 Welcome everybody. Well those few of you who are here now and hopefully more people will join us. I am Liz Wade and this is Adam Navas. Hey everybody. Whatever side he's on. I am on your right but sometimes the screen switches things. Yes that way. Okay and Adam Navas over here and we are here with a live show where we will answer your questions. We're gonna talk about programs that are coming up, programs that we have had this week and the last month. Yeah and really just talk with you. So if you have a question please write it in the comments. What else? Oh I love shoutouts. I love well I love to shout out. Different countries right because we always see that people join us from all over the world and so if you want to say hi to us put your name in the comments and where you're from say hi to us and we'll call you out back. So Adam did I miss anything? I think I'm ready to roll the intro. I think you did everything. Oh that little intro video it did it reminds me of a simpler time when we could be together. Did I startle you? See now I'm all embarrassed and my face is turning red. I'm trying to see where I can see the comments too. Yeah. So I was trying to like turn that on and I thought that I had I thought that I had turned off the sound of my computer but apparently I had not. Well we've got a few people joining us. I want to give some shoutouts to let's see we got Kawabin. He says hi. Daniel Danieli. My name is Riki. I am from Israel. Hello. Oh Zadon is there. It says nice to see you again. If you've joined us in the past you know that this program fits within the spotlight world. We have our regular spotlight program which you can listen to on YouTube or wherever you get your podcast or follow along on our website. We have our advanced program and then we have this program. What did I miss? Oh our conversation program our new program where Liz and I talk about some details that are not that we haven't been able to include. Did I miss anything Liz? Okay I'm having a lot of technical difficulties over here. Okay. Well you seem like you're fine. Well I'm trying to turn on the comments so that I can see them but then all of a sudden it starts playing like everybody's like really loud so. Oh okay well we have a lot of people have joined us. We have people from Vietnam. We have people let's see. Oh. Nyeong says my English name is Karen. Well that's fun. Yeah we've never asked people if they had to pick an English name. That's a good point because you know when I have taken language classes in the past I have picked a you know a German name or a Spanish name. I guess I didn't ever pick a Spanish name. Do you remember any of them? Yeah for sure do. Okay so tell me tell me Pete. When I took French. My German name was Ursula. Ursula. Okay when I took French I was Raul. Oh. Or Raul. Yeah see because there's not really an Elizabeth in the same way. I mean there's Elizabeth I guess. But yeah so and it's fun to choose a new name. So yeah that is a good question Adam. Like what is your what is your English name if you have chosen one? Yeah. We got Tato says what awesome people it's always good to see you. Did you already do that shout out? No I haven't done many shout out. Oh Adam while we okay so speaking of social media we have had maybe you have noticed a well not you Adam I'm sure you've noticed but I'm talking to people out here maybe you have noticed that we have like we've had a facelift. We have had some big changes on our social media with some new pictures and new name actually I mean not our program is a new name but a new handle so you can just search for spotlight ESL and find us there and we you can find us on Twitter and Instagram and of course YouTube and Facebook but all of those things have new pictures. Yeah no we're very excited to kind of get a you know sometimes you look around and you you just need to to change things and update things in your house or your home and that's what we that's what we did so we've got some nice what easy ways to identify that you're in the right place. Oh we have a we have an English question. Shia asks and this you can answer this Liz okay what's the meaning of I'm putting my foot down. Well okay so I don't actually know where this came from you know this is an idiom and usually an idiom will come from some historical thing but putting your foot down means that you're not gonna change your opinion or your your stance on something your opinion or your or what you already said about something so if I don't know my guess would be it has something to do with breaking a car or a vehicle that would be you think so yeah putting your foot all the way down you're stopping you're not doing anything more. I just agree I think it would have something to do with like your stance like actually standing like oh you're not walking I'm going to like plant myself here so that I can do this thing. Oh yeah. No but I was gonna use it in an example so like let's say we're deciding where to go for dinner Adam. Yeah I want to go to Italian restaurant and you want to go to an Italian restaurant and I want tacos and I say Adam I'm putting my foot down we're going to tacos and then that would be the end of discussion. End of discussion yeah. I also wanted to point out something that we have new in the YouTube chat and that is supers so you can highlight your comment if you want by clicking on this little there's like a little sort of dollar sign at the bottom and if you pay a small amount of money your your chat will be featured at the top and we will be answering it right away so if you feel like using that that thing it's just something new we have that you can support spotlight English with by a little bit or make sure that we hear you and that we answer your question so yeah that's pretty cool because we have a hard time getting to all all your questions. Yes yeah you know and so this is a this is a way for your question to be featured right at the top. So for example Vipul Saini asks the I think I think they're asking the phrase give up on something what does it mean to give up on something. That's a hard thing because I think it's a hard idiom because to give of course is to like take something of your own and like give it and make it someone else's right so if I give something to you but give up doesn't have anything to do with giving so to give up means that you're not gonna do it anymore you're gonna stop what you're doing. Yeah you give up yeah you stop trying I'm trying to think of how it would make more sense but it yeah it basically means you stop doing something. Uh-huh. Yeah. Let's see I okay so Imran says hi there I'm your I'm with your content it is wonderful but I have a concern on the length of the content is it possible to reduce it to short so this is something we have actually we have actually thought about for a long time and because we talk about things that are so complicated usually we need that time right to describe things and talk about issues so we do have a short form program it's called the word of the day and we used to do that more in the past in the last couple years but we haven't been able to do that or we haven't done that in the last year or so but there are there are a lot of word of the day playlists that you can go through and then even check out the program that that comes from. Yeah we know that a lot of the people who are maybe watching this or watch spots like follow along with spotlight are also you know watching other YouTube channels about trying to learn English or improve their life and some of that content is shorter but we really we really think that what we do well is to engage those larger subjects and make we think ultimately you're going to be more interested in learning English if you're also learning about the world so that's that's why it is the length it is we of course we of course want to offer you everything that will help you yeah but sometimes we have to make choices. We have Musso says morning I'm Gustavo and then Beppa says I study English very hard and I never give up so that's great and Hua says never give up so that of course is a great way to use give up right never give up. Hua actually has a question a little she's I think it's I think it's a woman anyway watching on Facebook says what's the difference between do you have time and do you have the time and so I would say do you have time would mean are you able to meet with me or help me do you have 60 minutes to watch a spotlight live or do you have do you 60 minutes well I'm giving an example and do you have the time could mean the same thing but it also means do you know like on your watch do you know what time of day it is yeah that's true I think do you have the time might be of like a kind of a formal way to ask what time is it yes do you yeah it depends if it's just do you have do you have time kind of yeah it can mean the same thing you know sometimes Liz and I try to explain things and it forces us to realize that English is a big big mess and you guys are amazing for trying to understand it yeah I do often think that like I have said I've studied Spanish before and Spanish follows just it just follows the rules I mean there are irregular verbs or whatever and there must be that that in every language except maybe Esperanto but English there's no there's no rhyme or reason I remember teaching my son to read and telling him that I gh makes no sound like in the word light right so you'd read it like no it's light and why is that that's so weird I know it doesn't it doesn't there's no consistency sometimes there's some phrases that can mean the opposite but actually mean the same thing you could say it's all downhill and mean oh it's easy going that we're just going it's it's all downhill or you can mean like downhill from here and mean everything is terrible yeah you mean everything it can only get worse right and I don't understand why it means this the same thing can mean the opposite meaning yeah okay so Ivan or even says you always tell about the application for Android and Apple in the end of each video but I cannot find it so here is how you can find it we do have a link like if you look on YouTube there are links that are at the top in the heading and you can click there and I just uploaded those yesterday so I know they are right and then the other thing you can do is you can go on to our website at spotlight English calm and you can find a link to our app there or you can look for spotlight English in the app store but make sure you get our official one because there are people who have stolen our content and tried to post it and we do we do try to track them down but we haven't been able to catch everyone and I want to say hello and thank you to Imran Khan Pathan who says thank you so much Adam and Liz thank you so much you are our first on Super's user I am so excited about it you guys don't understand how like Liz is actually just super excited right now it just made my day so that is so amazing thank you so much for your support for our work here and our channel and all of us so yeah so Moa Q I apologize again we should say that every time when we miss your names ask where can you find the transcript to these programs there's a transcript on our website which is spotlight English calm if you have a particular program or a playlist you're looking for all the words to follow along with the program are there and those the link to our website to that script to that program is on right in the description of either on on Facebook if you see our videos there it's in that program description and on YouTube if you see our videos there it's on that program description and you can just click right through to that link to our website and it will bring you to that script and but I do want to tell you about something really exciting that is also coming we get a lot of emails or messages about our old programs our archives that people want the PDF script to and just for numerous reasons it's we don't have all of our scripts on our website but people I'm gonna interrupt you yeah spotlight has been around for a long time longer than 20 years 20 years longer than 21 and podcasts it started as a radio program so we have many many programs that you have never heard yes yes and people who have listened to a program and just really love it or you know want to study it more closely and so they want the PDF but one of the things that we are going to start first of all I want to tell you we're not changing any of our content you will always get our classic program and our advanced program and our conversation program for free on our YouTube channel we are not changing that but if you would like a little extra we are going to start YouTube memberships probably this month and so one of the levels is that you can ask for a PDF script one time a month or three times a month or five times a month and you can get those PDF scripts to keep forever so maybe if that is the way that you study best and you want to support spotlight English that way and also get that benefit we will have levels where you can subscribe to our channel and get just those extra benefits for your English learning it's gonna be really an exciting thing and we're starting to develop new content additional content extra content however you want to call it that is going to be fun it's going to be kind of a glimpse into my life or Liz's life or or we've talked about doing a live spotlight program so you can see how we mess up when we when we do the voicing we think there's a lot of fun we could have and really help you take your English learning to the next level but also just be encouraged and have some fun mm-hmm yeah so that is an exciting thing you know we are we're just trying to make our program the best that it can be for you to serve you as people who are listening and learning English yeah so we so I'm really excited about that we did have a couple more questions that I'm all right you Nin Lee asks can you explain the word nonchalant and then asks is it is it a popular word do people use it well I'll answer the part is not a popular word I would say I would say it's a common enough word like if you used it someone would know what you meant but many people aren't using it no and honestly I think that I know what it means in context but I'm not sure I could describe it very well yeah nonchalant means very kind of like you don't something is easy you're not making a big deal about it so if I did if I did something jumped really high and and and Liz was super impressed and I was like oh that's no big deal it would be very nonchalant mm-hmm however I do not think the word chalant is a is a word yeah that's a good point because usually if you put non on something it would change the word or like it's a prefix yeah but it's not a prefix here it's just part of the word no and the word I'm guessing comes from French so if there's anyone here who speaks French and can say where the word nonchalant is she'll tell us yeah chalant must mean I'm gonna start using it as a word oh that person they wanted all the attention they were so chalant they're so chalant see there we go that's a that'll be an in-joke yeah um Kawa says I'm so happy to watch your face I was imagining your face who you are that is very fun Melissa says hi from Mexico Malique says hello I'm Turkish Caleb says hi I'm a Tao says hi Rin says hey Ninley says thank you very much so yeah how fun yeah we didn't even talk about like our our own lives here I know we we have so much going on we didn't talk about our own lives I do have a question I do have a question for people though but I wanted to say hoa says I usually listen to your program but I don't know how to read and record it can you guide me if you go to the website at www.spotlightenglish.com and that should be linked on our Facebook page you can listen to the program and read along at the same time and also on YouTube you can watch the words go on YouTube so I had a question for our listeners because or viewers I guess both okay so a few days ago this weekend I went camping with my family and as I was sitting there what we do is we you know we take all of our food with us and we take a tent and you know a little stove and you know a water bottle all of the or you know a water jug all of the things we need and we drive out to the woods and we set up a camp there we set up our tent and we we just we eat there we sit around the fire we make all our food there are you by yourself or are you with other people we were with other people this time but we have gone by ourselves before as well and you know during the day you can sit in the woods or you can go to the beach because we live near near a lake and it's very pleasant but I was wondering to myself do like do other people go camping is this a is this a culture thing like a US thing or yeah so I guess I guess my question would be in your country is camping a normal thing like is it something that you think these people from the US are a little weird why do they leave they leave their nice comfortable house to go out and be uncomfortable in the in the forest yeah yeah I don't that's a good question please because you're not answer that question for me you're not hiking you're not hiking up a mountain right yep it's really just to well and there are different levels of camping right you can go backpacking where you hike out for 10 miles or 20 miles and then you you have find a clearing and you set up all your stuff and you have to use the bathroom there in the woods and you have to find power or or do everything or you can go to like a campground where there are fire pits and maybe like an electrical outlet that you can plug stuff in and a community bathroom with some showers so that's where we went okay that was gonna be my question yeah we were at a campground but yeah so I don't think I would be up for hiking 20 miles I do love walking and being fit but I don't love maybe using the bathroom in the woods I wanted I wanted to ask that question I will somebody said oh Moa Moa yeah says I'm from Jordan it's in the Middle East and we love camping a lot oh that's really interesting to me I would not have thought about that yeah so thank you for answering that question in Saudi Arabia we don't have good pitch so we don't camp says Osama like a good maybe a good ground to pitch a tent on yeah or good field that's interesting yeah I didn't think about how that could affect that um Ba says no camping and or it's not normal yeah that I think Ba must be from Vietnam it looks like from the name Sardar says I'm from Uzbekistan camping is popular but only in the spring when everything turns green oh yeah that I will say we live in Michigan and Michigan is a beautiful state it's surrounded by the Great Lakes it has many forests it has hills doesn't have any mountains but it is a tourist destination for people who are camping and so we are really lucky to live in a place where we do have a lot of green space but it's snowing for half of the year so there there's really only camping in the summer yeah that is true though people do camp in the snow yeah um oh kawa bean says this is my apology for free scripts for a long time have a good day oh no apology necessary for your support and um yeah thank you I'm glad that you have been able to get free scripts that's that's good yeah yeah thank you so much for your support um Shaya says yes we go camping but not on a regular basis and in local areas in my country only men are supposed to go camping in the desert waterfalls mountains or near the river oh now that's very interesting how do you feel about that Liz what would you do if you yeah well first of all I want to know where Shaya is from but it's also very interesting to me um but I think I don't know it's a cultural thing I guess I would feel bad about it but here it's very common for um anyone to go camping really yeah I really wanted to point out this comment Adam from Carder which says if Adam and Liz married they will produce a new language a lot that is one of the common questions that we get are we married if we were we would assumably be in the same same place yeah but no we are not married we are we are married to we each are married but not to each other you always say it in the most confusing way possible I know well I don't want to say yes we're married you could just say we're just friends we're friends we each have our own families that brings up an interesting point that I did if you've been watching we are gonna offer a very specific a webinar it will be a way and you and if you if you sign up for it you get to meet actually my wife because she's gonna help us out and so if you've ever wondered what she looks like or whatever but it's Adam married up I did I did I married better it's a good there's a good idiom for you it's a webinar about it the important role of grandparents in child development so if you're a grandparent or you have a grandparent and you or your parent who you who you want to their your child to have a better relationship with your parent sorry if that's confusing we're gonna have it we'll put a link in the description of this video but it's really we we want to talk about grandparents the role of grandparents in helping raise children the role of grandparents in connecting with their grandchildren at different ages because of course a baby needs very different things so check that out and we'll try to get some more information that's gonna be the 1st of July coming at you at the same time that this live show started so if this is a good time for you I think we scheduled it for nine o'clock oh but it was 1030 okay well I'll be there you can sign up to reserve your spot because of course we want to make sure that we know who's there so that we can connect with you and that we know we have enough spots to to do um Ivan asked a question were any mosquitoes in the forest in Russia it depends in the place where you live I live in the Moscow region we have many forests around sometimes we do it with my family that's so cool there were not very many mosquitoes around us I think because it was very cool and also we used a lot of bug spray to keep the yeah there are some things that can ruin camping rain and bugs are yeah I will say we left a day early because there was going to be a thunderstorm and we were in a tent and I did not feel like packing up our tent in the rain or after a thunderstorm yeah so we left a little early well we have not been able to answer all your questions but we will try to write answers if you've asked a question we'll try to we read them all and we apologize that we haven't been able to answer them all but we have been going for over half an hour now and we know with flew by we just we love all of you we always say spotlight has the best listeners and viewers and we hope that you just have a great day and I will say someone asked about the fear the fear of learning English and the fear of of it being of being embarrassed or of getting over that and I want to say the answer that is we just we hope that this is a place where you feel comfortable where you can make comments where you can test out your English and not be afraid of what we're going to think because we're all on a journey we're all we're all everybody is learning right along with that I want to say I love that I have seen in the comments on YouTube that some people are you know asking a question and other people are answering it like what it means or using it in a sentence and I love that yeah well we hope you can join us again we try to do these every every month and you can always go back on YouTube and watch them if you really if you really want but yeah so stay in touch and yeah we have a new tagline now listen watch practice learn and then at the way end when we have to say goodbye we say spotlight out all right so spotlight out bye everyone thank you