Advanced (C1-C2)
Understand Native Speakers
To be honest, it’s difficult to understand native speakers. Listening and understanding two native speakers of any language when they’re speaking fast seems impossible. Why? There are many reasons why it’s hard to understand this fast-talking native speakers, but let’s talk about a few reasons:
5 Reasons
- you haven’t learned connected speech
- you’re not used to their accent(s)
- you’re not at an advanced enough level in English
- they have poor speaking habits
- you don’t know what you’re listening for
I’ll talk briefly about all of these. Let’s begin with the last point.
Why Are You Listening?
To understand native speakers, you have to know why you can’t get what’s being said. Sometimes you don’t understand what’s being said because you have no true reason to listen. This can go in conjunction with the speaker having poor speaking skills. If they’re not good speakers, or they’re simply not interesting, you may not give them the attention you need to because you’re bored, or it’s too much cognitive effort. So, if you understand native speakers may be more up to them and their faults as opposed to yours.
Assess Your Skills
Additionally, you may not have the English language skills to comprehend what the speaker(s) are saying. For example, you don’t know common grammar structures or basic frequently used vocabulary words and phrases.
Similarly, it’s possible you don’t have enough training in deciphering between and understanding different English accents. For example, I’m from the South of the U.S. We speak with what’s called a “Southern Drawl.” People from the West Coast or East Coast can understand me, but they have their own distinct accents/dialects of American English as well. Compound that with the fact that their are “micro-accents” within each of these regions and you can see why it’s difficult to understand some native speakers of English. This can also be said for Canada, the U.K., Ireland, etc.
Connected Speech for Fluency & to Understand Native Speakers Better
However, the best way to learn to speak English at a near-native level, and understand it, is to perfect connected speech. Connected speech is exactly that, connected speech.
We all know at this point that spoken English is different than written English: there’s little to no correspondence between pronunciation and written word. This becomes even more severe when fluent individuals begin to speak because they often squish words together, which alters the sound. Sometimes they leave sounds off, or add them to the word preceding it thus essentially linking it. That’s connected speech: connecting utterances together.
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The #1 Best Way to Learn English, Vocabulary, and Understand Native English Speakers
Background
Episode #56: “The #1 Best Way to Learn English, Vocab, & Understand Native English Speakers” is a conversation between me and my good friend. My friend’s name is SaitCan. He’s from Belfast, Northern Ireland, but he was born in Bodrum, Turkey.
SaitCan grew up in a bilingual household: Turkish and English. He and I speak about this in this episode. We speak about other things, too. In fact, this episode is only 1/3 of our conversation which lasted 90 seconds.
We Met in Istanbul, Turkey
He and I met each in 2014 when he was studying abroad at Boğazici University in Istanbul, Turkey and I was teaching English in Istanbul. He’s always good craic and I’m sure you’ll see what I mean in this episode.
What’s the best way to learn English?
You’ll learn that in this episode as well as 90+ new vocabulary words, phrasal verbs, expressions, and idioms spoken by two native speakers of English.
Yes, we speak fast, but so what? You’re already a rockstar at this language, you genius. Besides, you have the transcript below if you’re still not feeling confident, or if you don’t understand.
Happy learning from me and my favorite Northern Irishman, SaitCan!
P.S. —Happy Birthday, SaitCan!
Transcript (Excerpt)
(Start)
Sait Can
0:00
Yeah, for sure. That’s the best way to learn because you hear but I remember, like, learning that stuff back in school learning German or Spanish at, like, high school level. And it’s all very static and, like, language you would never use.
Ashley Rhone
0:13
[laughs] Yeah!
Sait Can
0:14
Except that, you know, I mean, like, “I like to go to the shop.” No one ever talks like that. Are you—you’d sound like a shit if you did.
Sait Can
0:19
You’re not going to have a conversation with somebody in German…
0:25
(Intro Music)
Ashley Rhone
0:46
Hey, welcome back, and a big hello to those of you who are joining me for the first time. My name is Ashley Rhone, and I am an English coach at paradigmenglish.com. Welcome to the Living in English:365 podcast.
1:03
If you haven’t already noticed, today’s episode is different. In fact, it’s so different that I need to probably give you a bit of background information before we jump in to the rest of this episode. So, first of all, the person in the clip you just heard, his name is Sait Can.
1:25
Who’s That Guy?
Sait Can is one of my really good friends. And he is so nice and kind, and you guys should really be thanking him. But he has agreed to just come and have a chat as to native speakers speaking to help you. I heard you guys saying that it’s very difficult for you to understand two native speakers when they’re speaking together. And so, I’ve listened, and here’s a special treat for you because this conversation is entirely for you.
1:52
What’s the Episode About
He and I are talking about different things in this episode. This is just an excerpt from it.
So the beginning part we’ll be talking about cars, we’ll be talking about things that are happening in our life and daily situations because on this podcast, the goal of this podcast is to help you use your English in everyday situations: daily. No matter where you are, to make it a habit of using English and being proficient at it.
Course Update
Just an update. The application for my fluency course opens in a few days. In fact, it opens on March 21. If you go to my website, at paradigmenglish.com you will see it for the Fluency Academy.
Ashley Rhone
2:34
Important Notice
So a couple of things about this episode. I did NOT edit out any of the obscenities, profanity, if you will, expletives or expletives however you want to say it, but I left it there for clarity and because this is how he and I naturally speak.
About Him
So a little bit about him. He is actually from Belfast in Northern Ireland. And he actually was born in Turkey. He was born in Bodrum. So, Western Turkey in the Aegean region, and he lived there with his family until he was about three. So, he grew up in a bilingual household.
Languages
Turkish technically was his first language even though his mother is Irish and his father is Turkish. He did grow up speaking Turkish and English. Now, he did move to Belfast when he was a little older after the age of three. But he does return each year to visit his family there. And of course, he did study abroad at Boğaziçi university.
I hope you enjoy this episode. And I have a couple of things that I want you to focus on when listening to this excerpt of a more than 90 minute conversation between he and I.
Your Assignment
Ashley Rhone
3:50
First, I want you to listen for the filler words. Sometimes whenever you forget a word or you forget a phrase or you just lose your train of thought. You need words to help you fill in that space. Some of you are very good at this. Some of you need a little bit more practice. So, I want you to listen to the filler words, filler words such as “like,” “umm,” “hmm.” These types of words, “okay,” “so.” Listen to these and listen to how he and I use them, in which contexts we’re using them.
Also, listen for connected speech. You’ve heard me speak about connected speech in my blog posts, as well as on a couple of different podcasts episodes, in fact, but connected speech is one of those things that really separates you from being just an okay speaker of English to being a really good one that sounds fluent and native like, so, connected speech. You need to look at the way that he and I are linking our words together, even our ideas together. Those times where you can’t quite tell what word it is. That’s because we’ve connected our speech. Listen to those.
Ashley Rhone
5:10
Happy Birthday and Happy St. Paddy’s Day!
And one final word before we get started. Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all of you celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. I already have an episode about this. It’s Episode 21. Also, remember I am from the southern part of the United States. So how you hear me speaking now is not how I would naturally speak to people in my family. I am Southern. So you will hear me actually go into my southern dialect or accent whenever I’m speaking with Sait Can. And of course, I’ll be speaking at a more rapid pace. It’s faster. One last thing. The day after St. Patrick’s Day is actually Sait Can’s birthday. So, Happy Birthday, SaitCan.
Listening (Advanced)
Cars
Ashley Rhone
5:58
How’d the thing with the car go?
Sait Can
6:01
Good. Yeah, I think we got, um, we got one picked out. Just need to fill in the paperwork now. Shite. Get it ordered Monday.
Lease
Ashley Rhone
6:08
Oh, you had to order it!?
Sait Can
6:09
Should be here at the end of the month I think.
Sait Can
6:11
Yeah, it’s like this lease thing.
Ashley Rhone
6:13
What?
Sait Can
6:14
So, you get it leased. And—
Ashley Rhone
6:19
Ahh. I see.
Car Shopping
Sait Can
6:20
then they switch them for, like, [incomprehensible] was why kind of stuff. So it should be done. End of the month, I think.
Ashley Rhone
6:26
You put something special on it? Some extra?
Sait Can
6:29
Yeah, you look at—hmm?
Ashley Rhone
Customized Car
6:30
Supped out? I don’t know. I don’t know I’ve never, like—I’ve been with someone to buy a car, or get a car. But I’ve never actually, like, done it myself.
Sait Can
6:38
Either way, I’m not that fucking into cars really.
Ashley Rhone
6:40
uhnn. I’m not either.
Sait Can
6:42
Yeah
Ashley Rhone
6:42
Car Buying Culture
Do you guys have that whole culture of where you have to, like, barter for the car? Like, we don’t have this whole thing where we negotiate and haggle stuff, but only with cars—
Sait Can
6:51
No, the fuck. They wouldn’t entertain that kind of shite over here.
Ashley Rhone
6:56
[laughs]
Sait Can
6:56
No way.
Ashley Rhone
6:58
We usually don’t. Right? It’s something you—we would we would expect back in Istanbul, maybe, but yeah, like—
Sait Can
Bartering
7:04
Oh, fuck yeah.
Ashley Rhone
7:05
Like that’s the only —that I can think of at least— that’s the only part of our culture where we have that where you kind of have to, like, negotiate the deal or they’re gonna absolutely swindle you.
Sait Can
7:17
I know, that’s going out, that’s going out. Well, I don’t know, some stuff is like that, I suppose with custom built anything, it’s, you can sort of go right, mmm, and give offers or whatever else. But that’s kind of going the way of the dodo, I think, that whole bartering system. Which I quite like.
Photo of a dodo bird by Roelant Savery Link
Ashley Rhone
7:32
Do you?
Sait Can
Getting the Deal
7:32
It’s a nice sort of, like, well sorta. Well, to an extent, you know? If you know what the value of something is, and you sort of… you can negotiate with people that way. And yeah, you can get a good deal. Like, you see those shows and stuff like, you know, pawn shows whatever else or you know.
Ashley Rhone
7:47
That’s true.
Sait Can
7:48
They take, they take the piss.
Ashley Rhone
7:50
Yeah, exactly.
Sait Can
7:51
So it was worth like five grand. I’ll give you like 50 pay for it. No, fuck off!
Ashley Rhone
7:55
Exactly that. This is the antique, dude, are you serious? No.
Sait Can
7:59
Yeah. I know. Get ripped off constantly.
Ashley Rhone
8:01
Yeah, that’s that’s why I don’t like it. When like, it just feels dishonest. Like, can you just not do that? Can we just talk about the actual price? Because the minute you drive, for example, the car like the minute you drive it off a lot. It’s worth… I don’t know how much less.
Sait Can
8:15
Yeah, at least, what, 20% less or something?
Ashley Rhone
8:16
Yeah, it depreciates.
Sait Can
8:18
Yeah.
Ashley Rhone
8:19
It’s some BS.
Sait Can
8:19
Selling Things Online
It’s like that. Have you ever tried to sell stuff— but like I like a bunch of stuff whenever we were moving house. There’s loads of stuff that was in storage that I don’t want anymore. So I just started to sell on eBay and people are like that. Like, you’d be surprised what people will do.
Or just be surprised at the effort some people put into just get the most minimal amount of money off anything. Like, it was, sorta, of it was like this—I don’t know what the fuck even it was it was ages ago I was selling something.
And it was, it wasn’t expensive. Just like something I didn’t want but it was, ballgame, was something like a fiver. Five pound or something. And someone, like, sent me an offer of like, 4.50 it’s like, why did you even bother typing in the computer for the sake of 50 p. I mean, it couldn’t have been be worth your time. Oh, yeah, fine, but like, why did you? Like, is it that much of a difference to your life? 50 p off? Jesus.
Ashley Rhone
Negotiating the Price
9:05
You know, just to feel like they did something. I mean, if I would—
Sait Can
9:08
Maybe that’s it, Yeah.
Ashley Rhone
9:10
Yeah, I wouldn’t have wasted my time.
Ashley Rhone
9:13
I mean, you also didn’t care. Right? You also didn’t care? You just wanted to get rid of it
Sait Can
9:17
No. I didn’t care. Yeah. No, I didn’t mind. It was like, it’s more so just to cover the cost of, like, the postage for the thing. Like, I wanted, it’s in my way to go and send to deliver—it was, like, a coffee machine or something or piece of a coffee machine or something like that. I don’t know. But, you know. But, you know, that like, Oh, well, someone could use it. Or, I could perfectly bin rust, you know, drive to the dump to get rid of it. But, what the hell.
Ashley Rhone
9:40
yeah, I mean, it’s better if someone uses it.
Sait Can
9:44
Frugality
Some people are just frugal to such an extreme. Whenever I was a teenager working in the supermarket. You’d do, like, reductions and stuff, of stuff that you needed to get rid of that day. And like, you would half it in price, or whatever. But, there’d be people who would, sort of pick it up and sort of mosey about the shop for about four hours because the reductions would get done every hour.
Ashley Rhone
10:04
Oh my gosh!
Sait Can
10:05
So, whatever, let’s say you half the price then in an hour later, you would half that again, and then, you know. There’d be somebody would pick it up and then have that thing, come back to ya’ in hour and then get you to scan again so that you—they’d get like another 10 p[ence] off it or whatever.
Ashley Rhone
10:20
What the heck!
Sait Can
Cheapskates
10:20
And they’d do that for like—yeah, they would—that’s what I’m saying. They would spend like three and a half hours just to get, maybe, a sum total of 40 p extra off of what, you know, a loaf of bread or something. And thing is, right, I used to just think, okay, well, fair enough. Some people aren’t flushed with cash and, you know, and money’s tight for some people and, you know, that’s alright. But these people weren’t, you know, I mean.
Ashley Rhone
10:41
They’re just cheap!
Sait Can
10:42
They were— Yeah, they—exactly, because I knew who they were. You know, even if I didn’t know them, I knew them vicariously through other people to go, “Oh, that’s my neighbor. She’s just extremely tight,” or whatever else, you know. That you know, she has, she owns, she’s has a car. She’s not like, on the breadline. She’s just, if she can get ten p[ence] off of something, that’s a victory for her, you know, something like that.
Ashley Rhone
11:02
You know, I don’t have time don’t have time to waste for that, like, that’s a lot of time a whole afternoon, eve— whatever it’s like wasted walking around the supermarket for 10 p off.
Ashley Rhone
No. I’ve never heard—
Sait Can
11:12
People Who Wait in Line
It’s like that, you know, there was like a [Hans lebirth] part, like a skit he did about people who wait in line at like midnight or something for like a new release of a book or whatever is like I’d rather you know, have the luxury of sleep in my own bed to not have to sit and sleep in the street for 12 hours. I mean, think about what that is per hour like is worth your time.
Ashley Rhone
11:16
I don’t know, have you never done that? Because I’ve done it twice. I remember when one of the Harry Potter books was released back in the—
Sait Can
11:42
Ah, fuck that.
Ashley Rhone
11:43
No, like, I totally did it.
Sait Can
11:45
As a cultural sort of, if you’re a big, big fan, I get on it sort of like it’s not even, you know, because you need to have it right then and there.
It’s the whole sort of, like, waiting in line as a pilgrimage—I get that part as a fan. And it’s sort of like, you know, there’s a there’s an atmosphere of everyone in lines, or like, you know, there’s a, you know, everyone does that, you know, there’s the accumulative fandom there.
And they’re all sort of like, you know, in line, and they’re sort of, you know, all excited together. I’m sure that’s part of it. But it’s not uncommon for like having to do it for hours on end, like how long you’d gotta wait?
Ashley Rhone
Camping Out
12:13
Oh, I don’t remember. I don’t know, I got there pretty early. So I think it dropped at 12. And that shop wasn’t even open until then, so I was pretty, you know, it was it was pretty. I also had pre-ordered. So all I had to do is like go to the front and get my thing. There was like a complete line for us. And then people who just came, but I remember like—Huh?
Sait Can
12:36
they camp out for like, fucking overnight and shit. Like, fucking..
Ashley Rhone
12:40
Yeah, they’re—they’re done too much. I would not be doing that, that that’s a waste of my time. I might wake up early in the morning, like, pretty early and sit there and you know, have a breakfast. Like if I’m with a friend, I remember that Lady Gaga came to Oklahoma City probably like more than a decade ago at this point. And I remember, like—
Sait Can
12:57
Jesus.
Waiting for Gaga
Ashley Rhone
12:58
I know, but I remember waking up really early and driving to the— I live in the Capitol now. But I wasn’t living there at the time. So, I remember, like, going there early in the morning and getting tickets. But I was only waiting for like, a couple hours. If I had to wait overnight. It’s a wrap. I’m not doing that. That’s doing too much. I got stuff to do.
13:17
I thought—I’m talking about. I mean, it’s more specifically, the people, bring a fucking tent and the deck chairs and, like, they’re there for like a day and a half. What the hell’s wrong with you?
Ashley Rhone
13:28
I mean, maybe they’re—
Sait Can
13:30
Jesus.
Ashley Rhone
13:30
I don’t know what they’re doing. Like, that has got to be boring. And, and is it that serious? I don’t know. I don’t know.
Sait Can
13:37
That’s what I’m saying like if I guess a pilgrimage, and you won’t be part of the atmosphere of like, you know, the release of something that you have, you know, quite a big fan of, whatever but I mean, it’s within limits,
Ashley Rhone
13:47
That’s how I feel. I’m not, as my aunt always says—.
Sait Can
13:50
Maybe I just don’t give a shit of anything not much. That’s all.
Ashley Rhone
13:52
I think that’s what it is [laughs].
Sait Can
13:54
Maybe I’m just jealous. I wish I cared so much about something that I would, you know, wait eight hours for something. There’s a thing like that night a friend of mine I think he’s, he started his own restaurant. He’s doing pop-ups and stuff of, I don’t know even what he’s what he’s making but whatever, like a small pop-up, but I guess small pop-up to get his restaurant going. And there’s like, there’s like queues that are formin’ because that’s the way it is now, you know, there’s a hype generation.
Hype Generation
Ashley Rhone
13:54
Yeah.
Sait Can
13:58
You know, things are sort of, you know, it’s like 15-seconds of fame as opposed to 15-minutes, which is great for him. This get a bit of a buzz around him, but, like, I would never wait in fucking line for a fucking sandwich.
Ashley Rhone
14:32
I mean, it depends how long it is like—
Sait Can
14:35
No, I think 10 minutes, fine. I’m talking about a half-an-hour like two hours. No…
Ashley Rhone
14:39
Oh hell no. I’m not doing that. No, no.
SC
Sait Can
14:41
That’s what I’m saying.
Sait Can
14:42
And it’s freezing. No way.
Ashley Rhone
14:46
Kebabs in Berlin
I think I did that once when I went to visit one of my friends in Berlin and there was some kebab shop that was nearby, and we waited there and we were probably also pretty drunk. So it didn’t seem like forever, but that’s the only time—
Sait Can
15:00
At least time can pass quicker.
Ashley Rhone
15:02
Yeah, I mean, maybe. I don’t even remember, but I’m not waiting in line for—plus I’m like a vegetarian, like, how long do you gotta wait for vegetables? Like come on. Right
Sait Can
15:12
More Waiting in Line
I don’t know. It’s just it’s there’s like just diminishing returns on, like, if you wanna wait ten minutes. Eh, no problem. I don’t mind that.
Ashley Rhone
15:17
Yeah.
Sait Can
15:17
But like, when people go “this is a three- hour wait,” and people go “Okay, fine.” Imagine how, you know, someone says stagger in a straight line, about a few meters for three hours. Fuck off!
Ashley Rhone
15:29
Well, especially with the COVID stuff. Like, we got to be a whole, you know—
Sait Can
15:32
Jesus.
Sait Can
15:33
Yeah.
Ashley Rhone
15:34
Six feet away from everybody.
Sait Can
15:35
Jesus Christ.
Ashley Rhone
15:37
I don’t know, like I had a—
Sait Can
15:39
If people wanna do it, then fine. But it would bore the arse off me.
Ashley Rhone
15:42
I got stuff to do. That’s how I fee— even if I don’t have stuff to do, I don’t have time for that. So…
Sait Can
15:48
No, God yeah. No not at all.
Ashley Rhone
15:49
There was some, there’s some barbecue place here. That I mean, I never ate there. Because I don’t eat—what am I gonna do at a barbecue place? But it, um, it’s called Bobo’s Chicken. And it’s really popular.
Sait Can
16:01
Sounds nice.
Ashley Rhone
16:02
Facebook Privacy
Apparently, it’s good. I couldn’t tell you from firsthand. But, um, I just saw one of my friends on Facebook post about it. And he’s like, yeah, Bobo’s chickens back open. And I thought, okay, like, why did it close? Maybe you shouldn’t be there if it closed down and now it’s back open, but whatever. And he sent a picture of the line and it was literally staggered look like it was going across the street, like around the pavement. I thought, oh my God. Dude, are you serious right now? Are you gonna really wait there for some chicken? How much chicken is there in the world that they can supply you with? Like all these people?
Sait Can
16:34
You see that in, like, these different cultures become a real big, big element of culture. And I like this part, especially if food trucks and stuff you know, things become really and you didn’t get advertised for nothing I like through Instagram and and social media. So, things can come very popular very quickly. But, I don’t know.
Ashley Rhone
16:53
Hmm. I don’t know.
Sait Can
16:54
I think people kind of like that, because then they can also sort of, like, you know, post about what they’re gonna go, wait in line for this thing as if they’re part of the whatever buzz is going on, you know?
Do You Photograph Your Food?
Ashley Rhone
17:03
Yeah, I just feel like—
Sait Can
17:04
But, fuck that.
Ashley Rhone
17:05
Yeah, that part that—
Sait Can
17:07
Personally.
Ashley Rhone
17:07
all of that part. I’m like, I don’t want people to know what I’m doing where I’m at. I don’t care. Like, why are we taking pictures of food? Just eat your damn food, Eat it. Eat your food. I don’t care where you are.
Sait Can
17:18
But there’s a big divide happening now because of that kind of stuff. You know, I mean, a lot of people, some people are just more than ready to relinquish their privacy. You know?
Privacy
Ashley Rhone
17:26
I’m not. I mean, I want to hold some semblance of, I don’t even know what the word for that would be. But I’m not.
Sait Can
17:35
Yeah.
Ashley Rhone
17:36I don’t know. I don’t—maybe it’s a female thing. Also, I don’t want to, I don’t want people to know where I am. I’ve got some people on my Facebook. I’m kind of like, ah.
Sait Can
17:43
Some people just did this. They don’t mind doing that. Like, there’s loads of people who just post like the inside of the fucking house and every aspect of what they’re doing per day. Like what the hell’s wrong with you? Do you care about you know, people who, like hundreds of people of privacy, it’s like, it’s no, it’s good to end window. People don’t seem to give a shit about it. They’re more than happy to, like, hand that over. I mean, it’s become a very rare commodity to have any sort of element of privacy, you know?
Ashley Rhone
18:11
I mean, I think it’s—
Sait Can
18:12
Often in the sense also been handed over every time I click on any fucking website,
Ashley Rhone
Cookies
18:15
any website. Exactly. I was just talking to my mom about that the other day. It’s like everywhere you go, can we install cookies, cookies, cookies, I’m like, screw these cookies. I’m like, you can’t even see anything now without the damn cookies. Wanting them to store cookies. Oh, gosh. But I don’t know. I think with the especially with social media—
Sait Can
18:34
Well, there’s somebody like that, I dunno.
Ashley Rhone
18:35
I’m tired of it. I’m like, I want to go back to like, the early 2000s and 90s. You know. And you’re old enough that you’ll remember that you want to go back to the time before all this social media when people couldn’t get a hold of you. Like I like that someone’s calling me you know I’ve been trying to reach you all day and I’m like yeah, really? That’s like called three times. But I don’tknow. Yeah, dude and your birthday is next week. Yeah, I can’t hear you.Can you not hear me? Sait Can?
Living in the Countryside
Sait Can
19:02
[laughs] No, okay. Just it was cutting out a wee bit there. I think like a connection problem or something.
Ashley Rhone
19:07
Ah, okay. Sorry! I could probably change my… oh, mine should be fine here.
Sait Can
19:11
No, I guess it might be my connection maybe a bit shite here. I dunno.
Ashley Rhone
19:15
Are you not in Belfast?
Sait Can
19:17
No, I’m in the countryside.
Ashley Rhone
19:19
Which would be where?
Connectivity Issues
Sait Can
19:19
But the connection pretty decent here. It’s just a bit— waiver sometimes that’s all.
Ashley Rhone
19:23
mmmm.
Sait Can
19:24
Standard.
Ashley Rhone
19:24
Well, I mean, if you’re in the countryside, I would I would imagine somewhat. That’s how my parents are now. They’re in the middle of—well, I won’t say in the middle of nowhere. They’re just kind of on the outskirts, but basically, I mean, they have a horse it’s like it’s not like they’re in the middle of the city. But their connection is garbage. Garbage.
Ireland
Sait Can
19:43
Ireland basically is one big countryside. There’s there’s Belfast there’s Dublin and then basically everything outside that, is fields.
Ashley Rhone
19:52
Well that’s—
Sait Can
19:52
so countryside is like, you know, it’s still basically what we’d feel you know, at the time.
House Repair
Ashley Rhone
19:57
Right. And you guys were fixin’ your house. Have you finished that? I forgot what you said?
Sait Can
20:02
Yeah no, it’s like 99% done now. It’s just little bits and pieces that need done. Today we’re just getting a few bits of the kitchen get done. Recently, a lot of stuff’s gotten polished up quite quickly. So, like, we’re in the house now, so, we’re inside and fixing stuff up. Like, the reflection—fixing, like the granite for the marble— or, for the kitchen stuff. Yesterday, that got finished.
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