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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about which chores they hate and which ones they don't mind.
Transcript:
00:00:00
Jack
Hey, A is the English podcast listeners. It's Jack here and we just want to announce that we are now on WeChat. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast that is A-Z English podcast, one word all lowercase.
00:00:17
Jack
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Jack
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Jack
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Jack
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00:00:52
Jack
Welcome to the agency English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host, social. And today we have a topic talk episode and social. Today's topic is what household chores?
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Jack
Do you usually help?
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Jack
With and which ones do you enjoy and which ones?
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Jack
Do you hate?
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Xochitl
Ohh well Jack, I live alone.
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Jack
So you do.
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Xochitl
I.
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Xochitl
Yeah, I mean, I did and find out what. Yeah, now that I live in Mexico, I pay someone to come do some of them. And I do some of them. So that kind of works out pretty well for me. But lately, the person that I was paying to come do household chores, unfortunately.
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Jack
Swear none of them. I don't know. It depends on.
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Jack
How you live, yeah.
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Jack
Yeah.
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Xochitl
Her father got ill and I totally get that. So I've been handling them on my own.
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Jack
MHM.
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Xochitl
And and.
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Xochitl
I like cooking. Uh, if there's other people around like I hate cooking just myself.
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Jack
Yeah, me too. I hate like it's still. There's nothing lonelier than frying. Like one egg, you know?
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Jack
What I mean, it's just like what's?
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Xochitl
Oh my God. Wow. We're like.
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Jack
What's wrong with my life? You.
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Jack
Know when you yeah.
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Xochitl
I know it's just and we have no one to eat with and it's like just different thing. So if I'm alone, a lot of the times, they'll just end up ordering food like Uber eats or whatever. And but if there's even just one other person with me, I'm happy to cook.
00:02:04
Jack
Yeah.
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Jack
Oh, nice, yeah.
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Xochitl
Other chores that I do like wash the dishes, do my laundry.
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Xochitl
Ah, sweep mop.
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Jack
Is is there one that like, really irks you? That just drives you crazy, that you really hate.
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Xochitl
I don't.
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Xochitl
OK, I don't like sleeping and mopping because it makes my back hurt, which is like weird, but I don't know why, but my back really hurts. Whenever I like sweep and mop, so I don't like that. I don't like getting.
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Jack
Ah.
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Xochitl
Even though I don't mind sleeping in mopping, it's just the fact that my back always hurts. It like really annoys me and I don't like. Yeah, I don't like.
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Jack
It's yeah.
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Xochitl
Doing the dishes I used to really like doing the dishes when I was a kid, and now I hate doing the dishes because it's like.
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Xochitl
Just the nasty food on it. Or like other people's mouths. It not it, grosses me.
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Jack
It reminds me of the like Reddit thread like kids are.
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Jack
Freaking stupid, you know, like a kid like kid kids are like, oh, man, I wish I were old enough to mature enough to wash the dishes, you know? And they kind of trick you into doing it, you know? Yeah.
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Xochitl
Alright.
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Xochitl
I know. And you think it's fun and then you're like, you become an adult and you have to do the dishes every day. And the kitchen is never clean. And every time you cook something, the kitchen is dirty again. And then it just makes me want to eat out all the time because then I don't have to do dishes. I don't have to clean my kitchen. I just, li

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss three idioms related to rain.
Transcript:
00:00:00
Jack
Hey, A is the English podcast listeners. It's Jack here and we just want to announce that we are now on WeChat. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast that is A-Z English podcast, one word all lowercase.
00:00:17
Jack
And if you.
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Jack
Join the group. You will be able to talk with me. You'll be able to.
00:00:22
Jack
Talk with social.
00:00:23
Jack
And we can answer your questions. We can read your comments on the podcast. So we'd love for you to join us and be active in our we chat group. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast. Thanks. See you on the app.
00:00:51
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 in the Idiom Academy and we have 3 idioms social what is what's our first one?
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Xochitl
Our first idiom is it's raining cats and dogs.
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Jack
Oh yeah, sure.
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Xochitl
What does that mean, Jack?
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Jack
Well, it means that uh, cats and dogs are are just falling from the sky for some reason. No, what it means is that it's raining very, very hard out there outside.
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Jack
So we, you know it's it's it's kind of an old idiom cause I can just picture like my grandfather or my dad saying, you know, like we're going outside to go in the car and it's oh, it's raining cats and dogs out there, you know. So we.
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Xochitl
Yeah.
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Jack
It's it's, it's.
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Jack
One of the the dumbest like idiots like we have.
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Jack
But it's so.
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Xochitl
Yes, weird.
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Jack
Common like people use it still all the.
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Xochitl
Yeah, it's kind of not like it's a very nonsensical one. Like why? I don't know if it's just because, like, when it rained really hard you. I don't know what the etymology is, which means like the origin. I really like origin is I think it's just like the slamming sound, maybe of rain. It's like a cat.
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Xochitl
Fell from your roof or something on? I don't know, so.
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Xochitl
I'm not sure it's not.
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Jack
I mean it it it, yeah.
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Jack
You could just any two nouns could be like it's raining bowl bowling balls and toaster ovens. You know, like it it could be it. It makes as much sense as, you know, cats and dogs so.
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Xochitl
Right, yes.
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Xochitl
Yeah, but for some reason we we chose cats and dogs. So like this thing.
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발표자 3
Yeah.
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Jack
Yeah, we chose cats and dogs. We have to live.
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Jack
With it, yeah.
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Xochitl
It's pouring. It's pouring. So which brings us to our next idiom. When it rains, it pours. Jack what?
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Jack
Yeah.
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Xochitl
That means only rain.
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Jack
Ohh this one I I like this one because like it's like when you when you get a little bit busy you get really busy. You know it seems like like you you you'll you'll go like weeks without any anything and then all of a sudden you have 20 things that you have to do. You know it's like.
00:03:01
Jack
It just kind of, you know? Yeah, it's just like when it rains, it pours it a lot of rain comes, you know. But when there's nothing that nothing is happening.
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Xochitl
Right.
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Xochitl
When it rains, it pours. Or what's the other one? It can also mean when something bad.
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Xochitl
Happens that a lot of bad things happen, like let's say ohh you know I was. I was doing fine. Let's let's been fine. And then I broke my thumb and then my mom broke her leg and then we owe hospital bills and now?
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Xochitl
The hospital or out of our pain medication.
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Xochitl
Then and then my dad got in a car crash on his way.
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Xochitl
To.
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Xochitl
Pick us up. It's not a bad thing.
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Jack
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like, yeah, yeah.
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Xochitl
It's kind of how it is. It's like if I don't know if you ever noticed, it's like one bad thing happens and then a bunch of

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about their new venture in China with the creation of The A to Z English Corner.

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00:00:00
Jack
Hey, A is the English podcast listeners. It's Jack here and we just want to announce that we are now on WeChat. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast that is A-Z English podcast, one word all lowercase.
00:00:17
Jack
And if you.
00:00:18
Jack
Join the group. You will be able to talk with me. You'll be able to.
00:00:22
Jack
Talk with social.
00:00:23
Jack
And we can answer your questions. We can read your comments on the podcast. So we'd love for you to join us and be active in our we chat group. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast. Thanks. See you on the app.
00:00:51
Jack
Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I am here with my co-host social. And today we have a very special episode and today's episode is titled.
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Jack
The A to.
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Jack
Z English corner.
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Jack
And social, we have exciting news for our listeners out there. We are starting an English corner in China.
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Jack
And we'll be teaching.
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Jack
Every day, you know, five days a week.
00:01:21
Xochitl
Yeah, we're really excited about this. I want our listeners to know know that we're still going to be of.
00:01:27
Xochitl
1st at least three episodes a week of 8OZ, and the reasoning for making the English corner is of course we'll be able to interact more with our students and we want to be able to keep making content for you guys because it takes a lot of effort and it takes money and time and it's expensive ultimately for Jack and I.
00:01:47
Xochitl
To run the A-Z podcast. So yeah, this is an opportunity to benefit everyone and I'm really looking forward to it. Of course, we'll always remain loyal to the A-Z English podcast, and we'll keep making content for you guys. Ah, 100% free of charge.
00:02:02
Jack
Right. We're never going to you.
00:02:02
Xochitl
And.
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Jack
You never have to pay for the podcast.
00:02:06
Xochitl
Yeah, never abandoned you for the podcast.
00:02:08
Jack
Yeah, and. And the for the English corner, the 1st 10 classes are free. So you can, you know, you get to really take it for a test ride and see if you like it. You know, like you can, you can go to 10 classes for free if it's, if you enjoy it.
00:02:28
Jack
Then you will become you. You will move on to VIP status for we we settled on 80 RMB a month.
00:02:38
Jack
OK, which is about $10 a month. US ten U.S. dollars per month, but for $10 you're getting 20 classes.
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Jack
You know, Monday through Friday.
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Jack
Every every week, Monday through Friday 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM for so 9:00 in the evening in in China.
00:03:03
Jack
And I don't know what you know. I'm not good at math, but $10.00 for 20 classes. What does that come down to $0.50 a class?
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Xochitl
Yeah, something like that.
00:03:14
Jack
OK, OK. Yeah.
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Jack
Yeah. I mean, in the in the, in the real world, you know, one hour with a A.
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Jack
Native English speaker.
00:03:25
Jack
Is probably about five times that much you know about 50 bucks an hour, something like that, you know.
00:03:32
Xochitl
Right, that'd be 10 times as much as $0.50. Well, right per class. OK, I'm not strong mathematician, so that's why we keep.
00:03:39
Jack
Sorry. Yeah, now we're.
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Jack
We're we're we're mapping poorly here again.
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Xochitl
That's that's why weird language teachers and.
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Jack
Hi.
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Xochitl
So yeah, I know I'm very excited about this. I'm looking forw

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss minimal pairs. They focus on the /p/ and /b/ sounds.
Minimal pairs are pairs of words that differ by only one phoneme and have different meanings. Here are some minimal pairs with the sounds /b/ and /p/:

bat / pat
ball / Paul
bin / pin
bark / park
bat / pat
ban / pan
bet / pet
bake / pake
best / pest
bow / pow
buy / pie
big / pig
boat / coat
back / pack
beach / peach

These minimal pairs illustrate how a single phoneme change can result in completely different words and meanings. The /b/ and /p/ sounds are distinguished primarily by their voicing: /b/ is voiced, while /p/ is voiceless.

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As easy as pie - Very easy
"The exam was as easy as pie."

As stubborn as a mule - Very stubborn
"He's as stubborn as a mule and won't listen to reason

As strong as an ox - Very strong
"After years of weightlifting, he's as strong as an ox."

As white as snow - Very white
"Her dress was as white as snow."

As sharp as a tack - Very sharp or smart
"She's as sharp as a tack, always quick with a witty response."

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Point At
Meaning: To direct someone's attention to something by extending a finger or other object towards it.
Usage:
Example 1: "She pointed at the painting on the wall."
Example 2: "The teacher pointed at the map to show us where the country is located."

Point Out
Meaning: To bring something to someone's attention, often by mentioning or highlighting it.
Usage:
Example 1: "He pointed out the errors in the document."
Example 2: "I’d like to point out that we need to finish this project by Friday."

Pointed
Meaning (Adjective): Sharp or having a sharp end.
Usage:
Example 1: "The pencil has a pointed tip."
Meaning (Adjective - Figurative): Direct and often critical or indicating something explicitly.
Example 2: "She made a pointed remark about his tardiness."
Meaning (Past Tense Verb): Past tense of the verb "point."
Usage:

Example 1: "He pointed towards the exit."
Example 2: "She pointed at the star in the sky."
To summarize:

Point at: A physical gesture directing attention.
Point out: An action of indicating or highlighting information.
Pointed: Can describe a physical attribute (sharpness) or imply a direct/critical comment. As a verb, it is the past tense of "point."

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