Polyglot English in 16 hours lesson 12. Working with new words

This issue examines the topic of traveling and being in countries. Volodya talks about his dreams with aliens and zombies. Ordinal numbers in English and their formation from simple numbers are studied. Students talk about their birthdays in English. New words and expressions are added to the lexical part of training.

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Lesson summary:

In past issues, we talked about the structures that create the basis of language, that very axis, the “thread” where we string words and themes, trying to find this long-awaited freedom in communication. Structure, in itself, serves as the basis of language, but it is not enough to talk about everything and fluently enough. How do we approach the collection of vocabulary, words that are so lacking? The basic principle is the perception of some topics, areas of life, some space, some volume, and not just a set of individual words that may pop up, that we may need, require at a certain moment. Therefore, we must perceive reality using images, tuning into the association of the English language, which evokes a feeling of comfort from communicating in English.

Let us consider, as an example, how we can master a topic, fill it with words, relying on the core structure of the verb and other schemes. Let's say we're talking about travel. We must present this idea in dynamics:

To travel - travel

It all starts with the word “I”:

I will travel - I'll travel

I want to travel - I want to travel

I will go - I will go

I will fly to - I will fly

Points where we are heading:

City - city

Country – rural area, country

Hotel - hotel, inn

To stay in a hotel - stay in the hotel

To stay with friends - stay with friends

Island - island

To eat in a restaurant – eat in the restaurant

Vocabulary for this issue:

Possible – Maybe

It is enough - It's enough

Impossible - impossible

Behind me - Behind me

Enough is enough - enough is enough

Foreigner - foreigner

Alien – alien

Stranger - stranger, outsider, strange person

Foreign – foreign

Envy - envy

Ordinals:

1st - first

2nd - second

3rd - third

5th - fifth

And all the rest are formed by adding the ending – th to the numeral. For example: four – fourth.

The fourth of July - Fourth of July.

The names of the month and day of the week are always capitalized.

My birthday is on… - my birthday…

Same - same…

They are of the same age - they are the same age

It's all the same - doesn't matter

Hello, dear readers, here we are already at the twelfth lesson of Polyglot. First, let's watch the video lesson.

Polyglot lesson 12

Creating an “image” of a language

Let's start the 12th lesson of "Polyglot". Rapidly step by step, lesson by lesson, we are approaching the cherished result - mastery of spoken English, which everyone who learns English using Dmitry Petrov's method strives for.

Dmitry Petrov has already mentioned the images that language should evoke. With the help of images, it is much easier to tune in to communicating in a foreign language. For example, for the English language, associative images can be different: Big Ben, the famous bridge over the Thames, the red cross of the English flag, London streets. It is enough to imagine this image and press an imaginary button that will take you there and immerse you in the desired atmosphere.

In the twelfth lesson we will enrich our vocabulary and talk about ordinal numbers and their use.

How do we approach vocabulary acquisition?

The basic principle: the perception of some topics (areas of life) as some kind of space or volume, and not just a set of individual words that we may need. We also use images for perception.

Traveling - Travel

Let's say the conversation turns to travel. You must present this topic in dynamics - a figurative picture.

• I will go - I will go
• I will fly to - I will fly

• Country - country, countryside
• City - city
• Town - city

City, as a rule, in relation to large cities, town - respectively, to cities that are slightly larger than villages. This is not a strict distinction, but rather a usage that has become established over time.

• Hotel - hotel, hotel

To stay in a hotel - stay at a hotel

To stay with friends - stay with friends

To eat in a restaurant - eat in a restaurant

• Island - island

It is obligatory to use in such cases the preposition to.

Brief dictionary of the topic “Travel”:

1. Airport - [ˈɛəpɔ:t] - airport
2. To make a reservation - reserve
3. Reservation - order
4. Ticket - ticket
5. Window seat - a place by the window
6. Package tour - tour with a set of services
7. Customs - customs
8. Seat-belts
9. Journey - [ˈdʒə:nɪ] - trip, travel
10. Route — - route
11. Excursion - [ɪksˈkə:ʃən] - excursion
12. Luggage - [ˈlʌɡɪdʒ] - luggage
13. Suitcase - [ˈsju:tkeɪs] - suitcase
14. Traveling by plane (train / car / bus) - traveling by plane (train / car / bus)
15. To reserve - reserve
16. Takeoff - [ˈteɪkɔf] - takeoff
17. Landing - landing

Ordinals

You need to remember the following ordinal numbers, since they are formed somewhat deviating from the general rule:

• First - first
• Second - second
• Third - third
• Fifth - fifth

The remaining ordinal numbers are formed according to the rule: We add the suffix -th to the cardinal number.

For example:

• four th- fourth
• Tenth - tenth
• Ninth - ninth (small nuance: lost e at nin e)
• Twenty seventh - twenty-seventh

If the cardinal number ends in -y when we form an ordinal number -y goes into -i and the suffix is ​​added -eth.

For example: twenty - twentieth

• When we talk about our date of birth, we use ordinal numbers.

My birthday ["bɜːθdeɪ] is on…

For example: My birthday is on the thirteenth of October / My birthday is on the thirteenth of October

Working with new words

Dear readers, use images - use your imagination or use the association method - compare English words with words in your native language (for example: fish - chip).

You can choose the memorization method at your discretion, the main thing is to enrich your vocabulary and improve your English.

Download additional materials for the lesson from the link below.

Good afternoon Today is our 12th lesson. We talked a lot about the different structures that create the basis of language, that very axis, the thread on which we string words and themes, trying to find this desired and long-awaited freedom in communication. Naturally, the structure itself serves as the basis of the language, but it is not sufficient to talk about everything and fluently enough.

How do we approach the collection of vocabulary, words that are sometimes so lacking? The main principle here is the perception of some topics, some areas of life, as some kind of space, some kind of volume, and not just a set of individual words that may emerge, that we may need, require at some point .

Therefore, we must perceive reality, again, using images. Remember, you and I tried to tune in to some kind of association, some kind of image that connects us with the English language? Now, think for a second: has something changed over these days in your perception of the English language through emotion, through sensation, through a figurative picture?

- Yes, my image has changed.

What is he like now?

My God. This is interesting. But, in a way, this makes your task much easier. Whenever you need to speak English, you will remember me.

- Call?

- And if you carry the photograph, it will be even easier, it turns out that you get...

- If in the medallion on the chest, of course. Photography... The only thing is that the photograph must be charged (laughs).

—Can we each take a photo? Charged.

— How will you charge it? Any words on the back of the photo?

There is a special technique, a special mechanism. More on this later. Do you have any other images? Something has changed?

— I have a feeling of some discomfort associated with the fact that you, Dmitry, constantly said that there are 30 magic verbs that we must know, and we must constantly use these magical verbs. But is it possible, as it were... Are these the same verbs that we went through, or is it something else?

These are the verbs that we type with every lesson. Each lesson we add a few more. So that by the end of the course, these verbs, plus many others that appeared to us because we were discussing some topics and they were needed... The most important thing is that all these verbs: those that are included in the list of commonly used ones and those which are not included in it, they are subject to the same laws, the same rules and are strung on this rod that we create.

— Maybe you could now suggest some new verbs related to what you call “imagery,” with what we should have in connection with the English language. Here's what would help us.

I can add these verbs, but you have to talk about your image.

- Well, my image is an English language course that I took in the 7th grade. This is my image. I remember there was a voice there, and she said to me “What time is it?”

Has she changed?

- Which didn’t bother me. I immediately have an association: the word “English”, it really annoys me.

The image must be comfortable.

— Does Johny English bother you?

- Who is this? Oh, it's a comic. It doesn't occur to me. They're all duplicated.

The image should be comfortable enough so that you can return to it without much stress, and, if necessary, tune in to this sensation of language. That is, in addition to these structures that we are mastering, which should work automatically. In addition to the words that we master, which you already know without this course, which you will still learn. In addition to all this, there should be a feeling of comfort when entering this space of the English language. Comfort and pleasure.

Well, let's take an example of how we can master a topic, fill it with words and rely on this core structure of the verb and other schemes. Let's say when we talk about travel, we have to present this idea in dynamics. For example, to travel - to travel - it all starts with the word “I”:

I will travel - I will travel
I want to travel - I want to travel
I will go - I will go
I will fly to - I will fly

Accordingly, what could serve as a point where we are heading? These could be some countries

Country - country, countryside

— Is “country” also a village?

More like a rural area.

- City - city

— How does “town” differ from “city”?

"City" usually means a large city.

- Megapolis.

“Town” - if you take the scale, population and size of this city, this may well correlate with our village.

- A village, it turns out.

“City” is a big city, more like a metropolis. Of course, there is no clear line where “town” ends and “city” begins, but, as a rule, “city” applies to large cities.

So, we fly, we travel to some country, to a city.

In some kind. To one city, to some. Naturally, then we name which one.

Hotel - hotel, inn

We fly, we come to a hotel.

— Maybe we should add another island? Or a peninsula?
Please, maybe an island

Island - island

We come, when we arrive, arrive, arrive.

— Is it possible to say “fly to hotel”?

No. This means a starting point and then where we might be.

- That is, you can “fly to”, “come to”, “go to”?

- Iceland, right? Island. Iceland.

Essentially, yes.

Fly to
Come to
Go to

Island is an island. Iceland is the land of ice, from the word "ice". Ice-land. "Island" is pronounced "i-land".

- But also “ice”.

No, here is the root, which in Russian is manifested in “isolation”, “isolate”. Isolated land. Isla. In Spanish, island is isla. And ice-land - ice land - this is Iceland. So it sounds similar, but it has different roots.

— Why isn’t “S” pronounced?

Well, this is where it gets lost, in the pronunciation. And, besides, this distinguishes island from ice-land. That is, we hear “Iceland”.
This means that if we live, live, stay somewhere, this is stay. For example, in relation to a hotel, staying at a hotel is stay in a hotel.

To stay in a hotel - stay at a hotel

— But sometimes instead of a hotel there can be simpler apartments, such as a guesthouse.

- Bungalow.

- Well, you can actually visit someone.

— Or, finally, camping.

That is, this is the combination “to stay in a hotel”...

- How will it be with “friends”?

With friends. With friends.
To stay with friends - stay with friends

- No, not with friends, but with friends?

With friends. Doesn't matter. I remind you: where will you stay? If you say "I will go to London". Where will you stay? I will stay with my friends. I'll literally stay with friends.
That is, this is such a combination - “in a”. Stay in a hotel, eat in a restaurant.
To eat in a restaurant - eat in a restaurant
Traveling there, staying somewhere - it should always be perceived as a three-dimensional, whole picture. Not just word by word.

Let's try how we fill a simple and primitive sequence of events with words. Who wants to talk about some journey, some trip?

“We’ll have to say everything in the past, right, in the past tense?”

Or it could be a plan for the future.

- Well, I’ll tell you about the future.

— And “traveled” means traveling, right? Sometimes I traveled in my dream. (Sometimes I travel in my dreams)

Ok, where did you travel in your dream? (And where do you go in your dreams?)

- Sometimes... I just fly. (Sometimes I just fly)

- Yes. If... When I... Sometimes I... “Accelerating” how will it be?

What do you mean, “increasing speed”?

- Yes, I’m increasing the speed.

— Sometimes I speed up and fly…

—High to star

— High to stars. (High to the stars)

— With other planet

To other planets

— To the stars after all?

- And to other planets. To other planets.

So, what do you see there? (What do you see there?)

- Nothing. (Nothing)

— Aliens, maybe, aliens? (Maybe aliens?)

- There live no.

— There is no life there, how can I say?

There is no life.

- There is no life.

— Maybe, aliens this is planet? Maybe, aliens live this is planet?

— If aliens, then “eliance.”

— Maybe, aliens this is planet?

- No. All aliens live here.

Alien - alien

- They really live here, you know.

- I know this.

— All aliens live here.

- They live here.

Are you man in black? (Are you the man in black?)

— Yes, but I’m not a secret service, I’m a freelancer. (Yes, but I don't work for the secret service. I'm a freelancer.)

You are freelancer.

— Men in black.

- You don't get paid for this.

- No, I'm a freelancer. But sometimes I... “I get in touch” how?

— Yeah, I contact them, connect him.

— Him with whom do you come into contact? Which contact?

— This moment contact with aliens?

-Are you seeing him now?

- How to say “and he sees them now”? Are you seeing him now?

- No, it is special time, special time.

- Maybe, voice in her... his... head.

- No, it’s bullshit. You so... You reading too much...

— Science fiction.

- How can I say this: You read to much... some kind of fiction.

Yes. You read to much science fiction. In order to - simply “to”.

- To connected...

To connect with aliens…

— To connect with aliens need just...

- “Enough” - how is that?

Enough. It is enough

It is enough - this is enough

— It is enough to connect

- Need to. It just needs the right time.

Time. You need special time.

You need - you need

— Organized time?

Organized, organized time. Or arranged, arranged time.

- It's time.

- Now it's time.

— Art time, when are you shooting? (When are you filming?)

— I think it is only for theater. (I think this is only for the theater.)

- Only for theater, theater. Special theater.

- Yes, I read one... article? Essay

— I read one article and it had a title by director Anatoliy Vasilev (I read one article by Anatoly Vasilyev.) I will say it in Russian, because the quote is important here, maybe we will translate it. Is what is given to the theater also given to cinema?
Now I know what did he mean. (Now I understand what he meant) At contact with aliens. When you are working in theater, you can get this contact. But when you are shooting, you can't. (When you work in the theater, you can get this contact. But when you film, you cannot) So, the possibilities are different (The possibilities are different)

- But today...

I don't agree.

- Only - before?

— Before I think...

Before I thought (I thought)

—Before I told

- Before I thought like that. But now I think it’s... I don’t agree. When I sees... how do I “look”?

When I see David Lynch films

- Watch. That's why I disagree.

— This is why I don’t agree with this statement

- Well, I was joking, that you. I didn't pretend to be that deep.

- Certainly. Because... Because I think that is possible in a movie... in the cinema. I do not know how to say.

— Inpossible or unpossible?

Possible and impossible

Possible - possible
Impossible - impossible

When you see this film, when you watch this film, they stay behind. Behind, right?

- Yes, from behind. I wanted to say “back” (laughs)

- This is important, “behind”.

- Behind me - behind me

- Do you want to shoot...

— …to shoot some movie about this…

- ...this dream (Do you want to make a film about such a dream?)

- This is a dream"

- Yes, every time.

- No, he more likes zombies than aliens. He more likes zombies. (He likes zombies better than aliens.)

— It’s big questions: who zombie. (Another big question is who is the zombie)

— Who are zombies?

- Wait, why is?

If it is plural, then who are zombies, and if it is one, then who is zombie.

— Who are zombies?

— It's big questions.

— And who are aliens?

— No, if somebody is aliens or zombie, we can’t know it for sure

- For sure. But how do you feel: does…

- Yes, feel, think.

— Does zombie know of he is zombie, or no? And aliend... Should aliend feel that he is aliend, or no?

So, do aliens feel that they are aliens? Do they feel like they are aliens?

- No, aliens every time ask... always ask?

— …his always ask herself: who we are?

- Real people asks...

…ask yourself

— For what everywhere?

- ...is everything.

- Can I tell you in Russian?

- Why do I need all this? He never asks who I am.

- I understand.

- They know why they say this. Unlike us. Who we are.

To be or not to be. And why is everything. Why everything?

- No. Why... No why. Who am I and what is this?

What is it? Who am I?

- What's happening…

- The person knows what it is... He asks: why do I need this? And that's the difference.

When we say “to need something,” that is, I need, you need something, to need. That is, I need something.

I need your help - I need your help

- You know, the psychiatrist is influencing us. You know, I will also talk about my nightmares later.

All you need is love.

- All you need is love.

- I need something

I need something. I need something.

- I don’t know what. It is enough

Enough is enough

- Thanks, enough.

There is a proverb that says “little by little is a good thing.” In English it is “enough is enough”. Enough is enough.

Enough is enough - that’s enough, that means that’s enough

- Well, the guests have arrived, enough is enough.

— Is this somewhere in the Brighton Beach area? Enough is enough

The proverb has three words: enough is enough.

- You need as much as you need

- Stop eating, stop sleeping

And to say “enough”: It is enough to understand. Enough to understand. It is enough.

Very interesting subject.

“I considered it my duty to tell.”

About aliens, about zombies.

— But I have nightmares.

- I have too. And when I was a little girl…

- And so are you

- ... I very trust him, and all night I wait that alien will come to our flat and my grandfather will fly with them. And my grandfather all my... childhood?

- ...childhood he always said me that if you will to be a bad girl I will fly with alien to the sky.

- What a nightmare.

— Dmitry, I have a question. Here, alien is still a stranger. And the alien?

This creature is from another planet. This is the only word used. That is, in the meaning of the word alien. But there is also the word “extraterrestrial” - extraterrestrial. But it is so cumbersome.
Terra is earth. Extra - that is, extraterrestrial.

- Maybe we can record this for some horror films?

- But as they say: “Don’t approach someone else’s uncle.” Like an alien?

No. A stranger is a “stranger”. That is, a stranger, an outsider, a foreigner.
Stranger - stranger

- Ah, a stranger. Alien, strange person.

“I’ve always been so interested in how it’s translated.” Here Sade has a song called Smooth operator. How does this translate?

In addition to the fact that operator is an operator, he is someone who does all sorts of things, a businessman.

- He's doing it, you swindler.

Smooth is smooth. Everything is smooth - everything is smooth.

- So it turns out that “stranger” and “stranger” are one word?

Stranger, stranger. The word “strange” is “strange” in general. Well, in Russian, foreigner is the root of “strange person.”

— How do you spell strange? Same thing, but without the er at the end?

Yes. To say “strange” - It is strange - strange. It is very strange - This is very strange.

— David Lynch has a song Stranger. He sings it in such a nasal voice.

There is a famous song Strangers in the night.

— Foreigners in the night?

No, it's a stranger.

— Dmitry, what about the foreigner?

— Expat

- This is where foreigh-office is from, right?

Foreign language - foreign language

— The British, Americans, and Japanese here in Russia call themselves “expats.”

And a foreigner

— Write down the expat next door.

- Just in case.

- Who is this?

— This is a foreigner who works in a foreign country. Well, for example, you, a Russian, will work in London. For the local English you will be an expat.

- Expat, just like that.

— I will be expat.

- Ex-patriot.

- Ex is like an ex-boyfriend.

- Ex-boyfriend.

-You were someone's boyfriend...

No, that's not quite it. Ex means "from". It is "outside" something. Just like the interior and exterior. Inside and outside.

- How do you say “from the outside”? Just from the outside.

- From outside.

Inside/outside. Ok, who wants to speak more about travel?

- I. I have a nice idea. Travel to island Patmos in Mediterranean sea. This is extraordinary islands. Center this is island - how big?

— Big mountain. This mountain have... has, one might say?

This mountain has.

— This mountain has cave. This is cave St. John heard extraordinary voice. This is voice... This is st. man - can you say this is a holy man?

— …a saint 666 and extraordinary animal with 7 head

— What is 7 heads?

- Seven goals. This monster with seven heads guarded the cave.

- This is an animal not security.

- This is animal - end this is world. Understand?

- Apocalypse.

Apocalypse.

— I do maybe this is traveling.

— Maybe after traveling I have

—Reincarnation

—Real experience

Spiritual - spiritual?

— At spiritual experience, yes.

Experience is an experience or experience.

- I didn’t understand, but the number at the beginning - how was it connected with everything else?

- I was in such a hurry

— 666? Do you know how it is connected with the Apocalypse?

- I know. But I didn’t understand the text.

— 666 — this is magical name of Imperator Nero, understand me?

— But I didn’t understand from the text: where was it? It was in the voice — did he hear it, or it was written somewhere?

—In the New Testament of Bible St. John special text. And this is will have this number.

So, it will have this number.

- It will have this number.

— And where is this number? Where did he have this number?

He had it in his vision. Vision.

- This animal will be... Have this number.

— This animal will go in the beach of island. Will come ashore on this island

To the shore
To the shore. It will come to the shore.

— Where watching this?

He said that this beast would come ashore. Beach is a beach.

- How do I recognize him? “Find out” how it will be?

How will I know it?

- How will I know it?

— This is animal have 7 heads.

- You can guess (laughs).

- But... And number?

- Where is the number?

— Maybe it is just a joke... Someone's joke

Somebody's joke.

- This is not a joke. This joke maybe...

This is serious.

— Maybe many animals have many heads. But only one have special number. Where is this number?

- He would like a tag on his neck.

— Tell me, please, if only one of them has or have?

No, only one of them have. And if in the future, then will have.

- I wanna know...

— You don’t understand, Vladimir, sorry. He want to know, where... what kind of... In what part?

— What part of body number

- Where did Moisey throw...

- Let's go into details

— Where did Moisey throw this number?

- What does Moses have to do with it?

-Who cursed the dragon?

- Is it dragon?

- Moses branded it, but who? You are most likely talking about the book of Daniel, and you are now hitting him with sixes. Where did you pin it?

- Count all the numbers, and the number will be 666.

Ok. So, this is shore. There is an expression "offshore". Offshore is away from the shore.

— Offshore production, offshore banks.

Aside. It's behind the sea.

- That is, this is some kind of production. Oh, it's offshore.

- Well, we are talking about firms, about companies. Legal such status.

- Beyond the limits, yes.

Now about the numbers. Ordinals. In order for us to name a date, we need to know several of these features.

first - first
second - second
third - third
fourth - fourth
fifth - fifth

The fourth and all the rest - -th (-ф) is added.
Four - four, means fourth - fourth.

To give us a date, we say November the 24th. Or the 24th of November. For example, let's write: the fourth of July - the fourth of July.

— Do we always write the month with a capital letter?

The name of the month and day of the week is always capitalized.

- What is this connected with, why is it not like this with us?

This is a matter of tradition, because initially all nouns in Germanic languages, in German all nouns are written with a capital letter.

- In general, everything? Still?

In English, until the 18th century, there was the same rule - capitalize any noun. Then this was reserved for proper names, and the names of months and days of the week were included in proper names.

Now everyone will name their birthday. “Birthday” how will it be?

—Happy Birthday

Well, let's hope that he will always be happy. So, now let's try to name your birthday. For example, My birthday is on... and, accordingly, the date. You must put it in the correct form.

— And should I say the year too?

- This is at your discretion.

— It’s a secret information.

No, we won’t insist on a year, but a day and a month... Alice, when is your birthday?

— My birthday is on the twenty ninth of November.

- Ok. Very nice date.

— My birthday is on tenth of September in ninety sixty three.

- Ninety sixty three? Really?

- Yes, absolutely.

— My birthday is on sixth of May eighteen eighty.

Nineteen eighty.

No, you are immortal. Immortal.

- Or a vampire.

- How to say “don’t envy”?

Envy and envy are the same word “envy”.

- What if he thinks that we are telling him - don’t be angry.

— Please, don’t envy.

- What is this, envy?

And envy too

I don't envy. I'm not jealous.

- How will it be for me?

Just me. It just envy me

- You just envy me.

You just envy me. You're just jealous of me. I envy you. I envy you.

— Envy to me, maybe?

No. Nastya, when is your birthday?

— My birthday is on the fourteenth of October. On Pokrov.

— My birthday is on eighth of September. Need say year?

— I don’t know how to say. I know! One thousand… Yes?

It’s possible, but it’s easier to say nineteen and...

- Oh, divide it into two halves.

— Nineteen seven one

Interestingly, in English people often measure in hundreds rather than in thousands. That is, to say 1700, they would rather say 17 hundred. It's not just about dates. Seventeen hundred.

Ok, Anya, when is your birthday?

— My birthday is on the seventeenth of February of nineteenth eighty four.

— Will the tenths, twenties, thirties be the same?

Yes, tenth, twentieth. Here th is added

- What if it’s the hundredth?

One hundredth. Naturally, then it is lost.

- How do you say “listen”? And then I often...

I didn't hear.

— I didn’t hear.

- Will you repeat it?

Repeat, please. Ok, Mikhail, when is your birthday?

— My birthday is on thirties of October.

— He was born a day earlier than me? Am I right?

- The day before me.

- The day, just.

When we say “the same”, for example, the same age, then the same size.

Same age - the same age. Same - same size.

- Yes, we often hear the same in stores when we buy sizes.

For example, you say: I want the same size, but different color. Same size, different color. Or vice versa - same color - different size.

- What is age?

Age is age.

- And how is century used, right?

- Age like age?

No, age means epoch, era. For example, in Russian we say Stone Age. But “Stone Age” does not mean a century - it is not a hundred years, it is a whole period of history, therefore Stone age.
And this is the same age. For example, they are of the same age - they are the same age, of the same age.

— Is there still a replacement for this word, peers?

— Dmitry, can same be used for objects in this case? Same train, same fly

The same. For example, we travel on the same flight. If we are on the same flight.

- Same travel - the same trip?

Well, if we go together. And, in principle, same flight, for example, or same train - on the same train. On the same day - on the same day.

- Can you say it’s the same? The same

The same. You can say “I don’t care” - it’s all the same to me.
Or you can say: He is the same person, the same guy who I saw yesterday. This is the same guy I saw yesterday.

- Tell me, please, but this one is also similar, in my opinion.

Such is “such”.

- Such. But not the same.

It’s all the same - it’s all the same. And if you say “I don’t care” - I don’t care.

- I do not worry

— Should we specify which one? For example, we travel the same flight. That is, I am flying on the same flight as them. Or is this optional?

No, well, that's implied. For example, I am flying on such and such a flight. I travel on the same flight. It is clear, it is implied, which was just named.

- Sorry, I still don’t understand. Is this what we should always say?

The? The same? When it comes to "same", yes.

- Well, same - this is the same

That is, the indicator is used when it is absolutely not similar, but the same.

- That is, identity is meant

- Well, for example, I don’t use the.

- Then it turns out not “the same”, but “the same”. Yes? Just without the. It's "same".

Sometimes it is simply left out in speech. Same color

- Same color

Yes. It is not necessary to say: I want the same color.

So, a very important point. Dates. Dates require knowledge of ordinal numbers. Ordinal numbers, that is, which number. First, second... We see that the first, the second, the third, the fifth stand out. All the rest - we simply add th, which is read as “f”. Tenth, twentieth and so on to everyone else. Our date is formed in this way: the fourth of July. The first of January, the first of May. Accordingly, we can name a date, a birthday, or whatever we need.

- Excuse me... Did you understand how to say that aliens are the same as us? Do you need the?

- Excuse me, but how can I say: zombies are the same as aliens?

No, when “like”: Zombies are like... Zombies are like aliens

- And here you can’t do without like

No. Like means “similar”. Like someone

- What if they are exactly the same? The same?

— The zombies are the same like...

No... when the same person is same, and when similar...

For example, you are like me. I like him. Here, we are not the same.

- Oh, you gave an example, what about similar

- Well, it looks like

That is, it's the same. And when it is similar or looks like someone, then the word like is used when comparing.

Please remember that with all the variety and diversity we strive for, be sure to take a few minutes to repeat these basic structures. Let them finally achieve a state of automatism. And then they will serve us faithfully for the rest of our lives, in any situation.

This concludes our lesson, thank you.