สำนวนไทย vs English idiom ft. mmmEnglish | Point of View

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

Now I'm in Youtube creator Summit in Korea.

As I come to this great event, meeting Youtubers

and all of them are interested

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

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

So

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

Are you ready for something both educational and enjoyable?

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

Thai idioms vs English idioms

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

I teach on YouTube you can find my channel mmmEnglish

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

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

So maybe you could try me with English idiom first

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So I guess it's non-solid plan

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

It's still up in the air

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

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

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

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

umm..It's up in the air

And she will love that because you use idiom.

no no no o

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

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

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

Really ?

At first I think about getting in touch with someone.

Right so there's a couple of different meanings there

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

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

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

So it's a slightly different flash meaning

Something mine?

Well...

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

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

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

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

I used to be better.

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

Don't compliment me that much!

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

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

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

Yeah

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

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

Yeah you've been speaking a lot of English.

So I have practiced. Practice makes perfect!

Even a little bit of pressure is good.

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

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

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

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

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

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

So maybe not necessarily interested, but you understand it

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

It was very difficult

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh! it's painful

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

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

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

Well, the side of the fence are important

So if you are sitting on the fence

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

Oh, should I go there?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Europe America and Australia is not charged

offenses in Thailand is very

Close security, right? Yeah

Okay, my last one is what if I said you

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

Is Frankie's life getting a new

oh, it's

Like correct. Yeah, so it means like

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

exactly

A job well done. You did really well

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

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

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

so every words I asked you from now on is

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

Shell I'm thinking that a frog likes to jump

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

Yeah

What is its form a tale about a bruh living in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Coconut chair. Yeah any worse out there?

Maybe this one is too hard. Next one is

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

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

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

I feel like a grasshopper

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

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

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

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

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

Okay, so you're used to big to all

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

We would say it's over the top similar

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

So it's cute when you picture it

Yes, okay. It's not helping me

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

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

Something like that

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

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

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

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

Oh my goodness, well the fourth one is some expression

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

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

I think I remember hearing this one one

Fish fish but I can't remember what it means

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

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

Not so good

It's okay, but it's not great

if you give one to ten point

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

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

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

blah blah

Okay

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

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

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

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

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

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

If he behaves like the chicken

Exactly. Is it like an example? Yes

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

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

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

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

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

gruesome

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

She can smash this day. Yeah

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

Thank you very much. Mr. For today

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

well

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

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

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

Right and for me learning Thai idioms

It's difficult because the meaning is not

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

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

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

So it makes it easier to remember

Instead of just memorizing a list of idiot

Well for me, I remember all the idioms in sentence

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

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

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

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

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

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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