Podcast Inglês Online

How’s it going? No episódio desta semana do podcast, eu comento as últimas da família real britânica. Se você é uma pessoa que não tem muito interesse nesse assunto, não se preocupe: eu também não. Mas o bafafá foi tanto por aqui no último mês que eu tinha que falar alguma coisa!

Ouça o meu resumo, pois ele tem tudo que você precisa saber. Enjoy, e passe pelo iTunes (ou a plataforma que você usa) e deixe uma review para o podcast – muita gente entra em contado comigo para dizer obrigado/a pelo pod, e essa é uma das melhores maneiras de agradecer :-) Adorei ler as mais recentes.

Nota: a imagem deste post é uma foto tirada por mim da capa da revista satírica Private Eye deste mês.

Hi! This is the new episode of the Inglês Online podcast. How are you doing? How have you been?

Today I thought I would talk about something that is kind of old news by now, and that is — everything that’s been going on with the royal family here in the UK. And let me tell you, I was never someone who was interested in royal news. I knew the very basic… You have the queen, Queen Elizabeth and then you have Charles and Andrew. Prince Andrew was involved in a scandal recently — he was friends with a pedophile and he gave this car crash of an interview that turned out to be worse than if he hadn’t done the interview.

I don’t know if you guys heard about it in Brazil, but then, more recently… Prince Harry and his wife Meghan decided to distance themselves from the royal family. And I mean… I’ve been living in the UK for six years now and I have the habit of… having a look at the newspapers — at least at the headlines sometimes — usually once a week. It was impossible to avoid. I ended up reading several articles about what was going on. I don’t know exactly what the Brazilian newspapers told you guys but here’s a summary of what I read.

Prince Harry is the son of the late Princess Diana, and Prince Charles. He’s the younger brother of William, who’s married to Kate. And Prince Harry, a couple years ago, I think… Got married to an American actress, Meghan Markle. She used to have a role in Suits, but she doesn’t anymore… She started dating Prince Harry and I think in less than a year they decided to get married. And they got married and it was a huge royal wedding… And then after a few months she got pregnant, she had a baby, and finally, a few weeks ago… They decided to tell the press that they were stepping back from the royal family and from the royal duties.

Being a royal in the UK is like having a full-time job. You represent the country in all kinds of official and governmental situations and events… And obviously you receive funding to do that, which comes from taxpayer money. But the thing that sparked a lot of controversy here in the UK is that… Number one: they released their announcement to the press before they had ironed out all the details with the queen, and… Most British people were not happy about that because actually they care a lot about respecting the queen, and people get really angry here if they think that their queen has been disrespected. That was the first thing.

And then the second thing that people didn’t seem to like very much was that their announcement to the press was kind of unclear. They said that they were stepping back from royal duties, but they kind of implied that they were going to keep some benefits like the really expensive mansion where they used to live — which obviously is also funded by taxpayer money…

That was a bit strange, and apparently the queen was very upset that their announcement went to the press first, before she and Harry, or she and Harry and Meghan had enough time to talk through all the details and agree on what kind of arrangement they were going to have.

Anyway, those were the two major points of discontent, I would say, for the British public… But now, apparently, they’re already in Canada… They’re living a new life. Let’s see what’s going to happen. I’m curious — what did the Brazilian press publish about that?

Let me know in the comments, and I hope you enjoyed hearing a little bit about the royals. Maybe you’re like me and you don’t really care… But since I live here, this is actually all I saw on the headlines for two or three weeks. I’m just sharing it a little bit!

Talk to you next time. Bye!

Vocabulary

a car crash of an interview = uma entrevista que foi um desastre

turned out = resultou, acabou em, revelou-se

the late Princess Diana = a falecida princesa Diana

have a role in Suits – ter um papel em Suits (Seriado Americano Suits ou Homens de terno)

talk through all the details = falar sobre, discutir todos os detalhes

stepping back = se afastando

royal duties = obrigações dos membros da família real

receive funding = recebe financiamento/verba

taxpayer money = dinheiro do contribuinte, da pessoa que paga impostos

spark controversy = causar controvérsia, polêmica

ironed out all the details = resolveu/acertou todos os detalhes

Hello!! How’s it going? Hoje eu falo sobre uma Uber ride que fiz recentemente no podcast, e aproveito essa historinha para ilustrar o idiom grab the bull by the horns… Uma expressão bem bacana e comum.

Obrigada a quem deixou as novas reviews no iTunes – é sempre muito gratificante saber que o podcast ajuda no aprendizado de novas expressões em particular, e do inglês no geral. :-)

Hello, how are you doing? This is Ana and I’m back with another episode of the Inglês Online podcast – our second episode of 2020!

Have you listened to the first one? If you haven’t, go back and listen. Better yet, go back and look at our archive of episodes and download them all… I mean, these are five-minute long English bites that you can have throughout the day… A little bit every day. Why not? By now, we have a huge archive with hundreds and hundreds of episodes and the great thing is… I try not to repeat any idioms – I always try to center the episode around an idiom, or a couple of idioms, that I haven’t really examined before… or I haven’t really explained before to you guys. It’s always a different theme.

All right. Now back to today’s episode: today I’m going to tell you about a recent Uber trip that I had – because the Uber driver told me… He talked about something that’s really interesting to me, which is, how he learned English. And that story is going to be a good illustration of this idiom, grab the bull by the horns or take the bull by the horns.

Picture a bull. Now picture its horns. Now imagine yourself grabbing that bull by the horns. I think you can get an idea of what the idiom means. You have a challenging situation in front of you, or a difficult situation, and you face it head-on… And you solve a problem, or you go through that difficult situation and come out (on) the other side, but… In any case, whatever the challenging situation is, you are facing it, you’re not running away. You’re grabbing the bull by the horns.

This Uber driver… He was very chatty so I started asking him How long have you been working with Uber? Do you always work in this area? What’s the traffic like today? You know. And I noticed that he spoke really good English but he had a slight accent. I could tell that he had learned British English, but he had a slight accent and then I asked him Where are you from? And how did you learn English? And he said: Well, I’m from Iran and I’ve been here in the UK for 10 years, and… When I moved to the UK I spoke exactly zero English.

And this is a guy – he’s probably close to 40 years old – it’s not like he moved here when he was a child. When he said to me I learned it on my own. And I could hear his English – very good English… Obviously I was curious, as I always am, so I asked him What did you do to learn English? And he said Well, I spent some time studying grammar, studying vocabulary… but most of all, I used to just watch TV and pay attention to what people were saying and just try to repeat it. And, you guys, you probably know that his native language… I think it’s called farsi. It’s one of those languages that has nothing to do with English. This guy was really learning a completely different thing, a completely different language from scratch. It was, for him… It was a language that didn’t make any sense – he couldn’t make any connections with his native language.

He said he just persisted by watching TV and just listening to the sounds that people were saying and he was probably, as he watched… I imagine that he was making that connection: these are the sounds these people are saying, and this is what they’re doing. That sound must have something to do with what they just did right now… Let’s say they’re at a restaurant and this woman is talking to the waitress. OK, so that means she’s ordering something… something like that.

But I just found it amazing and I’m not telling this story because I’m going to advise you to do the same, necessarily. I wouldn’t advise you to just spend hours and hours in front of a TV show watching people talk if your comprehension is nearly zero. I think there are more productive ways for you to acquire English, for you to listen to English… but what really struck me about this guy was his motivation.

And then I asked him You were really, really motivated right? He answered Oh… absolutely. I was very, very motivated, because for me… Moving into a new land and not being able to communicate, not being able to speak the language — that would be really hard for me personally because… Because of his personality. He’s a guy who likes to talk to everyone so it would be very hard for him to go to places and keep gesturing, and trying to make people understand what he wants just using his hands. He was really, really motivated.

So… here’s a motivating story. He wasn’t a teenager, he wasn’t a child when he moved. I sometimes get emails saying Hey, am I too old to learn English? Is it too difficult now? Well… if you want to, nope! It’s not! Our brains are the same, sometimes we have a few more mental barriers that we pick up along the way, but the truth is… It’s possible for everyone. I think the Uber driver grabbed the bull by the horns, that’s what I think he did. And he conquered it.

That’s it for today! Speak soon – bye.

Key expressions

Vocabulary

face it head-on = enfrentar ou encarar de cabeça erguida/de frente

come out the other side = conseguir superar algo, sair de uma adversidade ou dificuldade

chatty = pessoa que gosta de conversar muito

on my own = sozinho, por conta própria

from scratch = do zero, a partir da estaca zero

but what really struck me = mas o que realmente me impressionou/surpreendeu

Hi, there! How have you been?

Veja/ouça no episódio de hoje um idiom super especial: of all people! No Brasil, expressamos essa ideia dizendo Justo você vem me dizer que não posso fazer tal coisa – e também pode valer para Olha quem fala! Ouça o episódio para entender o que eu quero dizer – se é que você já não conhece essa expressãozinha….

Quem é que não tem um exemplo de situação onde poderia ter dito algo assim? Pois é, é comum em qualquer língua. Enjoy.

Hello, how are you? Did you have a good end of 2019? How’s it going so far? Have you rested? Did you go traveling? Anyway, the Inglês Online podcast is back and this is our first episode of 2020.

I’m very happy to be back and for our first episode this year, I have chosen a really great expression. Really nice idiom, and if you read the title of this episode you know which idiom I’m talking about – and you know that in Portuguese that expression will change, depending on who we’re talking about. I know that some people don’t like it when I speak Portuguese in these episodes, but sometimes I just think that it’s helpful and this is one of those times.

For example, in Portuguese we say: justo você or justo ela, justo a Maria. In English, the corresponding expression is always the same – it doesn’t change. In English we can say: of all people, of all people. Let me give you an example: let’s say you go shopping with a friend… Let’s say your friend’s name is Tom. You and Tom go shopping and… Let’s say you’re a girl. You’re shopping for clothes. Let’s say you have to buy a dress and you go to the shopping mall… and Tom is really patient. You go to shop after shop after shop and you try on a load of dresses.

Every single time, you go into a shop and you have a look at their selection of dresses, and you pick out the ones that you like and then, obviously, you talk to the shop clerk, or the shop attendant, and you ask that person Can I have these dresses in my size?

And when you get the dresses, you go into the fitting room and you try them on. You have your shoulder bag with you, you have your wallet in your shoulder bag… obviously! Because when you finally settle on a dress you will have to pay for it – when you buy it.

You and Tom have been looking at dresses for a couple of hours now and you finally find a dress that you love. You have just tried it on… It looks great on you… You asked Tom’s opinion and he complimented you – he said: Oh, you look great. Good! You’re happy.

When you go pay for the dress, however, you look in your bag and you can’t find the wallet. You realize that you must have left your wallet in one of the fitting rooms. Now you have to go back. You and Tom go back to all the shops to look for your wallet and Tom… is kind of giving you an earful. He’s saying How can you let this happen? You have to be mindful of your wallet. Your wallet has all your documents – it has all your credit cards! You always have to know where your wallet is, you have to keep checking your bag for your wallet. You have to make sure that your wallet is always in your bag!!

And you look at Tom and you say, Tom… Really? Of all people, you’re giving me a hard time, because I lost my wallet, really? I mean, you’ve been friends with Tom for a while, you know that he keeps misplacing his keys – and sometimes he loses his keys! In the past year alone you’ve heard Tom say  he misplaced his keys at least five times. He eventually found the keys but before he found them, he would always give you a call and say: Oh… you don’t know what happened, I misplaced my keys – I can’t find them! I hope I haven’t lost them.

I mean, of all people… Of all people Tom is now giving you a hard time because you can’t find your wallet and you probably left it at one of the shops. You cannot believe it. You look at him and… Tom, seriously, of all people – of all people you are giving me a hard time.

Basically, that’s it! I mean, when you use this expression – of all people – that’s exactly what you’re saying. Of everyone that could give me a hard time, you are the one who’s giving me a hard time…? You should not be giving me a hard time, you should not be saying anything because you have done the exact same thing.

Of all people, you are telling me that? You are scolding me? No, no, no, no, no. I can think of several situations where I could have said that. Can you think of something, and can you leave your example in the comments? I would love to hear or, actually, read your example in the comments. Please think of the last time that you felt like saying that to someone – or maybe that you actually said that to someone: Of all people, you are telling me that I shouldn’t have done this?

All right! Talk to you soon. Bye!

Key expressions

Vocabulary

try on = experimentar ou provar

a load of = um monte

pick out = escolher

shop clerk = Atendente, Funcionário da loja

fitting room = provador

settle on something = resolver, decidir ou concordar sobre algo

he complimented you = ele elogiou você

giving you an earful = te dando um sermão

misplace something = colocar algo em um lugar diferente do lugar onde você geralmente coloca (por exemplo – porque você se distraiu. Não significa necessariamente que você perdeu aquilo)

give someone a hard time = pegar no pé de alguém, repreender

You are scolding me…? = Você está me dando uma bronca…?

Hi. What’s up? No episódio de hoje, falo um pouco sobre como foi o ano de 2019 aqui no Inglês Online, assim como o que vem por aí. Enjoy!

Hello, listener. How are you? This is the new episode of our podcast. Thank you to everyone who has left a review! If you’re a listener – if you are especially a regular listener of the Inglês Online podcast and if you can spare a minute or two, please head over to the Podcasts app on your iPhone or Android phone and leave a review. I really appreciate it. Thank you!

So this is the last episode for 2019. The podcast is coming back in January – the plan is first week of January but before we wrap 2019, I just wanted to say that this has been a special year. First of all, because I relaunched our Curso Básico, and you guys… It’s better than ever. I’ve had a great group -people are making a lot of progress in their English and we will have the pre-intermediate coming up… And obviously new groups for the Curso Básico, which is the first module, right? It’s really the elementary level.

And before I launched the course earlier this year, I made a series of three video classes teaching you a bit of English. Do you remember the classes? Did you watch them? I talked a lot about the ‘possessive pronouns’ hers, theirs and mine. And anyone who watched those classes got a lot of exposure to those.

These little words are some of my absolute favourite things to teach because I know that people go through years and years of English so-called ‘learning’, and they come out of it not knowing these words, let alone speaking them naturally.

I love teaching all those little words that sort of appear here and there in English lessons when you are going to English school and doing a course. But they’re never… you never hear them enough if you’re doing only the English classes. If all your exposure to English comes from going to English classes twice a week, you never get enough exposure to really absorb these little words. That’s why I really enjoy focusing on them, because I know that people listening to these classes and watching these classes are going to get a lot out of it.

Anyway, I hope you had the chance to catch those video classes while they were still up on the website and I hope you’ve continued to listen to English. I guess you have – if you’re listening to this podcast right now. And by the way, our podcast has come back full force this year, after a break. I’m doing it in a different way now: before, I used to write the podcast and prepare, and revise before I recorded it…

Whereas now, I’m doing it in much more of a… impromptu way, that is – just sort of winging it. It’s not true that I wing it a hundred percent of the time. Sometimes I scribble down some thoughts before I record the episode but overall it’s a lot more spontaneous than it used to be. As a result, I think the speed has been going up and down. Sometimes I talk a bit more slowly but there have been times where I talked a lot faster. You let me know what you think – you let me know if you think I’m talking too fast or if the speed is okay for you.

One other really cool thing this year is.. our collection of basic English tips has expanded like crazy . Actually it has been expanding for the past few years thanks to the amazing work of professor Marcelo, who’s part of the Inglês Online team. I know this is the podcast, I know that you’re probably not a basic English learner anymore, but hey – if you’d like to have a review about basic vocabulary just head over to the Inglês Básico section of the website and you’ll see some pretty cool tips. And most of them have audio as well.

This is it you guys. Just wanted to do a little recap and let you guys know that the podcast is coming back early January… And thank you all for listening and for sharing, and for letting me know what you think, and for leaving reviews. (I) Wish you a great end of the year, a very Merry Christmas and see you soon. Bye!

Vocabulary

spare a minute = separar/reservar um minuto

so-called = assim chamado, chamado, denominado

let alone = muito menos, sem falar

impromptu = de improviso

winging it = improvisando

scribble down = fazer um rascunho, rabisco (note a semelhança da palavra scribble com ‘escrever’ e ‘escriba’, por exemplo!)

How have you been? No podcast Inglês Online de hoje, falo sobre os serviços de entrega online, os chamados delivery services – nome que também usamos no Brasil. Enjoy…

Hello, everyone, what is up? How have you been? I’d like to start by thanking everyone who has left a new review for the podcast in the past couple of weeks. Thank you very much! It’s much appreciated. And I’d like to ask you – if you’ve been a listener for a while and you enjoy the podcast, please leave a review either on Apple Podcasts or iTunes or if you’re a Google Podcasts listener, that’s great too. Thanks.

Today I was looking at this website that we have here in the UK, called ‘Deliveroo’, deliveroo.co.uk… because that’s how the URLs go here in the UK. In American websites you have .com – and in the UK you have .co.uk. This is the most famous service, I guess, or delivery service aggregator, I would say, in the UK. And this is a website where you register, or you sign up, and depending on where you live you have a choice of lots and lots of different restaurants.

It’s very easy, obviously, it makes it very practical, because you look at the list of restaurants and they are categorized by cuisine or type of food. And you can look at their menu and choose whatever you want, and then you pay on the spot using your credit card. And then, because you have already signed up, the website has your address. All you have to do is click ‘go’ or ‘pay’ and when you finish your payment, you just wait until the delivery person gets to your place with your order. It’s super, super simple and I know that in Brazil there are a few services that do that as well.

But here in the UK… I’ve been living here for six years and Deliveroo… I think Deliveroo is relatively new because I don’t remember seeing this or hearing about it four years ago. Now there’s Deliveroo and there’s ‘Uber eats’ as well, which is connected to Uber somehow. I’ve never used it, I don’t think, but Deliveroo… I use it all the time and it’s really good.

And the thing that I love about it is that not only you don’t have to deal with cash, which is the same as Uber… With Deliveroo you just use your credit card and once you place your order, it’s done. And the second thing that I love about it is that they tell you exactly where the restaurant is at, in terms of progress in preparing your order. You can see if the restaurant is still cooking your food or when they’re done… And then this little app on the website tells you “Now the delivery person has just picked up your order”, “They just left the restaurant, they’re heading over to your place”

And then they show you a map. And it’s this dynamic map that actually shows the delivery person moving on the streets. It’s pretty cool – you know exactly how far or how close they are… it’s pretty cool It’s very, very convenient and it makes it really easy.

Tell me what it’s like in Brazil, because I know that there are similar services in Brazil. I think there’s a website called – ifood.com.br – I don’t know if that’s just for São Paulo or if it’s present in other cities as well. I don’t know.

I’m looking here at a page from Deliveroo which is for this restaurant called – Gourmet Burger Kitchen – which has pretty nice hamburgers… and I’ve ordered from them in the past, They always have meal deals – I mean, if you go to McDonald’s you know what a meal deal is, probably… It’s when you buy three things: you buy a burger, you buy a side order of potato chips – which is what we call them in the UK; in the US you would say french fries – and then you order a beverage and you get a discount. That’s a meal deal.

And then they show me my recent orders, they show the specials of the day and then beef, chicken, veggie and vegan… They have a section with veggie and vegan burgers, which is cool, obviously, if you’re a vegan person. I mean, good for you! Then they have the kids section with smaller burgers, fries and sides, sauces, milkshakes, soft drinks and beer… Of course.

This website is amazing. It’s got all kinds of restaurants, (it’s) pretty convenient… A lot of choice. I guess the downside is that it’s so easy that you kind of run the risk of getting a bit lazy and sort of not cooking from scratch every day, even if you have the time.

What do you think? Give me your opinion, let me know. Tell me in the comments and talk to you next time.

Key expressions

Vocabulary

service aggregator = serviços agregados

pay on the spot = pagar na hora, no local, imediatamente

picked up your order = pegou o seu pedido, encomenda

downside = desvantagem ou aspecto negativo de algo

run the risk = correr o risco

cooking from scratch = preparar a comida você mesmo

How’s it going? Hoje falo sobre aquela famosa expressão – tanto em inglês quanto em português… o benefício da dúvida. Alguém já falou isso para você? Ouça o episódio de hoje para se familiarizar com este idiom.

Hi, guys, how’s it going? This is Ana with the Inglês Online podcast.

I wanted to thank everyone who left a review for the podcast recently, thank you so much… and wanted to ask you guys: if you’ve been listener for a while, if you enjoy the podcast please head over to iTunes or the Apple store or the Podcasts app on your iPhone and leave a review for the podcast. And if you use Google podcasts please do the same. It really helps the podcast become… you know, better known and more people will get to listen to it, because they’ll see the reviews and be interested. If you leave a nice review, that is!

Let’s just get to it and start the new episode. Today I wanted to talk about this expression or idiom, or whatever you want to call it, which is the benefit of the doubt. We use the same expression in Portuguese with the same words and here at Inglês Online we published an article, an English tip featuring this expression a while ago… But I thought this expression is popular enough… It’s common enough that it deserves a podcast episode, so here it is.

The benefit of the doubt. When do you give someone the benefit of the doubt? It’s usually… it’s usually when you don’t know them very well, I would say. Because if you know someone very well… you know if they’re telling the truth or not. Generally you know if someone is telling the truth or not when you know them very well. So if you don’t know someone very well, if your relationship with this person is not very close – it’s not a very close relationship, then something happens and you give them the benefit of the doubt. So, what kind of thing?

Let’s say you’re talking to your friend… your good friend, your good friend Jack. You guys have been friends for a while and Jack’s mate, whom you don’t know very well… Paul. Paul is there as well, Paul is listening to the conversation and you don’t know Paul very well. So you and Jack get to talking and you end up sharing with Jack that you’re planning a birthday party for your cousin, let’s say. The next day, your cousin Kelly gives you a ring and says: “Hey, I heard you’re planning my birthday party. That’s so cool”. And you know, there goes the surprise… There’s no surprise anymore.

She heard the news that you’re planning her surprise party. And you ask her “Who told you?”, and she says: “Ah… I’m not going to tell you, because I don’t want you to be mad at the person who told me. It’s okay, don’t worry”. But you know what, you are a bit mad, because when you were talking the only person you told about this was Jack and inadvertently you also told Paul, because you forgot that Paul was right there, you were talking to your friend Jack and you told Jack that you were planning Kelly’s surprise party.

But you know that Paul heard you. So now you’re thinking… it has to be Paul! Because, I mean, Jack is my buddy, Jack has been my friend for years, he would never do that, he knows to keep a secret, he knows it’s my secret, he would never go and tell Kelly. It has to have been Paul.

You talk to Jack, and Jack says: “Hey, no, it can’t be Paul, he’s such a good keeper of secrets, he would never do that and also he doesn’t know your cousin”. And you say: “Ok, well… I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt”. Meaning you’re not sure that it wasn’t him, but you’re also not sure that it was him. Since you don’t know this person very well, OK… “I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt”. You’re still going to talk to Paul, maybe you’ll become friends… You know, you’re not sure one way or another. You’re giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Now, this is an expression that if you say to a friend of yours or someone that is close to you… “I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt” – it sounds slightly aggressive in my opinion. Because basically you’re telling this person that you don’t trust them. You’re telling them that you’re not sure if they’re telling you the truth, so… Don’t say this expression lightly to someone unless you don’t really care what they’re going to think. Because if it’s someone that you know, if it’s a friend or family member, again… basically you’re telling them “I don’t really trust you”.

That’s it for today. Let me know in the comments if you have ever said the benefit of the doubt either in Portuguese or in English and talk to you next time.

Key expressions

Vocabulary

get to talking = começa/inicia uma conversa

end up = “acabar” no sentido de terminar fazendo algo que você não estava necessariamente planejando fazer

inadvertently = sem querer, inadvertidamente

say something lightly = dizer algo de forma inconsequente ou sem levar muito a sério, na brincadeira

Clique para ler a dica Benefit of the doubt

What’s up? No podcast de hoje, falo sobre reservar um voo. Enjoy :-)

Hi, everyone, how’s it going? Is it boiling in Brazil yet? Here in my neck of the woods it’s getting colder and wetter every day. Sorry, I didn’t mean to brag…

Anyway, I thought that having a look at one of these booking websites where you can search and find your flight would be a good idea. There’s some interesting vocabulary involved – let’s dive right into it.

The website I’m looking at has kind of a funny name: Momondo. I’m looking at it right now and… What does it look like? At the top you have sort of search form where you enter the airport you’re departing from. And then you enter the other airport where your flight is supposed to arrive. You enter first the three-letter code for the departure airport – let’s say you’re departing from… if it’s an international flight, maybe you’re departing from Guarulhos, which is GRU.

Or if you want to go somewhere, I don’t know, in Brazil and you’re departing from São Paulo, you’re going to enter CGH which is the three-letter code for Congonhas, then you enter the dates. The date (when) you’re going to depart, and then if it’s a round trip you’re going to enter your return date as well… Or maybe you’re just looking at a one-way ticket and then you only enter one date, which is the departure date.

Then you hit Search and when you look at the results you, obviously see a list of flights. Several options from several different airlines, and you’ll be able to see the dates – usually it will be the dates that you entered. You’ll be able to see, for each flight, how many stops, how long each stop takes… The time of the flight, and then you have some options: either you’ll see a few direct flights, which are usually more expensive, and you will see some flights with one, or two, or sometimes even three stops.

There are some flights that – with all the stops – take, sometimes, over 24 hours. If you want to save some money maybe that’s the flight you choose. And then, when I scroll down on the search results, I see multiple different airlines. I see some traditional ones like TAP, which is a Portuguese one, KLM, which is a Dutch one, British Airways… And then on the left side of the search results there’s the sidebar with additional options.

Right on the top you have… almost at the top, you have the option of, I guess, narrowing down your search by number of cabin bags, or checked bags that you want to take, and also the payment method. What is a cabin bag? That’s… that’s also known as a carry-on bag. That’s sort of, that smaller bag – when you board the plane you take it with you, and you sort of put it in the overhead compartment above your seat. Or, if that is full, you kind of tuck it away under the seat in front of you. Usually the flight attendants will help you with that. That’s the cabin bag or carry-on bag.

And then you also usually have a checked bag, depending on… if it’s a budget flight, sometimes you have to pay quite a bit of money to be able to take a checked bag with you, and for other flights, longer flights… It’s included in the price. You can take a checked bag with you, which is actually that larger bag. It’s that large suitcase where you put all your clothes. If you’re traveling for a month, you’ll probably need a large suitcase. You stuff all your clothes in there, and your toiletries, and your shoes and whatever else you want to take with you.

That’s the larger bag and obviously you can’t board the plane with that bag. You have to get to the airport with some time in advance and check that bag. And then scrolling down a bit further, I find that there are some options for “flight quality”: you can choose “show Wi-Fi flights only”, “show flights with multiple tickets for booking”, “show red-eyes”.

This is an interesting expression. A red-eye flight is any flight departing late at night and arriving early the next morning. That’s why it’s called red eye:  if you don’t fall asleep during the flight, you’ll probably get to your destination with red eyes.

Ok, you guys, after you choose your flights, after you select your flights, it’s pretty simple, usually. You hit Book and then you’re taken to the payment processor… and then you usually have to type in all your information and  buy your ticket. Let me know which online booking services you use for booking flights – kind of curious!

Talk to you next time. Bye!

Key expressions

Vocabulary

I didn’t mean to brag = não foi minha intenção contar vantagem

neck of the woods = região ou área especifica onde você mora

narrow down = restringir ou limitar

you tuck it away = você guarda, coloca (alguma coisa) em um lugar seguro ou protegido

toiletries = produtos de higiene pessoal

How’s it going? No podcast de hoje, falo sobre entrega de pizza (ou qualquer outra comida). Enjoy :-)

Hello! Hi, how are you? How have you been? What’s up? This is Ana Luiza with another episode of the Inglês Online Podcast. Very happy to announce that we have finally straightened out the situation with the podcast feed on the Podcasts app for iOS. You can now subscribe to this podcast on your iPhone or on your iPad using the Podcasts app… Very happy about that –  everything working…

And by the way, I’d like to ask you: if you’ve been a listener to this podcast for a while (or maybe even a recent listener), please head over to the Podcasts app and leave a review for this podcast – an honest review obviously… But I would really appreciate that. And if you listen on your Android phone or on Spotify, or Stitcher, wherever, please leave a review as well. I would really appreciate that – thank you guys.

This week I’m talking about delivery, food delivery. And this is because a podcast listener sent me an email a couple of weeks ago and asked me “Ana, can you do a podcast about food delivery? What’s the vocabulary involved?” So… cool! How do we start? Let’s say you’re home, and you’re hungry and obviously you don’t want to go out. You feel a bit lazy or maybe… I don’t know, it’s Sunday night and you’re kind of winding down, getting ready for Monday. Let’s order in, let’s say you say to your… whatever… your husband or wife or your friend, your roommate, let’s order in. “How about we order in instead of going out to eat? Let’s order in, let’s order some pizza”.

You go online, maybe you have their… their printed menus, the menus from the pizza place. Or maybe you don’t. You go online, you find them online, you go to their website and you see their delivery menu… or their takeout menu. You have a look – let’s say this is you and your roommate. Let’s say you’re in college and you share a flat with your roommate. You guys have a look at the online menu… “What are we ordering?”

Let’s say, pineapple and turkey or just mozzarella with a bit of tomato sauce. You’ve decided on what you want, you grab your phone, you dial the number and you call the pizza place. The person at the pizza place… answers your call and you say: Hi, hi, I’d like to place an order, please. It can be as simple as that: you want to place an order for delivery… Or you could say: I’d like to order a pizza. And then that person will usually ask you: Is this delivery or takeout? Because usually places that do delivery… food places that deliver – they also do takeout.

What is takeout? That’s when you go over to the food place – to the restaurant! And you order the food that you want but, instead of sitting down at one of the tables and enjoying your meal there, you take it out. They make your food, they wrap it up, you pay for it and then you take it home with you. The person taking your order will probably ask you: Is this delivery or takeout? And then you say: well… it’s for delivery. And then they will say: Do we have your address? Or, “What is your address, please?” Or “Can I have your address, please?”

And you tell them your address and then that person will ask: What would you like? And then you tell them: I’d like the mozzarella with tomato sauce or turkey and pineapple. Half and half, let’s say. And then the person taking the call will make a note and they will tell you what your total is, or you can ask them: How much is it? What’s the total? And they will tell you: Your total is… let’s say eight dollars fifty, $8,50. And you can ask them: How long will that be? Meaning: how long will it take for you to make my pizza and bring it over to me, and they can say: “Well… that’ll be 15 to 20 minutes”.

And then you could ask them: “Do you take cash? Can I pay the delivery person? Or should I use my credit card and pay now over the phone?” And they will tell you: “Oh… we don’t take cash, because it’s a bit risky for the delivery person. If you could please pay with your credit card right now – I’m going to take your credit card number over the phone and the delivery person will hand you the receipt”… which is the proof of payment – the proof that you paid.

Basically I think these are some of the most common sentences or questions that would be involved in placing a delivery order. I hope this has been helpful – let me know and speak to you soon!

Key expressions

Vocabulary

straightened out the situation = resolveu a situação

winding down = relaxando, acalmando

dial the number = discar/digitar o número

they wrap it up = eles embrulham

hand you the receipt = entrega a você o recibo

Neste episódio eu peço a você que me escreva ou deixe um comentário abaixo se estiver com problema para assinar o feed do Podcast Inglês Online. Pra que a gente entenda o que está acontecendo, é sempre útil saber qual app e sistema você está usando (exemplo: app “Podcasts” no iPhone).

E é claro que eu dou essa mensagem em inglês no formato de episódio do pod – afinal, listening nunca é demais e qualquer coisa é desculpa para mais um episódio :-) Enjoy!

Hi, everyone, how’s it going? This is an extraordinary edition, or episode, of the podcast Inglês Online, just because I wanted to talk to you guys about something that’s going on with the podcast.

I have been getting a few messages from listeners that… They’re having a hard time subscribing to the podcast, but I didn’t get a lot of detail yet. A couple of people just left a couple of reviews on my podcast saying that they’re not able to subscribe and that’s fine… But I would like to ask you — if you’re a listener and you’re trying to subscribe to the podcast, and you’re getting an error message saying that the feed cannot be found or something isn’t working… Please send me an email at analuiza @ inglesonline.com.br and let me know exactly what’s going on, including which app you’re using okay and if it’s Android or iOS.

For example: “I’m trying to use the app “Podcasts” on my iPhone or on my iPad and it’s not working” or “I’m using Android, I’m using the app XYZ and I’m getting this error message”. If you can send me a screenshot of the error message you’re getting — that’s even better. That’s going to be super useful for me to troubleshoot. I have been aware that there’s been… that there’s a bit of a problem with the feed of the podcast for a little while. I’ve gotten in touch with a couple of people but unfortunately I haven’t been successful in finding someone who can help me fix this issue yet.

I think this week I should be able to find someone to work on this and finally fix the feed. I would ask you — just a little bit more patience and if you can do what I said that would be excellent: if you’re having trouble subscribing to the podcast, just let me know which app you’re using, which system… If it’s Android or iOS, or if you’re doing it directly on iTunes. Although I don’t think you’re going to have a problem with iTunes —  because I just tested it and it’s working fine. And then if you can send me a screenshot — that’s really helpful as well.

This is our podcast for today. I thought I’d record this message so it’s just one more thing for you guys to listen to. We don’t have the transcript for this one yet… Professor Marcelo is going to take care of that tomorrow… But there you go.

You guys — I hope you’re enjoying your Sunday and let me know if you’re having any issues with the podcast. Speak to you soon. Bye.

How are you? No podcast Inglês Online de hoje eu falo sobre comida e dietas low-carb. Qual é a sua comfort food? Pense nisso ouvindo o podcast. Enjoy :-)

Hi, you guys, how are you doing? How’s everything going? This is Ana with another episode of the Inglês Online podcast.

Today I want to talk a little bit about food or, more specifically, about diets. Not as in dieting necessarily to lose weight, but diet as in… What you eat every day or what you normally eat for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner. I’m going to tell you something that I think not many of you know about me. I was a vegetarian for the longest time… Years and years and years. I would sometimes eat a piece of fish, but no meat, no chicken, no nothing for years. I am going to be honest with you: I loved it, I really enjoyed it, I really didn’t miss meat and, to be honest with you, I had a great time being a vegetarian.

But here’s what happened. I just thought that I was missing the protein. One day I just kind of thought about it and realized that I was beginning to feel a bit weak, and I thought it was about the protein. It’s a bit hard when you’re a vegetarian to get enough protein if you want to get outside of dairy…

Because, yeah, I was a vegetarian so I used to eat dairy, like eggs and cheese and milk… But there’s only so much cheese that I can eat and there’s only so many eggs that I can eat and so much milk that I can drink. And so at one point, I kind of got tired of having dairy as my main source of protein and I didn’t really know what to do. Like I said, I really enjoyed being a vegetarian, but I slowly kind of got back to eating a bit of meat here and there, and right now I’m eating a bit of chicken and even a bit of beef.

What I’m doing right now is I’m trying the low-carb style of eating: a low-carb diet. And I’m finding it kind of interesting, because the food… I like the food involved and I’m wondering if you know anything about the low-carb diet, or if you follow a specific diet, or a strict diet. I don’t know, or what are the foods that you eat? Or, if you you’re one of those people who just eats anything and everything — whatever you feel like eating! What is it?

And here’s the expression I wanted to sort of talk about today which is comfort food, and that’s what made me think about all of this because when I was a vegetarian it was kind of easy to find comfort foods. Really easy to find a lot of good food that doesn’t have meat in it, but now that I’m beginning again on low-carb, because I already did it in the past… But I’m kind of beginning it again. What are the comfort foods for a low-carb diet?

First of all, I think you understand what comfort food is, right? It’s basically food that gives you comfort. Traditionally a tub of ice cream would be comfort food. A bag of cookies would be comfort food, chicken soup – if you’re feeling a bit sick, if you’re a bit under the weather, if you’re  sneezing… You would like to stay home at night and, you know, watch a good movie and have a bowl of chicken soup and that would make you feel better.

That’s comfort food as well – not necessarily the most nutritious kind of food usually, but it is food that makes you feel good when you are a bit down or maybe when you’re a bit sick.

Now I’m thinking about the low-carb diet, and I’m thinking –  what kind of comfort food can we have with low-carb? Maybe… what? Nuts? Walnuts and peanuts, and hazelnuts, I don’t know… maybe that’s it. Maybe nuts, maybe olives…. I mean, bread is out, cookies are out. Any kind of product that comes from wheat or that uses any kind of wheat flour as an ingredient… That’s out.

Maybe it’s still possible to make chicken soup in a low-carb diet. I don’t know. What do you think? Give me your tips, and for those of you who don’t know… I’m just assuming that everyone knows what low-carb is. But, actually, if you don’t know what a low-carb diet is: it’s this diet where you really limit the intake of carbohydrates and you up the intake of fat. To put it simply: usually it’s a lot of meat, some vegetables… Dairy is usually okay, but stuff like bread and pasta and sweets – that’s all out.

Let me know what your favorite kinds of comfort food are and if you have any tips for comfort food in a low-carb diet. Let me know!

Thanks! Talk to you soon, bye.

Key expressions

Vocabulary

lose weight = perder peso, emagrecer

dairy = laticínio

there’s only so much… that I can eat = tem uma hora que não dá mais para comer…

tub of ice cream = pote de sorvete

under the weather = doente, indisposto, não estar se sentindo bem

intake = consumo ou ingestão de algo

to put it simply = em poucas palavras, em resumo, para simplificar