0516 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—to cry: sob, wail, whimper
Daily Easy English Expression Podcast
Shane Peterson
4.7 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2015
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to easy English expressions. |
| 0:11.0 | You and me every day, come on, let's master English. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression. |
| 0:32.4 | I hope that you had a nice weekend. |
| 0:35.5 | Well, the weekend is over. |
| 0:37.0 | Don't cry. Don't sob. Don't wail. Don't whimper. It's time to go to work or go to school. Well, I'm sure most of you have to go to work or go to school. Did you have a nice weekend? I hope so. The weekends are actually my busy time. And Sunday and Monday, those are |
| 0:56.5 | pretty nice days for me. But it is time to get back to work. And today's expression is about |
| 1:03.1 | crying. I know that many of you, when you think about going back to work, you want to cry. Well, |
| 1:15.8 | when we talk about cry, cry can have many different levels of crying. |
| 1:25.9 | These are all methods of crying, right? |
| 1:27.8 | They are, they are. |
| 1:29.6 | So, let me tell you the difference. |
| 1:31.6 | So cry can be any of those. |
| 1:34.5 | We have a word sob, S-O-B. |
| 1:38.1 | We have a word whale, W-A-I-L. |
| 1:44.5 | And we have a word whimper, W-H-I-M-P-E-R. |
| 1:49.3 | And these three words represent different levels of crying. So Wimper is the lowest level, and the best idea is to imagine a puppy or a small child. |
| 2:00.1 | This is... a puppy or a small child, |
| 2:06.3 | this is the idea of whimpering. |
| 2:11.0 | There probably are no tears and no, you know, |
| 2:13.8 | the nose is not wet, the nose is not running. |
| 2:15.0 | It's just the sound, that, who, ooh, ooh, who, who, that's whimpering. |
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