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Today we are going to talk about favorite places to live. I’m going to talk a few minutes and then will go back and listen to some particular vocabulary.
Let’s get started.
Shall we?
Well, I would say that my favorite place to live is in a big city.
I’ve have lived in a medium size city, A city of about five hundred thousand people.
And now I live in a city, Los Angeles of about three and a half, four million people.
It’s difficult in some ways living in a big city.
There’s lots of traffic and there is lots of people. so, it is very crowded. But I really enjoy the good things about living in a big city. For example, there are good restaurants, just about any type of food that you want to eat, you can find in Los Angeles.
Another good thing about Los Angeles of course is it’s weather.
It’s always not too hot, not too cold.
But we would call temperate climate.
And I really enjoy that.
I grew up in a very cold climate in Minnesota, the state of Minnesota.
So, I am very happy to be in Los Angeles.
No more snow fore me.
One other thing I like about living in a big city such as LA is that there is a real diversity of people.
There are people from probably every country in the world, living in Los Angeles and that’s exciting.
It can sometimes presente a challenge, cause some difficulties in communication.
But I enjoy that very much.
I also speak a little Spanish and there are a lot of Spanish speakers in Los Angeles.
So, I get a chance to practice my Spanish as well.
I don’t think I want to live in a country or somewhere in a small town.
My sister lives on the outskirts or in the suburbs.
Not really suburb, But because she lives almost out in the country, -about ten minutes from her town- which has only ten thousand people.
So, I would find that difficult. I think it would be a little boring for me. But she really enjoys it and so do her children.
So, To each of owns, every one has their own taste in things like where they live.

description of Eslpod number 5 Favorite places to live

Now that you’ve listened to the podcast, you have a couple of options.
You can go back and listen again to sea if you can understand more, or if you would like you can listen to some explanations of vocabulary.
There were four terms that I want to talk about from today’s podcast.
The first is temperate climate.
When talking about Los Angeles, I said that it has a temperate climate.
Climate of course, refers to the weather, the temperature.
Temperate means it’s not too hot and it’s not too cold.
It’s right in the middle.
Another word I used in describing Los Angeles was diversity.
I said, there is a lot of diversity in Los Angeles.
Diversity means people or things from different cultures.
To be diverse also means to have meny different types of interests or whatever happened to be talking about.
It could be cultures.
It could be languages.
It could be interests.
Another term I used in talking about some of the challenges is I said that things can presente a challenge.
To presente a challenge means to give you some difficulties,to make things a little bit harder for you.
Finally, in talking about my sister, I said she lives in the outskirts of her town.
In the outskirts usually means somewhere between the city and the country.
Not the suburbs which are communities or places where people live outside of the main city.
but it somewhere between the last suburb and the place where the country begins, where you don’t have a lot of city-life.
That’s going to wrap up today’s podcast.
Again I wanna thank you for listening and urge you to visit us on the web.
At www.eslpod.com
Thanks for listening and come again.

واژه های نسبتا دشوار از Eslpod number 5 Favorite places to live

in some ways, تا حدی.
crowded, شلوغ.
just about, تقریبا.
برای این که فکر میکنم تقریبا معادلی نیست که میتونه معنی کامل این کلمه رو برسونه توجه شما رو به تعریف انگلیسی این کلمه جلب میکنم.
You use just about to indicate that what you are talking about is in fact the case, but only by a very small degree or amount.
I can just about tolerate it at the moment.
grewup, گذشته ی grow up, بزرگ شدن, رشد کردن.
communication, ارتباط, معاشرت.
taste, ذائقه, سلیقه.
climate, اقلیم, آب و هوا, شرایط.
temperature, دما, حرارت.
culture, فرهنگ.
challenge, چالش.
به تفاوت ظریف بین این ۳ واژه دقت کنید.
the country, the outskirts, suburb.
the country, land that is away from big towns and cities : countryside, دشت و صحرا.
outskirts, the outer parts of a town or city. مرز, حاشیه منظور اطراف نزدیکو لبه های مرز یک شهر است.
suburb, an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one. هومه, اطراف.
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