3 Lessons from ‘Spanglish’ to Improve Your English Speaking

Episode 2 Title: 3 Lessons from ‘Spanglish’ to Improve Your English Speaking

Introduction

In this episode, you learn one new English vocabulary, two popular English idioms, and their meanings and usages. This lesson is based on three 2004 romantic comedy Spanglish scenes.

3 English Lessons from Spanglish

• Meticulous (with a focus on how Deb uses it to describe herself to Flor)
• Be on the same page (with a focus on why Deb tries to convince her husband, John)
• Show someone the ropes (with a focus on how Deb uses it)

Episode Summary 

In this lesson, you listen to the clips where the English vocabulary and idioms were used, and you get to understand the context of their usage. 

Then you listen to me explain their meanings with example sentences. Lastly, attempt a Quiz to help you confirm that you understand how to use them. 

Chapters

00:55 Episode 2 Introduction

1:19 Shoutout to Listeners

2:07 Introducing Spanglish & Lessons from My Korean Learning Experience

6:26 Lesson 1: Meticulous - Meaning, Pronunciation, Film Clip

9:52 Lesson 2: On the Same Page - Meaning, Pronunciation, Film Clip

13:26 Get this Lesson on Pinterest, Medium, and Patreon

15:10 Lesson 3: Meaning, Pronunciation, Film Clip

18:42 Quiz Time

20:10 Send a text message to the show

20:42 Wrapping up plus more Language Learning Strategies

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Host Information

I remain your host, Adenike Babalola (Online Content Creator)

Additional Notes

The clips from Spanglish were played and recorded via Netflix, and this podcast show has no rights or affiliation with Netflix. These episodes are strictly for English teaching purposes and are not a form of promotion. Visit netflix.com to watch Spanglish.

Film Dialogue (Source: netflix.com)

Clip 1: 

Deb: I have two children. My Son Georgie is 9, Bernie you know, and I like the house to be like me, you know…I'm very loose and METICULOUS at the same time.

Clip 2:

Deb: When it comes to the kids, John, we got to STAY ON THE SAME PAGE! United. Doing consistent persenting. Do you know how many books on parenting I've read?

Clip 3:

John - Great. I'll take Georgie to school.

Deb: No I'm doing it. I'm gonna SHOW FLOR THE ROPES.

Deb (to Flor): Flor, will you come with me, please?

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