So in this English lesson,
I wanted to help you
learn the English phrase,
he talks the talk,
but does not walk the walk.
When we say this about someone,
when we say someone talks the talk,
it means that when they're talking,
they say they're going
to behave a certain way,
they say they're going
to do certain things
in the proper way or in the right way,
so we say that they talk the talk,
but when they walk the walk,
it means that they actually do
what they said they were going to do.
So you might know someone
like this in life.
There are people in
life that talk the talk,
but they don't walk the walk.
A good example would be someone who says
I have been a criminal my whole life,
and I am now a different person,
I am no longer going to
steal things from people.
We know now that when
people talk the talk,
they don't always walk the walk.
Sometimes they do.
So if someone did say that,
you would hope that they
wouldn't just talk the talk,
you would hope that they
would also walk the walk.
And that would mean that
they would actually stop
doing the bad things they said
they were gonna stop doing.
The other phrase I wanted to look at today
is the phrase all walks of life.
When you say that people
come from all walks of life,
it means they come from all
different levels of society
and from all different parts of society.
A good example would be if
you were talking somewhere
and people came to listen to you,
and one of the people
that came was a plumber
and one of the people that
came was a really rich person,
and one of the people that came
was a bit of a poor person,
you could say that people from all walks
of life came to listen to you talk.
So to review,
when someone talks the talk,
but does not walk the walk,
it means they say they're
gonna do something,
but their actions are actually different
from what they said they were going to do.
And when people come
from all walks of life,
it means that they come from
all different backgrounds,
different countries,
different jobs, etc., etc.
You could say this,
people from all walks of life
watch my videos on YouTube.
So anyways, thanks for watching, guys.
I really do like that.
Let's look at a comment
from a previous video.
And this comment is from Quaim Hussain,
and Quaim says, "Today's
phrases were very interesting."
And my response was this,
"I'm glad you liked them.
Every phrase I teach is
a phrase I actually hear
at some point the day or
week before the lesson."
So I'm not sure if you know this,
but first of all,
let me thank Quaim,
thanks for leaving the comment.
I don't know if you guys know this,
but the phrases I teach on this
channel are not from a book.
The phrases are not from a
long list of popular phrases
or idioms that I found
and that I'm teaching you them one by one.
Here's what I do.
I actually listen to all of
the people around me at work,
I listen to every one in my family,
I listen to everyone who
talks on the television,
and when I hear a phrase that I think
would be a good phrase
to teach all of you,
I quickly write it down
and I have a little list in a spreadsheet.
So the phrases that I
just taught you today
were actually two phrases
that I just heard at work earlier today.
Someone actually used the phrase
that people came from all walks of life,
and someone actually used the phrase,
well, yeah, he talks the talk,
but does he walk the walk.
So again, the lessons you are getting
here are pretty authentic.
This is not some situation
where I just go look up
weird English phrases
and teach them to you because
I need a good idea for that day.
This is actually me carefully
listening all the time
to every English conversation I have,
and then making a little
lesson out of it for you.
Some of you actually realized this because
sometimes the lesson
comes from the comments.
I know Rodrigo pointed out
once when I was talking to him
that someone had asked a
question in a livestream
and used a certain phrase,
or and I used a phrase
when I gave the answer,
and then the next day,
I taught that phrase on
this short English lesson.
So anyways, authentic English
from Bob the Canadian.
I hope it's helping you.
Hope you're having a good day.
I'll see you tomorrow with
another short English lesson.
