Learn English FAST and EASY at a Local Market | Comprehensible Input

This is an eggplant. Are you laughing at me? Am I funny? Okay, we have no food in the house. Literally no food. We gotta go to the market. Get your shoes on. Follow me. Let's go. First things first, let's get a coffee. How are you? Can we get two salt coffee? Thank you. This is a stand where you can buy bananas here at the market. Some of the bananas are not ripe yet. The ones that are green in color are not ripe. They're not ready to eat. These ones are yellow in color, so these ones are sweet and much better to eat. These ones you have to wait until they're ripe before you can eat them. This is an avocado. It's green in color and round in shape. It's a very large avocado. Ones in Southeast Asia are quite large. The ones that we get in North America, they were imported from Mexico and they're much smaller, maybe half the size of this. These ones are quite large, so the ones we get in Vietnam are very big. So this is an avocado. These are mango. Mango. How much are the mango per kilogram? 40. 40 for one kilo. Okay, thank you. These right here are grapes. Grapes. When they're still on the vine like this, we call them a bunch of grapes. They're a bunch of grapes. Grapes come in different colors. These are green grapes. Green grapes. They're green in color. Sometimes you can find grapes that are red in color, but these ones are green. These are grapes. These are apples. Apples. How much are the apples per kilogram? 75 per kilo. Oh, so 75 per kilo? 75, yeah. This is a pineapple. It's one of my favorite fruits because it's the main ingredient in a pina colada. One of my favorite drinks. Pineapple. This right here is a papaya. A papaya. It's round. The shape is round. The color is yellow. And when it's yellow, it's ready to eat. You can eat it when it's yellow. This is a watermelon. It's also round in shape. The color is green. Very healthy for you and very hydrating, especially when it's warm outside like it is today. These are cucumbers. Cucumbers. This is called okra. Okra. This is lemongrass. Lemongrass. It's used in a lot of different Thai dishes like curries. These are red chili peppers. Red chili peppers. They're very spicy and they're also used in a lot of Thai curries and lots of different food in Vietnam. These are potatoes. These here are shallots. Shallots. And this here is a clove of garlic. Garlic. These right here are green onions. They're also called spring onions. Spring onions or green onions. These are peppers and they come in different colors. This is a yellow pepper, a green pepper, and a red pepper. This is an eggplant. An eggplant. This is a Japanese sweet potato. A Japanese sweet potato. And they're imported from Japan. And it's got a purple color to it. And the shape is round. So this is a Japanese sweet potato. This is lettuce. Lettuce. It's green in color. It's grown in the ground. And you find it in salads. You can tell that this lettuce is very fresh because the leaves are not wilted. This lettuce is not as fresh because some of the leaves are wilted. This is bok choy. Bok choy. And you see it in a lot of stir fries and in a lot of cooking in Southeast Asia. Hello. This is a lime. A lime. This, this is an egg. An egg. And it comes from a chicken. You can make different egg dishes with it like omelets, scrambled eggs, poached eggs, boiled eggs, hard boiled eggs. This is corn. Corn. And it's grown in fields. This top part of the corn is called the husk. The husk. And underneath is where the corn is. This right here is cauliflower. Cauliflower. This is cabbage. Cabbage. It's green in color and it has multiple layers of leaves. It's also circular in shape. This is cabbage. This in my hands is an onion. An onion. It's brown in color. It's also round in shape. So this, my friends, is an onion. These are green beans. Green beans. Hello. Good to see you. How are you? This is, this is ginger. This is ginger. This is a carrot. The carrots are grown in the ground. You can see that this carrot still has dirt on it, which means it was probably freshly picked. While this carrot, it has no dirt on it. It's already been cleaned and it's been out of the ground for longer than this carrot. This is broccoli. My favorite. It's green in color and it's supposed to be super healthy for you, but I don't really like it. But it's nice to look at. Broccoli. This is aloe vera. Aloe vera. It comes from the aloe vera plant. This is tofu. Tofu. This is a tomato. It's red in color and it's round, almost like a circle. This beautiful fruit, it's called a dragon fruit. You can tell that it's red in color and it has green leaves. Inside of the dragon fruit, it's red in color and very sweet and very healthy for you. Very inexpensive for very healthy food. Are you laughing at me? Am I funny? This is a chicken. She's chopping the chicken into pieces and she's selling it. Got some fresh bananas here, broccoli, and carrots. We're going to go get some fish now, some fresh fish. This is the fish market. These are oysters. Oysters. You can eat them raw, you can eat them cooked, but if you eat them raw, you need to make sure that they're fresh because you could cause yourself some serious damage otherwise. These are all fish, all different types of fish. You can see the woman cutting the fish right now. This right here is squid. Squid. This fish is called tilapia. Tilapia. Can we get one tilapia? Maybe a big one? Okay. She's going to cut the head off, the tail off. She's going to descale it. She's going to chop it up into pieces so that I can cook it for dinner. Okay, we've got our fruits, we've got our vegetables, we've got our fish. I think that we've got everything we need to go home and start cooking our food, so let's head back to the villa and start cooking. You can lead the way. I'll follow you.