The Vocab Man - Fluent Vocabulary 75 To get one's head around - to understand sth
Feb 4, 2022
The podcast explores the expression 'to get one's head around' and provides examples and explanations of its usage. The speaker shares personal experiences and offers tips on how to remember and practice the expression, with the goal of finally understanding and using it effectively.
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Today, we are going to learn the expression "to get one's head around"
Here is the Audiogram version of the podcast: https://share.descript.com/view/cMpj06yu2TG
Transcript:
Get one's head around.
Hello guys, this is the Vocab Man. Let's try to understand the spoken words from different clips.
And at the same time learn the expression to get one's head around.
0:20 Clip 1
That in 1999 I got incredibly angry-- pissed off, actually--at what goes on with foster kids in America. I just couldn't get my head around it. How can we know best practice but we don't do it in 3/4 of the country?
The speaker in this video clip. Peter Samuelson doesn't understand how the system works concerning foster kids in America. So he can't come to terms with the system, how it works.
According to the Collins dictionary, it means to succeed in understanding or accepting something such as a new idea. yeah, at first I found this quite a difficult thing to get my head round, but one way helped me to think about it is I can see I've got over by my seat there a bottle of water, right. I'm looking at lots of you and lots of you have bottles of water with you, right?
Instead of to get one's head around something, you could also just say to wrap one's head around something. And remember this. It's very colloquial. So be careful when you're using these expression. And to be honest. The first thing that springs to mind when I'm hearing to wrap one's head around is a McWrap. Right from McDonald's. But of course this won't help you that much. It only shows. How hungry the Vocab man is. At the time when recording this episode. But I have another tip for you. There is a cool band. a band called the offspring. And there is a song called can't get my head around you. So you could just go. Look up for can't get my head around you youTube. And there we are. By listening to this song you will remember these expression easily.
But be aware that it's a punk rock song.
2:19 Clip 2
And then, when it comes to moralizing, are you moralizing or are you just trying to teach
your kids consequences? I'm not sure I can get my head around it.
Yeah.I mean, it's a tough question.I mean, you know, the data is the data, right?
What I find also super difficult is to get the right intonation. When speaking in English. So make sure that you can repeat some phrases so that it gets into your head.
I'm not sure I can get my head around it.
I'm not sure I can get my head around it.
So obviously the speaker's speaking very fast here. So that's why I'm having some difficulties to repeat the phrase or the expression. But what's the time. It will get better. Well, I hope so. And in my opinion, it's a very useful phrase. And I'm going to relisten to this episode of the vocal man. And by reading the text over and over again. It will finally stick in my memory
But do you have to know it's one thing to know that expression. Another to being able to use it in a day to day conversation. And that's the reason why I also try to shadow the text. What I mean by that is I listen to a very small portion of it and say it out loud afterwards. And that's why I will get used to it. And I will get my head around it.
Here is the Audiogram version of the podcast: https://share.descript.com/view/cMpj06yu2TG
Transcript:
Get one's head around.
Hello guys, this is the Vocab Man. Let's try to understand the spoken words from different clips.
And at the same time learn the expression to get one's head around.
0:20 Clip 1
That in 1999 I got incredibly angry-- pissed off, actually--at what goes on with foster kids in America. I just couldn't get my head around it. How can we know best practice but we don't do it in 3/4 of the country?
The speaker in this video clip. Peter Samuelson doesn't understand how the system works concerning foster kids in America. So he can't come to terms with the system, how it works.
According to the Collins dictionary, it means to succeed in understanding or accepting something such as a new idea. yeah, at first I found this quite a difficult thing to get my head round, but one way helped me to think about it is I can see I've got over by my seat there a bottle of water, right. I'm looking at lots of you and lots of you have bottles of water with you, right?
Instead of to get one's head around something, you could also just say to wrap one's head around something. And remember this. It's very colloquial. So be careful when you're using these expression. And to be honest. The first thing that springs to mind when I'm hearing to wrap one's head around is a McWrap. Right from McDonald's. But of course this won't help you that much. It only shows. How hungry the Vocab man is. At the time when recording this episode. But I have another tip for you. There is a cool band. a band called the offspring. And there is a song called can't get my head around you. So you could just go. Look up for can't get my head around you youTube. And there we are. By listening to this song you will remember these expression easily.
But be aware that it's a punk rock song.
2:19 Clip 2
And then, when it comes to moralizing, are you moralizing or are you just trying to teach
your kids consequences? I'm not sure I can get my head around it.
Yeah.I mean, it's a tough question.I mean, you know, the data is the data, right?
What I find also super difficult is to get the right intonation. When speaking in English. So make sure that you can repeat some phrases so that it gets into your head.
I'm not sure I can get my head around it.
I'm not sure I can get my head around it.
So obviously the speaker's speaking very fast here. So that's why I'm having some difficulties to repeat the phrase or the expression. But what's the time. It will get better. Well, I hope so. And in my opinion, it's a very useful phrase. And I'm going to relisten to this episode of the vocal man. And by reading the text over and over again. It will finally stick in my memory
But do you have to know it's one thing to know that expression. Another to being able to use it in a day to day conversation. And that's the reason why I also try to shadow the text. What I mean by that is I listen to a very small portion of it and say it out loud afterwards. And that's why I will get used to it. And I will get my head around it.