Hello.
And in this part to video I am going to look at the topic describe a foreign language that you would
like to learn.
You should say what it is where it is spoken how you plan to learn it and explain why you want to learn
this language.
Now I spent quite a lot of time thinking about what was the most appropriate language to use and I've
picked Italian.
I can already speak Italian but I was trying to think of a language that not many of you would speak
and I don't have any Italians on this course that I'm aware of.
And so that's the reason for picking this language.
Obviously you can choose any language you like and still use some of these words and phrases.
But if you're struggling then just use Italian.
I'm pleased you've asked me this question because there is a language that I've been dying to learn
for ages and I've never got round to it.
Hopefully talking about it now might encourage me to stop procrastinating and start learning.
Any way the language in question is Italian.
Italian is spoken in Italy obviously and I'm not entirely sure if it's spoken anywhere else.
But I don't think so.
So it could be argued that it's not as useful as Spanish which is the second most spoken language in
the world by native speakers.
However it has been a lifelong dream of mine to go to Italy and been able to speak the language would
make my trip more pleasurable as I would be able to read menus and converse with the locals.
I guess there are a number of ways I could learn it such as an online course or buy a book but my preferred
method would be to go to the country and live there for around a year in order to become fluent.
Sadly that is just a pipe dream and it's never going to happen so I'll have to make do with an online
course for starters.
As I touched upon earlier I want to learn it to make a visit there more enjoyable but a further reason
is I am fascinated by Italian food and love watching cookery show set in Italy and this has stimulated
my desire to learn this language.
It is such a beautiful sounding language as well and very different from my mother tongue.
To be perfectly honest I've been bone idle and I need to stop messing about.
Purchase a course and get started.
Quite a lot of good vocabulary here.
Might not be able to go through every single thing but I'll try and look as much as possible.
I've been dying to learn if you've been dying to do something.
It means you really really want to do it.
I've been dying to learn how to play the guitar.
I've been dying to go to America and it means you really desperate.
You really want to do it so.
Great phrase that you could lose in lots of part too.
Because if it's about a job that you would like to do a place that you would like to visit.
A film that you would like to see.
Any topic you could use i've been dying to do this for ages and for ages.
Means for a long time.
Quite informal but great for eilts speaking.
I've never got round to it.
This means you've never started it.
You've never done it to get round to something means to start it or to do it.
So I've been dying to learn Italian for ages and I've never got round to it.
Some wanted to do it for a long time but never done it.
Procrastinating The verb is to procrastinate.
The noun is procrastination and this means to not do something to put it off until another time so I'll
do it tomorrow.
I'll do it next week.
I do this all the time with cleaning.
I hate cleaning.
I'll do it later.
And then I run out of time.
Don't do it.
So to procrastinate means to leave something until late term.
Sure if you're a student you procrastinate with your homework.
So I need to stop procrastinating and start learning it means stop putting it off for later to put something
off means to delay it.
Anyway the language in question.
It means the language.
It's just the language is but by using it in question and really focussing in on what it is it's like
am answering Now the question.
The language in question.
You could use this for other topics if you're talking about a book.
The book in question is Harry Potter a film.
The film in question is a crazy Rich Asians so useful phrase to popin in this topic you can use passive.
Italian is spoken Korean spoken Chinese spoken whatever.
Make sure you get the passive in there for your grammatical range and a phrase that I use a lot and
once he she makes sure use.
I'm not entirely sure.
So instead of saying I don't know.
It has been a lifelong dream so something that you've wanted to do for a long time and again used for
other topics.
To converse with means to talk with.
To communicate with the locals are the people who live in Italy so to converse with the locals.
So in answer to the question Howard learn it.
I'm saying my preferred method.
It's like saying the method I prefer but were using preferred here as an adjective and does you're talking
about language is a very important word fluent.
To be able to speak it perfectly.
I nearly didn't put this phrase in because it's quite a complex one but if you are very advanced and
you could remember it a good one for talking about things that you would like to do in the future but
you probably won't do a pipe dream is kind of unrealistic dream that will never happen.
So.
I would love to become an opera singer but it's a pipe dream.
It's never gonna happen.
And I have to make do with I'll just have to accept that.
All I can do is an online course for starters.
And that's like saying first of all so the thing I'm going to start with for starters and again this
is quite informal and could be used in General tusculum letters if it was an informal letter but not
for tax to academic.
As I touched upon earlier this is about like saying as I mentioned but I haven't said it that clearly
although obviously but I've touched upon it.
This means I made some reference to it so a bit like saying As previously mentioned book a bit softer
than that as I touched upon earlier but very complex language.
It stimulated my desire so to learn this language it stimulated its.
Sparked an interest is another way of saying this.
And as we're talking about language it's very important to put in your mother tongue.
That's the language you speak the language you learnt as a baby.
Bone idle.
This means very very lazy idle means lazy and we use it with this word in front of it bone idle.
I've no idea why.
I just wanted to put some complex language in there if you say my brother is bone idle.
It's I and he's really really lazy.
I need to stop messing about.
Messing about is what children do in schools and they get told off by the teacher.
But also if you're messing about you're not taking it seriously you're not focussing on it and just
doing it.
And I've been procrastinating and I've not learnt it.
So I'm now saying to myself I need to stop messing about some quite complex words in this video.
Don't try and learn and remember them all.
But hopefully if you pick up one or two of them particularly ones that will help you in other topics.
Thanks for watching.