I thought I was better then than I was, but looking back now I can see I was…I was pretty basic.Ĭurtis: And I…I was basic basic. So the last times that we’ve traveled, we’ve really had a fairly limited level of the language.Īmy: You know, because I know when we came back from Ecuador, after we came back, after I had been there for six weeks, I was still just a beginner, looking back now. I’m feeling a little more confident, that’s for sure.Īmy: Yeah. I think we might be able to do it completely in Spanish this time.Ĭurtis: Yeah. And this next vacation is going to be three months, and I think we might be able to this time when we go to the airports, we might actually have an experience to do the whole process of the customs and like checking in with the customs agent and getting our passports stamped and stuff. And upcoming we have a trip planned to Ecuador again. Curtis: We’ve been to Costa Rica.Īmy: Yeah. I mean, where have we been? We’ve been to…we went to Hawaii.Īmy: And we’ve been to California. This can be tricky at times.Īmy: Yeah, so if you guys have been listening to the podcasts for a while, you’re going to know we’ve done quite a bit of traveling. Where’s he living?Īmy: He’s living in Argentina and working as a pilot.Īmy: So what did he ask us to talk about?Ĭurtis: Well, because he is a pilot, he asked us to talk about some of our experiences in airports.Īmy: And specifically doing it in another language.Ĭurtis: Yeah. And he’s living in Venezuela.Īmy: No, he is from Venezuela. So who was that?Ĭurtis: That was Alfredo.
And for the Real English tips we’re going to give you some ways to talk about different time zones.Īmy: Hey, guys, this is Amy and Curtis, and today we’re going to do a conversation that one of our listeners actually suggested to us. ? Get the Airport Travel Conversation Lesson hereĪmy: Hey, this is Amy from Real English Conversations, and today we’re going to be talking about some of the different experiences we’ve had while traveling through various airports.
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Get access to the full English conversation lesson here(audio + transcription)! Warning: An official notice that you have been warned not to do something again.‘Let you off’ is the short way of expressing this. Let you off the hook: When you get caught doing something wrong or illegal and you don’t get punished for it.I got lucky: To have good luck unexpectedly.Sneaky: Doing something in a secret, unfair or not obvious way.Ghost car: A police car with no lights or markings.Tailgating: Driving very closely to the vehicle in front of you.But they don’t actually giveĬurtis: Yeah. It’s a written warning.Īnd it goes on record that you’ve been warned about this. They give you, what is it? A warning?Īmy: Yeah, they give you a warning. They–like they let you off the hook 6 or I don’t Even though he was mad, he didn’t give me aĪmy: Yeah. But I didn’t know it was a police car because itĬurtis: And right away, he turned on his lights that were on his dashboard and the front ofĬurtis: But I got lucky 5 on that one too. And in between–or I was in between the emergency ambulance vehicle inįront of me and a police car behind me. And I at that point …Īmy: Had a very, very bad habit of driving way too close.Ĭurtis: Right. Length in between the car in front of you and your car. I don’t recommend you doing this.Ĭurtis: Tailgating is following somebody too close. I didn’t think that was the story he was going to pick.Ĭurtis: No, this is a very, very bad thing to do. Amy: What have you been pulled over 1 for?Ĭurtis: I’ve been pulled over for tailgating 2 an ambulance.Īmy: Oh, my God.