[0:00]Well, good afternoon again. This is Dr. Osterman for our third video in the series, uh, of English English expressions. Just real fast, a quick overview about the chapter, uh, lesson three, what is your size? And, uh, this is a great lesson for those people working in, uh, the apparel or, uh, or fashion industry. And even for anybody who takes a trip overseas and does shopping, which is pretty much everybody. So, just a quick brief overview of the chapter, uh, you have, of course, useful expressions and a vocabulary section. And then only three warm-up questions that really jump into the lesson and get you started. A lot of my students have said they found this chapter to be, or this lesson to be fairly easy. So we get right into the lesson and then we try to expand from there. And then you have the substitution speaking drill and a lot of, uh, opportunity to take a word and exchange it in into the sentence or question and make it a brand new question and a brand new statement. So, you have 18 of those to do and then we go into the speaking practice Q&A where you get an opportunity to actually practice, um, a conversation. In the conversation, I list them as A and B, but it's basically between, um, uh, store owner, store clerk, uh, salesperson and the customer. And the beauty of that section is there for you and feel free to to kind of, uh, change it up as you want and make it more useful for the type of shopping you do or the type of things that you are looking to buy. And then over on the what I think section, uh, another great section. I'll get into more detail here in a minute, and then you have an opportunity to present, uh, if I was to give you, can't do it, but if I was, uh, going to give you $1 million. Do you understand this number? This is a huge number. So, $1 million, uh, what would you do with it? What would you buy? And, uh, you could even, um, in your classes take that down. You can say 1 million yen, which is a rough, um, uh, translation would be take the dollar amount, drop two zeros and that would be the yen amount. Um, so you can see that the the huge difference in that, but still quite a bit of money. So present on that and then we have the free talk section, which gives you 12 questions to kind of help you solidify and put together the whole chapter in the lesson. And then, um, some idiom phrases. Now, I'm going to get into those in more detail later, but as I'd mentioned before, I try to keep this video relatively short. Uh, so some other points I do want to cover, so let's get into some of those points. All right, well, first of all, um, talking about sizes. Uh, I've lived in Japan for many, many years, uh, but coming from America, initially it was very difficult. One of the biggest differences, uh, were how Japanese, basically the rest of the world, uses kilograms, they use, uh, milliliters, liters, things like that, where in the United States, we use a total different system. I was told in elementary school that one day America would, uh, eventually get around to the rest of the world and use the same, uh, leader, uh, metric system. We have yet to see that. So, just a quick, uh, overview of that and then maybe it can help you if you do go overseas and help you be able to to, uh, get by. First of all, pounds, one pound equals basically 0.454, uh, kilograms. So, not a lot, uh, maybe about as much as is full. All right. And then we have inches, which is 1 inch equals about 2.54 cm. And you can see the math, I'm not good at math, but you can see how the math could get really difficult with all these, um, technical point this and point that. Um, and then gallons, uh, Japan uses liters. In America, one gallon is the equivalent of 3.785 liters. I don't know why, but that's what it is. Miles, 1 mile equals 1.609 kilometers. 1.5 would have helped, but, you know, you can kind of add a little bit to that. And then yards, we have yards that are 1 yard equals 914, um, centimeters. So basically 1 yard is close enough to 1 meter or 100 centimeters to do the math like that. Now, let me give you a, a quick, um, example of all this madness. So, if you are 1.7 m tall, or 170 m tall, that is the equivalent of 66.929 in. What does that mean? Nobody really knows. But we take the inches, because 1, 12 inches equals 1 foot, and we take the inches and we divide it by 12, and we get 5.577, roughly. And we translate that into being 5 foot, 6 inches, or 5'6", we would say. So, play around with those numbers with some of your foreign friends, or even your own height and your own weight, it gets really interesting how you, how you can add all this up. And go with whichever number you feel the most comfortable with. But that being said, I'm going to go into the idioms real fast.
[6:19]And, um, here we have, uh, have one, basically two. At the end of the book, it talks about one and that's paid through the nose. Now, I'm not going to read it the way it says it there, but it's basically, uh, a phrase that was developed in, uh, in, uh, by the Danes to impose their taxes on the Irish. And, um, what would happen was, is if you did not pay your taxes, wow. Uh, even worse than today, they would some official would come up to you, put a knife in your nose and cut it. And that's where we got the the phrase paying through the nose. Now, the phrase to go Dutch is from the, uh, the idea where if we go out together, I will pay for my meal and drinks and you pay for your meal. So, what you eat, you pay for, what I eat, I pay for. And we call that to go Dutch. And that's a very, very good way to break the ice initially with people when you say, hey, let's go out, let's get a bite to eat. You say, okay, sure, but let's go Dutch if you do not want that obligation of having them pay for you and then you have to pay for them later. Okay, but please, do not confuse the Dutch or people from the Netherlands, uh, with Danish, uh, people, uh, people from Denmark, uh, area. Uh, it's embarrassing, but we often do confuse the two and we actually use, uh, the two, uh, nationalities in the same, uh, way. They are different. Well, I know I had to talk fast. This is a little over 10 minutes, 11 minutes now, uh, it's a, it's kind of long. Sorry, I went a little long-winded there, but there was a lot to explain. And there's so much more I would like to explain. But, um, the beauty of the video is you can listen again and again and again. And if it was too fast, go back, listen again, go back, listen again, stop and go back, stop and go back. I won't do that 100 times, but video would. It's been great talking to you. Uh, enjoy your day. And, and as always, enjoy learning English. Take care. Bye now.
