Hey you guys. So I have something new for us today. Um, it is a dialogue and yes, I have done dialogues before here on the podcast, but today I want to try something new. I have an AI voice generated dialogue, just so you can hear more than one voice. You know what I mean? And honestly, it's scary how good this sounds. I would say it's like 95% natural, you know? Um, but anyways, I will read it out myself afterwards. But, um, hope you guys like this, if you don't just let me know. So I will play the audio now. And then I will read it out myself and read each line slower and explain some certain sayings that you can use for your own language learning.

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hey there, girl. How's it going?

Hey Amy, I'm good, just counting down the days til the weekend. You?

Same here. I'm ready to kick back and relax. Got any plans?

Actually, I was thinking we should get together this weekend. It's been way too long since we hung out.

That sounds like a plan. What do you want to do?

Well, I heard there's this new brunch spot that just opened up downtown. Maybe we could check it out on Saturday morning?

Brunch sounds perfect. And then we could hit up that vintage market you mentioned last time.

Yes! I've been dying to go there. After that, we could swing by the park and have a picnic or something.

Oh, I'm totally down for a picnic. I'll bring my famous potato salad.

Perfect! It's gonna be a blast catching up and spending the day together.

Absolutely. Can't wait, girl. It's gonna be epic. See you then.

Dude, how good does that sound?

I think it's so good. Okay. Anyways, I'm back. Let me explain and, uh, read out the dialogue myself. Okay.

Amy. Hey there, girl. How's it going? Samantha. Hey, Amy, I'm good. Just counting down the days till the weekend. You? Amy same here. I'm ready to kick back and relax. Got any plans? Samantha actually, I was thinking we should get together this weekend. It's been way too long since we hung out. Amy. That sounds like a plan. What do you want to do? Samantha. Well, I heard there's a new brunch spot that just opened up downtown. Maybe we could check it out on Saturday morning? Amy. Brunch sounds perfect. And then we could hit up the vintage market. You mentioned last time. Samantha. Yes, I've been dying to go there. After that we could swing by the park and have a picnic or something. Amy. Oh, I'm totally down for a picnic. I'll bring my famous potato salad. Samantha. Perfect. It's going to be a blast catching up and spending the day together. Amy. Absolutely. Can't wait girl, it's going to be epic. Samantha. For sure. All right. Let's make it happen. See you Saturday. Amy see you then.

Now. I'm going to explain each line to you guys.

So the first line.

hey there, girl. How's it going?

Hey there, girl. How's it going? That's just super natural, how you start a conversation with your friend. It's someone that you know, okay. So, Hey, how's it going? That's pretty much how you greet people that, you know, don't greet someone like a stranger that way.

Okay line two, Samantha.

Hey Amy, I'm good, just counting down the days 'til the weekend. You?

Hey, Amy. I'm good. Just counting down the days 'til the weekend. You?

So, counting down the days 'til the weekend. Counting down the days is like, 13 days until my vacation. 12 days to my vacation. 11 days to my vacation. Counting down, right? Because 13... and then less each day... goes down. So it's used in those situations where you're anticipating something like the last day of school, graduation, a baby coming, vacation, and this case a weekend.

Okay. And then I don't know if you've noticed, but counting down the days 'til the weekend. 'til is until the weekend. And. We never say until the weekend, it's always 'til the weekend. We take off the U and N for sure. Um, Yeah. Since we answered her question with I'm good, like she asked us, how's it going?

How are you? And that kind of thing. You always need to answer their question and then you end your answer with you. It's polite. So. You never say, yeah, I'm good.

Cricket cricket. Like. Thank you need to ask them as well. Okay. So. Finish your answer with you.

Same here. I'm ready to kick back and relax. Got any plans?

Then Amy says "same here, I'm ready to kick back and relax. Got any plans?" I'm ready to kick back and relax. So kick back. Is referring to. Kicking back your chair and putting your feet up. Okay. So picture someone leaning back on a chair, like a dining room chair, on the back two legs. And their feet are resting on a coffee table or a low table or something like that, you know? This does not mean that she's literally going to do that. It's just that kickback means relax. So you can say kick back and relax. So just do absolutely nothing. Not be working. You know, you get it. And then she asks if she has any plans by saying, got any plans? So this is a very colloquial casual way of saying. Do you have any plans you say. Got any plans?

Actually, I was thinking we should get together this weekend. It's been way too long since we hung out.

Actually I was thinking we should get together this weekend. It's been way too long since we hung out.

So it's been way too long. Like. That is the more natural way of saying it's been such a long time since we hung out. Both of them are equally casual, I guess, but. It's shorter to say it's been way too long, right? So we say that usually.

That sounds like a plan. What do you want to do?

Okay, then Amy, she answers with that sounds like a plan. What do you want to do?

The first sentence, that sounds like a plan, like yeah, let's do it. Okay. That's what that means. What do you want to do? Wanna? W A N N A. That's the same thing as what do you want to do? But we never say, what do you want to do? That's too hard.

Okay. That's that's too hard. We're we're lazy. Okay.

So what do you want to do?

Well, I heard there's this new brunch spot that just opened up downtown. Maybe we could check it out on Saturday morning?

Well, I heard there's this new brunch spot that just opened up downtown. Maybe we could check it out on Saturday morning. Saturday morning, Saturday morning.

So. To pronounce Saturday. Very naturally.

I want you to change the U to an E, and then change the T to a D. Okay. So pronounce it like. Saderday.

Much easier to say, than Sat-ur-day

Amy. brunch sounds perfect. And then we could hit up that vintage market you mentioned last time.

Brunch sounds perfect. And then we could hit up that vintage market you mentioned last time.

Samantha. Yes! I've been dying to go there. After that, we could swing by the park and have a picnic or something.

Yes, I've been dying to go there. After that we could swing by the park and have a picnic or something.

Oh, I'm totally down for a picnic. I'll bring my famous potato salad.

Oh, I'm totally down for a picnic. I'll bring my famous potato salad. I'll bring my famous potato salad. Notice how I pronounced potato. Potato salad. So when there's two T's like this, and they're separated by a vowel. It's generally correct. Generally, correct. To pronounce the first T as a T T ta ta. And the second T as a D de de de. So potato. Potato. Do you hear it? Sounds very natural. So try that. Potato salad.

Perfect! It's gonna be a blast catching up and spending the day together.

Perfect. It's going to be a blast catching up and spending the day together. So. It's going to be a blast is like, it's going to be so much fun. It's gonna be a great time. A blast. Okay. And then catching up is a phrasal verb. To catch up can mean two things that I can think of right now. Okay. So. One of them is if two people are running, one person's ahead, and the second person is running after them and they close the distance between the person ahead of them.

It means that they have caught up. They're catching up to the person in front of them. Right. In this case: to catch up... it means to talk about how life has been lately. To share stories about what's going on, that kind of thing. So. To catch up. A very good phrasal verb to know.

Absolutely. Can't wait, girl. It's gonna be epic. See you then.

So, alright. That is the entire dialogue and it is full of really good, natural things that we say to each other. And I really hope you guys listened to this a few times. Practice, how to use these things I taught you, and, try them on your English speaking friends. You'll sound so good. Thank you guys so much again for listening and I will see you guys in the next episode. Bye.