Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO STOP AT NOTHING and STOP-AND-GOIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to stop at nothing." When you say that you will stop at nothing to do something it means you'll do anything you have to to get that thing done. It's raining right now, but I will stop at nothing to get a video made for all of you. So even though it's raining and it's a little bit cold, I don't mind coming out to get this done because I like to get the English lesson done. It's just something I like to do so I will stop at nothing to get it done. You could use this to describe other things as well. Maybe someone really likes to visit people at Christmas and they will stop at nothing in order to make that visit happen. That means even if there's a snow storm or the electricity isn't working, they will still visit someone at Christmas.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "stop-and-go." Now, we usually use this to talk about traffic. If you're driving and you're on a highway and you stop and then you go and then you stop and then you go because there's a little bit of a traffic jam, we would call it stop-and-go traffic. But you can describe anything as stop-and-go. You could say the rain today has been kind of stop-and-go all day. It was raining this morning and then it stopped for a bit and then it started again. The rain has been stop-and-go.So to review, when you will stop at nothing to get something done, it means no matter what obstacle is in your way you will get that thing finished. I hope that you stop at nothing when you keep when you are learning English. I hope nothing stops you from getting it done. And when you say something is stop-and-go, it means it starts at one point and then it stops for a bit and then it starts again. Sometimes my English lessons are like that, but not this one. This one isn't stop-and-go. I talk for the whole four minutes.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous lesson. This comment is from Stanislav and Stanislav says, "it is great weather in Canada. We have a lot of snow too today." And my response is we did have a lot, but unfortunately it's all melted now.And you can probably see that behind me already. Let's go for a little tour. Things are very different than the last video. So the last video was actually shot a few days ago, but since then things have warmed up quite a bit here in Ontario, Canada. In fact, the other day, two days ago, it was 11 degrees. Everything melted. You can see that everything behind me, it kind of looks like spring again in some ways. And then today is four degrees. I was out earlier this morning shooting a video for my other channel, my "Wednesdays with Bob" video, and yeah, it certainly doesn't look like this. Here, I'll put a little clip in of what it looked like during the storm a week and a half ago. I'll start that right now.It's like this outside right now. I'm not sure if you can see behind me. It is just coming down out here and it is windy out here.And then I'll come back again. So you could see in that clip that we were getting hammered. That's how I would describe it. We were getting hammered with snow, but it certainly slowed down quite a bit. But yeah, it's just kind of weird. Like, I'm wearing a winter coat, but I don't really need a winter coat right now. I could probably come outside in just a light jacket. In fact, Jen and I went shopping the other day and I just wore a jacket. Yesterday, actually. So yes, kind of disappointing. You know Bob the Canadian loSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A PIECE OF MY MIND and IN ONE PIECEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "a piece of my mind." Now, we usually use this phrase with the verb to give and I could say, "I'm going to give someone a piece of my mind." That means I'm angry with them and I'm going to tell them exactly what I think. If you were angry with your boss at work, you could say, "Tomorrow I'm going to give my boss a piece of my mind." I'm going to tell him or her exactly what I don't like about my job or exactly what I don't like about how things are going. I'm going to give them a piece of my mind. So again, it means you're angry, it means you're upset and you're going to tell someone exactly how you feel.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "in one piece." Now, this is kind of a weird phrase. "We just had a storm here, but we made it through in one piece." "The other day I heard on the news that someone had a car accident, but they made it through in one piece." So what I mean by it being a weird phrase is it kind of sounds weird if you think about the alternative. We don't think about that when we use it in English, though. We use it to mean when something bad has happened and we are still feeling good and no one was hurt. "So we had a bad snowstorm, but Jen and I made it through in one piece." The alternative, I'm not gonna talk about the alternative. We made it through in one piece. And again, when we use this in English we aren't thinking about something gruesome. We're just saying that everything is okay.So to review, "a piece of my mind", if I was to give you a piece of my mind I would tell you exactly what I think about something and I might even be angry while I'm doing it. And when you make it through something in one piece, it means that everything went well and everyone is doing okay.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Judit. "Nowadays, I drink a cup of hot chocolate every day. I love it too. Snowstorm? Wow, I hope you and Brent will survive." And then I said, "We all made it through intact." And when I replied to this comment, Judit that's when I thought of the phrase in one piece. We all made it through intact. We all made it through in one piece.Let's have a look around though. You might be surprised to know that we went through what they were calling a blizzard, but we don't actually have that much snow on the ground. The snow was everywhere. You couldn't see across the river, you couldn't even see across the road. I went out to check our mailbox that day and there was so much snow blowing I couldn't see in either direction. So I actually decided to just not cross the road. It was far too dangerous. But if you look, you'll see that you can still see little blades of grass sticking up. You can see that we did get snow, my camera, my camera doesn't like the cold. We did get snow, but not an outrageous amount.Let's spin this way a bit so you can see the farm yard a bit better. So you can see my tracks, you can see the grass, you can see the peonies still sticking up, the little stubble from the peonies. If you look in the distance you can see an ominous sky, though, the sun above, but this very very dark cloud. It's not coming this way. When I looked on the radar this morning that storm is actually moving that way, so it's not coming here.But yep, we had two days of really really bad weather the day before, so it was the 23rd and the 24th, yes. Our power went out. We ran the generator for a bit, so weSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO PARK IT and TO HIT IT OUT OF THE PARKIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to park it. When you park it somewhere, it can mean that you're parking your vehicle, but it can also mean that you're going to sit somewhere. I could say to Jen, "I'm gonna drop the kids off at the mall and then I'm just gonna park it on a bench for a little bit." That means I'm going to sit on a bench. It doesn't mean I'm gonna drive my vehicle and try to put it on a bench. That doesn't even make sense, does it? But when you say that you're going to park it somewhere, it means you're going to sit somewhere. We also use this as a command. Sometimes parents will say to kids who are misbehaving, "Okay, just park it for a sec, and I'm going to talk to you about why your behavior is bad." That means you want the child to sit down if you tell them to park it, 'cause kids don't have cars, do they?WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianHey, the second phrase I wanted to teach you today is to hit it out of the park. Now, I may have taught this phrase in the past. I can't remember. It is a very popular one. When you say someone has hit it out of the park, it means they did something and they did a really, really good job. Maybe a friend of yours had to play a musical instrument in front of other people and they did an amazing job. You could say, "Oh, you should have seen Patrick play the violin. He hit it out of the park." This means that during the performance he played every note perfectly and he just did an amazing job. He hit it out of the park.So to review, when you say you're going to park it, it can mean that you're just going to sit somewhere. When I go to the mall, sometimes my kids shop and I just park it. I sit on a bench and I wait for them to finish their shopping. And when you hit it out of the park, it means that you do a really, really good job. I hope that whatever you're doing next, whether it's a performance or a test or something like that, I hope that you hit it out of the park.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Denis, which in English we would say, Dennis, by the way. "Bob, when it's cold outside and it's snowing and you're sitting in your comfortable chair and look out the window, what kind of drink are you prefer to sip? Or what kind of drink do you prefer to sip? Hot cocoa, mulled wine, or maybe grog." And my response, I prefer hot chocolate. It's especially good when you come in from the cold and need to warm up. So yes, hot cocoa, hot chocolate, that would be my favorite drink. We more commonly call it hot chocolate here, although hot cocoa is also a correct term. So thank you, Denis, for that comment and for that question. I definitely like when I come in from the cold, I like to have a nice cup of hot chocolate. That's my favorite.So, guess what is going to happen here. It is Thursday today and they're calling for a blizzard. They've actually updated the term that they're using. When I say they're calling for, it means the weather people are forecasting that we are going to get a lot of snow starting halfway through the day tomorrow. They originally said it was going to snow. Then they said lots of snow. And just this morning they have now said it's going to be a blizzard. If you don't know what a blizzard is, a blizzard is a gigantic snowstorm. This snowstorm is so big that I think Brent from Speak English With This Guy and myself will be getting the same storm, even though he lives hundreds of kilometers away from me. So it's supposed to last for a Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO WORK AWAY and ASK AWAYIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to work away. When you work away at something, it means you're working on something that will take a long time to finish and you're doing it little by little. A great example of this would be if you are doing a jigsaw puzzle. If you have 1,000 or 2,000 or 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, you need to work away at it. You're not going to finish it in 10 minutes or in 15 minutes. When you open the box and you dump the pieces out, you need to work away at it. You need to take some time to put every piece in slowly. At school, it's the week before Christmas and parents keep sending big boxes of chocolates to the staff, to the teachers to eat and we work away at each box of chocolates. We don't eat them all at once, but there's so many that we have to work away at it until the box is empty. I've eaten way too much chocolate lately, by the way. I need to slow down.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianBut the second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, ask away. This is a phrase that we say sometimes as teachers when someone asks if they can ask us some questions. If a student says to me, "Can I ask you a few questions about my project?" I'll respond by saying, "Sure, ask away." This is simply giving the person permission to ask you lots of questions. Maybe a friend is visiting you and they say, "Hey, can I ask you a few questions "about what it's like at work for you, "what your job is like?" You could say, "Sure, ask away. "I'm happy to talk about work."So to review, when you work away at something, it means you get it done slowly but surely. There's another English phrase for you. A jigsaw puzzle is a great example. You just need to work away at it, and eventually it's done. And the second phrase, ask away, is something you say when you're giving someone permission to ask you a lot of questions. A politician might be walking along and a journalist or reporter might say, "Can you stop and answer a few questions for me?" And they might say, "Sure, ask away." Or they might run because they don't wanna answer any questions. That could happen too.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from U Bean. Hi, Bob. I heard that Canadians don't like to use umbrellas when it rains. Is that true? And my response, it's an interesting thing and there might be some truth to it. I can only speak from my own experience, though. I don't use one. I own one, but I rarely use it.So I know that umbrellas are these amazing things. They're really cool. When it rains, you open your umbrella and it keeps you dry. I own two umbrellas, actually, not just one. And we sometimes use them when we're at market. We sometimes use them when we go somewhere where we will be forced to be outside in the rain for a while. But we don't use umbrellas quite, we don't use umbrellas regularly to walk from our vehicle into a building. When I say we, I mean Jen and I. I think there are Canadians that do use umbrellas. But yeah, I don't take one with me every day. If I drive to school in the rain, when I get to work, I just run from my van to the front door. I don't use my umbrella. So, interesting. I might have to go to the city sometime and see how many Canadians actually use their umbrellas. We'll see.Hey, it's not snowy here. It's a little disappointing. Christmas is only a few days away, and most people who live in Canada really like it when we get lots of snow. But it sounds like we might get some snow this weekend. It sounds like Friday and SSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A ROOKIE MISTAKE and AN HONEST MISTAKEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase a rookie mistake. Now, this is a term we use when we're talking about someone who's new at something and then they make a mistake. At school, oh, by the way, a rookie is someone who's new at something. When you play a sport, you can be a rookie. It means it's your first year. But we use this in other things as well. At school, sometimes we hire a new teacher and we call that teacher a rookie for the first year. And a rookie mistake as a teacher would be to try and use the photocopier right before the school day starts. That's the busiest time. If you need to photocopy something in a school, don't do it right before school starts because there will be a lineup of teachers all making the same mistakes, including the rookie. So anyways, a rookie mistake is a mistake that someone who is new at something ends up making.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase an honest mistake. Now, an honest mistake is just a mistake that anyone would make, and it's a mistake that doesn't really harm anyone. A good example would be this. Sometimes I'll teach a student and then a few years later, I'll teach their brother. So I'll teach two brothers, and then a few years later, again, after they've graduated I'll meet one of them somewhere and I'll use the wrong name. And that's just an honest mistake. Sometimes brothers look a lot alike, especially after they graduate from high school. If you meet two brothers in their 20s, they can sometimes look quite a bit alike. So it's just an honest mistake if I use the wrong name when I run into one of them.So to review, a rookie mistake is a mistake made by someone who's new at something. A rookie mistake for a farmer is to try and work up the soil before it's dry enough. That's a rookie mistake. And an honest mistake is just a simple mistake that anyone would make, and it's not a mistake that harms anyone or costs money or anything like that. So I make a lot of those, actually.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Judit. "Thanks for the video. It was quite short, as usual. "Christmas is coming as well as the eagle season "in North Florida, check them out." And my response, "I'll have a look."And I did, I actually just spent a little bit of time reading about bald eagles. And I wanted to show all of you something as well. So the bald eagle is native to North America. It's an eagle with a white head. I think it's the national bird in the United States. But if you look behind me here, there's a really tall hydro pole right there. We call 'em hydro poles in Canada. And at the very top, sometimes in the summer we'll see a bald eagle. There is a bald eagle that lives on our farm. I'm sure it's gone now, though, because I'm sure it's gone south for the winter where it's a bit warmer. But interestingly enough, Judit, thanks for that comment. I did read a little bit about bald eagles, and again, there's one that sometimes perches right at the top of that hydro pole. You might call it a utility pool if you are in America, or something like that.By the way, I'm out here in the rain. It's a little bit slippery out here. Let's see if... So I actually ended up staying home today. We had, I guess we would call it technically, we would call it a snow day, but it's actually more accurate to call it an ice day. We woke up to freezing rain. It was very, very dangerous to walk outside. It was very, very dangerousSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BACK OFF and TO GO BACK ONIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to back off. Now, when you back off, it means you stop arguing with someone. It means you stop trying to convince them that you are right. Let's say that Jen and I are having an argument. At a certain point, I might back off because I might be starting to say things that are a little bit mean. Maybe we're trying to decide what to have for supper and I really want pizza, and Jen really wants hamburgers and I just keep saying things like, "We should have pizza. We never have pizza. Pizza is the best thing in the world." Eventually, Jen might get a little bit tired of my behavior and it might be important for me to back off. When you're arguing with someone, if you don't back off or if the other person doesn't back off, sometimes, you can start to have hard feelings for each other. You can start to be annoyed with each other. So, sometimes it's just good to back off.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is to go back on. Now we usually use this phrase when talking about a promise. Sometimes, you can go back on something that you've said and it means, you don't do it anymore. Let's say I promised Jen that I'm going to put gas in the van today and then when I get home, I say to Jen, "You know what? I promised to put gas in the van, but I didn't. She could say, Hey, you went back on your promise. Notice I had to go to the past tense here. You went back on your promise. That's not fair." When people go back on their word or go back on their promise, it's not a nice thing. If you promise to do something, you should do it, I think. I think that's always the best thing to do.Anyways, to review, to back off means to stop arguing or stop fighting with someone. Sometimes, it's important for you to back off so that your relationship is good and to go back on something, to go back on your word or to go back on a promise simply means to not keep it. It means that you say you're going to do something and then you don't.Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Lorenzo. "Hi, teacher Bob, still no snow in Canada and my response just a tiny bit now, hopefully more in the weeks ahead."So yes, thanks, Lorenzo. What's happening here is at night, it goes below zero. So every night, the temperature goes down to minus four or minus five, and sometimes it snows. But if you look around me, you'll see that there isn't any snow on the ground at all. There is no snow to speak of, we might say in English. So, yeah. Oh wait, I think I found some. Let's look. If you look the back of this bench down here, you could see a little bit of snow, so we do not sure what my lens is doing. It's going crazy now. Let me see if I can get it to, there we go, my ca- Apparently my camera's not used to making English lessons either, but yes, so there's a little bit of snow on our vehicles in the morning. There's a little bit of snow on the ground sometimes but then by midday, it's plus three or plus four and most of it has melted, so just kind of sad.Hey, you know what I was gonna talk about for the end of this video? This is something I mentioned every, every December I think. I can't wait for school to be done. I have over a week and a half left of school and I can't wait for Christmas break. It is one of my favorite times of year. I get to slow down a bit. Obviously, I don't have to work, but I should stay focused. I should stay focused, do my job well, and eventually, it will be next week, FriSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO TAKE SOMETHING FOR A SPIN and TO SPIN YOUR WHEELSIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "To take something for a spin." Now, usually, this refers to a vehicle. Maybe a friend of yours has a new car. You could say, "Hey, could I take your car for a spin?" That means you want to drive it for a little bit. Maybe a different friend bought a brand-new sports car and you've never really taken a sports car for a spin. You could say, "Hey, could I take your sports car for a spin? Could I go and take a little drive around town and see what it feels like to drive it?"WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is, "To spin your wheels." Now, I'm having a funny feeling I may have taught both of these phrases before, but I'm gonna reteach them anyways because it's been a little while since I've made one of these videos. When you spin your wheels with a vehicle, it means they go around really fast and you don't move forward. Maybe you're in mud or something, but in life, you can also spin your wheels. This simply means you're not making progress on something. Maybe you're working on a project at work with some colleagues and you haven't made very much progress. Your boss could come and say, "Hey, are you guys going to keep spinning your wheels? I think you guys need to get something done, so please start getting more work done. Start to make some progress. Stop spinning your wheels." Sorry, I'm not using the exact phrase, but I'm a little out of practice on this.Anyways, to review. To take something for a spin is to go and drive it for a little bit. You can take a car for a spin. You could even ask someone if you could take their new phone for a spin or their new computer, although that's less common. And when you spin your wheels, it simply means that you are not making progress. Whatever it is you're doing, you're not making any progress. You're just kind of stuck in one spot.But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video if I can find it. Did I put it in a pocket? It's not in that pocket, it's not in that pocket. What did I do with it? I don't think I have it with me. I'll be right back. Okay, I'm back, and I found it. This is from Ok. Hello, Bob. All the expressions are interesting, but there are too few examples. And my response, I'll see what I can do about that.So yeah, I try to describe... By the way, thanks for the comment. I try to describe and explain the current expression or term in about a minute. Sometimes, I give one example, sometimes I give two. I will try my best to give more examples in the future.Anyways, I'm back. I'm back at it. I know I took a little bit of a break there. Life was busy, but I was also not feeling well. I was close to losing my voice a few times, and I thought I just need to rest it for a few more days. I need to make sure that I don't overdo it because if I lose my voice, I can't make YouTube videos, I can't go to work, I can't do what I'm supposed to do. So I was able to rest my voice. I basically just took some Advil, went to work, didn't talk too much at work. I tried to rest my voice as much as possible. And even though I was a little bit sick, I did get better.So it is nice to be feeling a lot better now and it's nice to be doing this again. I have to admit, taking a week and a half off from making short videos, I kind of forgot how to do it. Obviously, I forgot to bring my comment out with me. I haven't actually even prepared in my mind what to talk about for the last two minutes. I'm jusSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases ON THE FAST TRACK and FAST-FORWARDIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, on the fast track. Now, there's two ways to learn English. You can study at home on your own time or if you wanna be on the fast track, you can move to an English speaking country and live with an English speaking family, then you would definitely be on the fast track. So, this phrase then means to take a route that's faster. Sometimes someone starts working at a company and they do a really good job, and they work extra hours, and they just really want to get a promotion, you would say that they are on the fast track if they manage to do that. They impress their boss by working long days, doing things successfully and just making the company better. You would say, "Oh, they're on the fast track to getting a promotion." So, anytime you're on the fast track, it means you're going faster than other people.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase fast-forward. Now, this is a button that you use to speed up a video but we also use this when we talk about our lives. I could say this, five and a half years ago, I only had a few subscribers, but fast forward a few years and I had a hundred thousand subscribers. Fast forward again and a few years later, I had over a million. This is on my other channel, by the way not this channel, this channel is cool and small and that's the way I like it. So, you can use the word fast-forward to talk about events in your life as well.So to review, when you're on the fast track, it means you are progressing in a faster way than other people at something like learning English or getting a promotion at work. And when you use the phrase fast-forward, you can use this to talk about different parts of your life. When I was a kid, I didn't like pumpkin pie but fast forward a few years and it became one of my favorite kinds of pie. So you can just use the phrase to talk about an advancement in time.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video, this comment is from Giovanni. "Yeah, I'm pulling for Canada this year, since I was born, Canada hasn't been qualified and this year you guys did. Sure thing, I'm stuck to the sofa this afternoon to watch the match, and then I'm responding a little while later saying I was sad when we lost to Belgium yesterday, oh well, c'est la vie."So, thanks Giovanni for that. Yes, the World Cup is happening. Yes, I did actually watch a little bit of it yesterday. We watched it at school. So, we were able to get the match on the screen. We watched a little bit of the match between Canada and Belgium and we were sad when they scored a point on us and then we were sad at the end of the game when we lost. But hey, it's nice that, I think they're in Round Robin play right now, where you play a number of teams in your pool. So, hopefully when Canada plays its next game, we can have a little more success.So anyways, I don't have a lot more to talk about today but I will just reflect on my week. My week so far has been really busy, but as of today, I don't have as much to do. But the funny thing is, when I'm busy, I get more work done and when I don't have a lot to do, I get less done. I sat and talked to Jen this morning for half an hour instead of getting this video done right away. I kind of moseyed outside. In English when you say that you mosey somewhere, it means you go there really, really slowly. For some reason, on days where I have a million things to do, I get up, I get at it, I start early, I gSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases C'EST LA VIE and DÉJÁ VUIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase c'est la vie or is this actually a French phrase? By the way, there are French phrases that we use in everyday English and c'est la vie is one of them, and it means, that's life. Sometimes you have a situation where something goes a certain way and there's no real way to explain it. So in an English conversation you would just shrug and say, "Well, c'est la vie." And basically what we're saying is, "That's life." Life has its ups and downs. Sometimes good things happen, sometimes bad things happen. Sometimes it's hard to understand why those things happen and then we just say, c'est la vie.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianBy the way, there's another French term we use and that's deja vu. In English, people often forget to put the accents on it, by the way, but deja vu is a situation where you feel like you're experiencing something that happened before. In English, you would say, "Oh, I just had deja vu. I felt like I've already done this." Maybe you're reading a news story, and you feel like you've read the story before or maybe you just have a weird moment in your day where you think, "I think I've already done this." In that situation, you would say you're experiencing deja vu. By the way, in French, this actually is the past participle of the verb voir, and this means already so it kind of roughly translates as already seen.Anyways, enough of the French lesson. To review, in an English conversation, you may use this phrase, c'est la vie. You can also say that's life. Either one will work and people will understand what you're saying. You just say, "Hmm, c'est la vie." Or, "Oh, that's life." And if you experience deja vu, it means you have had a situation in life where you feel like you've already lived that moment that it's already happened to you. It can be very, very strange to experience deja vu.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Ruslan. Thank you for the lesson, dear teacher Bob. I love that nice, quiet neighborhood you were walking around in this video. Everybody has such a small fence around their houses so I guess house robbery does not happen in this area. And my response, it does happen, but not too often. It is a very peaceful neighborhood.So thanks Ruslan for that comment. Let's talk a little bit about crime in Canada. We do have crime. Houses do get robbed. We are like every other country in the world. We try our best to keep our crime rate down, but there are still bad people and things still do happen. So yes, people do have their house houses robbed from time to time. We don't tend to have a lot of fences, but a lot of houses have security alarms or alarm systems and we probably in smaller towns have a very low crime rate. It's probably more of a worry in the bigger cities like Toronto or Edmonton or Calgary. So yes, we do have crime. It's even sometimes dangerous out in the countryside where I live, although people steal different things when they're out there. People tend to steal things like snowmobiles and four wheelers and farm equipment. So yes, there is crime. We do our best to stop it.Hey, I'm out here at our local soccer fields because as I understand it, the WSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase I OWE YOU ONE and the French Phrase Merci beaucoup!In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase I owe you one. This means the same thing as saying thank you, and I want to say to all of you, I owe you one. I had a lot of fun reading all of the comments on the last video, where I asked you for ideas. Sorry, I said all the comments. I haven't read all of them yet, but I think as of this morning, there's 144. I've read many of them. There's far too many for me to respond, but I've certainly enjoyed reading them, so I owe you one. Thank you for your thoughts. Thank you for your ideas. It's a lot of fun to read through and to kind of see what you guys were saying, so thank you so much for that. So once again, when you say, "I owe you one," it means the same thing as saying, "Thank you."WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today isn't an English phrase. It's merci beaucoup, which is just a French way of saying thank you as well. So thank you very much, I owe you one, merci beaucoup.But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Let me see what I have in my pocket here. I did respond to one of the 144 comments, and I said, oh no, wait, let's read what Judit had to say. "Yes to all of your questions, and the length, when I have time, it is too short. When I don't have time, it is too long, but I manage. I miss you responding to my comments, though." And my response. "I miss that, too. It's one of my favorite things about this channel." Don't worry, I'll resume doing that with this video.So yes, I've been a little slow to reply to comments, haven't I? And I'll try to make sure that I get on that. And it isn't a burden for me. I do really enjoy responding to all of your comments. It's a lot of fun to read them. I think my response average is pretty good. I do usually find the time to respond to most of them, and it helps that there's only 30 or 40. When there's 144, like there were on the previous video, it gets a little challenging to be able to do that. So anyways, thanks once again. I will get back to that, Judit. It's a lot of fun, and it helps me connect with all of you.Hey, as you can see, there is a skiff of snow. I don't know if you can see on all the roofs here, but let me spin you around. You can see that the roof on some of these houses is white, and if I walk over to this park, you can see that we've had, I guess you could call it our first snowfall. I mean, it's not huge by any stretch of the imagination. Let me spin you back around. But certainly we have had snow. It's been snowing on and off, but the snow hasn't stayed on the ground. Early in the fall, the the ground is quite warm, and so sometimes we'll have snow, but as soon as it hits the ground, it will melt. But this time, we had snow during the night and it seems to have taken the time to remain, so we can see that it has not melted yet, so that's really cool.Anyways, I'm not sure what else to say. It's only three minutes, and I usually talk for four minutes, don't I? I must have done the beginning part of the lesson very, very quickly. So let me go on a little bit more about some of the comments yesterday. Most of you said everything's just right. I like it when people say, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." That should be the phrase maybe that I teach you today as well. That's a saying we use when something is working well, and then when someone wants to modify it or change it, sometimes we'll say, "Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it," meaning nothing's broken, everything's wSupport the show