 83 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:36,300 right but for the reasons I've just told you he actually did not. 84 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:38,560 He actually supported my team. 85 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:45,960 We went to the Czech Ultras sector together to watch the game live and he wasn't supporting 86 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:46,960 Ukraine. 87 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,140 He didn't have a Ukrainian flag none of that. 88 00:05:49,140 --> 00:05:52,480 And I was wondering why I was wondering why. 89 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:56,800 And Kirill basically told me that first of all he doesn't feel that Ukrainian. 90 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:04,000 He feels more Polish but also he told me something that kind of made me look at things from different 91 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,240 perspective. 92 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:11,640 He said that he thinks that the Ukrainian supporters those that were waving flag in 93 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:16,400 the stadium those Ukrainian fans that went into the Wroclaw stadium he thinks that they 94 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,880 are hypocrites basically. 95 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:25,480 Now I know this may sound like a strong opinion but basically then he gave me his arguments 96 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:30,360 and it really made sense to me. 97 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:36,680 Basically what he's saying is that they should not be there waving the flag and shouting 98 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,640 military and political slogans because that's what they were doing there. 99 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:45,080 They were shouting military and political slogans during the game. 100 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:50,800 Basically what he's saying is that these fans are hypocrites because the soldiers now are 101 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:57,120 lying in the ground and fighting for Ukraine and they are laughing at all these patriots 102 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:03,040 so-called patriots who are in Poland and they may have even escaped their country. 103 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:07,800 And he says Kirill that it happens a lot because the borders are closed. 104 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:15,040 The situation in Ukraine is really difficult and no man unless he has three children or 105 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:19,200 is disabled cannot or is not allowed to leave Ukraine. 106 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:24,520 So apparently if you have three children or are disabled you can leave Ukraine. 107 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:29,600 Otherwise you have to stay there and I suppose you have some of you some of them of course 108 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:30,600 have to fight. 109 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:36,000 I don't know how they recruit the soldiers but I guess you know when you're in war it's 110 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,600 just really tough right. 111 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,640 The state has to take measures like that. 112 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:46,560 So basically what Kirill says is that a lot of those fans in the stadium they were really 113 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:53,840 men like most of them were men healthy men often young men in their 20s in their 30s 114 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:59,320 and they were shouting political slogans but they are the people who avoided fighting right 115 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:00,720 for their own country. 116 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:05,040 They avoided defending their own country from Putin basically. 117 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:13,360 And he also said that they escaped from the country through rivers and mountains and many 118 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:19,040 of them even died in the icy water of the Titsa river. 119 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:24,340 And also Kirill says that the country's population has halved and there are not enough men to 120 00:08:24,340 --> 00:08:25,640 complete the brigades. 121 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:32,120 So basically he could not support Ukraine even if he is kind of Ukrainian he could not 122 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:33,120 right. 123 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,560 And he thinks that all these fans are really hypocrites. 124 00:08:37,560 --> 00:08:42,760 I guess the women who escaped with children I guess they are fine but the men they shouldn't 125 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:49,920 be like singing these military songs because what do the soldiers think of them right now 126 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:53,320 those that are fighting and dying for their country right. 127 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,440 It kind of makes sense right doesn't it. 128 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:00,120 Anyway I wanted to tell you this because it really kind of opened my eyes and it gave me 129 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,520 a new angle. 130 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,200 Actually you know my opinions on this war. 131 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,480 One hundred percent Putin is the aggressor. 132 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:17,520 His country is the one that attacked a democratic country Ukraine an independent country. 133 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:24,960 Ukraine wasn't part of Russia and it just made absolutely no sense even the explanation 134 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:29,120 that Putin gave that he was going after fascists. 135 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:35,360 It's just fascism I think Putin should read history because fascism is something else 136 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:38,200 in my opinion right. 137 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:44,240 Anyway this war has been really horrible a lot of people have died in it and for me you 138 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:51,240 know of course I come from the Western world and for me it's pretty clear who the perpetrator 139 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:57,320 who the aggressor of this conflict is and I will one hundred percent be behind Ukrainians. 140 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:03,720 But nevertheless it's nice to hear from someone from actually from Ukraine giving me this 141 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:09,220 unique perspective on this this conflict right through through the lens of football. 142 00:10:09,220 --> 00:10:16,520 So yeah one more thing if you guys want we actually recorded an episode of the Footgrish 143 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:21,800 podcast which is my other podcast in case you didn't know I have another podcast the 144 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:26,700 Footgrish podcast which is a podcast for English learners about football. 145 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:32,080 You can get it wherever you get your podcast Apple podcast Spotify you know it's all over 146 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:33,960 the place. 147 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:38,620 Sometimes I do some episodes on the teachers then a YouTube channel so please subscribe 148 00:10:38,620 --> 00:10:44,720 and the latest episode is with Kyrillov it is about this game the Czech Republic Ukraine 149 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:51,600 game I talk more about football there not like here and yeah I think it's an interesting 150 00:10:51,600 --> 00:11:00,680 episode and yeah it was nice to meet Kyrillov listener of Zdenek's English podcast you know 151 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:05,560 someone who has been who has heard apparently as he says himself so many episodes and thank 152 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:10,120 you Kyrillov I know you are listening to this thank you for the tickets it was really kind 153 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:16,980 of you and I honestly I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed this experience it was wonderful it 154 00:11:16,980 --> 00:11:23,680 was amazing you know I love football and being invited to watch a game outside my own country 155 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:28,020 it was a great a great experience thank you so much. 156 00:11:28,020 --> 00:11:35,120 Okay and one last thing you guys know that I left Podbean and now this podcast is on 157 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:41,740 RSS.com like that's my hosting platform right now if you want to support me well you have 158 00:11:41,740 --> 00:11:48,540 several options number one you can go to my hero hero page of the Footgrish podcast which 159 00:11:48,540 --> 00:11:52,740 is the other podcast but this there's no extra content you don't get anything extra there 160 00:11:52,740 --> 00:12:02,200 for now you just support me there right you send me like 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first month a 169 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:53,900 big one I can give you a big discount okay because I honestly don't want to sell you 170 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:58,900 something that you might not later use or you might not feel comfortable even trying 171 00:12:58,900 --> 00:13:04,600 so I can do that just tell me you are a listener of this podcast and we can make it work my 172 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:11,600 email is teachersdenek at gmail.com well that's all I know this introduction was quite long 173 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:17,200 I apologize for that but there were a few things that I had to get off my chest like 174 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:23,700 I said there is more there's more to talk about I could talk about how I took my driving 175 00:13:23,700 --> 00:13:28,360 license course the motorbike course I could talk about the the problems with teeth I had 176 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:33,640 which is a story in itself and there's some other stuff but I think I'll do that later 177 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:38,480 in another episode so thank you very much for listening to this introduction and now 178 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:45,040 sit back and enjoy listening to this wonderful episode that I recorded with Irena this episode 179 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:50,180 of denek's english podcast is sponsored by a brand new podcast the footglitch podcast 180 00:13:50,180 --> 00:13:56,020 an english learning podcast about football by the same podcaster that records this podcast 181 00:13:56,020 --> 00:14:02,040 available on spotify apple podcasts and wherever you listen to your podcasts good morning listeners 182 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:07,320 welcome to another episode of the next english podcast I say good morning but I don't know 183 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:11,200 if it's morning where you are it could be afternoon it could be evening it could be 184 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:15,720 night who knows but it is good morning for me that's why I'm saying good morning I hope 185 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:23,320 you are okay with that this time I am joined by Irena hi Irena hi Sinek how are you I'm 186 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:29,280 okay thanks do you guys remember Irena she has been on this podcast before quite a few 187 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:35,440 times actually how many times have you been here Irena I think I would say three or actually 188 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:41,520 four because he also did an episode like a q&a as well so like three episodes talking 189 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:48,560 about three different topics and a q&a kind of thing or an idiom lesson yeah right idiom 190 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:54,440 lesson yeah there was that was an idiom lesson seriously wow yeah okay yeah I know we talked 191 00:14:54,440 --> 00:15:01,080 about birds because you are a bird person yeah but we also like discussed some idioms 192 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:05,560 bird related idioms yeah that doesn't surprise me that really that really sounds like Mia 193 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:11,000 that would be Mia that's the kind of stuff I do here on the podcast and generally just 194 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:17,040 generally just silly stuff right birds so are you still are you still into birds are you 195 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:24,400 still as always yeah that hasn't changed and I I don't think it well okay all right so 196 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:32,400 never say never but it's very unlikely I would say so you're an amateur ornithologist or 197 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:39,360 something I don't even know if I can call myself in that way but I'm just interested 198 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:44,680 in birds like I'm curious basically you're bird curious yeah I'm bird curious pretty 199 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:51,840 much I love birds I don't know I find them fascinating so each year I go to a bird ringing 200 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:57,040 camp I'm not a bird ringer you actually need to pass like exams and you need to become 201 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:03,640 professional to be able to do it so we just assist like in taking birds out of a net and 202 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:10,760 stuff like that and just measuring you know recording scientific data and so on so that's 203 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:17,040 the stuff we help with yeah kind of a helper yeah pretty much yeah like a volunteer yeah 204 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:22,720 I'm a volunteer I mean like you don't get paid for it but accommodation and food is 205 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:28,560 for free so okay okay so that's something you do in Poland because let us remind everyone 206 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:33,080 you're Polish so is that something you do in Poland or in Poland but I would love to 207 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:39,680 try it abroad as well because I've seen like there are you know similar kinds of camps 208 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:46,000 organized a little bit I wouldn't say everywhere but a little bit all over not all over but 209 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:51,480 I know somewhere in Europe in Slovakia for example there's one I see so that's a neighboring 210 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:57,080 country and I remember one time you told me that you were planning to go to Mongolia yeah 211 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:00,960 but I think then in the end you went to South Africa something like that Mongolia didn't 212 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:10,680 work out because at the time you know in with covid restrictions first they closed the borders 213 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:15,960 and then the flight prices went up like really significantly of the planes you mean yeah 214 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:22,720 the birds okay not the birds they fly as well so I'm just I want to make sure I know I want 215 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,960 to make sure we are on the same wavelength here yeah but they don't offer you know services 216 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:33,620 to random passengers you look you look after them so they should you know they're the big 217 00:17:33,620 --> 00:17:39,200 ones you would need one of the big ones like pretty sturdy birds what's the biggest bird 218 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:46,800 is it the swan or is there a bigger bird than a swan well ostriches don't fly so unfortunately 219 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:51,160 oh yeah some people ride them right some people can ride ostriches yeah is that just in fairy 220 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:57,720 tales I'm not sure I've seen some people ride ostriches but it could be just like in animated 221 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:04,600 TV shows something for kids you know but I would need like a pair of sturdy birds to 222 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:15,640 carry me I would say yeah yeah I understand okay so that's birds then of course we should 223 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:21,600 remind everyone that you are a language nerd and I'm a what I'm a language nerd as well 224 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:27,400 language nerd you are a polyglot you speak how many languages well polish is my native 225 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:34,800 language so polish obviously you don't count that yeah well it's you know I don't language 226 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:39,600 I guess it's not my merit you know you know basically everyone can speak something right 227 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:45,840 everyone has one language so that means something I had to consciously learn that that would 228 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:50,480 count for me you know like for example English and you went to you went to Canada you lived 229 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:55,640 in Canada for eight years right nine years nine years I'm sorry nine years nine years 230 00:18:55,640 --> 00:19:00,800 in total so that obviously helped with your English we can hear that and then I know you're 231 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:05,520 also interested in like southern southern languages in Europe yeah I specialize I'm 232 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:11,400 a French major actually like I graduated in French and Hispanic okay so tell us something 233 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:19,520 in French hello qu'est ce que tu veux que je te dise bonjour bonjour ça va ça va bien 234 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:25,920 that's where we leave it yeah we will leave it there je suis contente de te voir et de 235 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:36,640 te parler j'aime la France moi aussi au revoir okay that's where we will leave it then we 236 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:43,680 can move to Spain then yeah Spain you speak Spanish yeah I speak Spanish I did Hispanic 237 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:50,240 studies at the university so let's talk in Spanish for a bit bueno no sé de qué cosa 238 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:58,280 podemos hablar pero me gusta hablar español tengo algunos amigos muy buenos amigos que 239 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:08,440 conocí en Francia no tengo no tengo dinero tengo hombre no tengo mucho dinero tengo hombre 240 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:16,200 soy estudiante de la escuela idiomas de idiomas vamos a la playa el ritmo de la noche 241 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:45,200 okay that's it okay that's it okay that's it okay that sounds Japanese to me isn't that 242 00:20:45,200 --> 00:21:01,120 right yeah yeah right so that was Spanish then adios adios amigos and then well you 243 00:21:01,120 --> 00:21:09,320 also speak Italian Italian yeah my boyfriend is Italian so yeah we should mention him we 244 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:17,560 talk Italian on a daily basis okay tell me something in Italian then buongiorno buongiorno 245 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:27,640 you have to say it like that how are you doing today come come stai tutto bene tutto bene 246 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:33,600 isn't it how you should say it to do better I'm overdoing I'm overdoing it right just 247 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:42,640 one single N so it's not ben but I like saying Ben but the E is kind of marked like Ben 248 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:51,000 Ben pero pero in Spanish is but a perro is a dog right it's a dog yeah and then in Spanish 249 00:21:51,000 --> 00:22:00,040 for example el burro it's a donkey but in Italian il burro it's butter is what butter 250 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:09,920 what's butter butter butter yeah cool you don't like butter we learned today yeah you 251 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,120 can't stand it you think it's disgusting 252 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:31,000 I don't like butter I don't like butter I don't like butter 253 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:46,160 yeah that's why I shouldn't hear the word tequila in that at all I said the same sentence 254 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:51,400 I hope listeners don't mind the randomness the randomness of this episode I mean there's 255 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:58,280 a lot to discuss but also like this is the way I record this episode so I hope I have 256 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:04,920 so many ideas I had a plan yeah whenever I talk to you either new things pop up like 257 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:10,680 right now I want to really ask you about which pizza is your favorite and if you if you eat 258 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:20,880 a pizza have I as well no I don't and I know it's like kind of it's popular blasphemy sacrilege 259 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:26,720 you name it yeah when you when you put like pineapple on on a pizza would your boyfriend 260 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,960 put a pineapple never ever obviously would he not do it because he's Italian or would 261 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:37,360 he not do it because it doesn't like it well both I would say yes I feel like whenever 262 00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:41,960 I talk to Italians there's this really proud people and I don't mean it in a bad way I'm 263 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:47,600 just saying it's like a fact they are quite proud proud of their food and I think mostly 264 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,920 they wouldn't do it because they they are Italian and they are so proud of it it's like 265 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:57,000 messing up their cuisine kind of well it's a matter of you know being proud of their 266 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,960 culinary traditions and I think in case of Domenico it's like a matter of his individual 267 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:07,100 taste like he seriously just can't stand it that's that's fair but listen speaking of 268 00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:12,080 Domenico we have to say something yeah so what do we have to say I have to say something 269 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:18,040 about about your boyfriend basically so about a month ago I started a new podcast yeah if 270 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:23,680 you haven't heard it yet listeners I've got a new English learning podcast well wait a 271 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:30,960 minute it's quite specific so it's about football actually not American football it's the football 272 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:36,080 that we play in Europe okay what they call soccer in America I guess in Canada as well 273 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:42,400 Canada as well yeah they say soccer always yeah which I hate that word but anyway and 274 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:47,500 um it's been going well and at some point you notice that I'm publishing these episodes 275 00:24:47,500 --> 00:24:52,400 I think right and you suggested to me that I could have your boyfriend on the podcast 276 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:58,600 to talk about the Italian team that's because I have interviewed quite a few people of different 277 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:05,760 nationalities and in fact I needed someone from Italy so that it was a match made in 278 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:12,360 heaven so thank you for that because Domenico it was a fantastic guest and everyone all 279 00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:17,440 of you listening to this can check that episode out of course I don't know the name of it 280 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:26,160 but if you write into Google the Footglitch podcast Italy yeah those words then you should 281 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:33,560 be able to find it easily yeah so did you listen to that episode yeah of course I have 282 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,840 yeah you have listened to the episode even even though even though you're not exactly 283 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:42,080 interested in football I'm not into football actually I don't mind playing like casually 284 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:47,920 with friends football but I don't necessarily enjoy watching it do you do you enjoy watching 285 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:54,600 birds more than football I would say so yeah okay well I'm sorry you can't be on the podcast 286 00:25:54,600 --> 00:26:00,680 keep keep keep sending your boyfriend Domenico of course I will I don't have any you know 287 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,000 I don't have any knowledge about football so I wouldn't be a good guest you know to 288 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,520 talk about it okay well that's that's that's fair that's fair but thanks for thanks for 289 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:13,400 Domenico he did really well his English is brilliant guys by the way like if you're Italian 290 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:20,960 listening to this and sometimes I've noticed that some of you Italians are not very proud 291 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:26,800 of your Italian accent at least that's what you tell me then listen to Domenico his Italian 292 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:35,740 accent is not very Italian how did he get to that level studying okay well I didn't 293 00:26:35,740 --> 00:26:42,360 expect that I thought you would say something like listening to podcasts and yeah then taking 294 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:47,560 his own initiative like listening because also he's very critical about the you know 295 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:54,840 educational system in Italy and learning it says you know openly that that's good languages 296 00:26:54,840 --> 00:27:00,200 teaching languages in Italy sucks basically to be honest it sucks in most places in the 297 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:06,200 world in Poland as well yeah it sucks in the Czech Republic too I'm sorry guys but it sucks 298 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:13,880 in Vietnam as well every place I've been to it sucks okay so if you know if you if you're 299 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:23,800 a good language speaker there is a very you know high like big possibility that you must 300 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:30,200 have used you know some additional methods or some additional resources and yeah you 301 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:36,800 must have tried like many many different things in order to master the language I just want 302 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:42,400 to say at this point yeah that we are not just two random people ranting here about 303 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:48,720 the school systems in the world we are actually English teachers both of us aren't we yes 304 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:54,240 we are with actually extensive experience so we know what we are talking about listeners 305 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,800 and we are also English learners so we have been through this ourselves we have seen it 306 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:04,480 from both sides haven't we exactly so we know what we are talking about so just you know 307 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:12,680 you can actually take our word for it for once yeah even though I know nothing about 308 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:17,380 birds that and Irina knows nothing about football that's fine but we actually know something 309 00:28:17,380 --> 00:28:22,320 about English yeah about learning the English language learning okay I actually you know 310 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:27,560 more about learning different various various languages but when it comes to learning English 311 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:36,560 I suppose you know you can count on me too okay so Irina let's explain the context here 312 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:44,360 so I think listeners can actually hear it that we are in one room or we are we and this 313 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:52,160 is not recorded online which is something I often do so how did we appear in one place 314 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:59,000 like that you organized a meetup in Prague for Czech learners like the listeners of your 315 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:06,960 Czech podcast which is called the Stenkov Czecki podcast my third podcast yeah we are 316 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:11,440 getting confused here so let's let's just clarify it once and for all and I'm just a 317 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,920 Czech language fan basically right but let's let's please we need to we need to make it 318 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:21,600 clear again this what you are listening to right now listeners is Zdenek's English podcast 319 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:29,400 yeah I'm Zdenek I'm your host okay Irina is the guest the podcast that Irina's I wanted 320 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:35,680 to say husband but no boyfriend appeared on is my brand new podcast called the Footglitch 321 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:42,480 podcast which is in English as well but believe it or not but there is a there is a third 322 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:48,640 podcast as well but I don't really talk about it much on this podcast I may have mentioned 323 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:54,960 it here and there but there's there's absolutely no reason to do it because most of you probably 324 00:29:54,960 --> 00:30:00,260 wouldn't even be interested in it and that's because it's it's a podcast for learners of 325 00:30:00,260 --> 00:30:06,760 Czech and that's why you come in because you you are a learner of Czech as well yes I am 326 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:10,480 you didn't mention Czech because we were going through all the languages you can speak 327 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:16,080 oh we didn't finish it we didn't finish it yeah so hang on finish as well no I don't 328 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:20,000 speak Finnish well you said you didn't finish it so I thought like there's Finnish as well 329 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:30,880 I can count it in Finnish okay do it I don't trust you do it one two three four five six 330 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:38,240 seven seven eight nine ten ten you know what it sounds like like you're singing a song 331 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:43,800 or something it sounds like it's like a nursery rhyme it's a very melodic language you know 332 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:49,160 it's a very musical language so it's like really nice to hear you know okay unlike Czech 333 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:53,760 that going with your learning no I'm actually a big fan of Czech you're a big fan of Czech 334 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:58,880 yeah I've always been so that's why you came all the way from Poznan which is the the city 335 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:03,080 you come from well you are the reason as well because and the reason you came to see me 336 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:08,360 yeah to record this podcast I mean I enjoy I enjoy you know being in your company so 337 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:13,500 it's like I have two good reasons one of the few people so so you came all the way from 338 00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:18,960 Poznan where is Poznan in Poland it's like midway between Warsaw and Berlin so it's 339 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:25,360 more you know kind of central west I would say central west between like it's exactly 340 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:30,880 in the middle between the north and the south but more towards the west I have no idea where 341 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:36,680 it is now you're here and it's like two hours two or three hours from the German border 342 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:42,400 basically okay so it's not completely in the south it's not completely in the north so 343 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:48,000 how many hours did it take you to come to Prague which is the seven hours I had the 344 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:56,000 bus at 10 p.m. and it actually was late so eventually I we left like at 11 p.m. after 345 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:01,400 11 p.m. you slept you slept you I slept on the journey was it was a night journey yeah 346 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:09,400 slept on the bus and I arrived in Prague like after 6 a.m. you arrived in Prague after 6 347 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:17,360 a.m. at 6 at half past 6 I mean it doesn't need to be precise okay and then and so what 348 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:23,280 did you do in Prague because our meetup which was yesterday it was actually in the evening 349 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:30,440 so you had like I don't know 12 hours to spare well I had I had breakfast I went to no butter 350 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:39,120 no butter no butter definitely no butter I went to you know the staromiesto for a little 351 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:47,280 bit yeah like for birds part of the city did you say for birds no no no I said staromiesto 352 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:52,560 I think he is that kind of description yeah yeah yeah staromiesto is old town square or 353 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:59,040 something like something like that yeah yeah and then I went to the botanical garden which 354 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:04,040 I hadn't visited before it was like botanical garden I thought I thought someone like you 355 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:09,360 would go to a zoo instead to see the birds why didn't you go to no I don't like you 356 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:14,400 know I came to see the plants as well I don't enjoy seeing birds in a cage basically so 357 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:19,640 that's why so you were hoping you would find some in the botanical garden yeah and I like 358 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:25,520 plants I mean I'm not extremely interested like I'm not you know you don't you don't 359 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:32,520 like a plant nerd you don't grow weed and stuff like that no yeah no I don't actually 360 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:40,880 good to know and I visited the botanical garden I did some drawings as well like some sketches 361 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:46,520 basically drawings yeah yeah okay because that's something we didn't mention yet did 362 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:52,200 we yeah I met actually two Dutch people who were drawing so I kind of joined them in a 363 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:56,800 cafe as well so did you know exactly where you were going like how did you find that 364 00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:03,560 place how did you find those people the people I came and I just came across them completely 365 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:08,960 you know by chance by accident but I mean the place yeah because we have talked about 366 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:14,280 drawing Irina and drawing as well on one of the previous episodes so that's something 367 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:19,680 we should mention as well and so you drew as well something so what did you draw I assume 368 00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:29,960 birds no because they don't like to pose you know they don't like to pose but I have seen 369 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:36,000 some birds on your website what's your website tell us tell us your website before then you 370 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:42,040 finish your sentence tell us your website so oh my goodness it has skills right heart 371 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:49,920 and skills so you can google it's like heart as in it's the human organ which kind of keeps 372 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:56,040 you alive basically yeah usually and it's like a pun hard and skills because it's hard 373 00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:01,800 normally is hard earned skills exactly is hard that's what it was meant to be actually 374 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:08,880 yeah I just wanted to make like this kind of emphasis that you know I could say I put 375 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:15,800 a lot of hard work into you know in improving my skills but that was not the point I mean 376 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:21,840 it wasn't hard in the sense that I just enjoyed doing it I mean I put a lot of effort I could 377 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:27,240 say maybe not hard work but like a lot of effort your heart and soul but yeah I especially 378 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:33,240 put in my heart and soul exactly which one more heart and soul or soul I can tell both 379 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:39,880 equally yeah I would say so okay so so basically you are you're a drawing person as well yes 380 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:45,480 you make sketches I make sketches I paint I draw yeah I make sketches sketches like 381 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:50,560 quick sketches or so no birds this time because they don't like to pose yeah so they don't 382 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:54,640 like to pose when I when I paint birds first of all it takes quite a bit of time because 383 00:35:54,640 --> 00:36:03,080 it's a complex and complicated subject as well and I just use like you know internet 384 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:11,680 photos internet pictures so no use it as your template royalty free yeah royalty free excellent 385 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:16,560 so we can pick a bay for example but when you make your sketches are they also royalty 386 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:28,480 free or do you sell them no I said well I I would say they are available available exactly 387 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:32,920 but if they are available you know what's gonna happen like I have GPT will I haven't 388 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:39,480 I haven't managed to sell a lot of them a few of them yeah so I can say I make a living 389 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:47,480 like by you know painting and drawings it's more like a side hustle for you it's something 390 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:53,480 that takes a lot of my time and it's something that I treat very seriously so I kind of you 391 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:58,560 don't want to call it that I see yeah I don't like to call it a hobby basically because 392 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:04,240 it's much more than a hobby yeah I understand it's more me like me I wins pretty much like 393 00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:09,440 when someone says a hobby we need to tread carefully listeners you need to tread carefully 394 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:16,800 we are on thin ice okay so but what I wanted to say is that these days since you put some 395 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:23,280 stuff out on the internet it's it's going to be soon available on chat GPT mid-journey 396 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:29,920 you know how they create those AI images so it's gonna be they will use your image as 397 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:36,440 well to create a random image on chat GPT you know so are you okay with that well I 398 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:41,840 can't help it I guess in a way but I mean it's just like so much more satisfying doing 399 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:47,560 it you know on your own I think okay well fair enough so we are talking about how you 400 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:54,520 spend the day before we had the meetup so is there anything else worth mentioning I 401 00:37:54,520 --> 00:38:01,600 mean I talked to some to some people you know I talked to my my boyfriend on messenger to 402 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:06,040 a friend like things like that yeah usual okay you don't have to go you don't have 403 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:10,280 to tell us you went to the toilet and you had dinner you don't need to hear that but 404 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:15,960 that's fine that's fine yeah okay and then the meetup itself came yeah we had it in a 405 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:26,760 pub I can't remember the name anymore would like to do it or something it's nearly having 406 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:33,880 not ready and the point is so we can't unfortunately we can't promote the pub because we don't 407 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:40,320 remember the name the point is we went there and there were a few other people learners 408 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:46,080 of Czech exactly so no Czech people I was the only Czech person there yes you were and 409 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:52,880 yeah we just spoke a couple of Russians yeah one American yeah me but Russians like good 410 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:57,340 Russians Russians that don't promote war I just I didn't even want to say this but since 411 00:38:57,340 --> 00:39:02,640 you pointed out good Russians against the war otherwise I wouldn't even want to talk 412 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:10,560 to them I don't know about you but I can't do that so I don't and I mean I'm definitely 413 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:16,120 against the the war if someone says like they are for it I don't know like if I see there's 414 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:24,480 a room for a disc I discussion I mean I can't do that I can I can I can talk to them if 415 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:29,440 I see there's no point like you know what you know I would just show them a middle middle 416 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:35,560 finger I'm sorry I've just come to that point yeah that anyone who's gonna justify Putin 417 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:41,280 or anything the Russians do these days in Ukraine fuck you I'm sorry on this podcast 418 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:47,520 is gonna get cancelled now but sorry but that's the way I feel now okay but if the Russians 419 00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:52,560 who are condemning it that's a completely different story for me exactly so that's that's the 420 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:57,920 kind of people you met yesterday yeah so that's that's that and there was one guy from the 421 00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:06,200 United States of America as well Charlie is his name and and that's it it's quite quite 422 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:10,920 a small group actually yeah because I think we were six people yeah but I think you know 423 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:17,820 what I organized it last minute maybe that's why I feel like if I had given everyone more 424 00:40:17,820 --> 00:40:23,400 notice more people might have come to the meetup but anyway probably for the best you 425 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:28,480 know too many people it's been like three weeks before I think the previous we had some 426 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:35,200 previous meetups in the past and the numbers were similar I think so it's fine so that's 427 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:43,360 what we did and then because you didn't have a place to stay exactly you came to put your 428 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:49,840 buddy as well right now we are actually in putting brother in my house yeah we are recording 429 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:56,880 this podcast yeah exactly okay and I don't know what else to say really I've run out 430 00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:01,960 of things to say what what's what else is on agenda it's quick we can describe the weather 431 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:09,320 here you want if you want to do that it's not very nice is it it's a bit it's a bit 432 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:17,320 dodgy I would say yeah there's some sun shining through the clouds basically I could say yeah 433 00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:24,520 that doesn't sound very very optimistic yeah it's a some sunshine not much oh it's like 434 00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:29,760 actually it's it's really wet though like because it rained last night it's pretty humid 435 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:34,960 it's super wet so we want you're saying yeah okay I would say wet because you wanted to 436 00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:40,480 play some table tennis exactly well I kind of talked you out of it okay because it's 437 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:45,720 really wet outside we would have to play on the grass and it's slippery as well so we 438 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:54,480 might even get injured yeah yeah I don't want us to end up in hospital as well and yeah 439 00:41:54,480 --> 00:42:00,480 so probably not that hmm so that's what I think that's probably why we are recording 440 00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:08,020 this podcast as well it's like a B plan is the contingency plan we had yeah it's kind 441 00:42:08,020 --> 00:42:15,720 of spontaneous as well okay so what else is there then and what are your plans you want 442 00:42:15,720 --> 00:42:20,280 to talk about your plans one thing that's kind of interests me is that now you have 443 00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:27,680 a Italian boyfriend I know he lives with you in Poznan yeah and but sometimes you go to 444 00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:32,160 Italy as well you live in Italy for a bit so for a couple of months for example for 445 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:39,200 a month like the length of stay differs and it's we know we want to go to Italy for winter 446 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:44,720 but sometimes kind of kind of comes up spontaneously I see you know because you both work from 447 00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:51,080 home that's why we work from home so for me in Italy I mean I'm not you know registered 448 00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:57,960 anywhere in Italy I don't have my own let's say activity in Italy so I just work like 449 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:03,440 for for myself and for Polish language schools and European Union it's so simple yeah it's 450 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:08,360 just so simple to go to go as well so it's if you are a European Union member at Poland 451 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:15,400 is of course then you can go anywhere except the UK unfortunately yeah I mean for me it 452 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:21,880 hasn't affected me that much because I haven't been to the UK a lot I mean I went I just 453 00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:29,840 went once over 10 years ago so that was it it has affected me a lot yeah I imagine and 454 00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:34,960 that's probably the reason I went to Vietnam as well to be fair because I was thinking 455 00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:41,520 of going back there I even had a place I could continue teaching at and they wanted me there 456 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:48,280 I know but you know I just realized it would be too much too much red tape too much bureaucracy 457 00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:54,400 like to get the visa you know getting the visa and I just thought like thought to myself 458 00:43:54,400 --> 00:44:00,600 is that even worth it shouldn't I try something different and then in the end I did so yeah 459 00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:07,800 I guess goodbye England because you're making it more difficult for us now to go there and 460 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:15,240 it means you don't want us there that's the way I see it well at least half over you know 461 00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:23,360 50% of the country yeah but they are they are regretting it now yeah they don't want 462 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:27,560 they don't want to have mixed feelings and they don't want to talk about brexit at all 463 00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:32,640 they don't want to hear about it they just you know they those that those that didn't 464 00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:39,160 vote for it they they're obviously now saying I told you so I told you so those that did 465 00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:47,480 vote for it they are most of them still haven't admitted making a mistake and but they still 466 00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:51,920 don't want to talk about it of course because they say it's done it's done right let's 467 00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:58,600 be reversible let's move on and those that do feel regret they also don't want to talk 468 00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:05,200 about it because they feel the guilt so you know it's a it's a mess Irina it's a mess 469 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:10,680 I bet it's much better in Poland the political situation and all that well you know there 470 00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:18,440 was a time where depending on who you ask actually I'm asking you but I would I would 471 00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:24,480 have said it's a huge mess because we had like a like Brexit right way no a right-wing 472 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:29,400 government basically that's nothing unusual these days and it's nothing unusual maybe 473 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:34,240 but look at the Netherlands look at Austria but it doesn't make me extremely happy and 474 00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:41,640 right now it's it has changed for fortunately I think the changes are not you know coming 475 00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:47,040 or not progressing maybe as fast as people would like to see them but at least you know 476 00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:52,440 I feel a right-wing government exactly so it says for me it's a sigh of relief really 477 00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:58,800 you as a francophile right you were probably following the elections in France because 478 00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:08,160 Macron he called he called unexpected elections and some sort of a weird plan I don't understand 479 00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:14,440 what exactly he was trying to do but he almost almost backfired yeah and well I I'm actually 480 00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:21,400 not following it as much because strangely enough I'm just I'm just not I haven't been 481 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:26,720 following a lot of political news I guess in general but basically there was a there 482 00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:33,840 was a big chance that the the right-wing party Le Pen well which was run by Le Pen yeah a 483 00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:43,760 very famous racist racist politician she basically she basically she she has a lot of following 484 00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:49,960 now but in the end she did not win she finished third which nobody expected the polls were 485 00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:56,200 giving her very good chances of winning yeah and she was pretty confident yeah so it was 486 00:46:56,200 --> 00:47:02,360 a surprise for everyone right so and it seems like there's a basically a stalemate kind 487 00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:08,480 of because no and nobody has like a clear majority yes no I think they're gonna screw 488 00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:13,360 her screw her over yeah I think she's gonna lose because everyone else will make a coalition 489 00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:17,080 that's what I heard the latest news well anyway I don't know why we are talking about politics 490 00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:22,960 but I thought we might as well mention it yeah well because you mentioned you know the 491 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:27,680 fact of being a francophile yeah of me being a francophile yeah you are a francophile yeah 492 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:34,840 how do you say so francophile how do you say that you like Italy italo file italy file 493 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:46,080 italian file sounds like a google document some italian file an italian file yeah anyway 494 00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:51,720 doesn't matter listeners doesn't matter yeah this is the this is an english learning podcast 495 00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:58,520 but to be honest you won't get all the answers in the world here right well it's not meant 496 00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:07,680 to be like a grammar lesson for example definitely so you get a you know good dose of listening 497 00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:13,640 and vocabulary and so on and some that's good listening practice mainly I would say I would 498 00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:19,440 say basically two mates talking to each other actually a lot of nonsense as well but I bet 499 00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:24,520 it's quite realistic it's natural it's authentic exactly you know that's what's in that's what 500 00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:30,480 you what you get well you know when you listen to the next english podcast and when you meet 501 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:37,440 people in general I mean it's random yeah it's authentic it's spontaneous yeah but but it's 502 00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:42,720 not a textbook that's right but often when people do a podcast it's scripted or there's 503 00:48:42,720 --> 00:48:51,160 a plan and I don't like those plans so much so I prefer this yeah I think for me as for 504 00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:57,880 me like I would make notes in like some you know kind of like bullet bullet points exactly 505 00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:03,440 yeah just to you know in case if I get I don't know stressed or something and I forget what 506 00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:09,040 I wanted to talk about but I'm not but I definitely wouldn't follow it like word for word yeah 507 00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:14,520 I don't make any bullet points because I'm not so militant I just know I can get kind 508 00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:22,040 of stressed sometimes and then like my mind goes blank that's the only reason okay well 509 00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:27,840 I think your mind didn't go blank during this recording so thank you for that if you did 510 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:35,000 enjoy this episode not you Irina but the listeners okay but now let me talk to them and I will 511 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:40,160 be listening to it so okay thank you so much so I guess you're a listener as well then 512 00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:44,920 now it's confusing you're both the guest and the listener exactly and probably your boyfriend 513 00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:50,320 will listen as well oh my god so listen what I wanted to say is and that that applies to 514 00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:56,680 you too now because you just decided to place yourself into that group yeah if you did enjoy 515 00:49:56,680 --> 00:50:04,160 this and you want to help me as in Zdenek why don't you write a review on apple podcasts 516 00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:10,960 give me five stars if you don't if you don't want to write anything let chat gpt or ai 517 00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:18,400 write it for you and you can even put some bullet points there if you want you can write 518 00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:25,200 it in bullet points sure thing and you could say it's the best podcast since I wanted to 519 00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:32,200 say slice since sliced bread but you could say since butter as well yeah so I wouldn't 520 00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:37,720 even mention butter I know you wouldn't I just wanted to you know go back to that it's 521 00:50:37,720 --> 00:50:43,840 just a weird joke I'm weird so guys these reviews really help you know because at this 522 00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:48,640 point there is no monetization of this podcast and you might have probably you may have probably 523 00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:54,640 noticed that unfortunately this podcast I don't want to say it's fading away but it's 524 00:50:54,640 --> 00:51:01,680 like I had to what's the what's the expression to use here it's kind of in the background 525 00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:08,760 now what's what's the there's a verb for that I had to like put it on the side sidetrack 526 00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:15,120 you know you know what I mean it's not it's not the number one thing for me now you know 527 00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:21,600 because it's not monetized so I'm more focused on the football it's not my priority yeah 528 00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:25,920 so it's still there yeah I will still publish episodes of the next English podcast but 529 00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:33,360 the the the regularity of the episodes you know it's not what it used to be yeah so that's 530 00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:40,040 why like we can help each other out here listeners okay you you scratch my back I'll scratch 531 00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:47,920 yours okay you write reviews about my podcast and I will publish more episodes for you sounds 532 00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:52,080 like a good plan yeah sounds like a fair plan right yeah okay thanks Irina you can do it 533 00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:59,040 you can use bullet points anyway I think that's enough thank you everyone for listening and 534 00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:04,840 have a good day evening night I don't I still don't know what whatever day it is where you 535 00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:12,000 are so I have no clue thank you everybody take care and until next time until next time 536 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:19,480 have a good one cheers bye we have used like 10 different ways to say goodbye now good 537 00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:26,160 see ya can you say see if you cannot see them actually it's a podcast well that's a good 538 00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:31,880 question and why the hell haven't I finished recording this yet it's another good question 539 00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:41,880 bye bye bye thanks a lot for listening for more information visit my new website teachersdenek.com 540 00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:46,200 where you can find out about my speaking group for high level English learners called the 541 00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:52,500 achievers chamber and download my free course unlocking your English potential eight secrets 542 00:52:52,500 --> 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