Listen and Speak English at Native Speed (ft. Volka)

Hello world! Today we are exploring the lovely old town of Hoi An, learning lots of English, using the world around us. And we'll also be talking about the differences between North American English, which I speak, and British English, which Jay speaks. So start the word count, and let's go! By the way guys, I'm walking on the pavement. That's the road, this is the pavement. And this is Volker. Hey guys, my name is Volker. You may or may not recognize me from Volker English, but I just make comprehensible input videos on YouTube for people learning English. You do? Wonderful videos as well. Volker actually inspired me to start making this type of content. I remember seeing your video about one year ago, and I wanted to do the same. And here we are, one year later. We're a year later, yeah. Let's go get some food, some drinks. Yeah, I'm pretty hungry. I haven't really eaten anything all day, and the sun has been beating on me. I could use a cold drink. Awesome. Let's go, man. Let's go. So Jay, what are we walking down right now? Okay, so this is an alley. We're about to walk down an alley, or an alleyway, which is like a small, narrow street. And can you describe what these are? Maybe a scarf that you put across your body. Like some sort of dress. Yeah, nice. I'm not sure. How would you describe it? Well, I was thinking, this probably is like a silk garment, I might say. These are like mannequins with their heads chopped off. Yeah, there's just a knob. It looks like I could put my toilet paper there, honestly. But yeah, I really do like the aesthetic of Hoi An. If you look around, everything is a little bit old, eroded a little bit, like the bricks are showing. But it still has that beautiful yellow, but that's slightly faded. Absolutely. It's got charm to it. Bring your partner here. Yeah. Walk through. Just me and you having a date. Exactly. Through Hoi An. This is what YouTube brings, guys. Sweets of Hoi An, literally. This way, I think. So guys, we're going to get some muk now, which is like a sweet tea. Yeah, I've never had it before, so I'm excited to try it. And now that we're in line, let's do a quick outfit check. And you can rate our outfits. But can you tell me, what do you call this? Okay, so these are trousers. Trousers. Yeah. What would you say? Trousers is a word I don't think I've ever used in my vocabulary. We call those pants. Funny thing is, we call what's underneath these, pants. Really? Or boxers. Really? Yeah. That is something I actually didn't know, because we just call them boxers. What would you call these? We would call those sneakers. Sneakers. What would you call them? We don't say sneakers. We say trainers. Trainers. Yeah. In English, we would say, or British English, we'd call this a jumper, which is like a long sleeve. Yeah. And we would call this, in North American English, a sweater. All right guys, we just got these mugs. It is in a cardboard cup, a bamboo straw. There is a leaf for decoration. And also, this is a petal, which is a part of a flower. And now a taste test. I wish you could taste this. So now I've quenched my thirst. To quench your thirst means to go from thirsty to not thirsty by drinking. I've just quenched my thirst, but I'm still hungry. So I'm going to go buy a little snack, a little sweet treat. In the road here, these are pedicabs. In Vietnam, they call them cyclo, but we would say pedicab. I show your videos to my English classes all the time, and your videos are great. Thank you so much. What's your name? Ava. Nice to meet you, Ava. Nice to meet you. Thank you for what you do. Come on. Thank you. Just met the lovely Ava. If you're watching this Ava of the future, thanks for coming to say hi. And if anyone else ever sees me in the street, please come say hi. I don't bite. Speaking of biting, we've got these little mango cakes here. They're kind of like mochi, like Japanese mochi. Taste test. Very flowery. Look like I just dunked my face in flour. It's good. Want a bite? Inside is peanuts and sugar. And then you have this kind of jelly-like outside with lots of flour, it seems. Inside is sweet. Outside is quite neutral. Doesn't taste of much. But the texture is very chewy, very squidgy, almost like clay or Play-Doh. Are there like different accents within the UK? Yes, it's quite varied actually. Yeah, we have a Scouse accent, it's not very good though. Scouse is a bit in the back of the throat, a bit like that. Sorry to anyone, my Liverpool friend watching this. Honestly, that sounds good. You convinced me. It really reminded me of that movie with that red-haired archer. Oh yeah. Yes, it is Brave. Yeah, yeah. That was like a Scottish. Yeah, okay. I used to live in Edinburgh in Scotland, I can do a bit of a Scottish accent. Okay, that's really good. That's quite thick Scottish. This is, in British English, a shop. And we call this, in North American English, a store, a store. So we're going to go into the store and buy a water. Did you want a water? Maybe one. Thank you. Yeah. Thirsty work, this is thirsty work, guys. By the way, shout out to the two lovely people behind us, Leon and Chang. Behind the scenes that you guys never see. So in this little fridge, we have chocolate bars and over here, cigarettes. This is a fridge with two handles. You open the fridge, close the fridge. These are crisps. And in American English, they call these chips. But we say crisps. Chips in English is fries in American English. They say fries, we say chips. They say chips, we say crisps. Got it? Good. It's kind of confusing. If you have ever been to Hoi An, then you will know how beautiful this place is. At night, the lanterns turn on. Outside the shop front here, you have two red lanterns. Now the light is fading. And when the light's fading, the sky turns blue. We call this twilight or dusk. A time just after the sun sets. And it's very beautiful, isn't it, Chang? Above Chang's head, we have pink flowers. That is the bougainvillea. Here we have the gold mannequins in the shop. These are mannequins. And this mannequin is wearing a suit. This mannequin is wearing a suit. If a man is dressed up nicely in a suit, we could say he's suited and booted. And this shop is selling lots of little things. Small little items which we call knickknacks. These are knickknacks. Lots of miscellaneous items. Random little souvenirs and things like that. We say knickknacks. Now, guys, we are at the riverfront. The riverfront, that means right next to the river. And if I flip you around, we have the lantern boats. You can see the light down here reflecting off the surface of the water. So this is a night market, guys. A night market. The overall area is called a night market. And these are stalls. When someone has a small shop that's temporary, we call it a stall. So this stall is selling various things. And the lights are very bright. They are dazzling. Very bright. Up here, we have a very pretty street lamp. A street lamp. And some lanterns attached to a string or a cable. The sun has set. And right now, this cloud in the distance looks ominous. When I say a cloud looks ominous, it means it looks threatening. It looks dark. It looks like it is going to rain. It looks like there's going to be thunder and lightning. It's common in British English to say that weather or that cloud looks ominous. It's a good word. Chang, what are you holding there? An electrical fan. A small electric fan. Because it is hot and sweaty. Look at my hair flopping in the wind. It's like spaghetti. There you go. By the way, guys. If you don't already, then go here. Our lovely Volker, a follower. These guys work really hard. They make wonderful videos. There's the beautiful cameraman, Leon. And the beautiful man behind the camera, Volker. If you follow me and you don't follow him, then something's wrong. So go follow him. Thank you. Love you, guys. So these are bracelets. And this is a pack of cards. Here we have lots of different cards with beautiful decorations on. And these are coasters. A coaster. And that's a small stool. Hello. Can I stop by the corner? No, thank you. If I stop for too long, then they grab me and they want me to buy something. So I have to keep moving. That's a little dog. Hey, pooch. Rule 101 when coming to Vietnam. Don't pet the dogs unless they come over to you. I learned that the hard way. Hi, guys. Now, let's get some food. Zhang is sitting down on the table. Scooch up. Thank you. I just said, scooch up. That means, can you move up, please, in a very informal way. We just finished eating, guys. And personally, I'm stuffed. What about you? I am stuffed as well. When we're very full, we say, we're stuffed. There are three final words that we want to leave you with. So, Volker. I'll say the North American version of the word. And then Jay will say the British version. So, I currently live in an apartment in Da Nang. I don't live in a flat. I live in a house. But the opposite to apartment is flat in the UK. So, apartment. Flat. But flat also means this. Level. Flat. The ground is flat. The next word is guys. Hey, you guys want to go get something to eat? Like dessert? And I would say in the UK to my friends, lads. Alright, lads. Now then, lads. Ey up, lads. Just like a group of male friends. That is something I might adopt into my vocabulary, lads. I think that is a pretty cool British word. Lads. But I'll add the accent with it. Yeah, lads. Lads. Nice. Good. I fill my prescription at the pharmacy. I fill my prescription at the chemist in the UK. So, in North American English, we say pharmacy. And we say chemist. That is very cool. And I would love to use that. But I feel like all my friends would look at me like, they think I'm going to like a trap house or something. Like, what is this guy doing? We would say chatting ----. Do you have that phrase? No, what is that? To chat ---- is to talk rubbish. Oh, talk trash. Yeah, talk trash kind of thing. To chat ----. Just chat ----. I didn't know that word until today. Alright, nice. So I also learned some British words today. We're all learning. So that's all for today's video. I hope you guys enjoyed everything. Make sure to let us know in the comments what was your favourite part of the video. And we can do another collab. Let us know what you would like us to do in our next collab. And remember guys, you will become fluent in English. Bye guys. Peace.