Kiwi English: Recent Episodes
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Learn Kiwi (New Zealand) English through our casual conversations! Good for Intermediate level and above.
Hey guys, here are all the pick-up lines we mentioned in the episode:
- Hey my name is Microsoft, can I crash at your place tonight?
- Do you like raisins? How do you feel about a date?
- Are you French? Because Eiffel for you. (Eiffel = I fell, meaning to fall in love)
- If I could rearrange the alphabet I’d put ‘U’ and ‘I’ together.
- Aside from being sexy, what do you do for a living?
- Are you from Tennessee? Because you’re the only 10 I see.
- If you were a Transformer, you’d be Optimus Fine.
- I must be in a museum because you truly are a work of art.
- Do you believe in love at first sight? Or should I walk by again?
- Did you just come out of the oven, because you’re hot!
- Is your name Google? Because you have everything I’ve been searching for.
- It’s a good thing I have my library card because I’m totally checking you out.
- My love for you is like diarrhoea, I just can’t hold it in.
- Someone better call God, because he’s missing an angel.
- We’re not socks, but I think we’d make a great pair.
- Do you have a bandaid? Cos I just scraped my knee falling for you.
- I seem to have lost my number, can I have yours?
- Are you a parking ticket? Because you have 'fine' written all over you.
to chat up (someone) = to flirt, to talk with someone in a flirtatious way
We talk about small inconveniences at the start of the episode and move onto more serious issues like racism and housing prices at the end. We still love our country and are grateful to live here, but we wanted to highlight the negatives too!
Hear all about Nicki's cherry picking experience and most importantly, how to use a port-a-loo in this episode!
Would you live in a tent for 7 weeks? Have you been in a car crash? How is NZ now with no Covid-19? We talk about all these topics!
Nicki's art Instagram: @nickijackson_art
Listen to the end to hear about some commonly misused words and the difference between them.
Stairs vs steps
Ceiling vs Roof
Floor vs Ground
Welcome back to our first episode in 8 months!
Nicki's art Instagram: @nickijackson_art
Be kind to yourself and others! Thanks for listening!
Happy New Year!!!
Long time no see.... sorry.
We had a nice, long break and are ready to make some more episodes for the Kiwi English podcast in 2020!
We talk about NZ's summer Christmas, New Years Eve, and our thoughts about 2019 and plans for 2020.
Conversation points:
- Inn = B n B (NZ word)
- She
s a beaut (Australian saying) = Thats a really nice (thing/person). - Hard Yakka (Australian saying) = Hard work
- have a squizz = have a look, look and check something
- stoked = really happy, really pleased
- butcher something = ruin, destroy something
- fawcett = tap
- soda = fizzy drink
- vegemite sammie = (marmite is a NZ food) sandwich.
- crap = means sh*t (but softer)
- gossip = casual or small conversations about other people that may not be true.
- kapa haka = Maori performing arts group
- Shortland Street = NZ medical drama
Our special guest, Chase, talks about studying Japanese in Hiroshima, Hiroshima dialect, what he learnt, some advice for others and about tendonitis.
Conversation points:
weeb - a person who is really interested in Japanese culture and anime.
improvisation - doing a solo performance and making unique music without any preparation.
"What you put in is what you get out."
blown away - to be surprised, to be impressed.
happy-go-lucky - to be a happy person.
Dont let it get to you- dont worry about something
We talk with Andrew about his band, playing live shows and growing up in NZ as mixed Kiwi and Japanese.
Andrew`s band: Temperamental https://www.facebook.com/Temperamentalnz/
Instagram: @andrew.takenaka
0:33 – *gig* – a musical performance or show
0:55 – Andrew talks about his bands
2:00 – How Andrew got started with music
3:30 – Andrews bands facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Temperamentalnz/
4:08 – *slack* – lazy; not trying very hard
8:30 – Andrew talks about growing up in NZ with his Japanese dad and Kiwi mum.
10:55 – *impeccable*– perfect and with no mistakes
16:35 – Andrew talks about his Japanese and Kiwi identity
21:15 – Andrew`s advice for other people of mixed cultural backgrounds
Nicki talks about her biggest mistake at work and Rangima talks about an embarrassing thing she did when she was a child.
Conversation points:
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dairy farm (2:11)
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milk the cows (3:09) take the cows to the milking shed and take milk from the cows by machine.
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gutted (9:05) Kiwi slang for feeling really upset, sad, disappointed. E.g "My boss was gutted = My boss was so upset."
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Rangima`s mistake (10:10)
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consequences (14:10)
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"It`s no use crying over spilt milk" (2:10)
Conversation points:
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How to greet in Maori culture (1:16)
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Hongi (2:00) pressing noses together in Maori culture
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How Nicki greets people (2:53)
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Hugging between friends (3:48)
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The first time that Nicki and Rangima met (5:33)
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First impressions
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intuition(8:28) -
When you meet your homestay family (10:13)
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When you meet your boss (10:52)
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Eye contact (13:03)
Nicki talks about her strange K-pop dream and then we talk about flatting in New Zealand and what you should do to find a flat.
Conversation points:
-Flat a house that people share and live in together.
-Couch potato lazy person who lives on the couch and doesn`t exercise.
www.trademe.co.nz/flatmates-wanted
Welcome to our New Zealand (Kiwi) English podcast for English language learners. We introduce ourselves and talk about our own language learning experiences.
Main conversation points:
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Why we are doing this podcast
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Self Introductions (1:26)
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Why Rangima is studying Japanese (4:00)
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Nicki talks about the time she lived in Japan vs. going back to Japan after studying Japanese (6:10)
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Explanation of
aye(Kiwi slang for ~isn`t it? ~right?) 〜ね (7:32) -
Explanation of
yeah, nah(8:50) -
Our embarrassing stories (9:55)
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Difficult things about learning a language (14:05)
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Fun things about learning a language (15:38)