WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.140 Hi, I'm View from 'Point of View' Channel. 00:00:02.400 --> 00:00:06.200 Now I'm in Youtube creator Summit in Korea. 00:00:06.360 --> 00:00:08.760 As I come to this great event, meeting Youtubers 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:11.100 and all of them are interested 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:15.800 So today I have a special opportunity to invite a famous Youtuber to feature in my channel. 00:00:16.060 --> 00:00:19.160 This youtuber, she own an English teaching channel which is really good. 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:19.840 So 00:00:20.200 --> 00:00:23.180 Let have a look. What will happen when Thai and English language meet! 00:00:23.180 --> 00:00:26.880 Are you ready for something both educational and enjoyable? 00:00:27.100 --> 00:00:28.900 If you ready then...let's go! 00:00:30.020 --> 00:00:32.980 Thai idioms vs English idioms 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:36.980 I'm Emma from mmmEnglish. I am an English teacher 00:00:37.120 --> 00:00:40.840 I teach on YouTube you can find my channel mmmEnglish 00:00:41.040 --> 00:00:48.520 So we got a challenge here English versus Thai and it's too easy if you just challenge in normal language 00:00:48.760 --> 00:00:54.480 So there's something called idioms that in Thai is สำนวน . And you can't translate it directly 00:00:54.699 --> 00:00:59.369 So maybe you could try me with English idiom first 00:00:59.370 --> 00:01:06.720 Yeah, English idioms are really challenging because they don't often mean that anything similar to the words that they use in them 00:01:06.720 --> 00:01:10.799 Well, you have a head start of me because you understand English 00:01:11.010 --> 00:01:15.239 I don't understand Thai so it's a little unfair. Give me heart one 00:01:15.240 --> 00:01:20.189 but okay if I said that something was up in the air 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:25.049 What would I be saying oh you're saying about airplane? No, no way. It's too easy 00:01:26.110 --> 00:01:29.879 Up in the air, I think something in my head, isn't it? 00:01:29.909 --> 00:01:34.989 I think of something up in the air and then it's up in the air. I think it's not solid. 00:01:35.450 --> 00:01:37.960 So I guess it's non-solid plan 00:01:38.030 --> 00:01:44.860 Okay, exactly, right so and not so the plan means you haven't set your plan. It's not confirmed yet 00:01:45.170 --> 00:01:47.170 It's still up in the air 00:01:47.260 --> 00:01:52.029 I see so you guys as a student your English teacher will love when you use English idioms. 00:01:52.030 --> 00:01:55.540 like for example when she asked you about your homework you just said 00:01:55.540 --> 00:01:59.889 Oh the plan of me doing this homework is still up in the air. 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:03.000 She says are you gonna do your homework tonight? And you would say 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:04.360 umm..It's up in the air 00:02:04.360 --> 00:02:07.500 And she will love that because you use idiom. 00:02:07.500 --> 00:02:08.880 no no no o 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:12.780 Okay, what if I said that you have lost your touch 00:02:12.980 --> 00:02:20.200 Lost My touch? If I lost my hand, I think I lost my ability to do something 00:02:20.500 --> 00:02:22.580 That's close. That's a good guess. 00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:23.360 Really ? 00:02:23.940 --> 00:02:27.100 At first I think about getting in touch with someone. 00:02:27.100 --> 00:02:29.200 Right so there's a couple of different meanings there 00:02:29.500 --> 00:02:36.100 So if you lose touch with someone it means that you you don't see them often anymore 00:02:36.100 --> 00:02:40.779 So you are not in contact with them often so you are 00:02:41.720 --> 00:02:48.440 Maybe not as good as friends or you don't know each other so well sovyou lose touch. But this is lose your touch 00:02:48.700 --> 00:02:52.140 So it's a slightly different flash meaning 00:02:52.140 --> 00:02:53.180 Something mine? 00:02:53.340 --> 00:02:54.480 Well... 00:02:54.480 --> 00:03:01.739 Like I guessed before I lose my touch. I lose my hand. I lose the ability to do something uh-huh, very good, right 00:03:01.739 --> 00:03:07.559 So if you lose your touch it means that you used to be able to do something you had the ability 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:11.310 But if you lose your touch it means you don't have it anymore 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:15.749 It's like me now that I lost my touch with English. 00:03:16.780 --> 00:03:17.840 I used to be better. 00:03:18.040 --> 00:03:20.840 It's still very good. You haven't lost your touch. 00:03:21.660 --> 00:03:23.580 Don't compliment me that much! 00:03:23.590 --> 00:03:28.349 You've been talking lots of English in the last few days at the YouTube creator summits. Yeah 00:03:28.349 --> 00:03:33.179 Base on my luck. At Creator summit they make us do a lucky dip. 00:03:33.180 --> 00:03:39.540 Every time all Thai creators sat together, except me. Just like me! You talking about up dinner last night? 00:03:39.540 --> 00:03:39.930 Yeah 00:03:39.930 --> 00:03:44.280 So last night I did the same and I was the only person speaking English, 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:48.940 Every time I pick up some number. I sat with all English speakers. 00:03:49.100 --> 00:03:50.920 Yeah you've been speaking a lot of English. 00:03:51.160 --> 00:03:53.600 So I have practiced. Practice makes perfect! 00:03:53.600 --> 00:03:55.360 Even a little bit of pressure is good. 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:59.300 You know, you have to push yourself a little bit sometimes to take on a challenge. 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:05.120 All right, what if I said that you needed to get your head around something. 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:10.960 Get my head around something? For me it like you totally focus on something. 00:04:11.140 --> 00:04:16.620 If I get my head around something, it's mean I'm totally interested. So I look at it in every angles. 00:04:16.690 --> 00:04:20.679 Is it mean I'm interested? It's close. That's a good way of thinking about it 00:04:20.690 --> 00:04:25.959 So if you have your head around something it means that you understand it completely 00:04:26.450 --> 00:04:30.939 So maybe not necessarily interested, but you understand it 00:04:30.940 --> 00:04:36.309 For example, if I bought a new TV, and I was trying to read the instructions 00:04:36.410 --> 00:04:37.600 It was very difficult 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:42.850 It took me maybe two hours to read the instruction and understand but after two hours 00:04:42.850 --> 00:04:48.489 I got my head around it. You are kind of weird. Nobody read TV instruction 00:04:49.540 --> 00:04:56.580 It was a bad example. I never read instructions. Is it like when you subscribe to something and they have a rules and yeah 00:04:57.100 --> 00:05:04.080 Okay, okay, okay or like a new software on your computer? Sure. Okay agree to terms and conditions. Yes. Yes 00:05:04.090 --> 00:05:06.600 In Thai we have a phase call 'too long done, read!' 00:05:07.610 --> 00:05:11.169 Need to learn that one. Okay. What if you are sitting on the fence? 00:05:11.169 --> 00:05:15.080 What does it mean? The picture in my head the fence is kind of sharp. 00:05:15.080 --> 00:05:18.300 Oh! it's painful 00:05:18.620 --> 00:05:21.720 It's it mean force yourself to do something painful? 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:25.100 Makes me feel uncomfortable. And in the end you would get hurt. 00:05:25.100 --> 00:05:28.640 Like you'll fall to one or the other side. 00:05:28.700 --> 00:05:31.840 Well, the side of the fence are important 00:05:31.840 --> 00:05:34.269 So if you are sitting on the fence 00:05:34.270 --> 00:05:40.480 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 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:42.020 Oh, should I go there? 00:05:42.020 --> 00:05:45.500 It's used to talk about when you're making a decision 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:51.780 There's this option or this option. But if you can't decide then you're sitting on the fence 00:05:51.790 --> 00:05:55.839 It's look like an idiom. It's high. It's called yes don't care 00:05:55.840 --> 00:06:02.530 It's made you they are - both at the same time like that leg on one and another leg on another wendigo 00:06:02.530 --> 00:06:08.260 That's peers like this and you have to make a decision Hey or you fall in falling 00:06:08.260 --> 00:06:13.539 It's very similar. Then it has a very similar meaning but this idiom let me know that fence in 00:06:14.390 --> 00:06:16.690 Europe America and Australia is not charged 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:19.360 offenses in Thailand is very 00:06:19.850 --> 00:06:21.850 Close security, right? Yeah 00:06:24.350 --> 00:06:27.339 Okay, my last one is what if I said you 00:06:28.190 --> 00:06:35.739 Hit the nail on the head. Oh like a nail like with a hammer. But before you said that I think 00:06:39.170 --> 00:06:41.529 Is Frankie's life getting a new 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:44.920 oh, it's 00:06:45.740 --> 00:06:48.460 Like correct. Yeah, so it means like 00:06:49.100 --> 00:06:53.499 Exactly, right. So if you were talking to your boss and 00:06:54.590 --> 00:06:58.569 Your boss asked. You know, what do you think is the problem? 00:06:58.570 --> 00:07:05.110 You know with our team at the moment and you said well, I think you know everyone is coming in a little bit late 00:07:05.110 --> 00:07:10.480 They're slacking on maybe we need to be a bit stricter with the rule for our team to work 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:14.559 Well together and your boss agreed with you. He thought yes, you're right 00:07:14.620 --> 00:07:19.750 He might say you hit the nail on the head. You're exactly right. It's because 00:07:20.270 --> 00:07:25.750 Everyone is getting lazy you hit the nail on the head, but everyone else will hit you in the head. Yeah 00:07:26.330 --> 00:07:28.330 exactly 00:07:29.420 --> 00:07:32.170 A job well done. You did really well 00:07:33.530 --> 00:07:40.030 I'm a bit cheating as I learned English for many years better. Now. I'm feeling stressed. It's my turn 00:07:40.030 --> 00:07:45.459 Is it in time maybe in Asian culture? We never say anything said uh-huh 00:07:45.590 --> 00:07:51.489 We always kind of is always hiding right down. So it's dissimilar to English actually 00:07:52.280 --> 00:07:56.019 so every words I asked you from now on is 00:07:57.020 --> 00:08:03.939 Completely different from what you heard? Okay, like the best one April in a coconut 00:08:03.940 --> 00:08:07.780 Shell I'm thinking that a frog likes to jump 00:08:07.850 --> 00:08:13.209 So if you keep your frog inside the coconut it can't escape. So is it like you're trapped? 00:08:14.210 --> 00:08:16.210 Yeah 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:21.019 What is its form a tale about a bruh living in 00:08:21.210 --> 00:08:26.870 Coconut shine and hitting the coconut shell is a universe he know everything in the universe 00:08:27.569 --> 00:08:32.958 So hip-hop himself and wrap around like so he thinks he knows everything 00:08:33.380 --> 00:08:39.559 Yeah, there are more than one drop in the coconut shell but that that particular want to tell every other forms life 00:08:39.560 --> 00:08:44.869 I know everything just ask me. I've seen everything I know it. Oh, yeah 00:08:44.870 --> 00:08:48.380 I know those people I can think of someone who I can use this idiot 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:56.029 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 00:08:58.019 --> 00:09:02.149 It before and I say yeah, it's a new idiom, you know, nothing 00:09:03.060 --> 00:09:06.139 Coconut chair. Yeah any worse out there? 00:09:06.990 --> 00:09:10.219 Maybe this one is too hard. Next one is 00:09:11.730 --> 00:09:15.289 What does it mean if I told you you are catching a 00:09:15.779 --> 00:09:22.999 Grasshopper on the elephant back what you're writing in a feather and then trying to catch grassman 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:28.069 Right. Am I trying to catch it as the elephant trying to capture? No, you do anyone who's trying to catch it 00:09:28.069 --> 00:09:30.309 I feel like a grasshopper 00:09:31.130 --> 00:09:36.669 Jumps like like this really fast. Yes and an elephant moves like this 00:09:37.190 --> 00:09:42.729 So I feel like it would be difficult to do that. Right because they move quite differently 00:09:42.730 --> 00:09:48.880 So I feel like this idiom could be about something being difficult too hard to do well 00:09:49.400 --> 00:09:56.769 Not exactly. You have to know some of Thai history like we used to use and a family, okay? 00:09:56.770 --> 00:10:02.169 It's a big even when you use eleven, but catching a grasshopper is just a small human 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:05.740 Okay, so you're used to big to all 00:10:06.650 --> 00:10:12.579 The too much effort too much energy to do just a small task. Yes in English 00:10:12.580 --> 00:10:15.219 We would say it's over the top similar 00:10:15.770 --> 00:10:22.599 Meaning to this idiot. So the next one it's still about animals are they're all about animals. Well, I just choose Oh, 00:10:23.810 --> 00:10:25.810 So it's cute when you picture it 00:10:26.930 --> 00:10:28.810 Yes, okay. It's not helping me 00:10:28.810 --> 00:10:35.679 So father what if I told you that someone is an old cow who liked to eat fresh grass? Okay 00:10:35.680 --> 00:10:40.659 I think it's something to do with their taste. They like things that are too expensive for 00:10:41.490 --> 00:10:43.490 Something like that 00:10:44.220 --> 00:10:49.790 It's about someone like something but not that someone something that is too good for 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:58.039 you maybe but the Karem sent a man deep or one who liked to keep fresh Oh like 00:10:58.589 --> 00:11:03.259 young women yes, really really young that the generation gap you'll 00:11:03.990 --> 00:11:08.599 Wait, so here's an old cow who likes to eat fresh grass eat 00:11:10.529 --> 00:11:15.319 Oh my goodness, well the fourth one is some expression 00:11:16.170 --> 00:11:21.200 Many type people do they like to use it to foreigners and many foreigners? 00:11:22.079 --> 00:11:25.909 Doesn't understand it. Uh-huh. It's next make fish fish 00:11:27.260 --> 00:11:29.510 I think I remember hearing this one one 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:33.439 Fish fish but I can't remember what it means 00:11:33.450 --> 00:11:39.919 If you met Flemish type you go before you must now, give some example tell me when would I use this? 00:11:40.290 --> 00:11:45.679 Well lie English, please next next fish fish. I like so so it's 00:11:46.740 --> 00:11:48.740 Not so good 00:11:53.280 --> 00:11:55.280 It's okay, but it's not great 00:11:55.290 --> 00:11:57.499 if you give one to ten point 00:11:57.570 --> 00:12:04.369 It's like a one or two you can use it but not that good so I can't say like hello. Thank you 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:09.049 You're welcome, but not talking like this. Okay, it's snake. Snake snake fish fish 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:13.430 How can I say it in Thai cuz I like this one. I want to try and use it Oh 00:12:14.010 --> 00:12:15.360 blah blah 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:17.360 Okay 00:12:17.570 --> 00:12:22.810 Blah blah. Oh, that's perfect blah blah. That's why I can say my tie is 00:12:24.260 --> 00:12:31.689 Blah blah. Yes, and because actually it's even worse but if you can say that her tie people might be really inside 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:39.760 True I heard you're going to Thailand so yes it I'm going to use it 00:12:39.760 --> 00:12:44.410 I'm gonna try it and see what happens before the last one. It's a bit cruel to picture this one 00:12:44.410 --> 00:12:51.910 So idiom is to cure chicken for the monkey to see the killing as she can and have chosen a monk 00:12:51.910 --> 00:12:56.889 Why would you do that? Maybe to show the monkey what could happen? 00:12:58.160 --> 00:13:00.160 If he behaves like the chicken 00:13:01.280 --> 00:13:04.060 Exactly. Is it like an example? Yes 00:13:13.430 --> 00:13:21.430 Yes, the idioms mean to make an example, like if a student doing something wrong teacher just drag him in 00:13:21.430 --> 00:13:25.029 Front of the room and then hit him and we're going to make an example 00:13:25.310 --> 00:13:30.219 Of some someone who did something wrong and then to show everyone else 00:13:30.620 --> 00:13:34.539 Yes, like if you do it same thing you would get punished like this 00:13:35.300 --> 00:13:42.039 Okay, kill the chicken and show the monkey. Yes. Okay. I like that one. It's a little bit 00:13:42.770 --> 00:13:44.060 gruesome 00:13:44.060 --> 00:13:50.089 Like imagining cut the head off fill in or go die we cooked fight on wall to cure 00:13:50.090 --> 00:13:52.090 She can smash this day. Yeah 00:13:56.190 --> 00:13:59.030 But it has to be done right because we like eating chicken 00:13:59.550 --> 00:14:02.089 Thank you very much. Mr. For today 00:14:02.220 --> 00:14:08.569 I'm really glad to meet you guys and then through the flat turbinate YouTube you because we've had such a fun weekend 00:14:08.660 --> 00:14:08.960 well 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:11.629 Yeah the weekend this feels like it because we've just been having 00:14:11.910 --> 00:14:15.889 Lots of parties and think every day every day is weekend for you Joe 00:14:16.860 --> 00:14:22.399 But I do want to let make a suggestion about learning English idiot because they can be difficult 00:14:22.400 --> 00:14:24.530 Right and for me learning Thai idioms 00:14:24.530 --> 00:14:26.780 It's difficult because the meaning is not 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:34.370 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 00:14:34.680 --> 00:14:40.849 try to focus on some idioms that are relevant to your lasso find and then 00:14:41.319 --> 00:14:47.429 That you can use to explain a relationship in your life or an experience that you have 00:14:47.430 --> 00:14:49.469 So it makes it easier to remember 00:14:50.019 --> 00:14:52.739 Instead of just memorizing a list of idiot 00:14:53.079 --> 00:14:56.969 Well for me, I remember all the idioms in sentence 00:14:56.970 --> 00:15:00.959 I created intense myself, which I will remember it in picture 00:15:01.449 --> 00:15:08.188 That's a good idea too, especially because even as you're trying to explain it, you're being very visual about it - yeah 00:15:08.189 --> 00:15:14.549 So I think having the pictures in your head really helps. So thank you very much, Emma, and I hope to meet you again 00:15:14.829 --> 00:15:19.438 Yes when I come to Thailand for sure, don't forget to check out her channel 00:15:19.439 --> 00:15:22.919 Maybe I would be in her shadow in like a month or two maybe 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:29.500 I'm gonna have a special guest on my channel when I come and visit you in Bangkok. It's gonna be very exciting. 00:15:29.500 --> 00:15:31.200 Bye Thanks for watching. 00:15:31.420 --> 00:15:35.980 So Thai vs English idioms is already end. 00:15:36.180 --> 00:15:38.880 How do you feel about my first English video? 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:45.480 If you like a video like this, or you want me to invite anyone else. Don't for get to Like and shared this video. 00:15:45.760 --> 00:15:47.160 See you again next time. 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:49.920 Bye...Sawasdee ka