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Episode 1: Introductions
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An introduction to our English learning podcast for intermediate to advanced English learners. Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/ctmenglish for transcripts and bonus content!
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Introduction to Podcast and Hosts
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Quida to Modern English. or Sete Eme English. A podcast of two English teachers who became friends after moving to Chile. We share real life entertaining stories of our experiences in Chile in a conversational way so you can gain exposure to native pacing with the extra support you may not be able to get through the usual forms of media. So you can learn intermediate to advanced English from anywhere in the world. We also do a short vocabulary review at the end to help the new words stick.
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So grab your coffee, wine or piscole and let's get started.
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Let's start with a little introduction. Ladies and gentlemen, we are proudly presenting.
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but they ba i won diploma con do mar con to mar to money quickriva through modern english Hello, my name is Maggie and I'm an English teacher from Washington, DC, USA. But I've lived in Chile for around three years. And I'm Layla. I'm also an English teacher from Indiana, USA. And I lived in Chile for two and a half years. So Layla, where can people find you on social media?
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You can find my socials on Instagram and TikTok under the name Lagringa Telista. And I often get the question like a lover of beer or a musician. And I always respond, why not both? What about you? but That's amazing. I love that. You can find my English learning content on both Instagram and TikTok as CharmEnglishCL, which you can find in the description of the podcast. Okay, let's start by telling everyone why we came to Chile. So you first, Maggie.
Maggie's Journey to Chile
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Yeah, this is like the typical question whenever you meet a Chilean, they're like, why are you here? Why are you into that? So for me, it started back in 2018. I was in university and I did a semester exchange in Vina del Mar.
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And at the University, Adolfo Ibanez, shout out. And I really liked it. I had a great time. And at the end, like the very end of the semester, I met my now husband. So at the time, we were kind of more of friends. And then we it evolved into a long distance relationship. And then eventually I decided to come back to Chile so we could live together. Of course, that coincided with the pandemic. So it was kind of a crazy time coming back to Chile, but now I'm here for good and live here and work here and everything. So
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That's kind of my journey um coming back to Chile. And for love, I think a lot of gringas, gringos that I've met in Chile, it's been a similar reason. I don't know what you're talking about. What about you, Leila? What's your... ah Oh lord.
Layla's Path to Chile
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Well, I initially met somebody in my own hometown of Indianapolis and um they ended up moving back to Chile after
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like, a month and a half. And we decided to do long distance. um In my head, I was thinking, well, what's the worst that could happen? If it doesn't go well, I can always just break up over the phone. Like, okay, that's kind of cool. pretty Like, boundaries. Right? Because it's kind of like in in a normal situation you would never do that. like Or you maybe you shouldn't do that. But in this kind of situation it's like you can't really have a face-to-face, you know? um So I decided to give it a try.
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And I actually ended up visiting Chile three times um over the course of the year and a half that we dated. And then while I was there, um I learned very quickly, as most gringos do, about how fast everybody speaks in Chile and how Chile has different words that, you know, will never show up in your textbook. So I wanted to learn more about the specifically the Chilean dialect. And so I got an app called Tandem.
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And um it randomly paired me up with somebody and we became friends. And I, you know, at one point he said something that was kind of flirty. And I said, you know, just to remind you, I'm in and a relationship right now. So like we can only be friends. And he was really, really respectful about that. And then when I broke up with um the first Jillian, I love that distinction. I like don't even want to say their names. I'll call them Chilean One. Chilean One, Chilean Two.
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so you <unk>ner chiness yes seems I love that. That's so funny. um But yeah, so then Jillian 2 was like, hey, before you get taken, I want to express my interest. And I was like, oh, great, another long distance. I was like, crap. But I decided to do
Long-Distance Relationship Challenges
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it. And you know we dated long distance, I think, for at least six months before we met in person for the first time. We actually met in San Francisco as a compromise. Yeah, because I remember telling him, I'm not going to come there and in a foreign country, in a foreign language, and meet you for the first time in real life.
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um because you could be totally catfishing me, basically. Yeah, like a lot more dark. Well, I mean, you know, there are often times where, unfortunately, some gringos go to some other countries and they don't you know, really know anybody or anything, and then they end up getting murdered. So um I guess maybe that's my dark mind, but I was like, yeah, no, I'm not gonna do that. So um how about you come to my country first, because you're the male. And unfortunately, it comes down to that. And
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Yeah, that's true. It's very different to be a woman traveling to another country alone versus a man. Yes, exactly. Yeah. So we ended up compromising and and he always wanted to go to San Francisco. I had never been to San Francisco, so it was like, okay, cool. um I had friends there, so like if anything happened, I would be okay. I also secretly sent my coordinates to my police sister. Oh my God, that's so funny. ah I told her exactly what the Airbnb address was and everything I was like just in case something happens and I told one of my friends like I will send you a text every day until like before 9 p.m. and if I don't call the police.
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That's smart. I feel like that has me questioning certain decisions I've made where I have not like ah put in, like no one knew where I was. and I'm like, that's a good idea. Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm not saying I haven't done that. There were definitely moments in Chile where crazy things could have happened, but um fortunately they didn't. but Yeah, so we ended up meeting there and then he ended up actually coming here twice after that, which I felt bad about because three times to come to somebody's country and they not, you know, go to yours is kind of, um I guess, not really fair. But to be fair, oh, to be fair is something we can use in two different ways like that.
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Yeah. Interesting. To be fair, it's like, um, how would you say it's kind of, I don't know how to explain that.
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ah good We'll talk about that in the vocabulary at the end
Adapting to Life in Chile
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after I have a moment to think about what that means. Yeah. We're going to do some research on that or what we would say, like workshop it. We're going to workshop that. Yeah. yeah Um, but yeah, so I, the third time that he came was in 2020 when the pandemic was happening and I couldn't go to Chile because the borders were closed. And so he had to come here, um, because he obviously could go back to Chile and it was fine. So, um, that's why the third time he came here, but yeah because anyway, I had no restrictions in the pandemic. Yeah, exactly. The US was real bad about the pandemic. Open for business. Very open. um Yeah, so then I moved to Chile in the middle of that pandemic, which was really fun. As you know, we are adventurous.
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we both I was going to say we both had that shared experience of moving to Chile in the pandemic because I remember um my husband and I were not able to meet in either of our countries. and go to Chile, he couldn't come to the US. So we met in Mexico and waited. We were working on a farm, actually. We were doing a program called Woof where you go and work ah slash live on an organic farm and they give you food and a place to stay in exchange for working. It was actually a really cool experience. We were there in the middle of hurricanes and we were like,
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sleeping. I don't know how to explain it, but like the roof of the building that we were sleeping in was made of dried palm leaves. Oh my god. We were in the middle of a hurricane. There was big gaping holes and like water falling on my face. I had this like tiny dog in my arms that was like shaking in the storm. And I remember we wake we woke up the next day and a big tree had completely fallen right next to to the building. So it's like, if it had fallen slightly at a slightly different angle, it would have probably killed all of us. Oh my god. I didn't know this. Yeah. That was our, I kind of blocked that out, actually. um Yeah. That was our experience in Mexico. But then we entered Chile, like as I think both of us did this, like as soon as the borders opened, it was like,
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January, February of that year. No, the beginning of February. It must've been right after they opened the borders. Yeah. I wonder how many people actually did that because for me, I was like, I know they're going to close the borders again. And so if I'm going to go, I have to go now because if if they close the borders indefinitely and it's like another year, I can't do this long distance anymore. like I've got to call it quits. I was like, okay, it's between me moving there or us not working out. And so I was just like, okay, you know what? I've always wanted to live in another country where they don't speak my native language and where it's a different culture. And um I've always wanted to have that experience because you can
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um easily gain a perspective of your own country from the outside and you can also gain a broader understanding of the whole world. Yeah, for sure. And I feel like Chile is really special in that way too, because like both of us are from a country where the movies made in our country and the culture from our country is kind of like shared slash put, I don't know, on all of the rest of the world. So people kind of know, I mean, there's more nuanced things like when you talk about certain regions of the country or your hometown, but
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A lot of our culture, people kind of just already know and it's not as maybe interesting to me in that way. But I find with Chile, there's a lot of stuff where i it feels like an inside joke or like really does even other people from Latin American countries like won't understand this meme or this phrase. and I think that's really special about Chile. I think that it's really fun to kind of like be able to understand a culture where it's not something that you grew up seeing a lot of content or like cultural exports from that place.
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Yeah, it's actually really interesting because I was at dinner last night with some a Venezuelan family and they asked
Language and Cultural Adjustments
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me if I knew Spanish before I went to Chile or if I learned Spanish in Chile and I was like, uh, both? Yeah, say both to that. Um, so I didn't, I didn't speak well in Spanish. I didn't, I wasn't great. I was probably on the suffer levels like A1. Um, so for those of you that don't know suffer levels, they're, they basically have the beginners at A1 and then you have A2, B1, B2, and then C1 and C2 are the most advanced. So I was very high A1, um, when I came to Chile. And then when I.
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left Chile I was a B1 so that's a huge you know jump a for that time period but um anyway I was at this dinner with Venezuelans and I said something I said there are some words that I learned only in Chile and so I don't know if these words are specifically Chilean or if they're just general Spanish So when I'm speaking to somebody from another country, sometimes I use Chilean Spanish and I don't even know it. And there was definitely one or two times where I said something in Chilean Spanish and the mother just looked at me like, what?
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like And my friend who lived in Chile for eight years had to translate for me. And I was like, Oh, oops, that's definitely a Chilean word. Yeah, definitely. I think that happens a lot even with like, yeah, daily expressions or a lot of... kacha Yeah. qai I have one of my students lives in Venezuela and she in the class she's an older lady and in the class. but One time she was like, Maggie, I don't understand. I don't understand. And she said, no cacio, no te cacio.
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and Because her kids live in Chile, so she kind of has some knowledge about the vocabulary here. But I just, yeah I thought it was funny that like this, what is the world like this lady in Venezuela talking to a gringa and like using Chilean words in order to express to me how she feels. like I love that. Yeah, I love that. That's amazing. We need more of that. Yeah, it's very global. So another thing that we have in common, in addition to coming to Chile for a romantic partner in the pandemic, is that we both started to work for an English
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teaching institute and teach professionals English in Chile. And that's how we met and which is super interesting because most people that worked for the company, it's completely remote. were based in Santiago or other cities, and we were two of the only teachers. I think that we're in the fifth region. um You and Kilpoy and me and Vinya. So kind of interested in how we met through the work. Yeah, I know. And I always tell everybody how
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how I told you. like I'm so happy that it was you that was in the fifth region with me because you could have been some crazy person but you turned out to be normal and um we have a lot of shared interests and so it worked out. and thanks god yeah I thought it was it's very interesting that we actually had a lot in common. I think it took us a while to get to the point of like really spending a lot of time together because coming out of the pandemic, I feel like getting back into socializing and everything was a little bit weird to cross that boundary of like, we're coworkers, okay, do you want to hang out as friends? Like, I feel like crossing that was a little bit weird, maybe coming out of the pandemic.
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Yeah, for sure. And like just getting used to socialization in general, especially when you're in a foreign country. And you know for me, like I didn't speak the language well enough when I first got there. So it was like, OK, we have one person to socialize with. that's Yeah, exactly. it's kind of like um I think that for anyone listening that lives in an English speaking country or a country where they speak a different language that's not your native language, it's nice to have that safe haven of the person where
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maybe you spend all day trying to speak the other language and then you can spend some time with this one person who speaks like the people from back home or that you can talk to about, I don't know, in our case we would even talk about how both of us felt like we would try to tell jokes or be funny in Spanish and they just like would not land like people will just stare at you and be like, that joke wasn't funny. So it was so awkward. That was nice to have and another person at least. may Now I will say, I think now we're both funny in Spanish as well. I'll say that. Yeah. I would say that i yeah timing is everything, but I feel like I think that it was it took a while, but that's like when you when you get to that point, it feels really good.
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Yeah, that's like a whole new level of fluency. Yeah, so interesting. But we met through someone who was more extroverted, I think, than both of us. And it was another coworker who kind of like reached out to both of us. And we all met together in Valpo, um which is so funny. like and Near the port, the Puerto in Valpo, And we, I don't, what were even we even doing? We went there, we met at the rocks. We were gonna watch the sunset. We got there like, o it was yeah pretty dark, I think.
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And I remember that I did a classic move, which is dropped my phone in between two of those huge rocks that are there. And we even got up and walked away. And then I realized that I didn't have my phone with me, ran back and somehow miraculously got it, which is crazy. from Oh my God. Yeah, I do. I remember thinking, Oh my God, this girl, I just met her and she's going to die. It's like, please don't die when I'm here. This would be awful. You make a great first impression. I like to add a little bit of chaos everywhere I go. Right? I was like, oh man, am I going to have to pull some, I don't know, rescue mission or something? I was also dark outside. Yeah, right, I could do that. I'd probably just panic and flail my arms and be like, oh my god, somebody help. That's an effective strategy.
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Yeah, and then I remember we walked, we went somewhere to some restaurant and ordered my very first Toriana. A Valpo classic. Yeah, and I couldn't even order. I was so, it's not that I couldn't, I think I was just so nervous, um which is hilarious. but But I had to ask our coworker to order for us. I for remember, this is so weird. I don't know why. I've heard some people say this before too. For me, I felt almost more embarrassed speaking Spanish in front of you guys than to the other people that oh yeah speak Spanish, if that makes sense.
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like Isn't that weird? A different language in front of people that speak your native language can sometimes feel more embarrassing than just like communicating with the native speaker of that language that you're trying to speak. And I don't
Experiences in Chile
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know why. myself I think it's maybe because like, I think maybe it has to do with the fact that like, you know, when you're speaking to a native speaker, they tend to be tend keyword, um really understanding and empathetic, they're not really judging you too harshly. They're thinking like, oh, at least she can get her point across or something.
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Whereas if it's another person that speaks your native language and they're speaking the foreign language that you both know, maybe they might be more, you know, in our heads, they might be more judgmental or like, yeah, or maybe that's just our culture. I don't know. I've heard that. Like also you guys will have to let me know. So I just remembered after we went out to eat, We were gonna go up to our co-workers house or apartment that she was staying in and it was at like the very very top of Valpo and um Or at least I think that it was the top of Valpo. That's what it felt like. The top of Valpo, I swear to God it felt like that um and you know, I had been
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working from home in the pandemic for like at that point, probably a year and a half. And so I was really out of shape and I have exercise induced asthma. So I remember we were walking up the hills and I just remember these two street dogs sitting outside of a house and like we were walking up these stairs and they they were looking at me like, oh, that is pathetic. And I remember looking at them and saying, guyate de perros. Your face is saying too much. Shut up. Yeah. Like, don't you judge me. And ah I was just so out of breath. And then um at one point I had to break out the inhaler and it was just like,
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Everybody kept laughing, including myself. I was definitely laughing at myself too. um But yeah, I remember at one point I just like raised my hands and was like, okay, where's the tourist? I'm like, that's me, obviously. Where's the gringa? Oh my God. To be fair to you, I think at that point I was living in Valpo and I was living in Cerro Concepcion. And in order to go to the grocery store, I had to go up the most insane hill every time. So I think I had gotten a little training. hit Yeah, I don't know how you did that. I would die. don't Yeah, we would.
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like haul these groceries for so far and just go up the hill and we still do that like me and my husband we go but now we go on the metro but we still have to like haul them up one hill in recreo so yeah Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, no car life is. If you don't have a car in your decision, you probably have this shared experience. Oh man, there was just definitely some moments where, you know, in in my state, you have to have a car. There's no public transportation, really. It's awful.
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and so I wasn't used to walking everywhere and so there were definitely times like when I missed the train stop to come to your apartment and I ended up and somewhere in Valpo and was it like walking back to your house and I was just like there was definitely a point where I thought I think I was gonna die. You shared your location with me and I was like, remember to get off in Recreo and you were like, yeah, okay. And then I looked at where you were on the map. I was like, that is not Recreo. That is not Recreo. That is not Recreo. Maybe in another episode we will talk about my panic attack when it came to the buses there. Oh my god. Which I realized are not just because we're not from here. I saw a TikTok once where there was a micro where all the doors were completely open and it was going insanely fast and it was like the micros itself. Are you serious?
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It's like the doors are wide open. It's going insanely fast. but like yes That is how it is. That's pretty accurate yeah accurate. It's not just
Podcast Format and Goals
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us. I think everyone has this view. Yeah, this that makes me feel better. Okay, so basically the goal of this podcast is that we are intentionally going to speak at our own our normal conversational speed for the intermediate to advanced English learners. And then we'll do a vocabulary review at the end of the episodes. And we're also going to have transcripts available. So
00:27:37
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um When it comes to transcripts, the best way to use those transcripts is to actually read them as you're listening to the episode. um It's really interesting because language and music use the same part of the brain, and for those of you that don't know, I am also a classical musician. I play cello. And so um the language learning and music learning relate very, very much. And whenever we are learning a new piece of music, we have to read the music while we're listening to it at the same time as well. So it's it is actually very, very helpful to do it that way.
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um And if you want one of our transcripts, then you can join our Patreon at the link in the description. In general, I don't know, for me coming to Chile and a big part of practicing my Spanish and improving my Spanish was listening to podcasts and practicing my listening. I think a lot of times we when we go to another country, we feel like we have to practice speaking right away, but it's really necessary, I think, to practice your listening a lot because you end up in parties or family events if you are with a significant other's family and people are all just talking super fast. And unless you have a side one-on-one really slow conversation with someone, people will be talking really fast. and so
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Yeah, and not only that, they're gonna have music blasting back now. That They'll be slurring, they'll be drinking, slurring their words. We won't be doing that, but we'll be talking to help you guys practice because, I don't know, in my case that was something that at first I would listen to these different Chilean podcasts like Cola Ayuda de Misamigas amongst others. so And at first I felt like there were a lot of words that I didn't understand per se, but just like with more practice and practice training your ears, you can really get to a point where you feel a lot more confident, like recognizing words that you know. Yeah, and you can kind of figure out the meaning of some words based on the context. And so it's actually a great way to learn.
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The brain, I study the brain because I'm a total nerd. um And i I just love learning how the brain learns. And one of the biggest things um is that, you know, you learn through emotion, like emotional experiences. So when we are talking about a story about something that happened to us, you might laugh and think it's funny or sad. You might cry, you know, I don't know, depending. Amongst other
Language Learning and Emotional Connections
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feelings. but Sure. The bottom line is, is that you're still going to learn because you have that emotional reaction. Definitely. Like connecting it with something that makes it more memorable. There's a lot of words that I learned through those kinds of experiences. Um, I will say, I don't, yeah. like answer
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One of those, one of those were like, there was a night, and I do have a recording of this somewhere, like I should totally get it. um But it was like, somebody was trying to explain to me what mohoho meant, and what laka lila, and they just kept saying it. And it was the funniest thing ever, because They thought that i that I didn't understand them about what it was, and they kept explaining over and over and over again the same way, you know, like the definition of of what they were talking about. And the whole time I was really just laughing at the sound of, mo ho hoho like, how can that be a word?
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like How could that be a freaking word? you know And it's just so funny because you go back and you listen to the recording and you hear them at least three times trying to explain what it is. And it's like, no, no, no, no. I understood you the first time, but it just sounds so funny. I also love when people explain the same thing so like the same way several times. it' like Thanks for that. So I'm super excited because I found the mohoho clip and my introduction to it. However, keep in mind that this was recorded using voice memos on my iPhone. So the quality isn't going to be great. And also it's just a short clip of the full concept that we were talking about how they repeated it multiple times. So you may or may not hear that in the recording.
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know kail ila kala ah la youla canil
00:33:20
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no i kagi in amo better yeahda look butha yagi I was with a friend and she, I feel like a lot of the slang that I know in Chile is more Gen Z because I like watch a lot of TikTok. But this was a friend that is a little bit older than I and she She kept saying engrupido, I think was the word. And it's like, I think someone that's like egoista or selfish. ah But just by the context, I was like, okay, she keeps saying engrupido. I know that's something bad.
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by Because we were peland we werere talking talking shit. oh But yeah, the like constant use of this word, I was like, interest. It just stuck with me. like I left the conversation like, I need to go look up. What is Angrupy though? yeah Actually, I didn't know that word, so there you go. I learned a new word today.
Naming the Podcast and Slang Discussions
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We also might get the question, why is our podcast named ah CTM English? Maybe that's the last word for some people.
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but Well, I am for it. It accurately shows you guys what you're getting into by turning this on. I also think both of us had this experience like when you come to Chile as a foreign person, people instantly are like, okay, here's the words you need to know and tell you every curse word. Oh my God. And so keep so many people told me what CTM means, that I'm showing you guys that we heard you, we listened, we know what c CTM mohoho for are, and that's why we named the podcast this way.
00:35:16
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It is one of my favorite words to say, I will be honest. I say it at work all the time still and it's it's really nice crazy because it's like nobody understands me so perfect. It's really different if you say that at work in Indiana versus if I say that at work in Chile. Yes, exactly, exactly. It's like here nobody knows what I'm saying so it's fine. Yeah, here I could say a few things that are in English like that would probably be fine. oh yeah I will say, yeah, like when you first, yeah actually, even before I came to Chile ah for the first time, I already knew what sepeme meant and um the classic way on. I mean, and then you get here and literally every new person that you meet, you know, the first thing they want to tell you is like, Oh, do you know what way on means? And you're like, way on. ol the phone um What do you think are the words that people go to the US that people teach like immediately? probably fwor Well, I feel like yeah, I feel like maybe most people already know those um movies, you know, like I do hear a lot of people in Chile say certain words in English like sorry.
00:36:35
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and i love it absolutely love it the first time i heard somebody say suri i was like oh so you speak you're like sorry no it no like loading
00:36:49
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I didn't find it so funny. Exactly. I did a post on this once, but gasfitter is the plumber, but it comes from gasfitter, the British And word I of love it. the person I absolutely love it. that adjusts your The first time I heard somebody say sorry, gas and I was like, Oh, so you speak English? stuff. Oh my God, that's so interesting. There's a lot of words like that where I'm like, this is, or strip center. Yeah. But I would say strip mall. Yeah.
Teasers and Vocabulary Insights
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Yeah, very interesting. So yeah the next episode will be about funny misunderstandings and cursed interactions. And both Layla and I are experts in these areas. So I hope that you're excited to hear about some of those experiences we've had. Oh yeah, we got some good ones. Stay tuned listeners for our vocabulary review session. Which will be after the music. Catch you guys next week.
00:37:49
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o o So first, when Layla met up with her ex-boyfriend in San Francisco, she said, we ended up compromising. To compromise is to reach an agreement or meet in the middle. yeahgar i won aquito Some people might think it's compromiso in Spanish, but that's actually a different word, commitment. So these are amigos falsos. Fair has two different ways that you can use it. So the first one is with gusto in Spanish. So three times to go to someone's country and them not to come to yours is not really fair or gusto.
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There's also to be fair, which means to qualify something. So if we say, well, to be fair, it means siendo onesto. So as you can see, fair has two uses. Talking about the vocabulary review, we said we were going to workshop it. A workshop is a tayer. So to workshop something is to develop and improve it. The next one comes from when Maggie said, the roof of the building we were sleeping in. So Spanish natives often get confused with the words roof versus ceiling. This is because in Spanish, they are the same word, techo. So roof is what is outside on the top of the house to protect everything, whereas the ceiling is what you see on the inside of the house when you look up. While talking about the roof, I mentioned that the roof had gaping holes.
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Gaping is used with holes or gaps to say wide open. The next one is when Maggie was telling a story and I said, I don't remember that. She mentioned, I blocked that out. She was referring to suppressing that memory as in consciously choosing to forget a memory. When Leila was talking about the possibility of ending a relationship, she said to call it quits. This means to break up or to give up on trying to make it work.
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For example, if you try to change careers and it just isn't working out, you might call it quits. This next one is a classic with me. It's a joke that didn't land. And unfortunately, this happens way too often with me. So what it means is no one laughed at the joke. naier cerio or like they say in Chile three meaning crickets were chirping or grios estaman
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t riendo When we were talking about walking up the hill, Leila said she had to break out the inhaler. Break out is a phrasal verb with a lot of meanings, but here specifically, it means to get something out of your bag. Like, let's break out the snacks. to haul groceries. This one is a little interesting. Maggie mentions that she had to haul groceries up a hill. So in this case, to haul is to carry or drag something, usually heavy.
00:41:18
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Hall is pronounced the same as hall, as in passio, but spelled differently, as in h-a-u-l. These words are homophones, which means they sound the same but are spelled differently. On social media, some influencers make haul videos. They bought a large quantity of something like groceries or clothes and show themselves unpacking it on camera. Why? I do not know. And when I was talking about talking to my friend and we were shit-talking someone, this is basically just to talk badly about someone. In Chile, they say to pelar. In English, we say to shit-talk.
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The next one is slur words. So when someone is talking and there is no space between the words, they connect the end of one word to the beginning of the next one. A really great example of this is when someone is really drunk and they begin to slur their words a lot. We said that when you arrive in Chile as a foreigner, people often teach you all the curse words like CTM. A curse word is a grosseria or garabato, like they say in Chile. This one we thought was interesting because there's a lot of ways to say it. So we have a curse word, a swear word, a cuss word, or a bad word.
00:42:47
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Personally, I say usually a curse word, but all of these are common to use. um Which do you use, Leila? Well, because of my really, really conservative upbringing, we used to only say a bad word. But now I say, I think, cuss word the most. And was that because curse is like maldecion, like it could be kind of considered blasphemy? Um, I feel like in this case, it was more like a distinction between, you know, ah somebody putting a curse on you. Yeah. And so it was just like a way to, like which this yeah. Okay.
00:43:34
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And just to close out, there were some phrases that we used several times that you might already know, but that I highly recommend practicing for telling stories. One example is that we used the phrase at one point or at some point, which is in Spanish in algun momento. So this is a great phrase to use while you're telling a story about something in the past. The next one would be, I ended up, or in Spanish, terminé haciendo. So for example, I ended up going to the store. I ended up going to the show. Alright, so those were our vocabulary words for episode one. If you want to see them, see the examples we gave, and see how they're spelled, you can check them out in the transcript on our Patreon.
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And remember, practice doesn't make perfect. Intentional practice makes progress, and that's more important