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  • In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase out of reach.

  • When something is out of reach, it simply means when you try to grab it, it's a little too far away.

  • Sometimes in the kitchen, there are things on the top shelf and they are out of reach.

  • You can't reach them.

  • But it can also mean that something you want to do is something you'll never be able to do.

  • I will never be prime minister of Canada.

  • That is out of reach for me.

  • I would have had to have started my political career years ago in order to get to that point in my life.

  • So becoming prime minister is out of reach.

  • So something can physically be out of reach, but something you want to do can also be out of reach for you.

  • The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase out of touch.

  • When someone is out of touch, it means that, oh, sorry, this is one of the first times I forgot to teach something.

  • You could also say you're out of reach when someone can't get ahold of you.

  • If I was to go on vacation really far up north, I would be out of reach for a few days because phones don't work that far north.

  • Now let's move on.

  • The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase out of touch.

  • When someone is out of touch, it means that they don't really know what the current way of doing something is.

  • So you could say that old people are a little bit out of touch.

  • They don't use their phones to watch things on social media.

  • They still watch things on a computer.

  • Maybe instead of, I'm trying to think, maybe instead of taking an Uber, they still take a taxi because they're out of touch and they don't realize there's a new way to do it.

  • So to review, when something is out of reach, it means it's hard to actually grab.

  • When something is out of reach, it means it's something you won't be able to do.

  • And if you go on vacation, you might be out of reach for a while.

  • And when you're out of touch, it simply means that you don't know what's hip and cool anymore.

  • You've just gotten too old and you don't know.

  • But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

  • This comment is from, Denny, thanks a lot for the lesson, Bob.

  • As you get older, you get stuck in your ways.

  • Just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless you make a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible.

  • That's from Viggo Mortensen, a quote from a famous actor.

  • In my response, I'll try to stay flexible on all fronts.

  • You know, there's some truth to that.

  • You become physically quite stiff as you get older.

  • It's hard to bend and touch your toes and do things like that.

  • And mentally, you kind of get stiff as you get older.

  • It's kind of unfortunate.

  • It would be nice if we could stay really open-minded and not become as stubborn as we get older.

  • And it would be nice if I go and run five kilometers, if I could walk the next day instead of sitting for the whole day waiting to feel better.

  • I did that a couple weeks ago, by the way, with my son, and I was very stiff the next day.

  • I'm not sure it was a good idea.

  • I was able to run the whole race.

  • I got one of my worst times ever, but still, I was able to do it.

  • But yeah, it would be nice if we weren't, but there is always some advantage.

  • I think we need people who want things to change and people who want things to stay the same.

  • And then I think together, we actually get a nice balance.

  • We get something in the middle, and I think that's a bit of an advantage.

  • We don't want the new idea people to always get their way, and we don't want the stubborn, stuck-in-their-ways people who don't want to change to always get their way.

  • We want them to talk to each other, and we want to come up with a compromise.

  • A compromise is when people with two different opinions find something in the middle that they can agree on.

  • Anyways, thanks for watching this lesson.

  • It's about to get a little bit busy here, but I will try to keep kicking out lessons, and I'll see you with another one in a couple of days.

  • Bye.

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase out of reach.

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