ESL Podcast 426 – Talking About Product Quality（Assignment 6）

HERE IS DIALOG PART
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(notes)
Dialog between Brenda Yogi
Fun shopping cell phone
Bare basics
Old phone chip and flimsy
Good quality
Don’t need bells and whistles
Don’t care look, want functional

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HERE IS EXPLAINATION PART
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(notes)
Bare basics－means that things with the necessity, nothing more.
Top of the line
Chip－here means poor quality. (thing－not expensive)(person－don’t like to spend money)
Flimsy－poor quality, break very easily, easy to damage
Act-up－to have problem, to create problem ex. It is acting-up. It stops walking.
Top dollar－the highest amount you can pay for something
Bells and whistles－means some extra thing such as camera on a cell phone, fancy stuff
Sturdy－it is strong and reliable ＜－＞ flimsy
Looks－physical appearance of something, a thing or an object
Functional－working correctly, always do things what it has to do
Hideous－means very uglyGet over something－to except some bad things and continue the normal life/ stop worry about that

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HERE IS NORMAL SPEED DIALOG PART
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(my thoughts)
First time I heard the dialog; there were a lot of words I can’t understand.
Because those unknown vocabularies, I felt nervous when I kept listening.
Then, I missed listened of some parts.
After the explanations, I can easy understand what they say.
Although the dialog’s speed change back to normal, I think I can understand more parts then my first hear.
However, some of their pronounce makes me a little bit confused, such as two words that pronounce together.
Maybe I should listen more and get use of it.