 Okay, now, hello everyone. Welcome to tonight's stream. Well, tonight for me, it might be morning or afternoon for you wherever you are, but I am Robin Shaw and I am teaching live from South Korea, but I am a Canadian teacher. Welcome to the students. I'm just gonna give a quick check to the top students who are here and who have commented, commented, commented. Maybe I need a little tea to get my voice energized. All right, Layla's here, how's it going? I feel this week was longer. You know, I feel the same as you, Layla. This week seemed longer than usual. Slip walker still here, okay. I'm happy to see you, Slip walker. You're still around. That means there's still hope for the world. This is listening. I'm wearing a black shirt and a black hat. I always wear a black hat. Kavino, hello, Kavino. Kavino likes to ask travel questions. So, Kavino, this is the best place to ask me travel questions. And I know you have a lot of travel questions, Kavino. So, ask away here. Lolly Lolly, Lolly Lolly's here, but Lolly Lolly is shy. She doesn't wanna speak to me as a friend. All right, let's get started. I forget why we're here though. Start asking some English questions. It's been a couple weeks since I answered some English questions, so hopefully you've been studying English in that time and you have come across some strange, interesting English that you're not sure how to use and maybe you wanna ask now. And if you don't have any English questions, you're free to ask life questions or talk about some other topic. Let's get it started. Kavino asks the comments here. Wouldn't you have any idea to travel to other countries? Well, I'm gonna fix your question because your question is not correct. Let's go to the whiteboard here and I'm putting Kavino's comment here and I'm gonna fix the grammar for you because that's why we're here. I'll make it bigger. Wouldn't you, well, we need a question mark. For any question, make sure you have a question mark. So, wouldn't you have any idea to travel other countries? Now, Kavino, this question is awkward in English but we're gonna fix it up. Maybe we're not gonna start with, wouldn't you? Do you have any idea? Okay, that's a good start. Do you have any idea? And I'm gonna use a which countries you might travel to next. That might be a, it's a very difficult question to ask. This might be a better way to phrase it. Do you have any idea which countries you might travel to next? That's a possible way to ask that. So, do you have any idea which countries you might travel to next or which country? But for me, it's countries because you could use country. But for me, yeah, I've probably traveled to multiple countries. And Layla asks, oh, why is it? I wanna keep it big here. Is black your favorite color Robin? No, I wear a lot of black or dark, dark black, black or dark blue on the live stream because I can't wear my other shirts. If a shirt has stripes or checks pattern, it doesn't really look good on YouTube. So I usually wear, we say a solid color, just one color, no pattern. So I like to wear solid colors just because it's YouTube. So yeah, you'll see a lot of black, a lot of blue. I don't wear, I don't have clothes or a solid red or purple or pink. And Covino, you didn't learn, I taught you, if you're gonna ask a question, I don't know if it's a question because I don't see a question mark. So how about the weather condition in your country? We always need that question mark. This is critical for a question. How's the weather condition in your country? You could just say how's the, how is, I'm gonna make this more of a speaking phrase. How's the weather in your country, condition in your country? You don't need to say condition, you can say. How's the weather there? That's an easy way to ask that question. How's the weather there? And I could say the weather's cool in Korea. And Sleepwalkers asking, is the expression bah humbug, so this is the expression and I don't think it's capitalized. Old fashion, as I understand it means nonsense. Well, this is a famous expression from, I believe, Scrooge. The Christmas story about Scrooge. Scrooge is a very stingy person. He doesn't like to spend money or give money. He's not generous. And he often, in the book, who wrote Scrooge? Scrooge, I already, books, I'm forgetting. Everything I learned in university. Charles Dickens, oops. Okay, so in his book, Christmas Carol, Scrooge always says bah humbug. So it's all in English. Nobody's gonna say that. Nobody's gonna say that these days. Nobody. Zero percent. And bah humbug just means, yeah, it could mean nonsense or I don't like that. But it's only gonna be in Scrooge. Or Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol. Bah humbug is what Scrooge says. No, nobody in modern times is gonna say that. And sound, okay, Layla's got two weeks of questions here. The sound of construction behind my house is quite noisy. That is totally annoying me. Well, yeah, that's right. But as I read this, this is okay, this is okay, this is okay, this is okay, this is okay, this is okay, but I'm using totally and it's right. But it seems a little awkward to me. I would just use, this is really annoying me. I know you wanna try to use bigger vocabulary or more interesting vocabulary, but sometimes we just use simple vocabulary. It's, you know, and if we're speaking, we're probably gonna use contraction. That's really annoying. And that, yeah, it's really an annoying me or it's really annoying. That's really annoying. I would even say the sound of construction behind my house is quite noisy. It's really, that would be a period, new sentence. I would say it's really annoying. Jose Gonzalez, I like to wear solid colors too. Also, I don't like to wear brand name. So some of my other clothes might have Nike or Adidas and I don't wanna wear any brand name on the live stream. So the clothing rule is solid color and no logo or brand name. So my clothing options are limited. All right, Cavino, if I get a chance to travel to another country, to another, okay, I'm gonna fix up your English here, Cavino. If I get a chance to travel to another, if we're gonna use another, we're talking about one. So you can say, I definitely will come visit you. That's correct, that's good. But when we're using other and another, here let me, another is usually another one and other ones like that. So one, another country, other countries. So if I get a chance to travel to other countries, I will definitely come to visit you. If I get a chance to travel to another country, I will definitely come to visit you. So singular, we're gonna use another, plural, we're gonna use other. Doesn't seem to be many people here today. If you're watching, say hello, let me know you're watching. Robin, do you leave your comfort zone very often and begin something different in life? Oh, you leave your comfort zone? Yeah, I don't think I have a comfort zone. Every, I'm pretty brave and I'm, it's very easy for me to disrupt my comfort zone. Yes is the answer, always I'm leaving my comfort zone. Leila, I just saw these two words, abstain and refrain and that they are similar or synonyms. But I guess they're not. They seem like synonyms. Why do you say they're not? Then went to the dictionary and made the following sentence. It's okay, so let's keep these up here. We have abstain and refrain. They seem like synonyms to me, but let's see what you got. I want to lose some weight, weight will be uncomfortable. I must refrain from fast food. All right, refrain from, we might say eating. Well, before I get to the next sentence, can we say abstain here? Yeah, sure, I think you can. There's synonyms. I'm just gonna check out the dictionary because I am not a walking dictionary. So refrain, so refrain means to stop yourself from doing something. So if I must stop myself from eating fast food, okay, so refrain works, abstain means decide not to do it. Cause it's bad for your health, something like that. So it seems like very close synonyms here. I will abstain from talking, interact. This is gonna be an eye. Yeah, I think those work, those are fine. I don't think there's a problem there. They seem like synonyms to me. So don't worry about that, Leila, those sentences look fine. Oh, who's this? Lolly Lolly, she's planning on cooking and she's planning to move. Why do we use on in the first sentence? Okay, I know why. I know exactly why we use on, but can I explain it? Probably not, I get it. All right, so I think you gotta focus on the ING here. So if you wanted, you can say, you can make the same sentence with moving. So she's planning on. So I think the connection here, she's planning on, if we're gonna use planning on, then your next sentence is gonna be verb ING. All right, she's planning to move. Well, you're not using the ING, you're using the infinitive. So similar, you could say she is planning to cook. So it depends on the grammar you want to use for the sentence and let's just, so you could say she is planning on cooking tonight. Let's make a full sentence. She is planning on moving tomorrow. She is planning to move tomorrow. She is planning to cook tonight. Yeah, that's it. So planning on cooking, planning to move. That's how we use it. I mean the same thing. The crying of baby, the crying baby. Okay, I recommend just say the crying baby, but you're saying the crying of the baby is really annoying. Yeah, Leila, I don't think you have a problem with annoying. You're using it fine, no problem with annoying. That's correct. Ramadan. Oh, how do you wish, please teach us. How do you wish, this is a question? You're asking a question? What is your question? I don't know, is this an English question? I do not celebrate Ramadan, so I really cannot teach about that. So it starts, so how do you wish someone a happy Ramadan? So this is Ramadan. 2020 begins in the evening of Friday, April 1st, and ends in the evening of Sunday, May 1st. Dates may vary. How to express Ramadan greetings. Okay, so I just went to the internet, which is a better teacher than me. So Ramadan Mubarak and Ramadan Karim, these are Arabic sayings that translate to blessed Ramadan and generous Ramadan. So I think that answers your question. You could say to people blessed Ramadan, or generous Ramadan, in English. But I don't know, I'm sorry, I don't celebrate Ramadan. Robin, among foreign teachers, your coworkers, do many of them have YouTube channels? No, none of them. None of them have YouTube channels? No, none of my coworkers have YouTube channels. Lalli Lalli, just rechecking the Ramadan, blessed Ramadan. Okay, who's asked this, sorry, Lalli Lalli, there's no end to learning English. Why verb ING after two? There's no end to learning English. Well, this is your gerund, I don't have time to teach gerunds, I think I've done that in other videos. So this is the verb, how do you express, I cannot think today, the verb. All right, and now in the form of a verb with ING. So, I don't know the technical rule. This is all I can find, and it looks, it's too technical for me. That's not the rule, that's, oh, how come it's not copying? I want to copy from the internet. It's important to recognize that the word to is a preposition in these cases because it must be followed by a gerund. This is your gerund. It is not part of the infinitive form of the verb. So you have to consider that there's no end to, and then that's not an infinitive verb. That's the technical, I don't know a quick answer, I don't know a quick rule to that, just very often with gerunds, before the gerund you're gonna have two, what's another one? I look forward to eating dinner, how about that? So, this is the connected expression. I look forward to eating dinner, something like that. You cannot say I look forward to eat dinner. This doesn't work, no. And you cannot say there's no end to learn English, no, because you can't use the infinitive, you gotta use the gerund. So, think of this two connected to forward, don't think of this two as connected to the verb. Hope that helps, lolly lolly, that's a little more technical for me to properly teach that without a lot of preparation. Do native speakers use lunch as a verb commonly? For example, I am going to lunch with you. Well, here it is not a verb, this is a kind of a location. I guess it could be a verb because you could say, I'm going to Canada with you. So, in this case, Canada is not, this is not the verb of the sentence. So, this is kind of the location where we're saying, I'm going to lunch with you, I'm going to the place we eat lunch. So, this going to, again, you're thinking of the two as a verb to lunch. Now, it is possible that this is a verb in this sentence. I'm going to lunch with you, but using lunch as a verb, but I don't think we think of it that way. We think of it more as a location. I'm going to the lunch place with you, but we don't say place. Sure, now I'm going to lunch with you, but it could be a verb too. You could look at it two ways. You could look at it, I think more commonly is the place, but it could also, I'm going to lunch, then it would be a verb to eat lunch with you. That is possible too, but I don't think it's as common. Indeed, Mubashir. Teacher Robin, can you fix this, these is one sentence or many sentences for us if something type incorrectly. We perform, don't offer, prayer. Why are you saying sell out? I'm going to perform prayer. You could just make one verb, pray, we pray five times a day. Perform prayer seems like too many verbs there. I'm trying to, because I got to educate myself on Arabic, Muslim, or Islam, prayer rituals. These are expressions I do not know how to use. Salat, I see a lot of salah. Would that be right too? We pray salah five times a day. Sorry I can't help you with that, M.D. Mubashir. To distinguish between used to, be used to, get used to. I made some sentences, I don't see them. Yeah, Lee, Lucina, hello. Hi, I saw this in the book, Vocabulary News, some examples with go, ng, and I didn't understand when I will put ing with go, verbay, main verb, or both. I don't understand immediately also. Do you have example sentences? I like, I gotta think, I like to, to go jogging like that. So this is your jaren, I like to go jogging. So what's the root, you're looking for a rule? I don't know all the rules at the top of my head. But yeah, in English, I think I cannot, I cannot teach, your face is in the way. Let's move my face. I cannot teach jaren's in detail today. That's not an easy thing to teach in two minutes. So if you wanna study more and to understand, I would suggest called YouTube and check out a video on jaren's. This will help you better than me right now because this is something I would need to prepare more examples to teach right now. So, oh, you had examples. Let's look at your examples. So the examples were, one, I hate going shopping, two, usually go swimming. Yeah, these are jaren's in the morning and Bob is going fishing. Yeah, those are all common expressions in English. They all make sense, jaren's. There's not a lot of jaren expressions so you can probably learn them and memorize them within a day how we use jaren's. But sorry, Kelly, I cannot do a full lesson on jaren's right now. That's a little more difficult and I cannot give a quick answer. I have to move on. Clarification about Robin, I don't know. Ines, hello, Arturo, hello from Honduras. Funny story in Honduras, when I was in Honduras, I traveled through Central America and I crossed the border, I think it's from El Salvador, right, El Salvador to Honduras. It was nighttime and I walked across the border and I missed the bus to the city. So I had the hitchhike in Honduras. You know, hitchhiking, you stand at the side of the road and you stick out your thumb. And you know, I stuck up my thumb and nobody was gonna pick me up and then this truck driver picked me up. He drove me about one hour in Honduras to the hotel and I gave him $20 for a thank you. And he didn't speak any English so then I don't speak any Spanish. So he picked me up and I'm like, body language, 100%. Pointy, pointy. Yes, no. Oh, that's my memory, my good memory of Honduras. Okay, I understand, Covino. And this is from Unes teacher. Please, can you explain when exactly we use go to and will and what's the difference between them? Uh, I'm going to, I don't think it's go to. So example, you're talking about future tense. Is that your question or future tense? I will go to Canada tomorrow. I'm going to go to Canada tomorrow. Are you asking about that? So it's will and going to future tense. There is a technical rules when we use will. There's technical rules when we use am going to, but I think in the modern English day, most native speakers are not following these rules. We're using will and am going to interchangeably in the same to express the future. I'm not sure if that's your question. What else could it be go to and will? You could just have present simple tense. I go to Canada tomorrow. I will go to Canada tomorrow. Now this is possible, where you're not. Yes, Google wants to change it to the future tense, but sometimes we express in speaking. Don't do this in writing, but in speaking, a native speaker will often express a future event using present tense, like I go to. This is not future tense. This is present tense. So sometimes, yes, we use present tense to express a future action, usually a near action. Tomorrow is near. So if you said I go to Canada in 10 years, that's a little too far. So I go to Canada tomorrow. A native speaker might say that for future tense, only speaking if you're writing, I'm going to Canada tomorrow. All right, let's check out Layla's used to. I used to visit many concerts. She is used to saying the truth. Okay, you're using used to and used to correctly. But the verbs are awkward. I used concerts, we don't visit concert. We go to a concert. I used to go to many concerts. We go to concerts. We don't visit concerts. And she is used to saying the truth. This is okay, but a native speaker is probably going to say telling the truth. Usually we use the verb tell for truth. Tell the truth or tell a lie. Tell the truth or tell a lie. We use the verb tell, not saying. But the used to is fine. She gets used to the hot weather. What do you think about them? Oh, the sentences, okay. She or you, why did I say she? Anyway, you probably confused me with the gets because you does not put an S on the verb. You get used to, you, this should be past tense. You got used to the hot weather as something that passed or you will future get used to the hot weather. Present continuous. You are getting used to the hot weather. All right, so this is one of these ways is how we're going to use the grammar. You past tense, future tense, or present continuous tense. But the get used to is fine. Robin, who's saying this sleepwalker? Robin, sometimes I see that native speakers use did instead of past form of the verbs. Okay, let's see. For example, I did write. Is it correct? It did write it. Yeah, what do you mean by inversion? Not inversion. Yeah, for speaking, it's hard to teach speaking sometimes because, you know, students are learning the rules and then they hear these native speakers saying weird stuff with English. Yeah, you know, there's weird things like this. I do write books. So ideally you should say I wrote it and I do write books. You should say I write books. So these kinds of sentences, yeah, they're going to make the little grammar adjustments. I don't know if there's a technical rule, but these are used more for emphasis. So it's speaking, you know, in speaking, we often use thing words for more emphasis and these would be emphasis words. But if you're writing an essay, just write the normal way. Hello, hello. We have a special guest. Hello, Joe. How's it going? That person who picked you up and drove for about one hour, who's writing this, Leila? Was unique. Didn't care about the way to connect with you as a foreigner. What's the question? What's the question, Leila? You're commenting on my Honduras hitchhiking. Okay, now I understand. I thought you were asking a question. So this is real. That person who picked you up and drove for about one hour was unique. Yes. Well, no, I think wherever I travel in the world, people always help. So I don't think he's unique. I think he was normal. It's normal for humans to help each other. He didn't care about the way to connect. He was just a human helping a human. And I think that's normal, not special. All right. Eunice, thank you. And Leila, why did you not get home early? Why didn't you get home early? What's the difference between them? And which one is more natural? Well, right away, this one's more natural because it's a contraction and contractions are better. This is possible. This sounds like someone's angry and they might say this. This is a spoken English. So you're gonna see this in spoken English. It means the same thing. Why did you not get home early? I think the emphasis on this, the grammar is structured to put more emphasis on the not. So that's possible. This is natural. They're both natural. Depends what you're trying to express. What's the difference between them? Nothing. Which one is more natural? I'd say this one's better. You're gonna hear this one. It's not wrong. Is it possible to use visit cities? Yes. Why can't you use visit to country? Yes, you can. I visit Canada. I visit Toronto. That's perfectly okay. Let's use a past tense because Google wants me to put past tense. That's fine. You can visit cities. You can visit countries. I visited Disneyland. Something like that. Making my tea. I was asking questions in the chat. I'm all caught up in the chat. I don't think I missed any questions. All right, I will end the live stream in a few minutes. Get any last questions or comments in. I was filming some videos today with teacher Fiona. If you know my YouTube channel, there's a teacher called Fiona. I was teaching, or I was filming videos with her today. Videos about tongue twisters. Hello. Oh, Stella's here. Hello, Stella. Hello, Mrs. Robin. It's time to take them to the next level. Thank you, teacher. Hello. How do I take them to the next level? Hussain. Hussain Ahmed from Sri Lanka. We have a lot of students from Sri Lanka. I went to Sri Lanka 2016. Beautiful country, beautiful. I love Sri Lanka. I wish I had, I spent more time there. I hope to go back to Sri Lanka. All right, Layla's sticking in a question. Yeah, Hyunwoo is in America. Let's have some coffee. Could we have coffee? When do native speakers use one and two and the first? I'm more concerned with this error right here. First is more friendly. Let's have some coffee. Could we have coffee? Well, this is what you're gonna say to your friend. I say to you, Layla, let's have some coffee. Could we have coffee is something you say to the waiter or waitress? This is more of an order. So this is what you're gonna say to your friend. This is what you're gonna say to the waiter. Could we have and probably gonna use some coffee. We have some coffee. Let's make it more polite, please. But if you're talking to your friend, let's have some coffee or let's have some coffee. You can also say let's get some coffee and this is an order. You wouldn't say to your friend, could we have some coffee? Robin, what was the strangest and hardest questions? What were the strangest and hardest questions you were asked today? Probably strange. I don't think there was a strange question. The hardest would be anything with grammar that people come in with the grammar questions and a lot of the times I don't know the technical rules because there's so many situations. But I do my best. No strange questions today. But I must say the most difficult questions usually come from Alyssa. So if Alyssa is still listening, I doubt she is. But if she's still around, she usually asks the difficult, really difficult questions to me. Stuff I really have never thought about. Layla, you ask a lot of normal questions, Layla. Your questions are good. They're all normal. Sleepwalker probably has really interesting questions too. Yeah, Alyssa's are difficult. Sleepwalkers are interesting and Layla is normal questions. So which ones do I like teaching? I like the normal questions. They're easy. Sometimes sleepwalker has really interesting stuff like the Baham bug today. No one's ever asked me about Baham bug. So sleepwalker, keep them coming. But Alyssa, when I get Alyssa's questions, I'm sweating. Uh-oh, what's this? I don't know. I think we're gonna end the stream now. Thank you everyone for watching and please spend your time every day, sometime every day studying English. I will see you again soon. Until then, have a good week. So take care and...