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00:00A fantastic hobby, a fantastic experience, it's a really good talent that you can put in practice so as to, well, you know, so as to improve certain aspects of music, you know, music sometimes is difficult because there are so many interesting aspects about music, and one of them is that you can actually read music with different notation, you know, with different symbols that you can find
00:27in music, you know, and sometimes it's confusing, you know, sometimes it's confusing to read, but it's interesting, excellent, very good, so who else we have here, we have Carlos and Adele, good evening, welcome, can you hear me?
00:47Good evening, teacher, welcome, welcome there, let me, okay, fantastic, let me configure this thing a little bit, there we go, okay, so we have this on screen, from this website, Wanderlust Rainbow Grilled Cheese Experience, you know, that's,
01:10sounds strange, however, there are some new services in, like, in, in malls or in supermarkets where you can actually find food and, and to have fun at the same time, you know, because you can access to different arcade games or video games while you are consuming your, your meal or your food, you know, so that's, those are fantastic services that some places, that some places have,
01:37however, however, it is worth saying that, uh, many of these places offer, uh, some sort of very strange foods, you know, some sort of, uh, strange dishes that you can find there, and for some reason, people actually love going to these places,
01:56you know, so I remember that, one day I had the opportunity to see a restaurant where you could actually buy, uh, Greek food, you know, but at the same time, you could see, as, as you may know, Greek food is mainly seafood, you know, it's mainly fish,
02:14uh, some sort of ceviche, some sort of, uh, uh, uh, octopus, and so on, you know, which vegetables and rice, it's very delicious, however, the experience of this restaurant, it was close to the ocean, in massive land, if I'm not mistaken,
02:30and the experience of this restaurant is, that you could actually see, with your own eyes, how they fish the, uh, the fish from the ocean, you know, directly from the ocean, from, for you to eat,
02:42and to be able to, to enjoy this, uh, type of, uh, personal experience in this restaurant, where you could actually see how they fish the, the, the product,
02:55the fish, the fish, the fish, basically, or way, or where they caught the fish, and eventually they, they prepared it, you know, they made it for, for consuming, for the clients,
03:08and that was the experience, you know, or in, like, for example, in the sushi bars, in a sushi bars, you can actually see how, how there are some, uh, chefs,
03:19and some people, that actually show you how they make the, how they make the, the, um, the sushi, you know, and for some people, it's quite, uh, interesting to see this experience,
03:34and, or to see this process, because it's a new experience to them, because they are, they are really curious, especially on how to see how sushi is made,
03:44and a lot of people goes, a lot of people go through this experience, you know, I've seen a lot of people that, they really love to see how their food is prepared,
03:54mostly because sometimes people have this kind of, um, um, they feel uncomfortable, or unconfident, when they go to a restaurant,
04:04because they say, I don't know if they follow the correct hygiene process, or I don't know if the food is completely cleaned, you know,
04:13or I don't know if the food is completely fresh, and, and, uh, appropriate to consume, but, uh, uh, but a lot of people,
04:24for this reason, like to, to see how their food is prepared, you know, so in this case, we have this reading,
04:32so there we are, uh, good evening, everyone, there we are with Alondra and Nathalie, too, you know, let's continue, you know,
04:39struggling here with our English, you know, remember that it is really important that you get confidence in the pronunciation,
04:46and understanding meaning, so today, as we wrote in the preview, when I sent you the link, is that we have a reading session,
04:54so as to review our vocabulary, and to see what are the aspects that we need to improve, you know, uh,
05:01please give me one second, I'll be right back, so there we are, here we continue, so yeah, we were saying that,
05:07that, uh, well, some people feel fascinated for experiencing new types of food, and, uh, trying new dishes, and new recipes,
05:18so it's something fantastic, you know, I find gastronomy fascinating, however, I'm not very, uh, keen to it,
05:25I'm not very knowledgeable about it, however, it's a fascinating topic, that, uh, where we can actually find, uh, new vocabulary,
05:34and new words, to incorporate to our, uh, vocabulary, right, so let's check it out, where we have a video about this topic, too,
05:43so we have number, uh, well, sorry, eight weirdest travel foods around the world, so weird, weird is like strange,
05:52you know, we're just like strange, but whenever you add the EST, the EST, remember that this is a suffix,
06:03you know, and a suffix means that you have different words, you have different words in English to modify your adjective,
06:14so in this case, the EST suffix is to create the superlative form, as you may already know, you know,
06:21so eight weirdest travel foods around the world, but in English, you can find very, uh, good suffixes,
06:29that are very useful to, uh, improve your vocabulary, you know, so we're gonna, we're gonna study some suffixes,
06:39let me, let me show you just a little bit about this, uh, give me one second, so we can
06:45open some worksheet to show you, some worksheet here to show you, so that, um, for example, the
06:55suffix for the adverbs, that is usually L-Y, you know, like, for example, with the word carefully,
07:01slowly, you know, carelessly, and so on, so that, um, there are so many, there are so many interesting
07:10suffixes that we can use in English, let me show you a little bit here, where is the, um, the screen, here we go,
07:22here we go here, so there we go there, you know, suffixes, so you know, a suffix is,
07:29a suffix is, uh, an addition, an addition, or a key, let's say, a key section that you can actually
07:44add to a formal word, you know, I mean, to a formal word, for example, whenever you have, uh, careful,
07:52careful, it's an adjective, you know, careful, it's an adjective, so in Spanish, it means when you have
07:57to be careful when you are at risk of doing something, and you have to be careful with
08:02that activity, or with that, uh, action, or with that, uh, I don't know, with that, uh, thing,
08:07whatever, uh, you're doing in that moment, you know, so careful, and, uh, the suffix, it's, uh,
08:14L-Y, you know, so when you add carefully, when you add carefully with the suffix, you have a new word,
08:23that it's an adverb, you know, and carefully is to describe an action, so for example, let's say,
08:31let's say, there's a lot of snow outside, try to be careful, try to be careful when you drive,
08:41you know, and then you have, when you add the suffix L-Y, you have carefully, so in that case,
08:49you would have the example as, for example, um, drive carefully, drive carefully to work,
08:58or drive carefully to the office, as I've heard that, that a blizzard, that a blizzard is coming,
09:08you know, that a blizzard is coming, so a blizzard is like a snowstorm, you know, that, uh, there's a
09:16lot of snow, like rain, you know, or something like that, but with, uh, with snow, you know,
09:21so it's a lot more intense, a lot more harsh, and, obviously, a lot more dangerous in that,
09:28in that case, you know, so drive carefully to work, as I've heard that a blizzard is coming
09:35later on, you know, or, or later, or tonight, I don't know, so, so carefully describe the action,
09:42as we can see here, with a drive, you know, so let's, uh, green color right there, you know,
09:50and the adjective describes the, uh, the person, or the object, in this case, uh, you are the one
09:56that has to, to, to try to be careful, you know, so, because you may have an accident, that, as there's
10:03a lot of snow outside, you know, so it's important for you to be, to be careful, so, as you can see,
10:09it's, it's really, it's really simple to, like, to see, uh, all these suffixes that we have here,
10:15and we can find a lot more, you know, we can find a lot, a lot more, uh, for example, when you have,
10:25when you have the Berkship, when you have the Berkship, the, to ship something is, for example,
10:30when you are trading, when you're trading merchandise with other countries, or when you want to send a
10:38package to another place, so you have to ship that, uh, container, or that, uh, package to somewhere
10:45else, you know, so it's a ship, hmm, so it's really common in, in, um, in boats and ships that are
10:52coming from China, or from the United States, or from Europe, and they are actually trading sort of
10:56merchandise, for example, in these very famous platforms that we have these days, such as Timu,
11:02and, uh, what's the other one, Amazon, and so on, you know, that's to ship, so to ship, to ship a
11:08package, to ship, uh, a merchandise, to ship, um, I don't know, any type of merchandise that you can
11:16actually find, you know, something that you bought, something that you would like to sell, something
11:21that you would like to trade with somebody else across the ocean, or in another country, you can use
11:26the word ship, for example, for example, when we say, I'm going to ship, I'm going to ship all of these
11:36packages across the Atlantic Ocean, you know, across the Atlantic Ocean, so that you are sending those
11:44packages, and these packages are headed to another country, or to another continent, you know, so as
11:52you can see, it's, uh, it's a very useful, uh, useful verb, so this one is, it's a verb, so this one
11:59is a verb, but if you add a suffix here, and the suffix is, the suffix is going to be, it's going to be
12:06meant, right, so when you have shipment, shipment, shipment becomes a noun, you know, so based on the
12:15simple word, you have two new words, you know, you have two new possibilities that you can use, and that's
12:21fantastic, because that leads you to know, and to learn more vocabulary, for example, you could
12:27actually say, there is a shipment coming from China to Los Angeles, you know, we expected, we expected
12:40it since two weeks ago, it's two weeks ago, you know, so a shipment, so in this case, shipment, it's
12:49a noun, you know, so that's, that's a, uh, a short example of what suffixes are, and why they are very
12:58useful, you know, we have many, there are many suffixes in English that we will be studying a lot more,
13:04so that we can improve our vocabulary, but here the important thing is, like, to identify how you can
13:11modify a word by simply using a suffix, you know, for example here, there is a shipment coming from
13:20China to Los Angeles, we expected it since two weeks ago, sometimes we may have confusions with
13:27this structure here, let me highlight it in yellow color, sometimes we may have some confusions right
13:35there as we say, well, with since, since is to describe specific dates, you know, for example,
13:44we can say, I'm an English teacher since, uh, 2010, or since 2011, uh, or I work and, uh, English for
13:54you since, uh, October 2021, you know, we use since to exact or specific dates, and we use, um, for, for
14:05periods of time, you know, I have worked in this company for five years, or I have been studying
14:13English for one year, or I have been learning French for two years, but in this case, you have the
14:21possibility to use since with periods of times, but you have to use the word ago, you know, so ago is to
14:33make that function, you know, to describe that you are establishing an exact point in time that occurred
14:42in the past, you know, so we expected it since two weeks ago, you know, so remember, that's important,
14:50that's important, we cannot use the word since, we cannot use the word since with periods of time,
14:57as we have here, which is two weeks, that's a period of time, it's not an exact date, if we don't have
15:04a go, you know, for example, if I forget to add a go here, that may be wrong, you know, that, that's
15:11going to be wrong, so we have to be careful with that, because two weeks, it's a period of time,
15:17and since is for specific dates, but whenever you add a go to that phrase, the example is going to be
15:24correct, because you are establishing a starting point in the past, in this case, we expected it
15:31since two weeks ago, or we waited for it since two weeks ago, you know, so that's just a small
15:38detail to remember right there, so there we go, so that's a small introduction to what suffixes are,
15:46we have, we have many, you know, we have many, for example, let's see a quick example here of another
15:52one, which is very useful, let me remove this one, so for example, here we have the suffix less,
16:00less, you know, less, remember that less, it's also the, like, to contrast the form of the quantifier,
16:12or the determiner, more, you know, which is also an adjective, so more, so less is the opposite,
16:20right, but in this case, less is going to be used as a suffix, so let me, the word less can be used as
16:34a suffix to describe the contrary meaning for, for an adjective that expresses something,
16:45something positive, something positive, or that shows a quantity, for example, right, for example,
16:57here, let me select this, so we can, for example, in this case, we know that careful, we know that careful,
17:07actually full is a suffix too, because we have cur, which is to take care, to take care when you go
17:14outside, you know, take care in the amusement park, take care in the zoo, take care at the office,
17:22I don't know, take care in the factory, if you are, if you are doing a very risky activity, for example,
17:30you know, but in this case, you can say careful by adding the suffix full,
17:42and you have an adjective to describe a person, so we can say, my brother is always careful,
17:49my brother is always careful, before going out of play, or whenever he goes out of play,
17:57we can add, we can actually add the other one, even, it makes more sense, whenever, whenever he goes out
18:04of play, my brother is always careful, whenever he goes out of play, so that's, that's, that's a good one,
18:12you know, and when you add less, when you add this one, you have the word careless, careless,
18:22so you have the opposite, right, so you have the opposite, for example,
18:26my brother, my brother, my brother and sister are, are always so careless, are always so careless,
18:36they went to the forest, they went to the forest last week, and, and Johnny, Johnny is supposed to be my
18:46brother, right, and Johnny, and Johnny got, got bitten by a poisonous snake, for example, you know,
18:57and Johnny got bitten by a poisonous snake, so that's careless, you know, which is the, the opposite to,
19:04to careful, you know, so that's how, how suffixes are, are used generally, of course, we'll,
19:12we'll have more of these, we'll have more of these with, uh, with our, with our consecutive lessons
19:19that we have, you know, so that we can, we can see more vocabulary, we can see a little bit more of,
19:28of how these words actually function, and how do they work, you know, so, but it's really useful,
19:35it's really useful to use them, and we have many, you know, we have many, um,
19:40suffixes, and even prefixes, to use, to use, uh, in English, for example, the prefix is,
19:50it's put behind, uh, it's put before the word, you know, for example, if you have,
19:55if you have, for example, we have, uh, conscious, conscious, uh, a person that is rational, that is,
20:03uh, thoughtful, that is conscious about his or her actions, you know, a responsible one,
20:11but you have the contrary one, which is unconscious, you know, un-con-, unconscious,
20:17an unconscious person, an unconscious individual, so, as you can see here, by simply adding a prefix,
20:25this one is an example of using a prefix, you know, a prefix helps you to find a new adjective,
20:33so those, those are keywords, you know, those are key structures that can help you to find,
20:39to find, uh, new words that you can use in the, uh, simultaneous conversation,
20:45simultaneous conversations, and, uh, you can make use of them at any, at any moment, because
20:51these are very common, you know, everyone uses prefixes and suffixes, so that's, uh,
21:00that's very necessary in English, you know, and it helps you greatly, so right there,
21:05we have an example, and here is what we can actually see in our, in our, where are we,
21:13in our screen, right here, you know, the weirdest travel, eight weirdest travel foods around the
21:22world, so we have, when you travel for, when you travel far and wide, you come across the strangest
21:30foods, I've been a lot of countries, I've been to a lot of countries, and even though I'm a vegetarian,
21:37I see some weird stuff passing around the table, let's check out seven of the weirdest travel foods
21:44around the world, so that we have an introduction, right, that we have an introduction, for example,
21:49like, uh, you can see these types of food, for example, we, we have the perception that we can
21:54only see these types of foods in Thailand, or in Japan, or in China, perhaps, because some country
22:00seems quite distant to us, you know, but we can actually find these options in our very country,
22:06as well, because for some foreigners, let's say, for a person that's coming from Sweden, or from Russia
22:11to visit Mexico, and suddenly finds a restaurant, where they're actually selling grass hoopers,
22:16you know, as a snack, so that may actually seem quite odd, and strange, and weird for them,
22:22so that's, uh, it depends on the point of view, you know, it depends on the, on the, uh, point of
22:27view that a person has, to judge some food, or some, uh, dish as weird, unusual, or strange, you know,
22:38for example, tacos may seem something very normal for us, you know, may seem something very, uh, usual,
22:44very normal, very, uh, traditional, or sometimes even artistic, at some point, but for something
22:52coming from Sweden, or from Japan, perhaps, or from, uh, where could, where else could tacos be strange,
23:01well, I don't know, you know, I mean, tacos are very famous, you know, even in other countries, but,
23:06but for some people, tacos may be a strange food, you know, I mean, I don't know, someone from Pakistan,
23:11you know, or from, from India, that they don't actually, they actually don't eat, uh, cows, and all
23:17that, you know, because for them, it's a sacred animal, but, um, but what about for us? For us,
23:24it's something very common, you know, or someone from, coming from an African country, like, uh,
23:30Zimbabwe or Botswana, tacos may be something really strange, you know, however, for us, tacos is something
23:37very common, and distinctive, and cultural, and artistic, in our country, and our, uh, culture,
23:44you know, so that's, that's another point, uh, to which we have to pay attention, right? So we have
23:50a number one here, number one, we're gonna read number one, to see what kind of new words can we
23:55find here, right? What kind of new vocabulary can we find here, so that we can discuss a little bit,
24:01and we can interact a little bit more with these types of readings, you know, that are kind of, uh,
24:06uh, kind of useful to practice here, so in this case, chicken feet in Hong Kong, China, which is, uh,
24:16you know, it's, it's not like, uh, uh, like a chicken leg, you know, it's not, it's not like that,
24:25it's, it's the feet, the feet of the chicken, actually, you know, uh,
24:30uh, it's not a wing, you know, it's not a breast, but it's, uh, the feet, so that's, uh, very strange
24:39for us, well, at least, you know? The first day, I arrived in Hong Kong. These lovely, uh, chicken
24:46feet were served at my table of dim sum. The guy next to me there and ate a few. He told me the next
24:54day that he has spent most of the night on the toilet. In China, this is an absolute delicacy.
25:02They're fried and served hot or cold as a snack before dinner. To me, it was one of the most
25:09disgusting things I had ever seen, you know, so that we have. So, and Nathalie, could you repeat
25:15the reading of this one so we can practice a little bit with our pronunciation, please?
25:19Yes, teacher. Chicken feet in Hong Kong, China. The first day I arrived in Hong Kong,
25:31these lovely chicken feet were served at my table of dim sum. The guy next to me there and ate a few.
25:41He told me the next day that he spent most of the night on the toilet. In China, this is an absolute
25:48delicacy. They are fried and served hot or cold as a snack before dinner. To me, it was one of the
25:57most disgusting things I had seen. I had ever seen, right? So, there we have the present perfect going
26:05on right there. So, what do you think, right? I mean, this is really strange to see here as
26:12it is a chicken feet. Check out the best places to stay in Hong Kong. Well, this is an advertisement.
26:18Okay. So, in this case, we have this phrase, I'm assuming a little bit, that says,
26:25the guy next to me dared and ate a few. So, Nathalie, what do you understand
26:32by this phrase? How would you describe that phrase? Like, to dare to do something. How do you describe that?
26:38Do you know? Well, maybe the guy next to this person was surprised by this dish and he didn't want to try it,
26:56but he had the courage to do it and dared to do it. Okay, excellent. Very good. Like, when you're trying to pretend
27:06that you're very brave, you know, could we say? That you're trying to be like, how can we say?
27:15Like, very, yeah, well, like brave, you know? Like, in order to do something that no one else want to do.
27:22So, that's the point. So, what do you think, Nathalie? Do you consider yourself
27:26a brave person and what is braveness to you? Braveness is the noun, you know? As we can see here,
27:33we're using a suffix to change the adjective, brave, by adding the suffix-ness. So, braveness,
27:43like, to create this new word, you know? So, braveness. So, what is braveness to you?
27:49What, how would you describe braveness and if you consider yourself a brave person? Because it
27:56could be something very, um, how can we say? Subjective, you know? Because, I mean,
28:03I could consider myself brave because I dared to take a ride on the roller coaster, you know?
28:07Whereas for some of the people that may not be so brave enough, but something rather silly. So,
28:13what do you think? Or jumping up the bungee, you know?
28:21Uh, well, I think braveness is to a person there or being able to do things they wouldn't usually do,
28:31like get out of their comfort zone. Because they, like, try to do the things that they most fear.
28:43Okay, excellent. Very good. To do the things that they fear the most. Perfect. That's good.
28:48So, now we have, he told me the next day that he spent most of the night on the toilet in China.
28:54This is an absolute delicacy. They're fried and served hot or cold as a snack before dinner.
29:02To me, it was one of the most disgusting things I had ever seen, you know? So, that's
29:07something really strange to see, something rather unusual.
29:11So, uh, Nathalie, did you ever see this dish before? Did you, uh, were you aware that this actually existed?
29:21What do you think?
29:23No, I haven't.
29:24It's really strange, huh? It's really strange. It's, uh, something that's,
29:29it's something that you wouldn't see so commonly in the market or in the supermarket or in a mall,
29:35not even in Chinese restaurants right here, you know? Not even in Chinese restaurants that you can
29:39actually find here in Mexico. Because usually, whenever you go to a Chinese restaurant,
29:44you can usually find, like, uh, what can you find? Like, rice, you know? Like, uh, noodles, like, uh,
29:51broccoli or, uh, or what's the other one? Seaweeds and, uh, chicken, you know, barbecue chicken and
29:57delicious things that you can actually eat. But nothing, nothing, uh, um, nothing like this,
30:04you know? I mean, this is very strange. Uh, I don't know. I think that these dishes are,
30:10uh, more, uh, a little bit more eccentric. I, I, I, I'm not aware if you actually go to a Chinese
30:16restaurant and, and if you, if you actually ask for this dish to be, uh, to be prepared,
30:24they could actually make it for you. I, I'm not really aware if this is possible. But, uh,
30:30but I assume that it is, you know? Because, uh, Chinese, Chinese citizens, Chinese people are very
30:37talented in, in the kitchen, you know? Very talented in, in cooking. They have, like, this,
30:44like, this particular, this particular gift, this particular notion to what cooking is,
30:51and they feel rather confident about their abilities, I may say, you know? Because, uh,
30:56they can cook and they can eat almost everything, you know? That's, that's actually where,
31:03where the, how do we say? That's actually where the COVID-19 came from, you know? Well,
31:09according to the official version, like, check it out, Chinese people eat, what is the name of the
31:16animal? Pangolin, Pangolin, and that became COVID-19, you know? That's, that's supposedly
31:26the, the, the official version here. Let's, let's check it out. So, this, this type of animal,
31:31you know? Apparently, in China, it's another type of the legacy here, which is,
31:37it's very similar to an armadillo, if it's, if I'm not mistaken, it's from the same very family of the
31:44armadillo, and, and, well, they, they, they, they used to cook it, you know? They used to eat it.
31:51Nothing further than reality. And, uh, it's actually an endangered species, so that means that cooking it,
31:58uh, could actually be considered something illegal. For some reason, it isn't. I don't know. China, it's,
32:06it's really, um, in a different stage compared to the, to the Western world, you know? So, they have
32:14their own laws, they have their own, uh, definitions of what, uh, of what, uh, appropriate and unappropriate is.
32:24So, and, uh, and it's difficult, you know? Because we are not, uh, we are not supposed to judge any,
32:32uh, of course, you know? But, uh, but it's something really strange, you know? It's something really
32:37strange that, that, uh, in China, they have, they have had these customs and traditions of cooking
32:47a strange species, and one of a sudden, we have a virus, a deadly virus, all spreaded all over the
32:53world, and for that reason, we may be struggling to this point, you know? Well, that was the official
32:58version was, right? Uh, so, personally, I don't believe about it, you know? I don't believe that's
33:04the way it is. We can have another discussion some other day about it, because it's something
33:08really interesting, really interesting too, but, uh, well, that's, that's the discussion, right?
33:14So, there we go. So, they have Chinese chicken feet served on my table. Awesome!
33:22So, in this case, we have Shirou no Odori Gui, dancing ice fish in Japan. So, Japanese names, uh,
33:29for, for food are quite complicated, you know? So, in this case, we have
33:34we have, we have for this one, right? Uh, Alontra? Alontra, are you there? Can you
33:40help me read this one, please? Number two, Shirou no Odori, Odori with dancing ice fish in Japan.
33:49Okay, um, a friend of mine traveled out Japan and came across the most amazing restaurant.
34:00The sushi is overflowing, flowing, and tastes richer than ever. He was willing to try everything
34:09and usually, he let the chips surprise him. It was when he stayed at a traditional fish house,
34:19when he was one of the weirdest, the weirdest, the weirdest travel boat he had ever tried, uh,
34:35I'm sorry, continue. Yeah, the idea is that you dipped. Okay, the idea is that you dip them into soya
34:58Okay, uh, um, okay so uh, in this case we have uh, well this one seems, uh, uh,
35:01completely different from China. Uh uh okay.
35:02The fish I like. The fish dance in your mouth, which explains that my friend tried, but told me he wouldn't do this again any time soon.
35:32Or worms, or, you know, but it's a type of fish. Actually, this is like the ones that are breed by toads and frogs, you know, which are called tadpoles.
35:53You know, a tadpole is like a larva that has come out of a neck, and you can actually see that process from toads and frogs, and sometimes from snakes too, you know.
36:10So, it's kind of strange. I wouldn't like to use the word disgusting here, because, well, it's a food, you know, so it's important to be, you know, like to be respectful with other sculptures and so on.
36:25But, certainly, it looks something as rather strange, you know, something that you wouldn't see in the supermarket so often, you know.
36:35It's not something that you would commonly like to have as a snack, so to speak, right? So, there we have it.
36:44So, as we can see, well, this is another strange dish coming directly from Japan.
36:51So, in this case, do we have another picture?
36:56So, it seems that it's combined with other food, you know, it's not like you're going to simply eat these kind of baby fish, you know, but you are going to mix it with some other types of food, which is fantastic, you know.
37:11So, I think that way it would be a more appropriate way, like to mix it a little bit more and to be, like to disguise the flavor, you know, a little bit better.
37:23So, I think that could be a possibility.
37:24But, still, it's not something very common, you know, perhaps you could be eating fish and vegetables and suddenly you get to this part of the dish and you say, oh my god, you know, I wouldn't like to eat this because I'm enjoying my fish or I'm enjoying my sushi or I'm enjoying my rice.
37:42So, I wouldn't like to mix it with these type of baby eels, you know, but I don't know, you know, it's something traditional.
37:50Actually, I found a video of this type of food, this type of fish that is actually, that is actually storaged in the, for a couple years in Japan, you know, and once they, once that 10 or 15 years have passed, they open up the container and the fish is still there.
38:10Apparently, they preserve it using salt and, I don't know what else they use to preserve it, but they do so and they serve this delicacy of raw fish and kind of a rotten fish for a very high price, you know, for a very high cost in different Japanese restaurants.
38:35I don't know if they actually sell it in other places in the world, you know, but we're going to see a little bit of that.
38:46So, in this case, we have a friend of mine traveled through Japan and came across the most amazing restaurants.
38:52The sushi is overflowing and tastes fresher than ever.
38:56He was willing to try everything and usually he let the chef surprise him.
39:01It was when he stayed at a traditional guest house when he will serve one of the weirdest travel foods he had ever tried.
39:09Shiro no odoriqui, small, almost transparent, fish that swan in a bowl of water.
39:16The idea is that you dip them into soy sauce and then eat them alive.
39:22Yes, alive.
39:23Yes, alive.
39:24The fish dance in your mouth, which explains the name.
39:29My friend tried it but told me he wouldn't do this again anytime soon.
39:35You know, that's as eccentric as it can get, you know, so that's the definition for it.
39:43That's the ideal definition that I think that it would fit a lot better, you know, as strange as it gets.
39:52So, in this case, we have this expression here, Alondra, you know, the sushi is overflowing and tastes fresher than ever.
40:02So, what do you understand by this phrase, what do you think?
40:11Like, what's, like, the meaning of that overflowing, you know?
40:29Alondra, are you still there?
40:32Yes, you too.
40:34Okay.
40:35What do you understand by that phrase, that is highlighted in green?
40:42I don't know what, but it's a better form.
40:49Okay.
40:50Okay.
40:51But, all, all, basically, um, like, uh, pressure, uh, pressure, uh, but...
41:17That's kind of a strange definition, right?
41:19Yeah.
41:20Right there.
41:21Okay.
41:22So, well, in this case, overflowing is like, uh, whenever you have, let's say, like, a stream
41:27of water.
41:28It's like, for example, when you have, uh, when you have the, let's say, like, the Niagara Falls,
41:34you know, when you have a stream of water, a source of water that it's overflowing and that
41:40it's, uh, filling a particular place or a particular container.
41:45So, there's a lot of that liquid or of that quantity overflowing in the, um, the place.
41:53So, in this case, the sushi is overflowing.
41:56It means that sushi is everywhere in Japan.
42:00You know, that you can find sushi everywhere.
42:03Sushi is available wherever you go.
42:06You can find it in sushi bars.
42:08You can find it in, uh, yeah, well, mainly in sushi bars.
42:12You can find it in, uh, let's say, in, in restaurants.
42:18You can find it, uh, everywhere, mainly, you know?
42:21I mean, sushi is like tacos here, you know?
42:24Or, like, gorditas or, like, uh, uh, what's the other one?
42:28Like, uh, uh, yeah, well, you know, traditional dish here, like, pozole.
42:34I mean, you can find it everywhere, you know?
42:36So, that's whenever you go, you are gonna find sushi.
42:39So, the sushi is overflowing.
42:41So, overflowing means that in the restaurants, sushi is prepared in the massive quantities, you
42:50know?
42:51So, that's, uh, which is very common.
42:53I mean, sushi has become widely popular.
42:55Personally, personally, I'm not a big fan of sushi, you know?
43:00I, I tried it, like, a couple times, uh, but I, I, I didn't find what's, what's special
43:09about it, you know?
43:10I mean, it's good.
43:11It's, it's fresh.
43:12It's delicious.
43:13It's light.
43:14Especially if you're trying to find a new diet to, to be more, to be healthier.
43:19And, uh, because it doesn't contain so much, uh, fat, you know?
43:23It doesn't contain so much fat.
43:25It's really light.
43:26It's something really fresh that you can eat, that you can even cook in different ways,
43:31by adding, uh, crab, or, or fish, or salmon, or sometimes tuna.
43:38Uh, I don't know.
43:39There are so many, uh, different ways in which you can prepare, even by adding simply, uh,
43:44by adding, um, vegetables, you know?
43:48By adding, by simply adding vegetables.
43:50And, uh, well, that's a great advantage for some people that are trying to, to find for
43:55a better, for a better diet.
43:57So, it's a good option, but I never found, uh, that delicious.
44:02Perhaps that's a problem, you know?
44:04Perhaps that's a problem.
44:05That Japanese food is not supposed to be so, uh, exaggerated, uh, in regards of, uh, flavor.
44:14So, they are trying to preserve a more natural and healthy flavor to their dishes, so that
44:20they can stay healthier.
44:22And that's something which is very, um, which is very, um, characteristic from, uh, Japanese
44:31society.
44:32Because in Japan, people are very thin.
44:36Uh, not to say skinny, you know?
44:39Because they're very thin, but healthy, you know?
44:42It's not like they're thin because they don't have food or because they don't eat.
44:46No, it's the contrary thing.
44:47I mean, they eat.
44:48They have a lot of food.
44:50And they have an excellent diet.
44:52And a lot of discipline while eating.
44:54But, uh, their food does not contain so many artificial additives as Western food may
45:01have.
45:02And, um, and their food is mainly fresh and, and, and with a low fat, um, with a low fat, um,
45:12with a low fat index.
45:13You know?
45:14With a low fat, uh, percentage.
45:16So, that's, uh, the key for them to have these, these very appropriate diet.
45:21And one of the main reasons for which they seem rather young, uh, thin, and, uh, of course,
45:28healthy.
45:29You know?
45:30And which is a model that other countries are trying to copy.
45:33Uh, which, of course, is complicated because, for example, our food in Mexico, I think the
45:39Mexican food is a lot better than Japanese food.
45:42It's way a lot better than Japanese food.
45:45And, uh, but the problem is that it contains more fat because it's more delicious, right?
45:51It's more delicious.
45:52It's more, we add more sauce and we add fat and we add, uh, uh, uh, spicy food.
45:58You know?
45:59We have so, so many delicious dishes here in Mexico.
46:04But, uh, I think that Japanese food, the intention of Japanese food is not to be particularly,
46:11uh, delicious, you know?
46:13Like, in a very exaggerated way.
46:16So, that's, uh, that's the point there.
46:20That's good.
46:21So, there we have it.
46:22So, do you have any questions so far with the vocabulary that we're starting here with
46:26any of the, uh, terminologies, uh, that we have here?
46:30Everything is good.
46:37Okay, well, that's, there we go.
46:42So, we're gonna see what else.
46:44We have, uh, let's read the last one really fast so that we can continue tomorrow as we
46:49have another class in a couple minutes.
46:51So, we have number three.
46:52Wechutti grub, Australia.
46:54When I backpacked through Australia, I was offered this nutritious travel food that the
47:00aboriginals eat as a snack.
47:03Wechutti grubs are basically fatty larvae, who you may recognize from The Lion King.
47:08You know?
47:09Like, you know?
47:10Remember The Lion King?
47:11That's a fun movie.
47:12When Simba meets Timon and Pumbaa.
47:14Anyway, I was walking through the outback and my tour guide dare me to eat one if we found
47:21them.
47:22I said yes.
47:23Thank God we didn't find any.
47:26You know?
47:27So, this is very strange.
47:28So, yeah, literally is The Lion King in live action, you know?
47:32In real life.
47:34Because, well, the idea of Wechutti grub is to eat worms, to eat larvae, you know?
47:40I don't know.
47:41I'm not really sure how healthy could that be because, I mean, worms are an excellent source
47:53of protein and vitamins, if I'm not mistaken, but it's also very dangerous, you know?
48:00Because they contain, they could contain many different bacteria.
48:03So, yeah, that's a problem.
48:06Hmm.
48:07Okay, so that's gonna be the session for today.
48:10I'm gonna send you this reading so that we can continue practicing tomorrow and learning
48:16a little bit more about suffixes.
48:18Do you have any other questions so far?
48:21No?
48:22Okay.
48:23Excellent.
48:24Very good.
48:25So, we continue tomorrow.
48:29I hope that you have a good night.
48:30I will send you the reading and the recording in a couple minutes, right?
48:34So, have a good night.
48:35Bye-bye.
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