AEE: Ding! Buzz! Beep! Which Word Should You Use When You Hear a Sound?
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What words should you use when you hear a sound?
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Hello there, Michelle. How's everything today? How are you feeling today? Feeling good. How are you? I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. Michelle, I got a question for you. Ready? So are you good about putting your phone on silent when you actually need to? Like is your phone on silent right now?
That's a good question. I should check that.
Yeah. Or does it ding or ring a lot? Maybe when you're recording a podcast or when you're in public or in awkward places where it's really rude to phone ring?
Yeah. I mean, it definitely has, you know, I've had an alarm go off when we're recording or something like that. So it can happen. I try to be pretty careful about it. Actually, I think I have more the opposite issue. I think it's I mostly have it on silent. And then I can't find it.
I know that that happens to me all the time.
Yeah. And then you're calling and you're like, well, it's on.
Yeah, yeah. So when my as a funny story, my partner and I first started dating back in 2016. My phone, I didn't know it, but my phone was on silent for like two years. Oh my gosh. And so I would always have these missed calls. I would have like three missed calls from my partner. And I was like, this person's kind of a stalker. You know, why are they calling three times? Like one's enough. One missed call is enough. And I didn't realize until later that it was actually on silent for a long time.
so funny yeah so yeah sometimes you can go too far with being on silent that's hilarious but I feel that Dan is always having things go off and I'm like turn it off like so annoying that is really annoying Right.
Yeah. Dings and rings.
What common sounds do we encounter in daily life?
Dings and rings. Who knows what else, right?
Yep. So today we're going to go over words that deal with everyday sounds. So actually a long time ago, I think we did an episode on onomatopoeias. Right. But that was over a thousand episodes ago. And today we're focusing on these words because of a recent episode we did on the word ding, dealing mostly with cars.
Yeah, right. You got a ding in your car, more of a dent type of thing. But these sounds, like what do they sound like? I know the sound of a dog barking is articulated differently in French versus Japanese versus English. We know this. We learn this when we learn different languages. We talk about these fun little aspects of the language. So it's kind of similar. We assume the same thing is true about a car horn or a phone voicemail. So we're going to get into it today.
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Exactly. So let's start with the most common thing we hear. which I feel like now my phone's going to ding while we're recording.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:16
2
What words should you use when you hear a sound?
0:16–1:30
3
How can you become fearless and fluent in English?
1:30–3:24
4
What common sounds do we encounter in daily life?
3:24–13:13
5
When is it appropriate to say 'ding'?
13:13–19:50
6
What does 'beep' refer to in different contexts?
19:50–21:08
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