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Oh my! I’ve fallen behind with this blog – but we’ve been busy. Honest! By way of explanation/excuse, here are three of our latest videos.
American baseball idioms
We’ve finished our four part series. Here’s the latest:
And if you think you’ve missed one, here’s a link to all four
Come, go, bring, take, fetch, get
Here’s a handy video to help you avoid any confusion. This was fun to make!:
Sympathetic and Nice
Perfect for latin-language speakers
Needless to say, all these videos are available with clickable transcripts at Simple English Videos. Keep coming back for more!
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In the English of Ireland, bring and take have different semantics than in the rest of the English-speaking world, and some Irish-Americans (me!) still have those semantics. Bring is used for both ‘bring’ and ‘take’, so “Be sure to bring your umbrella with you when you go out” is a fine sentence. Take on the other hand means ‘take possession of’, and often ‘seize by force’: “Don’t go out alone, or someone might take you!” (This tracks the two most nearly corresponding verbs in Irish, beir and tóg.) I always slightly recoil when my wife tells me it’s going to rain and I should take my umbrella, as if it were going to resist!
Oh great example with the umbrella John, and very interesting to hear about the Irish verbs. Thanks for writing!