Bob's Short English Lessons Learn the English Phrases TO MAKE A LIVING and A LIVING WAGE
Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase TO MAKE A LIVING and A LIVING WAGE
In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to make a living." When you say that someone is getting enough money from work to make a living, it means they have enough money to pay all of their bills. I make a living by going to work and teaching and by doing YouTube and between the two, I have enough money every month to pay all my bills. So it's really nice to be able to make a living doing something that I like. It's nice to be able to earn enough money from my teaching job and from YouTube to pay all my bills. It's kind of satisfying to sit down once a month and pay all the bills and just make, and just have enough money to do it. So I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I do make a living by going to work every day and by doing YouTube, and, of course, the flower farm as well.
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The other English phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "a living wage." So a living wage in Canada is about $18 or $19 an hour, and working about 40 hours per week. If you earn that much money in Canada, we call it a living wage. That means it's enough money to rent an apartment and to pay your bills and to live a somewhat okay life. It's on, a little bit on the low end maybe. It might sound like a lot of money to you, but Canada is an expensive place to live. I mean, milk at the store is $7, so making about $18 or $19 or $20 an hour, we would call that a living wage, but by the time you've paid rent and paid your taxes, which are really high in Canada, and bought groceries and maybe a little bit of money left over to do something fun, it's, it doesn't go very far. In English, when you say, money doesn't go very far, it means you spend it and then it's gone fairly quickly.
So, to review, to make a living is to work and to have enough money to pay all your bills. And if you make a living wage, it means the place where you work pays you just enough money for you to be able to have a life where you can pay your bills, but you're not gonna be able to save a lot for retirement on a living wage, but you'll be able to pay all your bills.
Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Vitor, and from the last video where I was in town. Vitor says, beautiful houses, Bob. Nice pair of colors. Dark brown walls are matching the roofs. Indeed, a top-notch place to live and a calm park for kids to play. Now that things are getting back to normal, it is a great idea to hang out with your kids to have some quality time. By the way, thanks for the lesson. And my response, yeah, I'm liking the colors as well. This was a newer row of houses in my local town and they were bought up quick.