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Become a monthly subscriber for just $1.99 per month and receive an additional two to three episodes per week! https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/exclusive-content In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about fillers English speakers often use. English language fillers are words or phrases that people use in speech to fill pauses or gaps in conversation. Here are some common ones: Um / Uh: Used to indicate hesitation or to fill a pause while thinking. Well: Often used to introduce a statement, express agreement, or to indicate that you're considering something. So: Frequently used to transition between topics or to start a new thought. You know: Used to seek validation from the listener or to emphasize a point. Like: Often used as a filler word, especially among younger speakers, to pause or emphasize a point. I mean: Used to clarify or rephrase a statement. Actually: Used to add emphasis or correction to a statement. Basically: Often used to simplify or summarize a complex idea. Well, you see: Used to begin an explanation or to introduce reasoning. In a way / In a sense: Used to qualify or add nuance to a statement. Podcast Website: https://atozenglishpodcast.com/vocabulary-spotlight-fillers/ Social Media: WeChat: atozenglishpodcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/671098974684413/ Tik Tok: @atozenglish1 Instagram: @atozenglish22 Twitter: @atozenglish22 A to Z Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theatozenglishpodcast Check out our You Tube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCds7JR-5dbarBfas4Ve4h8A Become a member of Podchaser and leave a positive review! https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-a-to-z-english-podcast-4779670 Join our Whatsapp group: https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7 Intro/Outro Music: Daybird by Broke for Free https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Directionless_EP/Broke_For_Free_-_Directionless_EP_-_03_Day_Bird/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Become a monthly subscriber for just $1.99 per month and receive an additional two to three episodes per week! https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/exclusive-content In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack explain the meanings of several phrasal verbs using the verb "push." Push around: This phrasal verb means to treat someone in a bossy or unfair manner, often by using one's authority or physical strength. For example: "The new manager likes to push around junior staff members to assert her authority." "Don't let him push you around like that; stand up for yourself!" Push for: This phrasal verb means to advocate for or strongly support something, often in a determined or persistent manner. For example: "The environmental activists are pushing for stricter regulations on pollution." "The union is pushing for better working conditions for its members." Push through: This phrasal verb means to overcome obstacles or resistance in order to achieve something, often by using determination or force. For example: "Despite facing numerous challenges, she managed to push through and complete her project on time." "We need to push through these difficult times together and come out stronger on the other side." Podcast Website: https://atozenglishpodcast.com/grammar-zone-push-around-push-for-and-push-through/ Social Media: WeChat: atozenglishpodcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/671098974684413/ Tik Tok: @atozenglish1 Instagram: @atozenglish22 Twitter: @atozenglish22 A to Z Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theatozenglishpodcast Check out our You Tube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCds7JR-5dbarBfas4Ve4h8A Become a member of Podchaser and leave a positive review! https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-a-to-z-english-podcast-4779670 Join our Whatsapp group: https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7 Intro/Outro Music: Daybird by Broke for Free https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Directionless_EP/Broke_For_Free_-_Directionless_EP_-_03_Day_Bird/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Become a monthly subscriber for just $1.99 per month and receive an additional two to three episodes per week! https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/exclusive-content In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack share their teenage celebrity crushes! Transcript: 00:00:01 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are doing a topic talk and we're talking about celebrity crushes that you had when you were a kid. OK and social, just for our audiences understanding what is a crush. 00:00:22 Jack Again, if you have a crush on someone. 00:00:25 Xochitl A crush is like when you really, really like someone. Kind of like an intense infatuation. 00:00:31 Xochitl But it's not really based on anything real like like a real connection with that person. It's a lot of what you project on that person, and it's usually based on, like either appearance or small like personality traits that you've acquired through seeing them act or whatever, that you kind of imagined for this person. 00:00:44 발표자 Right. 00:00:50 Jack And so you you. 00:00:51 Jack You know, often like, like high school kids will. You'll have a crush on a girl in your class or a guy in your class, but you don't really know that person. You just. But. But it's like, almost like an intense feeling of love. Like it's not real. 00:00:59 발표자 MHM. 00:01:04 Jack Love. But it's just like it feels like you're you're your chest is being crushed because you're you're so you. Your feelings are so strong for this person. Like they're perfect, you know? Ohh the perfect person. But really in reality you don't know them at all. And they could be awful, you know, so. 00:01:24 발표자 Great. 00:01:25 Jack Yeah, that's. So we have a thing called celebrity crushes because there's, you know, we're we're surrounded by celebrities all the. 00:01:32 Jack Time and sometimes we will develop. You know that feeling of like, again, that crush feeling. It's like it's not love or it's not real love, but it's like attraction to a person who you feel like is your soul mate your perfect person, you know. 00:01:47 발표자 Right. 00:01:52 Jack Like Ohh that's that's my ideal, you know person. 00:01:57 Jack And so when you were like young, when you're a kid who were your celebrity crushes, like who, who were you, who did you crush on when you were? 00:02:10 Xochitl Oh boy. 00:02:12 Xochitl My biggest one was Justin. 00:02:16 Xochitl Sure. 00:02:17 Jack Ohh, I was gonna say Justin Timberlake. 00:02:20 Xochitl No, I I he was too old, I think for my. Yeah, cause. Yeah, Justin Bieber was like my he was a couple years older, like few years. He's a few years older than me, I think. Yeah. And so he was a big celebrity crush of mine when I was probably like, 14 or 30 when I was 13, he was like. 00:02:22 Jack Yeah, he's like a grandfather. 00:02:39 Xochitl 16 probably and uh. 00:02:41 Jack Can I ask you a question? So did you have Bieber fever? 00:02:42 Xochitl Yeah. 00:02:46 Xochitl God. Yeah, I did. Uh, I thought it was too good to have Beaver fever, but I wasn't. And I didn't like him at the same time that every, like everyone else, already liked him. And I was, like, holding out. And then I saw this interview where he was really nice to this little girl, and it was like I thought it was so cute. 00:03:04 Xochitl UM. 00:03:06 Jack And that was before all the facial tattoos and the like neck tattoos. 00:03:09 Xochitl Yeah, it was. We went kind of crazy and, you know, had a meltdown because he was like he was transitioning from child star to adult star. And I thought he was just so cute. And I had, like, a people bought me, like gifts for my birthday. Like, they bought me both of his. 00:03:12 Jack Yeah. 00:03:18 발표자 Yeah, yeah. 00:03:27 Xochitl Like CD's that he had at the time, a lunch box with his face on...

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Become a monthly subscriber for just $1.99 per month and receive an additional two to three episodes per week! https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/exclusive-content In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl tests Jack's knowledge of common texting acronyms. Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack Hey A-Z listeners, this is Jack here. 00:00:03 Jack And if you would like to become a an exclusive subscriber to the show, you can hit the link in the description and that will take you to our Red Circle page, where for $1.99 a month you will get access to an extra two or three episodes each week. 00:00:23 Jack And be careful, don't hit that donation button if you want to become an exclusive subscriber because the donation button is just a one time donation. However, the exclusive subscriber button will give you access to the extra two or three episodes. 00:00:42 Jack Each week. 00:00:44 Jack So make sure you hit that exclusive subscriber button if you want access to the extra episodes. 00:00:52 Jack Now let's get on with the show. 00:00:55 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are under the vocabulary spotlight. 00:01:05 Jack And social is going to test me on my knowledge of testing accurate and I'm sorry texting. 00:01:15 Xochitl Excellent. 00:01:16 Jack Acronyms like like. 00:01:17 Jack Text. 00:01:18 Jack Texting words or whatever I guess. Or texting language. 00:01:20 Xochitl Yes, finally explaining in a way, it's like you just you don't use the whole phrase or the whole words. You just use like a few letters to represent the word. So that's like what it is. 00:01:32 Jack Exactly, yeah. 00:01:35 Xochitl And I have a six here so. 00:01:38 Xochitl So let's get started. I'm ready to tear you up because you really got me with the Canadian one was that Aussie one wasn't a total failure, the Canadian one. 00:01:39 Xochitl OK. 00:01:46 Jack No, you did better on the Aussie one than you did with the Canadian slang, which is kind of surprising. 00:01:51 Xochitl I know and. 00:01:52 Xochitl Canadian and I've been to Canada and I don't even have any like Austin friends and I have Canadian friends as messy, but. 00:01:58 Jack We share a border with Canada, you know. 00:02:01 Xochitl And I have a a close Canadian friend or a couple maybe, and I don't have like any Aussie friends I can think of, but I just ruined. I just ruined the Canadian one. 00:02:10 Jack Well, I'll give a I'll. 00:02:11 Jack Give a shout out to teacher Paul Paul the the the grammar detective. 00:02:17 Jack If you don't know his uh YouTube channel, check it out. For sure. The grammar detective best grammar teacher on the Internet. He sent me a message about that episode and said basically those Canadian terms are very like rural. You know, they're not. It's like. 00:02:35 Jack OK. 00:02:37 Jack And even most Canadian people don't use those terms. It's very much. 00:02:41 Jack Like like hillbillies you know? Kind of like, yeah, people that live in the countryside might. 00:02:47 Xochitl Without in the sticks as you say. 00:02:49 Jack In the sticks, right? Yeah. Hillbillies is not a the right way to say that, but. 00:02:55 Xochitl I think in sticks isn't either, but in the sticks are just a term we use for people who. 00:02:59 Xochitl Live out in the country. 00:03:00 Jack Yeah. 00:03:02 Jack Country folk, you know, country people that are not, you know, maybe college educated, you know, high school educated only use those kinds of terms. 00:03:12 Jack And it's it's not very they're not very common in in regular. 00:03:17 Jack Right. But actually it's not actually. 00:03:17 Xochitl Speech in Sydney. 00:03:19 Xochitl Has to do with the level of education. I think it's more just like it's kind of like colloquial language, like it's a regional dialect kind of...

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Become a monthly subscriber for just $1.99 per month and receive an additional two to three episodes per week! https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/exclusive-content In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl an Jack talk about table manners in America. Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack Hey A-Z listeners, this is Jack here. 00:00:03 Jack And if you would like to become a an exclusive subscriber to the show, you can hit the link in the description and that will take you to our Red Circle page, where for $1.99 a month you will get access to an extra two or three episodes each week. 00:00:23 Jack And be careful, don't hit that donation button if you want to become an exclusive subscriber because the donation button is just a one time donation. However, the exclusive subscriber button will give you access to the extra two or three episodes. 00:00:42 Jack Each week. 00:00:44 Jack So make sure you hit that exclusive subscriber button if you want access to the extra episodes. 00:00:52 Jack Now let's get on with the show. 00:00:55 Jack Welcome to the agency English podcast. My name is Jack, and I'm here with my co-host, social. And today we are doing a we're in the culture corner. I believe we're in the the culture corner and we're talking about table manners in America, American table manners and we. 00:01:14 Jack We kind of made a list of five kind of golden rules and uh, what? What are they? So. So what's #1? 00:01:22 Xochitl Don't put your elbows on the table, so if there's like the tablecloth surface, don't eat with your elbows like on the table. And that's so different in other countries and cultures because like in Mexico, there's no issue with putting your on table. In America, your wrist putting your wrists on the table is OK, but elbows is. 00:01:28 Jack Yeah. 00:01:42 Xochitl It's just considered rude for some reason. I'm not really sure why. 00:01:45 Jack It's so arbitrary. It's so dumb, like there's no reason for it. You know? It's like my why? Why, you know, don't be comfortable, you know. 00:01:49 Xochitl And then there's. 00:01:50 Xochitl A children. 00:01:54 Xochitl Yeah, yeah. There's a children's line that's like in certain name, like Amy. Amy, Amy, if you're able to take your elbows off the table, this is not a horse's stable. 00:02:06 Jack Yeah. 00:02:07 Xochitl And it's like, I don't know why that even exists. I didn't know it was rude until I read it in like a book sometime in like the third grade. 00:02:11 Jack Yeah. 00:02:16 Xochitl UM. 00:02:18 Xochitl So whatever. 00:02:19 Jack I'll. I'll do it. I I don't really care. I I find that, like the least offensive of the of the table manner crimes. So you know when I'm eating, I'll. I'll probably do it. You know it it depends on where I am. If I'm in like a fancy schmancy. 00:02:35 Jack Wearing a tuxedo. OK, I'm going to follow the all the taper table manners. But you know, if I'm, like, eating at a friend's house and some, you know, the. 00:02:46 Jack They're. 00:02:47 Jack They don't really care. I'll. I'll. I'll put my elbows on the table. 00:02:50 Xochitl Yeah, I don't care if you're if you're, like, meeting your girlfriend or boyfriend's parents for the first time and they're American, like your elbows on the table, or if you're going to like a fancy dinner or like a work party or like a work party for your significant other or your own work party or whatever. Some kind of formal event, then I would say, like, steer away from it because there's some people in the older generation. 00:03:12 Xochitl Like boomers and older that still? 00:03:14 Xochitl Hair. But otherwise, if you're just at a casual house party or hang out with some friends at house warming or something, but it doesn't really matter, I don't think. 00:03:24 Jack Yeah. Keep your knees off the table. That's a bad thing. Yeah, your feet. Yeah. Don't put your feet on the...

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Become a monthly subscriber for just $1.99 per month and receive an additional two to three episodes per week! https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/exclusive-content In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about dog ownership in the United States, Mexico, and Korea. Transcript: 00:00:55 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we have a topic talk episode and today's topic is dogs and like dog ownership in different cultures, like how people think about their dogs and. 00:01:10 Xochitl Yeah, yeah. 00:01:16 Jack Treat their dogs and so soap. So why don't you kick it off here for us? And UM, like, what is your generation people your age? How do they feel? 00:01:26 Jack About their dogs. 00:01:28 Xochitl OK, so I would say I kind of grew up in a culture where dogs are dogs and people are people. 00:01:35 Xochitl And this is a very Mexican thing. And it's also a very. 00:01:41 Xochitl Real staple of older American culture. My dad is a boomer, and in those days, you know it. Dog culture was similar to how it is in Mexico. You kind of let your dog roam free. 00:01:54 Jack Right. 00:01:56 Xochitl In the streets, he like has his own pack of friends. 00:01:59 Jack Right. And if there's if there's like an order, it's like the dog is the last. You know, there's no, there's no babying the dog and stuff. Like it's an animal. 00:02:04 Xochitl Yes. 00:02:10 Xochitl And they also kind of hold. 00:02:11 Xochitl Their own independent life, like they go out kind of independently. That's still a thing in Mexico. And also it used to be a thing in, in the US and my dad was a kid in the 60s and. 00:02:23 Jack Hmm. 00:02:24 Xochitl Yep. 00:02:25 Xochitl And and they they're very independent. They're not really babied. And they're kind of seen as like the lowest caste working member of a family because you have them for protection or sometimes you have farm dogs just or, you know, it's a companion animal. But most of the time it it has a job to do. 00:02:46 Xochitl And it has a plate on the pecking order, as we say in the US, which is like the top dog is, you know, maybe the mom and dad of the household and the kids and then the dogs at the box. 00:02:56 Xochitl And and I would say that was very, very true for the older generations. But now my younger generation, I've see, I've seen it as a global phenomenon in Korea and the US in Mexico, that people treat their dogs kind of like babies. I'm. 00:03:12 Xochitl I'm a little guilty of. 00:03:14 Xochitl This when I first had Wendy, I swore I wouldn't be one of these people. I didn't even want to sleep in the same bed. 00:03:19 Xochitl His. 00:03:20 Xochitl But he's so cute. It was like hard so. 00:03:24 Jack He worked his way into the into the bedroom, up on the bed. Yeah. 00:03:26 Xochitl He worked his way up into his then. Yeah, because he got big enough to be able to jump onto the bed. And then after that, just kind of game over because I couldn't keep him off. I tried to keep him off and he was smarter than me and found out how to get through every obstacle course that I've placed for him. So that's how a. 00:03:32 Jack OK. 00:03:46 Xochitl Like 4 LB. Dog outsmarted me my whole. 00:03:48 Jack Yeah, I I feel. 00:03:50 Jack Like Americans now, and maybe Canadians, too, are dogs are like their four legged children. 00:03:59 Jack You know there's. 00:03:59 Xochitl Yeah, and I. 00:04:00 Xochitl Think it it it? Sorry, Jack didn't mean to cut you off. I was just going to think because a lot of people are having kids later or choosing not to have kids at all. And I think that really affects the way that we see. 00:04:02 Jack No, no, no. Go ahead. Go ahead. 00:04:08 Jack Yeah. 00:04:13 Xochitl Dogs and for me, I kind of people only say the older you get, the more sure you are that...

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