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Hi, I'm View from 'Point of View' Channel.

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Now I'm in Youtube creator Summit in Korea.

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As I come to this great event, meeting Youtubers

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and all of them are interested

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So today I have a special opportunity to invite a famous Youtuber to feature in my channel.

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This youtuber, she own an English teaching channel which is really good.

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So

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Let have a look. What will happen when Thai and English language meet!

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Are you ready for something both educational and enjoyable?

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If you ready then...let's go!

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Thai idioms vs English idioms

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I'm Emma from mmmEnglish. I am an English teacher

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I teach on YouTube you can find my channel mmmEnglish

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So we got a challenge here English versus Thai and it's too easy if you just challenge in normal language

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So there's something called idioms that in Thai is สำนวน . And you can't translate it directly

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So maybe you could try me with English idiom first

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Yeah, English idioms are really challenging because they don't often mean that anything similar to the words that they use in them

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Well, you have a head start of me because you understand English

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I don't understand Thai so it's a little unfair. Give me heart one

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but okay if I said that something was up in the air

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What would I be saying oh you're saying about airplane? No, no way. It's too easy

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Up in the air, I think something in my head, isn't it?

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I think of something up in the air and then it's up in the air. I think it's not solid.

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So I guess it's non-solid plan

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Okay, exactly, right so and not so the plan means you haven't set your plan. It's not confirmed yet

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It's still up in the air

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I see so you guys as a student your English teacher will love when you use English idioms.

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like for example when she asked you about your homework you just said

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Oh the plan of me doing this homework is still up in the air.

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She says are you gonna do your homework tonight? And you would say

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umm..It's up in the air

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And she will love that because you use idiom.

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no no no o

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Okay, what if I said that you have lost your touch

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Lost My touch? If I lost my hand, I think I lost my ability to do something

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That's close. That's a good guess.

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Really ?

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At first I think about getting in touch with someone.

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Right so there's a couple of different meanings there

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So if you lose touch with someone it means that you you don't see them often anymore

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So you are not in contact with them often so you are

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Maybe not as good as friends or you don't know each other so well sovyou lose touch. But this is lose your touch

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So it's a slightly different flash meaning

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Something mine?

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Well...

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Like I guessed before I lose my touch. I lose my hand. I lose the ability to do something uh-huh, very good, right

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So if you lose your touch it means that you used to be able to do something you had the ability

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But if you lose your touch it means you don't have it anymore

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It's like me now that I lost my touch with English.

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I used to be better.

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It's still very good. You haven't lost your touch.

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Don't compliment me that much!

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You've been talking lots of English in the last few days at the YouTube creator summits. Yeah

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Base on my luck. At Creator summit they make us do a lucky dip.

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Every time all Thai creators sat together, except me. Just like me! You talking about up dinner last night?

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Yeah

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So last night I did the same and I was the only person speaking English,

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Every time I pick up some number. I sat with all English speakers.

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Yeah you've been speaking a lot of English.

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So I have practiced. Practice makes perfect!

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Even a little bit of pressure is good.

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You know, you have to push yourself a little bit sometimes to take on a challenge.

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All right, what if I said that you needed to get your head around something.

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Get my head around something? For me it like you totally focus on something.

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If I get my head around something, it's mean I'm totally interested. So I look at it in every angles.

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Is it mean I'm interested? It's close. That's a good way of thinking about it

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So if you have your head around something it means that you understand it completely

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So maybe not necessarily interested, but you understand it

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For example, if I bought a new TV, and I was trying to read the instructions

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It was very difficult

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It took me maybe two hours to read the instruction and understand but after two hours

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I got my head around it. You are kind of weird. Nobody read TV instruction

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It was a bad example. I never read instructions. Is it like when you subscribe to something and they have a rules and yeah

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Okay, okay, okay or like a new software on your computer? Sure. Okay agree to terms and conditions. Yes. Yes

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In Thai we have a phase call 'too long done, read!'

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Need to learn that one. Okay. What if you are sitting on the fence?

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What does it mean? The picture in my head the fence is kind of sharp.

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Oh! it's painful

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It's it mean force yourself to do something painful?

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Makes me feel uncomfortable. And in the end you would get hurt.

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Like you'll fall to one or the other side.

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Well, the side of the fence are important

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So if you are sitting on the fence

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It means you can't decide which side of the fence you need to go to right? You're just sitting on the fence you're thinking

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Oh, should I go there?

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It's used to talk about when you're making a decision

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There's this option or this option. But if you can't decide then you're sitting on the fence

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It's look like an idiom. It's high. It's called yes don't care

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It's made you they are - both at the same time like that leg on one and another leg on another wendigo

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That's peers like this and you have to make a decision Hey or you fall in falling

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It's very similar. Then it has a very similar meaning but this idiom let me know that fence in

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Europe America and Australia is not charged

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offenses in Thailand is very

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Close security, right? Yeah

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Okay, my last one is what if I said you

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Hit the nail on the head. Oh like a nail like with a hammer. But before you said that I think

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Is Frankie's life getting a new

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Like correct. Yeah, so it means like

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Exactly, right. So if you were talking to your boss and

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Your boss asked. You know, what do you think is the problem?

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You know with our team at the moment and you said well, I think you know everyone is coming in a little bit late

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They're slacking on maybe we need to be a bit stricter with the rule for our team to work

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Well together and your boss agreed with you. He thought yes, you're right

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He might say you hit the nail on the head. You're exactly right. It's because

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Everyone is getting lazy you hit the nail on the head, but everyone else will hit you in the head. Yeah

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A job well done. You did really well

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I'm a bit cheating as I learned English for many years better. Now. I'm feeling stressed. It's my turn

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Is it in time maybe in Asian culture? We never say anything said uh-huh

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We always kind of is always hiding right down. So it's dissimilar to English actually

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so every words I asked you from now on is

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Completely different from what you heard? Okay, like the best one April in a coconut

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Shell I'm thinking that a frog likes to jump

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So if you keep your frog inside the coconut it can't escape. So is it like you're trapped?

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What is its form a tale about a bruh living in

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Coconut shine and hitting the coconut shell is a universe he know everything in the universe

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So hip-hop himself and wrap around like so he thinks he knows everything

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Yeah, there are more than one drop in the coconut shell but that that particular want to tell every other forms life

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I know everything just ask me. I've seen everything I know it. Oh, yeah

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I know those people I can think of someone who I can use this idiot

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I think I might try it in English. I might try and use it. You're like a frog in a coconut shell and then using

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It before and I say yeah, it's a new idiom, you know, nothing

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Coconut chair. Yeah any worse out there?

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Maybe this one is too hard. Next one is

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What does it mean if I told you you are catching a

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Grasshopper on the elephant back what you're writing in a feather and then trying to catch grassman

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Right. Am I trying to catch it as the elephant trying to capture? No, you do anyone who's trying to catch it

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I feel like a grasshopper

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Jumps like like this really fast. Yes and an elephant moves like this

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So I feel like it would be difficult to do that. Right because they move quite differently

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So I feel like this idiom could be about something being difficult too hard to do well

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Not exactly. You have to know some of Thai history like we used to use and a family, okay?

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It's a big even when you use eleven, but catching a grasshopper is just a small human

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Okay, so you're used to big to all

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The too much effort too much energy to do just a small task. Yes in English

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We would say it's over the top similar

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Meaning to this idiot. So the next one it's still about animals are they're all about animals. Well, I just choose Oh,

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So it's cute when you picture it

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Yes, okay. It's not helping me

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So father what if I told you that someone is an old cow who liked to eat fresh grass? Okay

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I think it's something to do with their taste. They like things that are too expensive for

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Something like that

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It's about someone like something but not that someone something that is too good for

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you maybe but the Karem sent a man deep or one who liked to keep fresh Oh like

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young women yes, really really young that the generation gap you'll

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Wait, so here's an old cow who likes to eat fresh grass eat

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Oh my goodness, well the fourth one is some expression

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Many type people do they like to use it to foreigners and many foreigners?

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Doesn't understand it. Uh-huh. It's next make fish fish

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I think I remember hearing this one one

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Fish fish but I can't remember what it means

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If you met Flemish type you go before you must now, give some example tell me when would I use this?

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Well lie English, please next next fish fish. I like so so it's

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Not so good

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It's okay, but it's not great

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if you give one to ten point

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It's like a one or two you can use it but not that good so I can't say like hello. Thank you

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You're welcome, but not talking like this. Okay, it's snake. Snake snake fish fish

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How can I say it in Thai cuz I like this one. I want to try and use it Oh

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blah blah

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Blah blah. Oh, that's perfect blah blah. That's why I can say my tie is

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Blah blah. Yes, and because actually it's even worse but if you can say that her tie people might be really inside

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True I heard you're going to Thailand so yes it I'm going to use it

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I'm gonna try it and see what happens before the last one. It's a bit cruel to picture this one

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So idiom is to cure chicken for the monkey to see the killing as she can and have chosen a monk

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Why would you do that? Maybe to show the monkey what could happen?

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If he behaves like the chicken

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Exactly. Is it like an example? Yes

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Yes, the idioms mean to make an example, like if a student doing something wrong teacher just drag him in

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Front of the room and then hit him and we're going to make an example

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Of some someone who did something wrong and then to show everyone else

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Yes, like if you do it same thing you would get punished like this

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Okay, kill the chicken and show the monkey. Yes. Okay. I like that one. It's a little bit

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Like imagining cut the head off fill in or go die we cooked fight on wall to cure

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She can smash this day. Yeah

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But it has to be done right because we like eating chicken

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Thank you very much. Mr. For today

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I'm really glad to meet you guys and then through the flat turbinate YouTube you because we've had such a fun weekend

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well

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Yeah the weekend this feels like it because we've just been having

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Lots of parties and think every day every day is weekend for you Joe

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But I do want to let make a suggestion about learning English idiot because they can be difficult

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Right and for me learning Thai idioms

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It's difficult because the meaning is not

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obvious that you can't just look at the word and immediately know the meaning one thing that I always recommend to my students is to

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try to focus on some idioms that are relevant to your lasso find and then

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That you can use to explain a relationship in your life or an experience that you have

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So it makes it easier to remember

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Instead of just memorizing a list of idiot

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Well for me, I remember all the idioms in sentence

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I created intense myself, which I will remember it in picture

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That's a good idea too, especially because even as you're trying to explain it, you're being very visual about it - yeah

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So I think having the pictures in your head really helps. So thank you very much, Emma, and I hope to meet you again

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Yes when I come to Thailand for sure, don't forget to check out her channel

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Maybe I would be in her shadow in like a month or two maybe

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I'm gonna have a special guest on my channel when I come and visit you in Bangkok. It's gonna be very exciting.

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Bye Thanks for watching.

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So Thai vs English idioms is already end.

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How do you feel about my first English video?

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See you again next time.

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Bye...Sawasdee ka