Luke Thompson

And then often TV shows are visually there.

First of all, they focus on visual communication and the sound.

the the dialogue just sort of melts into the sound the general sound and it's often very unclear to yeah and so this is why many native speakers put subtitles on when they're watching shows uh on their phones or on their computers or whatever just because it's often very hard to hear uh what people are saying you know yeah this is true this is true yeah

Yeah, I think maybe when someone's doing a YouTube video or a podcast, they're perhaps being more spontaneous rather than an actor reading dialogue from a script that they've had to remember and which was written by someone else months earlier.

Naturally, that ends up resulting in

but slightly less natural and more contrived language.

Whereas someone making a YouTube video in their bedroom, it's actually a lot more authentic and closer to the way that people actually speak.

Especially when you think about like a business meeting, like watching someone talk to you on YouTube is not that far away from listening to someone talk to you in a Zoom call, you know?

Yeah.

really similar, so probably quite transferable in terms of the value of listening to someone on a podcast or YouTube.

It's similar to a conference call or a telephone call or something like that.

Yeah.

It's nearly time for us to finish, but I just actually wanted to ask you just a random, totally different thing.

Like I know that you've spent a lot of time playing football and you were semi-professional, I think, for a while.

In fact, you went to the United States on a kind of sporting scholarship to study there and to play soccer, to play football.

So on the subject of football, the World Cup is coming up.

And it's in North America.

I don't know.

What do you think?

Have you got any predictions for the World Cup this year?