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Hey, it's Mark with Learn English University.
Thank you so much for signing up for the Easy English Video Course.
Now, for you to learn english
you need to know
all different kinds of things
about english.
You need to know some vocab, vocabulary,
you need to know some grammar,
you need to know about
American culture
and customs.
See those are very helpful
for you to you
understand
how to learn the language.
You also need some idioms,
some slang,
uh, maybe a little street talk.
We're gonna give you all of that,
okay.
So, this first week
I'm going to
teach you some vocabulary,
some grammar,
some american culture,
uh, we're gonna do a few stories,
we're going to read some pop culture,
just some
kinda, smutty english about some stars.
We're gonna have a few guest speakers
so, we're going to have
a lot of fun.
If you have any questions
let me know in the comments below
and I'll try to answer all of those. Okay?
So, today's lesson is about
American
Values.
Do you know what values are?
What is a value?
Well, a value is something that
a person
tries to represent
in their culture.
It's sort of, the way that they think.
So,
here are a few american
values
that you should know,
number one:
individuality,
individuality.
What does that mean?
Well, Americans
are very
individual type people.
They like to spend some time
alone,
they like to do things
without
needing
other people's help.
They don't like to depend
on other people, like
their friends
or their family.
Now, I don't always like that
because
I would like to spend more time with my friends and family
and even to, sort of
count on them more.
But, it's not the way that we do it.
Americans
are very individual type of people.
The really seek opportunities where
if they're successful
they did it by themselves.
Number two,
number two:
american values.
Another American value
is privacy.
Americans
like to be very private.
So, that means that
they may, ah
go out alone,
not in a big group.
They made
like to do things alone.
So,
they like to spend time alone.
They also consider
uh, their home
or their house
kind of a private place.
So, whereas
in other places,
maybe Mexico
or in Europe,
you may drop by
someone's house.
You may
stop in at their house
when they're not
expecting you.
Well, in America
we don't really do that.
We're more
private. K.
Number two,
is privacy.
Number three
is
we really respect time,
we've got a value around
time.
So, this means that
Americans say
"time is money".
Okay.
That means that
uh,
when you say time is money
you mean that
you don't want to waste
time.
You want to make very efficient
use
of time. Okay. So,
Americans also like to be
punctual.
Or, "on time".
So if I say I will meet a friend
at 3pm
for lunch,
if I'm late
I will apologize.
I say,
"I'm sorry
I'm late for lunch".
I apologize if I'm late,
because
I respect time
and my friends respect time
and if I'm
late or not on time,
then I apologize.
Number four:
the fourth
American value
I'll talk about
today
is equality.
Equality.
Now this is very different
and many other places
in the world.
Because we
really consider everyone to be equal
so men,
women,
people of different races,
white, black
uh, different colored people,
different age of people.
So, young
middle-age and old
are all considered
equal.
Now, part of this came from
thousands of years ago
in the Roman
tradition of,
of really looking at values
and one Ancient Roman tradition was,
people are equal.
And that
tradition came over to America
and our
founding fathers
put this into the original
founding documents
of this culture.
So, Americans consider
everyone to be
equal.
And, that is of value that I really like.
Other cultures are different
and that's ok.
But, here
we consider everyone to be equal.
Alright. So, that's today's lesson
about American Culture.
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Thanks for coming
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