Интервью на английском языке

Dan: Okay, so, hello guys! My name is Dan.
Helen: Hello, guys! My name is Helen.
Dan: And we’re happy to introduce some new series of episodes. We just gonna call them “Short interviews” or kind of podcasts. We’re gonna discuss some like everyday topics. We just discuss daily, yeah. And what we’re going to start with today then?
Helen: We’re going to talk about things that happened to me in America.
Dan: Yeah, things that happened to Elena in America. Okay, so, and I have, you know, like some short list of questions I’m gonna ask as to say like proper interviewer. And so the first one is: what in America impressed you the most? Tell us.
Helen: Okay, I think it is people there. They impressed me the most because they are tolerant and they’re helpful. They are ready to help and… Yeah, for example what comes to my mind… It was a huge line in the post office and there were maybe a ten or twelve people in the line, and the line was up to their very exit, but everybody was saying peacefully and calmly and waiting for their turn. And the cashier, the only one cashier, was serving the people also very peacefully and then nobody was asking many questions. So, everybody was waiting. And I liked the situation. It was serene situation and peaceful situation. I liked it so, yeah.
Dan: And so… What is the difference between like people, you know…
Helen: Yeah! Nobody was pushing and shoving. And when they’re in a hurry so, they would do everything in a civil way. So, you feel like you're in a civil country that you can meet encounter, civil behavior from people.
Dan: Yeah.
Helen: So, you feel kind of safe. You feel safe because you know that you’re surrounding by civil people.
Dan: I guess like Americans appreciate that the most, yeah?
Helen: Yes! They have been for life being polite.
Dan: And do you think that being polite is really important?
Helen: Yeah! I think it is important. Really important. So, it is very easy to be polite, and people really appreciate it, yeah.
Dan: Okay, thank you! Let’s move to the next question. And the nex question is: what place in America just impressed you?
Helen: New York.
Dan: New York?
Helen: Yes, New York.
Dan: We can call New York a place, yeah? Definitely.
Helen: Yes! New York is a place.
Dan: It’s now even a city but the place! Okay.
Helen: New York City, New York place and so, also because of its people. They are really friendly and helpful. So, when I got off from the bus, when I just arrived in New York, and I went underground. And there was a machine, ticket machine in front of me. And I was standing in front of it. And with my facial expression of escalation operation how to use this machine…
Dan: So, ticket machine you mean like.. this machine that gives you the ticket, the boarding passes before?
Helen: Yes, yes. So, I didn’t know how to use it, and there was no ticket office and no cashiers around. And it seems to me there were no buttons or keys on this machine at all. And so…
Dan: …what to do with this!
Helen: Yes! There was some woman. She appeared from nowhere. She was in a hurry but she stopped and showed me everything. She helped me to buy the ticket and she appeared, you know, and she disappeared!
Dan: Okay, that’s fine!
Helen: Yeah, she disappeared and I was really grateful that she helped me.
Dan: And do just… you know, like Russians do this or no?
Helen: No. You know, they are… The point was that I even didn’t turn to her. I didn’t ask her anything operation. I just was standing in front of that machine and looking at the screen. So she just stopped behind my back and explained to me everything and helped me. And she disappeared. And so… I even didn’t have time to tell her “Thank you”.
Dan: Can we call her “ghost helper”?
Helen: Yes, that’s right.
Dan: That’s cool. Okay, and the last… yeah, I fixed it. Okay, how did you get around in New York?
Helen: In New York I got around by metro, they call it “subway”, and by taxis.
Dan: Why do they call it “subway”?
Helen: Different places are called the metro in different ways. For example London. And Londoners, they call their metro “tube”, yeah?
Dan: Yeah, because it looks like tube, definitely.
Helen: Maybe! So, and New Yorkers… They call their metro “subway”. So and sometimes it was difficult to find the subway because it was literally a hole in the ground. These stairs that went underneath, so into basement and I was wondering whether I should go downstairs or not. And I was looking and searching again for a metro station. And then I understood, that was metro, that was a subway, and I went down and… yeah. It was metro, it was subway. Some of the stations, they were really deep underground. And some of them… they were not deep. So, sometimes standing on the street you could hear the noise, the sounds of metro, yes. And there are lots of yellow cabs in New York. So, I would say…
Dan: We can see it in the movies.
Helen: Yes! And in the pictures. So you can’t even find just common cars for example. When you’re in Manhattan you just mostly see yellow cabs. And it’s easier to catch that cab and go and move around to the city.
Dan: Oh yeah, that’s really cool. So, that was fine! So do you like it?
Helen: Yes, yes, I liked it. I like New York much. So, really nice place and I recommend to you visit it.
Dan: Okay, thank you! So, if you’re still here and if you just like finished watching the whole episode, yeah, the first one, the pilot one, so we would like you to, you know, leave a comment. So, what impressed you, you know, like in America so if you’ve been to America, and probably, like, just maybe… you know, like comment the things over the places even cities here in New York or some Washington, yeah, also. So just leave it in the comments below, so share your stories and we would really appreciate that. And, you know, like it will help us to just, you know, provide you with the some new ones, new episodes. And we will just, you know, like… push the “Like”! Okay, thanks! Goodbye and see you in the next episode!
Helen: Bye!

Dan: Hello!
Helen: Hello, guys!
Dan: Okay, so my name is Dan, as usual!
Helen: My name is Helen.
Dan: Okay, and, so, welcome to the next episode of our series of small interviews here, short ones interviews. Okay, so what are we going to talk about now? I guess, about England, yeah, because in the last episode, in the previous one, we just talked what has impressed Elena the most in her trip, during her trip visit, yeah, to America. And so today we’re gonna talk about England, yeah? So, I’m waiting for the questions! Okay, then.
Helen: Okay. What in England impressed you the most?
Dan: So, I’ve been to England like three times already. For the first time I was there just while I was a kid, yeah. So, my first trip when I was like eleven and the next time I just went there to study and, so, the last time I went there when there was just no COVID in the world. It was just year after the World Cup being held in Russia, yeah. And the world was fine, everything was okay, yeah. So, and, you know, like I mean all three times just different things impressed me, to be honest.
Helen: So, could you tell something about those things?
Dan: Yeah, I definitely can. So, when I was a kid, the thing that impressed me the most was Hamleys Shop. Hamleys is, you know, like six floor toy shop. Like you can buy, so… You can… They have a great selection of toys, they have a great selection of, you know, like some games, yeah, which, you know, like all teenagers, like almost all teenagers like in the world. And, you know, I was extremely, you know, like… I was excited. I was excited when I just went there and I’ve seen like all this toys all around the shop and like… Yeah, like “Wow!”, I can get it. And, you know, like that was the time when I just, you know, like made extremely just a nice mistake in just an English language. When I came to the cash desk to pay for my goods, I just bought a game for Playstation 2 at the time. I asked for “pocket”, yeah. Just “Can you give me the POCKET?”, just like the “pocket” is like “packet” in English, yeah, but in Russian “пакет” we call it. And the thing was that, um… You know, English people… They have this, um, habits, these strict habits in case they don’t understand anything if you just mistake the word, even just one word if you mistake they understand nothing! And it was twenty minutes, you know, like persuading… The cashier gave me the freaking pocket, as I just thought, and then they just called the managers, so there came the manager and we started just, you know, like complaining just about this case. And finally I just, you know, make this, you know… How to say it? This fraud countenance, yeah, and say like “I will put it into my pocket!”. And she looked at me like “Do you need a bag…?”, actually. And I was like “Wow!”, I just ran away from there just being all red, yeah! That’s kind of thing, yeah. So, it was cool and I liked it in that time. So, probably the next time I liked the atmosphere of the country. I lived in a family and everything like it’s great experience living in an English-speaking family, yeah. And I have a lot of stories to tell, like, to be honest.  When just there was one night and, you know, we have “гжель” in Russia, and I just decided just… I don’t know, accidentally I’ve decided to present, so, the host father with the “Gzhel-souvenir”. He was a bit drunk, he just drank a couple of bottles of wine. And he just definitely started asking me how do Russians make this. I was sixteen and I had no idea how to explain the drunk British man how just people in Russia make this gzhel-souvenirs, yeah. So, and then I just realised that I have to study English better and more that I did at the time. So, that’s kind of thing, yeah. Okay, so…
Helen: So, and on your third trip what impressed you the most?
Dan: Free museums. Yeah, they do have all three museums and free activities in there and…
Helen: You mean “free” or “three”?
Dan: Free! Free, like…
Helen: Free? Okay.
Dan: No money here.
Helen: No charge, okay, I see.
Dan: Yeah. So you have only to, just, you know, enter the museum and there are, you know, like special guys who just ask you to leave some money, some like donation, yeah. Um, about five pounds or something. And you can just put it into the… You know, like some special can for it, yeah, but nothing more. So, if you visit this museum for the first time, you can live with the nation but, you know, like the next days if you come to the same museum, because they’re extremely huge and you have, uh… You know, you have to have a lot of time to explore all the museums, yeah. And yeah, so, the next days you may just… I don’t know, visit this for free, and this kind of thing.
Helen: Okay, okay. So, would you like to add anything else?
Dan: What definitely should I…
Helen: …Maybe something about habits.
Dan: I think like their main habit is to gather with their friends, yeah. So, they adore gathering, they adore this… You know, like small parties, probably some bashes or the way they call it… They, you know, like every evening they after work… They just gather together, so, the whole department, yeah, leaves the street and… Mostly, you know, there are just, you know, tall buildings as like business centres and, so, on the ground floor you may see the pub. Like in 99% of cases you may see, like, the business centre and the pub downstairs! And like the whole department leaves the office, gets in into your, like, the pub and, you know, like drink a glass of beer and just talking. No kitchen, just working, only just drinking. No food! Only alcohol.
Helen: Yeah, yeah, that’s right. They call it like… They call it “Happy hours”?
Dan: Yeah! Like “Happy hours”, yeah. They do happy hours and they live happy life because they have very strict schedule they live on, yeah. So, they go to work, they work a lot and when it comes to five or six a.m. - no work, yeah! No more work today! They just go downstairs and drink a pint. That’s kind of thing.
Helen: That’s interesting. So, thank you, Denis, for your really nice and interesting story! Thank you for sharing with us.
Dan: Yeah! Every time… Just welcome guys!
Helen: So thank you guys! And have a nice time! Stay cool and stay amazing. See you then!
Dan: Yeah! See you! Bye-bye!

Dan: Hello!
Helen: Hello, friends! Welcome to our Short Interviews. And today we are going to ask Denis why he became an English teacher. So, Denis, why have you become an English teacher?
Dan: I don’t really know. My mother has worked for a long time as a… I don’t know, like a psychologist, yeah.  Probably she worked with, you know, like children who were some invalid ones, yeah. And they had some difficulties with pronunciation, with, you know, like some stuff with their speech or something like that. And my grandmother worked as a psychologist as well, and she has worked also with the teachers, I mean like kids! With kids also. And, so, probably it made me… Yeah, it has been with me because I am a teacher now, it has made me get this profession to get deep into this field. That’s kind of thing.
Helen: So, have you started psychology?
Dan: To be honest, I’ve never studied psychology because my mom and grandma has taught me! Yeah, something like that. And they have told me a lot about this field, about this profession, this fear. And, I guess, like all the majority of… The vast majority of knowledge I have now on psychology is from my ladies in my family.
Helen: Okay. So, and what attracts you in this profession,of profession of being a teacher?
Dan: I guess it is a success the students get after having lessons with me because it’s really… I think like it’s inspiring thing when you see when your students, you know, like gets the job of their dream or probably he can speak easily, he can speak fluently, he can do everything he once while just having the rest, you know, like at some resort overlooking some blue ocean, yeah. That’s kind of thing. And even if they can say it’s their passport, it’s their ID cards and it’s their boarding pass at the airport. So, it makes me feel happy and this attracts me the most.
Helen: So, why didn’t you decide to follow your mother’s and grandmother’s steps? Why, so, being an English teacher, to be a psychologist… they’re different spheres. So, why didn’t you decide to be a psychologist? Why did you decide to be a teacher?
Dan: I can definitely say that that this two professions may seem different, but they are pretty close because, yeah, during the lessons you have to follow, you know, the mental state of your students you have to check whether he’s happy or maybe he’s a bit bothered, probably he’s worried, yeah. And you have to check all this things. It’s not only a teaching, it’s not only about teaching the exact language, yeah, it’s also like developing a student as a person, yeah. So, you give him some English experience, some deep knowledge, deep understanding. But also, like, to give him this understanding you have to follow his mental state, you know, some traits of character to make this process of learning more, you know, acceptable for him.
Helen: Do you think that English language is important to study, is important nowadays?
Dan: Definitely. I think, like, it’s an English language is the language of the world and you can get to any sport in the world and you will definitely find a people who (...)
Helen: Okay. So, how do you make your students believe it? And how do you make your students study, learn English?
Dan: Well, I think it depends on their initial, I think like their motivation what they come with because like for just a lot of people… they may find different ways how they want to study, what they actually want to to get, yeah, to obsess… To achieve, yeah. That’s probably, yeah, so that’s probably the word, so, the things they want to achieve. And, so, we have to follow also their wishes, their willings to, you know, like to study the language. And so in that way we have to make the program approachable for them.
Helen: So, what feelings does this profession give to you?
Dan: Only good ones.
Helen: So, are you happy?
Dan: Definitely I am.
Helen: Okay, so, thank you very much, Denis. So, thank you very much for this nice interview. Thank you guys for your watching. And stay tuned, stay amazing, take care! See you then!
Dan: See you then! And don’t forget to leave some comments below, so it will help us to deliver some interesting information and some our interesting thoughts to the wider range of of you.