676. David Crystal Interview: Let's Talk - How English Conversation Works

[@sarahenglish2740]

This is an absolutely delightful episode of your podcast, Luke. What a brilliant interview, and what a wonderful guest.

[@Suryashankar.S]

I am currently reading his books and listening to his speeches, what an amazing personality! Literally he is a legend. I love his humour sense and his deep knowledge. Thank you Mr.Luke for the beautiful video. I am so glad, Luke and David again😘 two wonderful souls. I am a big fan of your podcasts. Love you Luke.. you are the best teacher ever😍 With lot of love and respect from Suryashankar from Kerala, India

[@Razan-kt5vn]

Go ahead great job

[@josemrivero3544]

@@Razan-kt5vn lol

[@francoiseburette8649]

@@josemrivero3544 I was immensely interested with you and David Cristal thanks a lot Francoise

[@josemrivero3544]

@@francoiseburette8649 are you female?

[@touatitbelkais6072]

why indian people are so SOOOO kind ? 🤓

[@nadyaarandaenespanol6308]

Woow. I'm glad to learn more and more. I'm getting addicted to listen your podcast

[@gideonroos1188]

I work as an English teacher in Japan, and yes, managing the silence is an incredible thing.

[@paolafattori4357]

Great, Luke! I've read many of Crystal's books. Very interesting, and enjoyable as well! Trank you!

[@marianadazdyova5089]

I have never before come across a linguist with such a profound sense of humour! Really very lovely, inspiring, refreshing, thoughtful and enjoyable conversation! Thanks a lot this opportunity to see and meet both of you.

[@romanvladimirovichpetrikov4947]

I thank you for the fantastic video from the bottom of my heart! We love David and you Luke! Keep it up! The conversation is so interesting and inspiring!

[@rosminazuchri636]

I'm Rosmina Zuchri,. Stay in Indonesia. Thank for the quality content Mr.Luke and Mr. David Cristal. Very Useful n interesting.

[@naimahmed4945]

My favorite channel

[@rune13slayer]

Honestly I thought this was going to be a somewhat boring/dragging video/topic, but maaaan it's like I just listened to a full/premium Ted talk for free! Thanks for this!

[@lourdesanchezls]

Very interesting interview Luke. Thank you for sharing it. In fact, David Crystal, a very experienced and charismatic man who makes his speeches enjoyable and pasionate with humour. I wouldn´t get tired listening to him. How much I´d like to meet him and share all this knowledge. Fantastic!!

[@francoiseburette8649]

All the comments about D Crystal are so rich I haven’t anything to add I share them entirely thank you Luke

[@risdanes]

My english teacher used funny riddles to teach english, it definitely forced us the students to think of a lot of vocab and grammars to come up with the answers, and we laught a lot. All in all, great podcast with brilliant guest, thanks Luke.

[@ЗиляУзбекова-ч5б]

I assume the thing woth morning happens in various languages, for sure. Russian, Arabic, Turkish definitely. Thank you for the interview!

[@giuliofaldetta6687]

"I'd like to pay by card" could be a solution for your brother. You're not asking permission and it doesn't sound pretentious. Great conversation by the way.

[@eukokhey]

As a linguistics graduate, all the concepts Dr Crystal has explained in this podcast are reminiscences about my school life!

[@rosminazuchri9090]

My Name Is Rosmina Zuchri Lived In Indonesia. Thanks Luke's English Podcast already Interviewed with Mr David Crystal. Good your channel.

[@twojzdrowykregoslup_online]

Thank You 🎉❤

[@natlikesplums6845]

Luke, thank you so much for this video interview..David Crystal is a legend! I listened to his book on accents 'You say potato' which you recommended many times on the podcast. Abdolutely enjoyed it!

[@pedrojleitao]

Thank you, Luke. You've been doing a amazing job and helping a lot of people from all over the world. Cheers from Rio, Brazil.

[@kafkaz3320]

Thanks again for a wonderful conversation ✨

[@tatianapavlova508]

What a sweet person🤩🤩🤩🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@Alexander_Tsebenko]

Awesome conversation. I never thinking adout that aspect of zooming

[@tamersahin996]

Realy lovely conversation. Thanks both of you.

[@bashiirahmed5643]

Mr. David crystal thank you very much, there is an idea I have just realised from him and it is that when one wants to learn a language h/she should sometimes speak him/herself or even his/her room materials. Because am now an English learner and I always talk to my self but i didn't know that this is profisional way someone can learn à language.

[@elenagherardi3080]

Great 👍 Novella is a gift word from italian, I didn't know that.

[@katdex2536]

I was looking for interviews with David and I found your channel. As an interviewer, you are very pleasant to watch :) you kept the conversation very smooth, entertaining , insightful and informative. Thanks ! New subbie

[@陌陌-n6b]

Writing is first a gifted intention and secondly the habit formed in earlier age influenced by family or close people,thirdly the last resort is to make a living or a revolution based on ideology.

[@gabrielgkabelen4780]

Thanks Luke for bringging my idol in English Learning to us, especially me here in Indonesia.

[@carlagoncalves531]

I'm so happy I found this channel. Congratulations for your quality content that adds value to to us viewers and english learners.

[@deicryfreedom]

Well it's great to get a picture of how you are after one year of only podcasting your material. The most interesting thing about this conversation it is how we got accustomed to talking through a glass in one dimension... Maybe a new argument for another book? Anyway I really appreciate your work Luke and the people you put us in contact with.

[@thaivn2000]

Thank you so much for the interview!

[@ZahraaAdnan-vt7oo]

Wow kudos to you 🎉

[@МаксимДиденко-ч6к]

What a great 👍 podcast!when you can not only learn English but also know better psychology and just andjoy excellent conversation. Good job.Thanks !

[@stefanvo7112]

Such a wonderful chat and it will help to improve my English language skills; thanks to both of you🙏🙏👏👏👏👍👍😊☺

[@MargaritaKurdyumova]

“The Russian joke” should probably get the highest grade 😀

[@ghadasuqr343]

Amazing

[@muratnas6161]

Rather absorbing conversation indeed. It is high time to purchase the book. Thank you

[@veliAnne]

Amaaazing interview! Thanks Luck

[@sunnyinnit429]

Thanks for the quality content

[@Obiektywnielubnie]

Excellent conversation. Thoroughly enjoyable and informative. By the way, in a shop, I go for "I would like to pay by card. please". Not sure if it is very natural but it works. Despite being on zoom the whole conversation seemed so natural. Many thanks

[@quertyv12]

Awesome. Interesting conversation. It's always pleasure to listen to academicians.

[@romankulagin6247]

Hello Luke. Thanks for your job in teaching English. I’m your podcast listener for three or four years. Could you make a podcast about gerunds, especially in perfect active and passive forms and their use as nouns and adjectives. Thanks.

[@gonzalobarral2357]

Thanks for creating and sharing this kind of content in your channel. Amazing job Luke! Keep it up!

[@mattw8374]

Fascinating listen thanks..Got interested in phonetics recently and it is a fascinating and complex subject. The variety of Regional accents Is intriguing.

[@carlospaulopaulo8855]

It was amazing this interwiew!

[@brahim2869]

Great, thanks I learn a lot from this video.

[@ГрэдиОДоэрти]

Thank you, the podcast is fascinating and there are useful moments in it.

[@filosofando89]

good lesson! thanks!

[@catsymousie7611]

What answer to the question 'can I pay by card' would irritate your brother more, 'of course', or a satirical one 'no, you can't' ? Sorry, in many ways, he asked for his own irritation. Non-native speakers make lots of language mistakes with no intention to offend native speakers. I just hope native English speakers would understand that psychological pressure of making mistakes particularly happens in English learning. As I learned a third language, Turkish, I have constantly been encouraged and never experienced the negative aspects I had with English learning. However, your effort putting in this channel has made up for that inequality. Thank you for the good work.

[@thematureneuro468]

Gandalf sure knows what he’s talking about.

[@caan74]

Have you ever listened to the radio adverts on RTE? They give it in such a rush, you think you are listening to a machine gun. Same thing if you are listening to ads on RAI (Italy). You can sometimes observe the same phenomenon on both French and Swiss television. I am a native speaker of French and I sometimes struggle to make out what is being said when some adverts (commercials) come on.

[@陌陌-n6b]

i can almost always understand teachers and professionals like your guys speaking English but not daily people encountered in streets of London, which reminds me of an old English language book introduced from Britain named as English 900 sentences some 40 years ago in China. There’s a story about a tourist taking a taxi in London and got confused by the taxi driver’s accent and asked him : do you speak English?

[@yabka9688]

that was a great conversation I very enjoyed

[@carlosmc5566]

Qué agradable sujeto

[@mehmet.albyrk]

👏👏👏

[@manabiya_english]

"You Say Potato" It's my bible learning English!

[@sarahenglish2740]

I was listening to David Crystal mention how people play with language. So it occurred to me that it might be interesting to watch/listen to an episode dedicated to English puns, from an English teacher/stand-up comedian's perspective. David's idea is pretty interesting. From A1 to C2 jokes. Wouldn't that be fun?

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Hi Sarah, I've done lots of episodes about jokes/puns. Check my episode archive at teacherluke.co.uk. Here's a selection teacherluke.co.uk/2018/09/19/547-best-jokes-from-the-edinburgh-festival-fringe/ teacherluke.co.uk/2019/09/03/611-top-10-jokes-from-edinburgh-fringe-2019/ teacherluke.co.uk/2015/04/20/jokes1/ teacherluke.co.uk/2015/04/23/265-telling-jokes-in-english-part-2/ teacherluke.co.uk/2015/04/24/266-telling-jokes-in-english-part-3/ There are plenty more in the archive. Go here teacherluke.co.uk/archive-of-episodes-1-149/ and do a command+F (Mac) or ctrl+F (PC) search for "jokes".

[@sarahenglish2740]

@@LukesEnglishPodcast Thanks, Luke.

[@markandreychernetskiy6893]

Waiting for this book on Amazon

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Mark Edelegn www.amazon.com/Lets-Talk-English-Conversation-Works/dp/0198850697/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=lets+talk+david+crystal&qid=1596342707&sprefix=let%E2%80%99s+talk+dav&sr=8-1

[@sudheerathilakshana8310]

❤

[@harjaskirtan7506]

Hyy luke its an absolutely amazing interview.i have learned lots of new things and gain good amount of knowledge.i would love to watch this type pf interviews on your podcast in future.keep it up..

[@gideonroos1188]

About the length concentrations in sentences, I wonder how this would vary for verb-final languages, like, for example, Japanese. On the one hand, Japanese grammar sets up sentence structures that concentrate sentence length, indeed the entire sentence, before the verb. On the other hand, anything understood to be unnecessary, it omitted. So much so that you often get verb-only, subject-only, object-only, and adverbial-only sentence all the time, especially in conversation.

[@yasalhemyari7629]

Nice

[@learnenglishwithkd]

Absolutely informative. Thanks for sharing!

[@RezaulKarim-kb4ls]

Luke can we get the important vocabularies from the podcast ? I must confess I enjoyed the video although haven't noted the words those are unfamiliar to me.

[@Mr22lukinhas]

Amazing interview!! - Lucas from Brazil.

[@miteor]

Non verbal communication would also work in your brother’s situation - I just remove the card from my wallet and then it is obvious to the cashier how I intend to pay 😊

[@栗田美佐夫-p4k]

❤💛

[@neauphilippe4844]

They understand what I say but I find it difficult to understand what they say because their accent is sometimes to understand.

[@МаксимДиденко-ч6к]

Thanks for podcast!Luke, did David simplify his speech for foreign listeners or his conversation is always that clear?

[@tomcarterpianist]

It seems to me that the conversation is very natural and thus is representative of regular conversation. I didn't register any simplifications. I think he speaks much the same in his other available talks.

[@francescapatti2934]

During the lock down my class thought it a good idea to use discord to discuss our psychology assignment which is terrible for me, because I'm a very visually oriented person. And the cutting in was really anooying..

[@jguix]

Hi Luke, I saw your face for the first time after long time listening to your podcasts. It's weird, you don't look exactly as I pictured you, which should be normal, but you don't look that different. I feel somewhat fooled by your podcast self. Oh, man, what am I talking about? Thank you for your podcast, and this one was particularly interesting and funny, and that is what brought me here from your podcast

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

jguix Curious to know what you expected me to look like.

[@jguix]

@@LukesEnglishPodcast I pictured you blond, which is correct -- perhaps you mentioned at some point -- but then the nose and the jaws would be more prominent, I guess because of the low tones in you voice :)

[@aaiu0]

02:35

[@alotofclouds5706]

can someone explaing the the "door" joke?

[@ValikPav]

It's kind of a word play where "ajar" sounds like "a jar" ( which is a container for fluids)

[@neauphilippe4844]

What is mind-boggling is that you say we do not need to have a standard English accent but you , Luke, Lucy , and other influencers even David Crystal have a standard English accent . When I go to Scotland or New York , I do not understand what they say because I have a standard English accent .

[@Tybourne1991]

How surprising is the section on children learning English from non-native parents? I was flabbergast that the all-encompassing Professor Crystal seemed unaware of Jim Cummins' work on additive bilingual learning. Parents, give your children a rich foundation in your mother tongue - it will set them up to acquire English in later life.

[@anastasiakudrina9150]

Shall I pay by the card Do you get by the card How about the card

[@walterfano]

Come on, there is a huge difference between men and women in conversation: women are multi-tasking, so while she is talking to you, she is thinking about a thousand other things and chatting on Whatsapp with three other friends as well, whilst you are just talking to her! :D

[@H2F........]

Luke how old are you please please

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Haile Embaye Mental age or actual age?

[@H2F........]

Luke's English Podcast your real age I mean please

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Haile Embaye Before I tell you, you have to guess.

[@H2F........]

Luke's English Podcast please Am not good at it please do tell me Luke now

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Haile Embaye Curious to know why this is so urgent.

[@neauphilippe4844]

difficult to understand ( sorry).

[@thanhangcong6503]

A few curious about the accent of Prof. David Crystal, so soft and beautiful. Could anybody help me to answer this question?

[@Atmanyatri]

Great conversation thank you very much

[@edgarallanpoe1822]

Reminds me of Bernard Shaw 😂

[@Malik-xp5mj]

that was an amazing conversation and Mr.David crystal was fabulous in interacting with you Mr.Luke, thanks for the video

[@Никобайгелдив]

Biskek Kyrgyzstan 👍👍👍👍👍 l ilke it books

[@paolagisela1344]

Really interesting! Thank you!