137 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—Hero vs Heroine PLUS one more inside!

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Language Learning, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2014

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today’s expression and dialog: Hero vs heroine Who’s your favorite hero? Hmm…Joan of Arc! She’s a heroine, not a hero! Same thing—she was braver than most men! Please subscribe on iTunes and get this podcast EVERY DAY! Support Coach Shane by giving $1 a month! www.patreon.com/coachshane Our sponsors: www.letsmasterenglish.com/tryddm (Get 8 FREE DDM lessons!) www.audibletrial.com/lme (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) (Join DDM and get 1 lesson every week!) Our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/DailyEasyEnglish

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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.
0:30.8	Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast.
0:42.2	Today's podcast is brought to you by you. I'll explain a little bit later. Today's expression, it's a comparison.
0:54.6	Hero versus heroin. Uh-oh. Hero. H-E-R-O-I-N-E.
1:00.1	A hero is a guy like Superman or Batman.
1:07.5	A heroin is a woman, like catwoman or Wonder Woman.
1:14.3	Those are the heroes and heroines when I was a little kid. Nowadays, I don't know who they are. Bruce Willis is a hero. By the way, some of you may know of the drug called heroin.
1:27.2	Yes, the drug, heroin, H-E-R-O-I-N,
1:32.6	and the female hero heroin, H-E-R-O-I-N-E,
1:39.4	sound exactly the same.
1:42.4	So this is a very terrible sentence.
1:45.7	The heroine loves heroin.
1:50.4	It's not funny.
1:51.7	All right, let's check out a dialogue.
1:55.6	Who's your favorite hero?
1:58.8	Joan of Arc.
1:59.9	She's a heroin, not a hero.
2:02.6	Same thing.
2:03.6	She was braver than most men.
2:05.6	Yes, and this is my point, everybody.
2:10.6	If you have been listening this long, you will learn something very important.
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