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English LingQ 2.0 Podcast, EnglishLingQ Podcast #27: Polyglot Steve Kaufmann on his latest language learning challenge

EnglishLingQ Podcast #27: Polyglot Steve Kaufmann on his latest language learning challenge

Elle: Hi everyone and welcome to the link podcast with me, Elle. If you would like to study the transcript to this podcast episode and all past podcast episodes as an English lesson, you can do so on LingQ. I will always pop the link to the lesson in the description.

LingQ is an excellent way to study English. You translate words and phrases you don't know, adding them to your own personal database and learn from content you love. And remember to like, share, follow, subscribe, whatever showing love means on the platform that you are listening on.

This week I am joined by the man, the legend LingQ co-founder and YouTube polyglot Steve Kaufman. Steve, how are you?

Steve: I'm fine Elle, how are you?

Elle: I'm good. Thank you. I'm good now that we are in 25 degree heat, as opposed to 41 degree heat that we just previously had.

Steve: Yes, we've had... that was extraordinary. Extraordinary how hot it was. Yeah.

Um, yeah. And, and, uh, just as an aside, of course, some people may know that the town of Lytton in the interior set a record of 49, almost 50 degrees of heat centigrade, whatever that is in Fahrenheit, 120 plus, uh, and then the whole town had to evacuate and the town basically was burned to the ground because they had this enormous forest fire. And then they showed pictures of, there's so much heat over the interior of the province that is creating these massive and multiple lightning strikes, which of course creates more forest fires, which creates more heat. It's just a horrendous situation.

Elle: Scary for the season ahead.

Steve: You know, I was, I, uh, I had to, I had a few chores to do, so I went to, had to go to get some insurance at the insurance office. One of the two ladies there spoke Farsi. So I was able to practice my Farsi. Then I went to the liquor store to buy some wine and the checkout lady there spoke Farsi. So I was able to speak Farsi with her. Then I went to the supermarket and then the checkout lady there spoke Farsi.

So I spoke Farsi again, just in, it's amazing. It's amazing. And, and I'm reminded of that, uh, there was a gentleman standing behind me in line and we started chatting and we were chatting about, you know, we don't need to wear the masks anymore, and some people feel more comfortable wearing masks and that's fine too.

And, and, uh, he was from Lillooet, which is very near Lytton. And I said, how are things up there? You know, cause they're right in the, I call it the eye of the storm. And he said, he said he has a small business, 20 employees. He was basically, they were all waiting to see if they would also be evacuated and they could see the fire.

But the fires didn't come their way. And apparently there was a heavy rain storm and that seems to have dampened things a little bit. Uh, but it was interesting. He's originally from, uh, North Vancouver and we had a long chat. He'd moved up there and he runs a bakery. And so I said, you know, my wife likes making sourdough bread.

And so we talked about baking and stuff like that. So I was very... but here's a guy he's from he's right on the front lines of the whole heat wave fire, forest fires situation.

Elle: It's really scary. I live, so I'm in North Van I can see the mountains from my street and they're scorched, they're brown. A lot of the trees have been scorched. And so, yeah.

Steve: Oh, I hadn't seen that. So nearby us then.

Elle: Yeah, Grouse Mountain, up that way. Um, my husband's lived here his whole life, on this street, and he said he's never seen that before. So it's kind of scary for the wildfire season.

Steve: I mean, if we get a forest fire here in Vancouver, there is no shortage of vegetation. I mean, there's so many trees everywhere.

Elle: Yeah, it's a scary thought for sure.

Steve: I mean, there always used to be forest fires. The, the difference is there's a lot more people living in the forest, but the forest always used to burn regularly. It's scary.

Elle: It is. Um, so I wanted to ask you about your challenge, um...

Steve: right.

Elle: Uh, anyone who isn't aware, steve started a 90-Day Challenge 30 days ago now, right? So you're a third of the way through. Anyone who doesn't...

Steve: only 30 days? I was hoping I was further along than that.

Elle: Is it dragging, or is it tough to meet your targets?

Steve: Uh, you know, not all of our decisions are good ones.

Elle: It's intense, right? A 90-Day Challenge is intense. For anyone who doesn't know, a 90-Day Challenge is 90 days of consistent study every day on LingQ, uh, hitting your targets. So reading, listening, Creating LingQs, which are words and phrases that you don't know that you've translate and saved to your database. You've also, you're also in a Streak with Steve Challenge, which is meeting your daily LingQs target, and which keeps you in a streak for, for 90 days.

That's an intense one, also. So you're being sufficiently challenged right now on LingQ. How's it going?

Steve: Um, well, I saw that Streak with Steve didn't fully understand what it entailed, but I thought that what I would try to do is force myself to study both Farsi and Arabic. So I'll do two languages and set myself lower goals, like only create 13 LingQs. In other words, look up and save 13 new words initially in each language. And I think I kept that up for a while, but that's too difficult to do. Uh, I, I find myself wanting to spend at least one week on one language and then one week on the other language, um, I find it's a bit confusing to do two languages like that.

Uh, I'm committed to doing it. Uh, otherwise I think I would just go back to saying work on one for three months, really get into it, then work on the other because I find that I don't slip that much. I can go back and do my mini stories again and it'll come back to me, right? So I find that it's a little bit confusing now to be in one in the other back to the first one, again, not, not an ideal situation, but this depends.

Some people do that. Some people study three languages at the same time and they're happy doing it. I think I'm, um, I prefer to stay focused on one at a time. That's kind of my conclusion, but I'm committed to doing this. So I'm gonna.

Elle: Had you ever previously studied two languages like this? You hadn't done two languages in a challenge before, I know that, but...

Steve: No, I went, I once went at three and I was more ambitious and maybe I was just more, um, had more energy then or something. I was trying to do a hundred LingQs a day in three languages: Arabic Farsi, and Turkish. But when you're starting up in a language, it's so easy to create LingQs because every lesson has a whole bunch of unknown words in it.

But now in those languages, I've, I've been at it so long that I have a lot of yellow sort of saved LingQs. Words that I have looked up, but I don't yet know. So, you know, if you just want to crank up the number of new LingQs, you just go into new material. And if the page is full of blue, unknown words, you have very quickly reached your goal.

But now even if I bring in new material in Farsi or Arabic, there aren't that many blue words, but it doesn't mean that I know the yellow words. I don't know them very often. I haven't seen them often enough to, to know. Uh, I do have the sense that certainly I understand a lot better than I did before.

And, um, so in order to create those 13 LingQs a day, I have to go out and get new material every day, which again, it's easier in Farsi because Sahra who's our collaborator in Iran is constantly creating good content for me, uh, Iranian filmmakers or Iranian food or Iranian history. So that part of it is easy.

The Arabic is a little more difficult. But I've even started branching off into Egyptian Arabic and, and, uh, you know, because, because the Arabic world is so different. So if I had a Ted Talk in Levantine Arabic, then I want to try to understand that and look up the words there. Uh, my tutor is from Cairo and we've been going through some Egyptian, Arabic texts.

And so I'm just playing around. Like, I'm not, I'm not going to write a test in any of this stuff. So I'm just doing, I'm sort of exploring and enjoying. And, um, the challenge is not, you know, it's not what motivates me. What motivates me is my interest in what I'm listening to and reading. But I know that for many people, these challenges, uh, become a major motivator.

People don't have much time and they need that extra, basically a nudge to make sure they do something every day. And it's so important to do something every day. So I think it's a good idea to, to have these challenges, but I'm kind of not living up to my commitments.

Elle: Okay.

Well thank you for being so honest. That's great. Um, are you speaking, you are speaking in the languages too, as part of the challenge or just as part of your weekly study for Persian and Arabic?

Steve: Yeah.

I've uh, so I'll have say maybe three sessions in Farsi with Sahra and then three sessions with Mohammed in Egyptian. I really enjoy my time with both of them because they're very nice.

They just keep me going. I don't have to worry about what we're going to talk about. I think we have a good rapport. So it's just like sitting down with a friend and, uh, speaking. So, and then I get a report back with my mistakes and the recording. And so the whole thing works very well, but three a week is enough because I have to fit this in with all of the other things that I, commitments that I might have, you know?

Elle: Right. And so the what, so then Sahra, and is it Mohammed? Your, um...

Steve: Mohammed, yeah. Mohammed in Cairo and I Sahra she's in Northern Iran.

Elle: Okay.

And so they prepare, do they give you reading or talk to you about things they know that you've read?

Steve: No, no, no, no. If I want to, then I can, but normally we just show up. They're not prepared. I'm not prepared. Um, because we're venturing into Egyptian Arabic, so with Mohammed, we did some reading of the mini stories in Egyptian Arabic. Uh, I found also in our library at LingQ a series of, uh, interviews with people in Egypt, in Arabic.

And because these are not scripted, they're sort of more natural, you know, you know, people using the equivalent of, "you know", "like", "I mean", you know? So you got a lot of this sort of filler words stuff. So it's very conversational, sort of Egyptian Arabic. And I'm reading through this with Mohammed and typically we'll have maybe even half of the time will be spent reading, and then half of the time speaking, I think my Farsi is better than my Arabic. Now it used to be the other way around and that's because, uh, Farsi is just so much easier.

Elle: Okay.

Steve: So much easier. Yeah.

And it doesn't have this complication of different forms of... I mean, there may be different forms of Farsi, but basically there's two forms of Farsi.

There's a more formal form, which is, which has sort of the written form. And then the form that people use to speak, not very different, essentially the same words, some different endings, some slightly different vowels is not a big deal. So, whereas with, with Arabic, you know, Egypt, uh, Gulf Arabic, uh, Lebanese, Arabic, Moroccan, Arabic, they're all there.

Elle: What do you, what... so you mentioned that you were out today and you spoke to three people in Farsi. How, how are you received when you start chatting to them?

Steve: Uh, you know, the, the different sort of national groups react differently. Like if you were to generalize, the Farsi speakers are so pleased when they hear you speak Farsi and they're so encouraging and accommodating. And it's funny, I was out swimming in the ocean the other night, and there was a couple swimming and they started had some kind of, I don't know, small boat or inflatable boat, and they were both in the water and splashing around. And there were a couple in their fifties or early sixties. And, uh, I heard them speaking Farsi.

So I spoke to them in Farsi. Now you can imagine their surprise, they're swimming here in West Van and all of a sudden, some guy, some old geezer speaks to them and, uh, and, uh, so they reply. You're speaking. Are you, are you speaking Farsi? Yeah, guess what, I'm speaking Farsi. So we had a bit of a chat, uh, but generally, I mean the, the one, the one lady at the supermarket I've spoken to her before.

She's always very nice. She speaks to me in Farsi. Sometimes the inclination is for them to come back in uh, you know, to prove like, well, you know, I've been in Canada for 10 years, so I speak English very well, you know, so they need to demonstrate that, you know, but this lady at the supermarket, she's always very nice.

Oh, I haven't seen you in awhile. How are you? And we went back and forth in Farsi. Yeah.

Be careful because there's a lineup at the checkout, you know, I can't just sit, stand there and talk to her while people are waiting to pay for their groceries. But, um, yeah if I see someone see their name hear in their accent, I know you're not supposed to do this, but if I figured that they're Farsi speakers, I say, do you speak Farsi?

And then normally react very well.

Elle: I don't know that you're not supposed to do that. I don't think that's...

Steve: Well there's this whole idea, like, especially like, so the, the people who seem to be the most sensitive sometimes are people who are Asian. So if a person looks Asian, In fact, you can't assume that they speak an Asian language.

Elle: Right. I see.

Steve: In other words, if you have someone who has a Polish name like in Canada, now we have people from all over, right? So you can find Italian names, Polish names, German names, Dutch names, whatever. You can assume that they speak that language. Like my name is Kaufmann. People come up "Ah Steve Kaufman ya...".

That's not on. So, and the Asians are particularly, or some of them are a little sensitive, but you know, like I'm Canadian, you know, just because I look Asian, you kind of assume that I can speak English. Right. So you have to be very careful. So you got to pick, you know, you got to sense if this person, you know, you can't sort of imply that they can't speak English.

So I, I normally will say, uh, You know, you're not even like according to the real die-hards, you're not even supposed to have any curiosity about where this person is originally from. Even though they look non-Caucasian like that's a no, no. Okay.

Uh, people have no difficulty asking me if I'm German, just by looking at my name and it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

I'm not German, but they can ask me because they're curious. Oh, you got... It's like, so, so I just have to be a little bit aware of that. So I typically say, do you speak an Asian language? It's still a little bit dicey because just because of location, why should I have to speak an Asian language? And I agree with that.

I agree with that.

Like a person has been here for three, four generations, no more likely to speak an Asian language than somebody who has someone who has, um, you know, Polish name is expected to speak Polish or who has a Dutch name is expected to speak Dutch. So I agree with them, but I nevertheless enjoy speaking these languages.

And most of them react quite pleasantly. I haven't had any negative interactions, but it sometimes becomes an issue. You know, the sort of politically correct people say you shouldn't. So yeah.

Elle: So, uh, setting out 30 days ago on these challenges, 90-Day Challenge in Arabic and in Persian, did you have any goals, anything you would you wanted to have achieved by the end, in terms of not necessarily, you know, known words or hours of listening, but, uh, content that you would then be able to approach maybe movies or something?

Steve: Well, yeah, I find that my goals have changed. When I started out, I said, I want to be able to understand like a large part of my diet content has been these political partners, which typically I, uh, you know, I extract the MP3 file, convert that to text on an automatic transcription website, bring it into link, uh, and, uh, study it.

So I said, I want to get to where I can really understand these podcasts. But I found that my motivation to do that has declined because they're kind of boring after a while. It's always the same, the different groups and Yemen fighting each other there and Libya or whatever. I just get tired of it all.

So, uh, with Arabic, I've decided no, I'd rather get to where I can understand Egyptian movies. So then I said, well, then I better learn more Egyptian Arabic because I don't understand them very well. And there are Egyptian movies and series on Netflix. So I decided with Arabic, I want to start moving more into the spoken Arabic. Uh, with the, um, with the Farsi...

um, I had been basically following the diet that Sahra fed me. So it was the history of Iran. It was food of Iran. It was minority peoples in Iran, all this stuff, which I found very interesting. So that was great. And all of a sudden she sends me these descriptions of famous Iranian, um, film directors, uh, more than a few of them have won international acclaim even in the last 10 years or so.

Uh, Oscar's uh, awards at the Cannes uh, film festival, Berlin film festival and so forth. So she sends these through and the way she does, she talks about a certain film director, and then she has these circling questions about that same film director. And then she sends me a link to that movie or a movie by that director, uh, on YouTube.

Uh, so I'm able to watch it. So all of that, it has been very interesting. I tried to extract the MP3 file and transcribe it, but, you know, uh, audio from, um, from a movie is a bit disappointing as language learning content, because there's so many, you know, your car noise, the doors slamming, birds chirping. It's not dense language.

So I don't do that. I just, whatever she sends me, I read it and I try to learn it, learn about the movie, the film, a director, and then I watch the movie a while and I've enjoyed that. So in a way, I've moved more in the direction of enjoying movies, uh, in both, uh, Arabic heavy to Egyptian, Arabic, and, uh, in Farsi.

And trying to talk to three times a week with both Mohammed and, uh, Sahra.

Elle: Excellent. And you watched a movie, is it Asmaa? You recently mentioned n one of yourivideos.

Steve: Asmaa, that was the Egyptian movie. It was very interesting movie, actually, Egyptian movie. Uh, it it's, it's sort of a, it's about the stigma of AIDS in Egypt, uh, about, uh, uh, and I would say even the Iranian movies, this whole honor that the men seem to feel, uh, you know, basically, and, and an important component of their honor is being able to tell women what to do. So these are themes that come up in those movies.

Elle: Okay.

I'll have to, I'm always looking for movie recommendations. So if you say that's good I'll check that out.

Steve: Uh, yeah, it's, I'm trying to hear the Arabic. I mean, it is to get a bit of a, of a, of an insight into, uh, Egyptian society. I, I recommend it. Yeah, Asmaa, definitely.

Elle: Okay.

Steve: And, uh, the same with Iranian movies, um, The Separation, it was quite an interesting, quite an interesting movie. Very interesting. And it won some awards, it's an Iranian movie.

Elle: Is that, I think I've seen that one. Is it about the mother who. She had children, they don't know who she is. She's... she was...

Steve: No

Elle: Okay, I'm thinking of something else.

Steve: It's about, um, a couple in Iran and they have a daughter and, uh, they were preparing to leave Iran, to immigrate. And the wife was very keen on doing that, but then the husband decided he wouldn't go because his father now has Alzheimer's and can't look after himself.

And so then she wants to divorce and then it gets very complicated. So I can't, I won't get into the whole plot, but it's quite good. And it's apparently quite a psychological study on, um, Iranians. And the one thing that comes through when you watch Iranian movies, and there's another one called Ellie as well, is that while there's this sub-sense of the sort of, um, you know, male, call it male dominant, uh, you know, uh, you know, honor.

And yet, at least on the surface, the Iranians, they live very much like we do, you know, they're very modern, European, North American. We have this image that they're all wandering around the women shrouded in black and very backward and stuff. And no, it's not. I mean, there's, there's social differences in Iran, uh, like everywhere, but maybe more marked over there.

And, uh, but the, there is a middle-class that lives, you know, like Europeans. So, and that comes through in these movies.

Elle: The Separation. Okay.

I'll check that out too. I was thinking of a completely different movie. Okay.

Um, so Steve, you have, you have a mere 60 days left in your 90-Day Challenge. I wish you the best of luck and, um, yeah, I think it's, it's amazing to me, you're speaking three times a week.

So I'm... so you alternate then I assume you spend one week on Arabic one week on Persian?

Steve: One week on each. Yeah.

But you have to be flexible. Um, Mohammed told me that and he was gonna be without his internet for a week or so. So then I went two weeks on, on Farsi and now he's back, uh, up and running again.

So I was spending more time with him. I don't follow my, to be honest, I don't follow my streak that closely. It's just that I feel a commitment. I feel that I have an obligation to, to work on those languages, which is no big deal. Cause I enjoy doing it. Uh, but I, I made this commitment to do both. At the end of my 90 days, I'm going to do just Farsi because Farsi is the biggest opportunity here in Vancouver to use the language.

Although, you know, uh, internationally of course there are far more, uh, Arabic speakers than Farsi speakers.

Elle: That's good to... it must. It's nice though I'm sure, to be able to speak to people, as you say, at the supermarket and wherever you are.

Steve: Yeah.

Elle: Well, anyone who's interested in joining a challenge, I will pop the link in the description to the 90-Day Challenge the Streak with Steve as well.

Thank you so much for joining me, Steve. It's been great, as always.

Steve: I should say too, Elle, I've watched your interviews with your various guests. I think they are excellent. Absolutely excellent. Very interesting. And of course, not only are they interesting, but I think they're an opportunity for people to work on their English because they're all lessons at LingQ.

Elle: They are.

Steve: And you normally have guests on there who speak very clearly. You speak clearly. So I think they're excellent. Uh, interesting and excellent learning methods. Uh, have a sort of an intermediate, uh, less, they're not overly difficult. So I think it meets a need a real need.

Elle: Well thank you so much. And as you mentioned, I will always pop the link to the transcript of this video as a lesson in the description.

And there's a full course of all past interviews and episodes there for anyone who's learning English. So, uh, thank you so much, Steve. I, like I said, best of luck with your challenges.

Steve: Thank you. Bye.

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Elle: Hi everyone and welcome to the link podcast with me, Elle. |||||||||||艾尔 ||todos||||||||| Elle: Olá a todos e bem-vindos ao link podcast comigo, Elle. Элль: Всем привет и добро пожаловать на подкаст о связях со мной, Элль. Elle: 大家好，欢迎收听我的链接播客，Elle。 If you would like to study the transcript to this podcast episode and all past podcast episodes as an English lesson, you can do so on LingQ. |||||||逐字稿||||||||||||||||||| |||||||transcription du podcast||||||||||||||||||| Se você quiser estudar a transcrição deste episódio de podcast e todos os episódios de podcast anteriores como uma lição de inglês, você pode fazê-lo no LingQ. 如果您想将本期播客和以往所有播客的文字内容作为英语课程来学习，可以在 LingQ 上进行。 I will always pop the link to the lesson in the description. ||siempre|||||||||descripción Ich werde den Link zur Lektion immer in der Beschreibung einfügen. レッスンへのリンクは常に説明に表示されます。 Sempre coloco o link da aula na descrição. 我将始终弹出说明中课程的链接。

LingQ is an excellent way to study English. O LingQ é uma excelente maneira de estudar inglês. LingQ 是学习英语的绝佳方式。 You translate words and phrases you don't know, adding them to your own personal database and learn from content you love. ||||||||||||||базу данных|||||| Você traduz palavras e frases que não conhece, adicionando-as ao seu banco de dados pessoal e aprendendo com o conteúdo que você adora. 您可以翻译自己不认识的单词和短语，将其添加到自己的个人数据库中，并从自己喜欢的内容中学习。 And remember to like, share, follow, subscribe, whatever showing love means on the platform that you are listening on. ||||||||zeigen|||||||||| そして、あなたが聴いているプラットフォームで愛を示すことが何を意味するにせよ、いいね、シェア、フォロー、サブスクライブすることを忘れないでください。 E lembre-se de curtir, compartilhar, seguir, se inscrever, seja lá o que for mostrar amor na plataforma que você está ouvindo. И не забывайте ставить лайк, делиться, следовать, подписываться - все, что означает проявление любви на той платформе, на которой вы слушаете. 记得在您收听的平台上点赞、分享、关注、订阅，无论这意味着什么。

This week I am joined by the man, the legend LingQ co-founder and YouTube polyglot Steve Kaufman. |||||||||||||||多語專家|| |||||||||||||||||Kaufman |||||||||||||||language enthusiast||Kaufman |||||||||||||||||Кауфман Esta semana estou acompanhado pelo homem, o lendário cofundador do LingQ e poliglota do YouTube Steve Kaufman. 本周，LingQ 联合创始人、YouTube 多语言专家史蒂夫-考夫曼（Steve Kaufman）将与我一起分享他的传奇经历。 Steve, how are you? Steve, como você está? 史蒂夫，你好吗？

Steve: I'm fine Elle, how are you? Steve: Estou bem Elle, como você está? 史蒂夫：我很好，艾儿，你好吗？

Elle: I'm good. ||我很好 Ela: Estou bem. Thank you. Obrigada. I'm good now that we are in 25 degree heat, as opposed to 41 degree heat that we just previously had. ||||||||||im Gegensatz zu|||||||| 今までの41度の暑さではなく、25度の暑さで元気になりました。 Estou bem agora que estamos em um calor de 25 graus, em oposição ao calor de 41 graus que tínhamos anteriormente. 我现在很好，因为我们现在是 25 度的高温，而不是之前的 41 度高温。

Steve: Yes, we've had... that was extraordinary. ||||||非凡的 スティーブ：はい、私たちは持っていました...それは並外れたものでした。 Steve: Sim, nós tivemos... isso foi extraordinário. 史蒂夫：是的，我们有......这是非凡的。 Extraordinary how hot it was. とてつもなく暑かった。 Extraordinário como estava quente. 异常的热。 Yeah. Sim. 是啊

Um, yeah. Um sim. And, and, uh, just as an aside, of course, some people may know that the town of Lytton in the interior set a record of 49, almost 50 degrees of heat centigrade, whatever that is in Fahrenheit, 120 plus, uh, and then the whole town had to evacuate and the town basically was burned to the ground because they had this enormous forest fire. |||||||||||||||||Литтон||||||||||||Цельсия|||||Фаренгейта||||||||||эвакуировать|||||||||||||||| ||||||as a side note|||||||||||Lytton|||interior|||||||||centigrade|||||Fahrenheit||||||||||leave safely|||||||||||||||| ||||||順便說一句||||||||||||||內陸地區||||||||||||||||||||||||撤離|||||||||||||||| ||||||nebenbei bemerkt|||||||||||Lytton|||Binnenland|||||||||Grad Celsius||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||섭씨 온도||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||顺便提一下||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||撤离|||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||Lytton||||||||||||grados centígrados|||||||||||||||evacuar|||||||||||||||| Und, und, nur nebenbei, einige Leute wissen vielleicht, dass die Stadt Lytton im Landesinneren einen Rekord von 49, fast 50 Grad Celsius aufgestellt hat, was auch immer das in Fahrenheit ist, 120 plus, äh, und dann musste die ganze Stadt evakuiert werden und die Stadt wurde im Grunde niedergebrannt, weil sie diesen enormen Waldbrand hatten. E, e, uh, apenas como um aparte, é claro, algumas pessoas podem saber que a cidade de Lytton no interior estabeleceu um recorde de 49, quase 50 graus centígrados de calor, o que quer que seja em Fahrenheit, 120 mais, uh, e então toda a cidade teve que evacuar e a cidade basicamente foi queimada até o chão porque eles tiveram um enorme incêndio florestal. 而且，呃，顺便说一句，当然，有些人可能知道，内陆的利顿镇创下了 49 度的记录，接近 50 摄氏度，无论华氏温度是多少，120 多度，呃，然后整个小镇不得不撤离，小镇基本上被烧毁了，因为他们发生了这场巨大的森林火灾。 And then they showed pictures of, there's so much heat over the interior of the province that is creating these massive and multiple lightning strikes, which of course creates more forest fires, which creates more heat. |||||||||||||||||||||||閃電|閃電襲擊||||||||||| |||||||||||||||주|||||||||||||||||||| そして彼らは写真を見せました 州の内陸部に非常に多くの熱があり これらの大規模かつ複数の落雷を引き起こしています もちろんそれはより多くの森林火災を引き起こし より多くの熱を生み出しています E então eles mostraram fotos de, há tanto calor no interior da província que está criando esses relâmpagos massivos e múltiplos, o que obviamente cria mais incêndios florestais, o que cria mais calor. А потом они показали фотографии: над внутренними районами провинции так жарко, что это приводит к массовым и многочисленным ударам молний, что, конечно, вызывает еще больше лесных пожаров, которые создают еще больше жары. 然后，他们展示了一些图片，显示该省内陆地区的热量非常高，造成了大规模的多次雷击，这当然会引发更多的森林火灾，产生更多的热量。 It's just a horrendous  situation. |||ужасная| |||terrible| |||糟糕透頂| |||Es ist einfach eine entsetzliche Situation.| |||끔찍한| |||可怕的| |||Es una situación horrenda.| É apenas uma situação horrível. 这真是一个可怕的局面。

Elle: Scary for the season ahead. |||||vor uns エル：これからのシーズンは怖い。 Elle: Assustador para a próxima temporada. Elle：未来的季节很可怕

Steve: You know, I was, I, uh, I had to, I had a few chores to do, so I went to, had to go to get some insurance at the insurance office. ||||||||||||||дела||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||tasks||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||雜務||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||Hausarbeiten|||||||||||||Versicherung|||| ||||||||||||||faccende||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||家务||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||quehaceres domésticos||||||||||||||||| Steve: Sabes, yo estaba, yo, uh, tenía que, tenía algunas tareas que hacer, así que fui a, tuve que ir a conseguir algunos seguros a la oficina de seguros. Steve: Você sabe, eu estava, eu, uh, eu tinha que fazer, eu tinha algumas tarefas para fazer, então eu fui, tive que fazer um seguro no escritório de seguros. 史蒂夫：你知道，我当时，我，呃，我必须，我有一些杂事要做，所以我去了，必须去保险办公室买一些保险。 One of the two ladies there spoke Farsi. |||||||波斯語 |||||그곳에|| |||||||波斯语 Uma das duas senhoras falava farsi. 两位女士中的一位会说波斯语。 So I was able to practice my Farsi. |||||||Farsi Assim, pude praticar meu farsi. Then I went to the liquor store to buy some wine and the checkout lady there spoke Farsi. |||||Spirituosen|||||||||||| |||||alcohol|||||||||||| Então eu fui à loja de bebidas para comprar um pouco de vinho e a senhora do caixa falava persa. So I was able to speak Farsi with her. Então eu consegui falar farsi com ela. Then I went to the supermarket and then the checkout lady there spoke Farsi. Então eu fui ao supermercado e então a senhora do caixa falou persa.

So I spoke Farsi again, just in, it's amazing. Então eu falei farsi de novo, é incrível. It's amazing. É incrível. And, and I'm reminded of that, uh, there was a gentleman standing behind me in line and we started chatting and we were chatting about, you know, we don't need to wear the masks anymore, and some people feel more comfortable wearing masks and that's fine too. E, e eu me lembro disso, uh, havia um cavalheiro atrás de mim na fila e começamos a conversar e estávamos conversando sobre, você sabe, não precisamos mais usar as máscaras, e algumas pessoas se sentem mais confortável usando máscaras e tudo bem também.

And, and, uh, he was from Lillooet, which is  very near Lytton. ||||||Лиллуэт||||| ||||||Lillooet||||| ||||||Lillooet||||| ||||||릴루엣||||| ||||||Lillooet|||||Lytton En, uh, hij kwam uit Lillooet, wat heel dicht bij Lytton ligt. E, e, uh, ele era de Lillooet, que fica muito perto de Lytton. And I said, how are things up there? そして私は言った、物事はどうですか？ E eu disse, como estão as coisas lá em cima? You know, cause they're right in the, I call it the eye of the storm. あなたが知っている、彼らが正しいので、私はそれを嵐の目と呼んでいます。 Você sabe, porque eles estão bem no, eu chamo de olho da tempestade. And he said, he said he has a small business, 20 employees. E ele disse, ele disse que tem uma pequena empresa, 20 funcionários. He was basically, they were all waiting to see if they would also be evacuated and they could see the fire. ||||||||||||||эвакуированы|||||| ||||||||||||||evacuated|||||| ||||||||||||||evacuados|||||| ||||||||||||||evacuados|||||| 彼は基本的に、彼らは皆、避難して火を見ることができるかどうかを待っていました。 Ele estava basicamente, todos eles estavam esperando para ver se eles também seriam evacuados e eles poderiam ver o fogo.

But the fires didn't come their way. Mas os incêndios não vieram em seu caminho. And apparently there was a heavy rain storm and that seems to have dampened things a little bit. |||||||||||||помешало|||| |||||||||||||dampened|||| |||||||||||||diminuído|||| |||||||||||||減弱了|||| |||||||||||||gedämpft|||| |||||||||||||약간 가라앉혔어요|||| |||||||||||||减弱了|||| |||||||||||||humedecido|||| E aparentemente houve uma forte tempestade de chuva e isso parece ter abafado um pouco as coisas. По всей видимости, прошел сильный ливень, и это немного омрачило ситуацию. Uh, but it was interesting. He's originally from, uh, North Vancouver and we had a long chat. |最初|||||||||| Es originario de Vancouver Norte y tuvimos una larga charla. He'd moved up there and he runs a bakery. Se había mudado allí y tiene una panadería. Он переехал туда и держит пекарню. And so I said, you know, my wife likes making sourdough bread. ||||||||||заквасочный хлеб| ||||||||||sourdough| ||||||||||fermento natural| ||||||||||酸麵包| ||||||||||Sauerteigbrot| ||||||||||pane a lievitazione naturale| ||||||||||pan de masa madre| Y entonces dije, sabes, a mi esposa le gusta hacer pan de masa fermentada. И я сказал: "Знаете, моя жена любит печь хлеб на закваске".

And so we talked about baking and stuff like that. Así que hablamos de repostería y cosas así. So I was very... but here's a guy he's from he's right on the front lines of the whole heat wave fire, forest fires situation. だから私はとても...しかし、ここに彼がいる男が、熱波の火、森林の火の状況全体の最前線にいます。 Mas aqui está um tipo que está na linha da frente de toda a situação dos incêndios florestais e das ondas de calor.

Elle: It's really scary. Elle: É realmente assustador. I live,  so I'm in North Van I can see the mountains from my street and they're scorched, they're brown. |||||||||||||||||обожжённые|| |||||||||||||||||scorched|| |||||||||||||||||queimadas|| |||||||||||||||||焦黑的|| |||||||||||||||||verbrannt|| |||||||||||||||||bruciati aridi|| |||||||||||||||||quemadas|| Eu moro, então estou em North Van eu posso ver as montanhas da minha rua e elas estão queimadas, elas são marrons. A lot of the trees have been scorched. ||||||已经| ||||trees||| |||||||그을린 Muitas árvores foram queimadas. And so, yeah. E assim, sim.

Steve: Oh, I hadn't seen that. Steve: Ah, eu não tinha visto isso. So nearby us then. |那麼靠近我們|| Tão perto de nós então.

Elle: Yeah, Grouse Mountain, up that way. ||Граус Маунтин|||| ||Grouse|||| ||Grouse|||| ||Montaña Grouse|||| Elle: Sim, Grouse Mountain, por ali. Um, my husband's lived here his whole life, on this street, and he said he's never seen that before. ||мужа|||||||||||||||| Hum, meu marido viveu aqui a vida toda, nesta rua, e ele disse que nunca tinha visto isso antes. So it's kind of scary for the wildfire season. |||||||пожар| |||||||Waldbrand| |||||||incendio boschivo| |||||||temporada de incendios| ですから、山火事の季節にはちょっと怖いです。 Então é meio assustador para a temporada de incêndios florestais.

Steve: I mean, if we get a forest fire here in Vancouver, there is no shortage of vegetation. |||||||||||||||短缺||植被 |||||||||||||||Mangel an||Vegetation |||||||||||||||||vegetation |||||||||||||||||식물들 |||||||||||||||||vegetación スティーブ：つまり、ここバンクーバーで山火事が発生した場合、植生が不足することはありません。 Estêvão: Quero dizer, se houver um incêndio florestal aqui em Vancouver, não há falta de vegetação. I mean, there's so many trees everywhere. |我的意思是||||| つまり、いたるところにたくさんの木があります。 Quero dizer, há tantas árvores por todo o lado.

Elle: Yeah, it's a scary thought for sure. エル：ええ、それは確かに怖い考えです。 Elle: Sim, é um pensamento assustador, de certeza.

Steve: I mean, there always used to be forest fires. スティーブ：つまり、以前は常に森林火災が発生していました。 The, the difference is there's a lot more people living in the forest, but the forest always used to burn regularly. 違いは、森にはもっとたくさんの人が住んでいるということですが、森はいつも定期的に燃えていました。 It's scary. É assustador.

Elle: It is. Ela: É. Um, so I wanted to ask you about your challenge, um... Hum, então eu queria te perguntar sobre seu desafio, hum...

Steve: right.

Elle: Uh, anyone who isn't aware, steve started a 90-Day Challenge 30 days ago now, right? |||||bewusst||||||||| So you're a third of the way through. Así que estás a un tercio del camino. つまり、あなたは3分の1の道のりです。 Anyone who doesn't...

Steve: only 30 days? I was hoping I was further along than that. ||希望|||||| 私はそれよりもさらに進んでいることを望んでいました。

Elle: Is it dragging, or is it tough to meet your targets? |||трудно|||||||| |||dragging|||||||| |||arrastando|||||||| |||拖延|||||||| |||sich hinziehen|||||||| |||||||difícil|||| Elle: Está se arrastando ou é difícil atingir seus objetivos? Elle：是拖延，还是很难实现你的目标？

Steve: Uh, you know, not all of our decisions are good ones. ||||||||рішення||| スティーブ：ええと、あなたが知っている、私たちの決定のすべてが良いものではありません。

Elle: It's intense, right? ||激烈的| ||intensiv| A 90-Day Challenge is intense. For anyone who doesn't know, a 90-Day Challenge is 90 days of consistent study every day on LingQ, uh, hitting your targets. So reading, listening, Creating LingQs, which are words and phrases that you don't know that you've translate and saved to your database. ||||ЛингКи||||||||||||||||| ||||LingQs||||||||||||||||| ||||LingQ items||||||||||||||||| You've also, you're also in a Streak with Steve Challenge, which is meeting your daily LingQs target, and which keeps you in a streak for, for 90 days. ||||||период|||||||||||||||||||| ||||||Serie|||||||||||||||||||| ||||||serie|||||||||||||||||||| ||||||serie|||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||連續記錄||| また、Streak with Steve Challengeもあります。これは、毎日のLingQsの目標を達成しており、90日間連勝を維持します。 Вы также участвуете в челлендже Streak with Steve Challenge, который заключается в ежедневном достижении цели по LingQs, и который поддерживает вас в полосе в течение 90 дней.

That's an intense one, also. So you're being sufficiently challenged right now on LingQ. |||ausreichend||||| ですから、あなたは今、LingQで十分に挑戦されています。 How's it going? Como tá indo?

Steve: Um, well, I saw that Streak with Steve didn't fully understand what it entailed, but I thought that what I would try to do is force myself to study both Farsi and Arabic. ||||||||||||||подразумевало собой|||||||||||||||||||арабский ||||||||||||||entailed = involved||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||envolvia||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||涉及到的||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||it entailed = it||||||||||||||||||| ||음, 글쎄요|저는|봤어요||||||||||수반하다||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||implicaba||||||||||||||||||| Estêvão: Hum, bem, vi o Streak with Steve, não percebi bem o que implicava, mas pensei que o que ia tentar fazer era forçar-me a estudar farsi e árabe. 史蒂夫：嗯，好吧，我看到与史蒂夫的连胜并没有完全理解它的含义，但我想我会尝试做的是强迫自己学习波斯语和阿拉伯语。 So I'll do two languages and set myself lower goals, like only create 13 LingQs. In other words, look up and save 13 new words initially in each language. And I think I kept that up for a while, but that's too difficult to do. |||||||||||||어려운|| しばらくそれを続けていたと思いますが、それを行うのは難しすぎます。 Uh, I, I find myself wanting to spend at least one week on one language and then one week on the other language, um, I find it's a bit confusing to do two languages like that. |||||||||||||||||||||||음|||||||||||| Uh, yo, yo me encuentro queriendo pasar al menos una semana en un idioma y luego una semana en el otro idioma, um, me parece un poco confuso hacer dos idiomas así. ええと、少なくとも 1 週間は 1 つの言語に費やし、次に 1 週間は別の言語に費やしたいと思っています。

Uh, I'm committed to doing it. |저는|||| Uh, otherwise I think I would just go back to saying work on one for three months, really get into it, then work on the other because I find that I don't slip that much. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||ausrutschen|| Si no, creo que volvería a decir que trabaje en uno durante tres meses, que se ponga a ello de verdad y luego trabaje en el otro, porque me parece que no resbalo tanto. ええと、それ以外の場合は、1 つの作業を 3 か月間行うという話に戻って、真剣に取り組んでから、もう 1 つの作業に取り掛かると思います。 Uh, caso contrário, acho que voltaria a dizer que trabalharia em um por três meses, realmente me dedicaria, depois trabalharia no outro, porque acho que não escorrego tanto. I can go back and do my mini stories again and it'll come back to me, right? So I find that it's a little bit confusing now to be in one in the other back to the first one, again, not, not an ideal situation, but this depends. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||따라 다릅니다 ですから、最初の状態に戻って別の状態になるのは少し混乱していると思います。理想的な状況ではありませんが、状況によって異なります。

Some people do that. Some people study three languages at the same time and they're happy doing it. I think I'm, um, I prefer to stay focused on one at a time. That's kind of my conclusion, but I'm committed to doing this. ||||Schlussfolgerung|||||| So I'm gonna.

Elle: Had you ever previously studied two languages like this? You hadn't done two languages in a challenge before, I know that, but...

Steve: No, I went, I once went at three and I was more ambitious and maybe I was just more, um, had more energy then or something. |||||||||||||ehrgeizig||||||||||||| Steve: Não, eu fui, uma vez eu fui aos três anos e eu era mais ambicioso e talvez eu fosse apenas mais, hum, tinha mais energia então ou algo assim. I was trying to do a hundred LingQs a day in three languages: Arabic Farsi, and Turkish. Eu estava tentando fazer cem LingQs por dia em três idiomas: árabe persa e turco. But when you're starting up in a language, it's so easy to create LingQs because every lesson has a whole bunch of unknown words in it. Mas quando você está iniciando em um idioma, é tão fácil criar LingQs porque cada lição contém um monte de palavras desconhecidas.

But now in those languages, I've, I've been at it so long that I have a lot of yellow sort of saved LingQs. ||||||저는|||||||||||||||| Words that I have looked up, but I don't yet know. ||||||pero|||| So, you know, if you just want to crank up the number of new LingQs, you just go into new material. ||||||||увеличить|||||||||||| ||||||||erhöhen|||||||||||| ||||||||aumentare|||||||||||| ||||||||aumentar|||||||||||| つまり、新しい LingQ の数を増やしたいだけなら、新しい素材に取り掛かるだけです。 And if the page is full of blue, unknown words, you have very quickly reached your goal. ||||||||||||||raggiunto||

But now even if I bring in new material in Farsi or Arabic, there aren't that many blue words, but it doesn't mean that I know the yellow words. でも今は、ペルシャ語やアラビア語の新しい題材を持ち込んでも、青い単語はそれほど多くありませんが、黄色の単語を知っているとは限りません。 I don't know them very often. I haven't seen them often enough to, to know. Uh, I do have the sense that certainly I understand a lot better than I did before. ええと、私は確かに以前よりもずっとよく理解しているという感覚を持っています. Uh, eu tenho a sensação de que certamente eu entendo muito melhor do que antes.

And, um, so in order to create those 13 LingQs a day, I have to go out and get new material every day, which again, it's easier in Farsi because Sahra who's our  collaborator in Iran is constantly creating good content for me, uh, Iranian filmmakers or Iranian food or Iranian history. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||Сахра|||||||||||||||фильммейкеры|||||иранская| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||Sahra|||||||||||||||Filmemacher|||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||Sahra|||collaborator||||||||||||filmmakers|||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||colaborador||||||||||||cineastas iraníes|||||| E, hum, para criar esses 13 LingQs por dia, eu tenho que sair e pegar material novo todos os dias, o que, novamente, é mais fácil em Farsi porque Sahra, que é nossa colaboradora no Irã, está constantemente criando bom conteúdo para mim, uh , cineastas iranianos ou comida iraniana ou história iraniana. So that part of it is easy.

The Arabic is a little more difficult. O árabe é um pouco mais difícil. But I've even started branching off into Egyptian Arabic and, and, uh, you know, because, because the Arabic world is so different. ||||verzweigen||||||||||||||||| ||||divergere||||||||||||||||| ||||ramificando||||||||||||||||| ||||ramificándome||||||||||||||||| So if I had a Ted Talk in Levantine Arabic, then I want to try to understand that and look up the words there. ||||||||Левантийский арабский||||||||||||||| ||||||||Levantine Arabic||||||||||||||| ||||||||Levantine||||||||||||||| Uh, my tutor is from Cairo and we've been going through some Egyptian, Arabic texts. |||||Каир|||||||||

And so I'm just playing around. ||estoy||| Like, I'm not, I'm not going to write a test in any of this stuff. So I'm just doing, I'm sort of exploring and enjoying. And, um, the challenge is not, you know, it's not what motivates me. |||||||||||it motivates| What motivates me is my interest in what I'm listening to and reading. But I know that for many people, these challenges, uh, become a major motivator. |||||||||||||Motivator |||||||||||||motivator |||||||||||||gran motivador

People don't have much time and they need that extra, basically a nudge to make sure they do something every day. ||||||||||||a push|||||||| ||||||||||||incentivo|||||||| ||||||||||||Anstoß|||||||| ||||||||||||자극|||||||| ||||||||||||spinta|||||||| ||||||||||básicamente||empujón|||||||| 人々はあまり時間がなく、基本的には毎日何かを確実に行うためのナッジが必要です。 And it's so important to do something every day. E é tão importante fazer algo todos os dias. So I think it's a good idea to, to have these challenges, but I'm kind of not living up to my commitments. Creo que es una buena idea plantearse estos retos, pero no estoy cumpliendo mis compromisos. ですから、これらの課題を抱えることは良い考えだと思いますが、私は自分の約束を果たしていないようなものです。 Então eu acho que é uma boa ideia ter esses desafios, mas eu meio que não estou cumprindo meus compromissos.

Elle: Okay.

Well thank you for being so honest. Bem, obrigado por ser tão honesto. That's great. Um, are you speaking, you are speaking in the languages too, as part of the challenge or just as part of your weekly study for Persian and Arabic? Hum, você está falando, você está falando nas línguas também, como parte do desafio ou apenas como parte de seu estudo semanal para persa e árabe?

Steve: Yeah.

I've uh, so I'll have say maybe three sessions in Farsi with Sahra and then three sessions with Mohammed in Egyptian. ||||||||جلسات||||||||||Mohammed|| I really enjoy my time with both of them because they're very nice. Eu realmente gosto do meu tempo com os dois porque eles são muito legais.

They just keep me going. Eles apenas me fazem continuar. I don't have to worry about what we're going to talk about. Não preciso me preocupar com o que vamos falar. I think we have a good rapport. ||||||gutes Verhältnis ||||||좋은 관계 ||||||Buena relación Acho que temos um bom relacionamento. So it's just like sitting down with a friend and, uh, speaking. Então é como sentar com um amigo e, uh, falar. So, and then I get a report back with my mistakes and the recording. |||||||||||||audio recording Então, e então eu recebo um relatório com meus erros e a gravação. And so the whole thing works very well, but three a week is enough because I have to fit this in with all of the other things that I, commitments that I might have, you know? |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||commitments|||||| 全体がとてもうまくいっていますが、週に 3 回で十分です。なぜなら、これを私が持つ可能性のある他のすべてのことと合わせなければならないからです。 E então a coisa toda funciona muito bem, mas três por semana é suficiente porque eu tenho que encaixar isso com todas as outras coisas que eu, compromissos que eu possa ter, sabe?

Elle: Right. Ela: Certo. And so the what, so then Sahra, and is it Mohammed? E então o quê, então Sahra, e é Mohammed? Your, um... Seu, hum...

Steve: Mohammed, yeah. Mohammed in Cairo and I Sahra she's in Northern Iran.

Elle: Okay.

And so they prepare, do they give you reading or talk to you about things they know that you've read? そして、彼らはあなたに本を読んでもらうか、あなたが読んだことについて彼らが知っていることについてあなたに話しますか？ E assim eles se preparam, eles te dão leitura ou conversam com você sobre coisas que eles sabem que você leu?

Steve: No, no, no, no. If I want to, then I can, but normally we just show up. Se eu quiser, então eu posso, mas normalmente nós apenas aparecemos. They're not prepared. Eles não estão preparados. I'm not prepared. 準備ができていません。 Eu não estou preparado. Um, because we're venturing into Egyptian Arabic, so with Mohammed, we did some reading of the mini stories in Egyptian Arabic. |||unternehmend||||||||||||||||| |||모험하는||||||||||||||||| |||aventurándonos en||||||||||||||||| Hum, porque estamos nos aventurando no árabe egípcio, então com Mohammed, fizemos algumas leituras das mini-histórias em árabe egípcio. Uh, I found also in our library at LingQ a series of, uh, interviews with people in Egypt, in Arabic. Uh, eu encontrei também em nossa biblioteca no LingQ uma série de, uh, entrevistas com pessoas no Egito, em árabe.

And because these are not scripted, they're sort of more natural, you know, you know, people using the equivalent of, "you know", "like", "I mean", you know? |||||nicht einstudiert||||||||||||||||||||| |||||não roteirizados||||||||||||||||||||| E porque estes não são roteirizados, eles são meio mais naturais, você sabe, você sabe, pessoas usando o equivalente a "você sabe", "como", "quero dizer", sabe? So you got a lot of this sort of filler words stuff. |||||||||Füllwörter|| Así que tienes un montón de estas cosas de palabras de relleno. Então você tem um monte de coisas desse tipo de palavras de preenchimento. So it's very conversational, sort of Egyptian Arabic. |||umgangssprachlich|||| |||informal dialogue|||| Então é muito coloquial, meio árabe egípcio. And I'm reading through this with Mohammed and typically we'll have maybe even half of the time will be spent reading, and then half of the time speaking, I think my Farsi is better than my Arabic. E estou lendo isso com Mohammed e, normalmente, talvez até metade do tempo seja gasto lendo, e depois metade do tempo falando, acho que meu farsi é melhor que meu árabe. Now it used to be the other way around and that's because, uh, Farsi is just so much easier. Agora costumava ser o contrário e isso é porque, uh, Farsi é muito mais fácil. 现在它曾经是相反的，那是因为，呃，波斯语要容易得多。

Elle: Okay.

Steve: So much easier. Steve: Muito mais fácil. Yeah. Sim.

And it doesn't have this complication of different forms of... I mean, there may be different forms of Farsi, but basically there's two forms of Farsi. |||||осложнение|||||||||||||||||||| |||||Komplikation|||||||||||||||||||| |||||complexity|||||||||||||||||||| Y no tiene esta complicación de diferentes formas de... Quiero decir, puede haber diferentes formas de farsi, pero básicamente hay dos formas de farsi. E não tem essa complicação de diferentes formas de... quer dizer, pode haver diferentes formas de farsi, mas basicamente existem duas formas de farsi.

There's a more formal form, which is, which has sort of the written form. Há uma forma mais formal, que é, que tem uma forma escrita. And then the form that people use to speak, not very different, essentially the same words, some different endings, some slightly different vowels is not a big deal. ||||||||||||im Wesentlichen||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||ligeiramente||||||| そして、人々が話すために使用する形式は、それほど違いはなく、本質的に同じ単語、いくつかの異なる語尾、いくつかのわずかに異なる母音は大したことではありません. E então a forma que as pessoas usam para falar, não muito diferente, essencialmente as mesmas palavras, algumas terminações diferentes, algumas vogais ligeiramente diferentes não é grande coisa. So, whereas with, with Arabic, you know, Egypt, uh, Gulf Arabic, uh, Lebanese, Arabic, Moroccan, Arabic, they're all there. ||||||||||||||Марокканский арабский|||| ||||||||||||libanesisch||marokkanisch|||| |||||||||Gulf||||||||| ||||||||||||||Marroquí|||| Então, enquanto com, com árabe, você sabe, Egito, uh, árabe do Golfo, uh, libanês, árabe, marroquino, árabe, eles estão todos lá.

Elle: What do you, what... so you mentioned that you were out today and you spoke to three people in Farsi. How, how are you received when you start chatting to them? 彼らとチャットを始めたとき、どのように受け入れられますか?

Steve: Uh, you know, the, the different sort of national groups react differently. Like if you were to generalize, the Farsi speakers are so pleased when they hear you speak Farsi and they're so encouraging and accommodating. |||||verallgemeinern||||||||||||||||||entgegenkommend |||||make broad statements||||||||||||||||||helpful |||||||||||||||||||||||acolhedores 一般化すると、ペルシア語を話す人は、あなたがペルシア語を話すのを聞くととても喜び、とても励みになり、親切になります。 Como se você generalizasse, os falantes de farsi ficam tão satisfeitos quando ouvem você falar farsi e são tão encorajadores e acolhedores. And it's funny, I was out swimming in the ocean the other night, and there was a couple swimming and they started had some kind of, I don't know, small boat or inflatable boat, and they were both in the water and splashing around. ||||||||||||||||||schwimmen||||||||||||||aufblasbares Boot||||||||||planschen| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||고무보트||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||inflável||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||hinchable||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||inflatable||||||||||playing in water| Y es gracioso, estaba nadando en el océano la otra noche, y había una pareja nadando y empezaron tenían algún tipo de, no sé, pequeño bote o bote inflable, y ambos estaban en el agua y chapoteando. And there were a couple in their fifties or early sixties. |||||||fünfzig|||sechzigern And, uh, I heard them speaking Farsi. E, uh, eu os ouvi falando farsi.

So I spoke to them in Farsi. Now you can imagine their surprise, they're swimming here in West Van and all of a sudden, some guy, some old geezer speaks to them and, uh, and, uh, so they reply. |||||||||||||||||||||старик|||||||||| ||||||||||||||||unexpected|||||old man|||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||velho|||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||alter Knacker||||||||||antworten |||||||||||||||||||||늙은이|||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||vecchio tipo|||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||viejo|||||||||| 彼らの驚きを想像してみてください。彼らはここウェスト ヴァンで泳いでいます。そして突然、何人かの男、何人かの年寄りのオタクが彼らに話しかけ、彼らは答えました。 You're speaking. Are you, are you speaking Farsi? Yeah, guess what, I'm speaking Farsi. ええ、何だと思いますか、私はペルシア語を話しています。 So we had a bit of a chat, uh, but generally, I mean the, the one, the one lady at the supermarket I've spoken to her before. それで少しおしゃべりをしましたが、一般的には、私が以前彼女と話したスーパーマーケットの女性のことです.

She's always very nice. She speaks to me in Farsi. Sometimes the inclination is for them to come back in uh, you know, to prove like, well, you know, I've been in Canada for 10 years, so I speak English very well, you know, so they need to demonstrate that, you know, but this lady at the supermarket, she's always very nice. ||Neigung|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||성향|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||inclinação|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||tendency|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| カナダに戻ってきて、カナダに 10 年間住んでいて、英語をとても上手に話せることを証明するために戻ってくる傾向があります。 、でも、スーパーマーケットのこの女性は、いつもとても親切です。

Oh, I haven't seen you in awhile. ||||||Oh, ich habe dich schon lange nicht mehr gesehen. Hace tiempo que no te veo. How are you? And we went back and forth in Farsi. E íbamos y veníamos en farsi. Yeah.

Be careful because there's a lineup at the checkout, you know, I can't just sit, stand there and talk to her while people are waiting to pay for their groceries. |||||Warteschlange||||||||||||||||||||||||Lebensmittel |||||queue|||||||||||||||||||||||| But, um, yeah if I see someone see their name hear in their accent, I know you're not supposed to do this, but if I figured that they're Farsi speakers, I say, do you speak Farsi? でも、えーと、誰かが自分の名前の訛りを聞いているのを見たら、あなたがそんなことをするべきではないことはわかっています。

And then normally react very well.

Elle: I don't know that you're not supposed to do that. エル：あなたがそんなことをしてはいけないことを私は知りません。 I don't think that's... 私はそうは思わない...

Steve: Well there's this whole idea, like, especially like, so the, the people who seem to be the most sensitive sometimes are people who are Asian. スティーブ：そうですね、特にそうです、アジア人が最も敏感に見える人が時々います。 So if a person looks Asian, In fact, you can't assume that they speak an Asian language. したがって、アジア人に見える人は、実際、その人がアジアの言語を話しているとは想定できません。

Elle: Right. I see.

Steve: In other words, if you have someone who has a Polish name like in Canada, now we have people from all over, right? Steve: 言い換えれば、カナダのようにポーランド人の名前を持っている人がいれば、今では世界中の人がいますよね? So you can find Italian names, Polish names, German names, Dutch names, whatever. You can assume that they speak that language. Like my name is Kaufmann. People come up "Ah Steve Kaufman ya...". ||||||ja

That's not on. それはオンではありません。 So, and the Asians are particularly, or some of them are a little sensitive, but you know, like I'm Canadian, you know, just because I look Asian, you kind of assume that I can speak English. Right. So you have to be very careful. So you got to pick, you know, you got to sense if this person, you know, you can't sort of imply that they can't speak English. ||||||||||||||||||||andeuten|||||

So I, I normally will say, uh, You know, you're not even like according to the real die-hards, you're not even supposed to have any curiosity about where this person is originally from. ||||||||||||||||||ярые поклонники||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||Hardcore-Fans||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||열성 팬|||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||fanáticos acérrimos||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||enthusiasts||||||||||||||| Así que yo, yo normalmente digo, uh, ya sabes, no eres ni siquiera como de acuerdo con los verdaderos fanáticos, ni siquiera se supone que debe tener ninguna curiosidad acerca de donde esta persona es originalmente de. だから私は、通常、ええと、あなたは本当の頑固者によるとさえ好きではない、あなたはこの人がどこから来たのかについて好奇心を持つべきではない. Even though they look non-Caucasian like that's a no, no. |||||white||||| |||||caucásico||||| 彼らは非白人のように見えますが、それはノー、ノーです。 Ook al zien ze er niet-Kaukasisch uit alsof dat een nee, nee is. Okay.

Uh, people have no difficulty asking me if I'm German, just by looking at my name and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. |||||||||||||||||||||||geringsten Maße |||||||||||||||||||||||not at all |||||||||||||||||||||||minimamente |||||||||||||||||||||||lo más mínimo ええと、名前を見ただけでドイツ人かどうか聞かれるのは難しいことではありませんが、少しも気になりません。

I'm not German, but they can ask me because they're curious. ||||||||||neugierig Oh, you got... It's like, so, so I just have to be a little bit aware of that. So I typically say, do you speak an Asian language? It's still a little bit dicey because just because of location, why should I have to speak an Asian language? |||||рискованно|||||||||||||| |||||risky or uncertain|||||||||||||| |||||heikel|||||||||||||| |||||위험한 상황|||||||||||||| |||||rischioso|||||||||||||| |||||incierto|||||||||||||| Het is nog steeds een beetje onvoorspelbaar, want alleen al vanwege de locatie, waarom zou ik een Aziatische taal moeten spreken? And I agree with that.

I agree with that.

Like a person has been here for three, four generations, no more likely to speak an Asian language than somebody who has someone who has, um, you know, Polish name is expected to speak Polish or who has a Dutch name is expected to speak Dutch. Por ejemplo, una persona que lleva aquí tres o cuatro generaciones no tiene más probabilidades de hablar un idioma asiático que alguien que se apellida polaco o que se apellida neerlandés. 3、4 世代にわたってここにいる人がアジアの言語を話す可能性は、ポーランド語を話すことが期待されているポーランド語の名前を持つ人や、オランダ語の名前を持っている人が話すことを期待されている人よりも少ないのと同じです。オランダの。 So I agree with them, but I nevertheless enjoy speaking these languages. |||||||no entanto||||

And most of them react quite pleasantly. ||||||angenehm I haven't had any negative interactions, but it sometimes becomes an issue. |||||engagements|||||| 否定的なやり取りはありませんが、時々問題になります。 You know, the sort of politically correct people say you shouldn't. |||||politically correct||||| So yeah.

Elle: So, uh, setting out 30 days ago on these challenges, 90-Day Challenge in Arabic and in Persian, did you have any goals, anything you would you wanted to have achieved by the end, in terms of not necessarily, you know, known words or hours of listening, but, uh, content that you would then be able to approach maybe movies or something? |||||||||||desafío||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Elle: では、30 日前にこれらのチャレンジ、アラビア語とペルシャ語で 90 日間のチャレンジに着手しましたが、何か目標がありましたか、最後までに達成したいことはありましたか?知っている、知っている言葉や何時間も聞いているが、映画か何かに近づくことができるコンテンツですか？

Steve: Well, yeah, I find that my goals have changed. When I started out, I said, I want to be able to understand like a large part of my diet content has been these political partners, which typically I, uh, you know, I extract the MP3 file, convert that to text on an automatic transcription website, bring it into link, uh, and, uh, study it. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||extrahiere|||||||||||Transkription|||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||automated|text conversion|||||||||| 私が始めたとき、私は言った、私のダイエットコンテンツの大部分がこれらの政治的パートナーであったことを理解できるようにしたい.自動転写ウェブサイト、それをリンクに持ってきて、ええと、ええと、それを勉強してください。

So I said, I want to get to where I can really understand these podcasts. But I found that my motivation to do that has declined because they're kind of boring after a while. ||||||||||nachgelassen|||||||| Pero he descubierto que mi motivación para hacerlo ha disminuido porque después de un tiempo son un poco aburridos. It's always the same, the different groups and Yemen fighting each other there and Libya or whatever. ||||||||||||||Libia|| I just get tired of it all.

So, uh, with Arabic, I've decided no, I'd rather get to where I can understand Egyptian movies. So then I said, well, then I better learn more Egyptian Arabic because I don't understand them very well. それで私は、エジプトのアラビア語はよくわからないので、もっと勉強したほうがいいと言いました。 And there are Egyptian movies and series on Netflix. So I decided with Arabic, I want to start moving more into the spoken Arabic. それで私はアラビア語で話すことに決めました、私は話し言葉のアラビア語にもっと移行したいと思います. Uh, with the, um, with the Farsi... |||음|||

um, I had been basically following the diet that Sahra fed me. um, había estado siguiendo básicamente la dieta que Sahra me dio. ええと、私は基本的にサーラが私に与えてくれた食事に従っていました. So it was the history of Iran. It was food of Iran. It was minority peoples in Iran, all this stuff, which I found very interesting. ||Minderheiten||||||||||| ||minority groups|groups|||||||||| So that was great. And all of a sudden she sends me these descriptions of famous Iranian, um, film directors, uh, more than a few of them have won international acclaim even in the last 10 years or so. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||Anerkennung erhalten||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||international recognition||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||reconhecimento||||||| そして突然、彼女は私にこれらの有名なイランの映画監督についての説明を送ってくれました。

Uh, Oscar's uh, awards at the Cannes uh, film festival, Berlin film festival and so forth. |Оскара|||||Каннского кинофестиваля||||||||| |Oscars|||||Cannes Filmfestival||||||||| |Oscar's||honors|||Cannes Film Festival||||||||| |de Óscar|||||Cannes||||||||| So she sends these through and the way she does, she talks about a certain film director, and then she has these circling questions about that same film director. ||||||||||||||||||||||kreisenden|||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||revolving|||||| ||||através|||||||||||||||||||||||| And then she sends me a link to that movie or a movie by that director, uh, on YouTube.

Uh, so I'm able to watch it. So all of that, it has been very interesting. I tried to extract the MP3 file and transcribe it, but, you know, uh, audio from, um, from a movie is a bit disappointing as language learning content, because there's so many, you know, your car noise, the doors slamming, birds chirping. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||zuknallenden||Vögel zwitschern ||||||||write down||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||문 닫히는 소리||새소리 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||portazos de puertas|| It's not dense language. ||kompliziert| 難しい言葉ではありません。

So I don't do that. I just, whatever she sends me, I read it and I try to learn it, learn about the movie, the film, a director, and then I watch the movie a while and I've enjoyed that. So in a way, I've moved more in the direction of enjoying movies, uh, in both, uh, Arabic heavy to Egyptian, Arabic, and, uh, in Farsi.

And trying to talk to three times a week with both Mohammed and, uh, Sahra.

Elle: Excellent. And you watched a movie, is it Asmaa? |||||||Асмаа |||||||Asmaa |||||||the name Asmaa |||||||¿Es Asmaa? You recently  mentioned n one of yourivideos. ||||||ваших видео ||||||deinen Videos ||||||your videos ||||||tus videos recientes あなたは最近、あなたの ivideos の 1 つについてメンションしました。

Steve: Asmaa, that was the Egyptian movie. It was very interesting movie, actually, Egyptian movie. Uh, it it's, it's sort of a, it's about the stigma of AIDS in Egypt, uh, about, uh, uh, and I would say even the Iranian movies, this whole honor that the men seem to feel, uh, you know, basically, and, and an important component of their honor is being able to tell women what to do. ||||||||||||СПИД|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||Stigma von AIDS||AIDS-Stigma||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||Bestandteil|||||||||||| ||||||||||낙인|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||social shame||AIDS|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ええと、それは一種の、それはエジプトのエイズへのスティグマに関するものです、ええと、ええと、ええと、ええと、ええと、ええと、ええと、ええと、ええと、イラン映画でさえ、男性が感じているように見えるこの全体の名誉、ええと、あなたが知っている、基本的に、そして、そして彼らの名誉の重要な要素は、女性に何をすべきかを伝えることができることです. So these are themes that come up in those movies. Son temas que aparecen en esas películas.

Elle: Okay.

I'll have to, I'm always looking for movie recommendations. ||||||||suggestions So if you say that's good I'll check that out.

Steve: Uh, yeah, it's, I'm trying to hear the Arabic. I mean, it is to get a bit of a, of a, of an insight into, uh, Egyptian society. ||||||||||||||perspectiva|||| I, I recommend it. Yeah, Asmaa, definitely.

Elle: Okay.

Steve: And, uh, the same with Iranian movies, um, The Separation, it was quite an interesting, quite an interesting movie. Steve: E, uh, o mesmo com os filmes iranianos, hum, A Separação, foi um filme bem interessante, bem interessante. Very interesting. Muito interessante. And it won some awards, it's an Iranian movie. E ganhou alguns prêmios, é um filme iraniano.

Elle: Is that, I think I've seen that one. Elle: É isso, acho que já vi esse. Is it about the mother who. É sobre a mãe que. She had children, they don't know who she is. Ela teve filhos, eles não sabem quem ela é. She's... she was...

Steve: No

Elle: Okay, I'm thinking of something else. Elle: Ok, estou pensando em outra coisa.

Steve: It's about, um, a couple in Iran and they have a daughter and, uh, they were preparing to leave Iran, to immigrate. ||||||||||||||||||||||иммигрировать ||||||||||||||||||||||emigrar Steve: É sobre, hum, um casal no Irã e eles têm uma filha e, hum, eles estavam se preparando para deixar o Irã, para imigrar. And the wife was very keen on doing that, but then the husband decided he wouldn't go because his father now has Alzheimer's and can't look after himself. |||||begeistert|||||||||||||||||Alzheimer-Krankheit||||| |||||entusiasta|||||||||||||||||||||| |||||interessada|||||||||||||||||||||| E a esposa estava muito interessada em fazer isso, mas então o marido decidiu que ele não iria porque seu pai agora tem Alzheimer e não pode cuidar de si mesmo.

And so then she wants to divorce and then it gets very complicated. So I can't, I won't get into the whole plot, but it's quite good. |||||||||Handlung|||| Así que no puedo, no voy a entrar en toda la trama, pero es bastante buena. できません。プロット全体には入りませんが、かなり良いです。 And it's apparently quite a psychological study on, um, Iranians. |||||||||Iranern |||||||||people from Iran ||aparentemente||||||| And the one thing that comes through when you watch Iranian movies, and there's another one called Ellie as well, is that while there's this sub-sense of the sort of, um, you know, male, call it male dominant, uh, you know, uh, you know, honor. |||||||||||||||||Элли|||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||Ellie||||||||untergeordnete Gefühl|||||||||männliche Dominanz||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||Ellie|||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||Ellie|||||||||||||||||||||||||||| イラン映画を見ていると ひとつわかるのは エリーと呼ばれる別の映画もありますが ある意味で このようなサブセンスがあるのですええと、あなたが知っている、名誉。

And yet, at least on the surface, the Iranians, they live very much like we do, you know, they're very modern, European, North American. We have this image that they're all wandering around the women shrouded in black and very backward and stuff. |||||||||||covered||||||| |||||||||||envoltas||||||| |||||||herumwandern||||verschleiert|||||rückständig|| |||||||||||둘러싸인||||||| |||||||||||coperte||||||| |||||||vagando||||envueltas|||||retrógrados|| 私たちは、彼らがすべて黒に包まれた女性の周りをさまよい、非常に後ろ向きであるというこのイメージを持っています. Temos esta imagem de que andam todos a passear as mulheres envoltas em negro e muito retrógradas e coisas do género. And no, it's not. I mean, there's, there's social differences in Iran, uh, like everywhere, but maybe more marked over there.

And, uh, but the, there is a middle-class that lives, you know, like Europeans. So, and that comes through in these movies.

Elle: The Separation. Okay.

I'll check that out too. I was thinking of a completely different movie. Okay.

Um, so Steve, you have, you have a mere 60 days left  in your 90-Day Challenge. ||||||||bloße|||||| ||||||||simplemente|||||| I wish you the best of luck and, um, yeah, I think it's, it's amazing to me, you're speaking three times a week.

So I'm... so you alternate then I assume you spend one week on Arabic one week on Persian? ||||abwechseln||||||||||||| ||||alternate||||||||||||| だから私は...だからあなたは交互に、アラビア語に1週間、ペルシア語に1週間費やすと思いますか?

Steve: One week on each. Yeah.

But you have to be flexible. Um, Mohammed told me that and he was gonna be without his internet for a week or so. So then I went two weeks on, on Farsi and now he's back, uh, up and running again. それで、私はペルシア語で 2 週間続けましたが、今彼は戻ってきました。

So I was spending more time with him. I don't follow my, to be honest, I don't follow my streak that closely. It's just that I feel a commitment. I feel that I have an obligation to, to work on those languages, which is no big deal. ||||||Verpflichtung||||||||||| ||||||duty||||||||||| Cause I enjoy doing it. Uh, but I, I made this commitment to do both. ええと、でも私は、両方を行うことを約束しました。 At the end of my 90 days, I'm going to do just Farsi because Farsi is the biggest opportunity here in Vancouver to use the language.

Although, you know, uh, internationally of course there are far more, uh, Arabic speakers than Farsi speakers. ||||globally|||||||||||| aunque||||||||||||||||

Elle: That's good to... it must. It's nice though I'm sure, to be able to speak to people, as you say, at the supermarket and wherever you are. あなたが言うように、スーパーマーケットやどこにいても人々と話すことができるのはいいことだと思います. É bom, tenho certeza, poder falar com as pessoas, como você diz, no supermercado e onde quer que esteja.

Steve: Yeah.

Elle: Well, anyone who's interested in joining a challenge, I will pop the link in the description to the 90-Day Challenge the Streak with Steve as well. |||||||||||einfügen||||||||||||||| Elle: Bem, qualquer um que estiver interessado em participar de um desafio, vou colocar o link na descrição do Desafio de 90 dias, a sequência com Steve também.

Thank you so much for joining me, Steve. Muito obrigado por se juntar a mim, Steve. It's been great, as always. Tem sido ótimo, como sempre.

Steve: I should say too, Elle, I've watched your interviews with your various guests. Steve: Devo dizer também, Elle, eu assisti suas entrevistas com seus vários convidados. I think they are excellent. Acho que são excelentes. Absolutely excellent. Absolutamente excelente. Very interesting. Muito interessante. And of course, not only are they interesting, but I think they're an opportunity for people to work on their English because they're all lessons at LingQ. E, claro, não são apenas interessantes, mas acho que são uma oportunidade para as pessoas trabalharem em seu inglês porque são todas aulas no LingQ.

Elle: They are. Ela: Eles são.

Steve: And you normally have guests on there who speak very clearly. Steve: E você normalmente tem convidados lá que falam muito claramente. You speak clearly. Você fala claramente. So I think they're excellent. Então eu acho que eles são excelentes. Uh, interesting and excellent learning methods. Uh, métodos de aprendizagem interessantes e excelentes. Uh, have a sort of an intermediate, uh, less, they're not overly difficult. |||||||||||übermäßig| ||||||intermedio|||||| ええと、ある種の中級者を持ってください、ええと、それほど難しくありません。 Uh, tem uma espécie de intermediário, uh, menos, eles não são muito difíceis. So I think it meets a need a real need. ||||atende||||| Então eu acho que atende uma necessidade uma necessidade real.

Elle: Well thank you so much. Elle: Bem, muito obrigado. And as you mentioned, I will always pop the link to the transcript of this video as a lesson in the description. E como você mencionou, eu sempre colocarei o link para a transcrição deste vídeo como uma lição na descrição.

And there's a full course of all past interviews and episodes there for anyone who's learning English. E há um curso completo de todas as entrevistas e episódios anteriores para quem está aprendendo inglês. So, uh, thank you so much, Steve. Muito obrigado, Steve. I, like I said, best of luck with your challenges. Eu, como eu disse, boa sorte com seus desafios.

Steve: Thank you. Bye.