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  • Maybe you already know that TV interviews like those on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and The Ellen Show are an absolutely fantastic way to learn real life English.

  • You hear unscripted, informal English spoken out of natural speed and with the vocabulary expressions and slang natives really use.

  • Today you'll learn English with the funny interview with Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter and the famous movie Siri's.

  • This video is great because Daniel, Jimmy look at some different names.

  • Means are comical photos that often include some sort of joke, which usually are very difficult for English learners to comprehend.

  • So today we will help you understand all of the jokes.

  • Plus, you will learn all sorts of slaying and informal language, and you'll even see how natives creatively make grammatical errors.

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  • If you're new here first, you'll watch a clip with subtitles.

  • Then you will learn all of the most important vocabulary, pronunciation and cultural context before moving on to the next clip.

  • Finally, you test everything you learned by watching the full scene without subtitles and answering some quiz questions.

  • Are you ready for a hilarious and fun English lesson.

  • Then let's jump into this interview with Daniel Radcliffe.

  • So unfortunately, YouTube would not allow us tow Upload the full interview.

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  • We recommend you click the link at the top or in the description to watch the interview with subtitles.

  • Come back to this video to learn all of the most important vocabulary pronunciation and understand all the jokes.

  • Watch the interview a final time without subtitles and answer the quiz questions to test everything you learned.

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  • Now go watch the interview and we'll start the lesson in 54321 I was wondering if you ever seen If you wonder about something, you think about it and you ask yourself about it.

  • I think my boyfriends ever so dreamy.

  • Wonder what our wedding's gonna be like.

  • Oftentimes we use it before making a request.

  • Terry, I know that I haven't worked here very long, but I was wondering, Do you think it would be possible if I got $100 advance on my salary?

  • Another use of this word is the phrase no wonder, which means it is not surprising we say this when a cause explains a consequence example.

  • No wonder he's always tired in the morning.

  • He never goes to bed earlier than 4 a.m. C.

  • I know you're going the Internet, Everything.

  • You ever see a mim of yourself?

  • If you understand the present Perfect, you're probably familiar with the use of ever in this tense.

  • For example, have you ever eaten sushi?

  • What few learners air familiar with is the use of ever in the present.

  • Simple as used here by Jimmy ever here means at any time.

  • So he's basically asking, Do you, at any time see a mim of yourself?

  • Let's see other examples of ever in the present simple tuber like think about the future.

  • Sure I do, Yes.

  • Am I in it?

  • Honey, you are.

  • Hey, you know what?

  • If you ever want to talk to me about a problem in your life with a guy, that I would be fine with that.

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  • Now let's get back to this hilarious interview with Daniel Radcliffe.

  • Or is that Harry Potter maim and you're like, That's pretty funny.

  • Of course, go is one of the most common verbs in English.

  • However, use that's not so accessible for learners is that in which it's used as an equivalent to say example.

  • I was sitting there when a stranger comes up to me and goes, Have we met before?

  • Sometimes I look back when I was younger and go.

  • What was I thinking?

  • I know that this should only be used in an informal situation.

  • If you have any doubt, you should just use, say, I have, I think, like maybe a couple over the years, but no nothing that I can immediately remember.

  • I thought, I don't seek them out.

  • Seek is a synonym of search.

  • Or look for, in fact, this classic game you've probably played as a kid.

  • It's called Hide and Seek in English.

  • As a phrase of herb.

  • When we say seek something out, it means we look for something until we find it example.

  • He's a young professional who is using his English to seek out opportunities abroad.

  • So Daniel here just means that he does not actively search for Harry Potter Mains.

  • Yeah, I feel like I should I should I should.

  • I should be educated.

  • If you're educated about something, someone gives you information about a particular subject or to show you a better way to do something.

  • Example.

  • The government is promoting a campaign to educate teenagers about drugs we can use educating as an adjective.

  • Jay, Mom, those class.

  • It was great.

  • He was very educating And now we know everything about the baby.

  • No, this guy here is it Harry Pucker.

  • Harry means having a lot of hair.

  • Has Daniel says so?

  • Cute dog.

  • Yeah, it's great.

  • This is a pun or play on words.

  • A pun is a humorous use of a word that has two meanings or of words with the same sound but different meanings.

  • The pun in this Mim is that Harry and the name Harry sound the same.

  • The breed of dog in this picture is a pug.

  • So now that you know what both words mean, do you understand why this pun is funny?

  • We're starting off, you know?

  • I mean, that's what's not to like.

  • That's great.

  • To start off means to begin something in a particular way.

  • Started fashion easy, receive 10% thrust capacity, Chief lifts and three two What?

  • Seriously, just gonna start off with 1% thrust capacity in 321 So every single week, we hope you learn English with TV series, movies, interviews and more so that you can understand fast begin natives without getting lost without missing the jokes and without subtitles.

  • Just like until who says that in the six months that he's been subscribed channel.

  • He has greatly improved his vocabulary, pronunciation and speaking skills.

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  • All you have to do is get that subscribe, but the beldam below You don't miss any of our new lessons If you're having quit ish problems off to a bad for your son, I got 99 problems.

  • But understand this mean you have to know where the 99 problems saying comes from.

  • This is a popular song by rapper Jay Z.

  • You having girl problems?

  • Got 99 problems in a pitching one.

  • Hit it.

  • In this song, he's basically saying that he's popular with women.

  • However, be careful the way he uses the word bitch Here is a very disrespectful way to refer to women.

  • This phrase has gone on to become a popular joke.

  • So in the context of this Harry Potter mean, it says first, if you're having quit ish problems off to a bad for your son.

  • Quidditch is, of course, the popular sport played in the wizarding world, which involves different types of flying objects and broomsticks.

  • If you feel bad for someone, you empathize with a negative situation that they are experiencing.

  • Finally, the waste son is used here is a colloquial slang term, which would be used to refer to a friend.

  • Keep in mind this use of it is very informal.

  • Better alternatives are buddy, man or maid.

  • If you're having quit ish problems off to a bad for your son, I got 99 problems.

  • Theo Snitch is one of the balls in Quidditch, and Harry Potter is a seeker whose job it is to find it.

  • So do you now understand a wide base?

  • Me miss funny?

  • It makes Harry Potter sound like a gangster as he brags about not having problems with Quidditch as he is a talented seeker.

  • What's cool about that stuff is that like I never like as a kid and you just insecure And that eight insecure is another way of saying that something is not safe example.

  • Are you sure we should drive this old car?

  • It looks pretty insecure, However, The way that Daniel uses it here means that he did not feel sure about himself as a person.

  • In other words, he was not confident example.

  • She was feeling rather insecure when she went up to give her speech, but she ended up doing a fantastic job.

  • It is very common to say that adolescents feel insecure about themselves.

  • I never felt cool at any point playing that character, and sort of these things go like not for people, for that was pretty cool in English.

  • When we have a tea between two vowel sounds, it often becomes what we call a tap T sound, which sounds very similar to a D or to the our sound in Latin languages like Spanish and Portuguese, among others.

  • We can hear an example from earlier in the interview, or is that Harry Potter, Mim?

  • And you're like, That's pretty funny.

  • We're starting off that while this is more common in American English here, Daniel gives us an example of where the tap T can appear, even between two words.

  • When one ends in a tea and the next begins in a vowel and sort of these things go, let's see some other examples.

  • I thought it was gonna be a closed casket, and we just keep that a chance.

  • And in this final example, because the next word begins with a D, The T and D just become one D sound.

  • I can't get to the copier.

  • I'm thinking.

  • What do I do?

  • What I do?

  • Hey, Harry Potter fan.

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  • Says Ron.

  • Hold on of those shoes on sale.

  • Theo, we see two phrase of herbs here that mean the same thing.

  • If we tell someone to hold on or hold up, we're simply telling them to wait.

  • Example.

  • Hold on.

  • Let me finish this phone call, and then I will help you pulled up.

  • Wait for me.

  • I don't know.

  • Maybe teach acting.

  • Hello?

  • Okay, begin.

  • Older as used in this mean, it would be said to interrupt someone in order to bring up something surprising that you have just noticed.

  • This mean, is simply making fun of Harry's shocked expression.

  • By making up a ridiculous dialogue like that, he is surprised he just saw a sale on shoes.

  • Forget about all them school.

  • I was wondering if your wizardry degrees gonna work out notice here that it appears that they are making a grammatical mistake and the way they use them In reality, them is used informally in this way when speaking in a joking way about something example.

  • If I could go to the gym and eating, right, I'm gonna get them muscles.

  • Look, I got them Tickets pack up.

  • We're flying tomorrow.

  • A loan is an amount of money that a person, business or country borrows, especially from a bank where you go to the hospital.

  • Dude, Hernia operations Cost like a lot?

  • Probably.

  • Okay.

  • Besides, it's getting darker and more painful.

  • That means it's healing.

  • I will loan you the money.

  • Just go to the hospital and let's just get that thing push back in.

  • Stewart trying to get a loan are Find investors in the U.

  • S.

  • As university education is not free, many students are forced to take out loans in order to pay for their education.

  • When we finish paying the money that has been given to us, we use the phrase of verb payoff to pay off alone.

  • I went to school for half my life.

  • I'm a doctor and I'm still paying off college loans.

  • How much do you owe?

  • Maybe I can help you out.

  • Thought is, of course, an idea or opinion.

  • You have a common complication we use is deep thought or to be in deep thought, which means to concentrate and think about something.

  • This sense of deep is used together with many other words.

  • It often means profound or intensely felt.

  • Hey, sweetie careers.

  • Come sit down.

  • Hey, Phoebe and I were just talking about how our relationship is deep and meaningful.

  • Really?

  • You think?

  • Wow.

  • Totally pull my finger.

  • You obviously have some deep feelings you're not confronting, but I think they're about your dad.

  • I don't want to talk about it.

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