Part 1: Conversation Edition: Language Learning, Families, and Immigration with Marisa Vallbona
13:09
6 kwietnia 2022
13:09
6 kwietnia 2022
Opis
👉 This episode of Stairway to English is a very special conversation edition! This is Part 1. Part 2 will be available very soon!
👉 Marisa and I talk about her life, her background with language learning, where her family is from, and growing up as an English language learner. Marisa speaks with a Texan accent. I hope you enjoy the episode!
👉 Vocabulary
Commute - Travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis
Stay put - To stay in one place
Public Relations - A type of employment where you work with companies to help them in the news or stay out of the news
Birth certificate - A certificate received at birth to show where you were born
Immigrant - A person who moves to and lives in a different country
Pull out - Take something out
Drop off - Leave someone or something somewhere
Hand me over - Give someone something or someone
Siblings - Brothers and/or sisters
Pick up - Collect a person or a thing from a place
Accelerates - Move quickly
Y’all - You all. This is used mainly in the southern part of the USA.
Carried on a long distance relationship - Dated while living far apart from one another
No brainer - An easy decision
Ma’am - A polite way to address women
Sir - A polite way to address men
Mannerisms - The way you act and handle yourself
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