RealLife Radio #75 – Bodily Functions and Sounds

untitledDescribing sounds can be a very difficult thing to do, especially in another language.

In this episode of RealLife Radio you are going to learn the names of the most common, and sometimes most unpleasant, body noises and bodily functions.

Also, you’ll hear the story of the creepy homeless pickup artist, and the difference between recommend and suggest.

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Words You’ll Learn

  • Panhandler
  • Beg
  • Laugh your ass off
  • Homeless
  • Creepy
  • Loaded
  • Pick up
  • Quote on quote
  • Hail from
  • Stash
  • Get a kick out of something
  • Snort
  • Dragging your feet
  • Growl
  • Rumble
  • Snap your fingers
  • Crack your knuckles
  • A raspy voice
  • Cat got your tongue – see article
  • Boogers
  • Wolf Whistle
  • Go to town on something

Words You Should Know

  • Come up – to appear
  • Sweep someone off their feet – really impress someone by making them feel special
  • Legitimate – allowed according to the laws or rules
  • Joints – muscular ligaments that connect your body together
  • Throat – vocal part of your body
  • A pack a day smoker – a person who smokes a packet of cigarettes a day
  • A bump – an area of skin that is raised because it was hit, injured, etc.
  • Swell – to become larger than normal
  • Revolting – something that disgusts your

Shoutouts

  • Kangulai – 5 Star review from iTunes
  • Cecilia – RealLife English Ambassador

News

Conversation Topic

  • Bodily functions and noises

Question

  • What’s the difference between Suggest and Recommend

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Song: Joywave “Tongues”

Pick me up, Dust me off
Give me breath, And let me cough
Drag me back, Collect my thoughts
I’ve come back to the land i’d lost

The palms are down, I’m welcomed back to town
Sometimes i feel like they don’t understand me
I Hear their mouths making foreign sounds
Sometimes i think they’re all just speaking tongues

Tell me all the things i’ve missed
Who’s been killed and who’s been kissed
(Drag me back, Collect my thoughts)
I’ll be gone when the drugs wear off

The palms are down, I’m welcomed into town
Sometimes i feel like they don’t understand me
I Hear their mouths making foreign sounds
Sometimes you’d think they spoke another language

The palms are down, I’m welcomed into town
Sometimes i feel like they don’t understand me
I Hear their mouths making foreign sounds
Sometimes i think they’re all just speaking tongues

They say i’m the only one, Who can be brave
That i am the chosen one
But There’s no way, That I am the only one
And there’s no one to save
If there’s nowhere for them to run.

The palms are down, I’m welcomed into town
Sometimes i feel like they don’t understand me
I Hear their mouths making foreign sounds
Sometimes you’d think they spoke another language

The palms are down, I’m welcomed into town
Sometimes i feel like they don’t understand me
I Hear their mouths making foreign sounds
Sometimes i think they’re all just speaking tongues

They’re all just speaking tongues

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  • Hiba Merrou says:

    chad ur just perfect.

  • David Soyez says:

    I just found out about real life english. This is what I just needed !

  • Yogesh maccks says:

    Hi this episode is sort of my favourite one because of in this podcast i learned lot of body sounds vocabs and stuff
    Hey chad youre so funny man. especially whenever you make sounds hahaha
    You’re expert in making sounds. actually it Helps alot because even after explaining the meaning of the word .still some people have hard time to understand
    But when you sound that
    They get it
    I said this episode is my fav also because of you guys played song called joywave tongue which became my fav song

    Big aww yeah !!! With love from india

    • RealLife says:

      Aww yeah, Yogesh. That’s awesome that it was so valuable. Yeah bodily sounds are hard to explain with words and Chad is indeed great with the sound effects. Thanks for listening my friend!