Dumbphone

Learning English Conversations

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Learn a new name for old tech

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:06.0	The English we speak.
0:09.0	From BBC learning English.
0:11.0	com.
0:12.0	Hello. Hello and I'm Neil.
0:15.0	Welcome to the English we speak.
0:17.0	I'm Faye Faye.
0:18.0	And I'm Neil.
0:19.0	So how is your holiday, Faye Faye Faye got any photos?
0:21.0	Yeah, on they? Cool. Well well I haven't seen them haven't seen them
0:25.5	well check out my social media feed well I'll have to wait till I get to my computer I can't
0:32.2	see anything on this dumb phone.
0:34.0	Dumb phone?
0:35.0	Yeah, I was getting addicted to my smartphone.
0:38.0	I couldn't stop checking it every five seconds,
0:40.0	so I've got rid of it.
0:41.0	And now I have this dumb phone. It's brilliant. It does absolutely nothing apart from phone and text.
0:47.6	Oh I see the opposite of smart is dumb. So the opposite of a smartphone is a dumb phone. You've got it. It's very
0:56.9	fashionable you know. Eddie Redmayne uses one. Not sure about that but let's hear some examples.
1:04.0	Oh, my arm's killing me from playing around with my phone so much.
1:11.0	Get yourself a dumb phone, like me.
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